The golden retriever looked at Yao Xiaoqing, scratched his head and squeaked twice, and squatted beside Yao Xiaoqing with his wife and children.

Muba and the bull arranged for the warriors of the vigil, and they fell asleep on the animal skin mats.

The golden retriever curled up at Yao Xiaoqing's feet with his wife and children, and when it was almost dawn, he glanced at Yao Xiaoqing, climbed the pine tree and left.

Yao Xiaoqing woke up and looked around but didn't find the Golden Retriever family.

The warrior Ah Song said to her, "Young Witch, the golden retriever took those two with him when it was almost dawn. ”

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "The mountains and forests are its home." She wouldn't leave it behind, just know that it was fine, after all, the Golden Retriever was the first creature she had ever encountered in the world.

The next day, a group of people continued to walk through the forest, and Yao Xiaoqing also found some herbs. It took three or four days of hard work to find the Poria cocos in this forest, and the bamboo baskets and backpacks brought were already full.

Yao Xiaoqing and Mu Ba went to the mountain outside the pine forest, where there was indeed a jujube forest, but most of the jujube trees had frozen to death.

Only the small half-jujube tree has pulled out new branches. A few people found a few small jujube trees in a sheltered place in the forest, dug them up and put them on the back of the cow, and began to walk back.

Everyone went back to unload the poria, rested for a day, and then set off into the mountain.

At noon, there was a delicate drizzle like cow's hair, the drizzle dyed the new young grass green, and the faint fragrance of grass and trees mixed with the smell of humus in the mountains and forests, filling the mountains and wilderness.

Looking at the weather, Shan Amu was also a little worried, "Xiaoqing, it's still not hot this day, will the millet in the field bear grain?" ”

She felt that although it was hard to endure the heat in the first two years, the corn grains and beans in the field grew well. Last year, it rained for more than ten days, and the harvested corn was all empty shells.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the sky, "It's okay now, the hottest days are the grain-filling period of the millet grain, if the weather is still like this, our millet can only feed the livestock again."

That's why I let everyone go into the mountains to collect, Poria cocos, taro, and leopards, and let them try to catch live animals and raise them. Let Ah Chun Bo and Ah Gen Bo and they hatch more chicks, ducklings, and rabbits. Even if there is not much harvest of pumpkins, millet grains, and beans at that time, there are also poria cocos and livestock. ”

When everyone heard this, they understood why Yao Xiaoqing didn't let them go out to collect wild vegetables, and brought everyone out to collect Poria cocos and taro.

The drizzle had been pouring down for two or three hours before it stopped, and everyone came to a pine forest.

Yao Xiaoqing saw a mulberry forest not far from the pine forest, and she suddenly remembered the camphor cocoon. Are there any silkworm cocoons in the mulberry forest?

"Eminem, you go in first, Brother Niu and I will go to the mulberry forest over there to have a look."

Shan Emu turned around and said, "Okay, let's look outside the forest first." ”

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, and walked to the mulberry forest with the bull pulling out waist-deep weeds, "Brother Niu, look for any white and chubby insects on the tree." ”

The bull looked at her and smiled: "How can any insect look white and fat, what are you looking for a white fat bug?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled, "You look for it, I'm useful." ”

The bull nodded, the two of them pulled up on the mulberry leaves, and found a few mulberry trees, Yao Xiaoqing saw on the tree that there was a tan, a small head, two extra-large bulging chests, and a bit uneven on the surface, and an ugly insect with a sharp thing on the top behind the buttocks.

The bull came over with a mulberry leaf, and there were several insects on the mulberry leaf, "Xiaoqing, there are no fat white bugs you said, and you found a lot of ugly things like this." ”

Yao Xiaoqing took a look and found that it was no different from what she found, "What I found is also like this." It's just that the color is lighter. ”

The bull looked at her disappointed, "Xiaoqing, what's the use of you looking for that bug?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing thought for a moment, "I know that there is a kind of white and fat insect that will produce something called a silkworm cocoon. It's a bit like the cocoon on the camphor tree we cut down last year, bigger than it and whiter than it. ”

The bull frowned, "I think I've seen it there!" ”

"Really?" Yao Xiaoqing excitedly grabbed the bull's arm.

The bull searched his intestines and thought for a long time, "Haha! Come to think of it. I have seen it on the acorn tree at the bottom of the mountain, and it is not white but a little yellow. ”

Yao Xiaoqing lost interest when he heard the oak tree, "Oh! It's different from what I want, let's look for it again, and if not, go to the pine forest to find Poria cocos. ”

The bull nodded, unable to bear her disappointment, and said comfortingly: "Xiaoqing, wait until I find that thing for you to see." ”

"Okay." Yao Xiaoqing said.

The two looked around, except for the color was a little different, they were all ugly insects of the same breed, and they didn't find the white and fat silkworm baby.

Yao Xiaoqing was disappointed and returned to the pine forest with the bull and continued to look for Poria cocos. The people who were separated were busy in the mountains and forests for thirty or forty days, and the Poria cocos and kudzu that they found were piled up in several warehouses. I also found a lot of fruit trees and went back to plant them in the orchard.

The ramie scattered under the fence and at the foot of the mountain has grown a meter long, and all the ramie leaves are collected and fed to the chickens, ducks and livestock. Livestock fed on ramie leaves are not susceptible to pest.

Mountain Eminem and the women of the gathering team put on their backs again. Some go up to the mountains to collect mushrooms, some collect wild vegetables, cut the grass and return to the tribe to dry and hoard to feed livestock in winter.

Yao Xiaoqing was happy that the weather finally tasted a little hot day, and the ears of wheat in the wheat field began to fill, and she took people to fertilize the wheat.

The wheat planted in summer has also begun to be jointed and headed, the rape has also grown buds, and the millet in the field has begun to bloom.

Pumpkin flowers, winter melon flowers, beans, peas, tribes can smell the fragrance of various flowers and plants everywhere.

Never before have we prayed that it would not rain so that these crops would bear fruit.

Everyone is busy in the field all day long, catching insects, catching birds, pollinating, weeding, fertilizing, and it takes more than half a month to finish a large field.

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Jiang Li and his people were busy for more than two months before they moved all the chopped firewood down the mountain, piled it up at the foot of the mountain to dry, and waited until the dry season to start construction.

Yao Xiaoqing saw that Jiang Li was leading people to clean up the road from the tribe to the river, "Jiang Li, it's best to harden this section of the road." ”

Jiang Li looked at her with a smile, "Xiaoqing, I'm going to pave the section of the road from the tribe to the river into a slope, and build two barges in front of the ramp as a dock." ”

"When the dry season is dry, we will use hardwood to drive stakes along the river, build a water gallery, a hut. At the end of autumn, we can go over and hunt plump wild animals. You can also go to the pine forest over there to dig Poria cocos and collect chestnut wild fruits. ”

What he wants to say in his heart is that having more meat can also take some of the burden off your shoulders.

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay, it's best to carbonize the firewood to be firm." ”

Jiang looked at her puzzled, "Carbonization? How to carbonize? ”

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