After entering the bird tribe, I want to farm

Bai Wu and Nan Yao walked up the river with a bow and arrow on their backs.

The sunshine in spring is very bright, and it is a bit dazzling when it shines on the ground. Because it is early spring, it is not too hot.

Against the background of the cold winter that has just passed, this is almost the most beautiful time of the year.

The two walked on the ground, their steps were light and fast.

They just rode the porpoise to the neighborhood, and now they are going to pick tea leaves in the mountains.

They picked the first batch of tea leaves this year, and they just finished frying them a few days ago. Even green tea tastes delicious.

Bai Wu wanted to take advantage of the season when the tea trees were sprouting and opening leaves. These could be fermented and made into black tea. Drinking it in autumn and winter would definitely taste very good.

The last time they picked near the hot springs, they had basically bald the tea leaves.

Wild tea trees do not grow leaves as fast as artificially planted tea trees. They pick a little, and the bugs eat a little. There is not much tea left on the tea tree, and if they pick more, it will threaten the health of the tea tree. They can only find new tea trees.

The air in the mountains is very fresh, the sun shines from the top of the head, passes through the leaves, and leaves bright spots on the ground.

Bai Wu stood where he was, his nostrils flaring, trying to detect the smell in the air, but he didn't smell it, so he turned his neck and asked Nan Yao next to him, "Do you smell the smell of tea?"

Nan Yao supported his shoulders, and gently pushed, "There should be none nearby. Go up the mountain, there are halfway up the mountain."

"It seems that the tea trees here don't like the dark and humid environment."

"Mushrooms like it. You can pick some mushrooms when you go down the mountain."

"That makes sense. Let's fish some more shrimps in the river. It's been a long time since I've eaten tea leaves and shrimps."

"Okay, I'll let the porpoise take us to a place with a lot of shrimp."

The two walked up the hillside. This mountain is far away from the Bai tribe, and there are no special prey or plants, so it is inaccessible and there is no road stepped on by people.

They have to climb up the plants on both sides slowly.

There are many mushrooms in the grass, under the dead leaves and on the roots of the trees. The mushrooms in this season are big, fat, fresh and delicious. Pick it up.

In the process of climbing the mountain, they can also see small animals in the bushes, such as rabbits, bamboo rats, wild birds and other small creatures. At this time, Bai Wu will take down the bow on his back and stand in place to aim and shoot.

His arrow skills are not bad now, if he shoots with a sword, seven or eight out of ten hits.Even if they are not killed, as long as they are injured, they can successfully catch their prey.

The number of prey they shot became more and more, and when they climbed halfway up the mountain, they had already put six small prey in the basket on their backs.

Before Baiwu prepares to pick tea leaves, the back basket should be cleaned.

He looked at the basket, and couldn't help but plan today's dinner, "I can make a pot of stewed wild birds with mushrooms at night. The meat of this kind of wild birds is quite tender."

"It's also good to bake or hang soup."

"Small stir-fry is also good. I can't talk about it anymore. My saliva is about to flow out. Let's go, let's pick tea leaves first. I saw tea leaves."

The tea trees on their side are relatively tall. When picking tea, they either tie a sickle to the top of the pole and hold the pole to cut off the leaves of the treetops, or go directly to the tree to stroke them.

It's not heavy work, it's just time consuming.

The two carried the baskets on their backs and held up the poles. They walked over one tree after another, carefully cutting some tea leaves. The tea leaves in the baskets increased little by little, and a fragrant tea smell wafted out.

From morning to afternoon, when the sun gradually approached the top of the mountain, they finally harvested two baskets full of tea leaves.

After working for a long time, Bai Wu's arms and armpits were so sore, he kneaded his shoulders and said to Nan Yao, "Let's go back. The tea leaves in this mountain are almost harvested, we will come back next time. "

"Go catch the river prawns first."

"Go! Let's fly directly there!"

Because there were more tea leaves in the baskets, they took down all the prey they caught.Now to change back into the animal form, they have to take off the prey hanging on their bodies, then take off their clothes, tidy up the clothes and prey, and tie the lid of the back basket before they can change.

