Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 18
Yao Xiaoqing suddenly felt a sense of crisis.I thought: I must step up my practice to be able to protect myself, and I need to make weapons, store food, build houses and walls as soon as possible, so as not to be driven straight in.

She wants her people to live a life of half-farming and half-hunting, instead of relying entirely on hunting, risking their lives to compete with others for territory, and being robbed by others.It's not easy to start from scratch.

Seeing that Yao Xiaoqing was lost in thought, Amu Shan said to her, "Xiaoqing, Amu has gone to plant millet and bean seeds."

Yao Xiaoqing looked up and saw the seeds in Shan'am's hands: one was millet and the other was soybean, each weighing half a catty, and it seemed that the seeds were more plump than the others.

No wonder the yield of millet and soybeans planted in the tribe is so low. It is good that such seeds can grow.

Yao Xiaoqing called Shan'am to stop, and hung the bow on the stake.

I picked out some chaff and plump seeds from the seeds, put them in the palm of my hand, and said to her: "Mum, the seeds should be sorted out, and the plump seeds should be left behind. Every time you sow, you must expose them to the sun. There will be a good harvest after the next.”

Shan Amu felt distressed looking at the scorpions in her hand, and hesitated for a while, "Xiaoqing, did the gods tell you to do this?"

Yao Xiaoqing nodded without hesitation, "Yes, the gods told me that food has to be planted in this way to be harvested."

Hearing that the gods told Yao Xiaoqing, Shan Amu nodded reassuringly, "Okay, I'll get a piece of leather out to dry the seeds."

Yao Xiaoqing decided to go down the mountain later to see how Uncle Shui and Uncle Chong dig the ground and weed.

Now go to the vicinity to find where there is clay, dig some and come back to build a stove to make clay pots.

Yao Xiaoqing went around to the back mountain and found clay on the hillside. As soon as he went down the mountain and returned to the cave, he saw Yaohu and Dashi coming back with a stick and carrying a [-]-meter-long log.

The two put the wood on the platform. Yaohu looked up and saw Yao Xiaoqing's bow and arrow hanging on the wooden post. He stepped forward and took it off and held it in his hand. Where did it come from?"

"This is called a bow, I made it." Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and said.

Shan threw down a few pieces of flint and walked in front of Yaohu, excitedly looking at the bow in his hand, "Boss, the giant bear tribe stabbed me with this thing."

"Yes, You used such a weapon last time, not as good as Xiaoqing." Yaohu turned to look at Yao Xiaoqing, and asked excitedly: "Xiaoqing, how do you use the bow?"

Yao Xiaoqing took a wooden arrow, took the bow, and said to Yaohu: "Put the arrow on the bowstring, aim at the target and shoot, and it will hit the target." After speaking, the wooden arrow flew away. Go out and shoot the little tree.

Yaohu took the bow in her hand, "I'll try it."

"Okay." Yao Xiaoqing gave him a wooden arrow and corrected his posture.

Yaohu drew the bow and set the arrow with great momentum, the wooden arrow flew out and hit another tree.

Yaohu looked at the wooden arrow stuck in the tree trunk and shook his head in frustration, "I missed it."

Shan and Dashi also rushed to try once, but they didn't hit the target.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the dejected looks of several people, and said with a smile: "I will find a big tree later, draw a few circles for you, practice hard for a few days and you will be able to hit the target."

"Okay." Yaohu pointed to a big tree in the east, "Xiaoqing, you can draw circles on it. Father, go and chop some bamboo and come back. You can teach us how to make more bows and let Mufeng and the others Let's practice together too."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded with a smile, "Okay, Hua said that he saw the feces left by wild boars by the river, go and see if you want to dig a trap?"

Yaohu nodded and said, "Go dig the trap first, and then chop bamboo to make a bow."

The mountain called Shanghua together, and everyone walked down the mountain. Yao Xiaoqing saw that Shuibo and Chongbo had been busy all morning, and they drove out for two minutes.

The stone knife dug up a shallow layer of soil on the ground, which could not meet the requirements for planting at all, so the two stone axes broke.

Hua took several people to the place where the wild boar droppings were found.

After Yaohu and Shan looked at it, they nodded and said, "That's right, it's the feces of wild boars."

The two of them found a good location and started digging pits to make traps. They used engineer shovels to dig traps. The speed was so fast that it was not at 01:30.

The two dug alternately, and dug a large pit as high as an adult.Yao Xiaoqing asked them to insert more than a dozen sharpened wooden sticks at the bottom of the pit, spread a layer of twigs on top of the trap, and cover it with weeds.

Then I went to the bamboo forest and cut more than a dozen moso bamboos and a bundle of bamboo for bows, and carried and dragged them back to the cave.

Back in the cave, Yun Amu has cooked duck eggs and a pot of wild vegetables.

Yao Xiaoqing felt that eating was the most uncomfortable thing, and she couldn't swallow it.

Watching them eat with gusto, I forced myself to eat two duck eggs and a bowl of wild vegetable soup, barely filling my stomach.

After Yaohu and the others finished their wild vegetable soup, Yao Xiaoqing stopped them and checked their wounds.

When I took off the bandage and saw that the wound had healed, I was a little surprised, and sighed: This repair ability is simply amazing.

After removing the bandage and washing it, Yaohu stopped her, "Xiaoqing, teach father how to make a bow and arrow."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded in response, and after showing them a bow and wooden arrows, he carried a shovel and a basket on his back, and went to dig clay with flowers.

After shoveling away the upper layer of clay for excavation, the two ran back and forth several times, dug a pile of clay and poured it back on the platform at the entrance of the cave.

I dug up the soil with a shovel, poured two pots of water into it, took off my smelly leather shoes, and stood in the mound of soil and started to step on it.Yaya woke up and saw Yao Xiaoqing stepping on the soil, thinking she was playing a game, she also took off her small leather shoes and went in and pulled Yao Xiaoqing to step on it.

After stepping on the clay until it stuck to my feet, I went down the mountain to find a stone slab, carried it back to the cave with a slightly round stone, and placed it by the fire.

I went out and shoveled a piece of clay and carried it back to the cave, put the slate on the stone, grabbed some charcoal ash on the slate, took out a piece of mud and patted the bottom of the clay pot; then, rubbed the mud into many long mud strips, rubbed it The good mud strips are built around the chassis, while pressing the mud strips tightly with your fingers, the mud strips are coiled up in circles until they are closed in the shape of a clay pot.

He scooped up a bowl of water, dipped his hands in some water, and turned the stone slab to smooth the inside and outside of the earthen pot.

After the jar is finished, rub two sticks of mud on the jar to make a handle, and a not-so-beautiful earthen jar is ready.

After the jar was finished, I measured the mouth of the jar with a piece of bamboo and found that it was [-] centimeters by visual inspection. After measuring the size, I started to make the lid.

Hua stood there looking at it for a while, then went to find slates and stones, and came back, imitating Yao Xiaoqing's example and pinching the clay pot.

Yao Xiaoqing found that Hua's hands-on ability was much better than hers, and the clay pot she made for the first time was more round and beautiful than hers.

The two of them squeezed out three clay pots in silence, one bigger than the other.

Yao Xiaoqing carried the earthen pot to the corner of the cave entrance, went out and carried a bundle of firewood in, put the twigs on top of the earthen pot, covered the earthen pot with thick firewood and set fire to it.

Hua looked at it for a while and said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, can that thing be cooked like a stone pot?"

"Yes." Yao Xiaoqing added a sentence in her heart: it can be done if the firing is successful.

"Hua, you watch it, call me when the fire stops."

"Okay." Hua stayed there honestly.

(End of this chapter)