Chapter 399: Thousand Grains of Gold Planting
The weather was warmer and the air was wet, but when the sun came out, the humidity was gone.
Shao Xuan took the small bag of millet down the mountain and went to the field carved out by the tribe to find someone to discuss.
A few days ago, he had asked the old man in the tribe who was good at farming, and today he was going to bring the grain to the old man to see, and ask for some advice and advice.
Farming Shao Xuan knows, but after coming to this world, he doesn't know most of the plants, because these have never appeared in another world, not only that, coming to this world, in the past few years, several crops and medicinal plants that are finally familiar with it, after coming to this continent, Shao Xuan has become "blind" again, although there is some understanding, but the main crops here are some differences from those that Shao Xuan is familiar with, and the growth habits are also very different, Shao Xuan can only seek advice from experienced people.
Most of the tribe's fields are at the bottom of the mountain, from the mountainside down to the foot of the mountain, a piece of land is demarcated, each piece is planted by several families, as for how to distribute it after planting, the tribe does not care.
Shao Xuan came to the field near the foot of the mountain, and there was an old woman with silver hair sitting on the edge of the field, her name was Qi Qi, and her mother was from the Taihe tribe. The Taihe tribe is better at planting than the Yanjiao tribe, and has a good grasp of many techniques, so Qiqi himself also knows more about planting. The people who are busy in this field often come to her when they have questions.
"It's coming. Qi Qi saw Shao Xuan and hurriedly got up. In many tribes, people of higher status are expected to bow respectfully. Yanjiao's side will also have such etiquette on important occasions, but it is usually more casual.
Qi Qi obviously still felt that she had to salute in the face of Shao Xuan, an elder, but she was stopped by Shao Xuan before she got up.
Shao Xuan didn't say much, he directly took out the bag and poured out a few grains inside. Said to Qi Qi: "This, you can take a look." ”
Qi Qi's attention immediately shifted to the few dark golden grains in Shao Xuan's hands. This is the grain she has never seen before.
After taking a closer look, Qi Qi shook his head: "It's the first time I've seen such a grain, this is what you call 'Thousand Grains of Gold'?"
"Yes, that's it. ”
Shao Xuan told Qi Qi about the place where he found a thousand grains of gold, so. After thinking about it, Qi Qi suggested that Shao Xuan find a place similar to the place where it was found, which was safer, and no one knew what the growth environment of such a plant would like. All kinds of plants, some like the sun, some like the shade, some like moisture, some like drought, can not be generalized.
"Still. Elder, you can also plant a little bit in each place, and when the time comes, see which place grows well, and then plant in that place in the future. Thinking that Shao Xuan had said that these grains were extremely rare and very precious, Qi Qi's words paused again.
Since it is rare and precious, how can she waste it as casually as she tried other seeds? Just looking at the few dark golden grains of millet in Shao Xuan's hand, Qi Qi's heart was also itchy, for this kind of precious millet that she had never seen before. She also wants to plant it and try it. As someone who has been farming since childhood, the attraction of these grains is considerable. Even if she hasn't eaten it, she can give a rough evaluation by just observing it carefully and smelling the millet.
Really very attractive!
However, Shao Xuan is an elder, and these grains are very precious, so she can't ask for them.
Aware of Qi Qi's gaze. Shao Xuan thought about the thousand grains of millet in his hand, and counted one hundred grains to Qi Qi: "If you are free, can you help me plant these grains?"
For a person with rich experience like Qi Qi, letting her help with planting also saved Shao Xuan a lot of things. It's better than Shao Xuan's tossing.
When Qi Qi heard this, he hurriedly promised: "Yes, Elder don't worry, I will do my best!"
Saying that, Qi Qi took out a cloth bag, carefully took the hundred grains of grain handed by Shao Xuan, and put them in the bag, she decided to discuss it with a few farmers, and then implement it after the plan was ready. If the planting is successful, she will definitely get more benefits from Shao Xuan, but for Qi Qi herself, the most important thing is that she can try to grow such a rare thing, which will give her a sense of accomplishment.
After giving the millet to Qiqi, Shao Xuan looked at the people who were busy in the field, there are many types of farm tools used by everyone, farming, watering, harvesting, threshing and so on, many of them are learned from the slave owners of the six cities, and they have a very important role in ploughing the ground, sowing, ploughing, processing, etc., and these farm tools are mostly made of wood and stone, it is said that the slave owners have used bronze tools, but in the tribe, everyone is reluctant to use them, and it is not bad to replace them with stones and animal bones.
After looking at it for a while, Shao Xuan went back to find some materials, slightly improved the farm tools used by everyone, and also made a plow to facilitate everyone's cultivation of farmland.
Shao Xuan made the plow, because of the limitations of the tool, a little simpler than planned, the same wood and stone composite production, after a few attempts, it was improved and perfected again, so that the plough body became lighter, easy to turn around, easy to operate, flexible can also be satisfied, in this way, the efficiency of farming will also be improved.
