Ancient wasteland

Before dark, Ye came back with the long-haired bleating beast that Jing Zhu wanted.

He used local materials to weave a large net out of wild vines, and the long-haired bleating beast was caught in the net and flew back directly after grabbing it with its claws.

Jing Que was finishing dividing the meat in the tribe, when he heard the sound of wings breaking through the air, he looked up and saw a silver light.

Ye Ye fell from the sky and threw the bleating beast to the ground, "Is it this kind of bleating beast?"

In the big net made of vines, there are not only two long-haired baa-baa beasts that look similar to the sheep that Jing Que knew, but also four or five gray long-haired rabbits with bulging bellies, and they should all be carrying cubs. .

Jing Que was a little surprised, "Where did you catch it? Bei said the long-haired baa-baa beast is quite far away, and you still have time to catch the rabbit along the way."

The big silver lion flapped its wings lightly. He was so fast that it took no time to find the long-haired baa-baa beast. Since Jing wanted the red-eyed beast, he looked for it nearby and caught it back.

Jing Qu smiled, "Go back and get dressed first, and then help me build a nest for the rabbit."

Baa-baa beasts are easy to raise, you just need to tie them with a rope, and give them green grass to eat, and there will be no trouble, just as the hemp rope comes in handy in the tribe.

Jing Que took two ropes to form a ring, tied up the baa-baa animal, tied it to a wooden pile at the foot of the mountain in the Tribal Square, and covered it with withered grass to keep warm.

Turn around and make a nest for the rabbits. Although the rabbits are mild-tempered and don't like to fight or fight, they have sharp teeth and like to gnaw on things!

If you use wood to make a frame for them to make a nest, they will soon be chewed into a mess, and they will run away if there is a gap!

Especially this kind of wildness is not domesticated. When Jing Que was a child, someone in his hometown specially raised rabbits and sold rabbit fur, and they all made nests of stones.

It's a bit like a vertical cubicle, the doors are made of iron nets, and every time you feed, you can see the rabbits staying quietly in the pen.

When they turned their heads and they were full, they began to gnaw on the iron wire...they can break even the thin wire, and the teeth are really good.

A total of five rabbits were caught from the wild, including one male rabbit, and the remaining four were female rabbits with cubs and big bellies.

According to Jing Zhu's experience, the female rabbits should be giving birth soon.

Now the breeding scale is still relatively small, and there is no need to feed them separately. Jing Que plans to put them together, and first make a large wooden frame to raise them.

Of course, hard green branches should be used as the material, and the green branches must be cut slightly thicker to avoid being bitten by rabbits.

Ye changed his clothes and came out to make a nest for the rabbits, and Jing Que led the grass and water to mow the grass next to the tribe, waiting to feed the baa baa animals and rabbits!

After putting the rabbits into the new nest that was just made, Jing Qu teased them with some grass, and Ye watched from the side, "They don't seem to eat."

Jing Qu slightly smiled, "I guess I'm not hungry, besides, I was frightened just now. I must be a little scared to move to a new environment. Wait a little bit."

As he spoke, he threw the green grass in his hand into the rabbit pen, clapped his hands and stood up, "Let's go back and cook, and come back tomorrow to have a look."

Ye followed him back, "Okay."

As the bleats and rabbits made their home in the tribe, it rained more and more often, and each time it lasted for two or three days.

Jing Qu understands why the tribe calls spring the water season. There is so much rain that it seems to never stop.

Even the creek next to their tribe rose to a level of about 10cm, and the filter had to be reset.

The lake where the ducks live has submerged to the shore, and various fish, shrimp and microorganisms have gradually increased, and the ducks have finally come to their paradise.

The rainy weather was too much and the mud embryos were not easy to dry in the shade. Jing Que suspended the pottery burning, and now weaving is popular in the tribe.

The spinning jenny machine is really easy to use. After Ye got used to the machine, Jing Que led people to make ten sets, and put them in the big hole for the old people to spin.

The amount of ramie is sufficient, and it is spun into piles of hemp thread. When it rains, the gathering team and the hunting team do not go out, and they all nest in the cave in a daze.

There is no entertainment in the tribe. Jing Qu saw that they were all busy growing mushrooms, so he taught them how to make looms and learn to weave in holes.

Facts have proved that the tribe likes sackcloth more than cotton leaves.

In the words of the priest, it is strange that the leaves look green and look like a tree when worn on the body.

Jing Que smiled in his heart, they hadn't had the concept of being green yet, but they were sensitive to the fact that it was not good to wear green!

Generally speaking, weaving is considered a pastime in the tribe. It can not only pass the time but also weave linen to make clothes, and they all expressed their love for it.

Whether the woven cloth is good or bad, they will be brought to Jing Que for him to have a look, and after reading it, leave the cloth as a gift to him.

