The next day was indeed a sunny day. Yao Xiaoqing gave the prepared medicine, dried meat, and bacon to Mu Feng and others to carry on their backs. Everyone sent Yao Hu and others out of the tribe, and watched them go away before returning to the tribe.
Yao Xiaoqing saw that the ice in the pond had begun to melt, and he was worried that the snow on the mountain would melt and cause flooding, so he took Ah Chongbo and the others to dredge the ditch from the mountain to the bottom.
When I went down the mountain, I took a look again. Some of the fruit trees planted outside the wall were frozen to death, but the pear trees, persimmon trees, and pepper trees... were still alive.
The next day, the water flowed down from the ravine, the water in the pond began to overflow, and the fish ran out along the current.
Ah Chong and Ah Shui hurriedly lowered the net to the water outlet of the west wall. The net caught fish weighing three to four kilograms to one or two kilograms, and no big fish weighing more than three or four kilograms was seen.
Ah Chong looked at the fish in the bucket and said, "Xiao Qing, we have caught all the big fish in the pond."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Uncle Chong, pick out the big fish and put the small fish back into those ponds. In the future, the small fish caught in the river will also be put into the ponds to raise." She planned to put the small fish into the ponds.
Take advantage of it.
Ah Chong responded cheerfully: "Okay, I will put these small ones back into the net, and then put them back into the pond when the water recedes."
"You guys do it first, I'll go see how the sugar cane seedlings are doing?"
Shan Amu, who brought the barrel, put down the barrel after hearing this and said, "Xiao Qing, I'll go take a look with you."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, and the two of them walked around the field and found that only a few sugarcane leaves were starting to turn green, and 90% of them were already withered and yellow.
Yao Xiaoqing sighed heartbrokenly, and went outside the house to take a look at the old pockets. She felt that now she could only hope that they would sprout again.
Shan'am comforted her and said, "Xiaoqing, don't sigh. Let's search slowly and we will eventually find it."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yeah! We have to clear the ground quickly and sow the seeds when it gets warm." She clenched her fists. It was already like this. Sighing couldn't solve the problem. She planted the food first and then, I hope.
God gives you a favor, so don't torment people anymore.
"Okay, let's go back and eat the food first, and then we'll go out to clear the land. With so many people, it's pretty fast to open the land." Shan Amu pulled Yao Xiaoqing back.
When the two of them walked through the taro field, Yao Xiaoqing said to Shan Amu: "I'll dig up some taro plants later and see if they are damaged by the frost?"
Shan'am smiled and nodded, "It looks like it's not frozen. Dig it up and clear out the ground so you can plant."
The two returned to the cafeteria, where Yun Amu and the others had already prepared the food.
When Ah Chong and Ah Shui came back, Yao Xiaoqing said to them: "Uncle Chong, except for the sentry, everyone else is going to clear the land in the afternoon. We must clear the land as soon as possible and plant food."
"Okay! The water in the ditch is thicker than in the morning, so we put the small fish in the fish cage and raised them," said Uncle Chong.
"Just do it as you see fit."
After a while, Yaya and Asen, who were herding cattle and goats, followed Dashi and the others back.
Yun Amu and the others put the pancakes and soup on the stone table.
Pumpkin soup was served with chestnut cakes. Everyone ate it in twos and threes, then walked towards the taro field with stone hoes, wooden shovels, bamboo baskets and baskets.
Yao Xiaoqing dug up a few taro plants with a hoe. He broke off the taro seeds from the mother taro and looked at them. He found that they were all good and not frozen.
She looked at the cattails spread on top and summed up her experience. Next time before overwintering the soil, she should first cover it with a layer of grass and then cover it with thick soil so that the overwintering plants would not freeze.
The taro pulled at the taro, "The taro is still resistant to freezing. Except for the ones eaten by insects, not a single bit has rotted."
Dongxue looked at her and laughed, "Taro is quite anti-freeze, and you can see it's also whitening." Everyone laughed.
"Bad guy! Mine is taro." Taro picked up a piece of mud and hit Dongxue, "It's strange that it's not white after raising it for so long. Look at our Xiaoqing's face."
Shan Amu glanced at Yao Xiaoqing with a smile, "It's time for our Xiaoqing to look good!"
"Hey!" Yao Xiaoqing saw everyone staring at her, stood up and looked at them, "Don't look at me! Think carefully about why the taro is not rotten."
"I think it's because of the grass." Hua turned to look at Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, we should also cover the sugar cane with a layer of cattail grass."
Hua was still careful, Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "Hua summed it up right! Learn the lesson and remember it next time."
Dongxue nodded repeatedly, "Hey! We all remembered it."
Only then did Yao Xiaoqing realize that some of the pregnant women, Asu and Mu, had slightly bulging bellies.
Seeing their careless expressions, he said to them: "Ah Su, you guys go sit on the field ridge and break off the taro seeds. Pick out the round ones and put them aside for making seeds."
Ah Su smiled and responded: "I know Xiaoqing."
More than twenty people worked all afternoon and dug up all the taro before dark.
Yao Xiaoqing took a look at the taro seeds Ah Su and the others had picked out, and saw that they were all round and plump, so he put the taro seeds back into the basket with confidence.
Everyone picked out the taro seeds and carried them to the roof of the building that had not collapsed. They spread them out to dry. They went back to eat and then went back to rest.
With two people missing from the house, it always feels deserted.
Yao Xiaoqing was lying on the bed, thinking about where Yao Hu and the others were for a while. Then he wondered if Golden Retriever had returned to the Dawu tribe?
I’ve finished eating dried vegetables and taro sticks long ago. Every day it’s pumpkin and nut cakes, and it keeps changing, but it’s still the same.
For Yao Xiaoqing, who is used to eating rice and all kinds of delicacies, this is a kind of torture.
Yao Xiaoqing suddenly thought of something to eat, patted his head and said to himself, "Bamboo shoots! How could I forget you!"
She thought of braised beef brisket with bamboo shoots, cold bamboo shoots, chopped pepper bamboo shoots... and a bowl of white rice.
"Gudong" I swallowed the saliva in my mouth. The more I thought about it, the more I became greedy. The thought of something delicious made my mouth water.
Yao Xiaoqing rolled around on the kang with her arms in her arms. She couldn't think about it anymore. If she thought about it any more, she couldn't fall asleep.
Early the next morning, Yao Xiaoqing came back from exercise and walked towards the cafeteria.
As soon as they arrived, they heard the braying of a wild boar, and Shanmu and others ran out of the canteen.
"Ah Chong and the others went to see the trap. Did they catch a live wild boar?" Shan Amu said with a smile.
Chun Amu stood on tiptoe and looked, "It must be, otherwise where would the pig noise come from."
After a while, I saw A Zhongbo and his two men carrying two wild boars, and two others carrying pheasants and rabbits in their hands, walking over with smiles on their faces.
Ah Chong said cheerfully: "Xiao Qing, I caught a live piglet in the trap, and it's still a female."
Yao Xiaoqing took a look at the big pig with several bloody holes in its body, "Didn't the wooden thorns in the trap pierce it?"
Ah Chong smiled and said: "These two must be mother and son. They may have just fallen this morning. The older one went down first, and the younger one fell on his mother. When we went there, they screamed happily."