Yao Xiaoqing's eyes lit up, "Yes! I have heard my father mention it before. Putting camphor wood shavings in gauze bags in the closet can prevent items from getting insects. But now we don't have time, let's put them first
Cut back the oil-extracting wood and prepare the press house for oil extraction."
Jiang Li looked at Yao Xiaoqing with a smile on his face and said warmly: "Okay! It's all up to you."
Yao Xiaoqing glanced at Jiang Li and saw a doting look in Jiang Li's eyes. She turned her head uncomfortably and looked at Mu Feng and the others instead of looking at him.
Several people were busy on the mountain for half the afternoon and cut down two camphor trees.
Yao Xiaoqing unexpectedly found more than a dozen cocoon-like things on the branches of camphor trees.
She picked it up and handed it to Jiang Li, "Look, is this a cocoon?"
Jiang Li picked up a cocoon and looked at it, then lowered his eyes and thought for a while, "This is a cocoon made by camphor silkworm. I heard that camphor silkworm silk is very strong. Fishermen like to use camphor silkworm cocoon to make fishing silk, so it is also called fishing silkworm."
This was the first time for Yao Xiaoqing to hear about camphor silkworms, and also the first time that fishing silk made from camphor silkworms was strong.
She smiled and gave Jiang Li a thumbs up, "Jiang Li, you are so knowledgeable."
Jiang Li smiled and said: "There is a library in the house. I like to find some miscellaneous books in there to read when I have nothing to do."
"People learn from books!" Yao Xiaoqing looked at the camphor silkworm cocoons in his hand, and an idea came to his mind, "Jiang Li, since there are camphor silkworm cocoons on the camphor wood, can we also find mulberry silkworm cocoons on the mulberry trees?
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Jiang Li nodded without hesitation, "Yes! Otherwise, where did the original silk come from? Let's go look for it in the mulberry forest sometime. We will always find it."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "You're right. There are too many things to be busy with this year. I will definitely go out and look for them next year." After harvesting the rapeseed, we have to be busy harvesting the beans and making soy sauce and bean paste. Everything comes together.
.She felt a little overwhelmed.
A few people cut off the branches of the camphor tree and carried it back to the tribe. It was already dark.
The next day, Jiang Li stayed with the Yaoshan tribe and took Yaohu, Dashi, Mufeng and Heiba into the mountains to hunt.
As if in the blink of an eye, the rapeseed in the rapeseed field is ripe again
Everyone was busy harvesting the rapeseed. From about 100 acres of rapeseed, more than 2,000 kilograms of rapeseed were harvested. The seeds were left behind, and the oil extraction would begin when the oil extraction room was built.
In the pepper field, the branches were covered with red peppers, and Yao Xiaoqing began to prepare bean paste.
The spices are almost ready, only white wine and bean paste are needed.
Yao Xiaoqing washed the dried peas that replaced the bean sprouts and soaked them overnight, drained the water, poured them into a dustpan lined with pumpkin leaves, spread them evenly, covered the peas with a layer of pumpkin leaves, put them in the warehouse for fermentation, and then washed them
clean.
He also asked Yao Hu and others to make several shovels and install them with long wooden handles.
Pour the cleaned red peppers into a large wooden barrel, chop them with a shovel, add salt, aniseed and fermented moldy peas in proportion, stir evenly and leave them in a cool place to ferment for a few days before moving them to the courtyard.
Sun cured.
There are more than 200 people in the tribe. Yao Xiaoqing, Yun Amu and others made more than ten jars of bean paste.
The hot summer is over soon, and the busiest season for the Yaoshan tribe has arrived.
In the fields, the wheat and beans in the fields began to be harvested one after another. Jiang Li brought people from the Qingshan tribe to help with the harvest.
Wheat, pinto beans, mung beans... were all taken back to be dried and stored.
After taking back the last few acres of beans, we are ready to harvest pumpkins, sugar cane, and taro.
Everyone was busy in the fields, and Ashuo and Adiao came running from the pond carrying some fish.
Several people were holding big fish and looked at Yun Amu happily, "Amu, Amu, look, the fish jumped out of the pond."
Yun Amu took a few big fish and looked at the people sternly, "Did you go to the pond to play in the water?"
Ashuo shook his head and said: "No, the fish in the pond jumped very high, and these big ones jumped to the shore."
Ah Diao also said, "Emma, we didn't go to the pond."
Seeing that they didn't look like they were lying, Yun Amu nodded, "It's okay if you don't go. If you fall into the pond, you will die. Do you understand?"
"Well! We're not going."
Seeing the children sweating profusely, Yun Amu sighed, "Oh! It's too hot, and the fish can't stay in the pond anymore."
She handed the fish to Xiang Dali in the canteen and carried two buckets of herbal tea to the bean field. "The herbal tea is here, everyone, come and drink."
Yao Xiaoqing went to the field and scooped up a bowl of herbal tea and drank it, "Emma, make more mung bean soup in the afternoon."
Yun Amu took off the bean leaves from her head and said, "Okay! A Diao and his friends picked up some big fish by the pond. How about cooking pickled pepper fish for dinner tonight?"
"Okay! The pickled pepper fish is appetizing!" Yao Xiaoqing took a few steps and turned to look at her, "Amu, did you just say that the fish jumped out of the pond?"
Yun Amu nodded, "Yeah! Ashuo and the others saw it."
Yao Xiaoqing looked up at the sky, feeling a little uneasy, "I'll go take a look."
She went straight to the ditch and saw that the fish in the ditch had also floated to the surface. Going further, she saw the fish in the pond constantly jumping out of the pond as if someone was stirring the pond with a bamboo pole.
"Oops, is there going to be an earthquake? You have to ask Alimber and the others."
Yao Xiaoqing muttered to himself, walked towards the small door at the foot of the mountain, and went to the pen after going out.
As soon as A Lin saw her, he came over and said, "Xiao Qing, there is something wrong with the livestock these days. They always want to crawl out of the pen. They also killed several poisonous insects."
Yao Xiaoqing frowned and said, "Are all livestock like this?" These phenomena were the signs of earthquakes in the past!
A-lin nodded, "Yeah! There was also a female rabbit that killed a baby rabbit. A-gen said something was wrong with the chickens and ducks. They haven't been eating well or laying eggs well these past few days, and they've been flapping their wings and scurrying around."
Yao Xiaoqing felt a little worried, "This has been the case for a few days."
Arin thought for a moment and said, "It's been four or five days, and today is stronger than the past few days."
Suddenly, there was a strange buzzing sound coming from the ground, like the vibration of a train passing by.
Yao Xiaoqing felt a little weightless, like she was standing on a small boat in a storm. She saw Alinbo falling to the ground in horror.
There was a thunderous roar in the distance, and then the earth danced wildly, the big trees on the mountain swayed, rocks rolled, and smoke flew everywhere. The animals in the pens whimpered in fear, and they all crowded together.
at every turn.
Yao Xiaoqing had experienced several small earthquakes before, but every time they were as strong as today, she couldn't stand and fell to the ground. Whenever she opened her eyes, she felt dizzy like the world was spinning.
Jiang Li dragged Yao Hu and Dashi and ran out of the refining room. In the canteen, the people harvesting in the fields turned pale with fright. They closed their eyes and knelt on the ground, not daring to move.
Fortunately, the shock passed after a few breaths, and everyone opened their eyes to see leaves flying in the air.