So he didn't weave any cloth himself, but there was a lot of linen piled in the cave.

Jing Que found a box to pack them, dried them and placed them on a shelf to avoid damage to the linen due to the humid air during the water season.

In addition to weaving, another activity in the water season is making people.

Both Yu and Bei came over and asked Ye if they wanted to live in their cave for a while, but Ye solemnly refused.

And after showing that he still wants to form a partner with someone, and it is impossible to sleep with two people at the same time, the two sisters are slightly disappointed.

But soon they decided not to wait for the wild, and chose another warrior from the hunting team, and called him to live in their cave.

The whole tribe was a little restless, and Ye rarely stayed with him except for meals.

Every time Yu came to look for him, Jing Que could see all kinds of ambiguous red marks on her neck and chest, and she didn't care to hide them at all.

The tribe didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but Jing Que had a headache when she saw it, so she asked her to get dressed properly, promised well, and then turned her head and forgot about it.

The next time I saw it, it still didn't change at all, and Jing He was so angry that he gritted his teeth and told her to stay quietly instead of coming to play with him.

During the rainy season, the tribe began to be idle, but Jing Zhu became busy, mainly thinking about the crops in his field.

When the stream first started to rise, Jing Que was still worried that too much rain would drown his crops, so he went to see it with a leaf on his back.

Fortunately, his land, because it is on the mountainside, is a slightly downward-sloping plane as a whole, and there is not much water in itself.

Moreover, when he was planting, he always opened ravines, especially the sweet potatoes and radishes he planted, both of which had roots growing in the ground.

After the growth period is the puffing period of the rhizome. When he transplanted and planted, he always piled up the soil next to it slightly, and planted the seedlings on it.

After a period of time, the boundaries of the ditches and ridge heights are clearly defined, and the continuous rain in the current water season has not affected their growth.

On the contrary, watering the vines made them more verdant, especially the sweet potato vines. These sweet potato vines were all cut from that magical seed.

The growth rate is obviously faster than that of ordinary sweet potatoes, and the change is almost visible to the naked eye. He can cut a section of vine every two days and transplant it out.

Especially after entering the rainy season, it seems that there is an invisible hand pulling them in the dark, and they grow very fast.

Jing Que has to go to the field every day to transplant the newly grown vines. There are relatively few sweet potato vines in the early stage. This is very simple.

You can come back soon after going to the ground. In the later stage, as the transplanted vines begin to take root and sprout, cuttings are carried out, and the number doubles.

Every time I go to the field, I have to work for half a day.

Before the end of the water season, when the sweet potato vines were transplanted for the last time, Jing Qu looked at the green and vibrant sweet potato field in front of him with a stiff smile.

I turned around and called the collection team to help. The sweet potatoes produced by these systems grew faster than Jing Que expected, and the prepared land was not enough.

The land had to be plowed again, ditches and ridges dug, and the vines and branches in the existing three-acre sweet potato field were cut into short pieces of ten centimeters.

After transplanting to the nearby field, Jing Que and the gathering team spent the whole day digging and planting sweet potatoes, and finally finished their work before the hunting team came back at night.

The planting area of ​​sweet potatoes is about ten acres, all of which are small stubs of ten centimeters with two leaves. It looks a bit miserable and pitiful!

This is already the largest area that can be planted this year, and then the sweet potatoes will enter the growth period, and pinching the sweet potato vines will affect their growth.

However, this amount has already exceeded Jing Zhu's expectation. If the output can meet his expected standard, a large number of plantings will be realized next year.

... At that time, the 100 mu of land will not seem to be enough for planting. He can't help fantasizing about planting sweet potatoes in this land, and he still has to open up wasteland!

If we continue to open up wasteland, the surrounding of their round kiln by the lake is a very good location, where the location is flat and the area is wider.

Looking along the edge of the lake, there is a feeling that thousands of miles of fertile soil can't see the edge, which is very suitable for planting and grazing.

And after the lake dries up in the dry season, the silt at the bottom of the lake can be dug out and used as fertilizer.

There are duck feces, various dead branches and rotten leaves, and various underwater microorganisms, etc., which must be very fat after rotting!

Jing Que was still imagining the grand scene in the future, Yu stood beside him, looking at those so many green vines that Jing called sweet potatoes.

If they were all cut off, it would be enough for their tribe to eat for a long time, but now they are cut into short pieces and buried in the soil. I don't know if they will rot.

She licked her lips, "Jing, these sweet potato vines are buried in the soil like this, will they really grow many vines?

By then, will we have a lot of sweet potato vines to eat? ! "

Jing Qu shook his head with a smile, "Sweet potatoes are not wild vegetables, and the main edible parts are not vines, but root sweet potatoes, which can be used as a staple food.

