As the farming work gradually progressed, after about 100 acres of terraced fields were reclaimed, Xiling and the others' daily work became to plant corn while clearing land.
The main sowing of corn is easier than that of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
After all, potatoes need to be cut into pieces and germinated before sowing. They can only be planted after successful germination.
The process of planting sweet potatoes is more troublesome. You have to build a seedbed to raise the seedlings. After the seedlings grow, they can be cut into short sections and planted.
As for corn, you only need to dig a small hole and throw two or three seeds into it.
Then, Hu Biao was suddenly surprised to find that after getting rid of the old, weak, women and children, the Zhongzhou tribe had a few hundred people who were not enough.
However, such a thing is easy to handle. It is nothing more than hiring labor from outside.
You know! Today, in addition to their Zhongzhou tribe, there are one or two thousand other people living in such a piece of land in Yangshan.
These people either live as a family unit, or they are a small force of one or two hundred people, a group of miserable people who huddle together for warmth.
There are even many independent people who work alone.
I don't know if Hu Biao has completely exempted them from their meager living expenses, making their lives easier.
So all day long, there were many people staying far away on other hills.
Looking at Hu Biao and the others, they erected earthen blast furnaces, cultivated terraced fields one after another, built dams and small hydropower stations, etc. In short, everything was so fresh.
Especially when it’s time to eat, when the aroma of the food wafts out in the wind.
Those guys stretch their necks so long and drool even more.
So Hu Biao believed in one thing: there was no need to offer a high price, just a price of three meals a day, and many people would come to help with the work.
Of course, as a fastidious person like Hu Biao, he would definitely not do such a thing...
Like a big animal that was about to die of thirst, the flower rabbit raised his head, held a vase filled with water in his hand, and poured it into his mouth as hard as he could.
It wasn't until I felt that my stomach could no longer hold any splash of water that I stopped.
Then, dragging his sore back, he sat on a haystack.
In total, I gave myself about five minutes of rest time; after this little time was over, I picked up an ugly hoe at hand and started working without any urging from the foremen of the Zhongzhou tribe.
The specific work is to dig into the hard ground with a hoe.
Dig up the seemingly weeds on the ground, dig out the grass roots, pick out the slightly larger rocks, and put them aside and pile them up.
In the end, 40 centimeters of soil need to be dug out, broken up, leveled, and built into something called terraces.
To be honest! Doing such a job with the sun beating down on his head was a huge torment for him both physically and mentally.
But who told the Zhongzhou tribe to give too much, to an extent that no one could refuse:
As long as you help them with a day's work, if you don't slack off, you can not only provide them with three meals, but also give them a salt block the size of your thumb every day.
Yes, that’s right! Huatu is not from the Zhongzhou tribe.
To be precise, he lives on such a piece of land in the Yangshan area and is considered a free native.
The reason why he has the name Huatu is all due to his father who died of illness early and had a good expectation for him.
You know, on this piece of land where all the large trees have been cut down long ago, there are no large animals such as cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs left to survive.
Therefore, the source of meat for many indigenous people is basically various kinds of fish in the sea, this kind of traditional white meat.
And on land, rabbits, mice and other herbivores and omnivores eat red meat. Among them, rabbits, which are the largest on land and have the highest meat yield, become their best choice.
It's a pity that due to everyone's crazy hunting, there are only a limited number of mice on the land, let alone rabbits with larger targets.
Catching a rabbit often feels like winning a big prize before the end.
So, their old father gave him such a name, hoping that good luck like catching a rabbit would happen to him.
It's a pity that in Huatu's 17-year-old life, he has never even seen fresh rabbit droppings a few times, let alone caught a rabbit and had a delicious meal of red meat.
In this way, when I heard that the Zhongzhou tribe hired people to work, not only were they provided with food and salt blocks, but they also ate serious red meat, and the legendary pork.
Huatutu didn't even hesitate, and drove about two hours along the mountain road. In the words of the adults of the Zhongzhou tribe, he was here to contribute to their great cause.
And when I work, I work extremely hard, fearing that I will be judged as lazy and work in vain.
As a result, the flower rabbit, who had never done this kind of thing before, soon had blood blisters on the palms of his hands, and he couldn't handle anything like this.
Just like that, at noon that day, Huatu ate the first piece of pork in his life.
It was a woman from the Zhongzhou tribe. She put a large spoonful of starch paste on the plate that was missing a mouthful in his hand, and then added a chopstick of instant noodles and a large handful of wild vegetables.
Finally, a piece of half-thumb-sized piece came, which was said to be braised pork.
After working hard for a long time, after the thick starch paste entered his mouth, this kind of food that he could not usually eat still made Hua Rabbit feel happy physically and mentally.
As for the instant noodles that are said to be so delicious that they were praised so much by the natives that they flew into the air.
But what really happened was when Hua Rabbit took a bite of the braised pork.
The moment the rich oil filled Hua Rabbit's mouth, he felt as if his soul was flying.
At this moment, Hua Rabbit made the boldest goal in life:
One day, he must be alone and eat a big bowl full of braised pork; as long as he can achieve such a goal, he is willing to die...
Soon after, it was the third day of Hua Tu’s life as a laborer in the Zhongzhou tribe.
In these 3 days, among all 9 meals, he only had braised pork in two meals. The best food in other times was a piece of dried salted fish, or ham sausage.
something.
To be honest, even dried salted fish is still a rare luxury for Hua Tu.
Therefore, Huatutu feels quite satisfied with his current living situation.
Although working in the Zhongzhou tribe, there are too many things to do. To drink water, you can only drink water that wastes precious materials and boils once.
Even to go to the toilet, you have to go to places called public toilets.
Even after a hard day's work, he just wanted to have a nice sleep after eating; but in the end, he had to go to the creek and take a bath in the stream before going to sleep.
Otherwise, no matter which of the above points is violated, a meal will be deducted directly.
Just kidding! If it weren’t for this food and drink, who would want to come here to be a cow and a horse? This is a joke?
So even though Huatutu was not used to this, he still complied with every regulation of the Zhongzhou tribe just to have a bite of meat.
However, the good time is always short.
On this day, when Hua Tu was still savoring the deliciousness of the piece of braised pork he had just eaten, he heard a huge piece of bad news.
It is said that this is the first time that the Zhongzhou tribe has carried out this kind of farming; and now all qualified indigenous people from the entire Yangshan land have come to work for the Zhongzhou tribe.
So one afternoon, it was actually said that the wasteland that needed to be reclaimed in the first stage was enough.
This means that the Zhongzhou tribe no longer needs so many people, and his good life has come to an end; for a while, Huatutu felt that life was all gloomy.
Under such a situation, Flower Rabbit gritted his teeth and made the boldest decision in his life:
Leader Hu walked over to Mr. Hu, who was sitting on a comfortable lounge chair under the moonlight, with a big waitress helping to massage his shoulders, and a long-legged waitress fanning himself.
He was about twenty steps away when he was stopped by a guard armed with a 56 semi-automatic rifle and a slightly rusty bayonet.
After he gathered up his courage, he said: "Master Hu, I want to join the Zhongzhou tribe..."