Anyway, we've found the rice seeds now, haven't we? Take your time, you will eat white rice sooner or later!

Yao Xiaoqing put on a hat and turned around and walked back, and saw Jiang Li pulling a cart into the gate not far from the gate.

"Jiang Li, you're back!"

Jiang Li turned around and saw Yao Xiaoqing walking over wearing a hat, "You go to see those rice again!" ”

"Yes!" Yao Xiaoqing smiled and ran a few steps, "The wood is almost stored, right?" ”

Jiang Li smiled and nodded, "It's almost saved, and after it dries, you can start making furniture." How is the rice growing? ”

Yao Xiaoqing shook his head, "It's not good, the low yield is amazing." ”

Jiang Li saw that she was a little depressed, and persuaded softly: "Take your time, I remember you said that you have to be slowly optimized, and with good seeds, the yield will be high." ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled at him, "I know, what fruit trees did you find when you went into the mountains this time?" ”

"There were a lot, there were fruit trees and flower vines, I made marks, and I dug up all the small plants, wrapped them in straw baskets, and brought them back." Jiang Li said and looked at her deeply, "In the year after tomorrow, we will be able to plant all the areas along the riverbank with fruit trees and flower trees." ”

"Hmm!" Yao Xiaoqing stretched out his hand and pulled the rope of the cart, "Let's go!" Let's pull it over together. ”

Jiang Li held her hand, "Xiaoqing, wait for two more years, the fruit trees and flowers and vines on the bank of the river have also survived, and you will be eighteen in two years." Xiaoqing, we'll get married on the winter solstice that year, okay? ”

Yao Xiaoqing didn't expect Jiang Li to propose to herself here, although the relationship between the two had already been determined, she was still a little hesitant to really get married, she looked up at Jiang Li, "Wait two years, okay?" ”

Seeing that she didn't refuse, Jiang Li showed a bright smile, "Okay, you can think about it in the past two years." ”

Yao Xiaoqing rolled her eyes at him, "Okay, I'll think about it." ”

Jiang Li looked at her with joy, "You sit on the cart and I'll pull you back." ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him sweating profusely and shook his head, "It's so hot, I'll help you pull it back together." ”

Jiang Li puffed up the muscles on his arms and looked at her with a smile, "Don't be afraid, how strong your man is!" ”

Yao Xiaoqing twisted him, "Cheeky!" ”

Jiang Li smiled and carried her to the cart, "The handsome boy pulls his daughter-in-law home!" ”

"Zhu Bajie is almost the same!" Yao Xiaoqing laughed as he spoke.

Jiang Li pulled the cart to the foot of the mountain, unloaded the wood in the wooden shed, and the two came out to see Yaohu, and sat in the pergola at the door of the refining room with Dashi to rest.

Yao Xiaoqing smiled and went over, "Father, Uncle Dashi, the pavilion by the river is cool, why don't you go there to rest and cool off?" ”

Yaohu smiled and shook his head, "I'll go when those children are gone." "A bunch of kids were running around there, and the noisy people had a headache, and they couldn't sit and talk for a while.

Dashi looked at Jiang Li, "Jiang Li, I see that the wood you are looking for is very good-looking, what are you going to make?" ”

Jiang Li said with a smile: "I plan to make beds, cabinets, tables and chairs...... He also plans to rebuild the yard and make it their wedding room.

Dashi thought about the patterns of the wood, and nodded again and again, "Let's take a look when you're ready, and I'll get some if it's good." ”

Jiang Li smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll do it for you then." ”

"Okay, what you make looks good."

Yaohu looked at the two of them, "Look at you guys sweating profusely, go back and wash and cool off." ”

"Huh!" The two nodded and turned around.

