No matter what, you have found the rice seeds now, right? Take your time, and you will have white rice sooner or later!
Yao Xiaoqing put on her bamboo hat and turned around to walk back. Not far from the gate, she saw Jiang Li pulling a cart into the gate.
"Jiang Li, you are back!"
Jiang Li turned around and saw Yao Xiaoqing walking over wearing a bamboo hat, "You went to see the rice again!"
"Yes!" Yao Xiaoqing smiled and ran a few steps, "Are you almost stocked with wood?"
Jiang Li smiled and nodded, "We have almost saved it. After it dries, we can start making furniture. How are those rice growing?"
Yao Xiaoqing shook his head, "It's not good, the output is shockingly low."
Seeing that she was a little depressed, Jiang Li persuaded her softly: "Take your time. I remember you said that you need to slowly select and select good seeds, so that the yield will be high."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled at him and said, "I know, what other fruit trees did you find when you went into the mountains this time?"
"There are many, including fruit trees and flower vines. I marked them, and I dug up all the small ones with soil and packed them in straw baskets and transported them back." Jiang Li said, looking at her deeply, "The year after tomorrow we will
You can plant fruit trees and flower trees all along the river bank."
"Yeah!" Yao Xiaoqing reached out and pulled the pull rope of the cart, "Let's go! Let's pull it over together."
Jiang Li held her hand and said, "Xiao Qing, wait two years and the fruit trees and flower vines on the river bank will be alive. In two years you will be eighteen. Xiao Qing, we will get married by that winter solstice, okay?"
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Yao Xiaoqing didn't expect Jiang Li to propose to her here. Although the relationship between the two was already confirmed, she was still a little hesitant about getting married. She looked up at Jiang Li and said, "Can we wait two years before we talk?"
Seeing that she didn't refuse, Jiang Li smiled brightly and said, "Okay, think about it carefully in the past two years."
Yao Xiaoqing rolled her eyes at him, "Okay, I'll think about it carefully."
Jiang Li looked at her happily, "You sit on the cart and I will pull you back."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at him sweating profusely and shook his head, "It's so hot, I'll help you pull it back together."
Jiang Li flexed the muscles in his arms and looked at her with a smile, "Don't be afraid, you are such a strong man!"
Yao Xiaoqing twisted him and said, "Shameless!"
Jiang Li smiled and carried her onto the cart, "The handsome boy is bringing his wife home!"
"Zhu Bajie is pretty much the same!" Yao Xiaoqing said and laughed.
Jiang Li pulled the cart to the foot of the mountain and unloaded the wood in the wooden shed. The two of them came out to see Yao Hu, and he and Dashi sat in the pergola at the door of the refining room to cool off.
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and walked over, "Father, Uncle Dashi, the pavilion by the river is cool, why don't you go there to have a rest?"
Yao Hu smiled and shook his head, "Wait until those children leave before we go." A group of children were running around there. The noise caused a headache, and it was impossible to sit down and talk for a while.
Dashi looked at Jiang Li and said, "Jiang Li, I think the wood you found is quite nice. What are you going to make?"
Jiang Li smiled and said: "I plan to make beds, cabinets, tables and chairs..." He also planned to build a new courtyard to use as their wedding room.
Dashi thought about the patterns on the wood and nodded repeatedly, "Let's take a look when you're done. If it looks good, I'll get some back."
Jiang Li smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll help you do it then."
"Okay, what you made looks good."
Yao Hu looked at the two of them and said, "I see you are sweating profusely. Go back and take a shower to cool off."
"Hey!" The two nodded and turned around.
Dashi looked at the backs of Jiang Li and Yao Xiaoqing for a while, then looked back at Yao Hu, "Chief, Chief Xiaoqing is already a big girl. It's time for her and Jiang Li to match up and get married!"
Yao Hu smiled and nodded, "That child Xiao Qing understands everything else. She said she is still young and will consider it in two years. She also said that in the future, girls in the tribe will not reach the age of sixteen.
They are not allowed to pair up with other people anymore. They say that if a man and a woman are paired together at a young age, the children born after the pairing will not be strong and the women will get sick and die easily."
