The soil in the col is very soft, and these are natural organic fertilizers made from the dry leaves and weeds, soaked in rain and snow, and rotten, which can be used to improve the soil quality and grow crops that will yield good harvests.

In the seventies and eighties, before the use of fertilizer in large quantities, everyone dug up the silt in the ponds and ditches every once in a while and spread it in the open field to improve the soil quality.

Rape and vegetables are planted, and the manure of livestock is mixed with plant ash and soil fertilizer to make fertilizer.

At that time, the vegetables were really delicious, but later, with various additives and bulking vegetarians, the food lost its original nutritional value.

The two walked all the way forward, there were traces of excavation along the way, Yao Xiaoqing collected some herbs in the forest, and the two slowly walked out of the bushes.

At the foot of the mountain, I found a ditch in front of it, and there was about half an acre of land growing on the side of the ditch, and plants with round ovate leaves.

The edges of the leaves are serrate, the leaf surface is green upwards, a little rough to the touch, the back is white with hairs, and the petioles are pubescent.

Something flashed through Yao Xiaoqing's mind, and she didn't catch it at once, and her intuition told her that this plant had a great use.

She looked at the straight stem with the thickness of her thumb, searched her intestines and scraped her stomach for a long time, and suddenly thought that this was ramie, the leaves could be used to raise silkworms, the roots could cure diseases, and the stems were the raw materials for making clothes and paper.

The ramie is cut off, the leaves are removed, and the stem bark is peeled off after soaking to obtain pale cyan ramie fibers.

Yao Xiaoqing was very excited, now it's okay, as long as you make twine, you can weave cloth, and you will have clothes to wear. The spinning wheel is easy to make, but the loom is a big problem.

Thinking of this, Yao Xiaoqing fell into deep thought.

Taro found some taro by the ditch, and when she looked back, she was holding a plant in her hand, and stood there stunned. hurriedly shouted: "Xiaoqing, what's wrong with you?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing turned his head and looked at Taro with bright eyes, "Taro, let's cut these back to the tribe, this thing is of great use." ”

"There's taro here, why don't we dig it back?"

Taro reluctantly looked at the taro under his feet, and was about to be poached by the woman of the Spirit Sparrow tribe.

"Of course, if there is taro, dig the taro first, and if these things are cut later, it won't run." Yao Xiaoqing walked over with a smile, took a bamboo knife and began to shave taro.

The taro that grows on the side of the ditch has been some years, the root system is staggered and coiled, and there are stones and other things in the soil, and it takes more than ten minutes to dig a nest of taro out.

By the time the two of them had finished planing all the taro on the side of the ditch, the two back baskets were already full, and they looked up to see that the sky had already darkened.

"Gone taro." Yao Xiaoqing shouted.

"Xiaoqing, it's too heavy for you to carry so many taro, I'll pick up some taro in the vegetable basket." The taro went up and picked out the taro in Yao Xiaoqing's back basket and put it in the vegetable basket.

Yao Xiaoqing helped her lift the back basket, saw that her waist was bent, and she had to carry the two vegetable baskets, and asked worriedly: "Taro, you still have to carry the vegetable basket so much, can you do it?" ”

"It's okay, I have a lot of strength." Taro went first.

Yao Xiaoqing had to carry most of the taro on his back and follow the taro towards the mountain.

As soon as the two of them walked for a while, a thin old Eminem and two thin women came out of the woods.

The thin woman looked at the two of them walking away with red eyes, "Let's just come one step earlier, you see their basket is full of taro." ”

The young woman with a big black mole next to her nose said, "I heard her say to the woman just now, this thing is of great use, let's cut it back and see, it may be food!" ”

Old Eminem touched the ramie leaf and muttered, "Can you eat this leaf?" ”

The black mole woman urged the two, "You two hurry up, there are so many green poles, it's getting dark when you delay." ”

The three of them raised their stone knives and cut them, and in a few moments, the ramie was cut to the ground. The three of them cut some vines, tied up ramie, and carried them on their backs towards the mountains and forests to the south.

Yao Xiaoqing returned to the tribe, scrubbed the sweat all over his body, then went back to the room and took out a notebook and wrote down the steps of making twine. Recalling the appearance of the spinning wheel I saw in my previous life, I sketched it.

The next morning, when she came back from workout, she took the taro and walked towards the ditch in the mountain pass.

When they arrived at the ditch, Yao Xiaoqing and Taro were dumbfounded, a piece that was lush yesterday is already a mess today.

Not a single ramie plant is gone, and only the ramie roots are left in it.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at her blankly and wanted to cry without tears, "Who did it, this thing can't be eaten, what are you doing in a hurry?" ”

Taro looked at Yao Xiaoqing's sad appearance, and said guiltily: "Xiaoqing, you all blame me, I won't let you dig those taro." ”

Yao Xiaoqing squatted there, dull for a while, and when he stood up, he saw that the circles under the taro eyes were red.

"Taro, I can't blame you, it stands to reason that I should have dug taro first. Besides, everyone has the right to get things back in the field, so why don't we allow people to cut them. ”

Taro remembered that when they went back, the women of the Spirit Bird tribe were still in the mountain col and looked at Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, did you think it was the people of the Spirit Bird tribe who took it away?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing shook his head and said, "I don't think it's like it, besides, even if they get it, what can it do?" Let's go! Let's go somewhere else. ”

Taro nodded, and the two of them searched down the ditch. After walking for more than an hour, I didn't find any trace of ramie.

Yao Xiaoqing said to the taro angrily: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to look for it, let's go into the forest to find out if there are any fruit trees?" ”

"Hmm!" Seeing her lost look, Taro felt that it must be very important, and thought about coming back tomorrow to look for it.

Yao Xiaoqing was beating in the grass with a wooden stick, his eyes looked at the plants in the forest like a scan, and picked some wild fruits, some of which were sweet and sour, and some of which were faint and tasteless.

Yao Xiaoqing suddenly remembered the wild grapes, and I don't know if they were picked away?

"Taro, let's go up the mountain to the north forest to have a look, I don't know if the wild grape I saw there last time is still there?"

"Hey!" Taro put the fruit in her hand into the vegetable basket and followed her towards the mountains and forests to the north.

The two did not go up the mountain, but went directly through the forest and climbed up a hill, under which grew a reed bamboo more than a person high.

Yao Xiaoqing took two steps, suddenly squinted his eyes, and stared at the leaves of the reed bamboo. After a moment, the smile on his face bloomed like a flower, and he cheered, "Sugar cane—I'm coming!" ”

The cheers startled a few birds in the trees, and the birds "chirped" and flapped their wings and flew away.

Yao Xiaoqing rushed to the bottom of the mountain quickly, grabbed one, broke it with a click, tore off the sugarcane leaves on it three or two times, revealing the black and purple sugarcane, picked it up and put it on his knees, broke it into two sections with a "click", and handed one to the taro that was chasing after him with a panting.