Chapter 110: Farming in Primitive Society

Chapter 110: Farming in Primitive Society

After half a month, it rained heavily in the southern continent. The rain lasted for three days, officially announcing the arrival of the rainy season. It was also at this time that Qiao Yue brought out a whole set of rainy season equipment like a treasure, and asked Yu Xia to try on the straw hat and shoji that he had tied a little, and then squatted down and put on thick clogs for her.

The bottom of the clog is deeply serrated, which can grip the ground. The side that touches the foot is carefully polished into an arc, which is more comfortable to wear than rough leather shoes. Putting on these shoes, Yu Xia walked a few steps in the cave, then threw himself into Qiao Yue's arms and gave him a hard kiss.

"Ayue, have you been secretly doing this recently?"

Qiao Yue hugged her and asked her to walk slowly. For the sake of waterproofing, the soles were thick, and she would easily slap her feet if she walked too fast. Yu Xia leaned against his arms and rubbed against him, confidently expressing that he would not. After the test of high heels, the clogs can be called very friendly.

Yu Xia took a few more steps, and when the freshness was over, he took off his rainy season gear, hung his straw hat and scorpion on the wall of the cave, and put his shoes beside the stone bed.

After receiving everything, I asked, "Have you only made one set? How about yourself?"

"I'm strong, don't worry, I'll do it slowly later, Xia Xia, you will go into the woods to collect mushrooms, you put on first."

Yu Xia patted the stone bed on which the animal skin was fluttering, and asked him to sit over. Seeing Qiao Yue sit down, he stretched out his hand and put his arm on his shoulder, resting his head on his shoulder: "You idiot, you have to go out hunting too, hunting is more important than gathering. It's not easy, besides I have a baby cow."

"..." Hearing her say that, Qiao Yue was a little aggrieved, "Xia Xia, aren't you happy? Don't compliment me."

Yu Xia put her forehead against his shoulder, and couldn't see her expression for a while, until she raised her head, Qiao Yue didn't realize that someone was laughing at him, her eyes were bright, and she said with a smile how happy she was, everyone has someone they like. , Everyone hopes that they are important enough in each other's heart, or the most important. Yu Xia never asked Qiao Yue to put her first, and Qiao Yue did it all the time.

Yu Xia said he wanted to get some cashmere thread, so he made a spinning wheel. Thinking that the rainy season was coming, he quickly drove out of this suit.

Even though the healthy baby has always been Yu Xia, but he is always sick, Qiao Yue didn't think of himself first, he put himself in the second place, and considered the problem of hunting in the rain before the straw hat and scorpion came out. , told himself that in order not to add more work to Xia Xia, he had to drink a bowl of **** soup every day when he came back.

He was still talking, saying that the first time you do it slowly, it will be faster later, and there will be no delay.

Yu Xia nodded and responded, "Let's do it together, I'll do it for you, it will be faster this way."

As he said that, Yu Xia raised his fingers and calculated that he planned to make them for Ah Jin and Shi Shi. Whether or not they could wear them was another matter.

After entering the rainy season, the hunting time is not as casual as before. When it rains heavily, it is not very rewarding to go out. The warriors have a lot of free time. That's all we can do.

Listening to the pattering rain outside the cave, Yu Xia leaned beside Qiao Yue and chatted continuously. Just as I was happy, I heard the sound of piapia running on the stone platform with wet bare feet. Turning his head, he saw that Ah Jin was flying over in the rain, and the cow and beast twitched its tail when it heard the footsteps.

Ajin greeted him on the stone platform excitedly and said that the warriors in the tribe were going to wrestle in the rain. He was very strong and he wanted to participate. Brother Yue and his sister-in-law would cheer him on.

Qiao Yue didn't hear what Ah Jin was saying at all. All he saw was the big feet running over on the muddy water. Ah Jin's feet were covered in mud, and the originally dry stone platform made him step on a bunch of mud footprints. .

This is unbearable for cleanliness, even if it is only mild cleanliness...

