As the soybean harvest progresses, crops such as millet, chili peppers, and yams have also begun to be harvested, including the corn on the edge of the South Lake. The water chestnut has not been harvested because Ding Qi believes that the current water chestnut is small in number, and it is necessary to develop more communities and harvest them in August next year. The old water chestnut has fallen into the water and will grow naturally next year, so you don't need to pay too much attention to it, just sprinkle some manure on that area at the beginning of spring next year. Now the tribe produces a lot of manure every day, which is enough for all kinds of crops.

In less than six days, the tribe had harvested all the crops on the plot. The central square in Ningcheng and in front of the Dragon Hall are full of bamboo plaques, on which soybeans and chili peppers are placed. As for the ears of millet are bundled into small bundles and hung on wooden shelves one by one to dry, after drying, you can use a shovel head to get rid of the seeds on it, and the remaining ears are used to tie brooms and other things, as for those rods, they can be tied into pots and plates to hold items. The yams are stored directly in the warehouse, while the remaining green leaves and vines are used to feed the livestock.

Soybean stalks and millet stalks were all piled up outside the city, and the stalks were cut into sections as green fodder for cattle, horses and donkeys. Soybean stalks, on the other hand, can be used as winter rations for sheep, and the pods are the best feed for them when there is no grass to eat.

The next time is to slowly pick the ripe seeds, and the ones that have been picked are stacked on the bamboo plaque in front of the Dragon Hall to dry. As for the lotus roots, they are ready to be picked at the end of October. Although it will be colder at that time, it is many times better than having to break the ice to pick it, at least people will not freeze. Moreover, at that time, Ding Qi could develop a big rake, and it was also possible for people to sit on the boat and use it to collect lotus roots.

In the whole process of harvesting crops, Ding Qi participated in the whole process and instructed everyone how to harvest, and he revisited the life of harvesting crops in the past, feeling that the process of harvesting crops was very warm, but he always felt that something was missing. I think about the process of harvesting crops in the past, and I feel that it was very tiring and hard at that time, dirty and tired, but there is a feeling of happiness, and I feel very happy with my parents and family.

Although Ding Qi led them to harvest crops, the people of the hunting team did not stop for a moment, and brought back the corresponding amount of meat and animals every day according to the tribal plan, so as to ensure that enough meat was stored before the winter, and the workload of the butchers who peeled and cut the meat would not be unbearable, probably 20%-30% higher than the usual workload.

The location of the lumberyard is two or three kilometers deeper into the forest to the east, where special logging huts are built for workers to rest and eat, and the felled trees are cut into corresponding timber and piled together, and then the wood is transported to the city and the cave kiln by horses and oxen, some of which are made into furniture and other utensils, and the rest such as poor wood and roots are burned into charcoal in the cave kiln for winter use.

The number of people in the garment team has expanded to 100 people, and more than half of them are temporarily transferred to help. They were doing their best to sew winter clothes, warm shoes, hats, and gloves, and they were to make at least two animal skins for all the tribesmen, including the slaves, before winter came.

In addition to these people, there are more than 20 people sitting there making sweaters according to Qiao's instructions, and a group of people are sitting there knitting sweaters and chatting, having a good time. It's just that one of the fat white men is particularly conspicuous, and it is actually the leader of the horns who is wearing a sweater there. He is very likable to women now, although he has not had an affair with any woman, but he knows that he and Qiao have become a couple by looking at his eyes.

After he and Qiao learned how to spin wool according to Ding Qi's instructions, they spun all the wool in the tribe into wool.

Got that flock of sheep all naked. Fortunately, it was summer, so the sheep did not get sick and were able to grow a thick coat of wool before winter came.

There is a lot of wool accumulation, and now the whole tribe has carried out large-scale production after the rectification movement, and the work of knitting sweaters has become a job that everyone rushes to do, and every woman wants to weave a sweater for her family, so that he can live a warm and warm winter.

The sweater that was cleverly knitted before, everyone tried it on, and it was sweaty after a while in the summer, and the warmth effect was just right. It's because everyone loves this sweater and wants to have one. No, the tribe's doctor witch deer all huddled together with everyone to learn to knit a sweater, saying that it was to knit a sweater for the leader, so you can imagine how popular this sweater is! There are even clans who instruct their own clan's children to secretly pull wool from sheep and spin them back to weave sweaters when they are herding sheep.

After all, the wool accumulated at present is definitely not enough for one sweater per person, so people who want to get a sweater will always find various ways to meet this requirement. In the end, the insect sacrifice in charge of breeding was forced to make a big move, requiring every little doll who was herding sheep to take out everything in their pockets and strip naked before entering the city gate. If it is found that the phenomenon of wool is gathered, the qualification of sheep herding will be cancelled directly.

The atmosphere is positive for a while. It's just that it didn't take long for the worm to find that the hair on the rabbit's body also began to fall out, and it was taken away a lot. In addition to these, she also noticed that the dogs' hair was also starting to be taken away. This handful, that dragging a wisp, makes the dog not like a dog wolf and not like a wolf, their eyes are full of tears when they look at the worm, aggrieved!

In the tribe, everyone is trying to prepare, preparing items and things related to winter survival. Like a squirrel in the forest, trying to store more food, warmer hay. No, the women who went out with the hunting party also picked a lot of pine seeds, hazelnuts, chestnuts and ginkgo seeds. The white fruit is the fruit of ginkgo, which is a fruit of the same origin as food and medicine, which makes Ding Qi happy for a while.

