The next day, it was dawn, and the people of the Yaoshan tribe got busy.
Dashi led people to reinforce a stone wall outside the wooden fence on the mountain platform.
Some took people to the bamboo forest, and some went to the saponaria forest at the foot of the mountain. They all cut down a lot of bamboo and saponaria thorns and came back.
Mix oyster ash with sand and gravel, spread it on the wall, and insert the saponin thorns on it.
Mufeng led people to dig traps at the foot of the mountain and in the woods, and inserted calcined bamboo thorns into them.
Soon the sun rose and hung in the sky like a big fireball, baking the earth like a furnace.
Ah Chun sat in the tree and listened to the cicadas above his head, screaming at the top of his lungs and looking at the turn of the mountain road with longing eyes.
Suddenly, a dirty black boy swaggered towards the tribe.
He stared at him closely for a while, then shouted excitedly, "Chief, Xiaoqing is back."
Yao Xiaoqing waved to him, "Uncle Chun, are you on guard duty?"
Achun responded loudly: "Hey! Fortunately, Mu Feng told us that you might have turned into a black boy, and I almost shot you."
Mufeng ran up panting and almost shed tears when he saw her, "Xiaoqing, you are back!"
"When did you arrive?" Yao Xiaoqing waved to Achun, and the brother and sister walked towards the foot of the mountain.
Mufeng looked at her happily, "We arrived yesterday afternoon. At night... we should throw them into the river to feed the fish!"
Yao Xiaoqing raised his eyebrows and smiled, "When disaster strikes, we all fly away. Drive them out to see how long they can survive. This incident is also a touchstone. It can also drive those with evil intentions out of the tribe!"
At this time, everyone in the tribe gathered around and looked at her happily.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at Yao Hu with a smile, "Father, I'm back."
"Why does this child look like this?" Yao Hu stepped forward and rubbed her messy hair.
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said, "Can you still recognize me?"
Yao Hu smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth, "If you apply another layer, my father will be able to recognize it."
"If you apply another layer, I'm worried it won't be able to be washed off." She laughed, "I have a bad smell all over my body, I have to wash it off."
"Go! Douzi has already gone to help you mix the bath water."
When Yao Xiaoqing returned home, Douzi greeted him with shame, his eyes red, "Qing Wu, I..."
She looked at Douzi and raised her hand, "I understand, it's not your fault, just do your own thing."
Douzi nodded, "Yes, Qingwu."
"You go and do your work, I can just do it here by myself." Yao Xiaoqing said, went into the house, put down the water bag, and went to the bathroom with a change of clothes.
She hadn't washed in several days, and she felt that her whole body was sticky and uncomfortable, and it also exuded a sour smell.
Yao Xiaoqing washed it several times before she felt comfortable. She changed her clothes, washed her underwear, brushed her thin leather clothes and took them upstairs to dry in the sun.
Yun Amu walked into the yard carrying a bamboo basket, "Xiaoqing, have you finished washing? You can eat some of the food I made."
"After washing, come down and eat." Yao Xiaoqing came down from upstairs and looked at her with a smile, "Emma, what delicious food did you make?"
Yun Amu brought the food to the table and looked at her with a smile, "Bean porridge, pickled bamboo shoots, fried wild vegetables, fill your stomach first, and then we will prepare delicious food for you after dinner."
"These are good things. I almost turn into bacon jerky every time I eat them."
Yao Xiaoqing took a sip of the porridge. It was just right, neither cold nor hot. The sour bamboo shoots appetized and the wild vegetables cleared the palate. The bowl of porridge was quickly eaten.
Yun Amu tidied up the room and came out, "Is it enough? If it's not enough, I'll go back to the end."
"That's enough!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at her, "Have you collected much fruit these days? Is there enough water in the ravine?"
Yun Amu shook his head, "There are not many fruits, but there is enough water, and the millet in the ground is growing well."
"That's good. A lot of water in the creeks outside has dried up. I'm worried that we'll have no water here too."
"Also, two children have been added to the tribe, both boys." Yun Amu said cheerfully.
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said, "Whose family does it belong to?"
"Xiongniu family and Heiyun family, in a few days, Asu will give birth in the next two days."
"It's a good thing that there are more and more children in the tribe. Make more pig's feet soup for the women in confinement."
Yun Amu looked at her in confusion, "What is confinement?"
Yao Xiaoqing thought for a moment, "Confinement period means that a woman who has just given birth must rest for a while, eat well and recuperate, so that she will not get sick easily!"
"Oh!" Yun Amu understood, "I know, I'll stew pig's feet for them when I get back."
"You go first! I'll go to the warehouse and take a look."
Yao Xiaoqing went to the warehouse and looked at the wooden arrows placed inside. He turned around and saw several spears standing in the corner. The spearheads shone with a cold light. It seemed that they had begun to make iron spearheads.
She felt that the black bear must have discovered that there was something fishy about the weapons they used, and would definitely send people to fight before launching a large-scale attack.
However, for a large tribe like Black Bear to send people to inquire about information, it will not be as simple as a dozen or twenty people. The most important thing now is to dig the trap quickly so that the people who come to inquire will never return, making Black Bear anxious
Send someone.
Yao Xiaoqing closed the warehouse door and walked outside the tribe. He found that the people in the tribe were so busy that they were about to fly.
Yaohu stood on the wall and stopped her, "Xiaoqing, go get two pumpkins, ask Mufeng to go with you to the tribe upstream, and thank them for helping you."
Yao Xiaoqing frowned, "Everyone is busy, let's go after a while!"
Yaohu waved his hand, "Go! They were kind enough to help us, and they came back before dark, so it won't take much time." He felt that the people upstream could take the risk to help them with such a trivial matter, much better than the mountain rats and the jackals.
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Yao Xiaoqing could only nod, "Okay!"
She went back and picked two pumpkins, put them in a backpack, carried them to the foot of the mountain, and asked Mu Feng to walk upstream together.
The two of them walked on the silted sand by the river, and bursts of hot air hit the ground. In the dry puddles, there were many dried fish and shrimps.
"Xiaoqing, the water in the river seems to be getting shallower and shallower."
Yao Xiaoqing frowned and looked at the increasingly narrow river, "You don't even think about how many days it has not rained."
"Yes! It hasn't rained for a long time!"
When the two of them walked to a wide river valley, they saw a row of thatched sheds. In the open space in front of the thatched sheds, four women were sorting the food they had collected, and a dozen men were tanning animal hides.
Yao Xiaoqing took a look and found that maybe because of the dry weather, their thatched hut was built very close to the river. It was convenient to get water. If the water rose, it would 100% be washed away.
The two of them walked towards the thatched hut. The people in front of the thatched hut looked at the two of them warily, gesticulating and shouting.
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