It is late winter and early spring. Although the temperature is a little warmer than the previous few days, it is still very cold. There is frost or even ice in the morning and evening, so you can't see any early spring atmosphere. In addition, according to experience, even if spring is in full swing, the temperature may still be severely repeated.

It is not surprising that there are a few more snowfalls in the late spring.

The hillside still looks like the withered plants and trees, and the woods are still lonely and cold. Apart from wild birds and squirrels, there are almost no snakes and insects. However, if you look closely, you can see some tiny buds on the raised dead branches, dyed with a slight green feeling.

Spring is indeed coming!

Xu Chen was panting through the mountains and forests, looking at the plants that had begun to sprout, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

I thought this winter would be very difficult.

But unexpectedly, a big house was built and passed by silently.

Although I felt the hunger of two days a day and the coldness of the marrow that penetrated the marrow late at night, the entire tribe finally came here unscathed.

There was even a young family member.

This is something to be proud of and happy for him and for the entire tribe.

The various trees in the woods were dazzling, and Xu Chen and Gu Heju carefully communicated.

When planting trees in the courtyard, you must have value, either economic value, ornamental value, or practical value. If these three can be integrated into one, it is naturally the best choice.

Therefore, Xu Chen's first choice is naturally fruit trees.

There are many wild fruit trees on the mountain, but most of them are not edible, or the edible value is very low. However, after more than an hour of searching, he dug three fruit trees under the guidance of Gu Heju.

Although the leaves of these trees fell, Xu Chen could roughly identify two types.

One should be similar to a plum tree or an apple tree.

He was sure that the other tree was a peach tree, because there was peach glue oozing on the trunk. He collected and sold this thing when he was a child.

The remaining one is completely unjustified by the branches.

Although these are fruit trees, Xu Chen also knows that they are all the most primitive wild varieties and are basically not very delicious. For example, peach trees, the wild peach trees that have not been cultivated and grafted are all peaches with few meats and large kernels. Although they are edible, their taste is very average.

However, any domestication will have a process of continuous artificial cultivation and breeding. If you don’t plant them, they will always be wild species.

Just like taming a little wolf, he knew that the possibility of success was almost zero, but he still insisted and would not give up easily.

What's more, these wild fruit trees are everywhere, and there is no need to spend money at all. If they are not delicious or cannot be planted, they can't be pulled and continued to plant them.

Just like raising fish, you don’t have to worry about raising death. Anyway, changing fish is very convenient and easy

The three of them dug out three fruit trees nearly two meters high and carried them down the mountain. Then they started digging holes in the yard and planting them. After planting, watering them to fix the roots. After resting for a while, they continued to go up the mountain and continue digging in the afternoon.

After such a busy two days, a circle of yard was finally planted. Although they were all bare branches, the whole yard looked much more vivid.

After the trees in the yard were planted, he worked hard for another day and planted several evergreen plants on the left and right sides of the gate.

In this way, his beautification work in the compound was announced.

In front of the house, plant melons and beans.

He has lived in a small rural area and inherited the ancient habits of China's agricultural civilization for thousands of years.

That is, as long as you see some open space, you always feel like you want to plant something.

The huge courtyard that has just been built now has open space inside and outside, front and back, like a huge blank piece of painting paper waiting for him to splash ink, so just planting trees cannot satisfy his appetite.

In the next few days, he focused his eyes on the large open space in front and behind the house. This time he did not do anything by himself, but instead found a group of men who had moved and started to do nothing, planting some messy seeds such as melons, wild beans, and erect.

As the cave items were slowly moved, the cleaning and beautification work inside and outside the courtyard was completed one after another. The Ba people began to officially settle down at the foot of the mountain, and the entire tribe began to slowly return to their former life state.

The kiln workers returned to the kiln factory to continue making pottery and firing kilns.

The wind led a group of hunters to go out to hunt fishing.

The two tools are still gnawed every day to make various tools such as stone swords, stone axes, stone hoes, wooden hoes, etc., or rub tree bark ropes to make rattan baskets, etc.

