After Yao Xiaoqing was full, he saw the two of them tearing the dried meat bit by bit like hamsters, putting it into their mouths and chewing slowly.
"You guys stay on guard for now, I'll take your place after a nap."
Ah Que nodded, "I understand."
It was already dark by now, and there were sounds of frogs chirping and insects outside.
Yao Xiaoqing told the two of them, "Keep an eye on the fire at the entrance of the cave. If it goes out, the wild beasts will come and we will die."
After Ah Que and Ah Nuan had eaten their fill, they listened to Yao Xiaoqing's long breathing and dozed off little by little. At some point, they curled up and fell asleep huddled together.
Yao Xiaoqing woke up when the two of them fell down. Seeing the two of them huddled together like puppies, he sat up with a smile.
When Ah Nuan tried her best to open her eyes, she saw Yao Xiaoqing sitting there guarding the fire, and hurriedly pushed Ah Que.
Ah Que suddenly woke up, and the two looked at Yao Xiaoqing uneasily, "Qing Wu, we fell asleep."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the two of them, "If you are lucky, there will be no wild beasts tonight. If you are unlucky, we will be the beasts' dinner."
The two of them bowed their heads and admitted their mistake, "Yes! We were wrong, and we won't do it again next time."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the two of them, "Forget it this time, I will punish you next time if you do this again."
The two said in unison: "Yes!"
After Yao Xiaoqing and the two of them slept alternately, their genius gradually brightened.
The three of them got up and ate dried meat, continued searching, and found some Panax notoginseng, Polygonatum sibiricum, Su Ping... and then the three of them went back.
It was already dark when we returned to the tribe. Yao Xiaoqing and others cleaned out the medicinal materials before washing and sleeping.
After Mufeng taught Ah Xing how to refine salt, Shishan left a few warriors to take Ah Xing back to Wuxian.
The news that the Yaoshan tribe killed the warriors sent by the great witch also reached the ears of Da Ma and Yan Yu.
After they learned that the Yaoshan tribe had captured those people alive, they took them to the mountain and showed them to the tribe going to the market before killing a few of them.
Da Ma was so angry that he couldn't do anything.
When Shishan and Ah Xing returned to the Yaoshan Gathering, they also brought news about the great witch. Cuiyu gathered a group of savages and fought against the Wuxian tribe for several times. Of the two tribes, Wuxian was slightly better.
After hearing this, Yao Xiaoqing felt that this was a typical case of dog biting dog and biting the dog.
After a few days, the pairing of Mu Feng and Ah Xing was finalized. Shishan and Yao Hu agreed to wait until the autumn market opened before sending Ah Xing to the Yaoshan tribe.
Yao Xiaoqing took Aque and Anuan to search for medicinal herbs in the mountains and forests, and found spices such as cinnamon, cumin, and grass fruits.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, but luckily we found a spring, so that there was water to irrigate the fields of millet, pumpkins, and melons.
The pens to the north have been built, and the old uncle moved the livestock to the pens outside and demolished the rabbit sheds. Yao Xiaoqing asked them to keep the pig pens and cattle pens, planning to convert them into warehouses, weaving rooms, and oil pressing rooms.
In the blink of an eye, the winter wheat in that field was ready to be harvested.
Leopard Amu and a dozen women harvested the wheat in less than a morning. After being exposed to the sun for two days, it took half a day to beat out the wheat.
The winter wheat grains were obviously much plumper. Yao Xiaoqing and his team sifted out a small number of flat grains and saved all the seeds.
The people in the tribe ate the big meat buns that they had been thinking about for many days.
After the winter wheat is harvested, it is soon the day to harvest millet. The millet in the millet field is bent by the golden ears.
The market in Yaoshan was also closed, and the restaurant's harvest was pretty good. They got back a lot of beans, grains, and some dried meat. They also got a lot of food in exchange for pumpkins, and the bulk of it was the golden medicine and snake medicine made by Yao Xiaoqing.
When the grain is harvested, all the people in the tribe are busy cutting and drying the grain.
Here they were harvesting millet, and there they were busy plowing and sowing. Everyone was so busy that their heels did not touch the ground, and finally they harvested and planted the millet.
After planting the seeds, Yao Hu and Jiang Li finally built the Feng Gu Machine after several experiments.
Everyone pours the dried grain into the barn, opens the bayonet, and shakes the fan blade handle. The flat and full grains will automatically fall into the basket from the two exits, and the grain and impurities will fly out from the exit.
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Yao Hu nodded repeatedly, "This thing is good, more convenient than a sieve, and saves trouble."
Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "Father, after the threshing machine is ready, it will be more convenient for us after the wheat harvest next year."
Yao Hu nodded proudly, "Jiang Li said that the gear part of the threshing machine is the same as that of the wind mill, which is more trouble-free than the wind mill."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "As long as you make one thing, it will be easier to make other things. When you become more skilled at your craftsmanship, we will build a water mill on the canal over the spring, and use it to grind rice in the future.
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Yao Hu looked at Jiang Li and smiled and said, "Look at Xiao Qing, we still have two things we haven't made yet, and she has come up with something new again."
Jiang Li glanced at Yao Xiaoqing with a smile, "Take your time, you will make it one day."
Yao Xiaoqing suddenly thought that the rapeseed had bloomed and set pods, and the rapeseed would be harvested in a while. The tools for oil extraction had not been made yet.
"Jiang Li, do you know what method you use to extract oil there?"
Jiang Li smiled and nodded, "Yes, there is an oil mill and a mill on my village. You want me to think carefully about what the oil press said?"
"Yeah!" Yao Xiaoqing also smiled and nodded.
After a moment, Jiang Li whispered: "I remember the long-term worker who pressed the oil said that the tools for pressing the oil are composed of a grinding plate, a wooden press, a hammer, and a wooden wedge. The wood is a camphor tree surrounded by three people.
Hollow it out and put the packaged oil cakes one by one into the pressing chamber of the wooden press and arrange them neatly.
After the oil cake is loaded, a wooden block is inserted into one side of the oil cake, and then a hanging hammer is used to hit the wedge. The wedge is driven into the pressing chamber and squeezes the wooden block placed horizontally in the pressing chamber, and the wooden block squeezes the oil cake.
The rapeseed oil flows out from the holes at the bottom of the camphor wood, and the oil is then scooped into the tank to settle."
"I knew you had seen it!" Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile, "The rapeseed has begun to bloom. If it is too late, it will be too late. Let's go out to find camphor wood."
Jiang Li smiled and nodded, "There are quite a few camphor trees in the mountains behind, and they are all big trees that can be hugged by several people."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Yeah! Call a few people and let's go up the mountain and cut down the trees."
After the two agreed, they said something to Yaohu, and then led Mufeng, Bao and others towards the back mountain with saws and axes.
Several people went to the mountain, selected a camphor tree with a straight trunk that three people could hug, and started cutting it down.
Jiang Li Xiangxiang said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Qingwu, camphor wood has the effect of repelling insects and mildew, and preventing the corrosion of clothes. Put high-end clothes such as fur, leather, silk, hemp, as well as calligraphy and painting books in it, and the items will not only not rust.
Insect-free, mold-free, and fragrant smell.
Such strong camphor trees were extremely hard to come by in later generations. Now that the tribe has carpentry tools, we should cut down a few more trees and build some furniture and wooden warehouses for storing food."