This process is more complicated, only Nanyao changed back to the animal shape, Bai Wu climbed onto his back with the items, tied up all the harvest, hugged his neck, "Let's go."

Nanyao flew down the mountain with Bai Wu on his back. He was too lazy to change back into a human form, so he let out a long cry, signaling the two little dolphins in the river to follow, and flew along the river to the tribe.

There are a lot of river prawns in spring, so they went home to put down their things, took a small dustpan for catching river prawns, and found a small stream to catch river prawns.

River prawns eat relatively clean food, are relatively small in size, and have a translucent body. They swim in the water like elves in the water.

Nan Yao did it himself, using a dustpan to fish, and he could fish six or seven at a time.

Bai Wu picked up the prawns he caught and put them in the earthen pot, and returned the dustpan to Nan Yao, asking him to catch another batch.

The two cooperated tacitly, and before the sun set, they caught a whole can of river prawns.

They rolled up their robes, carried tools, and hugged shrimp, and walked home side by side.

The sunlight dragged their figures out of the long shadows.

Back home, Chuan and Mo had cleaned up the prey they hunted today, washed and cut the vegetables, and waited for Bai Wu to start cooking.

Nan Yao built a fire, Bai Wu cooked, Chuan and Mo handled leather in front of the house, and An played with the family's egg baby.

One after another, people came to their house to pick up the baby eggs, saw their harvest today, chatted with them, and put the supplies they brought into their homes.

At this time, the smoke from cooking is curling up, and the aroma of rice is overflowing.

When night fell, their family prepared a meal and greeted each other to eat.

Kishi sat down on the chair and announced: "I feel that watching eggs at home is more tiring than going out to collect eggs. I will go out to collect eggs tomorrow."

Bai Wu looked at Chuan, "Na Yafu stayed at home, just in time to rub the tea leaves picked today, we'll be busy for two days first."

Chuan smiled and agreed.

Kian asked again: "The patriarch asked me today if I wanted to bring us white mussels? Didn't you say that after you finished watching the eggs, you would bring back the white mussels raised last year?"

Bai Wu pondered for a while, "It's time to fish, and I'll do it tomorrow. I'll tell him directly, and by the way, tell the other clans, and ask them if they want to exchange white clams for something, so we don't have to go fishing ourselves." .”

Their family helped the major tribes look after the eggs, and the major tribes reciprocated, and basically brought them supplies every day.

With the materials supported by the major tribes, it became much easier for them to raise livestock, and they basically didn't need to collect additional pasture.

Bai Wu is quite optimistic about this model.

Their family has a lot of supplies, and exchanging with the major tribes just happens to achieve mutual benefit.

The small river prawns on the table are fresh and tender. They are fried with tea leaves and have a unique aroma of tea leaves.

Mushroom stewed wild birds are filled with chewing fruit and bean paste. The sauce is very fragrant and goes well with rice.

After a tiring day, everyone sat at the table, enjoying the spring breeze, and eating a sumptuous dinner, which doubled the deliciousness of the dinner.

After eating, Bai Wu leaned back in the chair and sighed, "It's such a comfortable day."

Nan Yao sat opposite him, "Take a break and take you to the bath."

"Now we spend so much, should we take the time to pick a batch of flowers and steam some essential oils, maybe we can add some essential oils when taking a bath."

"The day after tomorrow, go to see pearls tomorrow, and pick flowers the day after tomorrow."

The white mussels in their family have always been in the stream, and the people of the major tribes basically know that they have raised pearls, but no one dares to have any bad intentions. The white mussels in their family have no other loss except for natural damage.

Bai Wu and Nanyao got up early in the morning, ate a simple broth and bibimbap, and then went straight to the stream with their baskets on their backs and a knife.

They are going to open white mussels by the stream.

White mussels are raised in the wild, and their activity trajectories have been a bit complicated this year.

The stream swelled several times, and the wooden fence they put up was also washed down several times. Many white clams escaped the prison, and now the entire stream is covered with white clams.

