Chapter 43: March
Three months later, the cold winter has passed, and the warm spring has arrived.
Leaning against the newly built earthen wall, he looked at the small river not far from him, and looked at the water in the river that was more turbulent than in winter.
Yougen smiled and used the hoe in his hand to pestle the broken soil in the corner of the pestle.
Shi Nao stood beside Yougen, wiped the sweat particles on his forehead with the back of his hand, looked at the finished earthen wall, and said proudly: "It's finally finished." ”
Hearing this, the monkey stone and others standing on the edge of the earthen wall nodded together.
The earthen walls are half a meter high.
The soil of the wall is mixed with broken leaves and dead stems collected by the crowd.
With such raw materials, the earthen walls built are not very strong.
But the female wild boar, who was surrounded by an earthen wall and cowered in one place, was nursing three small wild boars, but she was very honest.
The wild nature that has evolved in nature has long since succumbed to the stick with roots.
In three months, a lot has changed in the shed.
These changes are all related to having roots.
There was a root where several saponaria trees were found in the forest.
As a result, few women in the shack area go to the river early to ask for laundry.
Yougen took the naphtha and others to hunt a lot of prey by traps and sneak attacks.
As a result, the wheat husks sent from Caoyun County were collected.
Yougen taught the half-hundred-year-old people and children in the shack area to pick out ten birds from their prey, with bright plumage, but not good at flying, and kept them in captivity.
So, the old man in the shack area chopped up the intestines that he had proposed to remove from the recipe with a stone blade, mixed with wheat and millet husks and crushed stones, as food for the birds in captivity.
There is a root in the low-lying place by the river, and together with the naphtha, monkey stone, eagle's beak, Fu Lei, Bayu, and feather, a rectangular earth pit of different lengths and widths and a depth of up to two meters was dug.
A ditch was dug next to the pit, which connected to the river and brought water to the pit.
Six men put live fish into the pit.
As a result, there were fish ponds in the shack area.
Yougen dug a pit by the fish pond and surrounded it with tree sticks to build a ventilated latrine.
Then, a man with a man from the shack area removed the manure that could be found everywhere on the ground of the shack area.
With great effort, Yougen hunted a live sow.
It took the six of them a whole day to carry the sow, which had already yielded, back to the shack area along with the piglets.
Then, Yougen and the five of them built the earthen wall.
Thus, the first pigsty was built in the shack area.
For the people in the shack area, the biggest and most intuitive benefit of having roots is that they have one meal a day, which has been changed to two meals a day.
And the ingredients in the soup are much richer than before.
Before Yougen came, they could only rely on one or two fish to cook the soup many times, but more than 50 people had to divide it.
From time to time in the forest, the dry and coarse monkey meat is already a rare meal.
After Yougen came, every time they received the soup in the bowl, there would be a certain amount of meat, and it was no longer just the soup mixed with meat scraps.
They still don't have enough to eat, but their faces are no longer as pale as they were when they first came.
Plus everything Yougen did in the shack area for three months.
In the shack area, everyone's eyes are full of hope and expectation.
Including the sheriff's naphtha in the former shack area.
Therefore, not only has the naphtha never opposed Yougen's proposal, but it is also a staunch supporter.
Even if he did feel that this kind of wild boar pen was raised, not directly used to fill the stomach.
It's like digging a pit to raise fish, it's all wasteful.
But he did as Yougen said, and spent a morning mixing up a lot of dirt and leaf stalks with the others.
It took another three hours to build up the earthen walls.
The seven did not go hunting, but the coconuts, oranges, piglets and oranges that remained in the field still brought two gray wolves.
The gray wolf is strong, nearly two meters long, and weighs nearly half a hundred pounds.
As these wolves walk in the woods, they are put around their necks with a rope that is placed.
As a result, they struggled desperately forward, and the rope tightened tighter and tighter.
Eventually, the rope strangled the wolf's fragile trachea, and the wolf couldn't breathe.
The wolf was strangled to suffocation and then died in the night.
The next day, the four women lifted the wolf's body with bamboo sticks.
In the hidden weeds, avoiding the sight of the guards on the city wall, he secretly carried the wolf corpse to the shack area.
So after eating, finishing the work, the five men who had nothing to do stupidly accompanied Yougen to look at the flowing water in the river.
Until an old man with abrupt and dense wrinkles on his face and pale sideburns walked quickly to the earthen wall, and walked to the seven people on the wall.
"Hey, you guys, something is wrong!"
Shi Nao and Yougen glanced at each other, and then Shi Nao asked loudly at the old man who came over, "Uncle Zhu, what's wrong?"
Zhu Bo gasped loudly, and quickly ran to Yougen's side, anxiously Yu Yougen looked at each other for a while, and then turned his head to look at the naphtha standing beside Yougen, with a puzzled face.
Finally, turning around, Zhu Bo focused his gaze on Yougen's face.
"The birds laid eggs. ”
Hearing this, Yougen's eyes lit up, his face showed joy, and he said loudly: "Oh! Great, Zhu Bo will take me to see it." ”
Then, the seven of them rushed to the fence where the birds were kept.
The fence is made of branches of different thicknesses and looks very rough.
The column is divided into five small compartments.
There are two birds in each room, a male bird with bright and varied plumage, and a female bird with brown and yellow plumage.
In the corner of each compartment, there is a small place of dead grass for birds to nest.
When Juber led the six men to the fence, he could clearly see bird eggs lying on the dead grass in three of the compartments.
Holding an oval-shaped, ping-pong ball-sized, pale yellow bird's egg.
Yougen tossed it lightly and tested the weight of the egg.
It's only been a few days since it was warm, and the birds have laid eggs, is it because they have been living too comfortably these days?
After thinking about it, Arigen smiled and put the egg back in its place.
"Today we have a meal and everyone eats egg drop soup together. ”
"Haha!" Hearing this, the stone brain standing beside Yougen first let out a cheerful cheer.
Because of the roots, the lives of the beggars who were originally abandoned by Caoyun County are gradually changing.
In the process of change, continuous improvement.
Therefore, in the warm spring breeze, the beggars began to have leisure to enjoy the warmth of the sunshine in the spring.
In Caoyun County, there is an attic with an area of 20 square meters at the top of the tallest building, which is like a bell tower and is in the shape of a pencil tip.
Outside the attic, there is a balcony.
On the balcony, there are flower pots.
In a pot, roses are in full bloom.
The flowers of this kind of western soil are thinned by the moisture of the soil outside the plug, and the spikes on the branches become sparse.
But the petals that are as red as cinnabar are still bright.
I didn't cut half the color.
A man stands on the balcony, standing among the roses.
The man's chin was neatly combed with a fine beard, and brown hairpins were inserted horizontally in a stone-like bun.
The beard and hair are all white, like snow in the cold winter.