Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Hua and a few people carried the food for lunch down from the mountain, and saw her standing there with her hair loose, staring at the dark brown things in the basin in a daze.

Yuzi pointed to the saponins in the tub, "Xiaoqing, can this thing also wash your hair?"

Yao Xiaoqing came to his senses from his contemplation, "Yes, it can't be used yet. The hibiscus is still there, go and wash it!"

Taro smiled and said, "Hua, whoever washes it first, I just washed it with plant ash last night."

Hua smiled and said, "I'll come first, my scalp is so itchy."

Yao Xiaoqing taught Hua how to rub the hibiscus juice, and then asked her to wash her hair with water.

She took a saponin spike to the construction site, handed the spike to Yaohu and said, "Father, look, I want to pick some spikes to cover the wall."

Yaohu took a look at it, broke it hard, and found that the toughness and hardness of the spikes were quite good.

"You have a good idea. After we build the house, we will go to collect it."

"This kind of tree is called saponins. The fruit on the tree can be used to wash hair and bathe. The furs we keep can be washed with saponins after tanning, so as not to stink the skins."

After Yao Xiaoqing came, he found that Uncle Chong and Uncle Shui had peeled off the animal skins hunted in the tribe, spread them on stone slabs, scraped off the sticky flesh and blood with stone knives, and spread them out with bamboo strips to dry. .

After drying the animal skins, they will go to the forest to peel a kind of bark and come back to boil water to soak.After soaking and softening, scrape it clean with a stone knife, cut off fragments of skin, and then apply the fat of the prey evenly on the skin, and then repeatedly beat and knead it with a wooden stick, so that the tanned animal skin is softer, but has a smell. Smell.

"Okay!" Yaohu said with a smile, "Father knows you like to be clean, so when you are free in winter, let's wash all those leathers."

"Yeah!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at the fourth and fifth houses, "Father, you guys are getting better and better. It took only two days to build this high?"

"Don't even think about it. Including Uncle Achun and the others, there are more than 20 people working. The logs and firewood they cut back are piled at the foot of the mountain, and they even built a few thatched sheds to stack them."

"Yeah! I don't want to get wet by the rain. If the retting is broken, I don't boil the fire." Talking about cooking the fire, Yao Xiaoqing thought of the green stick tree in the valley, "I still have to chop some green stick wood and burn some charcoal to put it away." , I’m not afraid even in heavy snow.”

Yaohu smiled and nodded, "Okay, just take them there."

Yao Xiaoqing waved at him, "I'll go to the cafeteria first, and you guys will come back for lunch after working for a while."

"Go!" Yaohu took the spikes and went to talk to Dashi and the others.

Yao Xiaoqing went back and picked up a pinch of ash, poured it into a bucket of water, stirred it for a while, and then soaked it.After lunch, she took seven or eight women and took hoes to the col to collect saponins, dig saponin trees and go back to plant hibiscus.

After a while, the harvested saponins filled the baskets, and the sun still hadn't set when they returned with saponin saplings and hibiscus seedlings.

At dusk, Mufeng and Zhu came back with rock salt on their backs. They also carried a few saplings and a dozen fruits in their net bags.

Mu Feng put down the rock salt, took a fruit and walked up the tulou, "Xiaoqing, look at the fruit we found."

"The pot is good!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at the yellow-brown fruit in Mu Feng's hand, put down the rake in his hand, and took the pear, "Brother, where did you find it?"

"We are now collecting salt rocks from the hillside where we dug the taro. We found in the forest on the slope, only two trees bear fruit. You can taste it quickly."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, took a bite, it was sweet and juicy, "Yeah! It's delicious, sweet and crispy, take it to my father to taste."

Seeing that she liked it, Mu Feng smiled and nodded, "We also dug a few small trees and came back, and the pig and Uncle Shan went to pick them up. Take Uncle Shui and the others there tomorrow, and pick all the fruits from the trees."

Yao Xiaoqing kept nodding, "Okay! When you see fruit trees, dig the saplings and plant them in the open space outside the fence. In the future, there will be fruits to eat at the door of the house."

Mu Feng looked at her with doting eyes, "I'll listen to you, brother will pay attention."

Yao Xiaoqing's hands were full of pear juice, "The partition is ready, Shuibo and the others are waiting for you to come back and build a rabbit nest!"

"I'll go right away." Mu Feng rubbed her ball head, smiled and ran downstairs.

Yao Xiaoqing smiled and watched him go downstairs, put the leftover pear pits aside, raked the grass into a pile and put them in the big bamboo frame upstairs, and went downstairs with the pear pits to bury them behind the house.

The few ginger plants have also grown alive, and the leaves have also stood up, and it is no longer Yan Baba's lack of energy.

Back in the yard, I pinched the saponins in the basin and found that they had soaked softly.Yao Xiaoqing carried the basin into the stove, picked out the saponins seeds inside and put it in the Shau Kei.

Pick out the skin and put it in a stone mortar to crush the saponins, put it in a jar, add water and boil it,

After the water boiled, the soap locust liquid in the jar began to bubble. She took out some firewood from the mud stove, thought about it, grabbed a handful of salt, put it into the jar, stirred it with a wooden stick for a while, and then used the remaining The fire boiled slowly.

Hua carried the dried chili seeds into the yard and shouted: "Xiaoqing, the chili seeds are all dried, you can take them and put them away."

Yao Xiaoqing came out from the kitchen, "Let me see how many there are?"

"It only looks like a handful after drying." Hua laughed.

Yao Xiaoqing took the Shau Kei and looked at it, "It's not bad to have these. If the seeds are planted in spring, all the seedlings will emerge and survive, and you can plant several fields."

Hua nodded, smiled and spread her palm, revealing an egg, "Xiaoqing, Yun Amu said that he picked up two eggs in the chicken shed this afternoon and boiled them for you and the leader."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the egg in her hand and smiled excitedly, "That's great, we will have eggs to eat in the future!"

Hua nodded heavily, "Yeah! Two of the pheasants caught and raised died, and the others were alive. Today, I put a few more in. Shui Bo said that there are more than 20 of them, and there are more ducks than pheasants. Little Qing, will we collect eggs and duck eggs every day from now on?"

"Yes, ducks and pheasants that feed themselves will lay more eggs."

When everyone returned to the cafeteria, everyone in the Yaoshan tribe knew about the pheasant laying eggs in the chicken coop, and everyone became more confident in capturing the docile prey and bringing them back to captivity.

The next day, Yao Xiaoqing took a Shau Kei and put it on the pot, poured the plant ash water soaked overnight into the Shau Kei, filtered out the impurities, and poured the lye into the pot and boiled it on the clay stove.

Pour half of the boiled plant ash water and mix it with the saponin liquid that has been filtered out of impurities, and put it on the stove and boil it slowly over low heat.Stir it evenly with a wooden stick, pour it into a bamboo tube after cooling down, fill it with a dozen bamboo tubes and cover it with a cork.