Deep in the dense forest, halfway down the mountainside, the Leopard tribe's village is hidden.
The surroundings of the stockade are lush and green, but if you look down from above, you can find a square sunken land of about 20 acres on the flat land not far from the stockade.
It is very regular, obviously caused by man, with a square shape, crisscrossed fields, clusters of seedlings, and a small river not far away flowing like a ribbon.
This is the rice field that the Leopard tribe is trying to plant this year.
At this time, Haoshan was busy on the field ridge with the Leopard tribe members, his face full of worry.
Naturally, I am worried about the twenty acres of rice fields.
At the beginning, with the help of the old farmers in Xidu, twenty acres of paddy fields were cultivated with great success. From reclamation to seedling cultivation, to transplanting, and later to the growth of the seedlings, everything went very smoothly.
Watching the seedlings growing taller and taller, the people of the Leopard tribe felt excited. Even those who originally disdained farming began to pay attention to the paddy fields. Every day when they came home from hunting and gathering, they would look at the paddy fields and help weed weeds.
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After all, no one can live with food.
However, the good times did not last long. As there was no rain in these days, the paddy fields were short of water. The paddy fields that were growing happily stopped growing, and the young and tender grass seedlings began to turn yellow and dull.
This moment made the people of the Leopard tribe anxious.
As a result, there was a spectacular scene of the whole family going out together to fetch water from the river and shuttle back and forth between the farmlands.
The leader sung: "Xiaoshan, we can't go on like this. We rely on our human power to irrigate the farmland, but the tribesmen are exhausted mentally and physically. Whoever goes hunting or gathering next, we also have to eat.
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Leopard Wu Zhu sighed: "Yeah, this kind of farming is not that easy. It depends on the weather, and if you are not careful, there will be no harvest. Hey, even if the farmland in front of you has a good harvest, a mere twenty acres of food will not be enough for everyone.
....."
The leaders chanted, the leopards and witches sighed one by one. Hao Shan listened in his ears and naturally understood the meaning of their words. We can’t master the art of farming, so let’s continue our old profession, hunting and gathering. If we are lucky, we can also eat.
Full of food.
Hao Shan was naturally unwilling in his heart. Seeing that the seedlings were getting better and better, how could he give up? So he thought about it and said carefully: "Chief, Wu Zhu, I know the relationship is very powerful, so I won't let the hunting team not participate in it later."
We’ve been working in the fields, let’s save it, maybe it will rain later!”
Song: "Women and children have to do a lot of work and eat a lot, so we are under great pressure!"
Haoshan looked at the twenty acres of paddy fields in front of him, as if he could see the happy smiles of his people in the future. As he thought about it, his eyes became firmer.
"Try again, give me three days."
Wu Zhu, who was silent, smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying: "Xiaoshan, forget it, three more days will not help, let's just sit here idle. It was originally an attempt, and it doesn't matter if it fails. Don't worry, the leader and I have nothing to do with it."
I will blame you. After all, you are still young and don’t know the truth. In the early years, we also farmed under the order of the old King Xi. What happened was that there was no harvest and heavy losses. Less than half of our tribe starved to death that year.
It’s too terrible to look at.”
Song also followed: "Farming techniques are unreliable. Now let alone us, the people of Xidu are also in dire straits. Hey, it's okay to rely on the weather for good weather. But once disaster strikes, the end will be worse than us. Xiaoshan, you
I only saw the bright side of Xidu people, but not their miserable side."
The two elders took turns giving lectures to Hao Shan, each word was very insightful. For a while, Hao Shan, who was originally strong-willed, began to deny himself and doubt himself.
Was I, Hao Shan, really in the wrong? I insisted on going my own way and almost led my tribe to a path of death.
If instead of cultivating twenty acres, there are hundreds of thousands of acres, and all the tribesmen's energy is wasted on farming, hunting and gathering, then drought will come...
Thinking of this, Haoshan broke into a cold sweat and felt ashamed and guilty in his heart.
"this..."
Haoshan was speechless and couldn't say a word.
