Searching for food through the beast world

various land plans

Since a light snowfall at the end of February, the weather has begun to show signs of warming up.By mid-March, the snow in both the village and the forest began to melt on a large scale.I believe that it will not be long before there will be no signs of winter snow again.

People in the village are very busy these days.Because the food accumulated last autumn was enough, there are still some things left in the ice cave. Of course, these few things have to be considered carefully. After all, the beginning of April is a good time to start hunting. Although there are some things in March Beasts are awakening from hibernation, but many more will not emerge from the valley of death for a while.It's just that they have to take advantage of this time to dispose of the stored food as soon as possible, because the ice in the ice cave has begun to melt gradually like the snow outside.

After the things were distributed, the ice cave was cleaned up again.Pengjia began to lead people to plan the address of the market.

Based on the instinct of beasts, even members of the same clan would not want to get too close to their own territory, so in the end, everyone unanimously decided to build a market on the edge of the safe zone in the southwest of the village.First, the safe zone in the southwest is smaller than that in other directions, which is convenient for people to come and go.Secondly, because there is a river passing through it nearby, it is convenient for people in the market to fetch water.The key is that the distance from the other three villages is about the same.

Since a market is to be opened there, it is natural to have a place where stalls can be set up.Of course, trees are not allowed to be felled casually, and it is not necessary to build sheds, houses and the like at present.As long as the ground is flat and the animal skin mat can be spread out to place things, it will be fine.Of course, it is not without a house.Ding Xiao suggested to build two or three houses next to the market, and arrange people to watch by the market when there is a market.In case of emergencies, there are people who can solve them.For example, business and quarrels, there are beasts that are not afraid of death, and suddenly someone gets sick.In short, it is a market management office.

However, after the winter, the rain in the spring and summer is sometimes abundant, and sometimes the rain clouds will suddenly become dense and raindrops will fall at a very fast speed.Therefore, Ding Xiao thinks it is better to build small platforms one by one with stones and soil. It does not need to be too high, as long as it is about [-] centimeters higher than the ground. In this way, each booth will be clear, even if it rains , as long as the tent is set up on the platform, there is no need to worry about the goods getting wet or getting wet directly on the ground.

It's just that although Ding Xiao's proposal is good, it is not a big project.In the end, Kun suggested that this matter should be done by the people who are going to sell things from each household, and whoever sets up the stall will do it.However, the size of each family is regulated, and the application for any place must be approved by the village head and the priest.You can't let people who have nothing to sell take up a piece of space and waste it.

Then the problem reappeared.The plants in the forest are wild, and there are many wild plants that are edible.Ding Xiao felt that it was not advisable to ruin these things.And it's good for them to plant with seeds, but it's even better to have seedlings.So in the end he told the village chief and the priest that if someone wants to set up a stall, he must root all the plants on the ground and hand them over to him, and he will decide what it is.It would be a shame not to have to pull out everything that is edible.

To be precise, "planting" is also one of the village's most important things, so Ding Xiao's proposal was immediately approved.But in this way, the construction of the platform can only be carried out after the vegetation has sprouted and greened.Fortunately, I really don't have to do these things. Preparing goods is not as simple as setting up a tent.The market at your doorstep can last a long time in Japan, I believe that more people will have to stock up on spring market goods from now on.

Ding Xiao couldn't avoid the fact that the other nine males who also built houses this spring took up the place he wanted, so he consulted the village chief and the priest early and circled that place.

This time it was really a circle.Although it was only surrounded by dead branches, sticks and ropes of grass and vines, the meaning of the enclosure was obvious. The key point was that the area he encircled...was really not small.

This move surprised many people in the village. They didn't know what Ding Xiao, Kun, He and Qiong were doing, and even those who thought they were not pleasing to the eye spoke bad things behind their backs.But soon the priest came forward to explain that this is the experimental field in the village.

The three words "experimental field" are very fresh, and of course the priest also heard it from Ding Xiao.She called the villagers to gather by the altar and explained the main purpose of the experimental field.It means that Ding Xiao collected a lot of plant seeds last year, so the village department plans to plant these seeds near the village.If it can be grown, half of the harvest in the experimental field will be distributed to the village.At that time, the whole village can share the seeds.Of course, you can eat these seeds if you want, and you can plant them in the next year like Ding Xiao.But now I am just trying, I don't know if it will be planted.So the meaning of enclosing that piece of land is that everyone can no longer walk on it, because the seedlings will be stepped on, and everyone will lose the seeds and food that will be distributed in the future.

