Chapter 541: Trivia of Spring and the Stones that I Bring Back
Han Cheng climbed onto the wall again, not to shoot geese again, but to look around.
Today's Qingque Tribe is surrounded by an extremely open area, and the line of sight can extend far away. This is because large areas of the surrounding woods have been cleared and turned into fertile farmland.
Soil erosion also occurs, but it is not serious.
Firstly, the places where cultivated land is reclaimed are usually flat. Secondly, Han Cheng has people build a large number of drainage facilities in the land.
Newly reclaimed farmland generally suffers more water and soil erosion in the first two years. After the grass grows in the ditches built, it can basically be ignored.
There are quite a few people scattered in this large land outside.
The first crop of millet has begun to be sown. The old man of the Qingque tribe started sowing with his hand, calling the deer, and started sowing with a columbine.
Sowing seeds is the exclusive right of the citizens of the Qingque tribe. In their view, this is a very important matter, and the slaves are not allowed to interfere at all.
These slaves can only do work such as clearing wasteland and plowing the land.
While sowing seeds, others were plowing the ground, and further away there were slaves still clearing wasteland.
This is the advantage of having more people, they can spread out and do many things at the same time.
Bugs Bunny, the gardener, is not idle either. He is either pruning the branches of the tribe's fruit trees or tending to the nursery.
Every spring is the busiest time for him.
Next to the tree stick formation outside the wall, Wu was digging a ditch with a small stone hoe.
Beside him are small bundles of iron fence seedlings, all of which are green.
Wu has never forgotten the matter of strengthening the tribe's defense.
This matter was too urgent, so he did not let others intervene, but did it slowly by himself.
About a hundred meters away from the quarry, there is a hill that is not too big, but also not too small.
There are many trees growing on the hills, some of which are difficult for several people to hug.
This is enough to prove that this mountain is not as barren as imagined.
At this time, on the south side of the mountain, there were more than ten people with tools in their hands, constantly cutting down the trees growing on this land.
Smaller trees are cut down directly, while larger trees are peeled in a circle.
Sometimes, after clearing a wide enough isolation belt, they would set it on fire.
The people of the Qingque tribe have done this a lot in the past few years and are very skilled at it.
Han Cheng sent people to do this, hoping to create an open space of about four to five acres in the sunny area south of the mountain before the end of spring.
Certainly not for growing food.
There is still a lot of flat land around the Qingque tribe that can be cultivated, and it is impossible to be so desperate and hungry.
The reason for doing this is because the mulberry saplings planted earlier are now ready for transplantation.
He wanted to gradually clear away all the other miscellaneous trees on the mountain, plant mulberry trees one after another, and turn the entire mountain into a mulberry mountain.
After the silkworms in the tribe gradually improved, it would be much easier to expand the scale of silkworm farming with this mulberry mountain.
It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to grow people. These are things that are often calculated in years or ten years, so preparations need to be made in advance.
After looking around the tribe for a while, Han Cheng's eyes once again fell on the east side of the tribe.
That's where Shang, Mao and the others went out with their trading team.
After such a long time, they should be back soon, right?
Looking forward to Shang and the others coming back, on the one hand, I am worried about them, and on the other hand, I want to see what they bring back early and see what the harvest will be.
It's a bit like the feeling of waiting for express delivery after online shopping in later generations.
After waiting like this for a while, but no one was seen, Han Cheng went down the fence, went outside the fence, and went to plant the iron fence house with Wu.
Tielizhai is planted very densely, with one plant about five centimeters each.
And instead of planting just one row, four rows were planted at once, with ten centimeters between each row.
With such a density, after a long time, it will become a completely green and environmentally friendly wall, so dense that only wind can penetrate through it.
Three days later, it was drizzly weather.
Because of the rain, the Qingque tribe seemed much quieter and more leisurely than before.
Han Cheng stayed in the room and watched Bai Xuemei weaving.
Fu Jiang, who had abandoned the other dogs, lay down at Han Cheng's feet and fell asleep leisurely, enjoying the tranquility.
Suddenly, Fu Jiang, who was lying on the ground and resting his chin on Han Cheng's feet, suddenly woke up, half raised his body, and tilted his ears as if to listen hard.
Then he quickly ran outside the house and screamed "woo woo" toward the east side of the tribe.
After calling twice, he didn't forget to look back at Han Cheng.
Seeing this posture, Han Cheng's doubts were soon filled with joy and expectation.
If what I expected is correct, the caravan that went out should have returned.
After he took off the bamboo hat and put it on, he went out of the room and listened carefully for a while. Sure enough, he heard some wolf howls with changed accents in the distance.
When I heard it, I heard the dogs of the Qingque tribe howling.
When I arrived outside the tribe's gate, I looked to the east. I couldn't see the returning caravan in the misty rain.
However, the changing voices of the wolves were getting closer and closer, and not long after, five wolves appeared in the field of vision and rushed over.
Fu Jiang, who was staying with Han Cheng here, twitched his butt excitedly and came forward with more descendants.
After the wolves met, they calmed down. General Fu sniffed the five returning descendants one by one, and then made a show of biting Dafu.
As soon as his teeth touched his body, Dafu, whose fur was a little wet, immediately fell to the ground.
Of course, it is not to touch Fu Jiang's porcelain.
Instead, he lay on the ground with his belly exposed and kept shaking his body.
This is a way for General Fu to confirm his status in the wolf pack and for the other wolves to show their submission.
It's not much different from Han Cheng's habit of gently kicking the butt of returning people, and Shang, Mao and others who got kicked actually became smiling.
After kicking out a total of twenty times and confirming that all the people who had gone out came back intact, Han Cheng had a smile on his face.
He led the returning people and their belongings to the tribe.
The quiet tribe in the drizzle soon became lively due to the return of everyone.
Inside the big house, Han Cheng squatted on the ground, with a pile of large and small stones in front of him. Standing next to him were Shang and Mao, two people who had just finished their long journey.
There are also Wu, Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother and several other prominent figures in the Qingque tribe.
They all stared intently at Han Cheng who was squatting on the ground, wanting to know from Han Cheng whether there were any stones that could be used to smelt iron...
