After two days of waiting, the rice was finally ready to be harvested.

Learning the lesson of the last time, Song Xuan got up very early this time, and as soon as it was dawn, he called everyone out.

This time the manpower is quite sufficient, more than 100 people are all in the tribe, even excluding the children, there are still 112 people.

So as soon as the day began to heat up, that is, around ten o'clock, everyone had already finished cutting the rice.

Although they were only busy for more than four hours, most of this time was used on the small stone knives in their familiar hands, especially Shi Meng, whose hands were thick and rough, and their fingers were relatively thick, and it was still difficult to use this small stone flexibly.

So basically, I didn't do much work in the first two or three hours, and at most I collected a third, and the rest was completed in the last hour or so.

The rest of the work didn't need to be completed by Shi Meng, so the hunting team, which had been holding back for several days, was finally released again.

Although I have been idle in the tribe for so long, it is not completely fruitless, at least everyone who uses a bow and arrow is given three more arrows, and when it comes to hunting, the effect is still very obvious, there are arrows in my hands, and I don't panic.

Since Shihua and the others have been picking wild fruits near the tribe recently, they can basically come back every day, so it wasn't until yesterday that Song Xuan informed them of today's arrangements.

After Shi Meng and they left, the task of threshing had to rely on them to help, after all, this was not the dozens of catties of rice in the two divisions of land a few days ago, and there were still hundreds of catties here.

With fewer people, they really can't be busy, so Shihua still has to work hard for a day.

Even if he was mentally prepared, the rice in these few acres of land still brought a lot of surprises to Song Xuan, and the preliminary estimate was that there must be more than 1,000 catties of rice that had not yet been dried.

Even if three layers of moisture are removed, it should be more promising to leave seven or eight hundred catties in the end.

In this way, next year's production will be completely sufficient rice seeds, and Song Xuan now regrets that he has collected rice seeds from other tribes, and it is really not cost-effective to spend so much money to get something that is no longer lacking in a tribe.

However, after thinking about it, the varieties found by other tribes are not necessarily completely similar to those of Teng Snake, and many of the ones that have been collected so far seem to be a little empty.

Moreover, the rice plants in the tribe are also different, although they are all the same land, it stands to reason that they should all be similar, and Song Xuan did not treat them differently under various water fertility conditions, but there was always a small piece that did not grow very well.

Among them, there are also those who grow particularly tall, and Song Xuan also intends to pick out a batch, but when he thought about it, nearly half of the rice in the rice field had already been harvested, so there were not many saved in the end, and these good-growing comparative rice were only about a catty.

If you want rice to yield more and more year by year, breeding must be done persistently, but unfortunately Song Xuan didn't think about it at the beginning.

Growing thick and tall is definitely the first choice in the tribe, both in terms of disaster resistance and the final production of rice is generally better than the dwarf plant, but there is also a possibility that the nutrients are concentrated on the rice stalks, so they can only be bred according to the existing conditions, and finally let them cross themselves.

So think about it this way, the rice seeds of other tribes are not necessarily exactly the same, after all, the living conditions in each place are different, some have more water and some have less water, some have more wind and rain, and some may be a little drought, the geographical conditions are always different, and the surrounding area can cover a radius of hundreds of miles, and the climate change is still very large.

Song Xuan could only comfort himself like this, anyway, the rice seeds were also exchanged for pottery, and this Teng Snake was completely worthless now.

And the most important thing is that what I said at the beginning was not only rice seeds, but also other seeds, even if one or two years can only find one that can be used in the tribe, in Song Xuan's opinion, this is not a loss.

Although the problem of rice has not been completely solved, next year's seeds will definitely be enough, so the most urgent shortage now is the problem of vegetables, and there will definitely be no shortage in the meat tribe.

So now the most scarce thing in the tribe is vegetables, although I found some edible wild vegetables in the past, but Song Xuan observed several kinds, it seems that there are no seeds left, and I don't know how they breed, if you want to rely on this to meet the daily consumption of more than 100 people in the tribe, it must be very enough, and vegetables and wild vegetables have very high requirements for seasonality, most of them are only available in spring and summer, and you can't find much after this season.

Although the rape has grown into the appearance of Song Xuan's impression, it is just relatively short, and there are not many seeds, but at least there are them, but they are not used to make vegetables and eat, what is the problem Song Xuan was still a little entangled at the beginning, after all, this is something that can squeeze oil.

