The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

The female chieftain of the Dashu tribe returned to the tribe after leading Heiwa and the others to the cave that day.

They are very interested in making pottery, and women's hands are generally more dexterous than men's.

They burned many pots of different shades to hold water and grass seeds.Everyone loves the soil bowl, and after burning more than a hundred of them at one go, every family can get a mouthful.

The soil bowl is also delicious for cooking broth, and can also be used to boil grass seeds and boil various plant roots.

Everyone was given a big bowl, and the quality of life of the whole tribe improved a lot.

After the female chief let go of her guard against the tall men, she began to wonder again, what kind of leather are the clothes on those people wearing?

It looked better than bark and straw, so she really wanted to find them to exchange for some, but they didn't have anything to sell except yellow bumps.

In order to prevent wild beasts from attacking, and people from other tribes came to kidnap their women, the Big Tree tribe built their houses on top of trees. Although it was troublesome to climb up, it was much safer.

A tribe with many women has no advantage in hunting on this continent. The big tree tribe basically relies on collecting plant roots and grass seeds to fill their stomachs.

They can also catch pheasants and wild rabbits, but they can't do anything to deer and bison, not to mention beasts such as crocodiles and lions.

After the women became adults, either they were taken away, or they were willing to follow the men of other tribes to live in the other tribe. The population of the Dashu tribe was decreasing year by year.

The female chief is worried, she is not like other tribes who have enough to eat, she does not want to go to other tribes and rely on men to support her, she hopes to carry forward the big tree tribe.

Thinking of this, the idea of ​​improving the tribe with the help of outsiders can't be shaken.

The female chief thought: The group of outsiders digging yellow bumps must have no shortage of meat to eat. They need to sort out their tribe's property to see what those people will be interested in.

She had a stronger liking for the man who wasn't too tall (Hei Wa, 1.7 meters tall and weighed 130 catties), and that man was obviously the leader of the group.

Hei Wa would never have thought that he won against Gao Huaiyu and others because of his height and body shape, which did not bring too much oppression to the female chief.

The base camp is busy, and the ten acres of land that were planted first have proved that this land can grow these grains.

During this period of time, they continued to open up wasteland and cultivate land near the base camp, and opened up hundreds of acres of land by the lake and river beach in one go.

The soil here is mostly maroon, and there are many stones underneath. The bricks fired from this soil are all red.

In order to add some base fertilizer to the wasteland, Hei Wa asked the soldiers to dig up a lot of rot from the big forest.

The soil quality of the finally tossed wasteland is similar to that of the medium-sized fields in Daxia.

No matter it was corn, sweet potato, or potato black baby, the soldiers scooped up and dug out drainage ditches.

It wasn't until the sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn planted in the wasteland emerged smoothly, and the tomatoes, kidney beans, peppers and zucchini were all transplanted, that Hei Wa was relieved.

Huang Shangshu couldn't restrain his excitement for such a large-scale planting of new grains. He asked Uncle Zhongqin: "Uncle, what do you think will be the yield per mu after these grow?"

"Who knows? If it grows, it doesn't mean it will bear fruit smoothly. Huang Shangshu, you have to make a good record of planting. Back in Daxia, this is your only planting guide!"

"Uncle, don't worry, you and Gao Zongbing have done the most difficult job, the old man can't do this job well, isn't it just what the boys say is free!"

"Master Shangshu, you are our Dinghaishenzhen, we are at ease with you in the base camp!"

In the last few days of Dongyue, Hei Wa took people into the mountain again, and he wanted to change shifts with Gao Huaijin.

If they march quickly, it will only take five days to return to the mine.

Coming to the bottom of the cliff again, the place has changed a lot.The cave was doubled in size and guarded by soldiers.

The newly dug soil was transported out of the cave and piled into a mountain depression, which made Hei Wa's heart ache, what a good soil, wouldn't it be delicious to plant some sweet potatoes?

Entering from the cave, the bottom of the long ditch has been dug to a depth of more than one person, and it is still expanding to the left and right with the entrance of the cave as the center.

The gold bumps scooped out by the shovel were piled up in piles and placed in a freshly dug cave.

The hole has an area of ​​more than 200 square meters, and it is two meters high by visual inspection. It is also supported by thick wood, which isolates several spaces. General Gao's camp is in this hole.

"Uncle, why did you come here? I'm really impatient to keep digging for gold, I'm too lazy to watch these now!"

Gao Huaiyu was really bored, no matter how much gold he saw for a long time, he had nothing to do except hunting.

Hei Wa rolled his eyes at him: "Lord Chief Soldier, I'm opening up wasteland and growing food in the base camp, but I'm not idle at all. It's much harder than guarding gold here!"

"Is it all farming?" Gao Huaiyu said awkwardly, and he wouldn't want to open up wasteland if he was in the base camp.

