Those pumpkins are also climbing vines and have golden pumpkin flowers.
From then on, Yao Xiaoqing had one more thing to do, which was to take the flowers and winter snow to pick the male flower stamens to pollinate the female flowers, and to cut off the overly branched melon vines on the pumpkin vines, leaving four or five side strips on each plant.
vines to avoid too many vines from the melon, which may take away nutrients.
Take the knocked-off melon vines and male flowers back, tear off the fluff on the melon vines, cut them into short sections, rub them with some salt, clean them, squeeze out the water, add some minced garlic and stir-fry, it is another delicious dish.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter. Once, Shan Amu and the others picked up a lot of duck eggs from the river where they had never picked up duck eggs before.
Yao Xiaoqing planned to soak the salted duck eggs, wash the duck eggs with flowers, and dry them in a dustpan. Put the salt into water and boil it. After cooling, pour it into a jar, and put the dried duck eggs into the salt water.
I went to find a small piece of animal skin on the shelf, spread some sand inside it, tied it with a rope, put the sandbag on the mouth of the altar to seal it, and it was ready to eat after half a month.
While Yao Hu led his men to build the wall, Yao Xiaoqing led his men to deepen, widen and dredge the ditch on the mountain to the foot of the mountain.
After cleaning and consolidating the ditch at the foot of the mountain and the low-lying area below the pond, the original small ditch was deepened and widened, and dug into a drainage ditch about two meters wide and more than one meter deep.
The drainage ditch under the wall was paved with a layer of mortar, and the top was filled with chiseled flints. A wooden fence made of carbonized hardwood was installed inside the wall to prevent people from drilling in through the drainage ditch after being discovered.
After the wall was built, it was 2.89 meters high. On the south side was the main gate, and on the north side there was a small door at the foot of the pond to facilitate everyone's access. There was also a door where the original steps were.
The upper and lower thresholds of the gate are made of long stone strips and yellow bricks. The door frame is made of yellow bricks and the grooves are inlaid with chopped wood and sealed with oyster ash.
Two upright pillars were built with yellow bricks behind the door, and two grooves were built one meter apart to place the door bars.
The entire wall is combined with the platform of the cave. Enemies who want to enter must use a long ladder to enter.
Yao Xiaoqing took Yao Hu and the others to find all the wood that had been cut down and dried. It took another ten days to complete several doors.
This time to make the door, Yao Hu listened to Yao Xiaoqing's suggestion and came up with a new method. He led his people to select wood of uniform thickness. After cutting the wood, he used a stone chisel made of flint to cut out a square shape.
Mortise and tenon, then use a few long pieces of wood to pass through the mortise and tenon to connect the wood together, use a wooden hammer to hammer it tightly, and then frame it with the door frame.
After the two doors are completed and placed there, at first glance they are not on the same level as the wooden raft doors made for the first time. The doors made in this way are more beautiful and stronger.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the finished wooden doors and admired them endlessly. She just provided an idea and some operational suggestions. Even with such primitive and crude tools, they would find ways to do better.
Everything was ready, except for the logs to install the door panels. Yaohu felt that the hollow logs were not strong, so he went to the river to find a few mortar-shaped stones and moved them back.
After Yao Xiaoqing saw it, he took people to find two mortars as big as basins and came back to pound the powder.
At dusk that day, all the people from the Yaoshan tribe, Yao Xiaoqing and the people from the tribe, stood at the gate, watching Yao Hu and Mu Feng carrying a gate and installing it on the door cover. After the two gates were installed, everyone
A joyful smile appeared on his face.
Muba smiled and said: "Chief, close it and let's try pushing it."
Yao Hu smiled and nodded, and said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, come here and close the door with father."
"Okay." Yao Xiaoqing responded loudly. He walked over and held a door with Yao Hu, closed the door, picked up the door bar placed aside and bolted the door.
Yao Hu shouted loudly: "It's closed, you try, can you push it?"
Muba, Dashi, and a dozen warriors from Dashi all stepped forward and bumped against each other several times.
Yao Xiaoqing watched the door clang, but was not knocked open by them.
I thought: After the frame of the house is built, I have to go find the tung oil tree, pick some tung seeds, squeeze the oil back and paint the door again, so that it can be used for a long time.
Dashi and the others shouted outside: "Chief, the door is very strong and will not be pushed open."
Yao Hu opened the door, smiled and said to them: "Let's install the other doors."
Everyone agreed loudly and entered the gate with smiles on their faces. Looking at the open land in front of them, Shan'am smiled and said: "Look, if everything is planted in this land, we may not be able to eat until we die."
over."
Yun Amu smiled and shook his head, "Acai, where can you find so many seeds in such a wide land?"
Uncle Achun laughed at the side and said: "The millet grown in our fields is much better than that grown in Yaoshan. From that small area, we can produce a lot of millet."
Shan Amu nodded, "Yes! Once the millet is harvested and planted, won't there be more seeds?"
Yao Xiaoqing listened to their discussion and thought about five or six hundred acres of land. If it were replaced by modern equipment, he would buy a walking tractor to plow the land, a rice transplanter, and a harvester. It would not take many people to cultivate it.
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Here, there was not even a hoe, and there were less than forty people. Slash-and-burn farming could cultivate up to a hundred acres of land. What was even more difficult was that there were no seeds. She sighed in her heart, wondering when she would be able to eat a bowl of fragrant rice.
Noodles, steamed buns, steamed buns... her mouth watered just thinking about it.
Mufeng saw her looking ahead in silence, turned back to look at her, and asked with concern: "Xiaoqing, what's wrong with you? Are you too tired?"
Yao Xiaoqing looked back at him and smiled, "Brother, I'm fine. I was a little distracted just now."
"It's fine." Mu Feng pointed to the piece of kudzu root, "Yesterday, Quan and I used bamboo knives to cut open the kudzu sticks we pressed. I pulled them and they all came alive."
Yao Xiaoqing didn't expect that someone as big as Mu Feng could be so naughty. He smiled and nodded, "Okay! When you're done, you can take the time to plant all the kudzu roots."
"I know, you see, my father and the others are about to arrive at the door at the foot of the mountain." Mu Feng turned around and said with a smile, "Would you like me to carry you over there?" He knelt down in front of her as he spoke.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at his not-so-broad back, her nose felt a little sore, and she patted him coquettishly, "I don't want it, I'm an adult."
Mufeng stood up and looked at her, and said seriously: "Well! Our Xiaoqing is still a very capable adult."
"How can you praise your sister like this?" Yao Xiaoqing walked forward with some embarrassment.
When the brother and sister reached the foot of the mountain, Yao Hu and the others had already installed the door at the foot of the mountain. Yao Xiaoqing thought that when they finished repairing the house, this place would be the first farm in history.
Yao Hu led his men to install the last door, turned to look at Dashi and the others, and said with a smile: "Brothers, when we finish building the house, we will give you rooms. When the time comes, you have to work harder to have a baby.
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After the wall was built, everyone's craftsmanship improved rapidly, thinking that the house would be bigger. It would be completed in a few days. The men shouted loudly: "Yes, chief, let's build the house quickly!"