The men who were originally responsible for building the house and laying bricks suddenly became idle and were at a loss. They went in and out of the yard every day and walked around the room. They either stood in the yard and looked at the wide courtyard and busy women in a daze, or they were watching the mud pits and grass on the river beach with the bricks and the grazing.

The scene of working lively with a group of foreigners in the past seems to be still appearing in front of your eyes, and laughter seems to be still echoing in your ears.

But Xu Chen would not let them be so depressed.

His grand career has just taken a small step.

What is the purpose of building a house at the foot of the mountain? It is to farm.

Spring is now beginning, and this matter must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

Therefore, Xu Chen quickly gathered a group of idle men, carried wooden hoes, stone hoes and went out to work.

Not far from the courtyard, just outside the mouth of the Wild Wolf Valley, is a large area of ​​exposed wasteland full of ashes left after burning the wasteland.

More than a month has passed since the last burning of wasteland. After the wind, sun and a few rain and snow, the wasteland looks even more messy.

After the burning, some burning black trees and thorns stood sparsely on the open space.

There are also a lot of stones inside.

To cultivate well, you need to dig all these messy things clean up.

The open space is relatively large and distributed on a small undulating mound. In order to facilitate cultivation, not only should the tree roots and stones be cleaned, but the ridges should also be planned in various fields and some simple drainage ditches should be excavated according to local conditions.

Although he has never done this personally.

But when he grew up in the countryside, he still knows something through his experiences.

After a brief observation on the burned mound, Xu Chen divided a group of men into groups, each group was responsible for one piece. The strong ones were responsible for digging and cleaning the thorns and rhizomes, and the weak ones were responsible for picking up the stones inside and digging the ditch.

Because the area is too large, it is impossible to transport and discard all the stones cleaned outside, so they can only be piled into ridges according to simple plans.

Before taming cattle and horses and inventing farm tools for farming, human farming methods were simple and primitive.

The so-called slash-and-burn planting means laying a torch in winter to burn all the weeds and straws in the farmland. When the spring sowing season is sowing, you will use sticks or knives to dig holes in the farmland to plant seeds.

This method is still popular in Yunnan and Myanmar.

Because weeding cannot be deeply plowed and weeded, farmlands are generally overgrown, competing with crops for the fertility of the land, resulting in the crops growing miserably.

The grass is full and the sparse bean seedlings are the best portrayal of this primitive cultivation.

Because the planting method is simple and crude, the yield is terrible. In order to increase the harvest, the planting area can only be continuously expanded.

By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, human civilization had been considered a highly developed period, but this ancient farming method was still adopted on a large scale.

One household has five people, and one hundred acres are cured.

If you cultivate and cultivate the fields thoroughly, you will not be able to cultivate such a large area.

Although this method was primitive and painful to Xu Chen, it is still the best method at the moment.

Dig a hole and bury the seeds and harvest them in the sky.

Therefore, the role and value of the gods are undoubtedly reflected.

In order to have good weather and good food harvests, when encountering natural disasters, I can only ask for more blessings from the wind god, rain god, river god, sun god.

Xu Chen didn't know if he would also be able to kowtow to the gods and beg for mercy.

But the most important task at hand is to first open up the wasteland, plant the seeds, and then solve the difficulties encountered step by step depending on the situation.

In the future, building dams, digging ditches, cultivating good varieties, domesticating cattle and horses, and inventing rakes and raking tools will really be a long way to go to complete this path that leads mankind onto agricultural civilization.

Cleaning up wasteland is much easier than logging wood, laying bricks, picking up stones and repairing houses.

More than one hundred acres of land, seven or eight men work from sunrise and rest from sunset, and are busy every day, and they look a little after a few days.

Since moving to the foot of the mountain, the labor time has been greatly extended. You start working when you go out and go home to eat after work, so that your physical strength is not exhausted by going up and down the mountain.

While taking care of the elderly and young, some began to spin and weave cloth while taking care of the elderly and young, some began to weave straw curtains and mats, and slowly continued to tidy up the room and courtyard.

Men go out early and come back late and concentrate on their work.
Chapter completed!