Before, Han Cheng might not have a clear understanding of the growth habits of cabbage and radish. However, after several years of planting in the tribe, some people who often deal with these vegetables, including him, have a deep understanding of this.
It is precisely because of this that after discovering the situation here this morning, Wu, Bugs Bunny and others seemed so panicked.
Compared with the beginning, cabbage is now obviously different from ordinary rapeseed and has become an important vegetable for the tribe during the winter.
Whether you put it in the hot pot and cook it, or split it in half, cut it into two or three centimeters wide, and stew it with pork or other meat, it is very delicious.
Now, when the trees have not yet grown up, they are suddenly hit by such frost, and everyone in the tribe is worried.
“After the frost subsides in a while, we will wrap up all the heads of cabbage and see how they grow.
If the weather becomes warmer again after a few days, the cabbages will grow a little more.
Even if it is not as good as before, it can become much more solid.
If the weather doesn't improve, we'll pull out a large number of them and store them in the cabbage cellar."
Faced with such weather and in the current situation, Han Cheng had no good ideas to think of.
If it were in later times, this magical tool could be used to grow off-season vegetables in plastic greenhouses.
If you are more luxurious, you can also build a greenhouse made of pure glass.
At the very least, you can find some colorful plastic bags and put one on the head of a cabbage to make hats for them to keep them warm.
But now, Han Cheng can only make such an arrangement. Whether it will succeed and how much the production will be reduced depends on God's will.
The most troublesome thing is not the cabbage, but the radishes whose stems and leaves were frozen by the sudden frost and looked as if they were cooked.
Even if you ignore it and don't consider eating the cabbage, and let it grow in the ground on its own, it will still be able to withstand the severe cold.
But the leaves outside will be ruined.
But when spring comes, they can still pull out shoots, just like rapeseed, bloom small yellow flowers, and then produce seeds, so that the inheritance will not be broken.
But the same cannot be said for radishes. If the weather is cold enough, the entire radish will be frozen, leaving no chance for preserving the seeds.
Radish and cabbage are two magical vegetables for the winter. After several years of screening and cultivation, there have been significant improvements compared to before. If they were all frozen to death and no seeds were left, it would be a real loss.
What happened today also reminded Han Cheng that next time he plants something, he must leave more seeds and not plant them all at once.
In this way, even if there is a complete crop failure in a certain season, there will still be seeds left.
"After a while, shovel some more soil and cover the exposed parts of the radish with soil.
Then clean out the radish cellar, pull up a batch of radishes, put them in the radish cellar, pile them together, and cover the outside with sand."
Han Cheng looked at the frost-bitten radishes and thought for a while before he spoke.
The radish cellar is underground, and thanks to the ground temperature, it is much warmer inside than outside.
Before these radishes are completely frozen, pull out a batch of them and put them in the radish cellar to prevent them from being frozen.
After the spring of next year, these stored radishes will be moved out and planted again. New shoots will grow from the radishes and they will bloom and bear fruit.
The radishes at this time were obviously not yet at the stage of being pulled out of the ground and stored in cellars, but in order to preserve some radish seeds and prevent the radishes from being extinct in the tribe, this was the only insurance they could take.
If the weather turns good again in two days, these radishes will be wasted, but if the weather does not improve, such operation will become crucial.
"It's okay. Even if the production of these vegetables decreases, we don't have to worry. We have plenty of food in our tribe. We can survive the winter even without eating radishes and cabbages. Don't forget that our tribe has lotus roots, which we can eat in winter."
Seeing that everyone was in a bad mood and was upset about the upcoming production cuts, Han Cheng smiled and began to comfort everyone.
The food structure in the tribe is now very rich, and we can still celebrate the New Year even without radishes and cabbages.
When you have food in your hands, you can speak and act with confidence.
After hearing what Han Cheng said, the gloom in Wu and the others' hearts disappeared a lot.
After breakfast in the morning, people in the tribe became busy.
Some people went to the ridges of the fields around the tribe to pull out the thatch, then twisted the grass slightly to make rough straw ropes, which they used to tie the cabbages and help them wrap their heads.
Of course the tribe has hemp ropes, but people in the tribe would not do such a costly thing as using hemp ropes when ordinary grass could solve the problem.
Some people would pull out a piece of radish, cut off the upper and lower ends of the radish with a copper knife, put it in a basket, and then transport it to a radish cellar for storage.
