Farming in Primitive Society

Chapter 70 Worry
After spreading the snake repelling powder, the three of them headed back home, and Cheng and the two went back to Chan's house to continue weaving bamboo baskets.

Back home, Chan and Lie were making buckets and Shi was weaving bamboo baskets. Ah Mei visited Xiaohu this morning and then went back. I heard that she was sewing dresses for her mother and aunt at home.

Shi's bamboo basket weaving was very fast, because he took more time to weave than Cheng, and now it's nearing completion, Cheng only weaved one-third of it, compared to Shi's progress, Cheng said he had to hurry up.

Mu Xiaohua put the bottom of Yu’s clogs on the braided straw rope, and several pairs of clogs were completed. Mu Xiaohua took off the straw sandals and replaced them with clogs. She personally thinks that wearing clogs in summer is more comfortable. They both liked it, but Cheng and Yu didn't like it very much. They felt that soft straw sandals were more comfortable to wear than hard wooden clogs.

In fact, the wooden clogs that Mu Xiaohua asked Yu to make were not the traditional style of clamping feet, but slippers. Three holes were drilled on the left and right sides of the wooden shoe boards, and the braided straw ropes were drawn from left to right. Thread into the hole to make the back of the shoe, and that's it.

In this way, the ones made by Mu Xiaohua should not be called clogs, but wooden slippers.Anyway, it feels good to wear anyway.

After finishing the wooden slippers, Yu went to the fields to have a look when he had nothing else to do, and came back with a serious expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" Mu Xiaohua couldn't help asking.

Yu sighed and said, "The millet is not growing well, and the leaves are turning yellow. It seems that this year's harvest will be poor again."

The Chashan tribe, including other tribes in the Moya Forest, did not apply fertilizer after planting the millet. Of course, there was no fertilizer to apply, and the crops lacking nutrition naturally suffered from poor growth.

"You have to fertilize." Mu Xiaohua said.

"Fat?" Cheng Fan asked, "What is fat?"

"Fertilizer." Mu Xiaohua replied, "Things that can increase the growth of crops are generally animal and human feces."

There is no industrial fertilizer in this world, so there is only farm manure.

"Ah?" Yu and Cheng both looked at Mu Xiaohua in disbelief.

After a daze, Hou Cheng asked, "Then that means we should go to the fields for convenience?"

Uh... Now that we have reached this point, Mu Xiaohua said, "Actually, I think we can build a toilet."

"bathroom?"

"Yes, the toilet is a convenient place for us."

After a moment of silence, he continued: "What do you mean, pull the thing to one place, and then use it as fertilizer?"

Although it is said that the toilet is not entirely for collecting feces, it is true to say so, although it sounds like that, Mu Xiaohua nodded with difficulty: "Yes."

"Is it really useful?" Cheng couldn't help but wonder.

"Of course!" Mu Xiaohua nodded, "Go to the mountain and see if there is any place where there is animal feces, will the flowers and plants grow better in that place."

"Yeah." Cheng Ruo nodded thoughtfully, "But now the millet is not growing very well, and the toilet can't be ready in a day or two, so what should I do?"

"Go to the mountains to pick up animal droppings?" Yu asked.

"Ah!" Cheng suddenly realized, "I finally know why the people of the Zhoushan tribe go to the mountains to pick up animal excrement."

The Zhoushan tribe has the best harvest among the ten tribes in the Moya Forest. Before, they only thought that their Feng Shui was good, but now that they think about it, they have already discovered the important role of fertilization.

"But..." Yu questioned, "Other millet grows well without fertilization, but ours grows very poorly."

Mu Xiaohua said calmly: "The soil in some fields is more fertile and some are poorer. This is normal."

Yu nodded clearly.

"However." Mu Xiaohua frowned slightly: "Fertilization also depends on the growth stage of the crop. Now the stage of millet has passed the stage suitable for farmyard manure."

"Then what should I do?" Yu Qingyou asked, she could only watch helplessly, waiting for the harvest to receive a little bit?Why!
Different fertilizers should be applied to crops at each stage. The best fertilization stage of farm manure is to water the ground before planting to make the soil fertile, and to fertilize the soil when the crops are still in the seedling stage. In the season when the ears are about to grow, further application of farmyard manure will not have much effect.

"I can't help it." Mu Xiaohua shook her head helplessly. She didn't study agricultural technology, and she didn't know much about these things.

With worry, the day passes quickly.

The next day, after breakfast, Cheng called all the people to dig the fish pond, but not long after the digging started, when Lie introduced the young man named Fu to Mu Xiaohua before, he screamed.

"Ah! Snake, snake, snake..."

Fu screamed and dug ferociously with the hoe until the muddy ground was stained red, presumably the snake had been wiped out before he stopped panting heavily.

Everyone else stopped and walked to the shore, and the originally breezy atmosphere slowly became dark.

"Isn't the poison to repel snakes already sprinkled? Why is it still there?" Someone asked.

"Then it shouldn't be a snake."

Mu Xiaohua, who had been on the shore, went down silently, walked up to Fu who was still in shock, took his hoe and rummaged in the ground, saw the severed "snake", exhaled, picked it up, and said, "This is not a snake." , It’s rice field eel.”

"Eel?" Everyone stared at Mu Xiaohua in astonishment.

"Yes." Mu Xiaohua nodded, "It's the eel, not the snake. The eel doesn't bite, and it's not poisonous."

"Isn't it really a snake? But it looks so much like a little snake!" Fu asked with lingering fear.

"No, absolutely not." Mu Xiaohua affirmed, "Eel is actually a kind of fish, but it lives in wet soil and is edible like fish."

After hearing Mu Xiaohua's explanation, everyone nodded in doubt.

"It turned out to be a field eel." Cheng said: "So many snake repellents were sprayed yesterday, not to mention this piece of land, there are no snakes in the vicinity, so I wonder why there are snakes."

Since it wasn't a snake, everyone continued to dig fish ponds, and Mu Xiaohua also participated in it, but her purpose was to dig eels.

In fact, yesterday she guessed whether it would be rice field eel, but she didn't expect it to be true, this harvest made Mu Xiaohua very happy.

Rice field eel is a very good food material with high nutritional value. It is especially delicious when braised in brown sauce, steamed, soup, and porridge. Mu Xiaohua likes it very much.

of course!Mu Xiaohua is the kind of foodie who is not picky at all. For her, anything can be delicious, except for the shaded green vegetables she ate when she was a child!
Mu Xiaohua has always felt that under the premise of fresh ingredients, there is no bad food in this world, only the destruction of taste caused by poor cooking skills.

The fish pond continued to be dug, and not only eels and loaches were found, but the quantity was very considerable. Mu Xiaohua happily went back and took a wooden bucket to put them in. After one day, the eels and loaches added up to fill half the bucket.

Because it was something they had never eaten before, no one in the tribe dared to eat it, so Mu Xiaohua could take it all back, and kept it with water if she couldn't finish a meal. She could eat fresh every day, so Mu Xiaohua was happy.

There are many people and strong strength. When the sun is about to set, the fish ponds are dug, and they can be raised after a few days.

Looking at the completed fish pond, someone asked: "Where does it come from, and how do you get the fish into it?"

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