The staple food is something that can eat all you can and give us strength. Now the tribe mainly eats meat, occasionally with wild vegetables, this kind of diet structure.

In fact, it is not very healthy... Well, let's not talk about this for a while, when the sweet potatoes are planted, we can mix sweet potatoes with meat.

In this way, the amount of meat can be reduced. The bacon we store can be eaten for a long time, and it is best to survive the cold season completely. "

He doesn't want to be short of food in the cold winter. If the weather is cold and there is not enough food to provide calories for consumption, he will easily freeze to death.

The fish frowned, "What is a root?"

Jing Que thought about it for a while, "It's the edible part that grows in the ground. After the root system of the plant expands...we'll talk about it after it's planted."

The tribes all eat meat, wild vegetables grow on the ground, and fish have no concept of roots, let alone eat plant roots.

It's really difficult to explain just like this. After Jing Zhu finished talking to the fish with a smile, he went to see the onion, ginger and garlic planted next to him, and they all grew very well.

The green onions and garlic sprouts are as long as a foot, and they are growing very well. Jing Zhu occasionally comes back to pick some leaves, and goes back to stir-fry meat or simply put them in the soup.

When cooking in the tribe, they will pinch some. Jing Que told him to keep the plants so that they will not be damaged, and pick the leaves that have grown well.

It will not affect their own growth rate, each one is very tall and straight, and looks very energetic.

The radishes also grow very well. After being transplanted by them, there is enough room for growth, and the fertility keeps up, so they continue to grow.

The harvest will be almost ready by the end of the water season. Now it is the end of the water season. Jing Que went to the radish field and squatted down to look at the situation.

It just rained yesterday, and the soil is still very wet. If there are no cracks on the ground, it is impossible to guess how big the radish is inside.

He squatted on the ground, counting the time to plant the radish.

After a calculation, hey, these radishes were planted in the ground shortly after he came to the tribe, and it has been almost three months now.

Calculated according to the 65-90 days of the radish growth cycle, it is time to harvest.

He immediately cheered up, clutching the green radish sprouts in front of him, trying to pull out the radish to see what it looks like!

He found these radish seeds from the medicinal materials. The system displayed them as radish seeds. Jing Zhu knew they were radishes, but he didn't know what kind of radish they were.

Green skin and white skin?Round radishes are still elongated radishes. If it is the legendary rouge radish, it will be the size of a ping pong ball.

...Jing Qu felt that he might want to cry very much!

When he pulled out the radish, he was still a little apprehensive, but fortunately, this worry did not last long.

Soon seeing the radish pulled out of the ground, that little worry turned into full of joy, I couldn't help but smile, and the corners of my mouth turned up!

The radish pulled out from the ground is a typical white-skinned long radish, with a length of about 20cm and a diameter of about 7cm, and it is estimated to weigh 5.6 catties.

As far as this body shape is concerned, it is almost the same as the big white radishes that Jing Que has seen, the ones bought in the supermarket and carefully cultivated.

It is a giant, Jing Qu smiled and called Yu to come over, and handed him the radish, "This is the root, and the root of the radish is the fruit.

It can be eaten. Radishes are best eaten as vegetables. They can be used to stew meat and stir-fry vegetables.

From here to here, this area is all pulled out, and the rest are left as seeds. Let's eat radish stew at night! "

Yu hugged a big white radish, looked at the dirt on it, and was a little puzzled, "Is this really edible?"

She wanted to try to take a bite, but the dirt on it discouraged her. After all, Jing always emphasized that diseases come from the mouth.

Seeing her gnaw on a radish with dirt, she will definitely be unhappy, and maybe even scold her...Jing has a good temper and doesn't get angry easily.

But when he got angry and ignored her, Yu felt uncomfortable.

Forget it, I still don't want to eat it, anyway, Jing said that if she can eat it, she can definitely eat it. After pulling out all the radishes, let Jing teach her how to eat it.

Yu smiled and put the radishes away, and told the people in the collection team to start pulling them out, and then asked people to go back to pick up the radish in the basket and carry it back to clean it.

There are not many radishes themselves, and even fewer are left to be planted.

Jing Que asked them to pull out about 300 of them, each of which weighed 5.6 kilograms. Although the number is small, it cannot support the large size of a single one.

Or fill ten backpacks and carry them back to the tribe, and put the radish sprouts there for processing.

Jing Que first asked people to wash the radishes and cut them into cubes, ready to be stewed.

It just so happened that the hunting team brought back three black-skinned wild boars, Jing Que looked at those wild boars with a smile on his face.

Although the wild pork is a bit fishy, ​​the meat is chewy and the ribs are especially delicious.

Roasted radish with pork ribs is Jing Zhu's favorite dish!