Going back at night, Qi knew that she would start working tomorrow, so she began to boil water in the stove. Now that the weather is hot, Gao Ming made a big iron pot, and poured the water into it when it was boiled. The iron pot is full, and I will put it in a small iron pot and take it away tomorrow morning. For dinner, he ate barbecue meat and wild vegetable soup with black fruits. Gao Ming drank two bowls in a row, so he would never have a good meal from tomorrow.
The weather is hot and I am doing hard work in the fields. After a busy day, I just want to drink. It is estimated that I will lose a few catties of meat after such a busy day.
The next day before dawn, everyone got up early, Qi and Xiaohe cooked breakfast, and by the way made some barbecue for the few people who went out to work, and they could eat some meat at noon, like those who went out to work usually eat wild meat at noon The fruit pads the stomach, and they can only eat a good meal when they come back at night. They are used to three meals a day in the cave, but now they work in the cave with Zhengmao. They eat wild fruits at noon, and he wants to eat it with red eyes. Obviously not too good.
Gao Ming is carrying a bamboo basket, which contains two long bamboo tubes filled with tools such as Liangbaicai and shovel heads. He is relatively light for digging potatoes. Look at Bujia and Linzi carrying a bamboo basket on their backs. The bamboo baskets were full of rattan rope sickles, and one was still in their hands. Fortunately, they had a lot of wheat harvesters. There were more than 20 young men who were young and powerful, and they were all tied up with straps. It took almost a day to finish it, but It's a long way, so be careful.
The shed outside the cave came one after another with the people counted yesterday, Gao Ming Bujia counted the number of people, and when they all came, they set off separately with bamboo baskets on their backs. Gao Ming and Dashi went to the potato field with the older hunters chatting and laughing, while Bujialinzi also set off with the young man. In the cave, Sadoranda and his children took their children to cut yellow poles. Xiaobao and Xiaohe made furniture for each small hole outside the entrance of the cave in the morning and painted it in the afternoon. It was a busy day.
There are many women in Gao Ming's team, and the journey along the way looks more like a spring outing than work. This lively atmosphere even makes Gao Ming feel more relaxed. The weather is slightly cool and the temperature is a bit chilly. The women wear leaves hanging from rattan ropes as tops, and wrap their lower bodies Wearing a leather skirt, the leaves on his body vibrated with hearty laughter, very bright, even if Gao Ming didn't like women, he still respected these hardworking, brave and enthusiastic women.
When we got to the place, the sun only slightly exposed half of the head. The jungle was full of weeds and water. The two hunters opened the way in front and behind. Gao Ming pointed to the green vines under his feet, and said: "Here, this area is full of potatoes. Be careful not to break them when digging.
" Xiao Hua also came over today, and said cheerfully: "Xiao Ming, don't worry!"
"Sister Xiaohua works quickly and carefully, I don't worry." Gao Ming smiled and flattered a few times, the women started to work cheerfully, Gao Ming hurriedly followed the elderly men to work, it was really hard for him to squat Behind the woman, when you look up, you can see the woman's honey-colored thighs, and some can even see half of her buttocks. It's better to work with men.
The four hunters also worked together, but most of their attention was focused on their surroundings.
This potato field seems to be larger than last year, but there are many people, more than 20 women, more than 20 men, and a total of forty-four people. Gao Ming estimates that this is a day's work, but the potato It's still a matter of saving seeds for planting when I go back, and so is wheat. Go back and ask Xiaobao if there are two seasons at this time.
He was busy until noon, and the potatoes were already being dug up. Seeing that the women were beating their waists and sweating, Gao Ming said to the four hunters: "Catch a few red eyes, let's roast them and eat them before doing it? How much is left?"
Seeing that the tall man was able to talk, he circled around to see that it was all right, and let the thin tall man and the shorter man behind him go hunting. Gao Ming hurriedly said: "I will go to collect firewood with the big stone, here You watch it first."
Gathering firewood, Gao Ming dug a small earth pit and soon the fire was lit, and the two hunters also came back, the shorter one held three red eyes in his hand, the taller one carried a small deer, Seeing this, the women prepared the blood-covering grass early, and sprinkled it around the area with ease. It is not far from the water source, or it is not close. It takes about half an hour to walk there. Gao Ming said, everyone thinks it is unnecessary. , peeled off the skin of the red eyes, removed the internal organs and directly skewered them on wooden sticks and roasted them over the fire. Gao Ming couldn't help swallowing, not because of the smell, but because he found it hard to swallow. The little roe deer also peeled off its red eyes and removed its internal organs. Seeing that the tall man wanted to bury the bones and internal organs together, Gao Ming hurriedly said, "Can you keep the bones? Go back and cook a pot of soup. It tastes the same." It 's good."
