After Xiao Yiran finished planting soybeans, he continued to look for oak cocoons, but the weather was too hot, and if he didn't miscalculate, the temperature at this time was about forty degrees. In order to prevent heat stroke, Siu Yat-ran often rests in the shade of trees by the shallow pool.

One day at noon, Xiao Yiran sat in the shade of a tree, looking at the fish talking to themselves in the thin stream, and suddenly wanted to see where the spring water finally flowed. Xiao Yiran, who was no longer worried about being discovered by the clan, walked down the winding stream. I remember that in "Journey to the West", the monkeys in Huaguo Mountain just wanted to find the source of the stream, and only then did they find the Water Curtain Cave, Xiao Yiran smiled, will he also have an unexpected harvest?

All the way down the hill, the stream burrowed into the flat green grass at the bottom of the mountain, and because the grass was too dense, the stream flowed in and disappeared. Looking up at the sparkling river in the distance and the faint shacks in the woods on the opposite bank, Xiao Yiran felt a little emotional, the days of being alone are not as lively as group living after all. Accustomed to the hustle and bustle of the metropolis, Xiao Yiran often felt surrounded by deep loneliness when he suddenly hid in this primitive mountain forest.

When a breeze blows, the grass in front of you falls like a wave. Xiao Yiran's gaze suddenly fixed on a plant that seemed to have been seen somewhere. The leaves and stems, which have been yellowed, are bent by the golden fruit of a spike. Xiao Yiran walked over, leaned over, pinched an ear of fruit, and held it in his hand to look at it. Seeing that there seemed to be a thin layer of skin on the outside of the fruit, he peeled it off with a fingernail that had not been cut for a long time, and when an oval and full seed appeared in front of him, Xiao Yiran exclaimed:

"Rice, it's rice."

This unexpected discovery is not much less than the surprise of the monkeys in Huaguo Mountain when they found the Water Curtain Cave. Xiao Yiran suddenly jumped up on the ground. Until he jumped out of his sweat, Xiao Yiran slowly calmed down. After a long day of careful searching, only nine rice plants were found. On each rice plant, almost five or six ears of rice are produced. He carefully pinched off the ears of grain, made a rope out of the leaves of the rice, tied them into a handful, and carried them in his arms and jumped back to his lodgings.

After drying in the sun, Xiao Yiran was reluctant to eat a single grain. She didn't even dare to put a large handful of rice in the attic, she was afraid that she would be dragged away by ants, and she was reluctant to drag even one grain away. Xiao Yiran wrapped it in a thick leaf and tied it around his waist. He took stone knives and stone axes non-stop, went to the shallow pool to find a suitable place, divided the obtained rice seeds into two equal parts, and planted half of them first. Xiao Yiran didn't dare to plant it all at once, after all, he had never planted it, but he had just watched the process of planting rice on TV, which was to raise seedlings first, and then plant seedlings.

The days of waiting were torturous, and four days later, when Xiao Yiran saw the seeds sprouted, he was half relieved. With seedlings, it is half done. The remaining half is to find land to grow rice. Rice fields are inseparable from water, this basic common sense, Xiao Yiran still knows. In that case, let's still be on the edge of the shallow pool. In the immediate vicinity of the soybeans, clearing out a large area of moist land with no trees to block the sun, Xiao Yiran began to loosen the soil with wooden sticks and stone knives. Because the land under his feet is basically rotting dead branches and leaves, it does not need any fertilizer, and it is quite soft, and it takes less than a day to complete the preparation of almost half an acre of land. The next step is to water the land. This is also simple, originally this land is under the shallow pool, as long as you dig a small canal, the shallow pool water will flow into the ground.

Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, Xiao Yiran didn't want to meet a beast that went out to forage at night, so he hurriedly returned to his residence and lay on the grass in the attic, Xiao Yiran began to look forward to the days when there would be rice. There is food, silk, salt, by the way, their traps have been laid for several days, why hasn't there been any movement?

Maybe God wanted to compensate Xiao Yiran, and at dawn, from the trap laid, the howl of the wild boar was heard again. Xiao Yiran was secretly happy in his heart, this group of wild boars was really related to him. After lying down for a while, after the sun rose, Xiao Yiran got up, first went to look at the rice seedlings and the paddy fields that were sorted out yesterday, and saw that it was normal, and then walked towards the trap.

This time, two wild boars were caught at once, one and a half big ones were below, already dead, and the other was smaller, about the same size as the last one, lying on the dead half of the wild boar, as if its hind legs had been pierced by the branches under the trap, and they kept humming. In order to get the two wild boars back, Xiao Yiran spent a whole day. The one that is still alive is the hardest. Xiao Yiran didn't expect the wild boar to be so unruly, tying the hind legs of the little wild boar with a thick tree vine, and basically dragging it back to his residence. Tied to the trunk of a tree under the attic, the little boar howled desperately to break free, despite the pain in his hind legs. How can the fat that reaches the mouth let it run away? Not only was it tightly tied to the tree, but it also folded a lot of branches to build a simple pigsty for the little wild boar. Xiao Yiran thought to himself, he couldn't finish it for a while, so it was better to raise this small one first. Since it's so difficult, starve for a few days to take care of it.

The one that died was more than forty pounds, nearly fifty pounds. It took a lot of effort to clean it, and he was worried that it would deteriorate overnight, so Xiao Yiran roasted the wild boar overnight and collected it. The smell of wild boar meat attracted the beasts, and Xiao Yiran heard sounds from time to time in the surrounding woods, including wheezing and low roars. Xiao Yiran, who was much bolder, did not extinguish the bonfire all night for the sake of safety. Coupled with the little wild boar's howl from time to time, naturally, Xiao Yiran didn't sleep well.

This harvest is not small, Xiao Yiran tried to make jerky, first roasted wild boar, cut into palm-sized pieces with a stone knife, and then hang it in the shade of a tree to dry, such a hot weather, in less than two days, the jerky will be ready, taste it, no worse than the taste eaten in the group.

After resting for two days, Xiao Yiran saw that the rice seedlings had reached a high level, and the paddy fields had been irrigated. It's time for rice planting.

Holding the seedlings that had just been pulled out in his hand, Xiao Yiran really didn't know how many seedlings were used for each transplantation. How to recall, it seems that there is no close-up of each cluster of seedlings in TV and movies, Xiao Yiran hesitated again and again, and took every three to five seedlings as a cluster, thinking, try this first, if it doesn't work, just wait for the next season to correct it.