They even saw white mussels in the lake when they fished on the bottom of the lake downstream.

Knowing this situation, Bai Wu didn't worry too much. The stream and lake were almost becoming their family's private property, and no one came here at ordinary times.

It's okay for this group of white clams to escape from prison. Maybe one day in the future, they will suddenly dig a white clam with a big pearl inside.

When the two reached the stream, Bai Wu rolled up her robe and stepped cautiously into the stream.

This stream belongs to the mountain stream, and the spring water gushing out from the mountain is icy cold, much colder than the water in the big rivers and lakes outside.

Bai Wu stepped into the stream, the water waves covered his slender legs, and the cold air soaked his bones. He couldn't help but "hiss" and took a breath of cool air, "This water is really cold."

Nan Yao held his wrist, "Stand still, be careful not to fall."

"I seem to have stepped on a white clam." Bai Wu frowned, took Nan Yao's hand with one hand, bent down and touched the white clam under his feet with the other hand, "I touched it."

As he spoke, he took out the clam with a "wow".

The white mussels were lifted out of the water, and they were still dripping water. The warm shells shone with sunlight, looking very beautiful.

Bai Wu stared at the white clam for a while, "As expected of the white clam we raised, it has grown up a lot."

"Anyway, after feeding so much food, it should grow up. Continue to fish, throw them on the shore first, and unify them later."

"Okay, I'll touch downstream, and you touch upstream. Let's compare who can touch faster."

"No rush, safety is important."

"Let's play for a while. What's so unsafe about such a shallow stream? Opposition is invalid. When you agree, let's start a competition. Whoever wins remember to agree to a small request."

Nan Yao paused for a moment when he heard the words, and glanced at him subtly, with a smile on his lips, "Are you sure?"

The two of them played this game quite often, and the last time they played was about six days ago.

Bai Wu thought of that unspeakable night again, and felt a little pain in his waist.

Under Nanyao's gaze, he looked at where they were standing, and felt that the chance of winning this time was relatively high, so he puffed up his chest, "Why are you not sure? I touched the entrance of the lake, and you touched the place where there are no white mussels." So far, how is it?"

"Let's compare, just don't play tricks if you lose."

"Who cheated? When did I cheat? I won't tell you more, let's start comparing."

Bai Wu has many advantages, one of the major advantages is that he will do what he says, he hardly finds reasons for himself, and he does not think of ways to evade what he promised.

Nan Yao heard his promise, and immediately bent down to touch it in the stream.

Both of them are people who are used to work, they move very fast, and their speed is almost indistinguishable.

The white mussels were thrown onto the shore like raindrops, making a thumping sound.

When they touched white clams, they would hold them in front of their eyes, and only throw them on the bank if they were big enough. If they were not big enough, they would throw them into the stream.

Bai Wu tried her best to win.

He went downstream without raising his head. When he touched the white mussels, he sometimes touched some fish, especially some herbivorous fish.

These fish are usually not big, just as big as their palms, but they are quite fat, with a round belly. If Bai Wu touches them, he will not be polite to these fish, and will directly throw them into the grass on the bank.

If these fish are cleaned up at night, whether they are fried into fish cubes or hung into soup, they will taste very good.

The work of touching white mussels is not heavy, but they need to bend over and straighten all the time, and they are very tired after a whole morning.

Bai Wu didn't look at Nanyao, he was working all the time, and finally touched the entrance of the lake. He turned his head to look at Nanyao, wanting to tell Nanyao that he won, but he didn't expect that Nanyao had already stood on the shore at some point.

"Why are you so fast? Did you cheat?" Bai Wu stood in the stream, panting lightly with her hips crossed, "When will you finish touching? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Just now, a sentence earlier than you."

"Could it be that you saw that I was almost done touching, so you specially stood on the shore in advance?"

"Am I such a disreputable person?"

"I don't care, I want to check to see if there is any fish that slipped through the net, otherwise why are you touching so fast?"

