Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 151 151 Ironware
When they returned to the bamboo shed, Yao Xiaoqing drew the appearance of tongs and sickle on a stone slab with charcoal sticks, pointed at it and said with a smile: "You just watch the beating, I only know the appearance."

Several people felt that the fire tongs were a bit difficult to handle. Yaohu said: "The sickle is similar in shape to a bone knife. Let's use the fire tongs like the bamboo clips first."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "You can figure it out, I'll go to the river to have a look."

Yaohu smiled and waved, "It's getting late, go early and come back early!"

Yao Xiaoqing nodded and walked two steps, suddenly remembered something, turned around and said: "Father, after the iron utensils are burned, your hands will be burned. After the iron clips are tied, you have to wrap a circle of bamboo strips on them."

"Understood." Yaohu looked at her and smiled.

Yao Xiaoqing went back to fill the bamboo tube, and walked towards the river with the basket on his back.I saw that the river became shallower, and from a distance I saw Uncle Chong and the others leaning on the bank on a bamboo raft.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the people and said to himself, "It's strange, when did they learn how to hold a bamboo raft?"

Ah Chong and A Lin were standing on the bamboo raft. When they saw Yao Xiaoqing walking towards the river, they waved to her and shouted: "Xiaoqing, there are many duck eggs and waterfowl eggs on the other side of the river. There are also ducklings. .”

After Yao Xiaoqing walked in, he saw that the two of them were pulling a rattan leather rope, and the other was holding a bamboo raft with a penny.

He hurried forward to help pull the rope, and when the three of them landed on the shore, they saw that the back basket was full of duck eggs and bird eggs, and there were more than a dozen small wild ducks of different sizes, quacking and quacking in the bamboo cage.

She smiled and asked, "How did you tie the rope to the other side of the river?"

Genbo smiled: "Mumba took the rope and swam to the opposite side to tie it up."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the turbulent river in the middle of the river, "Muba is really powerful."

Genbo got off the bamboo raft with a bamboo basket, "When I was in Sishan, there was a river at the foot of the mountain. The little ones were very hungry, and they often went into the water to touch fish and cook to eat."

"You have learned how to support bamboo rafts, and you have learned how to cross without using ropes."

Ah Chong nodded with a smile, "That's what we planned too, where are you going?"

"I'll walk by the river, you guys take the ducks back, and wait for me to come back and cut the wings."

Walking downstream along the river, I saw puddles of different depths on the exposed river beach, and some water birds were pecking in them.

Yao Xiaoqing searched around on the river beach, picked out a few gray-black stones, hit them hard with pebbles, and the stones cracked.

There is gray-black stone powder on the fracture surface. It is thought that lime should be soaked in paper, and lime should also be used to improve the purity of iron.

She wants to carry these stones back, wait for the kiln to be empty, put them in the kiln and burn them to see if they are limestone?

I put a few crushed stones into the back basket, and found a few more to carry back on my back.

When Yao Xiaoqing returned to the tribe, he saw that Yaohu and the others made a hammer and two sickles out of the pig iron they smelted.

The days passed quietly like running water, and more than a month passed in a blink of an eye.

Qiushan and Warrior's schistosomiasis are also almost cured.

Qiu Shan brought the warriors a bucket of honey and a basket of jerky.

Yao Xiaoqing took the honey, took some jerky, and returned the basket to them.

After saluting gratefully, Qiu Shan and the warrior left.

When Muba and the others were hunting, they encountered tribes that had migrated and found that they lived upstream a day's journey away from the Yaoshan tribe.

In the short term, all is well.

The sky has been dry for more than a month, and it has only rained twice, and the sum of the two times is not much.

Fortunately, there is still a stream of water flowing out of that ravine.

Yao Xiaoqing raised the pool in the courtyard on the mountain to three meters high and filled it with water to facilitate irrigation of pumpkins.The cistern at the foot of the mountain was also filled with water.

Yaohu took the big stones and kept making iron, and there were already a lot of pig iron piled up in the room.

The rock salt collected by Mu Feng and the others has filled the warehouse behind.

The number of wild boars in the pigsty has increased by four, and the number of goats and long-haired goats has increased to a dozen.There are dozens of pheasants, ducks and hares each.

Radish and green vegetable seeds have been collected and another crop has been planted.The pepper flowers are already full of branches, and the dozen or so best-growing trees have grown peppers.

Peas, pinto beans, cowpeas and beans, already full of pods.The pumpkin vines had already climbed up to the fence, and when you peeled off the pumpkin leaves, you could see the pumpkins hidden underneath.

The yams and kudzu root are fertile enough, and the rows grow lush and green.

The millet in the field has also started to turn yellow, the field is golden, the wheat has already headed and filled, and it is time to harvest the wheat after the millet has been harvested.The happiest thing for everyone every day is to walk around and have a look in the tribe.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the ears of wheat and millet, and found that the ears were very short. Compared with later generations, she felt that the [-]% harvest she originally expected was an optimistic idea, and it seemed that the most was half of the harvest.

She felt that good seeds had to be selected.

After making up his mind, Yao Xiaoqing took the women and shuttled through the fields, picking out the full ears of millet and wheat, and tying straw ropes to mark them for planting.

Yaohu and the others worked hard to make more than 20 sickles, a dozen hoes, and a plowshare.

The millet in the field should be harvested.

That night, after eating food, Yaohu took out the finished ironware from the basket, put it on the stone table, and said to the people in the tribe: "We have been busy in the tribe for more than fifty days, Xiaoqing Take us to forge an iron tool, and tomorrow we will start harvesting millet."

Everyone looked at the agricultural tools on the stone table curiously.

Muba picked up a sickle, looked at the cold light on the blade, "Boss, this thing is a bit like the shovel given to Qing Wu by the gods."

Leopard held it in his hand and looked at it over and over for a while, "Hmm! It's a bit like it. Chief, what is it made of?"

Yaohu glanced at the people below, and said, "Xiaoqing said it was called iron, which is different from the shovel given to her by the gods."

Quan held a sickle, "Boss, can we also make weapons out of iron?"

Yaohu nodded, "Yes, after the millet is harvested, let's make the farm tools Xiaoqing mentioned, and then make weapons for everyone."

Muba's eyes lit up when they heard this, "Leader, can we take a sickle and a hoe and go out and have a try?"

Dashi smiled and said, "You don't need to go out, just take a wooden stick and try it out."

Asen ran to the kitchen to get a wooden stick as thick as his wrist, and handed it to Dashu when he came back, "Father, here you are."

Dashu happily patted his head, "Get out of the way, and be careful not to hurt you."

After Asen got out of the way, he picked up a sickle and slammed it on the wooden stick, and the wooden stick broke in response.Everyone leaned over and looked at the edge of the knife, and found that the edge of the knife was not broken at all.

Muba and the others also tried it, and all of them showed ecstatic expressions.

(End of this chapter)