Ancient wasteland

Since Jing Que woke up, it was like a rusty machine that stopped running was brushed with oil, supplied with energy, and began to run slowly. His physical fitness recovered quickly, and he was able to walk independently within two days.

But after all, he has been lying on the bed for so long, unable to eat or drink, it is a fantasy event if he can survive, and it is good if his muscles are not completely atrophied, and he wakes up with a delicate and weak appearance, unable to carry out long-term activities.

He stayed in the room for a long time and couldn't take it easy, so he wanted to go to the tribe and have a look at the lake where they were harvesting. Ye Ye firmly refused to let him go, so he allowed him to wander around in the yard.

I have to say that after not seeing each other for half a year, more changes have taken place in Jae Ye than in the tribe.

Not only did it include the white hair that made Jing Zhu feel distressed, but the whole person became more and more reticent, and his temperament gradually calmed down, like a mountain abyss.

There is a very oppressive feeling when you poke there, and what you say and do is even more subconsciously convincing and obedient.

As if by a wrong eye, my little boyfriend has become a complete and admirable patriarch. That feeling makes Jing Zhu both gratified and a little surprised.

If he is not allowed to go out, he will not go out. Anyway, the house he lives in now is completely unfamiliar to him, like a treasure that suddenly appeared in front of him.

When he woke up, he started to wander around the house, like a treasure hunt, and quickly found out the situation of his new home.

The overall layout of the house is actually not too different from the original one. It is also a small two-story building with four rooms in total. The first floor is the kitchen and living room, and the second floor is the bedroom.

The storage room is inside the mountain, which is a semi-underground model. The internal space is quite large, and it is estimated to be much larger than the volume exposed to the outside.

It was divided into two parts by bricks, and on the inside were many clothes, cloth and furs packed in wooden boxes, including the sweater, quilt and two rolls of silk prepared for him by Ye Shuo.

On the outside are all kinds of grain seasonings stored, and on the left side are all kinds of meat.

Ye is now the best fighter in their tribe, and he can hunt super-large prey like bulls by himself without partnering with others. In addition, he left a lot of salt at that time.

There is no shortage of bacon sausages at all, and there are several rows full of them, which look like five or six hundred catties.

Next to the bacon are various boxes for dried vegetables, and the jars for kimchi and sauerkraut are still empty, because the vegetables in the field have not been recovered, and sauerkraut and kimchi have not been made yet.

Now that the wild is arranging the harvest, Jing Que simply rolled the jars and vats out into the yard slowly, preparing to wash them and dry them.

It can be used directly after the vegetables are taken back. The water source is near the grape trellis in the yard, connected by the bamboo joints that have opened up the center, and gathers in the pool under the shade of the trees.

Jing Que put down the tank, looked at the clear and quiet flowing water, couldn't help laughing out proudly.

When they were exchanging coal in the Heishan tribe, they used bamboo joints as chimneys. Jing Que told Ye that the bamboo joints could be used to divert water after they were emptied.

Just saying that, I didn't expect Ye to really take it to heart, and I couldn't help being happy when I saw it.

I was very happy in my heart, and I felt full of energy when I started to work. I picked up the rag and started to wash the clay pot, and I almost hummed a few words of "washing and brushing" for my own enjoyment.

The temperature in the windy season is not low, especially at noon now, even under the shade of the grape trellis, the sun is still rushing down.

After cleaning the two large vats of sauerkraut and several jars of kimchi and chopped pepper seasonings at home, Jing Que was so tired that he was sweating profusely, his body was sore, and he didn't want to move anymore.

He simply sat on the stone steps and rested on his back. The grapes on the shelf were already ripe, hanging heavily on the vines, hanging over his head.

The purple-red appearance is stained with a little hoarfrost, which is very delicious to look at.

Jing Qu swallowed, sat up from the ground, stretched out his hand and pulled the skewer off the shelf, rinsed it with water, and threw one directly into his mouth.

"Hiss—" just tasted the taste, his whole face wrinkled up, and he spit it out quickly, "Bah, bah, it's so sour, what's going on?!"

This grape looks like a plump fruit with a delicious taste, but there is still hoarfrost on the outside, and it smells faintly sweet.

No matter how you look at it, it can be eaten directly. How could it be so sour in the mouth.

He frowned, and held the bunch of grapes in his hands to look carefully. The more he looked, the more he felt that they should be sweet grapes, but why they tasted so sour.