Once this kind of thing is told to many people, they will naturally have different reactions.Some people are more active, especially those who have a good relationship with Ding Xiao and Kun, those who have a good relationship with He's father, and those who have resumed their relationship with Qiong's father in the past six months all expressed their approval.Moreover, the buddies like Feng and Muwa who are always together are all willing to help in the test field.Even Gray Tiger is on the list to help.

You read that right, there is a record of asking for help.This was proposed by Ding Xiao.He doesn't think it's a good thing to open up and let everyone help.Although people generally have a good heart, in this social environment of private ownership, some people will definitely suffer from "pink eye disease".He is not worried about someone playing tricks behind his back, not to mention that he is not worried with his modern way of thinking, even his own big tiger can easily deal with it.But he thinks that small things come and go are inevitable.In case someone uses the excuse of "helping" to cause a little damage, that is also a very annoying thing.Therefore, it is necessary to specify personnel.In particular, he must ensure that the first to learn planting techniques must be his relatives and friends.

With the support of the entire village, Ding Xiao has completely ignored the gossip of those few people who like nothing to do.Well, in fact, he didn't intend to care about it.Although the vast majority are those who wait and see and feel that it is meaningless, Ding Xiao believes that as long as he grows it by himself, the village's land use will expand again next year.So he thought it was a pretty sensible decision for him to keep the trees.He doesn't want to see trees being cut down.Too much damage to the ecology will make it difficult to balance. The people here are not modern humans who can only live for 80 years or 500 years. If you spoil nature, you will suffer the consequences.

Ding Xiao's knowledge about farming is very limited.But his family lived in the suburbs after all, and he could see farmland nearby, so he still knew that he had to plow the land before planting it.Just turning over the ground is doomed to destroy the original rooting underneath, which made Ding Xiao think about it for two nights. In the end, Kun decided to turn over first, and he made up his mind.Thinking about it, the idea is to sow seeds to grow new things, and it doesn't make much sense to keep so many of the old ones, and he remembers that there are no pearl fruit plants behind his house, so other wild vegetables don't matter.Anyway, there are still things in the safe zone that can be made up later. (How stingy you are.)

Climbing the ground is a breeze for these Maverick males.Even if they don't turn into beasts and use sharp claws, they can easily turn over the five or six acres of land with hard wooden sticks.By the way, according to Ding Xiao's intention, a large pit of about half an mu of land was dug on the east side of the enclosure. The deepest part of the pit was more than three meters long, and the shallowest part was 1.2 meter three.Then there is a big project. They need to lead a canal from the nearest river, let the river flow into this big pit, and then create a canal from the other end to return to the river, so that the fish pond will always be full of water. There is running water.As for the mouth of the two canals, it is easy to solve.At present, it is only necessary to block the downstream mouth with stone nets.When there are enough fish, the mouth of the upstream water channel will be blocked with stone nets.He believes that some small fish fry will continue to enter his fish pond~!No need to catch fish, so convenient and trouble-free!

This huge project once again attracted criticism, but because it was in the experimental field, no one dared to say anything.It's just that people keep coming to observe, and some elders and people who are more acquainted will ask what this is doing.Kun told them: "Planting the land requires watering, and rain alone is not enough. This pool is reserved for watering the land. After watering, everyone will share more things."

With personal interests in it, there are fewer people who are thinking blindly.But it's not that no one continued to think about it, which led to rumors that popped up from time to time to irritate people.

Kun has had a high status in the village since he was a child, and because he is a child prodigy and he is the heir to the village chief that everyone recognizes, no one will say anything about him.But Ding Xiao, a half-orc cub picked up by Qiong, is different. Under the leadership of Yang, there is also Qian who has been struggling with Qiong, and now he is very dissatisfied with his elder sister for agreeing that Kun married Ding Xiao, a half-orc, as a partner. He Xingfeng also joined Dimugu's camp.In fact, all they can say is that Ding Xiao is capable of tossing around, and he hasn't stopped since he came to the village.In addition, they also expressed dissatisfaction with their family for enclosing such a large piece of land.All in all, envy and jealousy.

No one is surprised that a passerby like Yang would say that.But after Kun heard about this from Jing, he immediately went to find his second aunt and uncle.And told my uncle and uncle about this problem very seriously.And tell the two elders that this is a matter decided by the village, and it is for the sake of food for all the villagers in the future.Last winter, because there were more yams and pearl fruits, no family went through the winter hungry. Therefore, if these foods can be grown on a large scale, every year in the future will be as comfortable as last winter.Xiaoxiao's own collection of seeds is entirely for the sake of the future of the whole family, otherwise they can grow enough for their own family to eat in the yard.

