Yao Xiaoqing suddenly felt a sense of crisis. He thought: He must practice martial arts harder to be able to protect himself. He must also make weapons, store food, and build houses and walls as soon as possible so that he will not be driven in.
She wanted her tribe to live a life of half farming and half hunting, instead of relying entirely on hunting, risking their lives to fight for territory, and then being robbed by others. It was not easy to start everything from scratch.
Seeing that Yao Xiaoqing was deep in thought, Grandma Shan said to her: "Xiaoqing, Grandma has gone to plant millet and rice seeds."
Yao Xiaoqing looked up and saw the seeds in Shan Amu's hand: one was millet and the other was soybean, each weighing half a catty. It looked like the seeds were more plump and the seeds were less.
No wonder the yield of millet and soybeans grown in the tribe is so low. It would be great if such seeds can grow.
Yao Xiaoqing called Shan Amu to stop and hung the bow on the wooden stake.
He picked out some husks and plump seeds from the seeds, put them in his hand, and said to her: "Amu, you have to pick out the husks and leave the plump seeds. Every time you sow, you need to expose them to the sun."
You will get good results after you get down."
Shan'am looked at the grains in her hand with some distress, and hesitated for a moment, "Xiaoqing, did the gods tell you to do this?"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded without hesitation, "Yes, the gods told me that food must be sown in this way to yield a harvest."
Hearing that it was the gods who told Yao Xiaoqing, Shan Amu nodded in relief, "Okay, I'll get a piece of skin and dry the seeds."
Yao Xiaoqing decided to go down the mountain later to see how Uncle Shui and Uncle Chong were digging and weeding.
Now, go look for clay nearby, dig some out, and build a stove to make clay pots.
Yao Xiaoqing went around to the back mountain and found clay on the hillside. As soon as he came down the mountain and returned to the cave, he saw Yao Hu and Dashi coming back with crutches and carrying a five or six meter long piece of wood.
The two put the wood on the platform. Yao Hu looked up and saw Yao Xiaoqing's bow and arrow hanging on the wooden stake. He stepped forward and took it off, holding it in his hand and tossing it excitedly, "Xiao Qing, this is
Where did it come from?"
"This is called a bow, I made it." Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and said.
Shan threw down a few pieces of flint and walked up to Yao Hu. He looked at the bow in his hand excitedly and said, "Chief, this is what the giant bear tribe used to hurt me."
"Yes, You used such a weapon last time. It was not as good as Xiaoqing." Yao Hu turned to look at Yao Xiaoqing and asked excitedly: "Xiao Qing, how do you use the bow?"
Yao Xiaoqing held a wooden arrow, took the bow, posed and said to Yao Hu: "Put the arrow on the bow string, aim at the target and shoot it, and it will hit the target." After speaking, he drew the bow and shot the arrow, and the wooden arrow flew away.
Go out and shoot the small tree.
Yao Hu took the bow from her hand and said, "Let me try it."
"Okay." Yao Xiaoqing gave him a wooden arrow and corrected his posture.
Yaohu drew his bow and set an arrow with great momentum. The wooden arrow flew out and hit another tree.
Yao Hu looked at the wooden arrow stuck in the tree trunk and shook his head in frustration, "I missed it."
Shan and Dashi also tried once, but neither hit the target.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the frustrated looks of several people and said with a smile: "I will find a big tree later and draw a few circles for you. After practicing hard for a few days, you can hit the target."
"Okay." Yaohu pointed to a big tree in the east, "Xiaoqing, just draw circles on it. My father went to cut some bamboo and came back. You can teach us how to make more bows for Mufeng and the others.
Let’s practice together too.”
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "Okay, Hua said she saw the droppings left by wild boars by the river. You guys go and see if you want to dig a trap?"
Yao Hu nodded and said: "First dig a trap, and then chop bamboo to make a bow."
