Jiang Xue said to herself, "Not only might we not have enough mulberry trees, we might not have enough food either. We'll have to expand our land next year."
Now the tribe has only four or five acres of land that has been reclaimed, and the farmland is only about six or seven acres at most. If they want to avoid starvation, they must expand the scale.
The people of the Snake Tribe are big eaters. Each person needs at least two kilograms of meat every day. Fortunately, they have so many good hunters to ensure the operation of the tribe.
It seems that two kilograms of meat per person is not a large amount, but if you think about the population base of the tribe, there are more than 200 people. On average, at least a dozen wild deer must be hunted every day.
She also didn't want them to risk their lives going out hunting every day. The best way was to find as many crops as possible and bring them back to plant. This way, they wouldn't starve in the coming year.
But if we want to prevent everyone from starving, we cannot let go of the products in the river.
When Jiang Xue came here last year, the system rewarded her with a fishing net. This fishing net played a big role in the autumn, so that they did not starve last winter when food was most scarce.
But definitely not this year.
The water level in the river has dropped, and the fish have become fewer. The fishing nets have also been cut by Acai. If they don't stock up on food now, they will definitely starve this winter.
It’s okay for adults to be hungry, but children cannot go hungry.
Children are the hope of the tribe. If we cannot even provide them with food and clothing, it would be better for the tribe to disband on the spot.
Vanilla's mouth twitched. What could she do? Of course she could only listen to Jiang Xue.
Mu Feng frowned, "But Snow Witch, we're going to reclaim so much land at once. Aren't you afraid they won't be able to endure the hardship and will retaliate against you?"
Jiang Xue glanced at him and said, "I'm not afraid. If they feel that what I'm doing is unfair to them, then they can come and seek refuge with the Blue Wolf Tribe. I have no objection."
Blue Wolf Tribe...
Mu Feng chuckled: "You, okay, since you said so, then we will go talk to them when we get back."
"That's a good deal, but before that, we still have to fully cover the canal network."
The tribe's canal network now has a rudimentary form. As long as it is continuously improved in the future and more small ditches are built to divert water to the fields, a lot of effort can be saved on watering when there is no water during the dry season.
Not only that, the land to be reclaimed in the future needs to be carefully planned and cannot be done blindly.
As she spoke, Jiang Xue led everyone into the woods.
She didn't know what kind of food she could find here. Anyway, once she entered the forest, it would all depend on luck whether she could come across anything good.
The group walked for an hour or two before Jiang Xue found something good - wild ginger.
The moment Jiang Xue saw it, her eyes widened.
This is such a treasure!
In addition to being edible, it also has high medicinal value.
According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, wild ginger has mild medicinal properties and its main effects include treating coughs, asthma and other symptoms caused by colds and wind-cold.
It can also remove fishy smells. You can add some when cooking fish or shrimps. The taste is simply amazing.
Jiang Xue excitedly took out a dagger and started attacking Ye Jiang.
Only after digging out all the roots did she put them into the backpack with satisfaction: "Go around and see if there are any more good things like this here."
Vanilla looked at her in confusion: "Snow Witch, what can this thing do?"
"eat."
Listening to Jiang Xue's concise words, Xiangcao didn't even have a reason to object.
Mu Feng immediately asked people to search nearby, and they would take as many as they could find.
The Snow Witch spoke, and the clan leader gave the order. No matter how reluctant everyone was, they couldn't offend both of them.
I had no choice but to accept my fate and go find it.
As the saying goes, there is no time limit in the mountains, so when Jiang Xue found that it was getting dark, she hurriedly called everyone together.
On the one hand, to see if anyone has fallen behind, and on the other hand, to see what other food everyone has found.
Jiang Xue was very satisfied with Mu Feng's approach.
His survival skills in the wild must be maxed out. Even when Jiang Xue and everyone were looking for wild ginger, this guy still hunted a wild deer on his own.
Although this wild deer is not big, it arrived at the right time for the team of only a dozen people.
It's just right to replenish everyone's energy.
After counting the number of people and finding no one left behind, Jiang Xue looked up at the sky and said, "Let's all find a place to stay here tonight."
If you can't find a suitable place, a tree will do.
After all, they were in the forest, Xiaobai was not around, and there were only about ten of them, so they didn't dare to take such a risk.
Fortunately, everyone is used to it, and no matter what time it is, they always arrange people to keep watch.
After finding a sheltered spot, they put down their belongings and immediately set out to look for firewood.
As soon as Jiang Xue sat down, they began to pack up the wild deer that Mu Feng had hunted.
When the firewood was in place, Jiang Xue cast a fireball. When the flames rose, the wild deer was chopped into pieces.
While they were processing the venison, Jiang Xue took two wild gingers, then took the vanilla knife, scraped off the ginger skin, cut the wild ginger into slices, cut a few cuts on the venison, stuffed two slices of cut ginger into each cut, and then let them roast it.
Although Jiang Xue didn't know whether doing so would add some so-called flavor to the venison, onion, ginger and garlic are the three musketeers for removing fishy smell, so it's better to add them than not.
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