Unable to figure out the reason, I put it aside for the time being, sat down and rested enough, and went back to the house with the grapes and put them on the fruit plate on the table.

Turn around and continue to clean up the storage room. The recovered sweet potatoes, corn, cabbage and peppers must be dried and stored properly to ensure that they will not rot throughout the cold season.

The storage rooms are all paved with brick floors, and the walls are painted with lime and limestone, which is very dry in itself.

All you need to do is to tidy things up, make room for them, and clean up the dust on the ground. The storage room is not cluttered, and everything is placed in an orderly manner.

It wasn't troublesome to pack it up, Jing Que didn't take much effort to tidy up the storage room, and estimated that it was almost time to make lunch, so he washed his hands and went to the kitchen to cook.

As soon as the stewed meat in the earthenware pot wafted out the aroma, Ye came back from the outside, with sweat still hanging on his forehead, flowing down his chin into the linen skirt.

Leaning on the door frame of the kitchen, she looked at him softly, "Jing, what delicious food did you cook?"

Jing Que pointed to the earthenware pot on the stove, "My stewed bacon, there are some dried radishes in it."

The radishes in the tribe are planted in two seasons. The harvest time of the radishes planted in the water season is the season when the food is the most abundant.

I just wanted to store the harvested radishes and eat them when there was no food, but the temperature was too high to store them directly in the storage room for fear of rot and deterioration.

Simply wash it and cut it open, dry it into dried radishes, put them together with dried vegetables, and next to the frame where the dried radishes are placed, you can also see dried white lentils.

However, it is best to soak the dried lentils for a period of time before cooking, otherwise it will be difficult to cook soft.

Jing Que put the dried radish in the bacon. The big white radish they planted has a sweet taste in itself, and when mixed with bacon, it smells delicious, and it almost makes people drool.

He filled the pot with some firewood, turned around to scoop up water to wash his face, and chatted casually, "How is the harvest in the field?"

Ye wiped his face with a handkerchief, "It will take about two days to collect them all. There are still too few people in our tribe, and we will never end when we are busy."

During the water season when grain was planted, the tribe's private ownership had just begun to be implemented. In order not to delay planting, the wilderness directly led people to open up wasteland and cultivate land.

Now tribal hunting and gathering is organized by the tribe, and those who need to go will follow.

There are also warriors with outstanding abilities who act alone, or travel in groups with good relationships. Naturally, the hunted beasts are also allocated by themselves, and the tribe will not interfere.

The land has not yet been distributed. The food in the field belongs to the tribe, and it needs to be distributed uniformly after harvesting. It is a little troublesome.

But the people in the mountain tribe didn't find it troublesome. Looking at so many foods, they were all necessary in the cold season. With those foods, they could live well in the cold season.

There was a lot of energy in the work, and it was so hot, it was like a chicken blood.

Before the cold season is approaching, other tribes are worried that there will be no food and firewood to survive the cold season. Their tribes have experienced the cold season when there is no shortage of food and no one dies, and they are very at ease.

The problem of survival was solved, followed by thinking about the development and growth of the tribe, so the wilderness began to think about the population problem in the tribe.

To say that the current population of their mountain tribe is larger than when they were at their strongest, and since last year's cold season, all the newborn cubs in the tribe have survived.

If this continues, there will definitely be more and more people in the tribe, but Ye is somewhat dissatisfied with this growth rate.

Too slow, really.

There is still an endless wasteland by the lake that has not been reclaimed. There are more and more domesticated bleating beasts and red-eyed beasts, and they gradually start to lack people to take care of them. They dare not expand the scale, and there is a shortage of people everywhere.

In the past, the prospect fell into a coma, and the wild thought all day how to let the tribe get through the difficulties.

Now that Jing Zhu has woken up, judging from the number of fighters who appeared in the awakening ceremony last year, after the awakening ceremony this year, the number of fighters in the tribe will increase dramatically.

Wild even began to plan whether to launch a war to attack the surrounding tribes and integrate them into the Dashan tribe.

If it was the wilderness before, there would be some concerns. After all, the Black Mountain tribe and the Jumu tribe had a good relationship with them.

But since they united with the Dahe Tribe to restrict them and try to carve up their tribe's food and weapons, if he launched a war, he would just be ahead.

Seeing that he was washing his face, Jing Que didn't move, lowered his eyes, clearly thinking about something.

