Jiang Li thought for a moment and said, "It's okay. Let's cut some rattan sticks and tie them together, put the basket on top and pull it back."
"Okay!" Mu Feng responded, "Mu Ba and I will stand guard, you guys go to sleep first."
Everyone nodded, spread their animal skins and fell asleep.
Chong and his gang couldn't run any further. When they saw that the mountain demon was not chasing them, they stopped and collapsed on the ground, clutching their chests against their beating hearts.
Everyone sat there in a daze for a long time before they finally regained their composure.
Only then did I hear the sound of owl calls coming one after another in the quiet mountain forest, the rustling sound of long insects crawling over, and the sound of mountain rats gnawing. Suddenly, an eagle owl swooped down, and a long insect
Hanging on the eagle owl's claws, it keeps twisting.
Chong said hoarsely: "Find some firewood to make a fire."
Ye stood up and looked at the dark woods. "I don't know if the mountain demon will come again. Let's climb a tree to rest!"
"That's fine!"
Chong climbed up the tree and leaned against the tree trunk in frustration, feeling that his hands and feet were sore and weak. The cold night wind blew, and his sweaty body felt chilly.
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After Yao Xiaoqing dried the seeds, he asked the taro and asparagus to soak the yam beans and kudzu seeds.
Thinking of those sugar canes, I went out to look at the sugar cane field outside and found that the old pockets of sugar cane in the open space had sprouted new sprouts.
Hurriedly, Agen Bo and others went back and led them to dig out the sugar cane from the pit. They found that some of the knots had already sprouted buds. She mixed some lime water and soaked the knots in lime water.
Shan Amu came over with a sack and asked: "Xiao Qing, where are these sugar canes planted?"
Yao Xiaoqing thought for a moment and said, "Plant in the field on the north side of the wall by the river. First, raise the fields, dig the ditches, and plant the seeds the next day. You don't need to worry about these. I'll leave it to the people who lead Taro Zi."
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Shan Amu nodded and looked at her happily, "I will plant all the taro this afternoon. Where do you think I should plant those yam beans and kudzu?"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Plant next to the sugar cane field. Don't plant them in continuous patches. Plant a field of cassava and a field of kudzu. This way, if there is any disease, they will not all die."
"I got it! Do you want to plant yam beans and kudzu seeds too?"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "You have to plant them too. The seeds have been soaked. Remember to plant them at intervals like stem tubers."
Shan'am nodded and walked away carrying the retting soil.
Pumpkins, winter melons, beans, rapeseed, radishes... there are more and more types of seeds in the tribe.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the seeds that needed to be planted in the spring recorded on the notepad. He was happy but also had a headache. He was worried that he would be so busy this spring that his heels would not touch the ground.
"First plant rapeseed, then pumpkins, winter melons, and then beans..." She murmured to herself and walked towards the field.
I saw that the rapeseed field had been leveled and fertilizers had been spread. Yao Xiaoqing asked Yuzi and the others to start spreading rapeseed seeds.
She looked up at the sky and realized that the sun was almost setting. She turned around and went to the wooden shed at the gate. She saw the prisoners divided into two groups, standing there.
Yao Xiaoqing stepped forward, looked at them, and said loudly: "Have you thought about it?"
The tall and strong man nodded, "Think about it, will you really let us go?"
"Yes!" Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the gravel road under the wall, "Go up the mountain from here."
The strong man glanced at Yao Xiaoqing, hesitated, and walked toward the gravel road with a dozen other men. Seeing that he had left safely, a dozen more people followed him.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at it calmly and found that the people leaving were all strong men. These people should have a good life in the Dawu tribe.
After more than half an hour, she saw that there were still seventy-three prisoners left in the wooden shed.
She approached the prisoners, looked around, and stared at them, "Do any of you want to leave?"
The dark-faced man shook his head, "I won't leave."
"Okay!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at the others, "I'll give you one last chance to leave the Yaoshan tribe."
"We're not leaving," the remaining prisoners responded.
"Okay, remember, as long as you do good things, the tribe will give you food and clothing, if any of you want to stay and do bad things!"
Yao Xiaoqing looked at them sternly, pointing to the mountains to the west, "The mountains across the river are your final destination. Do you remember?"
The black-faced man responded loudly: "Remember." The others also responded loudly.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at them and said: "Remember, you must be clean here. You must wash your feet before going to bed every day, and you must take a shower and wash your hair every two days.
If any one of you continues to be as dirty and smelly as he is now, he will be punished by depriving everyone in the same room with him."
After hearing this, a group of men looked at me, I looked at you, and then looked at the Yaoshan warrior guarding them, and nodded together, "Yes, Qingwu."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded with satisfaction, "Okay! Two people will form a team later and follow A Shuibo into the tribe to clean up, eat the night food and sleep well all night, and start working tomorrow morning."
"Yes, Qingsha." The black-faced man responded quickly.
Yao Xiaoqing turned around and entered the tribe and said to Uncle Shui: "Uncle Shui, heat up the hot water and wait for me to come and write down the names of those people. Then you can bring them in to take a bath."
"I know." Ah Shui looked over and said, "Xiaoqing, I think most of the people are staying."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yeah! They will live outside in the future, and they will be allowed to enter the tribe after a few years of observation."
"Okay!" Ah Shui went to boil the water.
Yao Xiaoqing returned to the tribe, took Yun Amu and Douzi to the warehouse to get clothes, pants, straw sandals, and soap soap, and returned to the gate of the tribe.
Ah Shui went out and called two prisoners in, a black-faced man and a thin man. Yao Xiaoqing recorded their names.
The black-faced man is called A Ni, and the thin man is called A Gu.
Douzi handed out two sets of clothes to the two of them, pointed to the straw sandals in the basket, "Choose the straw sandals that fit your feet."
The two looked at the clothes in their hands and saluted Yao Xiaoqing gratefully, "Qing Wu, we will work hard."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said, "Go ahead! As long as you work hard, the Yaoshan tribe will not treat you badly."
Ah Shui took the two of them to the bathroom at the back and taught them how to use soap soap and how to mix it with water to take a bath.
"Yes, yes, we remember it." Ah Ni and A Gu responded repeatedly.
After Ah Shui left, the two of them looked at each other and smiled across the wall, thinking that staying in the Yaoshan tribe might be a good choice.
Yao Xiaoqing wrote down the names of the people left behind and returned to the entrance of the courtyard with the notebook.
As soon as I arrived, I saw Ada carrying a basket and walking in with a smile.
"Xiao Qing, Mu Feng and Jiang Li are back."
Yao Xiaoqing turned around and saw Jiang Li walking over carrying a basket, "Hey! Why didn't you come in through the gate? Where did this food come from? Did the Great Witch Tribe really trade food for those prisoners?"
Seeing her asking questions one after another, Jiang Li put down the basket on his shoulder and said with a smile, "We grabbed it!"