"Sure, I'm living a good life. After you go back, let my boys organize people to go to the river beach where we first planted sweet potatoes, and cut some more sweet potato vines for me. The newly dug soil outside the cave Let’s plant some leaves, and we’ll have more vegetables to eat.”

When they came, they went to the river beach to see it. In a few days, they should be able to cut vines again.

Gao Huaiyu patted Heiwa's shoulder, and readily agreed: "This matter is on my shoulders. This is a meat-eating wild vegetable. The sweet potato leaves should be better than wild vegetables!"

After speaking for a while, he couldn't wait to leave with his own soldiers, leaving his big tent to Heiwa, Zhao Leiting and his left and right guardians.

Yuan Wenjie and the others were caught studying by Mr. Yan recently, so they couldn't come out and wander around.

Hei Wa is a restless person, so he asked Zhao Leiting to stay and take care of the chores in the big tent, while he took Qing Yi and Qing Er out of the cave to wander around.

Most of the soldiers' camps were outside the caves, and most of them were tents. Hei Wa frowned when he saw this.

Hey, roll up your sleeves and continue to burn bricks, you really need to build infrastructure wherever you go.

There are more than 500 people in the hunting security logistics team, more than 100 people are left to continue hunting, and the rest will follow Mr. Zhongqin to improve the accommodation environment.

The selected foundation is halfway up the low mountain at the entrance of the cave, and the soldiers who dig gold have also been transferred to dig the foundation.

Fortunately, it is not too troublesome for them to find a water source, and mud, beat the mud, make big bricks in the mold, put them in a cool place, dry them before firing.

Reddish-brown kaolin is the best raw material for red bricks.

After the sweet potato vines were delivered, they were quickly planted in the dug mud, but within a few days, they were too energetic, and when it rained, they could grow a section in a day and a night.

I heard that the stalks and leaves of this sweet potato can be eaten as vegetables. The soldiers filled up all the new soil. There is an area of ​​more than ten mu. The newly dug and sun-dried soil is very fluffy.

Also sprinkled a lot of rot soil from the bottom of the ditch, after a few rains, in less than a month, the sweet potatoes became a sea of ​​green.

According to the Daxia calendar, it will be New Year's Eve in a few days. Gao Huaiyu has not come to change shifts, and the soldiers' red brick barracks have been completed.

"Uncle, I'll watch over here. You go back to celebrate the New Year with your younger brothers. General Gao is probably going to celebrate the New Year on the boat!" Zhao Leiting was very proud of being able to help Uncle, and he can be of great use at critical moments.

Hei Wa thought about it, and had no choice but to arrange it this way. The young boys hunted very vigorously, and they would not lose their mouths during the New Year.

Looking at the caves of two hundred square meters, a quarter has been piled up, and the daily harvest is still quite a lot. When we go back, we need to discuss carefully how to deal with the gold.

He took Qingyi and Qinger back to the base camp, passing by the river beach, he found that the sweet potato leaves had been eaten by wild herbivores.

No one is guarding, so it can't be prevented, can it?
Back at the camp, seeing Uncle Zhongqin with a dark face, Gao Huaiyu smiled embarrassedly:
"Uncle, didn't I think that I would go in and change you tomorrow? You came out so fast?!" The life in the base camp was much better than that in the mine, and he couldn't think about the entrance of the cave.

"General Gao, tomorrow is New Year's Eve, my two boys are still here, don't get ready!"

"Oh, a few days ago, we killed more than a dozen crocodiles and gave you two. They are roasted and eaten. They taste good!"

This fellow has a thick skin, and Hei Wa couldn't settle accounts with him, so he went to inspect his own wasteland.

In two months, the first few acres of corn that were planted were already as tall as a person. Because the planting was relatively sparse, the stalks of the corn were very thick, and at least two cobs of corn could grow on each stalk;
Pumpkins crawled all over the ground, and I saw a lot of small pumpkins with the size of eggs and fists;
Beans, peppers, tomatoes, and zucchini bloomed profusely, as well as fruiting.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes have grown crazy, especially sweet potatoes. People in the base camp eat sweet potato tips every day.

Not only the sweet potatoes are delicious, but the taste of the stems is also very good, which is much better than most wild vegetables.

It can already be seen from these ten acres that the harvest is indispensable. Not only do a few grains not pick the land, but several vegetables are also living well.

The hundreds of acres of land reclaimed later were green and lush, with rotten soil as the base fertilizer, and they were so dense and good for drainage. The momentum was stronger than that of the first planted. Hei Wa saw many soldiers pulling weeds in the field.

Gao Huaiyu's sailors are not weak in their hands-on ability, and they can kill the enemy on board.

After disembarking: burning bricks and tiles, burning porcelain, repairing houses, and working iron and farming, all of them have two brushes.

Huang Shangshu has to go to the field to check every day, and also to make various observation records in his small notebook. What he is most concerned about right now is the yield of these food crops!

The old man has a book in his heart. This can grow so well in the wasteland. If it is planted in a good field, then it will be okay?