Qiao Yue felt that since Ah Jin showed up, firecrackers were set in his mind, and it exploded. Yu Xia shook his hand lightly, shook his head to Ajin and said, "It's more suitable for hot pot on a rainy day. I have all the ingredients and I'm about to cook hot pot."

Ah Jin didn't understand very much, and asked what hot pot was with a novel look on his face.

Yu Xia said it was delicious.

"Better than sashimi?"

"Equally delicious, these two are not the same taste," Yu Xia said, not to delay him, let him hurry to wrestle, and have a good time, Ajin quit. The big man who was gearing up and said that he wanted to compete with others in the heavy rain can no longer think of wrestling as an activity to vent his energy and show his strength. He only had food in his eyes. It lacks a bit of appeal.

Ajin was both devout and persistent in food, he didn't hesitate at all, he just forgot about wrestling, urged Yu Xia to act, and asked her if she wanted to help make the fire and move the pot.

At this time, Qiao Yue finally couldn't bear it anymore, and asked him to roll over to find the stone, and let the stone come to help: "Rinse the mud on your feet, and the stone platform needs to be brushed again. It's really dirty."

The stone plate that was usually used for roasting meat and vegetables was removed, and the stone pot that A Jin had just polished was moved up. Yu Xia began to make the ingredients for the soup base. There was no way to fake someone else’s hands in this process. After Qiao Yue supervised the cleaning of the mud on his feet, he started the work of washing and cutting vegetables, sitting in front of the vegetable pier and burying his head in the cutting.

Ah Jin was brushing the ground, his hands were not skillful enough, he was just a brute force, fetching water, chopping wood and hitting a stone pot.

Seeing that everyone was busy, Qiao Yue went to help Yu Xia add firewood to watch the fire. Yu Xia kept the pot and boiled the soup base. She had all the ingredients and added explosive fruit that could be used instead of chili peppers. The aroma of the nose dissipated, and after simmering for a while, only half a pot of red soup was bubbling. It slowly melded together, melding into a gluttonous taste that Yu Xia was deeply familiar with.

Ah Jin quickly cleaned the slate. After cleaning, he urged the stone to cut it quickly. Don't be so dawdling, and tried to get closer to the pot. Seeing the red soup tumbling in the pot, his saliva was dripping. Can you put meat? Put meat, put meat!

Yu Xia shook his head, saying no.

He held his cheeks and waited for a while, and asked if he was okay?

"Have to wait."

Ah Jin didn't realize it just now, but as soon as he turned around, his chest was on his back. He clutched his stomach and cried out for hunger. Yu Xia didn't seem to see that pitiful expression, and was completely unmoved. She said word by word, "No. ,Row."

There are enough ingredients, and the soup will be boiled for a while, waiting for it to taste. Yu Xia didn't sit next to it at this time. She packed up the pork ribs that she had saved in the past two days, and let the energetic Ah Jin wash it. Clean hands help to tear them into pieces, throw them into the stone pot specially designed for soup, and simmer them. From the small pile of vegetables, I pick out four vegetables that taste like radishes, wash them and cut them and put them aside, and add them later. go in.

This is a pot of "radish" stewed pork ribs. It's good to drink half a bowl of it after eating spicy hot pot.

By the eighth time Ah Jin urged, Yu Xia felt that he was almost done, and he could throw vegetables in it. She picked out the ones with low starch content, which were not easy for meat soup, and put them down first, and put a lot of meat and vegetables together. She glanced at Qiao Yue again and asked him to add two sticks of firewood.

Every once in a while, Yu Xia took a long chopstick and poked it in the pot, seeing that the sliced ​​meat had been rolled into a delicious shape, and announced that it was ready to start.

"Just simmer on a small fire. Be careful not to let the fire go out. Eat it, it's already cooked." Going down is full of meat, I feel that the pot may have been emptied when I finish eating...

But it's right to eat the vegetables first, the food here is too oily, and he hasn't craved meat since he came here.

Qiao Yue added some firewood to the stove every once in a while to ensure that the fire would not go out, and that the bottom of the pot would not dry out quickly because it was too hot. He was eating the vegetables boiled with oil and water in the bowl, watching Ah Jin stuff the meat into his mouth one bite at a time, and the red oil cooked the hot meat just pulled out of the pot. The mouth is still vaguely saying something, and it can be vaguely heard that it is delicious.

