The old uncles looked at Yao Hu excitedly and said, "Chief, we can no longer do heavy work, but we can still help herd cattle, feed livestock, dry food, weave straw sandals, make nets, weave baskets and other light tasks."
Yao Hu smiled and nodded, "Yes! As long as everyone is united, our Yaoshan tribe will get better and better, and our lives will get better and better in the future."
Everyone responded in unison: "Yes, leader." The old uncles felt that they were full of energy and could work for a long time.
In fact, they are not very old, only about forty years old. When they were young, hunting left injuries on their bodies. After being unable to hunt, they worked all year round, often hungry, and they could only bear the pain, and their bodies were depleted.
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Several old mothers heard the news from their sons respectively. The Yun mothers said happily: "We have stopped worrying a long time ago. We know that Xiaoqing and the leader will not ignore us."
The next day, the sky was overcast, and Yao Hu took his people to hunt early in the morning. Yao Xiaoqing came back from exercise and started pulling radishes with his people.
Shan'am looked at the pulled out radish and smiled in surprise: "Look, this radish is as thick as Yaya's arm, and it's bigger than the ones we found outside."
Yun Amu looked at the radish in his hand with a happy expression, "That's because you didn't see how much energy we spent on fertilizing and weeding it."
Hua pointed at the radish tassels and said, "Xiao Qing, can you eat the leaves on these too? There are so many, will they spoil if you don't finish them all?"
Yao Xiaoqing shook his head and said: "Those are radish tassels, which can also be eaten. After pulling up the radish, peel off the radish tassels and fibrous roots, remove the damaged ones, and store them all in the cave. Clean the radish tassels and hang them on a bamboo pole to dry in the sun.
Put it into a large vat, pour in salt water, marinate for a while and then you can eat it."
Yun Amu smiled and said: "It's like pickling sauerkraut, right?"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yes! It's marinated, put it there and eat slowly." Put chili oil, pepper, sesame, soy sauce and vinegar in it, let it cool and add it to the porridge to make it taste better. Thinking of something delicious, Yao
The saliva in Xiaoqing's mouth began to overflow.
It took a group of people half a day to pull out the radishes, clean them one by one, pick out the ones with scars and blemishes, pick the rest and stack them in the cave, and sprinkle a layer of sand on them to moisturize them.
Yao Xiaoqing took people to dig out the ginger planted under the courtyard wall. The dozen or so ginger plants had already sprouted a lot. Yao Xiaoqing made some fine sand and piled it in the cave and buried the ginger inside. In the cave
The stored pumpkin and kudzu powder were mixed with steamed pancakes until they were mushy, and one-third of them were already eaten.
There are more than half a basket of pumpkin seeds collected, and she plans to plant pumpkins all around the tribe after spring.
Thinking that when the weather gets cold, leeks and wild garlic will be damaged by frost and snow. Yao Xiaoqing and others planted the wild garlic and leeks in the field into bamboo baskets and put them in the canteen.
After coming out of the cafeteria, Shan'am looked at the sky and said, "It's going to rain. Hurry up and finish the boots and give them to everyone so you can go out for a walk even if it snows."
Hua pursed her lips and smiled and said, "Mom, Xiaoqing's idea is really good. Use wood as the base and put a layer of cowhide on the inside, so you won't be afraid of snow water soaking into the shoes."
Shan'am sighed: "Yes! No one will starve to death this winter."
"Yeah! No one will starve to death." Hua nodded.
When the hunters came back, Yun Amu and the others had prepared sumptuous food, including mutton stewed with radish, sauerkraut stewed pork belly, soaked taro stalks, stir-fried sauerkraut sticks, and pumpkin cakes made with kudzu powder.
The pork belly stewed with pickled cabbage is fat but not greasy. The mutton is added with ginger, grasshopper and bay leaves, which reduces the fishy smell. The radish is sweet and juicy. Everyone praises it.
After eating the food, everyone looked at Yaohu, waiting for him to divide the room.
Yao Hu smiled and said to everyone: "Now we will allocate a house to everyone. Everyone can live in it and quickly find the one they like to have babies during the winter. Do you understand? If you like something, it can also be like a big tree and winter snow.
That way, when we become a family, our children will also have a father and mother!"
Yao Xiaoqing glanced at Yao Hu in surprise, and then gave him a thumbs up, "Father, you are right. From now on, the children will also have a father and a mother."
Muba stood up and said to Yaohu: "Chief, I want to pair up with Muna and become a family."
Yao Hu smiled and nodded, "If you wish, it will be done."
Muna stood up with a blushing face, "Chief, I do!" Muna was a woman who came back from Qiushan Daji. She was thin and small when she came, but she looked pretty when she grew up.
Yao Hu nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, you two will become a family. Muba should treat the woman he likes well."
Yao Xiaoqing knew from the memory of the original owner that Yao Hu was also a good man who loved his wife.
She turned to look at Mu Feng and felt that he was also a warm man.
"Brother, do you have a woman you like?"
Mufeng shook his head, "I don't like any of them."
"Take your time, you will always find someone you like!" It doesn't matter if Yao Xiaoqing finds someone he doesn't like. As a teenager, it's not good for your health to pair up too early. It's not too late to wait until you are twenty.
Mufeng smiled and rubbed her head, "Our Xiaoqing is almost done too."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at him, "..."
At this time, Xiongniu stood up and said that he was attracted to Ah Su, and Ah Su nodded shyly, and the two became a couple.
Then about ten more couples of men and women stood up and said they were willing to match, but the rest of them remained silent.
Yao Hu smiled and said to the men and women who had not matched yet: "Is there anyone who is a match? If not, I will start assigning houses."
"No more." Mu Feng and others shouted loudly.
Yaohu glared at Mufeng and began to make arrangements, "I will still live in the same courtyard. Dashi and Zhi will live in the same courtyard, Dashu and his family will live in the same courtyard as Leopard mother and son, Muba and Xiongniu will live in the same courtyard..."
"Old uncle, the two of them share a room, and they have someone to take care of them. The others live in a room each. Go ahead! Let's live next to the yard. Do you know that?"
Everyone responded in unison: "Yes, leader!"
"Okay, except for the night watchers, we will have a rest tonight and go to Amuna to get the animal skins. The matched ones should work harder and have babies soon!" Yaohu said, looking at the matched men and women.
Everyone laughed and said, "Yes, leader!"
"Oh! We have our own house!" Yaya and Asen clapped their hands happily.
The men were so proud that they didn't blush at all, while the women blushed and were dragged out by the men.
Shan Amu and the others smiled and gave them animal skin mats and animal skin quilts, and then told the bachelors with a smile, "Okay, be careful, these animal skins Xiaoqing boiled a lot of saponins before washing them."
Keep it clean and don’t make your feet stink!”
The wolf said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, Eminem, we stink about ourselves."
Xiong Niu and Ah Su took the animal skin and said with a smile: "Brother, I advise you to quickly find a woman you like to pair up with. Winter is coming and we huddle together to keep warm."
The pig and the unmatched men looked at the bull with disgust.