Chapter 341 The wheat is ripe (please vote and subscribe)

"What's the big deal? You all have the courage to go and fight the cannibals, so why don't we dare to lead the way? Hahahaha." The strong man laughed heartily.

On the second day, Youye's team of twelve people was divided into groups. Two people led the expedition team of this tribal alliance back to the tribe. One of them was a member of the Eagle Tribe and was responsible for keeping in touch with them with the Azuka giant eagle he raised. The other was a person who was good at using a compass to lead the way.

However, I heard that they still had to take a detour to other places first, looking for another tribal alliance living in the high plains. Although the people of that alliance were not good at breeding, they were very skilled in group hunting, and they were also one of the tribal alliances that believed in the stone tablet prophecy. This was also a relatively close alliance, and it was inconvenient to contact others that were too far away.

Youye's own team of ten people also got three native guides. Now there is one more person than when they came, so they are more confident in finding the enemy's lair.

A few more days passed, and it was time to plant the second season of rice in Hanyang City. The rice seedlings were already one foot tall, and the progress of building the teaching building had slowed down. Every day, only a few foremen watched the slaves working, while the rest of the tribe went to the fields to plant rice.

The children in the square also found their favorite games. The boys played football and threw sandbags, and the girls skipped rope and played Gobang.

Gobang, the simplest chess game, had spread. After work every day, every household finished their meals early, and Luo Chong would play a few rounds of Gobang with Xiaodie on the roadside in front of his house, which attracted a large number of children and adults to watch.

At the beginning, Luo Chong still used a wooden chessboard, but because it was troublesome to make and not conducive to promotion, Luo Chong quickly came up with a simpler way to play. He directly used the chalk he usually used to teach students to practice calligraphy to draw a simple chessboard on the ground, and then he and Xiaodie used a broken twig and a small stone respectively to play Gobang in this most low-level way. After watching the tribesmen for a few days, they also began to follow suit.

Looking at the children playing on the roadside, Luo Chong was very pleased. It should be what all adults would like to see that the children have enough food and clothing and live happily. However, Luo Chong naturally couldn't play with these children every day. He had to continue to work hard for the development of the tribe.

Of course, as long as you work hard, you will definitely get something. Luo Chong's efforts during this period naturally paid off. The five seeds he planted in his home all sprouted, which was definitely great news.

Two soybeans have already shown tender green seedlings, and the three corns have also grown trumpet-shaped seedlings. The next step is to quickly grow taller. It only takes three months for corn to mature in summer, which is about ten days shorter than the existing rice in the Han tribe. It is definitely one of the staple foods with great potential.

There is also another crop that has a longer growth cycle than corn and rice, that is wheat. Luo Chong has been planting wheat with rice since the spring of this year. Five months have passed, and the second season of rice has already begun to be planted, while the wheat has just matured.

During the spring plowing this year, Luo Chong chose the newly reclaimed planting area on the east coast for the wheat field. A total of five acres of land were planted, and these five acres of land were not close to each other. The row spacing and density of planting were also different, just to make a comparison and find the most suitable planting density.

What also surprised Luo Chong was that there was not just one variety of wheat in the five mu of land, but three. It was not known whether it was because the seeds were originally mixed or because of genetic mutations caused by the change of location.

One of the varieties looked similar to the original variety brought by You Fu. The golden ears of wheat had long awns, each of which was half the length of a little finger. If the awns were counted, the diameter of the entire ear of wheat would be about eight centimeters. In short, the awns were particularly long.

The awns of the other two varieties were relatively short. One awn was less than two centimeters long, and the other had no awns at all, only bare ears of wheat.

However, since different varieties had appeared, they could not continue to be mixed in the future, so Luo Chong began to select seeds for the next batch of wheat by himself.

If you want a high yield, you can't just use a sickle to cut it. Instead, you have to use scissors to cut it. This is a delicate job. You have to choose the wheat with the most ears and the strongest growth as the mother plant, so that the offspring can be as good as their mother plant. To put it bluntly, if the seeds are good, the parents are not bad, and the children will naturally not be bad, unless the parents have plastic surgery.

Select the best of the three types of wheat for seed, and the rest can be harvested quickly, but the three varieties must be separated, because Luo Chong still has to do a small experiment to see if there is wheat or barley, that is, highland barley, among these three types of wheat.

Luo Chong had seen wheat fields in his previous life, but he had only seen them. If you really asked him to distinguish the difference between wheat and barley, he really couldn't recognize it. He only knew from textbooks that barley was not easy to ferment, so it was generally used to make dead dough food, or was used by herders in the snow area to make butter tea, while wheat was easy to ferment, so it was often used to ferment steamed buns, dumplings, bread and other leavened food.

It is also easy to distinguish highland barley from wheat. Grind all three varieties into flour, ferment them separately, and then compare them together. I don't know how to compare them, but I know how to do it. Stupid people have their own ways.

After Luo Chong personally selected the excellent seeds, he asked the tribesmen to cut the wheat ears with scissors, and then put the three kinds of wheat separately. After all the harvests were completed, the remaining straw was cut with sickles. Then Luo Chong told them to plow the five acres of land again and use it as a vegetable field. He would select a plot from the vegetable field to plant the next batch of wheat.

It is best not to plant crops on the same land. Luo Chong still knows this common sense. In the past, rice fields were always planted with rice, and there was no other way, because the Han tribe currently only had one kind of grain seed, and could only compensate for the loss of soil fertility by adding more fertilizer.

The newly harvested wheat is spread out on the square to dry, and then a wheelbarrow is used to roll over the wheat ears to thresh them. After all the wheat is threshed, it is scooped up with a shovel and thrown high into the air. The husks that have been detached are lighter and will be blown away by the wind, while the heavier grains will fall to the ground nearby. This is the most primitive method to complete the threshing of the wheat, and then it is dried.

(End of this chapter)