Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yes, we will dig it back in the bushes at the foot of the mountain tomorrow morning."
"I know," Yao Hu smiled and chased her away, "Go back and change your clothes quickly."
"Why!"
Yao Xiaoqing went back to take a shower, changed into slightly thicker clothes and came out. He thought about the wheat seeds in the wheat fields. It rained so hard and he had to go and see if the ditches were clear. If there was too much water, the wheat seeds would be soaked.
broken.
She carried a hoe to the wheat field and saw Shan Amu and two women already busy in the wheat field.
Shan'am saw her arriving at the edge of the field and waved to her, "Xiaoqing, you don't have to go to the field, that's fine."
Yao Xiaoqing turned to Shan Amu and said, "Amu, it rained heavily and it became cold all of a sudden. Can the kudzu be peeled off?"
Shan'am smiled and said, "I would have forgotten it if you didn't tell me. Let's go back and take a look."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay."
Shan'am came up with a hoe, and the two of them walked towards the ditch.
After a heavy rain, the water in the ditch also rose a lot.
Shan Amu scraped off the mud on his leather shoes with bamboo chips, and the two of them went to the pond along the ditch. They saw the water in the pond flowing out. Asen and Yaya were holding a net in the ditch.
Catch fish.
"Yaya, Asen," Shan'am shouted loudly, "Have you driven the cows and sheep back into the pen?"
"We're rushing back." Yaya ran up to the two of them with a fishing net and looked at them with a smile, "Qing Gu, Dam, we caught several big fish."
"Have Uncle A Chun and the others gone to the river to get the fish pots?" Yao Xiaoqing suddenly remembered that after the heavy rain, the water in the river must have risen. It would be troublesome for Uncle A Chun and the others to get the fish pots from the river.
"Qinggu," Asen came over with a bucket, "don't worry, it started to rain before they left."
"Oh!" Yao Xiaoqing nodded and saw that there were already four or five big fish in the bucket, "You two, stop playing with the water and take the fish back quickly."
"I know." The two agreed, then carried the bucket and left.
Shan'am used a hoe to pull the kudzu vines out of the ditch and bundle them up. He saw that the green bark on the kudzu vines had been washed away, revealing the gray-white kudzu bark.
Shan Amu smiled and said: "Xiaoqing, it's better to soak the kudzu in the ditch. It doesn't have a strange smell. The ones soaked in the ground last time could make people spit out."
"I'm going to get a basket. Let's pick it back and cook it. We'll pick it up and clean it. Then we'll peel out a thin layer of gray skin from the kudzu. After washing it and drying it, we can tear out strands of flax."
"Is that how the kama silk was made last year?" Yao Xiaoqing said.
Shan'am thought for a moment, "I saw you cooking the bark, so I thought about it. Also, the cooked bark is soft, while the uncooked bark is hard."
"Okay, we will do whatever you think will be done well."
"Okay! I'll go back and pick up the basket." Shan Amu left in a hurry.
Yao Xiaoqing rolled up his trouser legs, stood on the bluestone bridge built over the ditch, hooked the kudzu vine with a hoe and lifted it up.
After a while, Shan Amu and A Chunbo came over with grappling hooks. Together, they fished out all the kudzu vines from the ditch in a short time.
After running back and forth a few more times, I picked all the kudzu vines back and put them in a large vat for cooking.
Looking at the gray-white kudzu taken out of the vat, Yao Xiaoqing thought about putting some lime in it. The kudzu with lime would indeed be whiter when cooked.
Everyone worked until dark before steaming the kudzu vines and carrying them to the ditch.
Straighten handfuls of kudzu vines and place them in the ditch, weigh them down with rocks, and pick them up tomorrow morning to peel the kudzu seeds.
After returning home from the overnight meal, Yaohu walked around the tribe and came back, "Xiaoqing, the furnace has been turned off. Will you know if the tools are ready tomorrow morning?"
Yao Xiaoqing was very confident in the mold he made, "Father, don't worry, it will definitely come into shape."
Yao Hu nodded, "Okay, you can go and have a rest!"
Yao Xiaoqing's head touched the pillow and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Yao Xiaoqing and Yao Hu went to the refining room together. The molds in the furnace were already cold.
Yao Hu carefully picked up the pliers, took out a long mold from the furnace, and placed it on the ground, "Xiao Qing, look at what's inside?"
Yao Xiaoqing opened it and saw a saw blade inside. "Father, this is a saw." She picked up the hammer and smashed the mold, and the saw blade fell out of the mold.
Yao Hu laughed happily, "It's really done. It will save a lot of trouble in the future!"
"Yes! Especially this kind of saw blade, I can't think of any way to make it."
Yao Xiaoqing smashed all the molds that Yao Hu had pinched out, and the hammer, file, chisel, etc. were all formed. The axe and planer only needed to grind out the cutting edges.
"Okay! I have to go and see if the kudzu has been rinsed. Today I have to peel the kudzu and dig up the melons!"
Yao Hu waved his hand happily, "Go ahead! Just leave it to me."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded and went to the ditch. He saw Shan Amu and several women standing on the stone bridge, picking up the kudzu and putting it into a basket.
After a night of washing, the kudzu has been washed clean.
Shan Amu raised his head and said, "Xiaoqing, Ah Chong and Ah Chai are waiting for you in the cafeteria to dig out melons!"
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Yao Xiaoqing went back to the canteen, took the shovel, and walked up the mountain with Ah Chong and a few others carrying baskets, shovels and hoes.
When we arrived at the shrubbery where soil melons grew, everyone collected the seeds of soil melons before starting to dig them up.
A dozen or so people made two trips back and forth in the afternoon.
Just before dusk, I took all the potatoes back and piled them in the warehouse.
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Jiang Li and the others were busy on the mountain until the afternoon. He calculated the weight of each person and took a dozen people down the mountain to harvest. However, it took more than an hour for each person to return to the rock carrying a prey.
Everyone worked until dark before picking up all the prey, smearing it with salt and piling it on the cowhide.
The barrel bones of the short-tailed tiger were put into the backpack, and the others were hung on the rocks in the cave with ropes.
Mufeng looked at the mutton fat, beef tallow and animal fats thrown there, and thought of Yao Xiaoqing's use in making soap, so he said to Shan: "Uncle Shan, let's take those oils back, Xiaoqing needs them in making soap."
Woolen cloth!"
Shan nodded, "Okay, there are so many of us, so each of us can carry a little more and take it back."
Muba also said from the side: "Uncle Shan, let's take the sheep tripe and intestines back. We can stew the radish for two meals."
Shan laughed after hearing this, "I see you guys want to take everything back. Otherwise, let's wash it out first and take everything we can with us when we leave."
The bull shook his head repeatedly, "Then let's forget it! I'm so tired that I can't take him with me, I feel so sad!"
Jiang Li smiled and said: "Everyone, don't worry. If you add a little each person, you can take them all."
After hearing this, Xiong Niu said happily: "If we can't take it away, Jiang Li will carry it all on his own."
Jiang Li smiled and nodded calmly, "Don't worry, I can definitely take it away."
After hearing this, everyone started picking and washing everything they liked and could eat, and the work was not finished until midnight.
I slept until dawn, then got up and put things into backpacks. Each backpack was full.
A group of men held weapons in one hand and a wooden stick in the other, walking along the cliff towards the mountain.