Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

The soil in the valley is very soft. These are natural organic fertilizers made from dried leaves and weeds, soaked in rain and snow, and decomposed. Use it to improve the soil quality, and the crops planted will have a good harvest.

In the 80s and [-]s of later generations, before a large amount of fertilizers were used, everyone dug out the silt from ponds and ditches every once in a while, and spread it on the open ground to improve the soil quality.

Rapeseed and vegetables are planted, and the manure of livestock is almost always mixed with plant ash and soil retting fertilizer to make fertilizer.

The vegetables at that time were really delicious. Later, with various additives and bulking factors, the food lost its original nutritional value.

The two walked all the way forward, and there were traces of excavation along the way. Yao Xiaoqing collected some herbs in the forest, and the two slowly walked out of the bush.

At the foot of the mountain, I found a ditch in front of it. There was about half an acre of land beside the ditch, and there were plants with round oval leaves.

The edges of the leaves are serrated, the upward leaf surface is green and rough to the touch, the back is white and woolly, and the petiole is also pubescent.

Something flashed through Yao Xiaoqing's mind, but she didn't catch it. Her intuition told her that this plant has great uses.

Looking at the straight stalk thick as a thumb, she thought about it for a long time, and suddenly thought that it was ramie. The leaves can be used to raise silkworms, the roots can cure diseases, and the stalk is the raw material for making clothes and paper.

Chop off the ramie, remove the leaves, soak and peel off the stem bark to get light blue ramie fibers.

Yao Xiaoqing was very excited. Now that it's done, as long as he can make hemp thread, he can weave cloth and have clothes to wear.The spinning wheel is easy to make, but the loom is a big problem.

Thinking of these, Yao Xiaoqing fell into deep thought.

Yuzi found some taro by the side of the ditch, and turned around to see her standing there holding a plant in her hand.Hastily shouted: "Xiaoqing, what's wrong with you?"

Yao Xiaoqing turned her head and looked at Yuzi with bright eyes, "Yaozi, let's chop these back to the tribe, this thing is of great use."

"There's taro here, why don't we dig it back?"

Yuzi looked at the taro at his feet reluctantly, and was about to be poached away by the women of the Lingque tribe.

"Of course I dig the taro first if there is any taro. These things will be cut later, and it won't run away." Yao Xiaoqing walked over with a smile, and began to plan the taro with a bamboo knife.

The taro that grows by the side of the ditch has been around for some years, the root system is intertwined and knotted, and there are stones and other things in the soil. It takes more than ten minutes to dig out a nest of taro.

When the two of them finished digging all the yams by the ditch, the two baskets were full, and when they looked up, the sky had darkened.

"Let's go taro." Yao Xiaoqing shouted.

"Xiaoqing, it's too heavy for you to carry so many yams. I'll pick some yams and put them in the vegetable basket." Taro went up to pick up the yams from Yao Xiaoqing's back basket and put them into the vegetable basket.

Yao Xiaoqing helped her lift the basket, saw that her waist was bent, and she still had to carry the two vegetable baskets, and asked worriedly: "Yaozi, you carry so much and you still need to carry the vegetable baskets, can you do it?" ?”

"It's okay, I'm strong." Yuzi left first.

Yao Xiaoqing had no choice but to carry half a basket of taro, and followed the taro up the mountain.

The two of them had just walked for a while, when a thin old Eminem and two thin women came out of the woods.

The thin woman looked enviously at the two people who walked away, "It would have been nice if we had come earlier, you see that their baskets are full of taro."

The young woman with a big black mole on the side of her nose said: "I heard she told that woman just now that this thing is of great use. Let's cut it back and have a look. It might be for food!"

Old Ah Mu touched the ramie leaves and muttered, "Is this hairy leaf edible?"

The mole woman urged the two of them, "Hurry up, you two, there are so many green poles, it will be dark if you delay."

The three raised their stone knives and began to chop. After a while, the piece of ramie was chopped off.The three of them cut some vines, tied up the ramie, and walked towards the south mountain forest with their backs on their backs.

Yao Xiaoqing returned to the tribe, scrubbed off the sweat all over his body, went back to the room and took out a notebook, and wrote down the steps of making twine in the notebook.Recalling the appearance of the spinning wheel I saw in my previous life, I began to sketch it.

Early the next morning, after exercising, she took the taro and walked towards the ditch in the col.

By the side of the ditch, Yao Xiaoqing and Yuzi were dumbfounded. Yesterday it was lush and green, but today it is already a mess.

None of the ramie trees are gone, only the ramie roots are left in the soil.

Yao Xiaoqing stared blankly, wanting to cry without tears, "Who did it? You can't eat this thing. Why rush to cut it off?"

Yuzi looked at Yao Xiaoqing's sad look, and said guiltily, "Xiaoqing, blame me, I won't let you dig those taro."

Yao Xiaoqing squatted there, depressed for a while, stood up and saw that the circles of Taro's eyes were red.

"Taro, I can't blame you. It stands to reason that the taro should be dug first. Besides, anyone has the right to take back the things in the wild. Why don't we allow others to cut them?"

Yuzi remembered that when they went back, the women of the Lingque tribe were still in the mountain depression, looking at Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, do you think the people of the Lingque tribe took it away?"

Yao Xiaoqing shook her head and said, "I don't think so. Besides, even if they took it away, so what? Let's go! Let's go to another place to see."

Yuzi nodded, and the two followed the ditch to find it.After walking for about an hour, no trace of Ramie was found.

Yao Xiaoqing was discouraged and said to Yuzi: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to look for it. Let's go into the forest and look for any fruit trees?"

"Hmm!" Seeing her disappointed look, Yuzi felt that the thing must be very important, and thought of looking for it again tomorrow.

Yao Xiaoqing tapped in the grass with a wooden stick, scanning the plants in the forest with his eyes, and picked some wild fruits, some were sweet and sour, and some were faint and tasteless.

Yao Xiaoqing suddenly remembered that field of wild grapes, did they get picked?
"Yuzi, let's go up the mountain to the forest to the north. The wild grape I saw there last time, is it still there?"

"Hey!" Yuzi put the fruits in her hand into the vegetable basket, and followed her to the mountains and forests to the north.

The two of them didn't go up the mountain, they went straight through the forest and climbed up a hill. At the foot of the hill was a piece of reed bamboo as tall as a person.

Yao Xiaoqing took two steps, and suddenly squinted her eyes, staring at the reed bamboo leaf.After a while, the smile on his face bloomed like a flower, and he cheered, "Sugarcane—here I come!"

The cheers startled a few birds on the tree, and the birds sang "chirp" and flew away with flapping wings.

Yao Xiaoqing rushed down the mountain quickly, grabbed one, broke it with a click, and tore off the sugarcane leaves on it two or three times, revealing the black-purple sugarcane. Two knots, and one knot was given to the taro who was chasing after panting.