Early the next morning, after breakfast, Ding Qi went to his fish skin greenhouse to routinely weed, loosen the soil, and check the growth of several crops.

In the warm and comfortable greenhouse, the fragrance of flowers wafts in. A swarm of bees flew around, and after collecting the nectar, they flew to the other end of the greenhouse, where there was a beehive made of wooden boxes.

The flowers are Chinese cabbage flowers, and due to the abundant supply of nutrients, the growth is very gratifying. The whole plant is stout and the flowers are very bright. At first glance, this cabbage flower is the same as the rape flower, yellow, with four petals, and it is not easy to distinguish on the surface. However, it can still be distinguished from the leaves of the two.

The leaves of the cabbage flower are rounded, oblong, and somewhat curly, like small cabbage leaves, with smooth and unserrated leaf margins; Rape flowers have elongated, wide-stretched leaves, and wavy serrations on the leaf margins. If you can put the flowers of the two together, you can see that the cabbage flowers are larger, which is also a way to distinguish them.

It's just that the cabbage plants in the greenhouse are still shorter and have fewer flowers than Ding Qi has seen before. Ding Qi knows that this is a problem of breeding good seeds, and after several generations of selection, the traits of seeds will change greatly, and these need to be responsible for a special person.

The box of bees was a swarm of bees that Ding Qi had asked the people of the Gurung tribe to catch and put in the greenhouse for pollination. Fortunately, this nest of bees is small in scale, and it is a newly separated queen bee, which was caught and raised by the ancient Da and them. Therefore, these dozens of cabbage flowers are enough for them to collect nectar and pollinate.

Moreover, through the bee honey collection, Ding Qi also emphasized the matter of pollination, which can be regarded as an eye-opener for everyone.

Due to the suitable temperature and not much change, the cabbage flowers that bloom early have already begun to bear horn fruits, and it must take more than a month for the whole cabbage flower to harvest seeds. Ding Qi remembers that under normal circumstances, the flowering period of cabbage is May and the fruiting period is June, and the whole process takes more than two months.

The growth of pepper is also good, more than half a meter high, it can already be transplanted out of the whole plant, and then it may be able to break through the greenhouse fish skin. However, it is estimated that it will take another one to two years to wait for it to be transplanted. However, there are already hundreds of seedlings planted so far, and it is more than enough to plant the previous yard along the fence, and then transplant them to the ash kiln to plant.

Zanthoxylum pepper is resistant to drought and barren land, especially suitable for planting in the field, marginal land, wasteland, orchard, etc., and can also play a certain protective role for the current Ding tribe, just like the thorns placed outside the fence of the Li tribe now.

The kudzu had moved out, growing along the side of the creek, and Ding Qi knew that there were more growing in the copper mines. Ding Qi has great expectations for kudzu, and whether he can drink wine this year depends on how many kudzu can be collected.

The yam did not move out, and the cabbage flower still grew together, climbing up along the shelf of Ding Qizhi, green and oily, and looked very beautiful.

As for the thirty or so shallots, they are also growing well, the dry leaves have faded, and the green cylindrical leaves have been pulled out of them.

Although Ding Qi misses the taste of green onions, he doesn't dare to eat them now, he looks forward to harvesting the seeds and sowing them in the fall, so that he can eat some of them then.

Now Ding

Strange, it is really enough for an old farmer to work on his own one-third of an acre, which is very comfortable.

Recently, Ding Qi's work has been very regular, first busy with things in the field, and then he went to the main hall to finish painting the dragon totem and then color the totem.

Ding Qi's dragon totem is a four-clawed green dragon, to be honest, this painting is tortured Ding Qi a little can't stop. It was rubbed on the board, rewiped, and tossed hundreds of times before completing this totemic painting with impressions. Then he painted it on the white-plastered wall of the main hall.

The whole Qinglong is painted with cyan pigment, which comes from the azurite ore in the copper mine of the original Qing tribe. Ding Qi smashed the azurite into a fine powder, mixed it with water and mud, and applied it where it was needed.

As for the white belly of the green dragon, it is plastered with hydrated lime, including the white mane on the dragon's head and the color of the tail, all of which are made of white ash.

As for the color of dragon horn and longan in red, Ding Qi has not found cinnabar or ochre (hematite), and there are no natural mineral pigments. Ding Qi smashed a red brick, grinded it like azurite, and smeared it with water, which looked good, at least it could maintain the color of this red brick for a long time.

Now that the entire dragon totem is half completed, it will be all over in a few days.

And the dragon totem pillar at the entrance of the main hall is also close to completion. This is what Jing and the carpenter team are operating, and the blueprint is the dragon head pattern sketched by Ding Qi with charcoal.

Ding Qi continued to paint, but before he could lift his pen, there was a sound of footsteps outside the main hall, and the sound of the three leaders of the Water Tribe, the Bai Ze Tribe, and the Red Lake Tribe laughing could be heard from afar.

