Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 161 Chapter 161
The millet was sown, and the wheat and beans were ripe. The hunting and gathering teams stayed in the tribe to harvest together.

Yao Xiaoqing led people to harvest wheat and beans, and Dashi led hunting and gathering teams to plow, hoe and spread fertilizer.

Everyone rushed to the last planting season and planted the selected millet, so that more millet could be harvested by the end of autumn.

Then the peas mature, and after the peas are dried, the plump ones are selected and kept as seeds.After the wheat from that field was thrashed out and dried in the sun, only a basketful of wheat was obtained.

Yao Xiaoqing selected the ones with large and full grains, and planned to use half of them to try to grow winter wheat for a season.

Thinking about the tribe, there are sixty or seventy people, all of whom are opening their mouths to eat.Those millet grains plus beans are enough for half a year's ration at most.

Due to the drought, the chestnuts and green berries in the forest are sparse, less than half of what they were last year.

Yao Xiaoqing thought about it for a few days, and found Yaohu, "Father, I want to cut down the woods on both sides of the fence, and open up a few hundred acres of land at the same time."

"The north of the fence is used to grow fruit trees, sugar cane, and cattle and sheep. The south is used to grow crops, yams, kudzu, and pumpkins. What do you think?"

Yaohu nodded, "I'm also thinking about it these days. I think it's better for you. We have to raise livestock and grow food to feed everyone."

Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "I asked Uncle Chong to take the fish and the others to cut down the forest in the south and fence it up, and then cut down the forest in the north. From now on, we will have a hunting team, a collection team, a planting team, and a breeding team. team, as well as the construction team and the refining team. I want to put the dozen or so men brought back from Shenmu Mountain into the construction team."

Yaohu looked at her cheerfully, "How do you want to arrange them, let me hear."

Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "The hunting team and collection team are still led by the former people. Let Ah Chong take care of the construction team first, and the breeding team is managed by Uncle A Gen and Uncle A Lin. You are in charge of the refining team. Rule the tribe."

After hearing this, Yaohu thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay! You have arranged things well, just let them go, they all like to follow you!"

Yao Xiaoqing nodded with a smile, "Then I'll go find Uncle Achong and the others."

"Go!" Yaohu happily watched Yao Xiaoqing leave.He felt that his original decision was good, only Xiaoqing could make the Yaoshan tribe better and better.

Ah Chong heard that he was going to manage the construction team, cut down the forest, and open up the land to build the fence.Without further ado, they took the fish and they went to the forest to cut trees and open up wasteland.

Yao Xiaoqing went to the duck shed and saw Uncle Gen and two old uncles picking duck eggs.The wild ducks and pheasants raised in the tribe can pick up sixty or seventy duck eggs and forty or fifty eggs a day.

Since they got the bamboo raft, Genbo and the others caught many wild ducks one after another on the other side of the river.The enclosed ditch can no longer hold the ducks.

Achong led them to dig a large pond outside the fence, and built a high wooden fence around the pond with wood, and covered the fence with a layer of bamboo sparsely.

The water flowing down from the ravine is too small to supply the people in the tribe for drinking and to irrigate the land. After the pond was dug, it was not filled with water until a few days ago.

Yao Xiaoqing called Uncle Gen, "Uncle Gen, father said that your breeding team has more and more chickens, ducks and livestock. From now on, you will take care of the chickens and ducks, and Uncle Lin will take care of the cattle, sheep and rabbits."

Gen happily replied: "Yes, I promise to take care of them."

Yao Xiaoqing went to the pen again and told Uncle Lin about the breeding.Go back and take the engineering shovel and flashlight and walk up the mountain to the outlet of the ditch.

Along the ditch, to the entrance of the cave in the middle of the mountain, I saw a stream of water as big as a faucet, slowly flowing out of the cave and flowing down the mountain.

She lay down at the entrance of the cave the size of a dog's cave, turned on the flashlight to illuminate the cave, and saw a tunnel with no end in sight, and no source could be seen at all.

"Hey!" Yao Xiaoqing sighed, "Who can climb into such a small cave to see what's going on? May God bless you, don't cut off the water."

After going down the mountain to look around, Yao Xiaoqing thought of steamed buns and noodles when he thought about choosing the remaining pot of wheat.

Go to the warehouse and pour out half of the wheat, and mention the canteen to hand over the taro and beans to grind the wheat.

She made some plant ash and alkali, and prepared to use it to leaven dough, steamed buns and steamed buns.

Yuzi took the ground flour and went to the cafeteria, "Xiaoqing, the flour has been ground, as you said, it is finely ground."

Yao Xiaoqing took a look at the flour in the basin, "Oh! It's too little, for a hundred and ten people, it's not enough to sift out the wheat bran."

Yuzi smiled and said, "Xiaoqing, these flours are already very fine, there is no need to sift them!"

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, after all, she was not willing to sift out the wheat bran.

Divide the flour into two parts, put a spoonful of honey in each, add some badger lard, pour some lye, add some water, and start kneading the dough.

Taro is also helping.The two reconciled the dough and kneaded it into a smooth dough. Yao Xiaoqing put the dough on the side of the stove and started to ferment.

Yuzi looked at her curiously, "Xiaoqing, do you want to steam pancakes? Shall I go get the steamer?"

Yao Xiaoqing shook her head, "Steamed buns must be fermented before they can be steamed. Go and boil two cans of millet bean porridge, clean the steamer, and start steaming after the flour is fermented."

Yao Xiaoqing went out to pick some pinto beans, picked them out, took some marinated pork belly, took a few women with big stomachs, chopped it into meat fillings, fried it until it was cooked and cooled, and the dough was ready.

A dozen women followed Yao Xiaoqing, and quickly made the steamed buns and placed them on the stone table. After fermenting again, they can be steamed in a pot.

The steamer was placed on the stone pot, looking at the bare steamer, Yao Xiaoqing had to brush some lard on the steamer, and put the steamed buns into the steamer.

Looking at the freckled wheat bran steamed buns and steamed buns in the steamer, Yao Xiaoqing swallowed involuntarily.

When the hunting team and gathering team returned to the tribe, the canteen was full of people in a short while.

Yaya looked at the chubby buns and steamed buns in the steamer, "Qing Gu, did you cook something delicious today?"

Yao Xiaoqing nodded with a smile, "Yaya has worked hard collecting food outside, and Aunt Qing is going to reward you."

A Sen also asked for credit, "Qinggu, I cut a lot of cow grass today, and even picked up clam shells to feed the ducks."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the two hard-working little guys, "Yeah! Asen is also doing well, eat two more meat buns later."

Yun Amu led people to fry the bamboo shoots with oil residue, cold wild vegetables, millet bean porridge, steamed buns and steamed buns on the table.

She looked at Yaohu and said with a smile: "Boss, this is the fresh food that Xiaoqing just made today. The ones with creases on the nails are steamed stuffed buns, which contain meat and pinto beans. The ones without creases are steamed buns. They look delicious. Bar!"

(End of this chapter)