Traveling through ancient times to farm and build infrastructure

Chapter 341 Chapter 341 I want to go out and find new food seeds

Back home, Yao Xiaoqing took Aque and the others to dry the orange peels on the roof of the building, wiped the persimmons and buried them in the millet chaff.

Aque poured a pile of rice bran on top of the persimmon, "Xiao Qing, will the persimmon soften when buried?"

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yes, come and see it in five or six days, and you can eat it when it's soft."

Aque thought of persimmons, "How do you make the persimmons you mentioned?"

"I'll teach you how to do it when Heiba ​​brings someone back to pick it up." Yao Xiaoqing stood up and clapped his hands, "Ah Que, Ah Nuan, wash the herbs and dry them upstairs."

The two responded in unison: "Yes!"

Yao Xiaoqing went to the edge of the field, and the bean field had been plowed out and raked finely. More than a dozen men and the old uncle were digging ditches in the field, and the women carried the sacks and spread the bottom fertilizer.

After all the base manure in the field has been sprinkled with fertilizer, turned over and sprinkled with plant ash, winter wheat will be sown.

Yao Xiaoqing plans to sow all the fields in the tribe with wheat seeds this year.She feels that the flour made from winter wheat is stronger and tastes better than spring wheat.

After looking around, Yao Xiaoqing went to the other side of the ditch again. The wolf led people to build the wall on the other side of the ditch, and it should be completed in about ten days.

The next day, Heiba ​​took Ah Hei and a dozen men to the persimmon forest, and followed Jiang Li to the opposite mountain to hunt after returning.

Ah Hei and a dozen other men went there for several days before picking all the persimmons back to the tribe.

Yao Xiaoqing led people to clean the persimmons, dry them, peel off the skin, leave the stems, and dry the persimmons on the roof of the building.The roofs of the two rows of yards in front are covered with golden persimmons.

After drying the persimmons for several days in succession, they led someone to turn the persimmons over to continue drying.After turning over and drying for two days, turn over again and press the persimmons lightly.

After eight or nine days in the sun, the persimmons become smaller and darker in color. They are flattened every time they are turned in the sun. After several times of flattening, the persimmons have taken shape.

Yao Xiaoqing led people to put the dried persimmons into jars with big bellies and small openings, and put them in a cool place. They could be eaten after the dried persimmons were covered with frost.

The persimmons covered in the chaff have already been eaten, and the last crop is ripe.

The ripe persimmon is soft in the hand, Yao Xiaoqing likes to break it in half and eat the cool, sweet and refreshing flesh inside.After taking a sip, I feel my stomach is cold, and the sweet taste has been sweet to my heart.

After the wheat seeds were sown, Yao Xiaoqing and his staff brushed a layer of lime on the trunks of the fruit trees and pepper trees in the orchard, and then tied several layers of thick straw curtains to prevent the fruit trees from freezing to death again.

All the pumpkins and winter melons in the field were picked into the warehouse.

Pick up the last batch of tender pumpkin tips and stir-fry them with dried chilies. Sprinkle some minced garlic and shrimp powder when the pan is out of the pan. It tastes crisp and refreshing.

All the stalks in the taro field were cut back, the tender ones were boiled and dried in the sun, and the old ones were boiled and fed to pigs.

The taro field is covered with thick layers of cattail grass to prevent freezing to death.

Then they began to cut sugar cane, build grass curtains, and squeeze sugar. For several days, the sky above the tribe exuded the sweet fragrance of sugar.

Jiang Li and the others came back from the snow on the mountain for the last time, and everyone started to nest.

Everyone sat in the warm room, eating dried persimmons, fried pumpkin seeds with pine nuts, and chestnuts.

For the new members of the tribe who defected and exchanged, it was the first time that they could live so comfortably in winter. They had enough to eat every day, and they didn’t have to worry about waking up tomorrow without food.

Yao Xiaoqing found that the weather this year was finally a bit more normal than last year, and there was no snowfall for half a month.The ice on the fish ponds and rivers was frozen half a month later than last year.She is looking forward to a good harvest next year.

During the day, Jiang Li trained the warriors of the tribe, and the children followed behind, shouting slogans.After the night meal, I taught everyone how to count and read, and told them some stories.

She found that everyone listened to the story as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.After going to listen to it twice, I found that what he talked about was loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, teaching them to sacrifice their lives for righteousness for the sake of the tribe and the people. She felt that Jiang Li was brainwashing them.

On the day of the Winter Solstice, the tribe held another sacrificial ceremony, and everyone used rich food to sacrifice to the dead clansmen and relatives.

What made Yaohu's family happy was that Ah Xing was also pregnant with a baby, and Mufeng smiled smirkly for ten days.

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As winter goes to spring, everyone finds that this spring is finally here on time.

After the road surface thawed, Jiang Li led people to start building the pier.He took Wolf, the captain of the construction team, and Ah Hei to drive piles and lay planks. It took more than two months to build a corridor leading to the river.

The top of the corridor is supported by columns and covered with tiles, and there are no walls on all sides. It is a good place to relax and play in summer.

In the shallow water area by the river at the end of the corridor, bamboo rafts are replaced with driftwood, which makes rowing down the river much more convenient.

The brewed soy sauce, after several months of exposure to the sun and night dew, has turned into a dark red moromi.

Yao Xiaoqing began to boil soy sauce, poured the soy sauce into a large pot, added an appropriate amount of salt, aniseed ingredients, and water to cook.

Three cylinders of soy sauce are boiled out of one cylinder of soy mash, and the boiled soy sauce is placed in the dam to continue drying.

Yao Xiaoqing found that the soy sauce he made and those bottled soy sauces in later generations had a mellow bean aroma and bright color.

The leftover beans are boiled and dried to make tempeh.Mix it with chili oil, pepper noodles, beef jerky, and walnuts. It is spicy and salty, and it tastes great when eaten with corn and pumpkin porridge.

After the beginning of spring, the tribe is also busy, plowing the land and planting seeds, the wheat in the fields turns green and tillers, and everyone is busy fertilizing and dredging the drainage ditches.

The tribes on the other side of the bamboo forest came to exchange the pumpkin seeds, and Yao Xiaoqing asked A Chongbo to take them to the field to watch the seeds sow.

Only then did Shanyang and the others know that the seeds need to be dug deep and finely, to cut off stones and roots, and to dig ridges...

Yao Xiaoqing planted the seeds brought back by Jiang Li on a small plot of land. After the seedlings grew out, they found that the seedlings were a bit like sorghum, but much thinner.

And those vine fruits, Yao Xiaoqing planted them in the orchard and set up a special shelf.

After the winter wheat was harvested, Yao Xiaoqing said to Yaohu: "Father, I want to go out and look for new food seeds."

Yaohu looked at her worriedly, "Xiaoqing, there is already a lot of food in the tribe! What kind of food do you want to eat, let your elder brother and Jiang Li help you find it, okay?"

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him, "Father, I have seen a kind of food called rice in the gods, I want to look for it."

Yaohu thought for a while, "Okay! Where do you want to find rice seeds?"

"I want to go downstream and go south, it may take a long time." Yao Xiaoqing smiled, "Father, don't worry, I will come back before winter comes."

Yaohu frowned, "It's summer, autumn, why have you been going for so long?"

Yao Xiaoqing comforted him in a gentle voice, "It's okay, I will be careful. It's not like you don't know how powerful our weapons are!"

(End of this chapter)