Chapter 159: Harvest
It seems that he was driven by Shi San, and within half a month after he gave birth to the child, two new lives came to the Teng Snake Tribe.
If there are three children, the nursery room in the tribe can come in handy, leaving only one person to raise every day, but if only one person is left, the milk will definitely not be enough, so they can only squeeze it down and save it by themselves, but fortunately, it is no problem to put it for only one day.
Before the rice was harvested, Song Xuan found that many of the seeds sown in the vegetable field this year could be harvested, of course, the most important thing was definitely the dozen or so rape.
It may be that Song Xuan's planting time or method is wrong, the survival rate is not high, and only a dozen of a handful of seeds grow in the end.
But fortunately, the survivors are all mature, and Song Xuan has been staring at them for a long time, but the rape plants in this era are not tall, basically only eighty or ninety centimeters tall.
There aren't many seeds on it, but it's still very impressive to keep seeds.
But it is not so easy to expand to such a scale after two years of planting like rice, and Song Xuan is also worried that it is not mature enough, so he did not go to harvest it until the rape was about to crack.
But fortunately, there were not many of them, and it didn't take a while to collect them all, and in the end it was enough to spread the bottom of the bowl.
As for oil extraction, there is still a long way to go, you must know that Song Xuan has endured these little rapes for a long time, after all, it was still very tempting when he first grew up.
In addition to rape, there are twenty or thirty things that should be cabbage, but in order to keep the seeds, Song Xuan only got a little bit of the taste, although it is not as good as in later generations, but it is basically certain that this is it.
Although the number is not much more than that of rapeseed, the advantage is that the plants are relatively large, and after all, this is for cooking and eating, and it should become a small amount of picking and eating next year.
However, only so many seeds were collected, and in the end there seemed to be only these two kinds of seeds, although the others were barely edible, but they were similar to wild vegetables, and if they really didn't eat them, they could be adjusted, but it was still a little too reluctant to use them as the main dish, and the other people in the tribe were not very receptive to it, but Song Xuan was still ready to keep their seeds.
As long as it can be eaten, as for whether it is delicious or not, there is no need to think too much about it now, after all, no matter what, the main dish in the tribe must still be meat, and these vegetables will not be particularly important.
The original wild vegetable tribe has now slowly begun to accept it, and although everyone can't eat too much at a time, they have even taken the initiative to go out and dig this year.
Of course, the most popular vegetables in the tribe are all kinds of wild mushrooms and bamboo shoots, both of which are not only delicious, but also can be stored for a long time, which is very in line with the needs of the Teng Snake tribe.
Although some vegetables are also good, they do have a serious seasonality, and there are no greenhouses in this era, so you may not be able to eat them all if you grow too much.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of salt in the tribe, such as cabbage and rape can be pickled into pickles, and they have a different flavor.
After half a year of hard work, the rice planted by the tribe was finally ready to be harvested.
Half a month ago, Song Xuan drained the water in the rice field, and it hasn't rained much recently, and now there are even quite a few cracks in the rice field, but fortunately, the rice has reached the time when it is fully ripe, so it has no effect.
Shi Meng After the last hunt, they did not leave the tribe too far, but walked around, although the harvest will be a little less, but it can be regarded as adjusting the state, after all, the next must be a hard battle, this hundred acres of rice want to harvest all back, it must not be easy.
The weather is very important when the rice is harvested, and it is okay in the field, as long as it is not a continuous heavy rain, it will not rain too long this season.
After all, it has gradually entered autumn, and although it is still green outside, it can be seen from the fruits of various plants that the rain when making the lily clothes should be the last long heavy rain of the year.
Although it may not have a big impact in the ground, once it is recovered, it must be dried as soon as possible.
Although the tribe controls a wide range, there are not many open spaces that can really be used, and there is only this one around, and there is not much space in the tribe for a long time.
In the past two years, so many people have been added, and the places that can be used have already been arranged in the house, and there is not much place to dry the rice.
If you don't get it done while the weather is good, once it rains, it will be a devastating blow to the tribe, and a year's hard work will be in vain.
Seeing that the rice is getting more and more yellow, the tribe has also been prepared, and the saw sickle that was polished last year has been taken out at this time, and at the same time check whether there are any defects, although everyone made three or four at that time, but the pressure on so much rice is also very great.
