Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 58 59 Difficult!

The uncle named Gen from the Sishan Tribe brought a bundle of firewood and said to her cautiously: "Qing Wu, you go back, we will remember to add firewood for the fire."

Seeing their cautious appearance, Yao Xiaoqing looked up at the sky, nodded and said: "Okay, I will leave this place to you, and I will seal the kiln before dark."

"Okay, okay!" Gen kept nodding his head in agreement.

Yao Xiaoqing came out from under the bamboo shed and walked towards the kudzu root with an engineering shovel. Seeing that the suppressed vines were still growing green, it seemed that they had been planted.

Going back to the open space at the foot of the mountain, standing there and looking towards the pond, Yao Xiaoqing reckoned that there was a distance of 400 meters.She walked down from the foot of the mountain with an engineering shovel, and found that the terrain got lower as she went to the river.

It was also found that the areas that had been scoured during the flood season all grew small shrubs, weeds and vines.

Big trees grow where the river cannot be submerged.

Reserve the land that will be submerged when the flood season comes, and reserve the land that will be submerged when the rare flood comes.Yao Xiaoqing retreated while thinking, retreated to the area full of big trees, and retreated a few hundred steps. Standing there and watching, he felt that the terrain was already quite high, so he decided to build the wall from the foot of the mountain to here.

Lifted the engineer shovel and dug a hole in the ground, leaving a mark.Walking all the way up, looking at the open space next to me, I thought I had to go to the forest to find some fruit trees to plant.There are also those big trees that have to be cut down, so as not to leave a hiding place for the enemy.

To enclose the area marked out, there are at least five or six hundred acres of land. With the current population and production, at least one hundred acres of land must be cultivated to eat, and more land must be cultivated to store food.

Yao Xiaoqing was worried in her heart, where could she find seeds for one or two hundred acres of land?Difficult!too difficult.

Yaohu and Dashi came over carrying the stone, saw her digging a hole with a shovel, and asked with a smile, "Xiaoqing, what are you doing digging here?"

Yao Xiaoqing looked up at the two of them, "Father, Uncle Dashi, I will mark the area to be fenced."

Yaohu looked around, "Are you going to build the wall from here?"

"Yes, from here to the foot of the mountain, as well as the pond over there, they are all surrounded." Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the other side of the pond.

Dashi looked at her hand, shook his head and said, "How long will it take to build such a wide field? The stones we picked up must not be enough."

Yao Xiaoqing felt that although their hands-on ability was not bad, it was their first time building a wall after all, and I'm afraid they should not expect to finish it in a short time.But for long-term stability, no matter how much energy you put in, it is worth it.

"Well! First dig the foundation and build the wall, and then build the house. Including the manpower you left behind, as well as the four of Shui Bo and Chong Bo, I'm afraid it will take until the end of summer to build this area."

Yaohu thought for a while, "I think so! Dashi, you will go hunting with Shan, Xiong Niu, and Mufeng tomorrow, and next time I will go with Shan and the others. In this way, if someone comes to the house, there are others. The walls and houses are built."

"Okay, just as the leader said," Dashi said and thought of another thing, looked at Yaohu and said, "Then shall we still mine salt stones?"

Yaohu understood the meaning of the big stone, thought for a while, and said: "Just go and pick it, don't tell Muba where the salt stone is. It stands to reason that Muba and Spear are willing to fight the Shenmu tribe together with us, and they will also join us. We swear, we shouldn’t hide it from them. But I heard Shan’am say that their big A’mu and Muya don’t seem like people who stay in the tribe with peace of mind, and I’m afraid that they will do bad things.”

Dashi nodded and said: "I also heard from my mother that those women are very neat at work, and that Muya can't even tell the difference between wild vegetables and weeds, and they don't listen to people's teaching."

"Let's wait for some more days!" Yaohu said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Next time you boil salt stone, pick a day when they are not around."

"Okay." Yao Xiaoqing originally thought that Yaohu would have no reservations about Muba and the others. Seeing that he was on guard against them, she also agreed with Yaohu's approach.In this world, salty salt is like a peerless treasure for future generations. It can make people greedy at a glance, and the most unbearable thing is the human heart.

After the three of them discussed it, Yao Xiaoqing turned around and walked back, went to the mountain to carry two bags of plant ash and walked to the vegetable field, only to see Shan Amu and the others came out after driving for less than a minute.

The soil in the valley is soft, and in later generations, even if there were no oxen and plowshares and four people worked, if there were hoes or rakes, at least one or two cents of land could be driven out in two hours.

Without the farm tools at hand, it will only take more time to open up the land.

"Xiaoqing, what are you doing with two bags of ashes?" Shan'am asked.

"I want to sprinkle some plant ash on the millet seedlings, as well as beans and taro."

"Oh!" Sam put down the wooden shovel, "I'll go with you."

Untiing the rope tied to the fence gate, Shan Amu saw the pumpkin seedlings at a glance, "Xiaoqing, this is the seed given to you by the gods?"

"Well! I was worried that it wouldn't grow, but I didn't expect it to grow well." Yao Xiaoqing pulled out the weeds under the pumpkin seedlings.

"The seeds bestowed by the gods can be bad!" Shan'am smiled optimistically, and squatted down to pull the weeds together.

There are many small round-leaved green grasses and wheatgrass growing in the millet seedlings. If you dig the roots of the weeds and dig them lightly, the weeds will be uprooted without bringing out the millet seedlings.

Shan Amu followed Yao Xiaoqing and learned from her. People who often work have good eyesight, and they learned how to weed weeds after watching it twice.

It took the two of them more than half an hour to pull out all the grass in the soybean seedlings and millet seedlings.Yao Xiaoqing took a dustpan and scattered plant ash, while Shan Amu continued to weed the taro field.

It took two trips to sprinkle plant ash on all the tender seedlings, and the two closed the fence gate. Yao Xiaoqing remembered the wild garlic dug at the foot of the mountain, and said to Shan Amu: "Amu, when you go back to make food, put the wild garlic Cut off the head, and we will use it to plant in the freshly opened field tomorrow."

Shan Amu nodded, "Okay, you put the bag here and I will take it back."

Yao Xiaoqing went down to the pond, and saw that the clay bricks laid on the shells had already been burnt orange, so he told Gen Bo not to add more firewood to the fire.

Genbo nodded in response, walked to the clay pile without saying a word, and continued making clay bricks.

Yao Xiaoqing waited for the fire in the fire chamber to go out, sealed the kiln mouth with clay, inspected the earthen bricks, and saw that the earthen bricks in the bamboo shed had dried up, and said to them, "Genbo, you put the The earth bricks to dry out the water vapor are built up to avoid drying in the shed.”

"Yes!" After the two agreed, they began to build bricks.

Yao Xiaoqing came out of the bamboo shed and saw Mufeng and Zhu coming over with their baskets on their backs.

I saw that the baskets of the two of them were full of yams and kudzu root.

"Brother, why did you come back? Have you finished carrying the kudzu root and yam you dug out?"

Mu Feng took a breath, and said with a smile, "The taro hasn't been dug up yet! The yam and kudzu have to be recited twice."

"Xiaoqing, the kudzu roots and yams in that place grow thickly. We dug up the old roots and buried them back in the soil, otherwise we would have returned long ago." He said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)