Chapter 26: Harvest Season (6)
Gu Xi was recuperating at home, and he happened to be idle, although his arm was hanged, but his hand could still move, but his arm couldn't be too strong, originally he hung his arm to take care of his shoulder joint, Huo Bai stared at him as long as he was at home, and didn't let him work, so he blamed him for explaining what it meant to hurt his muscles and bones for a hundred days, and now the whole tribe didn't let him work, and many people sent him things in the first few days.
So he began to think about how to make a ring, he was not ready to make that kind of ring with complex carving, so he wanted a simple ring white jade ring, and because an orc like Huo Bai wanted to transform, he couldn't wear it on his hand on weekdays, and could only use elastic animal tendons to string it up and hang it around his neck.
Cut off the stone of the bread outside the white jade, looking at such a large piece of white jade, Gu Xi instantly had a kind of local tyrant mentality, hands-on practice is the most important, let's try it first, it doesn't matter if it's broken, it's not bad materials! There's nothing over-developed here, this kind of thing orcs are just stones, there must be a lot of them in the mountains, it's a big deal to find them later, and I feel a little excited to think about it.
Gu Xi spent several days, and finally slowly buckled the shape of the two white jade rings, it was a waste of a lot of materials, he used a bone knife to cut it out little by little, and accidentally cut it out, so he finally got it out, and now he almost smoothed out the area that was not very smooth, which needs to be very careful, and it is easy to break if it is not easy to grind, so Gu Xi carefully grinds it every day, and finally a pair of white jade rings are made, simply two small white rings, without extra patterns, Only the pinyin abbreviation of their names engraved on the inside of the ring, although it was a little rough, Gu Xi still liked it very much, and asked Uncle Jiang to make a small box, spread a piece of soft fur, put the ring in, and then waited for the ceremony.
Gu Xi simply cleaned up the house inside and out, in order to prepare for the ceremony, he added a lot of small things to the house, for which there was no less trouble for Uncle Jiang, the living room that was originally very empty only put stone stools and dining tables, put on the chair that was not originally there, this chair was made of stone, he didn't choose wood, wood is a little troublesome to make, the stone is the simplest, you can make the shape of a chair, each chair is covered with gray animal skin, and there is a stone coffee table in the middle, on the coffee table, there is a small box taken out of the whole piece of woodA whole set of bamboo cups are neatly placed on the bamboo plate, and the original living room is presented in front of everyone.
The position of the living room by the door is a small shelf made of wood, which is equivalent to the shoe cabinet for entry, the style is simple, it is to go up layer by layer, the tribe has begun to wear shoes, which is made by Yan Yan's mother and father, he listened to Gu Xi's practice of cloth shoes, and used fragments of animal skin to contain the sturdy soles layer by layer, and the upper is also animal skin, but it is also at this time that some people have begun to wear them, when the weather was hot before, this kind of animal leather shoes were too hot to wear, and some people felt that they were not used to it, and they did not start to wear them.
A large cabinet was added to the sleeping room, open, on the top is a large animal skin that will be used on weekdays, a pole is placed on the lower floor, hanging things, and then below are a few small wooden boxes, put some daily bits and pieces of clothing, and the bottom layer is placed with a relatively large box, which is enough to store.
There is also a storage room, made a shelf, put things on the shelf, the height below the shelf is just enough to put all kinds of large stone jars, if you want to take the things in the stone jar, the wooden planks on the shelves can be moved, and the wooden boards are placed on the small stone altar and all kinds of salty goods that have been dried, dry goods, and also made a strong and stout shelf to hang salty goods, and the whole storage room has become orderly.
The kitchen stove is built more exquisitely, Gu Xi simply made a stove with a chimney, a stone stove, the appearance is relatively rough, it is still very convenient to use, because the surrounding of the fire is sealed, and the stone pot is burned even faster, when he was a child, Gu Xi played in the cauldron room of the neighbor's grandmother's house, and saw the grandmother burning the fire, and he tried it himself, and threw the sweet potato into it, so there was some rough structure in the impression, and finally it was really done.
In this way, Gu Xi felt that his quality of life had reached another level.
After many people in the tribe saw it, they all learned, especially Yan Yan, he and Tong Qi's new house was built between the Tong family and the Yan family, since they decided to get married, the two families arranged it in full swing, and soon built a new house, many of the decorations in the house refer to Gu Xi's family, of course, Yan Yan's favorite elements were added, for example, a large area was left in their yard for Yan Yan to plant flowers in the future.