The delicious food in Gaoming Cave is not good. The hunters have heard about it, and the tall man threw the bones into a bamboo basket without thinking about it, intending to go back and cook a pot of soup. Gao Ming saw this , smiled and said: "When you go back to cook the soup, first break the bones into pieces, blanch them with boiling water, and then boil them in the water until the bone marrow comes out from the bones. You can add bone broth to the meat." The
tall man nodded knowingly, and he didn't bother to go back and do it. The red eye surface on the fire was already roasted red and bloody, and they had no salt or seasoning, so they roasted it like this to supplement the salt, the top layer of meat was already burnt, the women took out their knives to cut the meat slices, and handed them to Gao Ming , Gao Ming saw the bloody meat and shook his hand, said: "You eat first."
Wandering around the side, touched a few wild fruits, ate a sour and sweet taste, took a diabolo tube, squeezed four The five small fruit bamboo tubes were only half filled, Gao Ming arrived at the barbeque, and said, "Would you like to pour some fruit juice?" Xiao Hua
nodded confidently in Gao Ming's craftsmanship, she didn't like to eat this barbeque either, it didn't taste good. Gao Ming drizzled the juice evenly, because the juice is red, the bloody meat was even redder after pouring it on, but the taste was more fragrant than before. The women have three fat red eyes with small wild fruits to feed their hunger, and the men are small roe deer meat. At the moment, the roe deer is roasting on the fire. As soon as they smell the aroma of red eyes, they can't help but look at the juice in Gao Ming's hand, and Gao Ming smiles. Slowly pour the juice on the roe deer meat, "Dashi uses a knife to cut a few slits on the meat."
Dashi scratched the deer deer several times with a knife, while rolling it, Gao Ming slowly poured the juice, and the smell came out after a while.
The hunters were all waiting to eat the roe deer meat, which was so delicious without salt and pepper powder, they couldn't help but look sideways at Gao Ming, and the tall man who had just harvested the bones was all about making bone soup at night!
After eating the roasted wild fruit, Gao Ming had someone bury the fire. The potatoes were almost dug out, and it was finished in less than an hour. The four hunters took the initiative to carry the heavy potatoes, and Gao Ming Dashi was no exception. There are many baskets, and the bamboo baskets carried by men are heavy, while those carried by women are light, and there are a few bamboo baskets that are basically empty. This land has harvested a total of thirty boxes of potatoes, and the rest of the wild fruits and vegetables are randomly picked. Talking and laughing along the way and walking back.
Seeing that the hunter who gave the order was looking back, Gao Ming couldn't help saying: "What's wrong?"
"There seems to be someone behind, but it's not dangerous." The hunter said.
Gao Ming also took a look, but he couldn't see anything in his eyes.
Ah Gun stared at the steaming mound of soil. He had never smelled the smell of meat just now. He squatted down and pulled the steaming sand with one hand. He didn't care about the hotness of his hands at all. Fascinated, until he saw the ashes, a gust of wind blew by, sparks lit inside, and a small burst of flames suddenly appeared from the unburned firewood, which made A stick back a step in fright. He remembered the smell and the red Something that swayed in the wind, and heard those people say it was fire? A stick remembered the warmth just now, if there is this fire and snow season, he won't be afraid of the cold! At that moment, he picked up the wooden stick that was thrown aside and put it on the small flame. Seeing that the flame was getting bigger and bigger, Ah Gun's eyes were full of flames, and he opened his mouth and smiled...
It was only four in the afternoon when Gao Ming and his group returned. It was around five o'clock, Wen Xiaobao and Xiao He had just returned from painting, and seeing thirty bamboo baskets of potatoes left under Gao Ming's shed, they asked, "Should we keep sprouts for seeds?"
"Our land has been reclaimed so much, and there are many tribesmen. If we eat all these thirty boxes, it will only take two or three days. It's better to sprout all the seeds and wait for three or four months. The snow season is coming soon. The potatoes harvested in these hundreds of acres of land can live a good winter anyway." Gao Ming thought about planting sweet potatoes in autumn, at least this year's snow season will be better, since everyone has become a tribe , It's better to share in the future, if they are eating meat and stews in the cave warmly, but in the cave it's cold but they still have to guard against the prey, it's hard to guarantee that there will be no envy.
Those who rested and drank water under the shed heard that those who could be assigned to potatoes belonged to the "weak" cave group. Although no one died of starvation during the snow season before, they never had a full day. His eyes lit up, and the tall hunter said first, "How many potatoes can we harvest before the snow season? Is it enough for us to survive the snow season?"