The reason why you need to use a copper knife to cut off the leaves on the radish and the roots underneath first is that if you don't cut them all off, the radish will continue to grow after being placed in the radish cellar with a relatively high temperature.
There is no future for growing them in a dark environment like a radish cellar. Apart from wasting the energy stored in the radishes themselves, there will be no other results, so they need to be given a couple of cuts in advance.
Another group of people dug up the soil not far away, carried it over with a shoulder pole, and carefully spread it to the roots of the radishes, covering the exposed parts of the radishes.
While everyone was working in the vegetable garden, the sky, which had been gloomy at first, gradually cleared up in the morning, and the orange-yellow sunlight shone on the earth.
However, despite this, the temperature showed no sign of rising, and it remained clear and cold.
But no matter what, this clear sky brings people the greatest comfort and dispels much of the haze in people's hearts.
Even happier than the Green Bird Tribe are the other tribes with a more primitive lifestyle.
The Bear Tribe, which was not far from the large bamboo forest, and the Creek Tribe, which had a large amount of limestone not far away, the people in these tribes were jumping for joy at the sunshine.
Some people cried out loud, while others knelt down and kowtowed devoutly towards the sun in the sky.
In their own way, they were grateful for the sun coming out and fortunately that the wind and snow did not fall at this time.
After expressing their gratitude, people from each tribe began to work hard to collect and store food.
Nuts such as acorns, chestnuts, and pecans are their favorites.
However, when I come across late peaches, late pears, persimmons, red hawthorns and some unknown fruits, I will not let them go.
Compared to chestnuts, these fruits cannot be stored for a long time, but they are still food, so they can choose to eat them first.
In the past, in autumn, people from all tribes would be very active in collecting food. Now, under such weather conditions, they have become even more active, and they would like to spend the entire day outside collecting food...
In the next few days, the temperature was very low. Every morning when I woke up, there was a thick layer of frost on the haystacks outside. At first glance, I thought it was a thin layer of snow.
A thin layer of ice also formed on the still water surface.
The autumn of the eleventh year of Qingque was particularly short. Before late autumn had even passed, it was suddenly replaced by a strong winter.
After waiting for a few more days, seeing that there was no sign of the temperature rising, Han Cheng had people harvest more than half of the cabbages and radishes in the vegetable garden.
If we wait any longer, many of them will be frozen to death.
In such weather, the people of the Green Bird Tribe were not idle either. While some of them were competing with cabbages and radishes, others were seizing this opportunity to quickly collect fruits.
Just like in later generations, no one complains about having too much money, the people in the Qingque tribe never complain about having too much food.
Although the food stored in the tribe is enough for them to eat until next autumn harvest, or even until autumn harvest, the people in the tribe still seize the time to collect fruits.
There are also some people who are still turning the soil.
If you turn the soil more now, you will be able to turn the soil less in the spring of next year. The remaining time can be used to reclaim new wasteland.
Within the tribe, the dexterous female primitive people were also not idle. They sat there and used scissors, screwdrivers, needles and thread, fur and other things to quickly sew clothes.
The weather got cold so quickly this year that many winter clothes have not been made, so people in the tribe are rushing to make them.
The weather is getting colder and colder. Is a period similar to the Little Ice Age about to begin?
Standing on the wall, wrapped in a tiger-skin cloak, feeling the cold air, Han Cheng thought this in his heart.
It's just because the era he came from was too early, completely prehistoric, and there were no written records. For such things, one could only guess in one's mind and could not confirm it.
Han Cheng had long known that the weather had been getting colder in recent years, and he had also long speculated about the Little Iceberg.
Therefore, when feeling the cold air at this time, I was not too panicked.
As long as the weather does not affect the growth and planting of crops such as millet and soybeans in the tribe, he does not have to worry too much.
If you really can't survive here, then take your tribe and migrate south.
I just don’t believe that the colder weather will affect places further south.
When I first arrived, the population of the tribe was only a few dozen, with only ten able-bodied men including the lame, and nothing else. Even in that situation, I led the tribe to develop slowly.
Now, after absorbing more than 140 people from the Feng Tribe and the Linfeng Tribe, plus the 89 babies who were born and survived from last year to now, excluding the four deaths, the total population of the Qingque Tribe has reached 1,169!
Among them, the number of citizens increased from 513 to 807. The reason for such a rapid increase was that, on the one hand, the number of slaves promoted to citizens in the past two years was higher than in previous years, and on the other hand, more than 140 people from the Wind Tribe and the neighboring Wind Tribe joined, plus 89 newborn babies.
