Traveling through ancient times to farm and build infrastructure

Chapter 257 257 Give me a father

Yao Xiaoqing recalled it for a while, then went to the kang bed and looked at Dongxue and said, "Don't be nervous, inhale and exhale slowly, and save your strength for giving birth to the baby later."

Dongxue nodded and followed her lead.

After a while, Dongxue felt a little more comfortable, probably because the wave of labor pain had passed.

Seeing that she was getting better, Yao Xiaoqing went back and got the medical bag.

Ayu brought a poached egg to Dongxue to eat. After a while, the labor pains started again.

Yao Xiaoqing saw Dongxue clutching the animal skin mat tightly, biting a cork stick and sweating profusely in pain.

I feel that they are really strong, like when Ah Su gave birth to the baby, she gave birth to the baby at home.

Xiong Niu asked her to go see the baby and she found out that Ah Su had given birth.

Leopard Amu shouted: "Dongxue pushed hard, and the doll's head came out."

"Yeah!" Dongxue screamed, feeling the child slip out, and her stomach felt empty and uncomfortable.

"It's born, it's born." Leopard's mother shouted happily, and a moment later the baby's loud cry echoed in the room.

Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly stepped forward to help cut the child's umbilical cord, took out medicinal powder, sprinkled it on the child's umbilical cord, and wrapped it with gauze.

"It's a little girl!" Leopard Emmy wrapped the child up and handed it to her with a smile.

"Red and wrinkled." Yao Xiaoqing carefully took the child and placed it next to Dong Xue, "Asen has a sister!"

Dongxue glanced weakly at the wrinkled child, pulled up the quilt to cover her, touched her wrinkled face, and smiled softly: "It's much better than Asen's days."

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "The days will only get better and better."

Dongxue responded weakly: "Yeah!"

"Xiaoqing, look at Dongxue while I go to the mountain to bury things."

As Leopard's mother said this, she carried the placenta and the paper soaked in blood and went out. These things were to be buried under a big tree and prayed to the mountain god to protect the child's growth.

Yao Xiaoqing nodded and said to Dongxue: "How about I ask Ayu to bring the eggs and let her cook a few more for you?"

Dongxue shook her head, "I'm not hungry!"

Yao Xiaoqing saw her weak look and said warmly: "Then you have a good rest. I'm outside. If you need anything, call me."

Dongxue looked at her, "Xiaoqing, Ayu is here! You go about your business."

"Yes!" Yao Xiaoqing walked out of the room, gave Ayu a few words, and walked towards the cafeteria.

As soon as Yun Amu saw Yao Xiaoqing, she asked, "Did Dongxue give birth?"

Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "I gave birth to a sister!"

Yun Amu also became happy after hearing this, "I'll be so happy when Dashu comes back."

"How can you not be happy to be a father?" Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile, "Emma, ​​you can stew something to replenish her body."

Seeing Yun Amu's happy look, she felt that it was better here, without the feudal ideas of later generations that favored sons over daughters.

Yun Amu nodded cheerfully, "They caught pheasants in the trap this morning, and I stewed a chicken for her to supplement her food."

"You can do whatever you want." Yao Xiaoqing smiled and told Dashu the good news.

During lunch, everyone knew that there was another little girl in the tribe.

Everyone congratulated Dashu Amu, and she smiled from ear to ear.

Yao Hu said to everyone: "When the spring planting is finished, you can find a match with the person you like."

A thin warrior said worriedly: "Chief, what should I do if no one likes me?"

Tu Gen laughed and said, "Ah Chou, who do you like? Go to her and confess your feelings to her!" "That's right, go to her as soon as possible."

A Chou said with a serious face: "I haven't found it yet. I have to look hard in these days."

The wolf smiled and said, "Do you want us to help you?"

A Chou flatly refused, "No, you are prettier than me. She will fall in love with you later."

"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed.

After lunch, Tugen said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, the remaining sugar cane fields will be finished in half the afternoon. Can I take Ah Hei and the others back to dig ditches?"

Yao Xiaoqing, "The wooden shovel and stone hoe are too slow. I asked the wolf to take people to the ditch and dig the ditch with them."

"Take out twenty men from there, and you and Adab will take them out to level the land, dig ditches in separate compartments, and prepare to sow millet seeds."

"Okay." The two responded.

Yao Xiaoqing said: "You have been working with them all morning. What do you think of these people?"

Ada, "The people I brought were quite willing to work. I heard they said they were hunting outside before and had never done any work before."

Tu Gen thought for a moment, "Most of them are willing to work hard. Some of them work very slowly. I don't know if they can't see clearly or they are lazy."

Yao Xiaoqing, "Remind them to observe for two more days to see what is going on."

"Okay." Tugen smiled, "Xiaoqing, I'm used to using hoes and shovels, but today I don't feel comfortable using stone hoes and wooden shovels at all."

"They won't feel this way. You should restrain yourself first, and then we can feel confident about using iron tools with them after we understand their character."

Tu Gen said: "I know, I will watch them."

Yao Xiaoqing said: "Wolf, you and Dabo go to the cattle pen to bring out the oxen and plow the land with a rake."

"Okay." Ada and Wolf agreed and left.

When Ada and Wolf came over with their men, oxen, and rakes, they all went to the clearing together.

Yao Xiaoqing transferred Ah Ni and about twenty men from the ditch digging side.

Ada and a few warriors plowed the ground, and the men picked out the stones and gravel and piled them on the field ridges.

With the addition of the wolf and a dozen warriors, the progress of the water channel has been much faster.

Yao Xiaoqing measured the distance and asked them to cut grooves on both sides of the canal at intervals so that gates could be inserted to increase the depth of the water and irrigate the land on both sides.

After sprinkling lime to leave a mark, Yao Xiaoqing took a few old men to the grove and found that after a morning of washing, the spring hole was larger, and a stream of spring water as thick as the mouth of a bowl gushes out.

Several people cleared the place where the water flowed to prevent the emerging water from spreading everywhere.

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In the blink of an eye, more than ten days later, Shan'am and the others had finished planting kudzu and yam, and the wasteland in the south was almost leveled.

Yu and a few old men led people to fence the field to prevent wild animals from running into the field and destroying the seeds.

Dashu Amu sown all the beans and radishes into the vegetable field.

Pumpkins, winter melons, mung beans, adzuki beans, and peas have all been sown, leaving only the soybeans that have not yet been sown.

Radishes, rapeseed, and peppers have sprouted tender green buds, and the wheat planted in winter has turned green and tillered.

Yao Xiaoqing divided his staff into two teams. One team helped Bao Amu's gathering team order beans, and the other team went to the wasteland to help open the car, dig drainage ditches, and sow millet seeds.

There are busy figures everywhere in the fields.

At dusk that day, the warriors who came back from hunting took a dozen calves, a few roe deer, and deer, and returned with a load of prey on their backs.

Everyone walked on the remaining field ridges and saw that more than half of the open space to the north had been planted with food and fenced.

(End of this chapter)