Bai Wu ran to the bank, pattered up to the upper reaches of the stream, re-entered the stream, and touched in the stream.

He touched the stream for a long time, but he didn't find a few white mussels. The few white mussels were still small and belonged to the category they didn't harvest this time.

Bai Wu looked up at Nan Yao suspiciously, "You really didn't cheat, why are you so fast?"

Nanyao pointed to the dustpan beside him with his slender fingers, "I just use the dustpan to pull it over, and after one round of pulling, I will finish digging the white mussels in the stream."

"Can it still be like this?"

"Why can't it? At most, the white mussels that are fished out will be more damaged and waste the dustpan. Doesn't that count?"

"Calculate……"

Bai Wu tapped her head.

These white mussels had to be dissected when they were fished out, it didn't matter if they were damaged or not, he was mainly annoyed that he was working hard, and he didn't think of a shortcut.

It's such a waste of brains.

Nan Yao pinched the back of his neck happily, "I'm starting to cut the clam, I won't make things difficult for you this time."

Bai Wu glanced at him faintly, "Last time when you said you didn't make things difficult for me, I almost broke my waist."

"Tired? I'll press it for you."

"Forget it, let's stop talking about it, let's start cutting the white mussels. I don't know how big the pearls in these white mussels are now after we have raised them for a year?"

"Just take a look and you'll know."

The white mussels in their family have been raised for a year, and they have been monitoring the condition of the white mussels throughout the year.

The last time I caught white mussels was four days ago, there was a dead mussel that stinks in the stream.

Because they are fishing quite often, they have a general idea of ​​the pearls in the white mussels. After a year of growth, these pearls are not bad in size, but their shape gradually changes.

When pearls first grow, they are spherical.

As they grow bigger, their shapes become weird.

Sometimes two pearls grow together and become gourd-shaped; some become drop-shaped; and some become strange shapes.

In addition to various shapes, pearls also have various colors, white, gray, purple, light red, and even some inexplicable mixed colors.

The two moved out of the small Mazar, stopped chatting, and directly brought the wooden barrel over, and cut open the clams one by one.

"Sure enough, they are pearls grown in nature. They just feel different." Bai Wu dug out several white mussels and looked at the pearls in his hand. "These various shapes and colors are worse than we imagined." some."

"It's better than I imagined. There are enough pearls and they are big enough. If you pick one, there should be quite a few good-looking ones."

"It seems so."

The two put the pearls they took out into the wooden barrel. As the number of white mussels under their feet increased, so did the pearls in the wooden barrel.

When there are few pearls, they have strange shapes and different colors.After increasing, the light of various pearls in the wooden barrel contrasted with each other, round and smooth, and gradually became more beautiful.

Bai Wu cut it halfway, and went to scoop up the stream water to wash the pearls under his hands.

After washing the pearls, no matter what color and size they were, they became very beautiful. Bai Wu grabbed a handful and played with them in his palm, "I can imagine it being strung into a necklace or made into jewelry."

"It can be paired with a little gem."

"Yes, or with a little piece of glass. Don't throw away these clamshells. Pick beautiful clamshells, which can be designed with pearls. We can also go to the beach to find some corals or shells."

"Open all the white clams first, and pick them when the time comes."

Bai Wu picked up another handful of pearls and played with them cherishedly for a while before continuing to work.

As the sky darkened a little bit, there were more and more pearls in the barrel, and there were already half of the barrel.

There are so many achievements in one year, and the benefits are already very good.

Bai Wu was very satisfied with the white mussels they raised this time.

There is no need to throw away the shells of these white mussels, they can be taken back to clean, and then do a simple polishing, and then use it to hold soap.

The clam shell is so white and beautiful, if it has a warm luster, it must be very popular.

There is no need to throw away the mussel meat. Their family has already started to raise piglets, lambs and ducks this year. Cook the mussel meat and feed it to livestock. It is a good feed.

They can even dry these clams and feed them to livestock in batches, and every time they go to feed them, it is considered an extra meal for them.

Picking pearls is a relatively mechanical job. Bai Wu was thinking about it while working, and he thought of several ways to use clam meat in his mind. the sound of.