The stone moves quickly. While enjoying the enjoyment that hot pot brings to the taste buds, he also finds time to dislike Ah Jin: "I cut a lot of vegetables, you don't have to do this."

Qiao Yue is a little more straightforward. He is not afraid to poke Ajin's fragile heart, saying that his appetite is almost gone when he eats like this...

It's a shame to have a brother like that, **** it.

While eating, Yu Xia made nutritional supplements for Qiao Yue, and took time to look at the pot where the soup was being stewed. Then he smiled and said, "The best way to cheer others is when they are happy. I think it's pretty good."

Then I asked them how the hot pot was?

The stupid big man patted his chest and swallowed a big mouthful of meat, and said with a serious face, "It's a gift from the gods! It's as delicious as sashimi! No! It's better than slate!" After that, he added to Laorou In the team of Mr. Yue, while fishing, he said that his sister-in-law would really feel bad for everyone, so he gave Brother Yue food for fear that the meat would not be enough.

Yu Xia said with a pure face: "If you like meat, eat more." If you have constipation after eating, you don't have to worry, just go down with a pair of Chinese medicine to ensure that it is cleared.

Stone is still talking, saying that this snow season must be comfortable to eat, and the more you eat, the warmer you will be.

"The red ones in the soup are boiled from exploding fruit? Is this the taste of exploding fruit?"

"Yeah, it's an explosive fruit," Yu Xia used to call chili peppers, "this is not suitable for eating raw, the ingredients are very good, it can enhance the flavor, you can pick more later, dry it, grind it into powder and put it in a stone jar. You can also sprinkle some on the barbecue."

The red soup has stamina. It feels the same at the beginning, but the spicy taste will increase later. When Ah Jin feels that his mouth is full of numbness and spicy food, he sticks out his tongue to fan the air, and the greedy taste of the hot pot is already gone. Pass through the rain screen and reach the wrestling site at the foot of the mountain.

Someone moved their nose, it smells so good.

More and more people have no intention of competing, they frequently turn their heads and look in the direction from which the fragrance is drifting—

That's Joey's house.

"It's so fragrant, why isn't my grilled meat so fragrant?"

"A Yue is so lucky to be able to grab such a good woman as A Xia."

"If you're envious, you can fight him and use your spouse as a bet!"

Some people were really moved by this. Seeing that they were eager to try and beat Qiao Yue, there was a person who was not so straightforward by nature but had a more active mind. He reminded him at the right time: "I don't think A-Xia is a woman you can control."

She looks soft and supple and speaks well. No matter how good she is at housekeeping or the amount of fruits and vegetables she collects, the warriors are ashamed. Seeing her, I couldn't help but think back to a long time ago, before the birth of stone spears, stone axes, and stone knives. At that time, hunting teams usually went out to die and seldom yielded anything. The tribe's survival mainly depended on women going out to gather, and it had to rely on expansion to expand. More women are born... There has been a long period of time in the North and South Continents where women are respected, and that was a long time ago. Such a petite and beautiful A-Xia reminded them of the stories they heard from the old people. They had not been together for a long time, and they already felt that she was omnipotent.

Other women in the tribe were jealous of her strength and talked about her behind her back, but she didn't care.

The same people from the Ba Snake tribe complained that she did not contribute to the tribe before, which made the tribe fall into such a situation, and she only cared about herself when she went to a foreign land, and did not accept the same clan... They relied on complaining that A-Xia became acquainted with other women in the tribe. , formed a small group, obviously A Xia did not take this vulnerable underground/underground organization in his eyes.

You can't live a good life without hanging out with people. If you have time to chat, it's better to do more things. Yu Xia had a long list of plans in her heart, and she didn't have time to waste time on unimportant people.

Those from the Ba Snake tribe have never held goodwill towards A-Xia, so who cares to watch and help them? If you mix with them, you might want to get stabbed in the back.

