Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

For the rest of the tribe, the men lived in one courtyard, the women lived in another, and a few old women lived in the west wing of Yao Xiaoqing's courtyard.

On the first night of living in the new house, Yao Xiaoqing leaned on the bedside and blew out the resin oil lamp, gently shook the cattail leaf fan made of palm leaves, and watched the moxa mosquito coil lit up on the round wooden bench in the corner. Hong Guang, thinking that he has finally taken a big step forward with the tribe, and is no longer an ancient man living in a cave.

Yaohu and the others are busy building houses. The pumpkin skins in the field have turned yellow and are gradually beginning to mature. Yao Xiaoqing leads people to pick pumpkins
Yao Xiaoqing led people to pick old pumpkins that were dark yellow in color and had no insect bite scars on the skin, and stored them in the cave, and put the scarred ones outside to eat first.

More than a dozen people were busy for four or five days before picking the ripe pumpkins back. The heavy pumpkins were placed in the cave, and the cave was piled up halfway.There are still many pumpkins and tender pumpkins that are not ripe enough.

Everyone looked at the pumpkins in the cave mountain, and they were all happy.

After picking the pumpkins, Ah Shui went to the field to look at the taro, "Xiaoqing, why don't you dig the taro back and store it?"

Yao Xiaoqing shook his head, "No, it will rot if you dig it back and eat it. When the taro stalk withers, just cut off the taro stalk."

Ah Shui nodded, "That's right, no one dug up those taro outside, and it didn't rot, and it grew more and more."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded and said with a smile: "I've been busy for a few days, let's have pumpkin pie tonight.

Hua crisply replied: "Hey! I have long wanted to taste what it tastes like?"

"I'll go down the mountain to collect the fish cage and feed the ducks."

"Uncle Shui, put the small fish and shrimp in the pond to grow them up before eating them."

"Got it." Ah Shui happily went down the mountain.

Yao Xiaoqing picked a dozen pumpkins with scars and cut them open, dug out the pumpkin seeds inside, squeezed out the pulp and dried them in a dustpan.

Hua and Taro exclaimed: "There are so many seeds growing in one pumpkin, no wonder you said you want to change ten sheep!"

Yao Xiaoqing glanced at them arrogantly, "Of course, when have I ever lied to someone?"

Wash the pumpkin, slice it and steam it, press it into pumpkin puree with a wooden spoon, add Poria cocos powder, scoop some lard in it and mix well, knead it for a while, roll it out with a rolling pin, then cut it into squares with a bamboo knife, put it on the steaming grid Steam.

The steamed pumpkin tuckahoe cake is golden in color. Several people tasted it with a hint of sweetness, and it was soft and delicious.

Hua and Yuzi couldn't stop nodding, "It's delicious, so sweet!"

Yao Xiaoqing didn't think it was sweet enough, "The taste is a bit bland. Let's get some honey some time. Adding it will make it more palatable."

Speaking of honey, Hua remembered how Dashi was stung into a pig's head when he stole honey, and shook his head, "That thing hurts like hell when it stares at people."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Let's go after I think of a way."

When Yaohu and the others came back and ate the pumpkin Poria cocos cake, they all fell in love with this taste.

Yaohu looked at the pumpkins in the cave, smiled and said to the followers behind him, "We don't have to worry about running out of food when winter comes."

"Yes, we are not afraid of winter anymore." Everyone laughed.

Xiong Niu said loudly: "This winter, let's have a good winter and give birth to a baby."

He laughed and said, "I have to wait until the house is built to have a baby!"

Yaohu smiled and said, "Everyone, work harder. It won't be long before everyone has their own room."

The men responded loudly: "Yes, leader."

Ever since Yao Xiaoqing met Yan Yu at the foot of the mountain, she thought that Muya was in the Dawu tribe now, and felt that Muya would definitely disclose the situation in the tribe to the Dawu tribe.

Back at the foot of the mountain, Yao Xiaoqing found Yaohu and told him the worries in his heart.

Yao Hu nodded and said: "Mu Ya is a poisonous snake, Father shouldn't let her go because of Mu Ba's sake."

"It's a disaster for such a person to keep her in the tribe, unless she is killed to avoid future troubles. Father, the food we store can last until next summer, we should keep more people in the tribe, Ah Shuibo and the others should also practice archery more , put bows and arrows in an easy-to-reach position, prepare bamboo ladders, and once we find them coming to attack, we will do it."

Yaohu nodded, "A lot of bows and arrows and stone spears have been prepared. My father has already sent people to move down the mountain. I will rearrange the manpower. Starting tomorrow, I will also arrange sentry in the forest below the mountain!"

Yao Xiaoqing added: "Now that we live inside, we need to prepare enough firewood. If we are surrounded by people, there will be no firewood for cooking."

Seeing that Yao Xiaoqing had thought of so much in a short period of time, Yaohu felt a little sad.He felt that it was the giant bear tribe who killed her mother and two elder brothers, which made her so careful and vigilant.

He stepped forward and rubbed her ball head, and said, "Xiaoqing, don't worry, my father will take care of what you said, you go to bed first, I will talk to Dashi and the others."

Yao Xiaoqing knew that Yaohu wanted to go to other places, but he didn't say much, so he nodded and went to the bathroom to wash up.

After a few months, even though she has been very economical, the toothpaste and shampoo are still used up.You can use salt to brush your teeth, but if you don’t find saponins, you can only use plant ash to wash your hair.Animal fats have to be kept for consumption, so they are not willing to use them to make soap.

Yaohu went to gather the men together and told them about the situation.Everyone understands that the tribe can live a stable life with them, and they are all willing to reduce the rest time and intensify their practice.

Yaohu arranged the manpower, lit the bonfire and practiced with them for two hours before falling asleep separately.

Early the next morning, Yaohu arranged sentry in the woods on the back mountain and on the north and south sides.Ah Shui and Ah Chong brought people to cut firewood and came back to stockpile it.

Taking advantage of the sun, Yao Xiaoqing took the taro and they moved out the exchanged beans, millet, and pinto beans to dry in several yards.

The millet in the field was also ripe, and it took them less than half an hour to harvest all the flowers and taro.

Seeing that the two of them didn't know where they came from, Yao Xiaoqing brought back a long piece of stone and placed it in the center of the courtyard dam.Grab a handful of millet and slap it hard on the stone, and the grains fall into the courtyard dam.

That small piece of land only harvested a handful of millet grains, and the yield was astonishingly low.

As the sun goes down, everyone sieves the millet that has been exposed to the sun, puts the plump grains into baskets, and carries them to the warehouse for storage, so that more grain can be grown next year.

Beans and pinto beans pick out the rotten beans that have been bitten by insects, and store the full ones for next year's seeding, and pick out the rotten grains and rotten beans to feed wild ducks and pheasants.

The number of wild ducks in the duck shed has increased by another thirty or forty, and there are also ten or twenty pheasants, all of which have their wings clipped and are kept in the duck shed.

Yao Xiaoqing's ancient farm plan has taken another small step.

A few days later, in the evening, the rock salt collectors returned to the tribe.