Yao Hu smiled and picked up a bun, "Okay, let me try the fresh food made by Xiao Qing."
"Fragrant! Soft! There are bacon and pinto beans in it. It's delicious! My daughter is really capable! Everyone, try it!"
Yao Xiaoqing blushed, "Father, everyone is going to laugh at you."
Dashi smiled and said: "Our Xiaoqing is already very capable."
"Yes," Mu Feng nodded repeatedly, took a bun and put it in her bowl, "Xiao Qing, you can eat it too!"
Everyone stretched out their hands towards the steamed buns, and the cafeteria burst into admiration.
Yao Xiaoqing took a bite of the steamed buns, drank a sip of millet porridge, and stir-fried sour bamboo shoots with oil residue. She felt that her day had improved a lot.
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Ah Chong and the others had machetes and axes, and they were able to work with twice the result with half the effort, and they soon cut down all the woods outside the southern wall.
Ah Chong led his men to fight in the woods north of the wall. Soon after the construction started, the golden autumn season arrived.
Everyone stopped chopping and started picking pumpkins. Baskets of golden pumpkins were carried up the mountain and put into the cave for storage.
The Qiushan Fair has also begun. Yao Xiaoqing is going to see if there is drought in other places and whether there is rice at the fair. By the way, he will bring back some pumpkins in exchange for some yams, kudzu, millet and beans.
Yaohu thought for a while after hearing this, and thought it would be a good idea to let her go out and have a look, and said: "Let your brother, Dashi, Muba, Wolf, Leopard, Quan, and Dayang accompany you to Qiushan Daji."
"When you pass by Yaoshan, you must be careful of Huo Li. He is petty-minded and jealous. He has been blocked several times but failed to succeed. We have taken so many people away. He must be waiting for us halfway."
Yao Xiaoqing raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Father, don't worry, it's fine if you haven't met him. If I meet him, I will definitely teach him a lesson."
Yao Hu was furious and glared at her, "When you go out, you are different from the tribe. You must be careful."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded honestly, "I know, I will be careful." She knew that he was not really angry, but just worried that something might happen to him because of his recklessness.
After the hunting team came back, Yaohu told Muba and others about Yao Xiaoqing's preparations to go to Qiushan for the gathering, and asked them to accompany Yao Xiaoqing to the Qiushan gathering.
Mu Feng was the happiest when he heard that he was going to the Qiushan Fair. "Father, we will bring you the newly made scimitar and we will beat the shit out of the fire fox."
Yao Hu was so angry that he slapped him and said to Dashi: "Take good care of them and don't let him cause trouble."
Dashi smiled and nodded, "I will control him tightly."
Mu Feng wasn't angry either, he just smiled and prepared some food for the journey.
Yao Xiaoqing asked several insect uncles to work quickly to make four carrying racks, weave eight large bamboo baskets, and put hay in the baskets. When they left, they put the pumpkins in them and tied them to the backs of the oxen.
So tired.
After going back, I thought about it and went to find Hua again, and asked her to make several mats out of animal skins with holes, fill them with cattails, and put them on the backs of the cows, so as to prevent the pack frame from being too hard and damaging the cows' backs.
The skin is bruised.
After a day's work, everyone had prepared the racks, mats, and baskets.
Yao Xiaoqing packed up her gifts and went to Yao Hu with the wok. "Father, you can try to make two large iron pans to cook food and stir-fry. It will be much faster and save firewood."
"Big iron pot!" Yao Hu held up the wok, "Let me think of a way to see if I can make it."
Yao Xiaoqing thought for a while, "I think we should make a mold first, and then pour the molten iron into the mold to shape it."
Yao Hu nodded, "Okay, you go ahead! I'll think of a way slowly."
Yao Xiaoqing and others picked out some medium-sized disc melons and beef leg melons, put them into bamboo baskets, and carried them to the duty room at the gate, preparing to set off early the next morning.
At dawn, Yao Xiaoqing got up, put on his clothes, carried his luggage and went out to see Yao Hu standing in the yard, "Father, why are you up so early!"
Yao Hu looked at her with a smile, "It's getting late, it's already dawn." His son and daughter were going on a long trip, and he was a little worried, and he tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep.
Seeing his tired look, Yao Xiaoqing felt a little distressed. She walked over and looked at him and said with a smile, "Don't worry, we will be back soon."
Yao Hu rubbed her head, nodded with a smile, "Okay, my father will wait for you to come back."
Mufeng rubbed his eyes, pulled on his shoes and came out of the house, "Father, Xiaoqing, you guys got up so early?"
Yao Hu patted him gently and said, "You brat, I asked you to take care of your sister. Look, you didn't get up early before her."
Mu Feng nodded and said, "Father, don't worry, I will take good care of my sister."
"Well!" Yao Hu looked at the two of them, "Go! Go wash your face, and let's go to the cafeteria to eat food."
When the family of three arrived at the canteen, Yun Amu had already prepared food. After everyone had breakfast, they were ready to set off.
Hua put the boiled salted duck eggs, dried meat, fried pancakes, corn, pinto beans, and ginger cubes into the backpack and gave them to Mu Feng and others to carry.
Everyone took them to the gate, put the pack rack wrapped with leather mats on the back of the cattle, and then put the bamboo basket on the pack rack and tied it up.
Take out the cow grass and put it on the cow's back.
Shan smiled and said, "Yeah! Xiaoqing's idea is good. One cow can carry more than two people."
Yao Hu nodded proudly, "She has so many ideas in her mind that we can't think of."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Father, you go back! No need to send him off, we will be back soon."
Leopard smiled and patted Mu Feng on the shoulder, "Chief, don't worry, we will protect Xiao Qing and Mu Feng."
Mu Feng said dissatisfied: "I am a warrior and I don't need your protection."
"Okay," Yao Hu smiled and waved, "Warriors, let's go!"
Yao Xiaoqing waved to them, turned around and said, "Let's go."
Muba, Leopard, Quan, and Dayang held the cow rope, waved their whips lightly, and walked up the mountain.
Yaohu and the others stood at the gate and watched them climb up the hillside. They turned around and went back until no one could be seen anymore.
With the oxen helping to carry things, it was much easier for everyone along the way.
On the second day, Dashi and the others discovered that the creek that originally contained water in a slightly higher area had dried up. Only in the lower areas could water sources be found.
A group of people led the cows and stood on a hill, looking at the withered yellow weeds in the forest. Dashi was a little worried, "Xiao Qing, it seems that it's not raining just here."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Fortunately, the ditch on our mountain has never lost water."
"Yes!" Dashi looked at the surrounding environment, "Xiaoqing, if we go further we will soon reach Yao Mountain. Should we go around in a circle and pass by the Antelope Tribe, or pass by Yao Mountain?"
Yao Xiaoqing pondered for a moment, "Let's go around the Antelope tribe first, and then pass through Yao Mountain when we come back. We can't keep avoiding them like this."
Mufeng nodded repeatedly, "Xiaoqing, maybe Huoliu has sent someone to wait for us near Yaoshan."
Leopard said: "Then let's fight them."
Dashi and the other three nodded, "Yes, even if you can't avoid them, let's just fight."