Thinking that he was worried about the population problem, he smiled a little, "It's not easy to lack people, the cold season is so long and cold, and there are so many people in other tribes who can't survive the cold season.

Our tribe now has food for raising, and when we release the news to the surrounding tribes at the wind season trade fair, there will always be people who can't make it through.

Those who can't live in the original tribe will become members of our tribe when the water season comes. "

Wasn't that how the native tribes followed them back?

In fact, most of the people in the primitive tribes don't have much mind. They can eat and sleep, and they can live happily without starving or dying. Tiredness and injury are common.

The once big tribes of the native tribes can easily integrate into their mountain tribes, not to mention those scattered people who really can't survive, they will be completely assimilated soon.

Not to mention anything else, as long as they are used to living in their tribe, it will make people go back to the fearful days of the past.

Even if they open their mouths to drive people away, they probably won't be able to drive them away.

Ye stood thoughtfully, and after washing his face in silence, he threw the handkerchief into the water, "That's good, but I always think it's too good for them."

Jing Que was slightly surprised, "Then what do you mean?"

Ye Ye has always been straightforward with him, so he simply told him what he just thought.

Jing Que listened quietly, "You mean to go to war with them, but if there is a war, there will be bloodshed or even death, I don't like it very much.

Besides, according to your thinking, if the people who were snatched by winning the war must not be equal to our tribal residents, then..."

He hesitated a little, "Are you planning to make them slaves? This is a normal development trend, but how should I put it, I don't like slavery very much."

Ye also listened to his thoughts seriously, and smiled slightly, "If you don't like it, I won't do it, then follow the method you said.

Anyway, those people who have nowhere to go in the cold season can feed with very little food. As for whether they can join our tribe.

Just wait until next year's water season to see how they perform. "

Jing Que breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, by the way, what happened to those grapes in the yard, why are they so sour."

"You mean those round fruits on the shelf? Are they called grapes?"

Ye unscrewed the veil and put it back on, talking to him, "I brought it back from the Blackwater Tribe, and their crops are very sweet and delicious.

The seeds brought back are very sour when they come out. Even shellfish and fish don’t like to eat them. They look pretty hanging. I’ll pick them up in two days to make fertilizer. "

Jing Que looked at the fruit-filled grape racks outside, they looked really pretty, just like strings of crystals, and he was a bit reluctant to use them to rot and make fertilizer.

Think about it for a while, "It's a bit wasteful to use it as fertilizer. I'll pick it and try to make wine. The wine made from sour grapes is still delicious, but it's a pity that there is no sugar or sweetness.

That's right, I heard from Bei that you have been to all four super tribes during this time, have you ever seen grass or wild vegetables that taste like humming beast nests? "

Ye Ye stretched out his hand and hugged the man into his arms, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head, "Maybe, but I was so focused on looking for their priests to cure diseases, I may not have noticed, I will take you there after the trade fair." have a look."

Jing Yu nodded and said, "Okay."

The two discussed some things about the trade fair.

Ye She seeks far away, brought Huyue back from the Blackwater Tribe, and has no intention of compromising with the Dahe Tribe.

After all, the conditions offered by the Dahe Tribe were that some lions opened their mouths and tried to devour most of their tribe's food, so how could he be willing.

Now that Huyue was being supported in their tribe, and Jing Que woke up again, the Dahe tribe's plan to embarrass them with the awakening ceremony naturally came to nothing.

But the Dahe tribe's coveting of food in their tribe will only increase, which is why Ye desperately wants to grow the tribe, and even wants to be the first to do it.

The trade fair in this wind season is not destined to be peaceful.

After listening, Jing Que asked, "Is the iron ore we bought back from the Black Mountain Tribe still there?"

Ye Ye knew that he wanted to use iron ore to forge weapons, "The iron ore is piled up there, I saw their weapons from Wujin City, they were forged from iron ore.

It is similar to the weapons we polished with green branches, so I didn't let the iron ore move. "

Jing Zhu smiled triumphantly, "That's because they are not good at forging, real steel is much better than green branches, I'll make the wine well.

You send people to pick up more iron ore and come back, let's start the furnace to smelt iron and get new weapons for the tribe! "

Although he didn't like to take the initiative to fight, but if someone really bullied them and came to them, then he had to let those people know.

The people of the Dashan tribe are not easy to mess with!