In addition, Song Xuan leveled out the places around the tribe that could be exposed to the sun, after all, the food should not be contaminated with too many impurities for the time being, especially small stones and the like.
Today's dinner was just Song Xuan announced the news that the rice would be harvested tomorrow.
Fortunately, everyone has basically made enough preparations, and looking at the rice that has turned yellow, everyone is a little eager to try.
Harvesting rice and mowing grass are similar, everyone has basically tried it in advance, but they don't need more guidance from Song Xuan, after eating and drinking, everyone returned to their residence early, Song Xuan has already explained the situation to everyone.
And this is food, no need for Song Xuan to say more, everyone is naturally very concerned, the tribe has never seen so much food, although the final harvest is definitely not as shocking as it is now, but no matter what, there is definitely no problem to meet the consumption of the tribe for half a year.
Although rice is now very well accepted in the tribe, but after all, it was Song Xuan who promoted it, so he was also very concerned about it, he got up early and began to arrange manpower, there are so many people in the tribe, although the whole clan must be dispatched today, but not everyone can harvest in the field.
Of course, most of the people must be responsible for harvesting and threshing, in addition to the person who is responsible for polishing the saw sickle, Song Xuan asked everyone to make a few more, in order to be able to turn away, a hand is not sharp, immediately handed over to the person who is responsible for grinding.
In this way, as long as the efficiency is enough, it will not fall into the embarrassing situation of having no tools available.
These stone and bone grinding tools, the biggest disadvantage is that they are not resistant to wear, in order to ensure sufficient efficiency, they can only come up with this strategy, although it will certainly not be so convenient when used, but this is also the best solution that can be taken at this stage.
In addition, there must be a certain logistics group, responsible for cooking, transportation of their own duties, the main force of transportation is naturally these cattle in the tribe, especially cattle, the carrying capacity must be much more than people.
Fortunately, the bridge built last year is wide enough that even people can easily pass next to the oxen, and if you still cross the river by boat, then the efficiency will be much slower.
Although Song Xuan got up early today, this is just compared to usual, and Song Xuan is usually the most lazy person.
So even if they got up early in the morning, Shi Yan and Shui Wu were already busy, and if there were not many people in the tribe, they were usually responsible for cooking.
Today, since everyone is here, and the work that needs to be done is not easy, so breakfast can't be dealt with as usual, usually breakfast is mostly broth, and there is not much meat.
After all, before Song Xuan came, he used the snake, but it was still a two-meal system, and it was as rich as lunch, and the tribe couldn't afford it.
But today's breakfast is not bad at all, although there is no roasted meat, but the meat in the pot is also very porcelain, in addition to adding a lot of mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, which are everyone's favorite things.
However, after all, the quantity of these things is limited, and they usually don't put too much, and today because the task is relatively heavy, Song Xuan also told the two of them not to save anymore, and they can only work when they are full.
"Divine Messenger~"
Song Xuan saw that the two of them were a little too busy to work, so he hurriedly joined in.
Fortunately, the pots for boiling water have been transported to the shed, and the firewood is also prepared, so it will be much more convenient for the two.
The next period will definitely be very busy, and there will not be many people who can help at that time, although eating is more important, but it can't take up too much manpower, and the two of them are mainly responsible, of course, some children can be requisitioned to help.
These children were very enthusiastic when they heard that they were going to harvest the rice, after all, they had to sharpen their own saws and sickles in the winter, and they had grown up with these rice trees.
Song Xuan, who usually pulls out some weeds or something, will also call them, after all, compared with adults who are big-footed, it is much more convenient for these children to shuttle through the rice fields, at least they will not trample on the rice on a large scale.
When planting rice, because some skills were still needed, Song Xuan didn't let them help anymore, but harvesting rice was not very difficult for these children, and they had to rush for time, so Song Xuan didn't let them go, except for a few particularly small ones, they were all recruited.
In the next few days, the tribe did not need to do anything, and the most important thing was to concentrate manpower and material resources to harvest the 100 acres of rice.
Not only did Song Xuan get up early, but it didn't take long for everyone to gather in the main house one after another.
However, although the food was relatively hearty, Song Xuan didn't let everyone eat nonsense, and Haisai suddenly stretched his stomach too full.
