After all the land of the Yaoshan tribe was planted, Jiang Li led his people into the mountains to cut firewood and prepare to build a dock.
Ah Chong Bo and his men began to burn the kiln, and a few of them also looked at a good location to dig another earth kiln next to the earth kiln. The wolf and dozens of men continued to build walls, warehouses and drying grounds.
Ahe took a dozen old men to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots, and then went back to make sour bamboo shoots and dry the bamboo shoots. After meeting the Niu tribe and other tribes, they also dug it back. After cooking it and eating it, they felt a little bitter.
I stopped going after two meals.
Ah Chun, A Gen, and several old men from the breeding team were also busy making nests for chickens and ducks. There were also rabbits. There were fewer babies born in winter, but there were still quite a few.
Yaohu asked Mufeng and Zhu to lead two small groups of warriors and Ah Chongbo, leading the oxen with plowshares, rakes, and axes and machetes to the Wuxian tribe.
Shi Shan and You Lu looked at them in surprise, "Mu Feng, what are you doing?"
Mu Feng looked at them with a smile, "Uncle Shishan, my father asked us to help you plant the ground."
"Thank you! Thank you, father, thank you brothers." Shi Shan and You Lu hugged Mu Feng and Zhi gratefully, with tears streaming down their faces.
They have run out of salt to exchange for food, and hundreds of people in the tribe need to eat and drink. The best way is to farm land and raise livestock like the Yaoshan tribe did to feed the tribe.
Mu Feng and Zhi scratched their heads in embarrassment, "My father (the leader) said that our two families are allies and should help each other."
"Yes! We are allies." Shi Shan nodded gratefully and asked people to prepare food.
Ah Chong Bo and others helped them plow the fields, while Mu Feng and Zhi led people to cut down trees and helped Shi Shan sow the saved seeds.
Mufeng returned to the tribe and led two teams into the mountains to continue digging for salt.
After finishing the work in the field, Yao Xiaoqing went to the orchard and took a look around. Most of the fruit trees were frozen to death, and only half of them survived. She was so distressed that she had the dead fruit trees pulled out.
More than half a month has passed in a flash, and it was already getting hot last year. But this year the temperature is still not as good as in previous years, and it is quite comfortable to live a life that is neither cold nor hot.
But Yao Xiaoqing was so worried that she couldn't sleep well. She had heard the elders at home say before that it was neither cold nor hot, and there was no harvest without grain.
I am afraid that if the weather is not hot enough during the hot summer season, crops such as millet and beans will affect the autumn harvest due to lack of sunlight.
When Yao Hu woke up, he saw that the lights were still on in Yao's Xiaoqing house. He knocked on the window and said, "Xiao Qing, you have been tired for a day, why don't you rest?"
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Yao Xiaoqing blew out the oil lamp, lay in bed and thought for a long time, and decided to leave two teams of people to plant vegetables in the tribe, weed and catch insects, and water fertilizers, and sent all the other people out to dig Poria cocos further away.
After making her decision, she fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Yao Xiaoqing arranged for warriors to protect the women of the collection team and go to the mountains farther away to collect poria, kudzu, and taro.
Everyone set off in several directions. Yao Xiaoqing took Shan Amu and Bao Amu and several groups of women from the north into the mountains to find pine forests and dig Poria cocos.
A group of more than fifty people and two teams of warriors led four cows, dried meat, and salt to a farther place.
Xiongniu and Muba took them upstream along the river, and along the way they met several warriors from small tribes who came out to hunt.
They stopped Muba and said with a smile: "Are you planning to go into the mountains to collect food with so many women and oxen?"
Muba smiled and nodded, "All the wild vegetables by the river have been collected. We want to go to the mountains to visit."
"Yes!" The man sighed with a grimace, "I don't know where the wild animals in the mountains have gone. We only caught a few goats, badgers and pigs in the mountains."
"We went into the mountains and didn't catch any prey, so we thought we would go into the mountains to collect wild vegetables to fill our stomachs," Muba said.
Both groups sighed and walked towards their respective destinations.
Everyone followed the hunting team and walked through the mountains for a day before arriving at the pine forest where Muba and the others had been.
Muba pointed to the ridge under the pine forest, "Xiaoqing, Jiang Li said there are jujube trees there, and we were planning to collect them last year."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "We will go over there and have a look after we have dug all the Poria cocos."
"Okay." Muba turned to Shan'amu and the others and said, "Amu, you stay with us and don't run too far. We can also help you if you encounter wild beasts."
Shan'am smiled and nodded, "I understand, don't worry!"
No one has collected Poria cocos in the forest here. After everyone went in, they found dead and withered pine trees. After peeling away the shrubs and vines, they could find Poria cocos under the trees.
There were many dead pine trees in the forest, and soon a basket full of them was collected.
Ah Su picked up a piece of Poria cocos the size of a washbasin with a smile on his face, "Xiao Qing, look at this piece, it's only half of what was dug out from under the tree. The Poria cocos here is big and good."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the dirt on her face and laughed, "Yes, this is the second piece dug today, the big Poria cocos. Everyone, look for it carefully. After you find all these pine forests, the Poria cocos that you pulled back will be the big Poria cocos."
It’s enough for us to eat for a long time.”
Leopard's mother sighed at the side: "Xiaoqing, it would be great if this thing could be planted. Let's plant a large area in the tribe, and we don't have to worry about running out of food!"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Amu, I really can't help it." She had heard from her father before that the Poria cocos grown was not effective, that is, there were people who planted Poria cocos, but she had never seen how it was grown.
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A group of people had been busy in the forest for a whole day, and the bamboo baskets on the carrying rack were filled with Poria cocos collected.
Before dark, everyone chopped dead pine trees and used them as firewood.
Pull out the leather tent, tie it between the big trees, and put a leather mat on it.
The bull and a few warriors took the hunted hares and pheasants to the stream to skin them and clean them.
Ah Su and the others put on the seasonings and everyone gathered around the campfire to roast rabbit and pheasant.
Muba brought the ox and tied it next to the camp. A group of people had eaten roast rabbit meat and pheasant and were ready to rest.
Yao Xiaoqing leaned against a pine tree hugged by several people and closed his eyes to rest.
The cry of "Zhizhi! Zhizhi!" sounded above Yao Xiaoqing's head.
Shan'am pointed at the top of her head in surprise, "Xiaoqing, do you think that's a golden retriever?"
Yao Xiaoqing stood up and looked up, and saw three golden monkeys on the tree, two big ones, one small one, and a big golden monkey looking at her and scratching her ears and cheeks.
"Golden Retriever, is that you?"
"Squeak!" The golden hair rushed down from the tree and looked at Yao Xiaoqing with a smile.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the golden retriever who stood up and almost reached his chest, "You heartless little thing, you have grown up!" Then he pointed at the two on the tree, "Are those your wife and children?"
Golden Retriever turned to look at the two golden-haired monkeys on the tree, squeaked twice, and the older one jumped down from the tree with the smaller one, standing next to Golden Retriever and looking at her.
Yao Xiaoqing touched Jin Mao's head, "What should we do? In this barren mountain, my sister can't get something delicious for your wife and children to try. How about you go home with your sister?"