Since they came to the Ding tribe, the three tribes have also handed over their people to Ben, and let the Ding tribe arrange for them to work, exchange them for daily food, and get pottery and some public skills when they return to their own tribe.

As the leader, the Ding tribe has a lot of respect for them, and most of the time they eat and rest in the special wooden hut that Ding Qi arranged for Jing to build for them, and sometimes they can enjoy the food cooked by Ding Qi. If it weren't for the fact that there was a large family behind them who needed them to go back to manage, it is estimated that several of them would not want to leave the Ding tribe.

"Alas! Leader Ding, this totem called the dragon is getting more and more powerful, every time I see it, I have an urge to kneel, this is a divine beast! ”

Before the leader of the White Water Tribe, Yuanren, arrived, the voice had already arrived.

"yes, yes! I feel that this totem must be the most powerful totem in the entire wilderness. Don't say that the five major tribes, even the most powerful river tribe in the legend, probably don't have such totems, right? ”

Tu, the leader of the Bai Ze tribe, was also very respectful, and they showed respect from the bottom of their hearts when they treated such a totem that made them stressed.

"That's true. Otherwise, how can it be said that Leader Ding is the god of desolation, he can lead our small and medium-sized tribes to a life of food and clothing, then the tribe and totem behind him are definitely the divine beasts of the huge level tribe! I really want to see what that tribe Aragami is talking about is like! ”

The leader of the Red Lake tribe, Jue, is also more and more yearning for the tribe behind Ding Qi.

Ding Qi saw that the three of them came together, and he also smiled bitterly in his heart. Ding Qi knew a lot about the intentions of the three of them

It is nothing more than the fishing nets that the tribe has been using recently.

Due to the increase in the population of many people due to the construction of tribes, the daily consumption of food is a very large number. Therefore, it is necessary for the tribe's warriors and gathering teams to go out every day to catch fresh meat and plant ingredients.

And fish, which can be easily obtained, has become the first major supplement to the tribal food. Nowadays, fishing nets have changed from purse seine nets to cast nets, and have evolved from multi-person fishing mode to single-person fishing mode, which has greatly increased fishing efficiency. The same dozen people fishing, and the number of fish caught is two to three times the original, which is not a kind of progress in production tools, but also represents the progress of human development.

And the process of fishing and the tools used by everyone were discovered by these three tribes from the water's edge. The first time they saw the fishing net, they were shocked, and they were speechless with astonishment when they saw so many fish caught in it. Kneeling directly on the ground, thanking the heavens, and praying that the heavens would allow them to obtain such an artifact as well.

The three of them wanted to rob it, but when they saw the strong Ding tribe, they could only keep this idea in their hearts, and they turned around and rushed towards the Ding tribe, looking for Ding Qi to ask for fishing nets. Even if they can't make it, they can learn how to weave their nets, so they can go back to weaving their nets to feed more of their tribesmen.

Moreover, before they came, they heard a gossip that the Blackwater tribe had a fishing artifact that could catch a lot of fish, but I don't know if it was the fishing net of the Ding tribe. It's just that later there was news that the artifact was broken by their Blackwater Tribe's deputy Mizuzawa, and the entire artifact was shattered, is this a punishment from the Father God for the Blackwater Tribe's long-term oppression of other small and medium-sized tribes?

For the fishing net, a weapon for the tribe to obtain food, Ding Qi's original intention was actually to keep it in his own hands, unless the benefits he obtained from the other tribe were greater than the fishing net itself. If there is another situation like the Graystone tribe, and the fishing nets are indirectly transferred to the hostile tribe, that kind of behavior is to fund the enemy.

Although Ding Qi knew that the three tribes usually fought against the Blackwater Tribe, who knew if there was a trust deliberately arranged by the Blackwater tribe among them? The Blackwater tribe has planted Xue and Dan as undercover agents in their own tribe, which shows that this tribe has a lot of tricks that have not been used.

However, for the three of them, Ding Qi didn't dare to slack off, he didn't agree to this matter immediately, it was just to test them again, he still wanted to win them over.

There is a good saying: I'm not afraid that you are greedy, but I am afraid that you have no needs.

Since you have asked me, I will make good use of the cards in my hand.

"Oh, it's the three leaders! What's the matter today, come to me together, what's the matter? ”

The previous three tribal leaders mostly talked about this in private, and everyone wanted to get this artifact fishing net for themselves, so that their tribe could feed more people. Unfortunately, it backfired, and they never achieved their goal, so they thought of uniting. In their opinion, if three people talk about this together, the success may be greater.

"Alas! How could Leader Ding knowingly ask? Didn't the purpose of the three of us tell you a long time ago? ”

The leader of the Baishui tribe, Yuan, is a straightforward man, who speaks directly, does not laugh or speak, and Ding Qi has a good impression of him.