After all, you still need to bend over to harvest rice, and the food is too round, but there is no way to bend down, and these things can't be eaten, and they will be brought to the field when the time comes, and if you are really hungry, you can go directly to the shed to eat a little.
After everyone finished eating, the sky was a little brighter, although it had entered autumn, but after all, this had just begun, the temperature drop was not obvious, and it was still very hot at noon, even if there was a hat, there was no way to work in the field for a long time.
Hurry up, Shi Ban finally took the bow and made a hundred or so hats, just didn't do any work, all the time was spent on it, although the tribe can't do one person, but the people who belong to the three tribes of Teng Snake should be able to share it.
As for the original captives, they had to rely on other things to shade the sun, weaving some grass rings by themselves, and inserting some leaves on them, although they looked worse, but they could barely block the sun.
The rest of the tribe was still dressed in the same attire, a grass skirt or animal skin skirt, and the women had an extra bandeau top, and only the most critical parts were covered.
Song Xuan is the most worn person in the tribe, although it is usually a beast skin skirt, but today after all, he has to fight under the sun for a long time, so he still made a small vest out of leaves, but he chose those relatively large leaves, and only used two or three pieces on each side.
"Let's go, let's go!"
Song Xuan gave an order, and everyone followed the majestic and high-spirited towards the rice field.
The distribution of personnel was already arranged at breakfast, and everyone had their own tasks.
The average rice field in the tribe is about three or four acres, so it is still the same as when planting seedlings, and the manpower should not be too small, otherwise it will be busy all day and not much will not move a piece of land, which will still have a big blow to everyone's confidence.
So there are still about twenty people in the land, and the tribe is divided into seven teams, and the others have their own tasks.
Shi Ban and Gong Yi need to be responsible for polishing the saw sickle, Song Xuan was even a little worried that the three of them would not be able to work, but several people also knew that the manpower was tight, so they patted their chests and took the work down, Song Xuan saw that they were too busy to say quickly, after all, it would affect the harvest of the entire tribe at that time.
In addition to being responsible for cooking, Shi Yan and Shui Wu also have to take care of the dozen or so children under the age of four or five, and these children usually don't let them do much heavy work, although they will follow the older ones to fish, but more often go fishing.
However, they can still help a little, but the main purpose is to follow them fishing, so that someone can watch them and not run around, but now the older children are divided into various teams to help harvest rice, and they can only be handed over to Shi Yan.
As for the three newborn children, they were taken to the shed together, and when they were hungry, they asked Shi San to go over to feed, which was also a helpless thing, after all, the conditions of the tribe were not so good, and everyone had to come in handy, even those younger children were not completely able to run around, and they still had to help.
After everyone arrived at the place they were in charge of, they all looked at Song Xuan at the front.
Still in the rice field behind him, Song Xuan took a breath, bent down to hold a small handful of ripe rice, and then took a sickle to cut it.
Although it has been sharpened as much as possible, after all, it is polished with bone, and it is definitely not as good as metal, even if there are only four or five trees in Song Xuan's hand, it takes a little effort to cut it.
But fortunately, everything went well, and after cutting it, Song Xuan stood up straight, raised the rice in his hand above his head, and shouted loudly:
"Open the sickle!"
The first rays of sunlight in the early morning sprinkled on Song Xuan's body, adding a sense of sacredness to Song Xuan, who was already imposing.
Teng snake everyone followed, also took action, although they have already experimented with weeds, but after all, the rice still has to be tougher, so it was not so smooth at first, and then everyone quickly adjusted, each time cut two less, so that although the speed is slower, but it will be a lot easier.
However, even if everyone was mentally prepared, the speed of the saw sickle was still beyond everyone's imagination, and it was already dull and inconvenient to use after a while.
Even the rough ones were only cut for about ten minutes.
Song Xuan originally planned to use each knife carefully and use it for an hour, so that he didn't need to polish it many times a day, and they could be busy when they wanted to, but at this time, they obviously underestimated the tenacity of rice.
The Shiban and the others, who were still taking the time to help cut the rice, were also very surprised to see everyone suddenly gathered, but after all, this was what they were responsible for, so they quickly got busy.
Fortunately, everyone's sickle is only slightly worn, and the shape has not changed much, but it is a little reluctant to use it for cutting, and it only needs to be polished a little at this time to be put back into use, and the polishing time does not need to be too long.