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Ah Jinguang was full after eating meat. After he was full, he took the initiative to take over the job of watching the fire. While admiring the rain curtain of the harvest, he reminisced about the spicy and salty tastes that stimulated his taste buds.

After thinking about it for a while, he talked about the recent interesting events in the tribe, saying that they basically have eaten barbecue on this mountain, anyway, the hunting team has eaten it. Not to mention the excitement, now more people have embarked on the road of grinding and frying.

"They're so bad, they want to see others blow up after they've been bombed. It's only fair to say that."

Yu Xia had almost finished eating. In front of her was a stone plate with beautiful patterns, and she was cutting fruit with a stone knife in her hand. Hearing this, he chuckled, thinking that no matter where he is, people still have a lot in common, even if the folk customs of the primitive society are relatively simple, isn't this also gloating?

Seeing that Yu Xia was happy to hear it, Qiao Yue asked Ajin to say more.

Among the four of them, the one with the most communication is Ajin. Ajin thought for a while, and said that several women stopped him to inquire about Yu Xia in the past two days: "They asked my sister-in-law if she was okay, and I said that of course it's good, if they can't find a better one, they still don't believe it...sister-in-law Listen to me, the women in your original tribe were very bad, and when they went out to collect, they told people that you were selfish, and you did so much without contributing to the original tribe."

Yu Xia didn't lift her eyelids after hearing this. In this world without legal restraints, what was there to argue with those at the bottom who would only be envious and jealous of others?

"I'm selfish, I just want to have a good life with Ah Yue, what does it have to do with me when others are good or bad?"

Seeing that Ah Jin was in a hurry and didn't know how to express it, Shitou tugged at him, making him stupid, just listen and don't interrupt.

Yu Xia handed the cut fruit plate to Qiao Yue, let him finish eating, then cut another one, and said as he cut, "Whether it's the craft of twisting straw ropes or weaving straw hats, anyone who wants to learn can teach them, but at least he We have to speak for ourselves, don’t we bother to make one thing, and we have to go door-to-door to ask people if they need it? Isn’t that too cheap?”

Qiao Yue agreed with Yu Xia's statement, Shitou also agreed, Ajin thought about it, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong.

Before the warriors in the tribe were greedy for meat and wanted to learn slate roasting, the sister-in-law agreed to teach them without saying a word. It seemed that he was blocking him at that time...

Sisters-in-law are good-natured and good-natured, no matter what selfishness, they are not self-motivated, and do not take the initiative to come to study.

"I want to teach those female slaves who talk nonsense. If they talk nonsense again, they will drive people out of the tribe."

Yu Xia cut up the peeled fruit and put it on the half-eaten plate, saying that there was no need to be so troublesome, it seemed that she was isolated, and the others were integrated, but it was the opposite. The integration cost of those people is too low, and true trust and friendship have not been established.

That's not plastic love, it's bubble love.

False, no matter what,

On a rainy day, he just eats, drinks, chats, and Jin seems to have digested a little, so he threw something into the pot again. His thoughts were relatively simple. Yu Xia said that he would leave the matter behind without warning or teaching him. Instead, it was a stone. There was a sign of enlightenment.

Thinking of the past, when they were down and out, they would still be hungry no matter how to please others. Now that they are strong, even if they are alone, some people will take the initiative to talk to them.

Now that they have food, clothing, cattle and beasts, other people at most gossip, what else can they do?

He remembered what Brother Yue and his sister-in-law said. He was about to stand up and move around to digest food when he heard a burst of wailing and wolf howling. A large group of strong men rushed over in the rain to see the dirty animal skins on their bodies and the splashes under their feet. In the muddy water, Shi Shi felt that Brother Yue was about to explode, so he hurried forward to stop people.

"Stop, don't go any further..."

Seeing that what he said was not helpful, Yu Xia stretched out his hand and patted the beast lying beside him. The bull, which was as strong as a hill, stood up. It turned around and pointed its horns at the warrior who rushed over. It was still on the stone platform. kicked the hooves up.

This action was better than what the stone said. I saw the crowd brake suddenly, they took two steps back, smelled the extremely strong aroma, and moved forward unwillingly.

