When he got home, Yao Xiaoqing took a few sparrows to dry the orange peel on the roof of the building, wiped the persimmons and buried them in the corn bran.

Ah Que poured a stack of grain bran on top of the persimmons, "Xiaoqing, will the persimmons be soft when they are buried inside?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Yes, I'll take a look in five or six days, and you can eat it when it's soft." ”

Ah Que thought of persimmons, "What do you mean by persimmons?" ”

"When Heiba brings someone back, I'll teach you how to do it." Yao Xiaoqing stood up and clapped his hands, "Ah Que, Ah Nuan, you clean the herbs and dry them upstairs." ”

The two responded in unison: "Yes!" ”

Yao Xiaoqing went to the edge of the field, the bean field had all been ploughed out and raked finely, more than a dozen men and the old man were digging ditches in the field, and the women were carrying baskets and pockets to spread fertilizer.

When all the bottom fertilizer in the field has been sprinkled with fertilizer, turned over and sprinkled with plant ash, it is time to sow winter wheat.

Yao Xiaoqing plans to sow wheat seeds on all the fields in the tribe this year. She felt that the flour from winter wheat was stronger and tasted better than spring wheat.

After looking around, Yao Xiaoqing went to the ditch again, and the wolf led people to build the wall on the other side of the ditch, and it should be completed in another ten days.

The next day, Heiba took Ah Hei and a dozen men to the persimmon forest, and when he came back, he followed Jiang to the opposite mountain to hunt.

Ah Hei and a dozen men went for a few days before picking all the persimmons back to the tribe.

Yao Xiaoqing led people to clean the persimmons, dry them, peel off the persimmon skin, leave the fruit pedicle, and dry the persimmons on the roof of the building. The rooftops of the two rows of courtyards in front are covered with golden persimmons.

After drying for a few days in a row, I took someone to turn over the persimmons and continue to dry. After turning over and drying for two days, turn it over again, and gently press the persimmons.

After eight or nine days of drying, the persimmons are getting smaller and darker, and they are flattened once every time they are turned over, and after several flattenings, the persimmons have been formed.

Yao Xiaoqing led people to put the persimmons into a jar with a big belly and a small mouth, put them in a cool place, and wait for the persimmons to be frosted before they could be eaten.

The persimmons covered in the chaff have long been eaten, and the last stubble is also ripe.

The ripe persimmon is soft in his hand, and Yao Xiaoqing likes to break it in half and eat the cool and refreshing flesh inside. I felt my stomach cold after taking a bite, and the sweet taste was sweet to my heart.

After the wheat seeds were sown, Yao Xiaoqing led people to brush a layer of the trunks of the fruit trees and pepper trees in the orchard with lime, and then tied a few layers of thick straw curtains to prevent the fruit trees from freezing to death again.

All the pumpkins and winter melons in the field were picked in the warehouse.

The last batch of tender pumpkin tips are picked back and stir-fried with dried chilies, and some minced garlic and shrimp powder are sprinkled when the pot is raised, which is crispy and refreshing.

All the poles in the taro field were cut back, the tender ones were boiled and dried, and the old ones were boiled and fed to the pigs.

The taro field was thickly covered with several layers of cattail grass to prevent freezing to death.

Then they began to cut sugar cane, cover straw curtains, and squeeze cane sugar, and for several days, the sky above the tribe was filled with the sweet smell of cane sugar.

Jiang Li came back from the snow in the mountains for the last time, and everyone began to nest in winter.

Everyone sat in a warm room, eating persimmons, fried pumpkin seeds with pine nuts, and chestnuts.

For the first time, the new members of the tribe who came over and in exchange found that they could still live so comfortably in winter, eating enough every day, and not worrying about waking up tomorrow without food.

Yao Xiaoqing found that this year's weather was finally a little more normal than last year, and there was no snow for half a month. The fish pond and the ice on the river surface froze more than half a month later than last year. She is looking forward to a good harvest next year.

Jiang Li trained the warriors of the tribe during the day, and the children followed behind and shouted slogans. After the night meal, I taught them numeracy and told them stories.

She found that everyone listened to the story as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. After listening to it twice, she found that he was talking about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, teaching them to sacrifice their lives for the tribe and the clan, and she felt that Jiang Li was brainwashing them.

On the day of the winter solstice festival, the tribe held another sacrificial ceremony, and everyone sacrificed the dead clansmen and relatives with sumptuous food.

What made Yaohu's family happy was that Ah Xing was also pregnant with a baby, and Mu Feng had a smirk for more than ten days.

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Winter went to spring, and everyone found that this spring finally came on time.

After the road surface thawed, Jiang Li led people to start building the dock. He took the wolf, the captain of the construction team, and Ah Hei and them, drove piles and laid wooden planks, and spent more than two months to build a corridor to the river.

The top of the corridor is supported by columns and covered with tiles, and there are no walls on all sides, which is a good place to rest and play in summer.

At the end of the corridor, in the shallow water area by the river, driftwood is used instead of bamboo rafts, making it much more convenient to go down the river for rowing.

The soy sauce that is brewed has become a black-red soy sauce after months of sun exposure and night dew.

Yao Xiaoqing began to boil soy sauce, poured the soy sauce mash into a large pot, added an appropriate amount of salt, ingredients, and water to boil.

Three jars of soy sauce are boiled out of one vat of soy mash, and the boiled soy sauce is placed in the dam to continue to be dried.

Yao Xiaoqing found that the soy sauce he made and the bottled soy sauce in later generations had a mellow bean flavor and bright color.

The remaining beans are boiled and dried to make tempeh. Mixed with chili oil, pepper noodles, beef jerky, walnut kernels, spicy and salty, eat with corn and pumpkin porridge, the taste is excellent.

After the beginning of spring, the tribe is also busy, ploughing the land and sowing seeds, the wheat in the fields returning to green and tillering, and everyone is busy applying fertilizer and dredging drainage ditches.

The tribes on the other side of the bamboo forest all came to exchange the pumpkin seeds, and Yao Xiaoqing asked Ah Worm to take them to the field to watch the seeds.

Shanyang only learned that the seeds had to be dug deep and hoeed, the stones and roots of the trees should be cut off, and the ridges should be dug open......

The seeds that Jiang Li brought back, Yao Xiaoqing planted them on a small piece of land, and when the seedlings grew, he found that the seedlings were a bit like sorghum, but they were much thinner.

There are also those vine fruits, Yao Xiaoqing planted them in the orchard and built a special shelf.

After the winter wheat was harvested, Yao Xiaoqing said to Yaohu: "Father, I want to go out and have a look, and by the way, look for new food seeds." ”

Yaohu looked at her worriedly, "Xiaoqing, there is already a lot of food in the tribe!" What kind of food do you want to eat, let your brother and Jiang Li help you get it back, okay? ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him, "Father, I saw a food called rice from the gods, and I want to find it." ”

Yaohu thought for a while, "Okay! Where do you want to go to find rice seeds? ”

"I want to go downstream and go south, and it may be a long delay." Yao Xiaoqing smiled, "Father, don't worry, I will come back before winter comes." ”

Yaohu frowned, "It's summer, autumn, you're going to go for so long?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing comforted him gently, "It's okay, I'll be careful." You don't know how powerful our weapons are! ”

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