Jiang Xue led everyone to harvest rice and build houses in full swing, and also took time to integrate the tribe's existing resources.
According to the rice production cycle, it should be the end of July or the beginning of August now. The late rice seeds have already germinated and the nursery fields have been leveled. The next step is to sow the germinated late rice in the nursery fields.
It’s just that Jiang Xue had no experience in farming and had no idea that double-season rice should be seamlessly connected.
That is to say, after harvesting the early rice, the early rice will be dried for a day or two and then stored in the barn. Then the field can be plowed. After the field is plowed, harrowed and leveled again, the late rice seedlings can be planted.
Moreover, many crops can be harvested in July and August.
For example, the potatoes, corn and soybeans currently planted in the fields.
These three crops are basically harvested at this stage, especially soybeans. After being harvested, they need to be exposed to the sun. While the weather is good, their pods should be beaten several times with wooden sticks under the scorching sun. The beaten soybeans can then be stored for a few days before being harvested.
But she had no experience and was only concerned with building the house and harvesting rice, and she didn't pay attention to anything else.
When Xiaopang and others told her that the bean pods had burst, she hurriedly took people to collect them. By then, half of the bean pods were on the ground and the other half were in the field.
Jiang Xue's heart was bleeding, but fortunately there were many people in the tribe, so they rushed into the fields as soon as the explosion happened. In just half a day, they had picked up all the soybeans in the fields.
Next comes corn.
By the time she discovered that the corn silk had turned completely yellow, it was too late to eat the fresh sweet corn. She had no choice but to break off all the corn, tie the corns into groups of three or five with corn husks, and hang them under the eaves. She could ignore them for the time being.
Fortunately, it’s okay if the potatoes are harvested a few days late. If the autumn rain had fallen and the potatoes had sprouted in the ground, it would have been a luxury for them to eat potatoes this year.
After harvesting the potatoes, there is no need to wash off the mud, just pile them directly in the cave.
But there is basically no one living in the cave now. It is only used to store tools such as bamboo mats, baskets, backpacks, etc. In order to prevent mice from stealing food, Jiang Xue specially chose a larger uninhabited house and dug a cellar in the corner to store potatoes, sweet potatoes and other items.
In winter, it can also be used to store cabbage and radishes.
No one had the concept of a cellar, so Jiang Xue had to suggest digging a deep pit in the room, with a small exit and a large pit, and the surrounding walls...
Jiang Xue originally planned to compact it, but then she changed her mind and decided to use red bricks to reinforce it, as this would better prevent rats and other rodents from stealing food.
After harvesting these crops, the tribe’s houses were also built to a certain size.
She gave up her previous single-family house and adopted a townhouse model, which saves more red bricks, land, and manpower.
Two rows of red brick houses sprang up almost overnight. Each house had more than ten rooms, and it was no problem for more than ten people to live in each room.
The open space between the row houses is also very large and can be used as a playground for children, where they can run around and play games without having to run far. It can also serve as a temporary open-air meeting room, where various activities such as bonfire dances and sacrificial ceremonies can be held.
If they wish, they can even transform this place into a martial arts training ground.
In order to make going to the toilet more convenient, she also had two toilets built at each end of the row house. Each toilet has five stalls. In this way, even if there are many people, there will be no unnecessary trouble when going to the toilet.
The Bashan people who came to learn skills had never seen such a house before, and their eyes lit up when they saw such advanced facilities.
The biggest advantage of this kind of house is that it brings everyone together, so if anything happens, they can take care of each other.
If a single-family house is used, although people's privacy will be better protected, if someone comes to cause trouble or they are attacked by a large wild beast, they may be killed if the tribesmen cannot arrive in time.
Jiang Xue built a kitchen on the open space adjacent to the toilets of two rows of townhouses. She also built a stove and workbench with red bricks, and specially made a large cabinet with a door to store bowls and salt.
After the townhouses were built, how to arrange the people became a headache for Jiang Xue.
The current Snake Tribe is completely different from the previous one. When she first came, there were only fifty or sixty people in the tribe, but now, including the Bamboo Tribe and the Fire Tribe, there are more than two hundred and ten people in the Snake Tribe.
There are more than 210 people. In addition to the more than ten single-family houses built before, which are two-bedroom and one-living-room structures, there are now more than 20 row houses with more than 20 rooms, which means that there are more than 40 rooms in the tribe.
Apart from the room Jiang Xue had reserved for storage, there were enough rooms for the people of the Snake Tribe to live in. So she didn't dwell on it too much and resorted to the most primitive method—drawing lots.
For example, if everyone has their eyes on a single-family house near a townhouse, a few people will draw lots and have them live there. Whoever draws the lot gets to live there. As for who they want to live with, they can choose for themselves.
In this way, everyone was assigned a new place to live, and the cave was completely turned into a storage room.
Then there is the issue of miscellaneous buildings such as pig pens, cattle pens, sheep pens, etc.
Since everyone had moved out of the cave, the only things left were the bamboo house where Jiang Xue lived, the breeding pens for livestock, the martial arts training ground, and a pavilion for storing pottery blanks.
Everyone is worried about letting Jiang Xue live here alone.
So they suddenly came up with an idea and said that after they were done with this busy period, they would build three new red brick houses here, one to protect the livestock, and the other to prevent Jiang Xue from getting into any accidents.
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