sbdcsierra Chapter 114 Planting 7
Chapter 114 Planting 7
The two little guys were chubby with chubby cheeks. Feng couldn't help but stretched out his hand to pinch them, but he didn't dare to use force. Little Tao Rong was originally chewing the pumpkin and was getting angry. Now Feng came to make trouble. She shook her little hand angrily to hit his hand, but her slow movement was easily avoided by Feng. Then the big and the small started to play a game of hitting and hiding. Little Tao Anke on the side was not affected by these two people and was still concentrating on fighting the big pumpkin.
Sa Shi brought out the rice porridge made for the two little kids from the kitchen and said, "I won't care if this guy cries later. You go and comfort him." The crying of this girl could be heard within miles.
Feng curled his lips, quickly jumped up and ran to the outer courtyard, "It's none of my business!"
"This kid, he's already an adult but still so unreliable." Xishi came over and started complaining about his brother, he took one of the bowls and shook the spoon to attract little Taoan's attention.
"You are really wronging Feng. He has been helping me make tools recently, helping Grandma Xue collect herbs, and farming with Dashu and the others. Occasionally, he also goes out hunting with you. He's just a busy boy, okay?" Ji Lang couldn't help but smile and say good things to Feng. Otherwise, the two of them would get more and more excited and Feng would be dealt with by Sa Shi again.
They are playing with their two children here, and it seems like life is going on peacefully.
However, dozens of people in the next yard couldn't calm down. Several women who were brought back by Jilang and his men at the beginning now lived in a cave with their children, usually protected by a big tree. The big tree, his mother and several older people lived in the cave house next to it. The cave house in the yard had been dug some time ago, but there was no time to burn bricks and build a kang. The original plan was to start after planting the crops and it was not so busy.
Dove couldn't help but have tears in her eyes. Her elder sister and partner were killed while trying to protect Xiaoyuan and Xiaofang when the tribe was attacked. Later, she was the one who took the two brothers with her all the way. Now they only had each other. Although they survived by chance, from the day she left the tribe until now, she always felt that her heart was hanging, uneasy and without a sense of reality.
She had just experienced less than ten winter seasons and was not even old enough to find a partner, yet she had to struggle to survive with two children.
The food she collected was only enough for the three of them and the two children. She couldn't keep too much and couldn't stockpile any food. Xiaoyuan and Xiaofang were also sensible. They usually dug some wild vegetables and white roots around the yard, but these were far less than the food they needed in the cold season. Dashu also took care of her. Logically, the three of them couldn't share the meat because they had no hunters. They could only exchange the food they collected, but Dashu would occasionally give them some meat.
Last time, the tribe hunted a wild buffalo, and the leader gave it to her and the children. The three of them, one big and two small, got two portions, each of which was a big piece. It had been roasted into jerky and hung in the cave. She didn't dare to eat it, as she had to save it for the winter season. This time, they got three portions of pumpkin, regardless of whether they were adults or children, and each person got twenty. She couldn't even count simple single digits, didn't understand what twenty meant, and didn't know how many sixty would add up to. But now there was a large pile in the yard, enough for the three of them to eat for a long time.
She just heard Dashu say that these pumpkins can be dried and ground into powder to eat in the cold season, and they can also get a piece of land where they can grow their own pumpkins. Before the cold season, she can harvest a wave of pumpkins, so she doesn't have to worry about having no food in the cold season.
She did not cry when she saw her sister being chopped down by people from other tribes. She did not cry when her two children fell ill several times and were almost left behind by the tribe several times. Later, when she thought she was exchanged to bear children for the tribe, she did not cry. But at this moment, their lives were obviously getting better and better, but she couldn't hold back her tears.
She cried silently at the beginning and then she couldn't stand and squatted down. Xiaoyuan and Xiaofang also came over and cried together.
At this moment, the stone in my heart finally fell to the ground.
A Yue and Xiao Shu, who lived in the same cave, also came over, their eyes red.
Xiaopang looked at the children hugging them with some loneliness. He was unfortunate, but also lucky. His father protected him all the way, and later he was seriously injured and had a fever and slowly stopped breathing. He survived and came here. Here he had food and drink. The big tree would give him the meat he got and treat him very well, but he missed his father. When he was in the big tree tribe, he saw other children with Am and missed Am, but at that time he still had his father. He felt regretful in his heart, but he still had someone to rely on. When he came here, he had a smile on his face every day, but he was always a little uneasy in his heart.
Dashu touched his little head, knowing that he missed his family, "Grow up well, you will have a new family in the future."
When the pumpkins were just being distributed, Ji Lang told him that they would make salt after the planting was completed. He agreed without thinking. Maybe he had doubts and distrust about the people of the Taotie tribe when he first arrived here, but now, he simply obeyed Ji Lang's words and did whatever he was told to do.
Moreover, making salt is the best choice for people like them. They are not good at hunting. Sometimes when they go out, a team of more than ten people cannot catch as many as Qingjiu or Sashi alone. When he was in the territory of the Big Tree Tribe before, he had witnessed the power of Guoqi. Later, after coming here, he found that the whole family were powerful monsters, especially since he wanted to kidnap Sashi at that time. Oh my God, his head would be gone after that punch.
He was really brave at that time.
Now he dared not even look at anyone.
This time they are going to make salt, and then they can use the salt to exchange for meat and furs from other people. And this will definitely not be just this time, they will be able to rely on it for survival in the future.
Thinking of this, he felt a little bit impressed with Ji Lang for finding such a good way out for them.
Not only them, but also those who came later can farm and make salt. I heard that they will also engage in breeding in the future. Although I don’t know what it is, looking at the sheep, ducks and rabbits in the yard next door, I can probably guess that it is to bring back the young prey and eat them when they grow up. I don’t know how they came up with this idea. Why can’t they think of these things?
"Okay, stop crying. Put your pumpkins away and place them in the cave to prevent them from being eaten by mice. Also, if you don't know how to make pumpkin powder, you can come to me. I've asked Xishi. It hasn't rained these few days, so take advantage of the good sunshine to dry the pumpkin powder and seeds, and we'll plant them in a few days." Dashu arranged what to do in the next few days, and found a dozen people and told them about going to the beach later.
The people he picked were relatively not very smart, but had decent physical fitness. Such people would not be a drag when going out, and they just needed to be obedient. He did not dare to let those who were too opinionated or troublesome go out with these relatively unfamiliar people. After all, going out was dangerous in the first place, and it would be easier for something to go wrong if there were internal conflicts.
In the next few days, the entire tribe was busy working in the fields. It was slow to dig potatoes, but it was not difficult to break corns. However, it was not a small task to break all the corns in such a large field. In addition, after they finished breaking the corns, they had to cut and dig out the corn stalks and roots in the field, and then clean them up and prepare to plant potatoes or pumpkins.
With more people working, the work can be done faster. Ji Lang originally thought that it would take at least ten days from harvesting the crops to tidying up the fields, but he didn't expect that it would only take five days.
Jilang did not distribute the corn yet, and everyone knew that the corn would be dried and then distributed to everyone as seeds, and then they could plant them in the land they were allocated.
As for why he didn't let them dry the corn themselves, it was because there was a sickly Big Hair in the yard next door. If a mouse sneaked in and ate too much corn, they would suffer a huge loss. It's not that he was reluctant to part with these few grains of corn, but although there were only a few grains now, there would be several plants in the future, and one plant would have at least two corn cobs. The loss would be huge if calculated this way.
They have the "God of War" Miaozai here, and his two cubs have become very active these days, running and jumping around in the yard every day, and maybe they can even catch a mouse to practice or something.