341 Chapter 341 I want to go out and find new food seeds
Chapter 341 341 I want to find new food seeds
After returning home, Yao Xiaoqing took the Aqiao and several others to dry the orange peels on the roof of the building, wiped the persimmons clean and buried them in the millet chaff.
Ah Que poured a pile of chaff on the persimmon and asked, "Xiao Qing, will the persimmon become soft if it is buried in it?"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yes, come and have a look in five or six days. Once soft, you can eat it."
Ah Qiao thought of persimmons, "How do you make the persimmons you mentioned?"
"When Heiba brings the people back, I will teach you how to do it." Yao Xiaoqing stood up and clapped his hands, "Ah Que, Ah Nuan, clean the herbs and dry them upstairs."
The two of them responded in unison: "Yes!"
Yao Xiaoqing went to the edge of the field. The bean field had been plowed and finely raked. A dozen men and old men were digging trenches in the field, and the women were spreading fertilizer with bags in hand.
Once all the base fertilizer in the field has been spread with fertilizer, turned over and sprinkled with plant ash, winter wheat will be sown.
Yao Xiaoqing plans to sow wheat seeds on all the fields in the tribe this year. She feels that the flour ground from winter wheat is stronger and tastes better than spring wheat.
After looking around, Yao Xiaoqing went to the other side of the ditch again. The wolf and his men were building the wall on the other side of the ditch. It should be completed in another ten days.
The next day, Hei Ba took Ah Hei and a dozen other men to the persimmon forest. After returning, he followed Jiang Li to the mountain opposite to hunt.
Ah Hei and a dozen men went there for several days before picking all the persimmons back to the tribe.
Yao Xiaoqing and others cleaned the persimmons, dried them, peeled off the skins, left the piths, and dried the persimmons on the roof. The roofs of the two rows of yards in front were covered with golden persimmons.
After drying for several days, they turned the persimmons over and continued to dry them. After turning them over and drying them for two days, they turned them over again and pressed the persimmons lightly.
After eight or nine days of drying, the persimmons became smaller and smaller, and the color became darker and darker. They were flattened every time they were turned over to dry. After several times of flattening, the persimmons had taken shape.
Yao Xiaoqing led people to put the persimmons into a jar with a big belly and a small mouth, and put it in a cool place until the persimmons were frosted before eating.
The persimmons covered in chaff have long been eaten, and the last crop is ripe.
The ripe persimmon is soft in his hands. Yao Xiaoqing likes to break it in half and eat the cool, sweet and refreshing flesh inside. After one bite, his stomach feels cold, and the sweet taste is sweet to his heart.
After the wheat seeds were sown, Yao Xiaoqing and his team painted a layer of lime on the trunks of the fruit trees and pepper trees in the orchard, and then tied several layers thickly with straw curtains to prevent the fruit trees from freezing to death again.
All the pumpkins and winter melons in the fields were picked and brought to the warehouse.
Pick the last batch of tender pumpkin tips and stir-fry them with dried chili peppers. Sprinkle some minced garlic and shrimp powder when you start the pot. It tastes fresh and crispy.
All the poles in the taro fields were chopped back, the young ones were boiled and dried, and the old ones were boiled and fed to the pigs.
The taro fields were covered with thick layers of cattail grass to prevent them from freezing to death.
Next, they began to cut sugar cane, build straw curtains, and press cane sugar. For several days, the sweet fragrance of cane sugar filled the sky above the tribe.
Jiang Li and the others came back from the snow in the mountains for the last time, and everyone began to stay in bed for the winter.
Everyone sat in the warm room, eating persimmons, fried pumpkin seeds with pine nuts, and chestnuts.
The new members of the tribe who defected and were exchanged found for the first time that they could live so comfortably in winter. They had enough to eat every day and didn't have to worry about waking up without food tomorrow.
Yao Xiaoqing found that the weather this year was finally more normal than last year, and it didn’t snow for half a month. The ice on the fish ponds and rivers froze more than half a month later than last year. She is looking forward to a bumper harvest next year.
Year.
During the day, Jiang Li trained the warriors of the tribe, and the children followed him, shouting slogans. After eating at night, he taught everyone how to count and read, and told them some stories.
She found that everyone felt like they had been given blood after listening to the story. After listening to it twice, she found that he was talking about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and justice, teaching them to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the tribe and the people. She felt that Jiang Li was giving
They brainwash.
On the day of the Winter Solstice Festival, the tribe held another sacrificial ceremony, and everyone used sumptuous food to sacrifice their dead tribesmen and relatives.
What made the Yaohu family happy was that Ah Xing was also pregnant with a baby, and Mu Feng had a silly smile for more than ten days in a row.
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Winter turns to spring, and everyone finds that spring finally comes on time this time.
After the road surface thawed, Jiang Li led his people to start building the dock. He took Lang, the captain of the construction team, and Ah Hei to drive piles and lay wooden boards. It took more than two months to build a corridor leading to the river.
road.
The top of the corridor is supported by columns, covered with tiles, and has no walls on all sides. It is a good place to cool off and play in summer.
In the shallow water area of the river at the end of the corridor, driftwood has been used instead of bamboo rafts, making it much more convenient to row down the river.
The brewed soy sauce has turned into a black-red mash after being exposed to the sun and night dew for several months.
Yao Xiaoqing started to boil the soy sauce, poured the soy sauce into a large pot, added an appropriate amount of salt, aniseed, and water to boil.
One tank of mash is boiled to produce three tanks of soy sauce. The boiled soy sauce is placed in the dam to continue drying.
Yao Xiaoqing discovered that the soy sauce he made was different from the bottled soy sauce sold in supermarkets in later generations. It had a mellow bean flavor and a bright color.
Boil the remaining beans and dry them in the sun to make tempeh. Mix with chili oil, pepper noodles, beef jerky, walnut kernels, spicy and salty flavor, and eat it with corn and pumpkin porridge. It tastes great.
After the beginning of spring, the tribes also became busy, plowing and sowing the fields, the wheat in the fields turned green and tillered, and everyone was busy fertilizing and clearing the drainage ditches.
The tribes from the other side of the bamboo forest all came to exchange pumpkin seeds, and Yao Xiaoqing asked Ah Chongbo to take them to the fields to watch sowing.
Only in Shanyang did they know that seeds must be dug deeply and carefully, stones and roots must be cut off, and ridges must be dug...
Yao Xiaoqing specially planted the seeds Jiang Li brought back in a small piece of land. When the seedlings grew, he found that they looked a bit like sorghum, but much thinner.
There are also those vine fruits. Yao Xiaoqing planted them in the orchard and built a special shelf.
After the winter wheat was harvested, Yao Xiaoqing said to Yao Hu: "Father, I want to go out and look for new food seeds."
Yao Hu looked at her worriedly, "Xiao Qing, there is already a lot of food in the tribe! What kind of food do you want to eat? Let your brother and Jiang Li find it for you, okay?"
Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and said, "Father, I saw a kind of food called rice from the gods. I want to look for it."
Yao Hu thought for a while, "Okay! Where do you want to find rice seeds?"
"I want to go downstream to the south, but it may take a long time." Yao Xiaoqing smiled, "Father, don't worry, I will be back before winter comes."
Yao Hu frowned, "It's summer and autumn now, why are you going for so long?"
Yao Xiaoqing comforted him warmly, "It's okay, I'll be careful. It's not like you don't know how powerful our weapons are!"