Chapter 169: Reclamation

After the soil in the cave was soaked with water, Shen Xiaoxiao easily turned over the soil, saving the effort of picking up soil. However, it required retting before planting. She spent half a day pouring the fertilizer into the soil and retting it. .

Thinking about the charcoal she would use next, she started to burn charcoal in the kiln again. She had done this before, and now she was very skilled at it. She got one out in a short while.

"Goddess, we still have charcoal. If you want it, we will give it to you. No need to go to such trouble."

Shen Xiaoxiao wiped the sweat with the back of her hand and said with a smile, "No, I'm saving these for the winter. You can keep them for your use." After a pause, "Living in a house, it's inconvenient to make a fire in the winter. You can also burn some." Save the charcoal for winter, so you can have a fire in your room. It’s also very convenient if you want to roast chestnuts.”

Speaking of chestnuts, she suddenly remembered that chestnuts were almost ripe, and persimmons could be picked in a while. She could pick some and store them to make persimmons. Although she ate more now than before, chestnuts and persimmons were still available. You still have to stock up if you need to.

Otherwise, if you don’t want this or that, there won’t be much left.

Their eyes lit up. Yes, they could burn some charcoal for winter use and throw it directly into a basin to burn. It was more convenient than burning firewood.

"Then let's help you."

"No, you can just go and do your business. I won't do much." Shen Xiaoxiao smiled and refused. It was not an important matter. She could just take her time.

Seeing that Shen Xiaoxiao was not being polite to them, they stopped insisting.

Ashu came not long after they left.

"Don't you have to work? Why are you here to help me again?" Shen Xiaoxiao said while adding firewood.

Ashu chuckled, "It's okay, they can keep busy." He added, "Sister, why don't you ask me to help you? It's so tiring to do all this work."

Shen Xiaoxiao said helplessly, "I'm not so squeamish that I can't even do any work. Besides, you also have your own things to do. I will finish this work later, and you helped me dig the ground before. It's taken you a lot of time, you still have to do carpentry for the tribe, and now there are a few more people to learn from you. You have a lot of work on your own. If you come to help me work, won't you not have to rest? "

Ashuli said confidently, "We are different. How tiring it is for you to do this. I am rough and rough, so this is what I should do. Besides, Brother Yan specifically told me when he left to help you with more work." , If you are too tired, how can I explain to Brother Yan when he comes back? "

"And you are my sister and you saved my life. What's wrong with me doing some work for you?"

Shen Xiaoxiao laughed dumbly, "How long have you been mentioning this? Besides, you have done a lot of work for me, as well as your Brother Yan. I will explain to him when he comes back. Go ahead and do your work. If I Doing nothing makes me bored day by day. "There are no mobile phones and computers here, so she has nothing to do all day long, and she gets bored after a long time. Besides, time goes by faster if she does some work, otherwise it always feels like the whole day has passed. So slow.

Sometimes it’s easier to do some work and don’t think about it.

"I just like to help you work." Ashu said confidently.

Shen Xiaoxiao had no choice but to let him go, "You go to my house for dinner tonight, and I'll cook some soup for you." Although the life of the tribe is better than before, the big pot rice is still not as good as cooking it yourself, and There were so many people that the witch doctor couldn't take care of so many people. He could only make sure that everyone got food. It didn't matter whether they were full or not.

Ashu is growing now. For a half-grown man, he has a large appetite. He can probably eat six to seven times the food distributed by the tribe. In fact, it is not just him, but other people in the tribe are the same. It is a luxury to have a full stomach. matter.

In fact, it is much better now than before. In the past, we could only rely on hunting or wild fruits to fill our stomachs. Most of the time, we would only eat half full. Now the tribe raises some poultry and grows some vegetables, but the staple food is really lacking. If possible, The witch doctor also wanted to feed them, but he didn't have the strength.

But compared to before, life now is much better.

She also believes that things will get better and better in the future, with everyone in the tribe having enough to eat and clothes to wear.

If Xiao Yan and the others can really bring back rice, the tribe will be one step closer to having enough to eat.

"Okay." Ashu did not refuse.

With Ashu's help, they quickly built the kilns one by one. They didn't stop until all the piles of firewood were used up. It was already dark. Shen Xiaoxiao went back to cook and asked Ashu to get the food. Just go find her.

After returning, Shen Xiaoxiao killed a chicken, used half to make soup, half to stir-fry, and also stir-fried some vegetables. When Ashu got the food from the witch doctor, they had a full meal. Everyone went back to rest.

It is not possible to grow anything in the cave yet, and Shen Xiaoxiao has nothing to do for a while. She plans to open up another piece of land. After all, there will be many things to grow in the future. This small amount of land is not enough for farming. Opening up wasteland is quite tiring. First, we need to clean up the weeds above, pick up the stones inside, and plow the ground...

Open more ground before winter and let it soak with fertilizer. You can plant it in spring. After this year's planting, there are already a lot of seeds. It is estimated that the tribe will plant a lot more things next year, and she can also give it a try. Can we cultivate higher-yielding grain? Not to mention the modern yield of several thousand kilograms per mu. If the yield per mu reaches one thousand kilograms, it can feed the entire tribe.

The yield per mu of crops now is about 100 jin, and sweet potatoes and pumpkins are more, more than 200, but this is far from enough. According to this yield, if the tribe wants to rely on farming to make a living, I don’t know how much land they need to plant. And they definitely won’t eat things like refined flour. She wants the people in the tribe to be able to eat whatever they want, instead of worrying about this and that. It’s not only for the tribe, but also for herself. She doesn’t want to work hard for a year and still not grow enough food.

If the yield can’t be raised, she doesn’t know how much land she will have to plant in the future to grow food for two people.

While she has nothing to do now, she will open up more wasteland. In the spring of next year, she will use two plots of land as experimental fields. When she was in college, she followed the professor to do experiments, so she has some experience in this area. At that time, the professor wanted her to continue to follow him after graduate school, but she had hurt the old man’s heart for four years, and she didn’t want to make him sad again, so she gave up this opportunity and switched to medical examinations. The professor was still very sorry at the time, but seeing that she had made up her mind, he didn’t say anything.

She first cut the weeds on the ground, and was careful not to be pricked by thorns. It took her a day to cut almost half an acre of land. She was not discouraged. After all, it was difficult to open up wasteland, not to mention that she was alone.

She continued to work after eating the next day. On the third day, she gathered the weeds and thorns together and burned them. Most of them were wet. Soon, thick smoke billowed in the field. Shen Xiaoxiao kept adding grass to it, and the thick black smoke lasted for a long time.

Others originally thought that there was a fire somewhere, but they were relieved when they saw that it was Shen Xiaoxiao who was burning something.

It was not until nightfall that it was burned out. Shen Xiaoxiao put out the remaining fire with water and went back to wash and rest, but she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Countless thoughts flashed through her mind. I don't know how long it took for the movement to stop.