On May 1st, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the crops are growing faster and faster.
The Teng tribe has cultivated 30 acres of cultivated land. With extremely primitive tools, it is already very difficult for a dozen people to take care of 30 acres of cultivated land.
Therefore, Jiang Xuan no longer allows tourists to continue to cultivate wasteland, and only needs to plant these thirty acres of land.
"These grasses, together with plant ashes, manure, broken bones, and pond mud, are all piled together, compacted and soaked for half a month, until they are completely cooked and used as fertilizer."
"Whenever you find earthworms in the fertilizer pile, the fertilizer can be used."
In the fields, Jiang Xuan personally taught the tourists how to compost. Even when faced with the smelly manure, he did not change his expression.
Compost is a magic weapon for farming.
In addition to lack of management, the reason why the slash-and-burn farming method has low yields is also because there is not enough fertilizer.
Plant ash is good, but relying solely on plant ash to grow crops is definitely not enough.
Compost is to mix various materials together and turn them into nutrient-rich organic fertilizer after maturity, which is very beneficial to the growth of crops.
The raw materials for composting are very wide and easily available, such as grass feed, plant ash, manure, food residues, animal bones, etc.
Gan Song kept everything Jiang Xuan said in mind.
Since losing an arm, hunting has become very difficult for him. Even a simple rope trap is very difficult to set up because he only has one hand.
But now, he has found something he can do and do well, and that is farming.
Although he only has one hand, through his own efforts, he can also master the skills of farming, and the work he does is no less than that of others.
Gradually, he fell in love with farming.
This feeling of opening up wasteland, planting crops, and then watching the crops grow, mature, and be harvested little by little fascinates Gan Song.
Gan Song said confidently: "Don't worry, leader, we will definitely make the best fertilizer!"
"Well, if you work hard, you will harvest a lot of food in the autumn, and everyone will have enough to eat in the winter without going hungry."
Jiang Xuan gave a few more instructions, then turned and left.
"Work, work!"
Gan Song shouted, and then began to look for various materials for composting according to the method Jiang Xuan said.
There is a busy scene in the fields.
Jiang Xuan then walked to the creek and found a large piece of tall reed. He searched for the intact reed and cut it with a stone knife.
In fact, it is best to harvest reeds in the autumn, after the new reeds bloom and are the most resilient.
But Jiang Xuan couldn't wait any longer. He could only cut some reeds from last year and planned to weave a few mats.
As the weather gets hotter, it is no longer suitable to place a mattress on a bamboo bed.
But sleeping directly on a bamboo bed is not a comfortable thing, because those bamboos are not flat and can be uncomfortable to sleep on.
Jiang Xuan thought about it and decided to knit a few mats.
Bamboo can also be used to weave mats, and the effect is very good, but it requires breaking the bamboo into very thin bamboo strips, which is not an easy task without suitable tools.
Reed is different.
It is softer and has toughness. Whether it is cutting down or weaving, it is much easier than bamboo.
After Jiang Xuan chopped for a while, Chi Shao also came over to help.
She will always be by Jiang Xuan's side, silently guarding him and guarding against possible dangers.
"Chi chi chi..."
The weather is very hot, and there are many unknown little bugs in the grass beside the stream, screaming constantly.
"Sister, that's enough, no need to chop anymore."
Jiang Xuan chopped a large bundle of reeds, and Chi Shao also chopped a large bundle. The two simply twisted the reed leaves together to make a simple straw rope, tied up the reeds, and then carried them back to the bamboo house.<
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"Pa!"
A large bundle of reeds was thrown on the ground, and Chi Shao wiped the sweat from her cheeks. Only then did she ask curiously: "Xuan, why are you cutting so much grass?"
"Woven mat."
"Lang mat?"
"It's just a mat for sleeping on the bed. The animal skin is too hot to sleep on. I want to make some cool mats to put on it."
"So that's it." Chi Shao nodded. The current weather is indeed not suitable for sleeping on animal skins.
"Sister, let's throw these reeds into the pond and take a dip first."
"Okay!"
The two men carried the reeds to the pond, and then threw the whole bundle into the pond for soaking.
This is because the reeds collected by Jiang Xuan and others are all old reeds from last year. They have dried out and are very brittle and will break when they are broken.
Soaking it in water can make the dry reeds absorb water and become tough again, making them more suitable for weaving.
After throwing the reed down, the two went to do other things.
More than two hours later, Jiang Xuan returned to the pond. He took out a piece of reed and tried to fold it. He found that the reed had softened. Then he picked up the two bundles of reeds and brought them back to the open space in front of the bamboo house. p>
He untied the straw rope that tied the reeds, then found a flat stone and a piece of wood, placed the reeds on it, and flattened the round reed pole bit by bit.
"Dong dong dong..."
As Jiang Xuan continued to pound, the reed rods were flattened and turned into flat sheets.
After Chi Shao finished her own business, she also came over to help.
Uncaria, Stone Loach, and Nanxing also came over to help.
After all the reed poles were smashed flat, Jiang Xuan began to weave them.
If you want to weave a beautiful, fine, patterned reed mat, it is very tedious and time-consuming.
But it is much easier to flatten the whole reed and weave it directly into a mat. It doesn’t take long to weave a mat, but it just looks rough.
Tribal people have been doing weaving since they were young, and everyone is very skilled.
Jiang Xuan first used a flattened reed as a weft thread, and then tied each reed vertically and evenly to the weft thread as a warp thread.
Then, you only need to continuously intersperse and press the reeds on these warp threads, and you can weave the reeds into a complete mat.
With the efforts of five people, in just one afternoon, they weaved the reeds they brought back into five single-person mats.
The next day, these mats were left in the sun for a long time and dried again.
Later, Jiang Xuan and others replaced all the animal skin mattresses on the bamboo bed.
At night, Jiang Xuan lay on his bamboo bed. The thick mat under him was very breathable. When you lay on it, you would neither feel cold nor stuffy. It was very comfortable.
"It feels pretty good."
A cheerful smile appeared on Jiang Xuan's face. As long as he is willing to do it and is not lazy, he can improve his life bit by bit with his own hands.
The three teenagers are also very satisfied with the new mat, which makes them very comfortable to sleep on.
Chi Shao was lying in her small room, stroking the mat under her body, and said in an inaudible voice: "When Xuan grows up, he is more capable than me."
With a happy smile, Chi Shao soon fell asleep, and this night was a pleasant dream.
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