Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 136 Chapter 136

Six or seven days passed in a flash, and Yao Xiaoqing planted all those flower beans and peas, but Yaohu and the others have not come back yet.

She began to worry, and found Dashi who was helping in the field, "Uncle Dashi, how long did it take you to go hunting before returning to the tribe after the winter?"

Dashi thought for a while, "When the prey is abundant, it will come back in three or two days. The prey is not easy to catch, and it will take eight or nine days."

"That's good. In the past, you went out for two or three days at most and came back. It's been six or seven days, and I'm a little worried. It seems that there are not many prey outside, otherwise it won't be delayed for so long."

Dashi nodded, "I guess it's the same. It looks like they won't come back for eight or nine days or longer. Don't worry, more than 20 warriors go hunting together, and nothing will happen."

"Yeah!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at the open field, "The millet seeds have been sun-dried, you take Alinbo and the others to open the field, and I take Amu to open the ridge and sow the seeds."

"Okay, we have to hurry up." Dashi smiled.

Yao Xiaoqing went back and saw that the dam in the front yard was full of seeds, and soybean and millet seeds were the most.

She had heard from her teammates before that the yield of the millet he planted in his family was only four to five hundred catties per mu, and one mu of land only needed two or three catties of seeds. She heard that when the seeds were sown, they had to be mixed with fine soil.People also need to guard to drive away the birds.

She had never seen millet planted in the ground before, and she came here to see it with her own eyes.Production is really pitiful.

She thinks that people here don't know how to plant, don't know how to choose good seeds, and the other is that they are sown too densely.

This time, according to the method of later generations, the yield should be higher!

She calculated in her mind, the seeds she exchanged in Qiushan last year, plus the number of seeds collected by Shan Amu and the others.

If one mu of land needs three catties of seeds, Yao Xiaoqing estimates that those millet grains can plant nearly two hundred mu of land.

Two hundred acres of beans can be planted, and half a basket of wheat can be planted with one mu of land after selection. The problem of seeds has been solved.

If the output of millet and beans can be a quarter of that of later generations, and taro, kudzu root, yam, and beans are added together, there will be no need to worry about running out of food.

After Yao Xiaoqing did the calculation, she felt a little excited, thinking that when she found the rice, this day would be more enjoyable.

Hua looked at her standing there, pursed her lips, walked over and gave her a light slap, "Xiao Qing, why are you stealing? Tell me!"

Yao Xiaoqing looked at her with a smile, "I'll do the math here... If we work for two more years and store more food, we won't be afraid of natural disasters in the future. You think we should be happy!"

"Really!" Hua looked at her in surprise, and felt a little worried after thinking about it, "I'm worried that there is no place to store the grain I harvested."

"Hahaha!" Yao Xiaoqing said cheerfully pointing at her, "Hua, why are you worrying about this? I have a place to store any amount of food." Hua's words also reminded her, thinking that after the busy farming season, she would start burning Brick and oyster ash repaired the warehouse.

Hua slapped her angrily: "Bad Xiaoqing, let you laugh at me, I have never seen so much food."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at her with a smile, "When the millet in the field turns yellow and the beans are full of pods, you will know that it has arrived. Tell Amu and the others, let's go open the ridge."

Hua nodded, "Hey! We'll be waiting for you in the field." She watched Yao Xiaoqing walk away briskly, looked at the bare ground, and couldn't imagine the scene full of millet and bean pods. She shook her head and looked for Shan'am They went.

Yao Xiaoqing went to find some long ropes used to build the house, and let Mu Na and the others watch the seeds dry.She and the women went to the field, pulled up a long rope, marked out the size of a box, and began to open the box to raise a ridge.

After opening a few fields and digging the furrows, Yao Xiaoqing suddenly realized that he had never expected to plant so much land, and the stored fertilizer must not be enough.

She said to Yuzi: "Yozi, there may not be enough fertilizer in the fertilizer pit. You can ask a few people to go to the woods outside and dig some rotten soil back."

After hearing this, Ah Chong said: "Xiaoqing, there is a thick layer of rot outside the west wall, let's dig there."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay, try to dig as much as possible, otherwise there won't be enough fat."

"Okay!" Ah Chong nodded in response, and took a few people back to pick baskets with wooden shovels.

A dozen or so people worked hard for a day, opened up all the land that had been opened up, and began to spread fertilizer the next day.

Thinking of plowing with a plow after spreading fertilizer, and covering soil after sowing seeds.

Yao Xiaoqing thought of a way and asked Dashi and the others to dig a few wooden rakes with wood, and tie stones to the wooden rakes. The wooden teeth went deep into the soil, turned the broken soil, and raked quickly and evenly.

Wheat and millet are scattered into the ground, the wooden rake is turned over, stones are tied, and a layer of soil is covered on the wheat seeds by pulling the plow.

Five or six days passed in a flash, and Yaohu and the others had been out for more than ten days, and the people in the tribe began to worry.

At dusk, Yao Xiaoqing climbed to the roof of the last row of yards and looked at the forest to the north.Suddenly, I saw a group of people walking towards the small gate at the foot of the mountain with their backs on their backs.

"I'm back, my father is back." Yao Xiaoqing yelled to the people working in the field, and ran downstairs to the small gate.

When I opened the door, I saw Mu Feng, who looked like a cat with a painted face. Yao Xiaoqing narrowed his eyes with a smile, "Brother, you are back!"

"Yeah!" Mu Feng also had a happy face, "How do you know we're back? What are you up to! You're all tanned."

Yao Xiaoqing pouted dissatisfiedly, "There is no tanning, you are tan! You are almost catching up with charcoal." After finishing speaking, he felt that his pouting action was a bit childish, and the old man blushed, and ran to Yaohu, "Father, why have you been here for so long? Are you exhausted!"

She looked at everyone, and saw that everyone was tanned, with unshaven beards, chapped lips, dirty faces, knotted hair, and sunken eye sockets. It was estimated that everyone had lost at least a dozen catties.

Yaohu looked at her cheerfully, "I'm not tired, I just want to eat the food of the tribe. The food outside is really unpalatable!"

Muba laughed from the side, "Xiaoqing, you've made our mouths tricky, and it won't taste good after eating barbecue."

Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "There are delicious food in the tribe. We pickled the sour bamboo shoots and dried them in the sun. Mr. Chong and the others collected a lot of fish and shrimp this morning, and they will prepare delicious food for you when we get back."

Yaohu turned his head and waved to the people behind, "Okay, everyone have a good meal tonight."

Shan squeezed up from behind, and said with a smile: "Xiaoqing, we caught a lot of prey this time, and the back basket is full of dried meat."

Taking a look, they saw their backs bent by the baskets and the wild animals on their shoulders.Yao Xiaoqing nodded with a smile, "The harvest is really good! Come back early next time, everyone is worried about you."

(End of this chapter)