Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

After returning the potatoes and sweet potatoes to the storage room for storage, Chen Qi did not continue to harvest the remaining crops all at once.

"Ajing, can you help me pick these sweet potato leaves? Pick it like this." Chen Qi picked up a sweet potato vine to demonstrate to Ajing, don't leave the stems that are too old, only keep the tender parts and intact leaves.

Ah Jing nodded and took the sweet potato vine in Chen Qi's hand.

Chen Qi gathered all the sweet potato vines together and let Ajing handle them. These sweet potato leaves can be eaten as vegetables. The leaves may be a little old and tough because they have grown for too long, but they can't be thrown away in vain. .

The sky was already dark, and there were several wooden lampstands around the land that were equipped with paper lamps for the convenience of lighting. Chen Qi filled each lamp with oil and replaced it with a new wick to light it. The place is illuminated.

While Ajing was dealing with the sweet potato vines, Chen Qi dug up the chili trees that had been plucked, and replanted chili seeds in the place where the chili peppers were originally planted. Then when the grass burns.

I used a cloth bag to go to the place where the charcoal ash was piled up, picked two bags back, and spread them thinly on the ground where potatoes and sweet potatoes had been dug up. These two things could not be planted immediately, and the seedlings needed to be raised. Chen Qi decided to use charcoal. Ash first raises the land.

After re-turning the land that had been sprinkled with charcoal ash, A Jing had already picked all the sweet potato leaves.

Chen Qi found a few ropes to tie the picked sweet potato leaves according to a certain proportion. These sweet potatoes are growing well, and the leaves are not worm-eaten or withered. After all, there are more than 30 bundles. Chen Qi After leaving a few bundles of his own, and then giving a few bundles to Carlo next door, the rest moved to Ali's house with A Jing.

"So many? Have you dug all your sweet potatoes? How's the harvest?" Ali asked in surprise, looking at the two large bags of sweet potato leaves.

"Well, I've dug them all up, and the yield is pretty good, and I have five or six bags of potatoes together. These crops don't have a long growth cycle. They should be able to harvest another batch before winter. Open all the vacant land and plant some more."

"This harvest is much better than when we went to the plain to find it. Tomorrow, I will bring some clansmen and open the land with you. These things don't need to be taken care of. Just put the large piece of unoccupied land at the gate of the city here. All the places are open, so that not only potatoes and sweet potatoes, but other things can be planted in large quantities." Ali suggested.

Chen Qi nodded. He collected a lot of seeds along the way to the Luoshui tribe this time. If there were so many fields, he could plant them all at once.

"Are you guys in a meeting?" Chen Qi's eyes passed through Ali and looked at the others in the room. Apart from A Zhang and A Yan and A Yu who originally lived here, even A Xu, Amin and Ashu of Ake and Luoshui tribes are there.

Ashu found Chen Qi looking over and waved to him quickly.

"We are discussing going hunting tomorrow." A Zhang replied with a smile, "But I heard you say that you want to open up the land next door, why don't we change the hunting to the day after tomorrow." Otherwise, they are young and strong As soon as the hunting team left, there was such a big piece of land, and I didn't know when they were going to get it.

"Okay, we haven't eaten all the fish we caught in Chishui River today." Ashu raised his hand cheerfully. As a member of the Luoshui tribe, Ashu is actually not very interested in hunting in the forest, and he is more interested in animal meat. like fish. Of course, he also knew that it was impossible not to hunt.

Everyone else nodded their heads. Although the time was short, every house in Qize City had more or less crops grown in the yard, and they had already eaten it. Although it was not as attractive as the meat they had eaten for a long time, it was not. Unacceptable, especially those well cooked dishes, which are more attractive than meat. They also wanted to see how the people of Qi Zecheng planted it. If they could plant it in their own tribe, they wouldn't have to worry about finding food in winter.

"Will this disrupt your plans? We'll just do the wasteland reclamation slowly." Chen Qi knew that the prey in the forest was difficult to hunt. These days, the hunting teams were divided into two batches and entered in turn. Even in the forest, the prey returned from hunting was barely enough for the clansmen's daily food, and there was not even any excess.

Now even the fish in the Chishui River have been tossed around by the beasts for so many months, and it is difficult to catch them with only harpoons, and the method of fishing with bait can only depend on luck. After all, no one knows whether the fish are willing to take the bait or not. .

"It's okay, we've been running to the forest every day for the past two months that you left, and tomorrow we'll be on vacation." Seeing Chen Qi's concern, Ake looked at the two large bags of sweet potato leaves in Ali's hand. Interjected: "And we are not short of food now. You will also distribute the crops you plant to us. You can't even help open up wasteland."

A Zhang also smiled and looked at A Yan and A Ming who were sitting next to him, and added, "People from the Luoshui and Yanshan tribes still want to learn how to grow crops, so let them learn together."

"Indeed, the roasted sweet potato we ate yesterday tasted so good. I never knew that the rhizomes of this plant could grow so big, and it was still edible." I remembered that as soon as Ah Xu came back, he ran to the yard to dig it up. A big sweet potato came back to bake, and Amin couldn't help but want him to go back and bake a few more.

"Haha, those are directly planted. You will have to spend a lot of time on the plain to find them."

Seeing a few people start talking about planting crops, Chen Qi was a little helpless and could only agree to let them help open up the wasteland together, but the land is so big, so naturally it can't all be opened into a large piece, it still needs to be planned well, it is best We can dig another well so that we don’t have to go to the school to fetch water every now and then. Now the whole tribe only has one well that can be used, which is still too few.