After making it, Shao Xuan went to show the cultivators and taught them how to use it.
Maybe the slave owners already had similar farm tools, but the people in the tribe saw it for the first time, and at the same time they felt that it was fresh, they were also very happy, Shao Xuan brought the plow, and everyone surrounded it.
"Elder, what is this?"
"Can this be used for farming?" the crowd wondered.
A plough is a tool used to plough the land, and in general, it is tied to the livestock that pulls it, such as cattle. However, there are no domesticated arable land and livestock here, so they can only be pulled by manpower.
Fortunately, the Yanjiao tribe has great manpower, and it is not inferior to the cow, so it can be easily started.
"That's it, use it to break up clods of soil, plough out the trenches, and see that everyone is busy preparing for the planting, and this plough should make it easier for everyone. ”
After the demonstration, Shao Xuan gave the plow to others to try.
Many people wanted to try, but unfortunately they were finally grabbed by Qi Qi's granddaughter Ji Ling.
Ji Ling is only fifteen or sixteen years old, the age of a delicate flower, has awakened the power of totem, only came back from hunting a few days ago, and now it is not her turn to patrol, she is idle, so she came to help Qi Qi, I didn't expect to meet Shao Xuan with a plow, rolled up her sleeves, squeezed the others to the side, and began to pull like Shao Xuan, and another middle-aged woman cooperated in the back.
Probably touched a stone in the ground, Ji Ling stopped temporarily, and didn't use a knife, directly reached out to dig out a big stone in the ground, didn't look at it much, threw the stone far away.
Shao Xuan saw that the stone the size of a winter melon crossed an arc in the sky, flew over the river in front of the tribe, and fell far into the forest outside the tribe, startling a few birds. Turning his head to look at the field again, Ji Ling was pulling the plow while sharing the feeling of pulling the plow with several comrades of the hunting team who were gearing up next to him.
Shao Xuan: "......"
In this place of the tribe, women are like men, and men are like fierce beasts.
Usually busy in the fields, not all people who have not awakened the power of totems, many times some of the hard work is done by totem warriors, after all, not every day there is hunting and rotation, like Ji Ling, a flower-like girl in Shao Xuan's opinion, will also work in the field like everyone else.
In the tribe, there are two kinds of people, one is the weak group who do not have the power of awakening the totem, and the other is the warrior who has awakened the power of the totem.
At this time, many people are busy sowing seeds, and Shao Xuan now knows that in addition to the fields in the tribe, outside the tribe, there are also people planting in the forests on the other side of the river, but it is different from the fine planting in the tribe.
First, cut down the weeds, rattans, and bushes in the forest, and then set them on fire, and when the ground is wet and soft after the rain, they will be planted without plowing or digging, and the burned grass and trees will become fertilizer for these seeds.
When planting seeds, the person in front of them pokes a hole in the ground with a spear or other tool, and the person behind will point the seed into the hole. Anyway, their main source of food is hunting, followed by the fields within the tribe, and as for these outside the tribe, they are just passing the time in their leisure time, as long as they harvest more than they sow, they are very satisfied. When the harvest is harvested, people will change places, and the land that was planted will be idle and wait for a few years, or more, before they will be planted again. There are many lands and forests here, and they can afford to consume them.
Not in the field, nor did he go to places outside the tribe, Shao Xuan simply enclosed a seventy-square-meter open space with a wooden fence at the back of the house, and after the initial preparation, he planted a hundred grains.
A thousand grains of gold were found on the top of the mountain, and the place where Shao Xuan lives now is on the mountain, not far from the top of the mountain, although the mountain is not high, but let Shao Xuan plant it on other mountains, and he is not at ease, after all, there are too many birds and beasts on other mountains, and it is impossible for Shao Xuan to keep an eye on it.
On the mountains in different locations, the climate and geology are also different, but Shao Xuan didn't think too much, just tried it, speaking of which, he didn't have much interest in the cultivation of a thousand grains of gold, and he was not obsessed with it, it was naturally good to be able to grow it, and if he couldn't plant it, he would cook the rest of the millet and eat it, and after so long, he should be able to continue to eat.
After a period of time, the seeds planted in the field behind Shao Xuan's house germinated, and more than half of the hundred seeds germinated, and Shao Xuan was already very satisfied with this.
But when Shao Xuan was called over by Qiqi, he found that most of the millet planted by Qiqi had grown two to three leaves, one hundred grains, and the survival rate was more than ninety. Much better than the growth of Shao Xuan's backyard.
It's an old experience.
Seeing those seedlings, Shao Xuan was also happy, no matter who planted them, it was good to live.
To see the seedlings, Qi Qi and others are more interested, every day as soon as they have time to see those seedlings, they have found a place on the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, each place to plant ten grains, a total of ten places, at this stage, the seedlings at the foot of the mountain grow the best. (To be continued......)