But on second thought, it's more important to cultivate the habit of eating rice now, and as for oil, it's better to get it through hunting.

The most important thing is that even if a large number of seeds are produced, Song Xuan doesn't seem to know how to squeeze the oil out, and Song Xuan is reluctant to use this for experiments before there is enough yield, so he should still eat it as a vegetable in the near future.

But this alone is not enough, it can only depend on the efforts of each tribe in the future, whether there will be people with special luck to bring what Teng Snake wants.

What made Song Xuan feel a little happy was that the number of breeding animals in the tribe had exploded, and this growth did not come from Shi Meng and them, but the rabbits raised were too powerful.

At first, it may not be suitable in the tribe, so after raising it for a month or two, these rabbits did not have much movement, only one pair gave birth to a litter, and half of them died, but by the third month, it is estimated that everyone has adapted to the life of being raised, and it is also quacky to give birth to baby rabbits.

Up to now, each pair of these dozen pairs of rabbits has given birth to two litters, and there are at least five or six rabbits in a litter, so there are more than 100 rabbits born alone, but although there are many births but many deaths, they may still not have mastered the know-how of breeding, and nearly one-third of them died halfway.

There are enough of them, so there are nearly a hundred of them that have survived so far, and I believe that there will definitely be more and more in the future, Song Xuan is a little worried that there will not be enough for them to toss in the tribe, so he is also preparing to wait for the rice to be finished, and get a new rabbit house for these rabbits.

After a long day's work, a group of people finally got all the rice down and put it all on the tribe's open space to dry.

Although the rice did not look small, Song Xuan did not think about digging the cellar, but still let the stone burn some more jars and jars, and they were all relatively large, and each large jar could hold at least sixty or seventy catties of dry rice.

There is an advantage of using a jar, that is, as long as the mouth is sealed, there is basically no need to worry about the problem of re-dampness, mainly how to dig the cellar Song Xuan is still thinking about it, even if he has a general idea in his heart, he does not dare to experiment with this first batch of rice seeds.

At present, it is better to pursue a stable one, even if the effect of digging out the cellar is good, and the ability to store grain is large, Song Xuan is still a little drumming in his heart, if these rice are damaged, then this year's hard work can be regarded as in vain.

The cellar must be dug, so Song Xuan plans to wait until autumn to dig a few more, and put some things in it, such as some plant ash or something, mainly to see if it can completely isolate the entry of water vapor.

Now after these rice are dried, they are still put into the jar by Song Xuan, and a piece of animal skin of suitable size is cut out on it, and then it is buckled up with a large bowl, and a stone is pressed on top of the bowl, which basically ensures that even if the house leaks, the rainwater will definitely not be able to enter.

Although the weather is still relatively hot now, it is similar to Song Xuan's experience in his previous life, it is almost time to enter autumn, but it is just that the weather is slowly starting to turn from hot to cool, now is the hottest time, and it will definitely get cooler and cooler in the future, and there are still several months before winter.

After putting all this rice into the warehouse, Song Xuan's biggest concern this year was finally landed steadily.

After Shi Meng and the others came back again, Song Xuan decided to take someone to the salt mine again, it was time to improve it again, and the tribe also had a high demand for the salt they had mined, and everyone seemed to like to eat some of the salt they had made.

This time it just happened to be able to get some more back, this time there was no need to be like last time, all of them were members of the hunting team, they still had to give full play to Shi Meng's productivity, they would definitely be more suitable for hunting during this time period, so Song Xuan asked Shi Hua to bring ten women with him.

Song Yuxuan originally wanted Shui Yun to pick a few people and go over with him, but after saying it, he didn't expect that since he refused, he still only arranged Shui Er, and originally Song Xuan didn't want Heishui's people to be in contact with too many Teng Snake's secrets now, so since he took the initiative not to send someone over, Song Xuan didn't ask more.

It's not terrible to know what Teng Snake has at the moment, because whether it is pottery, bows and arrows, or even salt, it will definitely be known by everyone in the future, but if you follow the past, it means that you have basically mastered the refining method, although the two tribes are currently integrating quite well, but after all, it has only been more than two months, and Song Xuan didn't dare to let them know too much, and there should be a little bit of precaution before they were not completely integrated into Teng Snake.