Dashi looked at the backs of Jiang Li and Yao Xiaoqing for a while, then looked back at Yao Hu, "Leader, Leader Xiaoqing is already a big girl, she and Jiang Li should also be paired to get married!" ”

Yaohu smiled and nodded, "Xiaoqing, that kid understands everything else, she said that she is still young in this matter, and she will think about it in two years." He also said that in the future, girls in the tribe were not allowed to be matched with anyone until they reached the age of sixteen. It is said that the age of the male and female pairs is young, and the children born after the pairing are not healthy, and the women are prone to illness and death. ”

After hearing this, Dashi remembered what Hua said, "Hua said that Xiaoqing said, women are too young to give birth to dolls." Let Yaya find a man to match later, and if there are good men in the future, you can also recruit into the tribe to match. Hua said that Yaya is blessed, and she doesn't have to leave us in the future, and she doesn't have to be paired early to have a baby. ”

Yaohu smiled: "She is the leader, and she has more things in her head than us, so she can do whatever she says." ”

He believes in his daughter, the Yaoshan tribe was established by her with everyone, and he believes that she can build the Yaoshan tribe better.

***

Time flies, and two years pass in a flash.

The banks of the river in the territory of the Yaoshan tribe and the verandah of the pier have been planted with exotic flowers and plants, but clusters of colorful flowers are blooming enthusiastically in the sun.

The breeze blows, the flowers of different shapes sway in the wind, attracting bees and butterflies to dance, and the fragrance of flowers faintly spreads, refreshing and intoxicating.

On the bank of the river, Jiang Li led people to make wooden chairs out of carbonized wood, and in summer, people from nearby tribes gathered on the bank of the river, and everyone sat on the wooden chairs built on the bank, enjoying the shade and playing.

It has also become a place for young men and women of various tribes to meet before and under the moon.

The ponds at the foot of the tribe were also planted with lotus flowers by Jiang Li in the opposite mountain, and everyone sat in the pavilion by the pond, watching the fish frolic under the lotus leaves.

Jiang Li also led people to build a water mill on the canal under the spring, which consisted of a diversion channel, a water wheel, a grinding disc and a grinding shaft.

The tic-tac-toe beams are wrapped around arm-thick ropes, and a heavy stone grinding disc is suspended in the middle and the lower fan grinding disc is run together, and the lower fan is driven by a water wheel to drive the wooden wheel engine stone mill, and the two wooden strips in the air next to the grinding disc are erected with rectangular wooden noodles......

The nearby tribes only needed a small amount of food to grind flour and rice in the mill.

They exchanged for high-quality wheat in the Yaoshan tribe, millet and beans in spring and autumn, and wheat in winter, and the tribes along the Ning River had already lived a worry-free life in advance.

There were conflicts and disputes between the tribes, and everyone went to the Yaoshan tribe to find the retired Yaohu leader to resolve the dispute.

The men and women of the Qingshan tribe are matched with the warriors and women of the Yaoshan tribe, and they are now both members of the Qingshan tribe and the Yaoshan tribe.

After Heiba was paired and married, Jiang Li passed the position of the leader to Heiba. But he didn't want to, they didn't want to leave Jiang Li, where Jiang Li was, the Qingshan tribe was there.

He felt that the Qingshan tribe belonged to Jiang Li, and could only be passed on to Jiang Li and Yao Xiaoqing's children.

In the past two years, Yao Xiaoqing found silkworms on mulberry trees, raised the first batch of white and fat silkworms, and weaved better and softer cloth.

She also uses wheat and yeast, ramie leaves...... After several attempts, the koji was made, and after several attempts, the liquor was finally made from sorghum and the alcohol was distilled.

Yao Xiaoqing asked people to announce the methods of making tofu and piercing the nostrils of cows.

Everyone had oxen to help plough the land, and the crops were better.

After the production method of soy products was made public, the tribes that came to the market came to the Yaoshan tribe to customize the stone mill.

In the past two years, the Yaoshan tribe has stored enough grain to face a natural disaster that has not been harvested for three years. Yao Xiaoqing finally managed to have food in his hands and not panic.

The sun shone with a dazzling golden glow, and she shuttled through the middle of the golden rice fields, with a big smile on her face.

After two optimizations, the longest ear of rice in the paddy field bears more than 50 grains of rice, and the shortest ear of rice has more than 30 grains.

After the first year's rice was planted, forty or fifty catties of rice were harvested. The next year, she planted all the rice seeds she had selected. All the rice seeds harvested from more than a dozen acres of paddy fields were planted in the third year, and all the more than 100 acres of fields near the river were planted with seedlings.

With more than 100 acres of rice, this year, the Yaoshan tribe can finally open their stomachs and eat fragrant white rice.

(End of chapter)