Bai Wu raised his head subconsciously, and saw his elder brother leading a large group of Bird Clan people flying over from the sky. Just by watching their flying movements, one could feel their excitement.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp!" An couldn't wait to yell at Bai Wu and Nan Yao several times before landing on the ground.

When everyone uses the animal form, the information conveyed is relatively simple, especially for people like the Bai people who are not very sensitive to animal language. Every time they hear animal language, they have to guess the meaning in order to roughly guess the meaning.

This time he didn't need it, he didn't even need to carefully distinguish Kishi's words, he knew what his brother would say.

His brother must be shouting "Pearl", probably saying where is the pearl, how is the pearl, and so on.

Bai Wu put down the clam in his hand, and shouted to the other side: "It's almost done, you can see for yourself."

The shore fell directly to the ground like a cannonball, smashing the soil into a small hole.

He couldn't wait to transform back into a human form, and wrapped the animal skin around his body, "Here we come. Wow! Why are there so many pearls?!"

Other orcs and sub-orcs also fell to the ground, rushing up impatiently:

"Let me see."

"Is it a real pearl?"

"Master Wu, you have found so many pearls!"

"Are the pearls going to the store too?"

The orcs and sub-beasts put their shoulders on each other and formed a circle to look at Baiwu and Nanyao in the circle.

Bai Wu picked up a handful of pearls and showed them, "It's real pearls, and they will be put in the store in the future, but more of them may be made into jewelry before they will be put in the store."

The orcs and sub-orcs all burst into exclamation:

"This is too amazing, Lord Wu, you guys have really grown pearls!"

"What can I exchange for pearl jewelry?"

"These pearls are so big and beautiful!"

Kishi put his hands in the bucket, and lightly scooped up a handful, "The pearls are still easy to touch!"

He squinted his eyes, his face was full of happiness.

Others had envy on their faces.

Someone asked: "Master Wu, can we also raise pearls?"

"Of course. It's just that raising them requires a bit of skill, and I don't guarantee that they can be raised." Seeing their eyes light up again, Bai Wu smiled, "The method of raising pearls will not be spread to the outside world. This is our unique secret."

Bian Shangxi raised her hand and shouted: "I don't want to raise pearls, I just want to exchange for beautiful pearl jewelry, Lord Wu, what can you exchange for?"

"That's a lot, you can bring supplies over here, and we'll discuss a deal."

Their white mussels were almost cut open, and the two speeded up to finish the rest.

Bai Wu grabbed the shore, "Brother, help us carry the clam shells and clam meat back together."

"I just want to carry pearls now."

"No problem, then you carry pearls."

Bai Wu stood up and stretched, and with everyone's help, put the shells into the basket.

Everyone surrounded him and flew back to his home with excitement.

Bai Wu originally wanted to cook, but seeing the excited eyes around him, he simply sat down and planned to wash the pearls first.

The surface of the pearls is very smooth, and there is basically no dirt. They washed them with water several times, and they got smooth pearls.

Regardless of the color and shape of these pearls, there is a layer of precious light on the surface, even if the sky is already dark, they are still very beautiful in the palm of your hand.

The most wonderful thing is that pearls are very strange. They are not as cold as gemstones, nor as heavy as metals. They have a warm radiance without losing their texture.

The orcs and sub-orcs watched around, and they would let out an exclamation every time a handful of pearls were washed out.

When they saw Bai Wu and Nan Yao classify the pearls, their eyes became brighter, and they chattered on the side, discussing what can be done with the newly separated pearls?What are they going to do with it if they get it?

Even if Bai Wu is not interested in jewelry, when he touches pearls with his fingers, he can't help but imagine in his mind - this one can be used as a pendant, this one can be used to decorate hair pins, this one can be used as a bracelet...

No matter what it is made of, these pearls will definitely be able to exchange them for a large amount of supplies.

I just don't know when the swan travel merchants who are quite fanatical about pearls will come, maybe they can find a way to report to the swan travel merchants.