After hearing this, Dashi remembered what Hua said, "Hua said what Xiaoqing said, women are too young to have babies. Let Yaya find a man to match with later. If there are good men in the future, they can also recruit into the tribe to match. Hua said Yaya
Fortunately, you don't have to leave us in the future, and you don't have to get married and have babies early."
Yao Hu smiled and said: "She is the leader, and she has more things in her mind than us. She will do whatever she says."
He believed in his daughter. She led everyone to build the Yaoshan Tribe, and he believed that she could build the Yaoshan Tribe better.
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Time flies, and two years pass by in a blink of an eye.
The riverbanks in the territory of the Yaoshan tribe and both sides of the dock verandah have been planted with exotic flowers and grasses, but clusters of colorful flowers are seen blooming enthusiastically in the sun.
The breeze blows, and flowers of different shapes sway in the wind, attracting bees and butterflies to dance. The fragrance of the flowers spreads faintly, refreshing and intoxicating.
On the river bank, Jiang Li led his people to make wooden chairs out of carbonized wood. When summer came, people from nearby tribes gathered on the river bank. Everyone sat on the wooden chairs built on the bank to enjoy the cool air and play.
This place has also become a place where young men and women from various tribes meet in front of flowers and under the moon.
The several ponds at the foot of the tribal mountain were also filled with lotus flowers that Jiang Li found in the mountain opposite. Everyone sat in the pavilion by the pond, watching the fish playing under the lotus leaves.
Jiang Li also led people to build a water mill on the canal under the spring. The water mill consisted of a water diversion channel, a water wheel, a millstone and a grinding shaft.
The tic-shaped beams are wrapped with arm-thick ropes, and a heavy stone millstone hangs in the middle to grind together with the lower millstone. The lower fan is driven by a water wheel, which drives the wooden wheel engine to grind the stone. Two wooden bars are suspended in the air next to the millstone.
With a rectangular wooden surface...
The nearby tribes only need to provide a very small amount of food to grind flour and pound rice in the mill.
They obtained improved varieties of wheat from the Yaoshan tribe, including millets and beans in the spring and autumn, and wheat in the winter. The tribes along the Ning River have already lived a life of food and clothing in advance.
There were conflicts and disputes among the tribes. Everyone went to the Yaoshan tribe to find the retired Yaohu leader to resolve the dispute.
The men and women in the Qingshan Tribe were matched with warriors and women from the Yaoshan Tribe, and now they are both members of the Qingshan Tribe and the Yaoshan Tribe.
After Heiba matched and got married, Jiang Li passed the position of leader to Heiba. But he was unwilling. They did not want to leave Jiang Li. The Qingshan tribe was wherever Jiang Li was.
He felt that the Qingshan tribe belonged to Jiang Li and could only be passed on to Jiang Li and Yao Xiaoqing's children.
During these two years, Yao Xiaoqing found silkworms on the mulberry trees, raised the first batch of white and plump silkworms, and weaved better and softer cloth.
She also used wheat, yeast, ramie leaves... to make distiller's yeast. After several attempts, she finally brewed liquor from sorghum and distilled the alcohol.
Yao Xiaoqing asked people to publish the methods of making tofu and piercing the nostrils of cows.
Now that people have oxen to help plow the fields, they can grow better crops.
After the method of making soy products was made public, the tribes who came to the market came to the Yaoshan tribe to customize stone mills.
In the past two years, the grain stored by the Yaoshan tribe was enough for them to face the natural disaster of three years of no harvest. Yao Xiaoqing finally managed to have food in hand without panic.
The sun was shining with dazzling golden light, and she shuttled through the middle of the golden rice fields, with a bright smile on her face.
After two selections, the longest ear of rice in the rice field contained more than fifty grains of rice, and the shortest ear of rice contained more than thirty grains.
After planting the rice in the first year, she harvested forty or fifty kilograms of rice. In the second year, she planted all the selected rice seeds. In the third year, she planted all the rice seeds harvested from more than ten acres of rice fields.
More than one hundred acres of fields in Hena are all planted with rice seedlings.
With more than one hundred acres of rice, this year the Yaoshan tribe can finally open their stomachs and eat fragrant white rice.