The number of male adult citizens increased from 71 to 123, and the number of female adult citizens increased from 133 to 225.
The total number of the two is 348, of which there are 459 underage citizens, 19 of whom are about to enter adulthood.
The number of slaves in the tribe has been greatly reduced compared to before, from 426 to 362.
Among them, there were 182 adult slaves and 180 underage slaves.
The reason why the number of underage slaves in the tribe did not increase but decreased was, on the one hand, because some of them had grown up, and on the other hand, after coming to the Qingque tribe, all babies born were automatically transformed into citizens of the Qingque tribe. After all, these children were innocent.
Crops included millet, soybeans, peas, and rapeseed; livestock included donkeys, deer, dogs, pigs, etc.; and tools included bronze.
Under such circumstances, with such a rich family background, it is hard to believe that one will not be able to develop if one migrates to a new place.
Of course, this is just the worst plan. Han Cheng would not do this unless it was the last minute.
After all, everything here has cost them enough effort, and if they really move away, a lot of their efforts will be wasted.
However, despite this, for the sake of himself and the entire tribe, Han Cheng had to make this worst-case plan.
After all, this is a matter concerning himself, his wife and children, and the fate of the entire tribe.
Should we wait until next year and then send some people out to go south as much as possible?
Go there and find a place with a suitable climate, land and rivers suitable for settlement.
They reclaimed some land there and established a new sub-tribe.
As long as the main tribe and Tongshan residential area are still suitable for survival, it is relatively easy to allocate some people to do this with the supplies from these two places.
Moreover, for the tribe, this approach of early preparation and gradual implementation can minimize the damage that the tribe may encounter.
If we don't plan ahead, and wait until the weather gets colder every year and we eventually have to move from here to the south, it will be too late to do these things.
Just like that, taking all the tribe's belongings and all the people in the tribe, they headed headlong into the unfamiliar south where they knew nothing about it... It's exciting just to think about it.
If things go wrong, they might end up with a bloody head and cause great losses to the tribe.
It is far less reliable and secure than making plans early and migrating after the business in the south is almost done.
When it comes to matters concerning the fate of ourselves and our tribe, we cannot take risks.
The more Han Cheng thought about it, the more he felt that this was feasible. Even if he didn't establish a tribe there, it would be a good idea to find such a place in advance so that he wouldn't be caught off guard at the critical moment.
When this thought came to his mind, Han Cheng's worries about the possible Little Ice Age were suddenly reduced a lot.
If before, Han Cheng was just thinking about the possible small ice age with the courage to fight it out with all his heart, then at this moment, after thinking of this method, he really had confidence.
I should have thought of something like this a long time ago!
On the wall, Han Cheng, standing in the cold wind, kept smiling for a while, then he reached out and patted his forehead, thinking in annoyance.
As early as when he started building the Tongshan residential area, he had thought about dispersing the population and wealth of the tribe to a certain extent, so as not to put all his eggs in one basket.
Han Cheng, who made this decision, has always been very satisfied with this approach of dispersing the risks of the tribe. But looking back at his idea now, it seems a bit too petty.
Or maybe the pattern is too small.
The main reason is that the distance between the Tongshan residential area and the Qingque main tribe is too close.
And they are basically on the same latitude.
In such a situation, it is usually okay, but if there is a large-scale natural disaster, such as floods, droughts, cold waves, etc., there is a high possibility that everyone will be affected.
Things that seemed safe at the time, when viewed from this perspective, are not safe at all.
Even a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Apart from the main tribe, my tribe only has one Tongshan residential area. Now it seems that it is time to build another branch tribe!
At the very least, it cannot be outdone by the rabbits that are often grabbed by the ears and beaten to death by the witch.
Of course, Han Cheng did not take the small courtyard in Yanshan into account at this time.
Yanshan is too close to the main Qingque tribe and can only be regarded as a vassal of the main tribe. It cannot reach the status of a giant that has established its own sect like the Tongshan residential area.
After thinking all this through, Han Cheng no longer felt cold in the cold wind.
After standing here for a while in the cold wind, Han Cheng climbed down the wall and prepared to talk to Wu and his senior brother about this matter.
At this time, the witch was staying beside the rabbit circle. He looked happy and very kind.
Of course, the premise is that you need to ignore what he is doing.
Looking at the pile of motionless rabbits on the ground, Han Cheng couldn't help but sniff, moved by the witch's kindness.