Song and Wu Zhu patted Haoshan. The leader Song clapped his hands and shouted: "Everyone, please stop, save your energy, and leave it to hunting and gathering fruits and vegetables. Life has to go on!"
The people of the Leopard tribe have long lost confidence in their farmland, but after working hard in the fields every day for several months, they just gave up. How could anyone be willing to do so.
Ever since, the excited tribesmen came to Haoshan.
"Deputy Commander Haoshan, are we just giving up? If the farmland stops being irrigated, we will die of thirst within a few days. Even if we survive, we probably won't be able to harvest much food."
"You led us to work and spent so much effort. You can't just let it go in vain. Please say something!"
"Yes, can you think of a way to save the farmland?"
...
Facing the tribesmen's inquiries, Hao Shan said nothing. Although he was a Qi practitioner and could fight large beasts and fierce beasts and monsters, he was completely powerless in the face of dry farmland and excited tribesmen.
Leader Song smiled, clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's all disperse. Don't embarrass Xiaoshan. Xiaoshan is young after all. When he praised Haikou to you, it was to help the tribe find a possible source of food. His true intention was
Okay, God is not good now, even the people of Xidu are worried now, why are you making things difficult for Xiaoshan!"
After hearing the leader's words, the tribesmen also understood this truth in their hearts, so they remained silent one by one and no longer embarrassed Hao Shan.
The leader Song spoke very beautifully and tried his best to speak well of Haoshan and excuse him, but after he finished speaking, the eyes of the tribesmen changed.
The Ode to the Leader is still the same Ode to the Leader, and everyone respects it more. The eyes looking at Haoshan are no longer as fiery as before, but only understanding and tolerance.
Haoshan saw everything in his eyes, and he understood that many tribesmen who believed in him were shaken at this moment, and the prestige they had worked so hard to achieve was greatly reduced!
Faced with this kind of situation in the past, Hao Shan would definitely try his best to restore his prestige through various efforts, but at this critical moment, he remained silent and in a trance.
Is it really wrong?
Hao Shan clenched his fists, questioning himself over and over in his mind.
In an instant, Hao Shan felt that everything was boring.
"Since the Leopard tribe doesn't need me, I will go and seek refuge with the king. The king has been kind to me. The world is so big, and heroes always have their place!"
Haoshan secretly made up his mind.
After dispersing the onlookers, Wu Zhu and leader Song both turned to look at Haoshan, and saw the soul-lost Hao Shan. The two of them couldn't bear it and comforted:
"Xiaoshan, it's okay. Young people always need to experience something. How will you know the result if you don't try!"
Haoshan forced a smile on his face, responded in a low voice, and followed the two of them back to the village.
Before leaving, Haoshan reluctantly took a look at the cultivated land.
It's so embarrassing, it's heart-wrenching to see,
Haoshan sighed deeply and was about to return to the village, when there was a sound of thin ropes in the jungle, as if a huge beast was coming to pull down the mountain and knock down the trees!
"Alert, enemy attack!"
The tribesmen of the Leopard tribe came back again, holding weapons and looking nervous.
"It's you, Uncle Cangman, who is here!"
Cangman sat down on a fierce beast with a burning tail and a fire bull, holding a battle ax and looking majestic. Behind him was a large group of soldiers.
Haoshan naturally recognized Cangman, so he squeezed out a smile and stepped forward to salute: "I have seen Commander Cangman. I wonder what the commander's orders are when he comes here?"
Cangman didn't get off his ox. He looked down from a high position, thinking about the direction of Xidu and said with his hands, "I, under the order of the king, brought carpenters to build a barrel cart for you to solve the water shortage in the paddy fields!"
As soon as these words came out, the entire Leopard tribe was shocked. Did you hear that right? Solve the farmland irrigation problem!
Haoshan seemed to be alive and asked in disbelief: "Lord Commander, are you kidding me?"
Cang Man said disdainfully: "How can I, the commander, be joking? The drum cart was made by the king. The vast hectares of farmland in Xidu can be irrigated. You only have twenty acres, so why are you making such a fuss!"
Hao Shan was extremely pleasantly surprised. He turned around and looked at the leaders Song and Wu Zhu, only to see the two of them looking at each other in confusion.