Chapter 105 Growing Rice Beans in the Vegetable Garden
The cliff was bare and there were no vines. He could only carefully grasp the stone cracks on the cliff with his fingers, and then slowly retreat down the cliff step by step.
Fortunately, the strength of his ten fingers was extraordinary. Therefore, although it was difficult to retreat slowly like this, it was not impossible, and he didn't even have the slightest worry in his heart.
From the beginning to the end, he never felt that he would not be able to climb down this high cliff.
After slowly retreating from the high cliff, he discovered that this exercise method seemed to be very effective in exercising his fingers and wrists.
He felt that he could use rock climbing to exercise himself later.
When he returned to Xiaozhulou after practicing, the meat stewed in the pot was already fragrant, and the aroma of the meat also contained the unique aroma of dried bitter herbs.
That's right, he put a handful of dried bitter herbs last year into the pot.
After breakfast, he washed the pot, filled the pot with water and went back to boil it. Then he took the tiger tooth and headed towards the bamboo forest. He needed to cut two bamboos and surround the two pieces of land first.
It is not difficult to make a fence wall, and the two plots of land are not very big, less than three meters long and just over one meter wide. However, he plans to make the fence larger to avoid having to expand it when planting something in the future.
He planned to enclose a ten-by-ten-meter square vegetable garden of about one hundred square meters, including the tea seedling seedbed and the small puddles next to the seedbed.
After returning from cutting down two bamboo trees, he jumped into the grove on the back mountain, cut down a few small trees as thick as an arm, and then cut them into wooden sticks more than two meters long, and nailed the wooden sticks into the piece of wood.
on the edge of the field as fence posts.
A stake was driven every three meters, and a door was opened on the side closest to the small bamboo building. There were nine fence stakes in total. Each fence stake was driven into the ground about one meter, leaving a height of about one and a half meters.
He cut down a dozen small trees as thick as an arm, cut off the branches, tied them horizontally to the fence posts, and then cut them into bamboo strips about 1.5 meters long, and braided them on the wooden sticks.
As a result, he was so busy that Yun Buliu discovered that it actually took him a day to build the forty-meter fence. He originally wanted to see the monkeys in the afternoon, but finally had to put it until tomorrow.
Before nightfall, he finally finished the fence and built a small bamboo gate for entering and exiting the fenced vegetable garden.
While eating meat, he looked at the grassland he had just fenced off. He felt that he had made the place more and more pastoral.
He couldn't help but think about it, should he try to plant some beans and millet tomorrow?
Although at this time of year, the best planting time should have passed, the land here is very fertile! Maybe if you plant a little later, you can still gain something in autumn?
Anyway, I brought back a lot of millet seeds and soybean seeds, so I can definitely squander some of them! If I succeed, I will have rice to eat this winter.
The more he thought about it, the more tempting he felt.
Moreover, what if we plant those seeds next year and accidentally get flooded? Will we have to travel six to seven thousand miles to find the Tianyan tribe?
Thinking about it this way, Yun Buliu felt that he really couldn't put his eggs in one basket.
So the next day, he still did not go to find the monkeys, but instead surrounded the fenced area with another 100 square meters of land.
Then, he used a piece of bamboo at the root of an old bamboo to make a bamboo hoe. Old bamboo is hard enough, and the piece at the root is even harder. It is used to make farming tools and is more wear-resistant.
Before iron tools could be smelted, they could only be replaced by wood, bamboo, or stone.
In comparison, using bamboo chips is the simplest and most convenient.
Then he spent a day tilling the ground with a bamboo hoe.
The bamboo hoe was very convenient for weeding, but it was a bit troublesome to plow the ground. He didn't dare to use force at all.
Therefore, when plowing the ground, he used a wooden stick, inserted the wooden stick into the ground, then pressed the back of the wooden stick with his toes, and pulled back, and the mud was pried up.
After the entire land was pried with wooden sticks, he used a bamboo hoe to shovel the mud into pieces.
In this way, it took him two days to turn over the two pieces of land.
After leveling the ground, he planted a bean at a distance of about fifty centimeters in the garden where grass, mud and wild vegetables were planted. He planted fifty beans in total.
When he left the Tianyan tribe, he took away almost two hundred beans. Although two hundred may not seem like many, you must know that each of these beans is about the size of a thumb. If you put two hundred of them together, you will see.
It actually looks like a small pile.
For millet, he dug a small hole about 30 centimeters tall and buried the seeds. There were about a thousand small pits in total, and he planted them all in the other garden.
He put two or three millet seeds in each small pit, and he used a third of the millet seeds he took from the Tianyan tribe.
Millet is not rice and does not need to be irrigated by diverting river water.
He plans to dry the remaining seeds tomorrow and then seal them in bamboo tubes for storage.
To seal the bamboo tube, it is actually very simple. You only need to apply a layer of resin on the gap of the tube cover. When you need to use it next year, scrape off this layer of resin again.
From building a fence, to plowing and weeding, to sowing seeds, it took him five days to complete all of this, and he looked forward to the crops growing quickly.
On the morning of the sixth day, after having breakfast, he went to the large forest in the back mountain for exercise and returned after hunting a wild deer.
However, when he went out in the morning, Xiaobai did not follow him. When he asked him if he wanted to go out together, he actually shook his head. He was so smart.
It's obvious that these little guys can already understand Chinese.
Xiaobai didn't follow, and Yun Buliu didn't say much. He's such a big snake, and he definitely won't be bullied by those silly heroes in Goose Village anymore.
But what he didn't expect was that when he came back with the wild deer on his back, he didn't see Xiaobai.
He didn't think too much about this and went straight to deal with the deerskin. When handling it, he still dealt with it as casually as before.
Although I learned from the Serpent Tribe that soaking animal skins with the sweat of a certain herbal medicine can preserve the deer skins better and make them softer, finding this herbal medicine is also troublesome.
Yun Buliu didn't want to go to that trouble. Anyway, things like animal skins were worthless in this primitive society, so he naturally didn't care.
After lunch, Yun Buliu put the roasted deer steak into a washed bamboo basket, then carried the bamboo basket on his back, taking the little fur ball and the little milk tiger with him, and set off towards the stone beam.
Xiaobai still hasn't come back.
When they came to the stone beam, Yun Buliu easily jumped onto the stone beam. Needless to say, Little Furball was basically on the treetops, and Little Milk Tiger also climbed up from the big tree next to it.
Seeing them all coming up, Yun Buliu roared towards the cliff in the distance where the mountain grapes were hanging. That cliff was the territory of the monkeys, four or five miles away from here.
But even at such a long distance, he could still see a golden shadow appearing on the cliff, which was the figure of the golden monkey king.