The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 146

Chen Bei returned to the Elephant Tribe, and then returned to the Mang Tribe with the Mang Tribe's trading team.

Before parting, the leader of the Xiang tribe and Chen Bei agreed to come back next year to do business again, and held a bonfire party to see them off.

After bidding farewell to the Elephant Tribe, the Mang Tribe trading team walked along the river again and returned to the Mang Tribe after more than ten days.

Back and forth, more than a month has passed.

The weather is gradually getting colder, and the vegetation is gradually turning yellow and dying.

Although this trip took a long time, the harvest was also very rich. Among them, for Chenbei, the most important harvest was rice seeds.

After the sixty catties of rice seeds were brought back, Chenbei personally sifted out the empty shells, blew them off, picked up the impurities, and then dried them in the sun for two or three days.

After going back and forth, sixty catties of seeds became forty catties. This is because the empty shells and impurities are not heavy, otherwise it may be even less.

After finishing it, Chen Bei couldn't wait to call the captain Yan of the planting team over.

"Yan, this is rice, you can peel it off and taste it."

Chen Bei opened a bag of rice seeds, took out one, and put it in the heart of Iwate.

Yan carefully peeled off the shell, and put it in his mouth.

At this moment, Yan's hands trembled slightly, which was excited.

Yan has no other hobbies, but likes farming, and every new grain seed is the best treasure for him, which is equivalent to seeing a peerless beauty.

While chewing, Yan carefully felt the taste of rice.

"No bitterness, no astringency, easy to chew, and a little bit of sweetness after chewing for a long time, good food, this is really good food!"

There are so many fields planted in the rock, and he can taste what kind of food is good and what kind of food is bad.

Compared with sorghum, buckwheat and other grains, the taste of rice is obviously more than a little bit better.

If not, in Chenbei's previous life, rice would not quickly replace other staple foods and become one of the most widely eaten staple foods after the increase in production.

Chen Bei said: "Of course it's good food, otherwise I wouldn't have to run so far and exchange it with salt."

"However, this rice is different from other grains. It is not grown in the ground, but in paddy fields."

"What is a paddy field?" Yan scratched his head, and the leader always said some new words that people couldn't understand.

"You know ponds, don't you? Let the water in the pond bottom out, leaving a layer of water, and it will be a paddy field."

"Rice needs water, but it cannot be flooded. Its roots can be soaked in water, and its stems and leaves should be exposed to the water. Do you understand what I mean?"

Yan thought for a while, then nodded, he probably knew what was going on.

Chen Bei said again: "So, if we want to grow rice, we must change a part of the cultivated land close to the water source into a paddy field and soak it in water for a period of time to fully soften the soil so that it is not easy to leak."

Yan said: "Leader, I understand, I'll take someone to change it right away."

Chen Bei said: "I'll go with you, I'm familiar."

"That would be great."

Yan immediately went to gather the planting team, took tools, and followed Chen Bei to the field.

The planting team made such a big move, and other people in the tribe became curious. Is this going to be another big move?
However, in today's Mang tribe, there are very few idlers, and everyone has to work. Although they are curious, they can only discuss with the people around them, but they dare not put down what they are doing and follow the past.

There are only some children who like to join in the fun, and follow them.

Chenbei chose a relatively low-lying cultivated land next to the creek, which is more convenient for irrigation.

"Just here, build a field ridge and enclose this piece of land."

Everyone stared blankly at Chenbei, they had never heard of what this "field ridge" was.

Chen Bei didn't care too much, he had experienced this matter a lot, and he had long been used to it.

He personally picked up a stone hoe, chose the location, and then began to dig the soil to build the ridge.

Field ridges are small roads that are higher than the surface of the paddy fields, which can enclose the entire field and facilitate water storage.

Chen Bei dug with a hoe one hoe. When doing this work, he felt very at ease in his heart.

Perhaps, this is the racial talent from the depths of memory.

After looking at it for a while, Yan followed suit and ordered the rest of the planting team to dig together.

Soon, everyone was working in full swing.

After Chen Bei worked for a while, he drew lines for them and drew five paddy fields, each about an acre.

Every paddy field has a ridge next to the ditch, which makes irrigation much more convenient.

As the saying goes, more people are more powerful. With the efforts of more than 100 people in the planting team, the ridges of the paddy fields were built soon.

Chen Bei said to Yan again: "Take someone to smash all these ridges with a wooden hammer. After smashing the ridges that are not high enough, add soil to the top, so that it is not easy to leak."

"Okay, boss, I'll do it now."

Yan took people back and took a big wooden hammer, and bit by bit, the three sides of these ridges were pounded tightly, and a lot of soil was added to the top, so that the ridges created in this way were very strong.

After finishing the field ridge, Chenbei asked Yan to level the field.

Because these were the ground before, and the inside was ridged, concave and convex, very uneven.

However, paddy fields cannot be like this. The fields must be leveled so that some places will not have deep water and some places will not have shallow water during irrigation, and even the irrigation will not be in place.

Yan returned to the tribe, pulled the ox out, used the ox to pull the plow, and plowed the field several times vertically and horizontally to level the soil. If it was still uneven, people could only use a stone hoe to level it little by little.

Finally, dig a drainage ditch along the field ridge.

After the rice is planted, it cannot be soaked in water all the time. Sometimes it is necessary to put dry water in the field for a few days, so that the root system of the rice can penetrate deeper and grow better.

Yan led the men to dig the drainage ditches bit by bit. His hands had already worn out thick calluses. He didn't look like a fierce totem warrior, but more like an ordinary old farmer.

This renovation work took the planting team several days.

Next, it's watering.

Although it is not yet time to plant seeds, these paddy fields that have just been transformed must be soaked in water in advance to soften the soil and soak the worms in the soil to death.

If there is a leak, it must be repaired in time, so that when the next spring begins, the rice planting will be much better.

Chenbei asked people to build several dams in the ditches, so that the water in the ditches could be diverted to the paddy fields.

The water level rose little by little, and then some water entered the paddy fields.

The water first filled the drainage ditch, and then spread to the entire paddy field bit by bit.

"Crash..."

As the water level rose higher and higher, the water flow became faster and faster, and the paddy fields were gradually covered by water.

After the water was covered, some still uneven areas became very conspicuous, and Yan led people into the water to level them up bit by bit to ensure that most of the entire paddy field had the same water depth.

After finishing all this, Yan leaned on the wooden handle of the stone hoe and stood by the paddy field regardless of the muddy water on his legs, with a smile on his face.

"Boss, look at this paddy field, it should be able to produce a good harvest of rice, right?"

Chen Bei stood beside Yan and said, "It should be a good harvest."

The smile on Yan's face became brighter, and he was looking forward to the scene of rice growing here next year and fruitful results.

　Thanks to the book friend "Yunfan" for the 588 book coins.

　　Thanks to the book friend "Freedom Like the Wind" for the 100 book coins.

　　Thank you book friend "Mo Qinghanmu" for the reward of 100 book coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)