"Robbing it?" Yao Xiaoqing laughed, "Did you lead someone to become a bandit?"
"..." Jiang Li smiled and told her about his encounter with Chong and the origin of the food.
Yao Xiaoqing sneered and said: "The dignified tribal leaders have done some shameless and despicable things. Wait until those people return to Qiushan and see how they can cover up their lies."
"They have no shame, are they still afraid of lying?" Mu Feng came over carrying a load of millet.
Ada smiled and nodded, "Mu Feng is right!"
After hearing this, everyone laughed and picked the grains into the warehouse one by one and put them away.
Yao Xiaoqing asked: "Are there any prey?"
Leopard shook his head, "We only hunted a few pheasants and rabbits along the way, but we didn't even encounter any larger wild animals."
Muba smiled and said, "Xiaoqing, spring has just arrived. Even if you hunt big wild animals, they will be skinny and without any oil or water."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "That's true. Those wild animals have been hungry all winter and need to be raised for a while before they grow fat."
Jiang Li smiled and said, "I see everyone is busy and starting spring planting!"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yes! There are more seeds this year than last year, and we are busier than last year." Although she has started planting, she is still a little worried, fearing that the weather will be abnormal and a cold spring will cause trouble.
Hei Ba looked at Jiang Li and said, "Chief, I think Qing Wu and the others farm differently than us. How about we stay and follow Qing Wu and the others and learn how to farm?"
Seeing Yao Xiaoqing looking at them with a smile, Jiang Li responded cheerfully: "Okay, let's learn farming from the Qingsha."
"Okay!" Mu Feng smiled and stepped forward to hug his neck, "Let's go and learn farming with me."
Seeing them leaving happily, Yao Xiaoqing smiled and shook his head. He walked into the warehouse and took a look. He saw that there were pinto beans, cowpeas, mung beans and small red beans in the basket. He thought about drying them tomorrow and picked out the plump ones.
Seeds for sowing.
After coming out of the warehouse, Yao Xiaoqing went to the refining room and saw Yao Hu, Dashi, and Dashi wearing linen clothes, waving a hammer to hit the iron pot.
Seeing her coming, Yao Hu put down the hammer and walked to the door, "Yun Amu said that iron pots are useful and want to replace all the stone pots on the stove."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Yeah! Iron pots heat up quickly, and the fried food is delicious! Stews taste better if they are made in stone pots or clay pots."
Yao Hu nodded, "Have those prisoners left?"
"After some walking..., the night meal is about to start in the cafeteria, so don't wait too long."
"Okay, you go over first, and we'll come back after we finish the last lap." After Yao Hu said that, he turned around and entered the refining room.
"Why!"
Yao Xiaoqing returned to the canteen and learned that Yun Amu had sent animal skin mattresses, mats and food to the surrendered prisoners.
Yao Xiaoqing had brought those animal skins back from Shenmu Mountain, selected the good ones, and cleaned them all.
Ah Ni, a black-faced man, and his companions looked at the large wooden barrels that were being carried. The steam was rising, and the aroma of food hit their nostrils. They found that it was different from lunch.
I can now eat night food, and it’s no longer taro or potatoes.
As soon as Douzi and Ah Shui put down the barrels, a group of people rushed up.
Douzi stared at them and said: "Stand still! No grabbing, everyone has it."
A group of people nodded honestly, "Yes."
Uncle Ashui pointed to the bucket outside the wooden shed and said to them: "After you have eaten the food, use the water in the bucket to wash the dishes, chopsticks and spoons, and put them back into the basket. Do you remember?"
Dozens of men looked at the food in the bucket and responded loudly: "Yes!"
Seeing them swallowing their saliva, Uncle A Shui took out the vegetable basin from the bamboo basket, scooped the braised wild boar and bamboo shoots into the basin, and put it on the table.
"The dishes should be placed on the table and eaten, don't put them all into the bowl. Go ahead! Take a bowl to scoop out the porridge, and then take a pancake. Remember, don't grab it, otherwise you won't be able to eat breakfast tomorrow!"
"Yes!" A group of men were as obedient as primary school students.
After Ah Shui finished speaking, he walked towards the gate. He also wanted to go back for dinner.
Their food is much better than these people, and they also have fried rapeseed and bacon fried with garlic sprouts!
Dozens of men waited for Ah Shui to turn around, then immediately picked up a wooden spoon and scooped out a bowl full of pumpkin and corn porridge from the bucket, and then took some pancakes to eat.
A group of people wolfed down the food, and soon they had several buckets full of corn and pumpkin porridge, bean flour and pumpkin duck egg pancakes, and braised bamboo shoots.
Ah Ni looked at her friends wearing clean clothes, rubbed her belly with satisfaction, and showed a satisfied smile.
Agu licked the soup stains left at the corner of his mouth, savoring the taste of pancakes and roasted bamboo shoots.
"I have heard from Qing Huo before that the food of the Yaoshan tribe is delicious. This is the first time in my life that I have eaten such delicious food."
Ah Ni poked him and stood up with the bowl, "Brothers, get up quickly and wash the dishes and chopsticks."
"Yeah!" A group of people lazily washed the dishes.
Full, lazy, hungry, anxious, hot and sleepy. A group of men sat around the brazier for a while after eating and drinking. Some of them opened their mouths wide and yawned non-stop.
In the blink of an eye, everyone opened their mouths. A wave of sleepiness hit them. Ah Ni stood up and said, "I have to work tomorrow morning, so go to bed early."
As he spoke, he turned around and walked towards the large wooden floor mat covered with animal skins. He smelled the scent of soap locust remaining on the mattress and soon fell into sleep.
Over in the cafeteria, everyone has already eaten their food.
Yao Xiaoqing began to arrange the seeds to be sown tomorrow.
Thinking that this year's work is heavier than last year, the good thing is that there are more than 70 surrendered men to do the heavy work, so Abo from the planting team can free up his hands to help plant the yams and kudzu.
She arranged for several aunties and uncle from the planting team to lead people to plant the seeds.
Yaohu arranged for Mufeng to take a group of warriors to the salt mine to collect salt. Jiang Li, Muba, and Leopard took dozens of warriors to hunt in the mountains.
Yao Xiaoqing told them to catch as many wild animals as possible, preferably some docile animals such as musk deer and roe deer, and domesticate them.
After going home and washing up, she picked up the charcoal pen and started sketching again. After sketching for a while, she suddenly thought of the city plan Jiang Li mentioned, so she took another piece of paper and started sketching.
The next day, at dawn, Yao Xiaoqing took Ada to the wooden shed and saw that A Shui had already woken them up.
A few old men and a few warriors carried farm tools and placed them in front of the wooden shed, and distributed wooden shovels and stone hoes to them.
Yao Xiaoqing took out the drawing and looked at it. She reserved an open space the size of a football field opposite the tribe's gate.
The road under the wall was originally only hardened to a width of more than two meters. She planned to re-harden a road more than ten meters wide leading directly to the top of the mountain.
Yao Xiaoqing took them to the open space at the foot of the mountain and walked straight towards the foot of the mountain.
I took the fish with me and carved out a spot more than ten meters wide near the foot of the mountain. I reserved it for the spring planting and then built a wall after finishing the work. Then I built a drying ground and a warehouse for drying grain along the wall.
In the center of the opened wasteland, a canal and some small ditches will be dug to facilitate future irrigation of crops.