However, Shi Ban and they have not stopped since they started polishing, and they haven't finished it here, and the next batch has come back again, fortunately, Song Xuan asked everyone to prepare a few more, if it was only one or two, it would be really insufficient.
Seeing this, Song Xuan can only let everyone use it a little more carefully, wear a little less as much as possible, even if it is good to cut an extra handful, and at the same time, once they have saved enough, they will be tied up in time and transported back to the tribe.
This is arranged, and the few people who are in charge of threshing do not need to work here, and there are more important tasks waiting for them next.
Uncle Lu also seems to know that today's task is very heavy, so he seems to be extremely obedient, and was called out by Song Xuan early in the morning to feed him, today naturally can't be taken care of by someone like when he was reclamation, although the forage has been prepared, but it is only piled up in a fixed position, let them eat it themselves if necessary.
Of course, when they are in charge of handling, someone must be led by them, even if Uncle Deer doesn't need to worry about it, but other deer and cows can't do it.
Although the manpower had been arranged in the morning, the first cooperation was still a little jerky, but fortunately, after a while, everyone got used to this rhythm, and after the harvest, they were directly tied up and transported to the outside of the threshing house.
Although Song Xuan only prepared two stakes for them in each room, there were four people who worked, three of whom were responsible for beating and one was responsible for carrying out the beaten straw.
Song Xuan also knew that in fact, the hardest thing was a few of them, after all, there were not many of them, and when they came out, they saw that they were full of outside, and there were more and more trends, which still had a great impact on the mentality, after all, there were more than 100 people who harvested rice, but only a few of them were responsible for threshing.
Moreover, after being beaten inside, the dust on the rice was suddenly raised, so it didn't take long for them to start their work, and several people were discouraged.
Since this task has been assigned, everyone has no complaints, of course, six of the eight people are prisoners, and several of them belong to the more stubborn elements, Song Xuan already had this consideration when he arranged for people, and let them come here to do dirty work.
The other two are necessary supervision, after all, if they were only allowed to be here, the work would be less serious, but the harvest of rice could not be delayed, so the most aggrieved were the two people who were arranged in.
When Song Xuan arranged, although he told everyone how dirty it was, he didn't force the roll call, and only let everyone decide for themselves, Shi Shan and Yang Liu saw that the work they had worked so hard to snatch from other people turned out to be like this, and they somewhat regretted it at this time, but since they had already been assigned to their hands, they would not discount it.
As for the remorse in his heart, he was all vented on the other people, urging a few people to speed up the movements in their hands.
Although the two of them are not responsible for the beating, it is not easy to carry them back and forth, and their bodies are only a little better than the six people inside.
Fortunately, although I was a little tired and dirty, I didn't have to be exposed to the sun all the time, and the surrounding walls were about the same height as the walls in the house, so most of the sunlight could cover them.
But that means that by noon, they're going to have to work a little longer than the others.
Even if Song Xuan asked everyone to work a little slower, but it was close to noon, but the people in the Shi class were still too busy, and there were more and more saw sickles to be sharpened at hand, and even some people were in a state of no knife to use.
Song Xuan also sent the stone over, and the people in the tribe naturally had no problem polishing these things, and the stone was not so convenient for others to move, especially bending over and squatting for a long time.
Joining one person relieved the pressure on Shi Ban and them, but after a while, Song Xuan beckoned everyone to go back to eat.
Although there was food under the shed, I still had to go back to the tribe for lunch, and I had to work all morning, and at this time the sun was at its hottest, so it was natural to avoid this time of work.
It was just right to take a little rest, after all, I got up very early today, and when Song Xuan cut the first handful of rice, he usually started eating in the tribe.
Busy all morning, almost no rest, this is also the beginning, everyone can still hold on, otherwise it may not be able to last for so long, although there are sheds, but there are not many people to rest, everyone at most is to drink a few sips of water, a little breath back to the field.
But tossing all morning, everyone seemed a little tired, looking at the mountains of rice outside the threshing house, everyone was also very surprised, I didn't expect to have such a harvest in the morning, most of the people did not have to participate in the handling of the work, so it is not clear how much was cut, although each team has harvested a small half of the land, but after all, it is the first large-scale harvest, everyone really does not have this concept.