As for their number, it's about fifteen or sixteen packs a day, isn't that a lot? Anyway, there are no more dried fruits in the warehouse during this time! Ding Qi has already begun to arrange for people to build the third and fourth warehouses.

The fungus and mushrooms that grow in the forest are picked and placed in the wild to dry in large animal skins, and there is no longer enough place in Ningcheng to dry items. The streets of the city are already lined with all kinds of preserved fish and bacon, and these things are still being transported to the city for drying and storage. In the end, I really had no choice, so I had to open up a special site by the South Lake to dry the pickled fish.

Some of the freshly dug bamboo shoots are washed with the picked mushrooms and fungus, blanched and placed in a large clay jar, with the pepper skin that has fallen off the seeds, and then sprinkled with fine salt for pickling, and the crisp, sour and delicious sauerkraut is successfully made after a week. Such a clay jar can hold about 100 catties of sauerkraut, and there are more than 120 such clay jars. In the later stage, it may increase with the increase in the number of fungus mushrooms collected.

In addition, they also collected a lot of fruits from the forest, such as persimmons and hawthorns, two fruits that surprised Ding Qi. These two things can be stored for a long time, and persimmon skin is a kind of fruit that can be used as grass surface.

Autumn is a race against time. If you are industrious enough, then you will have a lot of food and cold protection materials for a comfortable winter. If you are like a cold bird, you will be sent to the abyss of death by the cruel winter sooner or later.

On the edge of the South Lake, there is an endless stream of fishermen and fish deliverers, and the whole lake is noisy and noisy. In addition, more than a dozen people are harvesting reeds and cattails by the lake, where large reeds grow, and piling them up on the shore to dry

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Farther afield, the lake is quiet, with only large flocks of mallards and geese cruising the lake in search of food, before heading for the warmer south. In previous years, the tidal flats used to hunt for food were occupied by humans, and this newly developed shallow shore also makes them very happy, and the abundance of food and quiet environment always make them let their guard down and pay no attention to the disappeared companions around them.

Using nets and underwater lurking, the hunting team has recently added a job of capturing wild ducks and geese. They placed a net with bamboo poles diagonally in a shallow water, next to each other, and then pulled the net into the air with strings. With a reed pipe in its mouth, it lurks underwater, and a lot of food is sprinkled on the surface of the water in the middle of the net. When the ducks swam to the middle and began to eat, the four nets were gently pulled into the water by the underwater people, blocking the escape route of the ducks or geese, and finally the team members were captured alive.

As for the tidal flats that are inconvenient for lurking people, they are covered with all kinds of rope traps, and they really use the rope trap arrangement method that Ding Qi taught them. These rope traps are designed to catch live ducks and geese, and most of them are birds and loopers. Over the course of ten days or so, thousands of ducks and geese were caught, all of which had their feathers cut off and were still being fed in a newly built pen ready to be domesticated. As for the feathers, they were collected and given to the people of the feather arrow group to make goose feather arrows.

However, Tinch asked the hunting crew to catch the ducks and geese, not just for their meat and eggs, but also for their feathers. When the number of them increases, and linen clothes can also be made, down jackets can be developed. A light down jacket is much more comfortable than a bulky animal skin garment.

The tribe has been busy all the time, and it is the group of people who make paper. After boiling tung oil, the raccoon dog took over the papermaking work and was responsible for the entire process of papermaking in the whole tribe. When the fox in Tongcun heard that the raccoon dog was in charge of such an important matter, he was very happy, and he finally didn't have to worry about the growth of the raccoon.

At present, in addition to the use of the elder group and the medical witch group, only a small part of the straw paper produced is used by the supervisor and above as toilet paper! At Ding Qi's suggestion, the deer blushed and used it as a sanitary napkin when the period came, and this suddenly spread violently among the female population, causing the use of straw paper to increase dramatically.

In this case, Ding Qi had no choice but to increase the output of papermaking and invest more manpower in the papermaking group, which finally basically met the needs of the supervisors and women, but it was still far from meeting the needs of the entire tribe. Therefore, Ding Qi asked the papermaking group to store more papermaking raw materials and pulp. As for the straw that was harvested before, it was all handed over to the tribe to produce straw sandals.

In addition, Ding Qi sent a squad of warriors, one man and two horses, to bring twenty bags of coarse salt from Lu Village to the Tuva tribe, and then went to the valley of the oil tung to collect enough oil tung seeds, and then came back with the people of the horse hunting tribe. The leader of the heavy hoof promised Ding Qi that he would send a batch of horses and donkeys to Ningcheng before winter came, so that the warriors could bring back a large amount of tung oil fruit with them. He knew that there were more than 1,000 tung trees in the valley. The soldiers of this class have brought over more than 200 animal skin bags alone, so you can imagine how big Ding Qi's appetite is.

In autumn, the life of the tribe is always busy, but busy and orderly, each with its own responsibilities. Elder Bucks and Ben worked together, very coordinated, seamless, and organized, and Ding Qi was very relieved about this.

As for Ding Qi himself, with a platoon of soldiers led by Cang, he was training the playground to prepare for the hunting day activities of the five major tribes, and cooperation was the theme of this training.