Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

CHAPTER 192 CHAPTER 192

A dozen or so people left as soon as they said they would, carrying dry food and leading the cattle, and went to the Shenmu tribe.

But after a few months, the open space in front of the cave was already covered with weeds.

The fish revisited the old places, and soon brought firewood and lit the bonfire.

Everyone ate some dried meat with boiling water, and stayed in two caves for one night.

Early the next morning, Yu pointed to the bamboo forest to the east of the cave, "Mufeng, there is a valley through the bamboo forest, and there seems to be a chestnut forest inside."

Mu Feng nodded, "Let's go in and have a look."

Everyone walked eastward, through a bush, and after walking for half an hour, they arrived at the mouth of the valley.

Sure enough, there is a large chestnut tree in the valley, with blue and yellow thorn balls hanging all over the branches.

Yuzi looked back at Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, this forest is full of chestnuts, probably from the people of the Shenmu tribe?"

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Very likely."

"In the future, we will also plant chestnuts in the open space north of our tribe."

"It's all right now, this chestnut forest can harvest a lot of fruit." Smiling, he picked up the machete and chopped a dozen long bamboo poles, "Go, go up the tree and beat the chestnuts."

Mufeng gave Yao Xiaoqing the ox rope, "Xiaoqing, take the ox a little farther, we will go up the tree and beat the chestnut down."

"Okay!" The two led the ox back to the edge of the bamboo forest.

A dozen or so men took long bamboo poles and climbed up the chestnut tree like monkeys, tapping the thorns on the branches.

The thorn balls fell like hailstones one by one. Standing under the tree, they must have smashed their heads and blood.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at it for a while, pointed to the foot of the mountain and said to Yuzi: "You look here, I'll go over there to see if there is any ramie."

Yuzi took the rope from the cow, "Xiaoqing, there is no one in the mountains, so be careful."

Yao Xiaoqing waved the engineering shovel, "I'm holding the shovel, so I'm not afraid."

She tapped the grass and walked to the foot of the mountain to the north.After walking not far, I saw a small ravine, with ramie as tall as a person growing on both sides of the ravine, which was already full of ramie seeds.

Further on, the shrubs at the foot of the mountain are covered with kudzu vines and yam vines, and the yam vines are covered with brown yam beans.Some kudzu vines are still blooming with bunches of lavender flowers.

Yao Xiaoqing felt that these ramie and yams must be artificially planted, and the kudzu vines are wild.The news of the demise of the Shenmu tribe must have not been spread, so no one came here to collect it.

She hurried back to the chestnut forest, and saw that the chestnut balls had fallen under the tree.He shouted loudly: "Brother, you guys come down first, get the chestnuts here, come two people and we'll dig yam and kudzu roots over there."

Mu Feng, Zhu and Xiong Niu came down from the tree and said with a happy smile, "Xiaoqing, where did you find the kudzu root?"

Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the foot of the mountain in the north, "There are a lot of yams, kudzu root, and ramie over there. It seems that I have been busy here for a few days."

Mu Feng nodded, "It's best to be busy, let Yu and Lu go with you."

"Yeah!" Yao Xiaoqing and Yuzi took out the back basket from the bamboo basket, took the sickle, and walked towards the foot of the mountain to the north.

Yu and Lu followed with a hoe, and the three laughed happily when they saw the piece of yam and kudzu root.

Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the kudzu root and said to the fish: "Fish, dig the yams first, then the kudzu root. Don't throw away the kudzu vine. When you pile it up and go away, pull it back to the tribe."

"it is good!"

Yu and Lu started to cut the potato vines, and as soon as they pulled the potato vines, the yam beans fell down with a crackling sound.

Yao Xiaoqing and Yuzi were busy picking up the fallen yams and beans and putting them into the basket.It took four people two days of work to dig out that piece of yams, and the yams and beans picked up three bamboo baskets full.

The dug up yams and beaten chestnuts were all carried to the caves of the Shenmu tribe for storage.Looking at the yams and chestnuts piled up like hills in the cave, and thinking that there are still a lot of kudzu root and chestnuts, everyone is very happy.

Xiong Niu laughed and said, "It's better to plant food. Next year, we will plant all the open land with yams, and we won't have to collect food everywhere in the future."

She nodded with a smile, "This chestnut forest is also good, we will fill the open space with chestnut trees in the future."

Yao Xiaoqing was also very happy, "Brother, you first send the yam back to the tribe, bring Shan Amu and the others over here, and bring all the four yellow cattle over here, and then bring a few baskets over."

Mu Feng nodded with a smile, "Okay, Zhu, Yu, and Lu and I will go back first, you guys have to be careful here."

Xiong Niu smiled and said, "Understood, you only have to be careful on the road."

A group of people happily packed the yams into bamboo baskets and put them on the panniers.After watching the four people walking away, he took the sickle, hoe, and bamboo pole and walked towards the foot of the mountain.

Several people collected the seeds from the kudzu roots first, then cut off all the kudzu vines, stripped off the kudzu leaves and piled them aside

That piece of kudzu root was probably because few people dug it up. The kudzu root that was dug up was as big as an adult's thigh.Yao Xiaoqing picked up one and weighed it, and found it weighed thirty or forty catties.

Yuzi looked at the valley, "Xiaoqing, there must be a lot of kudzu yams in this valley."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Let Mu Feng find those in the valley, let's dig them back first, and harvest the millet in the field."

Xiongniu looked at the sweating faces of the two, "Xiaoqing, go and cut the ramie, we will dig these kudzu roots."

Yao Xiaoqing shook his head and said, "Some of the ramie is ripe, but the ramie seeds need to be packed in baskets."

Yuzi asked puzzled, "Xiaoqing, what is the use of ramie?"

Yao Xiaoqing thought for a while, "The leaves of ramie can be fed to the livestock in the tribe, and the rubber bands peeled off from the hemp stalks can be used to make hemp rope and twine, and can also be used to weave sacks, sackcloth, and cloth shoes."

Yuzi raised her head, "Hemp rope, like the rope we twisted out of rattan skin? What are sacks, sackcloth, and cloth shoes?"

Yao Xiaoqing glanced at her reproachfully, "I can't explain it to you either, you'll know when you get it back and make it."

The kudzu roots that have been dug out are piled up there like a hill, and they are carried back to the cave after the sun goes down.

The next day, the four of them went to the foot of the mountain at dawn and dug up all the kudzu roots after a busy day.

At dusk, Mu Feng brought more than 20 women to the Shenmu Tribe. When he saw a large chestnut tree, he couldn't close his mouth with joy.

Shan Amu said to the big tree Amu: "We can't finish eating this piece of chestnuts until the beginning of spring."

Dashu's mother nodded again and again, "Yes! No wonder the people of the Shenmu tribe never go out to exchange for food. It turns out that they guard such a large chestnut forest."

When they saw those thick kudzu roots, the women cheered again.Busily picked up the scattered chestnuts on the ground, carried them to the cave entrance in the back basket, and piled them on the open space.

After simply eating some jerky, it was dark.Everyone lit the bonfire, and everyone sat around the bonfire, planing the chestnut thorn balls with their feet, pressing one foot on one side and the other on the other side, as soon as they were hard, the chestnut balls cracked, and the chestnuts fell from the thorn balls. peeled out.

More than 30 people worked until midnight to remove the mountain of chestnuts from the thorn balls.

(End of this chapter)