When a few people returned to the bamboo shed, Yao Xiaoqing drew the appearance of tongs and sickles on a stone slab with charcoal strips, pointed to it and said with a smile: "You look at the fighting, I only know what it looks like." ”

After a few people saw it, they felt that the tongs were a little difficult to do, Yaohu said: "The shape of the sickle is similar to the bone knife. ”

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "You guys look at it, I'll go to the river and have a look." ”

Yaohu smiled and waved his hand, "It's not early, go early and come back early!" ”

Yao Xiaoqing nodded and walked two steps, suddenly remembered something, and turned around and said, "Father, after the iron is burned, your hands will be burned." The iron clamp is ready, and you have to wrap a circle of bamboo strips on it. ”

"Got it." Yaohu looked at her and smiled.

Yao Xiaoqing went back to fill the bamboo tube and walked towards the river with the basket on his back. I saw that the river was a little shallower, and I saw the insects from a distance holding up the bamboo raft and leaning on this bank.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at a few people and muttered to herself, "It's strange, when did they learn to hold a bamboo raft?" ”

Ah Worm and Ah Lin stood on the bamboo raft, and when they saw Yao Xiaoqing walking towards the river, they waved at her and shouted: "Xiaoqing, there are a lot of duck eggs and waterfowl eggs on the other side of the river, and there are ducklings." ”

After Yao Xiaoqing walked in, he saw the two of them pulling a rattan skin rope, and one of them holding a bamboo raft with a penny.

Hurriedly stepped forward to help pull the rope, and when the three of them docked, they saw that the back basket was full of duck eggs and bird eggs, and more than a dozen small wild ducks of different sizes, quacking in the bamboo cage.

She smiled and asked, "How did you tie the rope to the other side of the river?" ”

Genber smiled: "Muba took the rope and swam to the opposite side to tie it up." ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the middle of the river, there was still some turbulent river, "Muba is really powerful." ”

Genber carried the bamboo basket and got off the bamboo raft, "In the past, when I was in the mountains, there was also a river at the bottom of the mountain. A few small ones were hungry and often went into the water to fish and cook to eat. ”

"You learned to hold a bamboo raft, and you learned to go without a rope."

Ah Worm smiled and nodded, "That's what we're going to do, where are you going?" ”

"I'll walk by the river, and you bring the ducks back and wait for me to come back and clip their wings."

Walking downstream along the river, I saw that on the exposed river beach, there were puddles of different depths, and some water birds pecked inside.

Yao Xiaoqing looked around on the river beach, picked out a few gray and black stones, and knocked them hard with pebbles, and the stones cracked.

There was gray and black stone dust on the fractured surface, and she put a few pieces of broken stones into the back basket, and then found a few more pieces and carried them back.

I thought of soaking in lime to make paper, and I wanted to use lime to improve the purity of iron.

She wanted to carry the stones back and wait for the kiln to be empty, and put them in the kiln to fire them to see if they were limestone.

When they returned to the tribe, they saw Yaohu and they used the pig iron they had refined to make a hammer and two sickles.

The days passed quietly like flowing water, and more than a month passed in a blink of an eye.

Hills and Warriors are almost as good as their schistosomiasis.

Qiu Shan brought a bucket of honey with the warriors, as well as a basket of dried meat.

Yao Xiaoqing took the honey, took some of the jerky, and returned the back basket to them.

Qiu Shan and the warrior saluted gratefully and left.

When they were hunting, they met the migrating tribes and found that they lived in the upper reaches of the Yaoshan tribe, which was a day's journey away from the Yaoshan tribe.

In the short term, it seems that everything will be fine.

It's been dry, it's been more than a month, and it's only rained twice, and the two times don't add up much.

Thankfully, there was still a stream of water flowing out of that ravine.

Yao Xiaoqing raised the pool in the courtyard of the mountain to a height of three meters and filled it with water to make it easier to irrigate the pumpkins. The cistern at the bottom of the mountain is also filled with water.

Yaohu took a few big stones to keep smelting iron, and there were already a lot of pig iron blocks in the house.

The rock salt that Mu Feng and the others collected had already filled the warehouse behind them.

The number of wild boars in the pigsty increased by four, and the number of goats and long-haired goats increased to about a dozen. There are dozens of pheasants, ducks, and hares.

The radish and greens seeds have been collected and planted with another crop. The pepper flowers have bloomed all over the branches, and the dozen or so of the best growing trees have already grown peppers.

Peas, flower beans, cowpeas, and beans are already full of pods. The pumpkin vine has climbed up to the fence, and when you open the pumpkin leaves, you can see the pumpkins hidden underneath.

The yams and kudzu are well fattened, and the rows grow green.

The corn in the field has also begun to turn yellow, and the field is golden, and the wheat has been tasseled and filled, and when the corn is cut, it is time to cut the wheat. The happiest thing for everyone to do every day is to walk around the tribe and watch

Looking at those ears of wheat and ears of millet, Yao Xiaoqing found that the ears were very short, and compared with later generations, she felt that the harvest she originally expected was an optimistic idea, and it seemed that at most half of the harvest would be gained.

She felt that she had to pick the best seeds.

After making up his mind, Yao Xiaoqing took the women to shuttle through the fields, selected the plump ears of corn and wheat, tied them with straw ropes and left marks for seeding.

Yaohu and their team drove more than ten heavenly work, and made more than 20 sickles, more than 10 hoes, and a plowshare.

It is time for the corn of the field to be harvested.

That night, after eating food, Yaohu took out the finished iron tools from the basket, put them on the stone table, and said to the people in the tribe: "We have been busy in the tribe for about fifty days, Xiaoqing took us to make an iron tool, and tomorrow we will start harvesting the corn." ”

Everyone looked curiously at the farm tools on the stone table.

Mu Ba picked up a scythe and looked at the cold light on the edge of the knife, "Chief, this thing is a bit like the shovel that the gods gave to the young witches. ”

The leopard took it in his hand and looked at it over and over for a while, "Hmm! It's kind of like. Chief, what is this made of? ”

Yaohu glanced at the subordinates below and said, "Xiaoqing said that it is called iron, which is different from the shovel given to her by the gods. ”

Izumi held a scythe, "Chief, can we also make weapons out of iron?" ”

Yaohu nodded, "Yes, after the corn grain is harvested, let's make the farm tools that Xiaoqing said, and then make weapons for everyone." ”

Muba's eyes lit up when they heard this, "Chief, can we take a sickle and a hoe and go out and try it?" ”

Dashi smiled: "You don't have to go out, just take a wooden stick and try it." ”

Ah Sen ran to the stove room and got a wrist-thick wooden stick, came back and handed it to the big tree, "Father, here you go." ”

Dashu happily touched his head, "Get out of the way, be careful of hurting you." ”

When Assen got out of the way, he picked up a scythe and slashed it hard at the stick, which snapped in response. Everyone leaned over to look at the knife edge and found that the knife edge had not broken at all.

Muba and the others also tried it, and they all showed ecstatic expressions.

(End of chapter)