As the exchange day approaches, the ceremony of marrying a partner is also approaching, Gu Xi no longer knows the specific date after coming to the beast world, he can only judge what season it is in which season, and the current harvest season is of course autumn, according to Huo Bai, the harvest season has a day when the moon is particularly round, and their ceremony will also be held on this day, as for how to calculate the moon is the roundest, the orcs have their own observation methods, so in the end, it is still ten days before their ceremony.
Gu Xi thought that the moon on the fifteenth day was the roundest, and when it came to that day, he would set the date as the fifteenth day of August, and remember it every day in the future, and he didn't know what time it would be in the future.
At this time, the edamame beans in the field have fallen leaves, the beans have grown yellow, the tribe organized people to carry out a big harvest, the soybeans that can be seen are picked back, placed in the central square, with a flail to weave and beat, the soybeans are beaten down, the flail is composed of a long handle and a group of flat rows of bamboo or wooden strips, specially used to beat grains, wheat, beans, sesame, etc., so that the grains fall off the farm tools. It's quite rare now, and when Gu Xi was young, he also had relatives farming, and there was no machine at that time, so he saw people using this tool for threshing. Gu Xi and Uncle Jiang studied for two whole days before they made it all wood and bamboo.
Beat it over and over again, and wait until the soybeans basically fall, then move the branches away, the ground is full of soybeans, when there is wind, shovel the soybeans into the air and throw them up, use the wind to blow away the dust of the broken leaves, over and over again, every day when the sun is the fullest, the soybeans are spread out to dry, and the dust is removed from time to time, so that for a few days, the soybeans with five stone jars are fully installed, each family receives some, and the rest is stored in the empty house built in the center of the zài tribe, although that Gu Xi wants to make some soy sauce out, However, because there are still many things to do, these things have not been moved to the exchange day, but this does not prevent them from tasting the taste of soybeans first.
That night, soybean and pig's feet soup appeared on everyone's dinner table, and Gu Xi also made a boiled soybean in salt water, and the soybeans were boiled until soft with simple salt water, because a little chili pepper was put in, with a little spicy taste, which was very appetizing.
In the evening, Gu Xi told Huo Bai about some of their marriage customs, because the ritual of the tiger clan is actually very simple, that is, the clothes are good-looking, the food is rich, everyone gathers together, the newcomer accepts the blessing of the clan, and the longest-lived person of the tribe worships the beast god on his behalf, Gu Xi asked Huo Bai if there are any taboos, Huo Bai told him that there are actually no taboos, except for worshipping the beast god, everything else is casual, Gu Xi is relieved, he is afraid that the process is too complicated.
Three days before the full moon day, the team of the bear clan arrived, Yao Shen arrived in time with Shen He, just in time to be able to participate in their ceremony, the surprise is that An Hua and a few of them also came back together, and An Hua, who had to learn for a long time, because the talent was very good, Doctor Xue said that there was nothing to teach, so he let An Hua come back early, so in addition to Huo Bai Guxi, Tong Qi Yan Yan Yan said that there were more Wei Da An Hua, which almost became a feast that the Tiger tribe had never had.
Yao Shen looked at the lively tiger clan, the tribal path is paved with neat stone slabs, every household is full of smiling faces, chic small stone houses, small vegetables are planted outside the house, and you can see that each family is fruitful from the outside, although An Hua also introduced the situation of the tiger clan when he was in the bear clan, but now he sees it with his own eyes, even if there are not many people, this prosperous scene is still a little surprising.
After arranging the people of the bear clan in the empty house of the tribe, many people in the tribe found Huo Bai, the bear clan brought a lot of honey this time, they wanted to exchange it in advance, and the province would exchange it when the time came, Yao Shen of course agreed, generally on the exchange day, no one will hand over the things to be exchanged at home to the patriarch, and the patriarch will exchange them on his behalf, and then bring them back, the tiger clan's animal skins are the best in the whole continent, and they can just pick some good ones to go back now, So the people who like to eat honey happily exchanged some honey and went back, and the bear people also got the animal skins they wanted, and also collected some mushrooms back.
As soon as Weida arrived in the tribe, he began to help An Hua's family clean up the house, the house where Anhua's family originally lived was Uncle An's room, and Anhua's family just lived, because the ceremony was not a few days away, and it was too late to build a new house, and Anhua was reluctant to build Uncle An, so they simply lived together, and Anhua needed a house dedicated to being a doctor, Gu Xi's meaning was built directly in the center of the tribe, where there was originally a lot of place to build a house and use it as a public area for the tribe, anyway, the front of their current house was the central square, There were only a few trees in the stall, so it was finally decided to wait for the exchange day to end and find a place in front of the original house to build another stone house as a pharmacy.
As soon as Qiē was ready, everyone waited for the full moon day to come.