Although Xingfeng and Qian have disliked Qiong for decades, they still listen to their partners very much.After all, in the beast world, marriages without feelings are not rare but rare, so they just habitually loathe Joan.Unexpectedly, this kid Kun actually found his own partner directly, without leaving any affection.Feeling suffocated, I went to my eldest sister Liu Dai and nagged, but was reprimanded by Liu Dai again, so I could only go home and continue to hold my breath.But he never said any more nonsense, in fact, the family is strictly controlled.

The matter of digging the canal was handed over to Feng and the others.Because the place Ding Xiao chose is less than 200 meters away from the waterway, a ditch that is two meters wide and one meter deep is simply too trivial for the males, so they built wooden bridges on both ditches. .Ding Xiao also put stone tables and benches under the trees near the canal on a whim, so that in summer, it must be very pleasant to enjoy the cool by the water.

After finishing the canal, Ding Xiao and Kun started planning their own house again.

Kun was surprised when he saw the house designed by Ding Xiao for the first time, but soon he became interested.

In fact, the house designed by Ding Xiao is not complicated.The living area is not very large, but there are many functions.Bedrooms, kitchens, and warehouses are all necessary, but the new home that Ding Xiao conceived has special planting areas, even in the yard, and there are two private plots, so that the areas enclosed by the yard will not be wasted.

Ding Xiao's first draft design is similar to that of an ordinary farmyard.There is a front yard and a back yard, and only three east wing rooms are reserved for storage.The main room is two and a half rooms, the entrance is the kitchen, there are stoves on the left and right sides, and the kangs in the east and west rooms are connected.The door of the bedroom is facing the kitchen, so there is no fear of cold wind in winter.The rest is the vegetable cellar in the backyard, the pigsty, cowshed, chicken coop, rabbit coop and so on in the front yard.

This first draft is already very remarkable to people in this world, but Brother Kun soon put forward his own opinions.For example, Xiaoxiao said that his family lived in a two-story house before, and he felt that he could also build a two-story house for Xiaoxiao.Because the priest's family has a tree house, although there is only one, and it is used to store medicinal materials, but that room is indeed very dry, even in the rainy season, it is not too humid.Another example is that they cannot have only two bedrooms.In the future, whether it is Ying or Cang who has a cub, they will definitely let them raise one.So they have to prepare the house for the cubs early.He also thinks that the food shed is very necessary.He didn't want a lot of people to come to eat in his and Xiaoxiao's bedroom after someone came.

Although Ding Xiao is very speechless about raising children, eating is still very necessary.It’s just that he thinks it’s too much to build a two-story building, which will definitely stimulate some people’s nerves again, so he discussed it with Kun. The two-story building is fine, and it’s okay to build a few more rooms. Anyway, the materials It's all natural, and Kun said it's not that difficult.As for the warehouse, Ding Xiao thinks that they can build the warehouse higher and divide it into partitions in the middle, which also has a certain moisture-proof effect.And he decided to ask Kun to dig the foundation deeper. The most important thing is to fill it with solid mud, preferably mixed with a certain amount of shellac, so that it is not only strong but also moisture-proof.

When it comes to the fear of shellac, Ding Xiao put forward his own opinion.While gesturing with Kun on the picture, he said: "I want these windows to be transparent or translucent. I have tried the hardness of the shellac after cooling and solidification, which can be used as windows. It must be very strong. In this way During the day, light can come in, so you don’t need to light candles or flashlights. And in winter, you can hang thick leather curtains like doors. Anyway, with windows, you can open them to cool off when it’s hot. The houses in my hometown are It has windows."

Kun is also very concerned about this matter.Because since he and his second uncle installed wooden windows in the food shed, he has felt the benefits of windows.It's just that the fear insect slime can only be bought from the people of the Serpent Clan when they go to the market.I am afraid that the amount used this time is quite a lot, and it will definitely cost a lot of shellfish.Of course, it doesn't matter, earning money is not just to buy things, but it is better to be able to exchange prey.But in this way, I have to start building the house after the spring market. "Okay. Let's use the slime of the phobia to make windows. That way Xiaoxiao can see me at night."

See you at night?Why do I want to see you at night?No, is it possible that this guy was talking about the time of that blah blah blah? !After reacting, Ding Xiao glared at Kun fiercely: "What is in your head!"

Kun smiled and licked Ding Xiao's lips: "Xiaoxiao!"

Ding Xiao felt that... he was completely defeated!

The author has something to say: various constructions have begun.

However, the house and infrastructure required by Xiaoxiao are not too easy for primitive people, especially if there is no "glass".As for the Pyrexac and Pyrex slime, the former was actually named by Xiaoxiao. He thought the mucus was unpleasant, while the latter was the spoken language of the orcs, a common language in the world, and it could not be corrected.