After returning home, Chen Qi found that Aze had returned.

Aze went out with the hunting team, but after entering the forest, he did not find any grapes along the way, so he separated from the hunting team. He walked a long way into the forest by himself, and finally picked enough grapes. The bag of grapes just came back, so it came back late.

Chen Qi didn't know that A Ze went deep into the forest alone, and he didn't know who went hunting today. He thought that A Ze came back with the hunting team. After all, he just saw it when he left A Zhang's house. A female came to look for A Zhang, intending to let him distribute the prey.

"The grapes seem to be bigger this time." Chen Qi picked up a grape and looked at it. It was very beautiful and round. The color was darker than the previous batch of wine grapes, and there was more **** frost on it. Just wiping it casually, the dust was stained on his hands. Chen Qi frowned. Can this thing really make wine?

Although a little suspicious, Chen Qi won't give up easily about wine. After picking out the intact grapes, I processed them according to the previous steps, and then put them in the storage room to let them ferment slowly by themselves.

Aze picked a lot of fruit this time, enough to fill three altars, and the rest was eaten directly as fruit. It was a little sour, but obviously sweeter. Chen Qi stole it from the corner of Aze's lips like a reward. kissed.

A Jing hurriedly covered the little wolf cub's eyes and whispered in the little wolf cub's ear, "Little wolf, you can't learn this."

A Ze, who heard A Jing talking, couldn't help but turn red at the tips of his ears.

Chen Qi briefly talked to A Ze about the land reclamation tomorrow and about digging another well. A Ze knew that he planned to go hunting with the people of the hunting team tomorrow, although there was no hunting in the past two days. There was a prey, but Azer felt that it was a bit awkward that he didn't give anything for nothing.

Because of the newly harvested crops, Chen Qi roasted the sweet potatoes directly at night and ate them without even cooking other food. A Ze and A Jing were very happy. The newly dug up sweet potatoes were very delicious, but Carlo next door was by the window. Seeing that, Ake, who had just returned, also ran over to eat, causing Azer to roll his eyes.

"I want to eat it and bake it myself." A Ze wrapped the last baked sweet potato in Pu leaf and stuffed it into Chen Qi's hands, then threw a few raw ones to Carlo.

Really dear brother, Carlo curled his lips. He could only endure the smell of roasted sweet potatoes while turning over the charcoal ash and burying the sweet potatoes. Then, spread a layer of charcoal ash on top and then spread the red charcoal on top. This will prevent the sweet potatoes from burning.

Chen Qi happily peeled the sweet potato in his hand, and then handed it to A Ze's mouth to let him take a bite before taking it back to eat, but when he looked up, he found the plump A Yao staring at the heat in his hand. Take a look at the steaming roasted sweet potatoes.

Chen Qi blinked and handed the sweet potato to A Ze's lips again. A Yao's big eyes followed the movement of the sweet potato and looked over. Seeing that A Ze took another bite, he couldn't help but flatten his mouth aggrieved.

"Can A Yao eat these things now?" Chen Qi asked Ake.

Ake buried the other two sweet potatoes in the charcoal ashes, and replied, "Okay, now he can even eat meat."

Chen Qi put the sweet potato in front of A Yao, A Yao's eyes lit up, and he quickly opened his small mouth and stretched his arms to take the fragrant food. Chen Qi found that Ah Yao really had a few small deciduous teeth in his mouth.

Chen Qi didn't hand the food directly to A Yao, but shook it proudly in front of him and smiled wickedly, "Dear A Yao, I'll give you a bite when you call Qiqi, okay? "It's been so long since he came back that he hasn't heard this kid speak, so he misses it.

A Yao looked at the delicious food right in front of him, but he couldn't eat it. His small mouth was flat again, and his big eyes seemed to be filled with fog. He looked back at his father and daddy. Carlo focused all his attention on the roasted sweet potatoes in the fire. He didn't notice his son's little expression at all. Ake went to pour water to make tea. If he eats too many roasted sweet potatoes, he will get tired. Just drink some tea. Lowering the fire can also relieve tiredness.

Seeing that his father and daddy ignored him, A Yao turned his attention to Chen Qi again. Chen Qi saw that the child was ignoring him with a flat mouth, and made a gesture to take the roasted sweet potato back, "If you don't call me, I'll eat it myself. ." After speaking, he really took a big bite, smashed it, and commented, "It's delicious."

Ah Yao stood up abruptly, rushed to Chen Qi, and hugged each other's arms tightly with both hands, preventing him from trying to take a second bite. After another bite, the delicious food would be gone.

Chen Qi looked at the child's movements amusingly, and handed the half-eaten sweet potato to the child, "Just call Qiqi and you can eat it."

A Yao looked at the roasted sweet potato and then at Chen Qi, looked at Chen Qi and then at the roasted sweet potato, it was best to move his lips and jaws a few times, and softly called out, "Qiqi."

Chen Qi was stunned for a while, and brought his ears closer, "I didn't hear clearly just now, you shout again."

"Qiqi." This time A Yao's voice was a little louder, causing everyone else to look over here, and then seeing Chen Qi handing the roasted sweet potato to A Yao with a surprised face, he couldn't help but put A Yao Yao picked it up and took a big smack on the other's chubby face.

Ake's head was covered in black lines, and he took A Yao from Chen Qi's arms, tapped his little head, and scolded with a smile, "A roasted sweet potato gave in, thank you for being my son."

A Yaoke didn't care so much, picked up the roasted sweet potato that was no longer so hot, and took a big bite.

Mmm, it smells so good.