Fa Ram

The farm in Azure Hills owned by Rou Jin. In the first year, he farmed 1/2 acre of rice and yielded 83 40 kilogram bags (Volume Chapter 10).

> We had gone from half an acre of rice, and half an acre of veggies to over 30 combined acres of food (Jin Volume 2, Chapter 56)
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### Descriptions

> It was a few rolling hills, covered by a forest, and had a lovely little river winding through it. It was fantastically picturesque (Jin, Chapter 1)
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> They gazed upon gentle, rolling hills and fields, flush with verdant grass. A river wound it’s way down a hill filled with terraced rice paddies, some with still drying rice in it. It would not look out of place in a land that had been cultivated for decades, not mere months. / A small house, and a larger storage shed sat on top of the hill, along with another smaller fence. Chickens clucked, pigs oinked, and they could hear the steady pounding of a person husking rice./ Meiling took in the air. It was heavenly. It was clean and pure, mixed with something lightly spiced and fiery, and the everpresent smell of life. // his rice paddies, the stones carefully arranged by size, and a gravel pit, and the beginnings of a bridge over the river." (Meiling, Chapter 9)
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> Jin continued his walk, bypassing a small shack, and continuing down the hill to a small river. (Jin, Chapter 45)
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> This, however, was a veritable manor. There were more foundations roughly marked with stakes outside. The other completed buildings were an outhouse, what Xian assumed to be a bathhouse, and a large stone oven. It was not a walled compound. Instead, there was what looked like a veranda surrounding the entire house, with the tiled roof extending past the outer walls. (Jin, Volume 1, Chapter 45)
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> The worn dirt path from his previous coop had been torn up in minutes, and then filled first with gravel, and covered with stone. // There was now a road that passed Jin’s old shack, one made out of stone dug into the earth. (Jin, Volume 1, Chapter 51)
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> "I put the hives back towards my old shack, and in the forest where Big D fought with the fox." (Jin, Volume 2, Chapter 6)
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> "his Great Master’s Ice Cavern, to retrieve a block of ice for his Great Master. It was a damp and dark place that was in a constant state of flux. Tiny temperature variations pulsed from the Core of the General that Commands the Winter, his Great Master’s golem, creating a distinctly unpleasant feeling." (Bi De, Volume 2 , Chapter 52)
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> "The road to Fa Ram, once dirt, was paved more finely than Pale Moon Lake City’s. Every five paving stones, there were vines and flowers carved, light scratches of patterns, made by Sister Tigu’s claws." and "Until finally, they came upon the gate. The Great Pillars that marked the boundary. The maple leaf sign, and the words his Master had carved. / Miantiao chuckled. ‘Thessse are most accurate words, no?’ the old snake asked. ‘Truly, you are terrifying when you put your mind to it. But… will your Master truly just accept usss?’ / Bi De saw the nervousness upon their faces. / The rooster smiled. / ‘Follow,’ he stated simply, as he began to ascend the last hill. / When they crested the top, as Bi De’s home spread out beneath them, he heard the intakes of breaths. / One of them was his own. / The warmth of the sun seemed to soak into his feathers, as they exited the tunnel of trees that lined the road. The breeze blew into them, bringing the smells of home, of growth and fruits, and setting the grass waving. / Bees buzzed and milled around the property, and its outskirts. They took to the air as they noticed him, flying in formation back to their hives. / As the breeze touched them, both Miantiao and Yin’s eyes widened. Fa Ram in all its glory was spread before them. (Bi De, Volume 2, Chapter 53)
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> "They came into a clearing. The entire section of forest was blanketed in gentle mist from a small waterfall, pouring continuously onto rocks. Though the occasional tall tree provided cover, it was thin, making room for row upon row of logs stacked together and leaned up onto small scaffolds. / The sound of flowing water filled the clearing. Meiling stared at the sight. Her father made an impressed noise. / “That's a lot of mushrooms,” her little brother said, from on top of Chun Ke. The boar oinked, proud of his observation. / Xianggu, the mushrooms Jin called shiitake, absolutely covered the logs. / And while the black fungus was the most dominant, this entire area was flourishing, in the damp, and slowly rotting wood. Edible shelf mushrooms. Jadecaps. Other medicinal fungus that her father had given them on their wedding, sprouting like weeds from the trees and the soil. (Volume 2, Chapter 73)
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### Symbol

Half a Maple Leaf, half a wheat stalk, surrounded in a circle. (Volume 2, Chapter 50)

### Residents

* Fa Bi De
* He Wa Shi
* Hong Ri Zu
* Hong Meiling
* Rou Jin
* Rou Tigu
* Ba Be
* Shan Chun Ke
* Shan Pi Pa
* Sun Ne
* Xong Gou Ren