It’s a pity that there is no chili pepper in the tribe, otherwise, with so many rabbits, we could make a lot of spicy rabbit heads and satisfy our taste buds.
Well, as the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together." By often interacting with the kind-looking witch, Han Cheng has unknowingly become kind and loving.
After admiring Wu's clean and neat techniques for a while, Han Cheng also started to take action.
Instead of hitting the rabbit, the witch tied up the rabbit that was hit to death with a rope and hung it on a pole, and then used a copper knife to peel it from the three-petal mouth.
The senior brother next to him had already peeled off several tube skins very skillfully.
After the skinned rabbit was gutted, the intestines were not thrown away but placed in a basin on the side.
Lame, and some other people who often knitted, were turning over the intestines there with nimble hands and feet.
After the intestines are turned over, they will be thrown into a basin. When a certain number of them have been collected, someone will scrub them over and over again with warm water and salt.
"Wu, Senior Brother, when the weather gets warmer next year, we will send some people to head south as far as possible..."
While peeling the rabbit, Han Cheng told Wu, his senior brother and others what he had been thinking about before.
As Han Cheng continued to speak, the movements of Wu, the eldest senior brother and others gradually slowed down, and finally they simply stopped.
Wu Lian no longer did his favorite thing of knocking rabbits, and listened carefully to Han Cheng talking about the harm that the continued colder weather might cause to the tribe, and the many benefits that doing so could bring to the tribe.
As Han Cheng spoke, the expressions of several people kept changing.
When he heard that the weather was getting colder and the winter was getting longer, and that the crops that had not been harvested in time might freeze to death, and that the livestock in the tribe might die because there was not enough food stored, etc., the eldest brother clenched his fists tightly.
Wu's wrinkled face was filled with shock and fear, and even the stick he was using to hit the rabbit fell to the ground.
They all have a deep feeling about the cold, and because of the existence of the stones, they also understand that winter is coming earlier and earlier.
In the past, when something like this happened, witches might have felt terrified and felt that there was no light in the sky.
But now that the tribe’s living standards have greatly improved, they don’t have too many worries about these things.
With a kang, sufficient clothes and food, they have a strong ability to resist the cold.
However, at this moment, the reliance in their hearts was torn to pieces by the scene described by Han Cheng.
The winters were getting longer and longer, and the crops were frozen to death by the early cold before they even matured, resulting in a total loss of harvest... These were scenes that they had never thought of before, and just hearing about them was enough to make people feel creepy.
Before, people in the tribe might have been a little bit unconvinced about this, but now, after experiencing the reduction in the production of radishes and cabbages in the tribe due to the early cold, the witch and the eldest brother, who were heartbroken about this, had no reason not to believe it.
What’s more, these were spoken personally by the most respected and wisest Son of God.
Everyone who heard this was filled with fear.
It's not just because such a scene is too terrifying, but what's even more terrifying is that they found that when faced with such an unparalleled disaster, there was nothing they could do.
There is nothing else we can do except wait here for the crops to fail and the livestock to freeze and starve to death.
"Son of God, can we go to the south?!"
Wu grabbed Han Cheng's hand and looked at him with anticipation and nervousness.
After hearing what Wu said, the eldest brother and the others quickly looked up and looked at Han Cheng with the same eyes.
They all remembered that before the Son of God described this terrible disaster scene, he first said that when the weather got warmer next year, he would let some people head south as much as possible.
Although I don't know why we have to go south as hard as possible, since the Son of God said so, it means that going south as hard as possible will most likely solve the current predicament.
"clever!"
Han Cheng nodded vigorously and gave Wu a thumbs up.
Seeing the Son of God nod in approval and making such a gesture, several people breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's warmer in the south, warmer than here. If we really can't live here anymore, we can go to the south and live there..."
"But it doesn't mean that the weather will definitely get that bad, it's just the worst possible scenario.
But we still have to make preparations in advance. Only in this way can we protect our tribe to the greatest extent when such weather really comes..."
Han Cheng continued to talk about these things to everyone.
Wu, the eldest brother, and the lame man, who were frightened by the terrible scene described by Han Cheng, nodded in response, thinking that what the Son of God said was very correct.
Han Cheng felt very relieved when he saw this. After all, it was today that he came up with these things and once again received the respectful gazes of everyone in the tribe. He pretended to be silent.
Just when Han Cheng was about to make this matter a final decision, Wu spoke with great doubt and asked a very profound question...
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