Yao Xiaoqing stood on the field and shouted: "Amu, Uncle Shui, I brought chrysanthemum water over here. Come and drink if you are thirsty."
Shan Amu stood up and wiped his sweat, "Xiaoqing, how many women have come back?"
"Twelve women were replaced, and I asked Hua to take them to wash up."
Yao Xiaoqing went to the field to help put the millet into the basket, and Uncle Shui carried the millet back.
Shan Amu laughed after hearing this, "Okay! We don't have to go to Qiu Shan to exchange."
Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "I want to go to Qiu Shan to see if there are any other food seeds in autumn." She wanted to go to Qiu Shan to see if there was any rice. She also wanted to see if there were droughts further away from here.
rain.
"You might as well go to Qiushan Daji." Shan Amu looked at her and said, "Xiaoqing, go help the leader make a sickle. You don't need your help here."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "There is water on the field. If you are thirsty, drink it."
"Got it." Shan'am waved.
Ten days passed in a flash, and all the millet in the fields was harvested. The warriors of the Yaoshan tribe were all equipped with machetes.
The ears of millet are dried in the sun for two or three times.
After lunch, Gen, Ah Shui and the others raised their flails, and the flail board hit the grains with a "snap" sound, causing the grains to fall to the ground.
Taro Zi took the two new women, grabbed a handful of beaten millet stalks, shook them a few times, turned them over, and spread them on the ground.
Yao Xiaoqing explained to Ah Chong the basic movements of plowing a field.
Ah Chong nodded, and Chun led the ox down to the field. Chun led the ox in front, while Ah Chong stiffly held the handle of the plow and walked cautiously.
Watching the plow lift up a shallow layer of soil and tip it aside.
Yao Xiaoqing stopped him, "Uncle Chong, the soil being plowed is too shallow, try pressing the plowshare down."
Ah Chong nodded, "I also think it's too shallow and can't dig as much as a stone hoe. Don't panic, let me try it slowly."
Yao Xiaoqing thought that he was just talking on paper, so he nodded with a smile and said: "Okay, be careful, I'll go back first."
Going back and looking at the golden grains of grain drying in the courtyard, Yao Xiaoqing estimated that the yield per mu of land was only more than 100 kilograms, less than 200 kilograms.
There are more than 200 acres of land, with a total output of nearly 4,000 kilograms of millet. There is no need to pay taxes here. Once you select and plant high-quality grains and increase the output, no matter how much you harvest, it will be in your pocket. Yao Xiaoqing thinks about it.
Not bad.
Hua pulled the grain rake and circled the courtyard dam, "Xiaoqing, can these grains be loaded into the warehouse?"
"These are millet grains that have been selected for seeding. After the fields are plowed and fertilized, we will sow them."
"Oh! No wonder Amu took people to dig up soil in the forest early in the morning. How long will it take for those beans to be harvested?"
"It will take about thirty to forty days before we can harvest it!" Yao Xiaoqing stood up, clapped his hands, and walked towards the kitchen.
Shan'am was digging mulch in the forest with a few women. Suddenly he saw Chun'am running back hurriedly with the women who had gone out to collect.
Shan Amu leaned on the handle of his hoe and said with a frown, "What happened?"
The newcomer Xiaoyu ran over quickly, bent down and propped up his knees, breathing heavily and said: "Shan Amu, hurry up, go tell the leader that the Lingque tribe has been robbed."
"What?" Shan Amu was shocked, "Aye, run back quickly and tell the leader."
"Yes." Aye ran away.
After Shan Amu waited for Chun Amu and others to arrive, he hurriedly packed up his things and returned to the tribe. He closed the small door and fastened the door bars.
"How did you find out that the Lingque Tribe was robbed?"
Chun Amu patted her chest and said with lingering fear: "We want to go to the pine forest to see if there are any Poria cocos and pick up some mushrooms. As soon as we went up the mountain, we saw Douzi covered in blood. He was leading two women toward him.
If you run this way, let’s run back from the trail.”
After listening to Aye's report, Yaohu quickly took the machete and ran toward the gate with the pig and the bull.
Dashi climbed up the mountain to the tree house, and blew the bamboo whistle at Banli who was on guard. Soon Banli responded with three bamboo whistles, saying that he had not found the enemy.
Dashi went down the mountain and climbed up the wall with a bamboo ladder.
Yao Xiaoqing took Lin Bo and others to move the bows, arrows and bamboo ladders to the courtyard wall. Everyone prepared nervously and orderly.
About half an hour later, Dashi, who was standing on the bamboo ladder at the bottom of the mountain, saw Douzi and two women coming down the mountain with two children on their backs.
Several of them had disheveled hair, their bodies were spattered with blood, and the children they were carrying were scared to death.
Dashi said with a livid face: "Oh no, the Lingque tribe may have been occupied."
Shan said in a deep voice: "Brother, which tribe do you think will rob them?"
Dashi looked at him and said, "Go and take a look, I'll guard you here."
Yao Xiaoqing stood on the bamboo ladder and saw Douzi coming with people. He got down from the bamboo ladder and stood guard at the door. When they arrived, he opened the door and let a few people in.
Douzi and the others entered the gate and collapsed on the ground.
She looked at Yao Xiaoqing, tears falling down her face, and she hugged Yao Xiaoqing's legs tremblingly, "Qingwu, wow..."
When the child heard Douzi's cry, he also cried "Wow". The two women held the child and cried non-stop.
Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly helped Douzi, "Douzi, what happened? Where are your father and the others?"
Douzi looked at Yao Xiaoqing and was speechless. Yao Xiaoqing said to the woman holding the child: "Which one of you can tell me?"
The woman holding the child cried out: "The leader and the eldest mother were killed by them. The warriors of the clan protected us and escaped, and asked us to come to you."
Yao Xiaoqing took a breath of cold air, "Where are the others?"
The woman looked at Yao Xiaoqing with tears in her eyes, "The woman was caught by them, and the warrior was injured by them. I don't know what happened to her."
Yaohu came over and asked: "Which tribe is coming to plunder?"
The woman glanced at Yao Hu and said, "We couldn't understand what those people were saying. A woman came first and asked for water, and the big mother gave her a drink. After a while, many men came with weapons."
Yao Hu looked at her and said, "How many of you have gone hunting?"
The woman sobbed and raised her hands, "So much."
Yao Hu frowned and looked at her, "When your tribe goes out to hunt, do you go back to the tribe every night, or once every few days?" He was a little anxious. Muba and Mufeng didn't come back, so he had to go to the place where they passed to meet them.
one time.
The woman said: "Come back every night."
Yao Hu turned to look at Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, I will take the mountains, pigs and oxen, and you and Dashi will lead the people to guard the tribe."
After Yao Xiaoqing agreed, he said: "Father, these people must have migrated from other places. If they dare to attack the Lingque tribe, I'm afraid they have already been scouted around them."
Yao Hu nodded, "We will wait for them where they pass."
Yao Xiaoqing handed the engineer shovel to Yao Hu and told him, "Be careful."
After Yao Hu agreed, he took the engineering shovel, carried the bow and arrows on his back, took the mountain and the pig with the machete and the bull, and walked towards the small gate at the foot of the mountain.