Chapter 19: How hard it is to rebuild day and night
Xiao Yiran and An have been working hard. When the first rice has begun to tassel, soybeans also produce pods. At dinner, when Xiao Yiran put the fresh pods in the bonfire and cooked them, and handed them to An, An learned from Xiao Yiran, pulled out the pods, picked up a soybean and put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully, squinted his beautiful eyes happily, and said to Xiao Yiran:
"Sister, it's delicious."
"If you soak the pods in salted water for a while, they will taste better when they are roasted."
"Sister, let's go back and get more soybeans, anyway, now we have seeds and land."
"Alright, when the fence is almost finished, we'll reclaim another piece of land. Not only to grow soybeans, but also to grow rice, only with food, life will be steady. ”
"When did my sister start building a house on the ground?"
"Wait until this batch of rice is harvested, after the next batch of rice is planted, otherwise you won't be busy."
Ann looked up at the sky, saw that more than half a moon had risen in the east, thought for a moment and said:
"Sister, it will be the night of the full moon in five days. On the night when the eagle tribe reaches the full moon, all the tribe will worship the moon. ”
Audible, Ann's tone was full of yearning.
"Then we will come to worship the moon. By the way, Ann, do you want to sneak back tonight and let Grandpa or Mother send a message to Lin? ”
"Okay, I'll go back in the middle of the night."
"Sister is with you.
After dinner, the two men reeled silk until it was completely dark, and then each took a homemade javelin and went south along the eastern slope. Mount Kinabalu was huge, and by the time the two of them got around the southern slope, it was almost midnight. Quietly came to the foot of the mountain, to the north of the Eagle Clan's station, An motioned Xiao Yiran to wait for him in place, and slipped towards the shack area where the Eagle Clan was located.
Ann didn't let Xiao Yiran wait too long, and after less than an hour, Ann returned.
"Sister, it just so happened that Grandpa was here, and Grandpa agreed."
Ann's tone was full of pride.
"How is your grandfather's injury?"
"The legs are connected, but it's still a little lame when I walk."
"Is the Tiger Clan far from here?"
"It's a long way, it's about half a day's walk. But Grandpa said that he would go to the Tiger Clan to find Lin tomorrow. ”
"Do the Tiger Clan and the Eagle Clan have a good relationship?"
"Yes, the adult men of the Tiger Clan all come to the Eagle Clan to find women. The Eagle Clan also went to the Tiger Clan. Grandpa is from the Tiger Clan. ”
Xiao Yiran finally knows how people in this era can prevent close relatives from getting married. It turned out that the adult men of each ethnic group went to other ethnic groups to find women. It's just that Xiao Yiran still doesn't know how they can prevent the occurrence of ****.
"Ann, how old is your grandfather?"
"About the same age as my mother."
"In addition to your mother, will your grandfather go to find other women?"
"Probably would, we don't know."
It was already the second half of the night when the two returned to the station, but they slept for less than three hours, and the sky was bright. After getting up, I went to the rice field as usual, and then came back for breakfast, and then put a fence wall after the meal. Xiao Yiran's menarche ended in less than two and a half days, and with the silk pants and silk bags prepared in advance, there was no Xiao Yiran's daily labor. Xiao Yiran was a little puzzled about An's situation, remembering that when An first came, he was abandoned by the gods because he suddenly came to Kwai Shui during the sacrifice, why did he not see An Lai Kwai Shui for so long?
"Ann, you've been here for almost three months, why haven't you come once?"
"I don't know, but I often feel sick to my stomach."
Xiao Yiran guessed that Kwai Shui would come up on the altar at that time and frighten An? It seems that before I was reborn, I had heard that excessive fright can lead to menstrual disorders. However, even if it is disorder, it should come, it's just that the time is irregular.
More than a month has passed since the fire, almost two months, and the two of them have begun to bear fruit day and night. The first batch of rice is growing better and better, and the soybeans are about to ripen. Half of the fence wall was also built, but he just wanted to build a house on the ground, but due to the amount of work, Xiao Yiran did not do it for a long time. The main reason is that the local stones are too big for two people to move. In Xiao Yiran's plan, he wanted to build a house similar to the tulou of the Tujia people in his memory. There are two floors above ground and one underground, and the earth and stone structure can not only prevent fire, but also resist the attacks of beasts and humans in this era. With such a large amount of work, the two of them alone could not do it anyway.
"Hire-worker" is a word that Xiao Yiran often thinks of lately. Xiao Yiran knows that there is no such thing as employment in this era. Each ethnic group is self-sufficient, communally owned, and distributed according to need. If they wanted to hire their clansmen to come and work, Xiao Yiran hadn't thought of a suitable way yet. Even if you think of a way, you need to have an intermediary to communicate, after all, both of them are people who have been abandoned by the gods.
Don't care about these for now, or work hard, wait for the rice and soybeans to be harvested, build a fence wall, hunt more prey and come back, solve the problem of food and accommodation for the two, and then think slowly. It would be great if Lin could come, not only with one more manpower, but also with someone to communicate with the outside races.
It's just that you can't see a strange man with your breasts naked like this anyway. Influenced by the concept of shame before rebirth, even in this ancient era, Xiao Yiran still can't follow the local customs. I've been working weaving these days, and I want to make a bra for myself, and if time permits, make one for Ann.
The day rises and the night produces hemp, and the children of the village are in charge of their own homes.
These two poems in memory have become a portrayal of Xiao Yiran and An's real life. During the day, the two of them served rice and soybeans, planted fence walls, and found time to go to the mountains and forests to the west to find oak cocoons, and at night they reeled silk and worked hard to weave cloth. The ancient loom, after the warp thread is laid out, the weft thread is threaded one by one through the guò shuttle, so slender silk, if you want to weave into cloth, you can imagine the slowness. For more than ten days, it was just a wisp of palm width.
I don't know if it's because of the arrival of puberty or because of eating millet fruits, Xiao Yiran feels that his chest is always swollen, not only getting erect but also elastic. At the same time, Xiao Yiran also found that there have been obvious signs of growing up recently. Xiao Yiran, who was overjoyed, couldn't help but think of some clips before his rebirth. Among the four people in the same dormitory, Xiao Yiran is the youngest. Especially that hateful Li Li, who always makes fun of herself with the proud waves.
"Hmph, I'll have proud waves in the future."
The days were tiring, but fulfilling. Fulfilling days always fly by, and in the blink of an eye it is the night of the full moon.