Gao Ming looked at Xiaobao, he didn't know, thinking about 30 boxes of potatoes each There are three or four sprouts left on the potatoes, and they planted them in mid-April, so it should be a big harvest. Wen Xiaobao nodded, he didn't need to talk, knowing that the big guys didn't have a clue, he just pointed to the terraced fields and said: "It's almost enough to plant a small half of these, if the harvest is good, two hundred people can eat potatoes every day during the snow season." There is still a little left in the snow season."
Everyone's eyes widened when they heard it, and Xiao Hua was surprised when she heard it: "Then there is no need to go hunting in the snow season? Can you live by eating potatoes?" Seeing Xiaobao nodding, she still Unbelievable, looked at Gao Ming and said directly: "Then you didn't hunt in the last snow season? The snow season without hunting..."
Gao Ming rubbed his nose, it's really hard to gain hatred for himself, he can say that he gained weight because of the beautiful life In the circle, you have to lose weight at the end before you go out to work! ! ! Putting this in front of the hungry caveman is just looking for a beating! He simply changed the subject and said: "When the snow season comes, burn some charcoal and save more bacon. I will install an iron stove for each household. The charcoal burned in this stove can be used for heating during the snow season, and you can also eat hot pot or something... ..." The
women started to circle around the iron stove when they heard it. The women who often come to Gao Ming to chat with Qi have never seen this iron stove. After hearing this, Xue Ji Gaoming called them, thinking about what Gao Ming just said Looking at the picture of the snow season, the first time I had some expectations for the coming of the snow season, not to mention the women, even the hunters began to wonder what the snow season would be like without hunting.
Except for the four hunters, the remaining No. 40 people followed Gao Ming Dashi to take care of the potatoes. They did everything from digging potatoes to planting and watering them. After the four hunters left, Gao Ming saw that it was still early, so everyone carried bamboo baskets to the bad tooth. Shallow wooden box, the wooden box has no cover, just a long and rectangular wooden box, germination is also simple, just pour the dug potatoes on the wooden box, spread a layer and cover it with a layer of sand, basically spread two or three layers That's it. The wooden box is only 20 centimeters long, 1.5 meters wide, and 1 meter high. Thirty boxes of potatoes will need 13 wooden boxes. The potatoes are not covered with sand until the sun goes down. Came back with people.
The face and body of more than twenty people seemed to have been bathed, and the whole body was sweaty with wheat husks or yellow brittle stalks stuck to them. In short, they were in a mess. To save space, all the wheat in the bamboo baskets were kept. The ears of wheat, and the ones tied with rattan ropes are all made of wheat stalks. After one day, the shed was piled up with only a small aisle left. As for the ones in the bamboo baskets, they were moved to the storage hole early. Today, I harvested Gao Ming said in advance that the yellow poles should be placed in the open space at the foot of the mountain. These days, you can make the yellow poles first to accelerate the germination of potatoes. The yellow poles need to be soaked in large quantities. It is also convenient to fetch water by placing them by the river. Gao Ming decided to put some iron sheets on them tonight. The large open box is specially used for soaking this.
The big guys who were tired all day didn't have much appetite, especially Bujia and Linzi who were sweaty and tanned. A pot of green leaf soup, which is similar to mint, cools down on the fire, and the four of Bujialinzi Sadolanda drink a bowl to relieve their appetite from the summer heat.
Yellow poles don't have to be strong in wheat field, you have to drill into them when you cut yellow poles, the small fluffy thorns on the top of yellow poles will blow with the wind when the wind blows, it doesn't hurt if it sticks to people, it's just itchy and uncomfortable It's tight, Landa and Sado are not only tanned, but also have some red marks from being scratched on their bodies, probably because they are so itchy that they can't stand their own scratching, the more they scratch, the more itchy.
"The wheat is harvested and the potatoes are harvested. Now that the potatoes are germinating, I can help clean up the yellow stalks. The wheat is now in the sun, but what about leaving the seeds for Xiaobao? Will it ripen twice a year in this weather?" Gao Ming asked Bu Jia scooped up a bowl of vegetable soup, and said, "Don't drink green leaf soup all the time, it's not nutritious, eat more vegetable meat."
Wen Xiaobao has only been here for less than a year, but he can also see that the temperature difference here is obvious. In summer, there is more drought and less rain. As for winter, it is even colder. He immediately said: "Don't worry about the wheat, wait for the potatoes to be harvested in October before planting." Wheat, the seeds here are no better than... more seeds are grown once a year, plus hunting potatoes and other non-staple foods are enough."
Gao Ming nodded, knowing that he was impatient, and the wild wheat today is indeed not as high-yield as the current high-yield seeds, or Take one step at a time, you can't eat a fat man in one bite, wait until October when the potatoes are harvested, plow the ground to plant fertilizers for wheat, wait for the wheat to be harvested in June next year, and then plant potatoes. It's time to reclaim the fields and go to the river at the foot of the mountain, where there is no one and the land is fertile...