The millets were sown, the wheat and beans were ripe, and the hunting and gathering teams stayed with the tribe to harvest together.
Yao Xiaoqing led the people to harvest wheat and beans, while Dashi led the hunting and gathering teams to plow, hoe and spread fertilizer.
Everyone rushed to the last planting season and planted the selected millets so that they could harvest more millets by the end of autumn.
Then the peas matured, and after they were dried in the sun, the plump ones were selected and kept for sowing. After the wheat from that field was beaten and dried, only baskets of wheat were obtained.
Yao Xiaoqing selected the ones with large and plump grains and planned to use half of them to try to grow winter wheat for a season. If it failed, he would still have half the seeds.
Thinking about the tribe, there were sixty or seventy people in the tribe, all of whom were opening their mouths to eat. Those grains and beans would be enough for half a year at most.
Due to the drought, the chestnuts and green barberries in the woods were sparse, with less than half of the fruits from last year.
Yao Xiaoqing thought about it for a few days and then approached Yao Hu and said, "Father, I want to cut down the woods on both sides of the wall and open up hundreds of acres of land on the other side."
"The north of the fence is used to grow fruit trees, sugar cane, and graze cattle and sheep. The south is used to grow crops, sweet potatoes, kudzu, and pumpkins. What do you think?"
Yao Hu nodded, "I've been thinking about it these days, and I think your method is better. We have to raise livestock and grow food to keep everyone fed."
Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "I asked Uncle Chong to take Yu and the others to cut down and fence the woods in the south first, and then cut down the woods in the north. From now on, we will have a hunting team, a gathering team, a planting team, and a breeding team.
team, as well as the construction team and the refining team. I want to put the dozen or so men brought back from Shenmu Mountain into the construction team."
Yao Hu looked at her happily, "Let me know how you want to arrange them."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "The hunting team and the gathering team will still be led by the people from before. Let Ah Chong take charge of the construction team first, and the breeding team will be taken care of by Uncle A Gen and Uncle A Lin. You will take charge of the refining team.
Rule the tribe."
After hearing this, Yao Hu thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay! You have arranged it well. Just go ahead and do it, and they will all like to do things with you!"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "Then I'll go find A Zhongbo and the others."
"Go!" Yao Hu happily watched Yao Xiaoqing leave. He felt that his original decision was good, and only Xiaoqing could make the Yaoshan tribe better and better.
Ah Chong heard that he was asked to manage the construction team, cut down the woods, clear land and build walls. Without saying anything, he took Yu and the others to the forest to cut down trees and open up wasteland.
Yao Xiaoqing went to the duck shed and saw Genbo and two old uncles collecting duck eggs. The wild ducks and pheasants raised in the tribe could collect sixty or seventy duck eggs and forty or fifty eggs a day.
Since getting the bamboo raft, Genbo and the others have caught many wild ducks one after another on the other side of the river. The enclosed ditch can no longer hold the ducks.
Ah Chong led them to dig a large pond outside the wall. They also used wood to build a high wooden fence around the pond. The fence was sparsely covered with bamboo slices.
The water flowing down from the ravine was too small, so it had to be supplied to the tribesmen for drinking and for irrigating the fields. After the pond was dug, it was not until a few days ago that the water was filled.
Yao Xiaoqing called Uncle Gen, "Uncle Gen, my father said that your breeding team has more and more chickens and ducks. From now on, you will be in charge of raising chickens and ducks, and Uncle Lin will be in charge of cattle, sheep and rabbits."
Gen happily responded: "Yes, I promise to take good care of them."
Yao Xiaoqing went to the pen again and told Uncle Lin about the feeding. He went back and took the engineering shovel and flashlight towards the mountain and the outlet of the ditch.
Following the ditch, we reached the entrance of the cave halfway up the mountain and saw a stream of water as big as a faucet slowly flowing out of the cave and flowing down the mountain.
She lay down at the entrance of a cave the size of a dog cave and turned on her flashlight to illuminate the cave. She saw an endless tunnel inside, with no source at all.
"Alas!" Yao Xiaoqing sighed, "Who can climb into such a small cave to see what's going on? May God bless us and don't run out of water."
After going down the mountain and looking around, Yao Xiaoqing thought of choosing the remaining pot of wheat. Yao Xiaoqing thought of steamed buns, steamed buns and noodles.
He went to the warehouse and poured half of the wheat out. He handed it to Taro and Beans in the canteen and asked them to grind the wheat.
She got some plant ash alkali and prepared it for making dough, steaming steamed buns and steamed buns.
Taro carried the ground flour and went to the canteen, "Xiao Qing, the flour is ground. It's fine as you said."
Yao Xiaoqing took a look at the flour in the basin and said, "Oh! It's too little. For a hundred or ten people, it won't be enough to sift out the wheat bran."
Taro Zi smiled and said: "Xiao Qing, these flours are already very fine, no need to sift!"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, not willing to sift out the wheat bran.
Divide the flour into two parts, scoop a spoonful of honey into each part, add some badger lard, pour some alkaline water, add some water, and start kneading the dough.
Taro was also helping. The two of them kneaded the dough and kneaded it into a smooth dough. Yao Xiaoqing put the dough on the edge of the stove and started to ferment.
Yuzi looked at her curiously, "Xiaoqing, do you want to steam the pancakes? I'll get the steamer?"
Yao Xiaoqing shook his head, "Steamed steamed buns must be fermented before they can be steamed. Go ahead and boil two cans of millet and bean porridge, clean the steamer, wait for the flour to ferment, and then start steaming."
Yao Xiaoqing went out to pick some pinto beans. After selecting them, he took some pickled pork belly and took a few potbellied women to chop it into minced meat, stir-fry and cool it, and the dough was ready.
A dozen women followed Yao Xiaoqing and quickly prepared the steamed buns and placed them on the stone table. After fermentation again, they could be steamed in a pot.
The steamer was placed on the stone pot. Looking at the bare steamer grid, Yao Xiaoqing could only brush some lard on the steamer grid and put the steamed buns into the steamer.
Looking at the wheat bran buns and steamed buns in the steamer that looked like their fair skin was covered with freckles, Yao Xiaoqing couldn't help but swallow.
When the hunting team and gathering team returned to the tribe, the cafeteria was soon filled with people.
Yaya looked at the chubby buns and steamed buns in the steamer, "Qinggu, did you make something delicious today?"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded with a smile, "Ya Ya worked hard collecting food outside, Qing Gu is ready to reward you."
Asen also asked for credit, "Qinggu, I cut a lot of cow grass today and picked up clam shells to feed the ducks."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the two hard-working little guys and said, "Yeah! Ah Sen is also good. Let's eat two more meat buns later."
Yun Amu and others brought the fried sour bamboo shoots, cold wild vegetables, millet and bean porridge, steamed buns and steamed buns to the table.
She looked at Yao Hu and said with a smile: "Chief, this is the fresh food Xiaoqing just made today. The ones with pleats are steamed buns, which contain meat and pinto beans. The ones without pleats are steamed buns. They look delicious.