Farming in Primitive Society

Chapter 26
When Mu Xiaohua came back from washing the cassava and lily, the basins made by Can and Yu were coming to an end, that is, they cut out a log with a suitable thickness with a saw, hollowed out the middle with a chisel, and chiseled out the handles on both sides.

Cheng Genuo's bamboo has almost broken to half of the width she needs, and Aran also joined in to help, and the speed is much faster.Lie made the bucket much faster than Mu Xiaohua expected. The chiseled handle has already been formed, and then the lower half of the wood can be hollowed out.

"Chan, Yu, the basin is ready, let's make some more bowls in this way!" Mu Xiaohua suggested.

This world is full of wood, so they can find as big a bowl as they want to cut and hollow out, so that they have enough bowls.

"I want the kind of hard wood that is smooth inside." Mu Xiaohua added that such a wooden bowl will not absorb oil and water so that it can be recycled.

"Okay, I know there is this kind of wood in the forest on the left." Chan nodded excitedly. The bowls are obviously not enough these two days. It's really great to be able to make it yourself or change it at the rally, "I'll leave this bowl to you Brother Yu, I'm going to chop it right now."

"Okay." Yu nodded.

Chan took the saw and left, Mu Xiaohua stopped him and compared the size of a vegetable bowl and said, "It's better to have this big."

"Ok."

Chan responded and left, and the others continued to be busy. Mu Xiaohua went back to the cave to cut cassava into pieces and soak them in well water. There was still some time before noon.

Can came back not long after, and the quality of the wood he brought was much better than Mu Xiaohua expected. Yu had already finished the basin, and when Can came back, they started making bowls.

There are many people and strong strength. Before noon, they have broken two bamboo and wood florets. The bamboo strips are used to weave bamboo baskets, and the bamboo pieces are dried outside for fire.

Can and Yu's bowls and Lie's wooden barrels are also all ready.

The preparation of the materials has been completed, and it is almost lunch time. We have made an appointment to dig cassava together in the afternoon, and let them go home for dinner. Weaving bamboo baskets takes time, and we have to go to the assembly the next day. The weaving of bamboo baskets has to wait until the day after tomorrow.

"Tomorrow we have to change to a big clay pot. I don't know what to use instead?" Mu Xiaohua asked a question and expressed her thoughts during lunch, "Let's go fishing in the afternoon, can we use the fish instead?"

"You can't take fish in summer." Yu directly denied: "If you want fish, you can go directly to the water to catch it. Fish in winter are only valuable."

"Then what do you usually exchange?" Mu Xiaohua was a little frustrated.For the first time, I realized what it means to be poor.

"Usually they take animal skins, or all kinds of exotic things." Lie replied, "Our family has three animal skins, but they are all very common and not enough to change, and Chan said they are used to make skirts for you."

The animal skins of the Can family and the Lie family are actually hare skins. A piece of animal skin is sewn from two specially treated hare skins. The hare skins are the most and least valuable in the world.

So what to do?Is it possible to give up and not change?

Suddenly, Mu Xiaohua had a flash of inspiration: "Is there anyone selling food at the rally?"

"Sell food?" Can and the others looked at each other and shook their heads, "No one sells food."

As far as the entire Moya forest is concerned, the ten tribes surround the east of the forest, not at the edge of the forest but on the periphery. The distance between the tribes is very far, and the meeting place is located in the middle of the ten tribes. The Jiangshan tribe is about In the two miles of forest, the trees and thorns were cut down to create a wide area of ​​flat land.

The meeting is only once a month, and there are people from morning to afternoon. It is lively all day long. The Jiangshan tribe is close to the meeting place, but other tribes are far away. They will always be hungry at noon. If they go to sell food, I don’t know. Will sales be good?

"Xiaohua, do you want to sell food?" Yu asked.

Mu Xiaohua nodded: "No one sells food, you think we can try it? At noon, when you go to the fair, you come to buy it when you are hungry."

"Many people will bring their own barbecue." Candao, "But your craftsmanship is so good, someone should buy it."

"Yeah." The others nodded in agreement.

"Then let's make a decision. Yu and I will go fishing this afternoon, and you guys will go dig cassava. Let's try selling grilled fish at the assembly tomorrow."

"Is it baked and sold?"

"No, it's sold while roasting."

"However, why did you go fishing with Brother Yu?" Mu Xiaohua chose Yu, thinking that Mu Xiaohua would spend the whole afternoon alone with Yu, he felt a little unhappy.

Mu Xiaohua understood Can's thoughts, and explained helplessly, "One is that you know where the cassava is, and the other is that fishing requires patience. I think Yu is more calm and more suitable for fishing than you."

"Okay!" This explanation is reasonable, and Can has no further objection.

Now that a decision has been made, after lunch everyone splits into two groups. Since they heard that Mu Xiaohua was going to go fishing, they all expressed their support for her plan after asking why. They still went to dig cassava according to the original plan. Nuo wanted to go fishing, but there were only two fishing rods, and it would be too time-consuming to do it now, and he had to go to a distant mountain to cut rock bamboos, so he had no choice but to give up.

Time flies quickly in a busy life. In order to keep the fish fresh, the newly made wooden barrels just come in handy. Mu Xiaohua and Yu go fishing in the forest lake. With the experience of last time, Mu Xiaohua caught The speed of the fish is much faster. Although Yu is fishing for the first time, it may be that his personality is stable enough or his character is good enough. The chance of the fish being hooked is higher than that of Mu Xiaohua, except for the first time he did not grasp the timing and let the fish slip away. Followed by the previous one to catch one.

Today's harvest was quite fruitful, and Mu Xiaohua was in a great mood. Because the round trip was too long, the two of them went home after fishing for about two hours. They caught [-] fish in total in about two hours. This harvest is simply amazing. .

The wooden barrel was not big enough to barely hold half of the fish, and the remaining half had to be tied with palm leaves.

When Mu Xiaohua and Yu returned home, Can and the others hadn’t come back yet. The fish in the bucket was too crowded, so I divided some and put them in the water basin. The basin and bucket made today came in handy. It’s very good, Mu Xiaohua thinks there are still a few, and she has to make a few more when she has time.

Live fish are put in buckets and basins first, and those fish that are tied up and almost finished are brought to the river for disposal.

Before the two of them finished breaking the fish, Can and the others also came back, each of them carrying two large bundles of cassava, and the size of the cassava was also larger than what Mu Xiaohua dug before Cheng Cheng, and the harvest was also full.

Mu Xiaohua went to check that the cassava they dug was sweet and bitter. The two kinds of cassava smelled not much different, and it was impossible to tell the difference by smelling without experience.

Just to be on the safe side, Mu Xiaohua said: "These cassavas are all bitter cassavas. I told you that bitter cassavas are poisonous. Do not eat this kind of roasted cassava. You have to peel off the skin and cut it into pieces before cooking it. Soak for two days."

"So troublesome?" Nuo took half of the cassava in Mu Xiaohua's hand and sniffed it, "How do you tell if it's sweet or bitter?" After speaking, she wanted to lick it, but Mu Xiaohua stopped it in time, "Don't mess around Lick, beware of poisoning."

Nuo was startled and said, "You can't even lick it?"

Mu Xiaohua shook her head and brought the cassava over, "You all remember what I said, this is not a joke."

Ah Ran stared thoughtfully at the cassava in Mu Xiaohua's hand, hesitated and asked, "What will happen if you get poisoned?"

(End of this chapter)