A group of people carried baskets, carried baskets on their backs, and carried wooden sticks towards the pine forest.
When we arrived at the pine forest, we discovered that the trees were covered with pagoda-like pine cones. The squirrels collecting pine cones on the trees scattered when they saw people coming.
Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the kind of pine trees that squirrels collected, "Let's just pick the ones from those trees. If the squirrels like it, it will definitely be delicious."
A Zhongbo responded: "Okay, let's climb up and knock down the pine tower."
Yao Xiaoqing picked a pine cone within reach, broke open the fish-scale pine cone, and saw the pine nuts hidden inside.
Take the pine cone and tap it in your hands a few times, and the big and plump pine nuts will fall into your hands.
Asen and Yaya saw the pine nuts in Yao Xiaoqing's hand and asked, "Qinggu, are the pine nuts delicious?"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "It's delicious, be careful when climbing the tree!"
"Yeah!" The two of them climbed up the tree like monkeys.
Yao Xiaoqing thought of Golden Retriever. Why hasn’t this little thing been here for so long? Is it still okay? Is it still in the Great Witch Tribe?
If only I could make a phone call or send a video like before...
Asen dropped a pine cone in the basket and interrupted Yao Xiaoqing. She also picked up the pine cone below with the bamboo basket.
After picking the pine cone, spread it out to dry in the sun for two days, the fish scales on it will open. Pick up a wooden stick and hit the pine cone a few times, and the pine nuts will fall to the ground.
Yao Xiaoqing picked up one and bit it open, feeling that it had the smell of pine oil, and there was also a green and astringent taste wherever it was eaten, and it was not cooked and crispy.
Yao Xiaoqing and others were busy picking pine cones, while Asen and Yaya stayed in the tribe, drying the pine cones, knocking them and collecting pine nuts.
Everyone had been busy in the pine forest for more than twenty days, and the pine cones collected were dried all over the roof of the building.
Thinking of the livestock he was feeding, Yao Xiaoqing took his people into the mountains and brought back the uneaten Qinggang fruits.
Shan'am and Chun'am were still in the woods and found a handful of dried long beans, which looked a bit like cowpeas. Yao Xiaoqing kept the seeds.
There were autumn rains and coolness, and after ten autumn rains, winter came. It was cold, and the nuts and beans in the mountains had been swept away, and no one was seen going up the mountain anymore.
Yao Xiaoqing took Ah Chongbo to the river and found a few round stones among the strange-shaped piles of stones. He carried them back and planned to chisel them out and grind them for nuts.
The sugar cane in the field also needs to be cultivated and kept warm to prevent it from freezing to death. The radishes in the radish field have grown up, and you can already see white and tender radishes.
Cut all the taro stalks and make them into dried vegetables.
The young pumpkin vines were picked, and the old vines were cut and fertilized. Everyone was so busy that their feet didn't even touch the ground.
The people of the Yaoshan tribe no longer go out to collect nuts. Muba takes about ten people and dry food to hunt food farther away.
Ah Chong and Ah Shui were busy reinforcing the firewood shed, and the pheasants and wild ducks rushed to the pens to feed them.
The house in the tribe is about to be completed. Achun and others led the people to build a kang, paint the walls, and harden the floor.
The women stayed in the tribe and were busy making fur clothes for winter, as well as thin leather underwear and fur cushions designed by Yao Xiaoqing.
Yao Xiaoqing discovered that the fiber they used this time was different from the previous ones and was a little yellow.
The thread is made from two strands of fiber and is as thick as the thread used to sew quilts in later generations.
She touched it and it was still soft. She pulled one out and found that it was very tough and required a lot of force to break it. An idea came to her mind that she could use this to make cloth!
Looking at the twine rolled up on the kang, he asked, "Shan Amu, when did you get this thing?"
Shan'am smiled and said: "Ayun discovered it and made it. It should be enough for making winter clothes."
Yao Xiaoqing thought for a moment, but she didn’t see Yun Amu doing it before!
"What did Yun Amu use to make it?"
Shan'am looked up at her and said, "She said it was made from kudzu bark and was much better than what we used before."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yeah! It's softer than the previous one!" Kudzu, Gebu, is the ancient Gebu made of kudzu fiber? I'll ask Yun Amu later how it was made?
Seeing them struggling to sew with bone needles, Yao Xiaoqing went back and took out the sewing box from her backpack. It was a square, bright red box with a cloth cover that was slightly larger than a powder box.
Yao Xiaoqing gently stroked the sewing box, and tears fell involuntarily. After a while, he opened the zipper of the box, took out the plastic box containing the sewing box, turned it around, and took out a
Thick needle.
I put away my sewing box and took the thick needle to the east wing and gave it to Shan Amu.
"Amu, this is for you to sew winter clothes."
Shan'am took it and saw that it was a bright bone needle. He looked at her in surprise, "Xiaoqing, is this given to you by the gods?"
Yao Xiaoqing could only nod, "Yeah! Use this faster, I'll go find Yun Amu."
Shan'am responded respectfully: "Yes, Qingsha."
Yao Xiaoqing found Yun Amu and told her his purpose.
Yun Amu smiled and said, "Ah Chong and the others cut down the kudzu vines and piled them there. The thin ones were taken to the duck tying shed, and the thick ones were piled there. Hua and I thought about peeling off the vine skins and twisting them into ropes."
"After opening it, I discovered that the vine bark piled below had been soaked by the rain and could only be torn into thin pieces. Hua said it would be just right for sewing winter clothes. The two of us soaked it all in the ditch.
, tear it off and twist it into a thin rope.”
"Oh!" Yao Xiaoqing suddenly realized that he had done it accidentally and could only wait until the kudzu vines were cut next year.
There were enough oyster ash and red bricks, and the dozen or so kilns were freed up. Yao Xiaoqing and his people began to burn charcoal, put the green barwood into the kiln chamber, and after burning it red, used clay to burn the charcoal.
The pores are all blocked and the charcoal can be taken out every other day.
The next day, Mufeng and the others returned from hunting.
A dozen people brought back a lot of prey, including deer, roe deer, wild boars... Yao Xiaoqing's favorite was the few Chinese cabbages that Mu Feng carried back, which were not tightly wrapped and held loosely in his hands.
"Brother, where did you find this? Are there more?"
Mufeng thought for a while, "It takes a day to walk from here to the mountain. There are not many. I can't carry them with me, so I brought these few back."
Yao Xiaoqing decided to go there and have a look, "I'll go with you tomorrow."
Mu Feng nodded cheerfully, "Okay!"
At night, Yao Xiaoqing told Yao Hu about hunting with Mu Feng and the others. He looked at her and said with some worry: "It will take four or five days to go back and forth, and the journey will be very difficult."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, I want to see if there are any other seeds there."
Yaohu saw that she was determined to go, so he had to tell Mufeng to keep an eye on his sister.
Early the next morning, Yao Xiaoqing brought a solar flashlight, herbs, Panax notoginseng, salt, and a kettle, put on his newly made leather shorts, and followed Mu Feng and the others towards the mountains to the south.
Walking along the river, the dense shrubbery has become sparse, and the wild ducks and water birds have disappeared. At noon, everyone ate dried meat by the river and started to go up the mountain.