The mountain called the flowers to come up, and everyone walked down the mountain. Yao Xiaoqing saw Shui Bo and Chong Bo who had been busy all morning and came out after a while.
The stone knife dug up a shallow layer of soil on the ground, but it could not meet the requirements for planting. As a result, one of their stone axes broke.
Hua took several people to the place where wild boar excrement was found.
After Yao Hu and Shan looked at it, they nodded and said, "Yes, it's wild boar excrement."
After the two found a good location, they started digging holes to make traps. They dug the traps with engineering shovels, which was very fast.
The two men alternated digging and dug out a large pit as high as an adult. Yao Xiaoqing asked them to insert a dozen sharpened sticks at the bottom of the pit, spread a layer of branches on top of the trap, and cover it with weeds.
Then I went to the bamboo forest and cut down a dozen moso bamboos and a bundle of bamboos for making bows. I carried and dragged them back to the cave.
Back in the cave, Yun Amu had already cooked duck eggs and a pot of wild vegetables.
Yao Xiaoqing felt that the most uncomfortable thing was eating. She almost felt like she couldn't swallow anything.
Seeing how they ate with gusto, I forced myself to eat two duck eggs and drink a bowl of wild vegetable soup, barely filling my stomach.
After Yaohu and the others finished drinking the wild vegetable soup, Yao Xiaoqing stopped them and checked their wounds.
When I took off the bandage and saw that the wound had healed, I was a little surprised and sighed: This repairing ability is simply great.
After she took off the bandage and washed it, Yaohu stopped her and said, "Xiaoqing, teach my father how to make a bow and arrow."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded in agreement, made a bow and wooden arrows and showed them to them, then went to dig clay with a shovel, a basket on his back and flowers.
After shoveling away the upper layer of clay and digging, the two of them ran back and forth several times before digging out a pile of clay and pouring it on the platform at the entrance of the cave.
He used a shovel to dig up the soil, poured two pots of water into it, took off his smelly leather shoes, and stood in the mound of soil to stomp on it. Yaya woke up and saw Yao Xiaoqing stepping on the soil, thinking she was playing a game, so she took off her shoes too.
He took off his little leather shoes and pulled Yao Xiaoqing in to step on them.
After stepping on the clay until it stuck to my feet, I went down the mountain to find a stone slab, carried it and a round stone back to the cave, and placed them next to the fire.
I went out and shoveled a piece of clay and carried it back to the cave. I put the slate on top of the stone, grabbed some charcoal ash on the slate, took out a piece of mud and patted the bottom of the pottery pot; then, I rubbed the mud into many long strips and rolled them into
The good mud strips are coiled around the chassis, and the mud strips are pressed tightly with your fingers. The mud strips are coiled up in circles until they are coiled into the shape of a clay pot and closed.
Ladle out a bowl of water, dip your hands into the bowl, and turn the stone slab to smooth the inside and outside of the earthen pot.
After the jar was made, I rolled two mud strips and stuck them on the jar, made handles, and a not-so-pretty clay jar was ready.
After the jar was finished, I used a piece of bamboo to measure the mouth of the jar. I visually measured it to be 30 centimeters. After measuring the size, I started making the lid.
Hua stood there and watched for a while, then went back to find slates and stones, and followed Yao Xiaoqing's example to hold the clay pot.
Yao Xiaoqing found that Hua's hands-on ability was much better than hers, and the clay pot she made for the first time was rounder and more beautiful than hers.
The two of them silently took out three earthenware pots, each one bigger than the other.
Yao Xiaoqing carried the earthen jar to the corner of the cave entrance, went out and carried a bundle of firewood in, placed the thin branches on the earthen jar, then covered it with coarse firewood and lit the fire to make the earthen jar.
Hua looked at it for a while and said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, can that thing be cooked and eaten like a stone pot?"
"Yes." Yao Xiaoqing added in his heart: It will be done once the firing is successful.
"Keep watch over the flowers. Call me when the fire stops."