Half step, half step.

"You are stewing meat? The stewed meat is so fragrant?"

"Don't worry about eating for yourself, take a bite!"

"Akin, Akin, are we brothers?"

Ah Jin, who was eating the second wave, turned around with the bowl in his hand. He took the hot rolled meat and put it in his mouth. Befriend me."

The little guy is lucky...

What a **** beast!

Ah Jin looks simple and honest, but in fact he has a low-key temperament. The big guy watched him face him and eat fragrantly, and his chest hurts with anger.

Some people said that if they wanted to have a taste, they would go back and send them a bundle of firewood.

There is also talk of sending prey or something.

There are also people who live nearby. They often see the four of them working on the stone platform, so they imitate Ah Jin's movements of rolling grass ropes and say, "Let me taste it, and I will help you roll a bundle of ropes."

Hearing this, Yu Xia was a little moved, and she nodded to Qiao Yue.

The guy went back and got a bowl, washed himself carefully by the way, and then put it in. When he stepped on the stone platform, he was kicked by the ox's tail, and he almost stumbled, but it was alright. At least he stabilized, and he did not kneel on his knees to give a big gift.

Yu Xia asked him to see what he liked to eat, and cooked a bowl of it fresh, thinking that it would be cooked in a while, so he scooped a bowl of pork ribs soup first.

Overwhelmed by the aroma of the hot pot, he didn't smell the pork rib soup at first, until he took the first sip and tasted the meat.

Seeing that he had finished pouring and asked for a second bowl, Ah Jin wanted to beat him up.

"Yours is still cooking in the pot, wait a minute."

"I don't have your share of that broth. Just a taste is enough. Do you want to be full?"

As he said that, he stepped forward and asked Yu Xia to ask for spare ribs to eat. Yu Xia fished one, and seeing that there was still a lot in the pot, he refilled half a bowl to the brother who promised to help with the straw rope.

This time, the buddy drank slowly, for fear that he would not finish the drink as soon as he turned around. He drank the soup with a happy face, while a group of rough men were swallowing saliva, learning to make a straw rope while swallowing. "We can do it too!" "I will rub a bundle too!" "I want to eat it too!"…

It's fine if you're alone, and the gesture of rubbing your hands together is quite wretched.

Yu Xia held her forehead, saying that two or three people could twist the straw rope. If she really wanted to eat it, she had to do other things, such as helping to make stone jars, or weaving baskets.

Ah Jin had seen stone basket weaving with his own eyes, and knew how complicated it was. He was still sympathetic to these idiots, so he sacrificed himself for a bowl of meat. When it was Qiao Yue, he looked at Yu Xia thoughtfully, thinking that his wife was still talking about her selfishness just now, is this still called selfishness? Take this proposal as an example, it sounds like a group of free labor was recruited, but in fact, I want to teach them how to twist straw ropes, straw hats, straw mats and baskets.

Looking at it shallowly, they get the labor force for nothing and save trouble.

Taking a long-term view, they learn the craft and immediately improve their lives. The straw rope can not only tie the prey, but also weave various things. As for the craft of basket weaving, it is more practical. As long as you learn to follow along, you can have a basket and a back basket, and it is convenient to transport everything.

It's not that there are no ropes or baskets now. Most of the existing ones are shoddy, leaky and can't bear the weight. It's not far from the one that Qiao Yue taught Shishi.

These deep meanings, I haven't realized it for the time being, and it doesn't matter. They have a lot of time, and they have a lot of free time all day.

At the same time as the rainy season, the Lieyang tribe tasted hot pot for the first time. Yu Xia harvested a large number of gourmet prisoners to solve the problem of labor shortage for her.

These people are even more exaggerated than the foodie Ajin. Some of them call his father who has returned to the west while eating, saying that you were bitten to death by a hungry beast in the snow season last year, otherwise you can taste this delicious food. It's a pity to die without eating slate and hot pot.

Joey:…

I really want to say from the bottom of my heart that I will go to you, and the trust you paid for is not as dedicated as you are.