"The curved water is like your big eyes. The moon in the water is like the round ball in front of you. The fish in the water swimming across the moon is like my hand brushing against yours..."

Beside the stream in Qingque tribe, where hemp was being peeled and washed, there came the sound of tuneless singing.

Rather than singing, it is better to call it roaring.

However, the people peeling hemp on the shore enjoy doing it.

As soon as this random song ended, someone immediately followed it up: "The black hemp skin is your clothes, the white hemp stalks are your body, I peel off the hemp skin..."

Peeling wet hemp at this time of year is not a very pleasant job. The most unbearable thing is not the pungent smell, but the frozen hands.

After all, if you stay here for a long time, your sense of smell will become dull, and you will not be too sensitive to this smell. It's like you can stay in an abalone shop for a long time without smelling its stench.

But there is no way to solve the problem of frozen hands.

They are working now and it is impossible for them to wear gloves.

So after doing this kind of work for a while, everyone's morale became a little low.

In order to increase everyone's enthusiasm for work and boost their spirits, Han Chengjun used the art of singing.

The songs he sang were not from later generations, but were improvised by himself, with many metaphors in the sentences.

Just like in the Book of Songs.

Of course, the metaphors Han Cheng made up were all very serious, used as examples to inspire others.

As soon as this novel thing came out, it immediately received unanimous praise.

Inspired by this, everyone began to make up impromptu sentences following Han Cheng's pattern, and then "sang" them out loud.

Compared with Han Cheng's seriousness and subtlety, the metaphors used by the people of the Qingque tribe were much more fierce and direct.

The two songs they just sang were made up by themselves.

Art comes from life, especially primitive and simple art, which is more closely related to life.

The earliest poetry was created from various life situations.

Confucius compiled the "Book of Songs" and left only 300 poems after deleting them to be passed down to later generations. Among them, there are still famous poems such as "The orioles are singing on the island in the river..." which are the fantasies of single men. One can imagine how much of the poems were deleted.

For a rudimentary song like the Green Bird Tribe, it would be reasonable for it to have some more direct content.

As the tribe continues to develop and expand, perhaps there will be outstanding talents who can innovate based on this foundation.

Create more beautiful, euphemistic and implicit poems.

The originally arduous job of peeling hemp has now made many people's eyes watery, and two guys have already crawled into the bushes nearby and did not come out for a long time. This is something Han Cheng did not expect.

Perhaps this program can be preserved and developed into an annual love song festival.

When the tribe was large enough and the population was large enough, it evolved into a festival for adult men and women who had reached a certain age to use love songs to find mates.

There is almost no delay in peeling hemp, entertaining, and solving marriage issues.

Han Cheng was fantasizing like this in his mind as he watched Heiwa and Zhuang, a couple, picking grass leaves off each other's hair.

The peeled hemp skin was tied together neatly in bunches according to Han Cheng's previous demonstration.

Then some people took the hemp skins to the river and rinsed them with river water to wash off the smelly mud and the impurities that were not completely fermented on the fibers. They then hung them in handfuls on the grass beside the river to dry, and brought them back to the tribe when they returned.

The witch used some hemp with only fibers left to twist into a rope, and compared it with a rope made of rope grass of the same thickness. He found that the rope made of hemp was stronger than the rope grass.

He nodded with satisfaction. Regardless of what the linen that the Son of God mentioned and the clothes made of linen looked like, the fact that the rope made of hemp was stronger than that of rope grass was enough for the tribe to spend so much effort to make it.

Piles of stripped hemp stalks were being tortured by the sun and cold wind here. Their clothes had been cruelly taken away by the people of the Green Bird tribe, just like the Weaver Girl whose clothes were taken away by the Cowherd when she went to the lake to take a bath.

But the difference is that the Cowherd acted like a hooligan because he wanted the Weaver Girl to give birth to a monkey for him, while the people of the Green Bird tribe simply wanted hemp "clothes", and after the hemp stalks were dried, they would be burned as firewood.

Han Cheng did not follow the advice of his senior brother and others to directly dig out the water in the hemp pit and drain it, as this would have polluted the river.

The Qingque tribe still depends on this river for their livelihood. If they dump too much sewage into it, all the fish in the river will be smoked away. What will they eat then?

So after all the hemp was peeled, at Han Cheng's suggestion, the people of the Qingque tribe began to carry the water from the hemp retting pits in cans to the reclaimed land not far away to irrigate the fields.

There is a lot of hemp stuff fermented in the water, so it is quite strong to use it for watering the fields.

The silt in the retting pit was not spared either, it was dug out and put on the field. This stuff is better for fertilizing the fields than the retting water.

After a series of operations like this, the adverse effects of retting on the river were reduced to a minimum.

Cleaning the hemp pit sounded the clarion call for the Qingque tribe to fertilize the fields, marking the beginning of the process.

After finishing all this, they began to transport the fertilizer that had accumulated in the manure pit for nearly a year to the fields. The soil from the place where fish entrails were often buried after fishing was also dug up and transported to the fields.

Early winter is a good time to apply fertilizer to the fields.

Firstly, people have less time, and secondly, applying fertilizer to the land at this time helps mix the fertilizer with the soil, which will be just the right time for harrowing and farming in the spring of the following year.

The agreement between Han Cheng and Wu was not forgotten. There were ten acres of scattered and fenced land, but no fertilizer was applied, not even any ash from burning dead branches and leaves.

Many people in the Qingque tribe are very interested in this comparison.

Because ever since they started farming, they have always heard the Son of God say that fertilizing the land is good for the land and can increase yields.

But they don't know how much it can increase, or how the effect will compare to the land without fertilizer, and they don't have a clear idea.

It was Han Cheng who suggested dividing the ten acres of land into enclosures.

These ten acres of land include sloping land, flat land, and land near the river, covering all types of land owned by the Qingque tribe.

The results obtained in this way will be more convincing, so that no one will later think that the difference in yield is due to different terrain.

While the Greenbird Tribe was actively fertilizing the fields in anticipation of a good harvest next year and realizing the important role of fertilizer, a crisis was approaching the deer that were grazing far away from the tribe.