The departure of Shuba did not affect the inherent life of the Qingque tribe.

Even with the negative example of Tree Bark, the people of the Green Bird Tribe became more accepting and supportive of the tribe.

The rapeseed has been harvested and there is only one more field left to plough. Han Cheng was not in a hurry to have people plow the rapeseed field after harvesting.

A lot of rapeseed has fallen to the ground this year. Rapeseed has a very short dormancy period, and now small rapeseed seeds have emerged from the ground.

These newly grown rapeseeds are difficult to bloom and bear fruit, but they are still very good for cooking.

The foundation of the new house in the courtyard has been laid, and the stone walls are more than one meter above the ground.

Going further up, we can use the rammed earth method to build earth walls.

Just when everyone was putting all their efforts together and preparing to build the earth wall flat in one go, the Son of God called for a stop.

Under Han Cheng's guidance, everyone began to carry soil in from outside one load at a time and move the earthen temple into the room whose outline had already been taken.

This layer of soil is very necessary. The room is elevated and less susceptible to moisture.

The millet is growing well, and the seedlings are green and lush. The only thing that makes people feel uncomfortable is that there is too much grass in the field.

At that time, there were no hoes, let alone pesticides. All they could do was pull them out with their hands, or squat on the ground and shovel with a small bone shovel or a small stone shovel tied to a wooden handle.

The bone shovel and stone shovel cannot be too wide, otherwise it will easily damage the seedlings.

Don’t say that the Qingque tribe doesn’t have hoes. At this time, even if they had hoes, they wouldn’t be of much use.

It’s not that the hoe doesn’t work well, but the way the Qingque tribe grows millet is not conducive to weeding with a hoe.

Except for a very small portion of these millets that were planted using the furrow method, the rest were sown.

The seedlings are scattered randomly, and the hoe is too big, so weeding at this time is not as convenient and safe as pulling it out by hand or using a small bone shovel.

There is a reason why furrow planting is not used entirely. It is too troublesome to use a bone shovel to dig furrows in the plowed ground and then sow seeds along the furrows by hand.

So except for the initial part, the rest is sowing seeds.

These methods are convenient when planting, but more troublesome when taking care of.

The plow cart and the hoe, these two things must be made as soon as possible.

It is not so bad that the Qingque tribe has few cultivated fields at this time, and they are busy with the work. But when the cultivated area increases greatly next year, if they continue to plant like this, part of the farmland will definitely become barren.

Han Cheng thought about this and wrote down two more things on the pottery board.

These two things need to be produced as soon as possible, at least so as not to delay next year's millet planting.

The weeds pulled from the fields were not wasted, but were piled together in piles in the rice field. At the end of the day, someone would collect the weeds.

Some of the clean and good grass was used to feed rabbits and chickens, and the rest was piled in a large pit near the tribe and close to the fields.

This pit was newly dug when soil was being taken for building a house, and it has not yet been fully formed.

Weeds were piled at the north end of the pit, while the south end was still used for the tribesmen to collect soil.

Wu once asked Han Cheng about this matter. In his opinion, these grasses would be very good for starting a fire after being dried. Now they are piled up in the pit, which is a bit of a waste.

Composting?

The witch pondered over this new word he had learned from the Son of God.

There is so much grass. Is there any difference between burning it and spreading it on the ground and fermenting it with water and spreading it on the ground?

And it looks even more troublesome.

With Han Cheng, a time traveler, the Qingque tribe has a high starting point for farming.

It is not about starting from the initial slash-and-burn farming, and then step by step through years of trial and error to gain all kinds of experience in intensive farming, but about trying to get it done in one step under limited conditions.

The witch, including many other people in the Qingque tribe, who had never seen what crops looked like on unfertilized land, were actually somewhat skeptical about what Han Cheng said about the importance of fertilization to crops.

This is not to say that they do not trust Han Cheng, otherwise they would all follow Han Cheng's instructions. It is a common problem for most people, they always believe that seeing is believing and hearing is false.

After thinking about it, Wu came to Han Chenggong and told him his thoughts.

His idea was very simple. He wanted to leave a piece of land aside when planting crops next year, without applying fertilizer, and compare it with the surrounding crops.

Han Cheng understood Wu's meaning, smiled secretly, and readily agreed with Wu's idea.

As a person who came from the future, he knew best whether the land needed fertilizer or not.

If it weren't for chemical fertilizers and excellent varieties, it would have been impossible for the per-acre yield to reach such an astonishing level in later generations.

It is a good idea to set aside a piece of land for comparison. It can make Wu and others more deeply aware of the importance of fertilizing the land, so that they can do better in future plantings.

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether Han Chengtong agrees to set aside some land for comparison or not, because the land of the Qingque tribe will have an explosive growth next year, and it will be obviously unrealistic to want to cultivate everywhere in the same way at that time.

The accumulated fertilizer can only be applied to a part of the land.

There is one thing that the exiled Tree Bark was not wrong about, the second brother does like to take naps now.

Sometimes I can even fall asleep while talking to people.

As soon as it got dark at night, he would lie down on the bed and fall asleep immediately. He rarely woke up all night, and his spouse rarely touched him.

Sometimes his wife couldn't help herself when listening to the primitive songs coming from next door, but the second brother would just sit on the head of the kang, leaning there motionless, letting his wife do it herself.

Not only that, even the food doesn’t taste as good as before.

The second brother was a sleepy person to begin with, so no one paid much attention to this matter.

Han Cheng was busy thinking about how to get the hoe out.

It is necessary to get a hoe out. On the one hand, it can be used to weed the fields, and on the other hand, it can be used to reclaim wasteland and turn the soil.

Compared with a bone shovel, a hoe has greater advantages in turning the soil.

He was aware of his second brother's situation, but he didn't take it to heart.

It is said that people feel sleepy in spring, tired in autumn, take naps in summer and sleepy in winter. Who hasn’t felt sleepy and had a poor appetite from time to time?

This situation lasted for almost a month, and Han Cheng finally realized that something was wrong.

After such a long time had passed, not only did the second brother not get enough sleep, but he became less and less energetic. He looked a little dazed and as if he couldn't wake up.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that he looks a lot thinner, his face is yellowish and pale.

I didn't even have much interest in throwing my favorite slingshot.