Chapter 035 The First Harvest

When the planting work was completed, the snow werewolves thought that they had finally finished the work. As a result, Ayun said that they had nothing to do, and they had to repair the basic water conservancy of the farmland.

After digging for more than a month, they dug a canal around the wheat field. The snow wolves thought they had finally finished their work, but Ayun waved his hand and told them to think too much. Together they built waterwheels and repaired the sluices, while the others would continue to dig the canals into soybean fields and vegetable fields until the entire field was connected...　　

Including the patriarch, the snow wolves who understood Xiao Yun's meaning were dull face.　　

Xiao Yun saw that this was not possible, so he swallowed things like digging a pond to store water and repairing a river. He actually said about these projects a long time ago. Obviously, these silly guys have no memory at all.

The young couple Qingcao and Ayue watched the tribesmen who were walking away with their hoes, looked at each other for a moment, and looked at Ayun synchronously and gratefully - although they don't know what a waterwheel is, they don't need to be like other people. It's great to dig a ditch like that!

The sluices at the inlet and outlet of the canal are not difficult. The excess red bricks burned out when the house was built, a small amount of relatively neat stones and a large amount of soil cement mixed with a large amount of reed poles were used to block the opening, and a few movable red bricks were reserved when necessary When you can move it away, get it done.　　

It is really a skill to build a waterwheel. It is not enough to rely on the Snow Werewolf's own family. He have to call the adult manuls with the talent of craftsmen.　　

A log was broken into two halves, half of which was hollowed out in the middle and stuck diagonally above the water inlet, making it a water diversion tool for diverting the water from the waterwheel into the canal. The job was handed over to Ashan.

Then there is the main body of the waterwheel, which is not too high in technical content, but is very troublesome.

The waterwheel is a simple structure and the most primitive irrigation tool for farming people that primary school students will make in their handicraft class. The whole is wheel-shaped, and the side wheel is made of wood chips to make a small triangular water tank on the side.

When the flowing water drives the water wheel to rotate, the water trough at the side wheel can automatically bring the water in the lower river course to a higher place. Whether it is the oldest waterwheel in Lanzhou or the keel waterwheel in the south, the principles are the same, except that waterwheels made by people in different regions differ in size, shape, and water tanks. For example, the sink is not triangular on the side but barrel-shaped, or leaf-shaped.

There is a height difference of about one meter between the river bank and the water at the inlet. Taking into account the different heights of the river surface in spring, summer and autumn, Xiao Yun decided to make a smaller waterwheel that can be raised or lowered if necessary, that is, the diameter is A small waterwheel with a size of about 3.5 meters.

Of course, such a small waterwheel will be slightly insufficient in water intake efficiency, so pay special attention to the design of the water tank-the side triangular water tank at the side wheel position can be made larger, Deeper.

It is said that the low technical principle is knew by all the elementary school students understand, but to make a usable and qualified waterwheel, he still need a standard size... Without a standard size, how can he make parts that can be assembled?　　

There are no nails for he to use in this place. To assemble the waterwheel, he must rely on the Mortise and Tenon joint structure. If the specifications of the sink pieces are not equal, how can they be assembled?

Before starting to build the waterwheel, Xiao Yun gathered the tribesmen (including Qingyan) and seven adult rabbits, whether they could understand or not, first talked about the importance of the standard ruler, um...no unexpected gains all face is confused.

"In short, whether we can build a waterwheel that automatically sucks water from the river has a bearing on our harvest this year." Xiao Yun said solemnly, "It didn't rain for ten consecutive days. You can only use human resources to fetch water for irrigation. Can you remember?" 　　

Everyone shuddered all the time. It's strange to forget it. It took two days and nights to pour the fields. They don't want to deal with so much water anymore in their lives.

Xiao Yun clenched a fist and waved vigorously: "So we must build a waterwheel! The first step in building a waterwheel is to establish our standard measurement, and everyone must resolutely implement it! Uncle Ashan, come forward. "　　

"Huh?" Ah Shan scratched his scalp, got up and walked in front of Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun also stood up, showing a smoothly polished beast leg bone, and opened it horizontally to everyone: "First of all, we must determine the standard length measurement, such as how long a meter is, one hundredth of a meter. , How long is a centimeter." Then patted Uncle Ah Shan on the shoulder, "Taking my uncle Ah Shan as the standard, assuming Ah Shan's height is 1.8 meters...Well, the decimal point is not easy to calculate. If you change to a whole number, 1.2 meters is good. Now, assuming Ah Shan's height is 1.82 meters, then we all know that the length of the sole of the foot is one-seventh of the height. In other words, Ah Shan's height is 1.82 centimeters, so the length of Ah Shan's feet is 20. Six centimeters." 　　

The witty Dahe, the clever Qingyan and Qiu were completely unable to understand what Xiao Yun was talking about, and all of them looked at him blankly.

Xiao Yun squatted down and asked Ah Shan to take off his shoes and lift his feet. He pressed the beast bones to the bottom of his feet, and scratched the beast bones with his claws compared to the length of the bottom of the feet. The bone showed everyone: "This length is the length of Ah Shan's sole, twenty-six a centimeter!"

"..." Everyone still looked at him blankly.

Xiao Yun took out a reed pole and stretched it straight to correspond to the notch on the animal bone: "By comparing the notch on the animal bone, it can be seen that the total length of this reed pole is 26 cm." He used his claws. Pinch off the head and tail of the reed pole, and then fold the reed pole of length in half and cut it off from the middle. "Half the length is thirteen centimeters." 　　

Carve a 13cm scratch on the animal bone, then fold the reed pole in half. Obtain a 6.5 cm mark, and then use the existing value to calculate where the one-centimeter mark is and where is the two-centimeter mark... After an operation that made the aborigines tremble helplessly, Xiao Yun lifted up and scratched. Mark's animal bones: "This is our standard length! Whether we build waterwheels now, or we want to build more things in the future, we must strictly follow this length standard!"

.Including Ashan, who was used as a standard length reference, with their mouths half open, and they looked at Ayun who was excited about himself.　　

Xiao Yun doesn't really care whether everyone can understand him or not. As long as everyone can do what he wants, they won't know what they are. But now, looking at the cold situation, Xiao Yun, who has become a super cheeky in the modern workplace, still feels a bit awkward.　　

"It seems necessary to pay attention to literacy work... well, I will be busy during the farming slack." Xiao Yun touched his chin and pondered.　　

"...Ayun, your eyes look terrible." Qiu felt the hair on the back of his neck exploded, and swallowed his saliva carefully.

"Really? You are wrong, it's nothing. Come here, Qiuqiu, since we already have a standard size, let's take a look at your height. I have been curious for a long time." 　　

Grabbed Qiu and took off his shoes. On the soles of the feet, do another elementary school-level multiplication. Xiao Yun let out a "poo" and couldn't help but smile: "Jesus! a meter five or four...Qiu, if you go to the world of giants, you can find a person, whose nickname to be called "Bing Zhang", to make friends, you two can make a good combination of exquisite boys." 　　

Qiu: "??" 　　

Drew a gourd like a gourd to come up with a dozen bone rulers, and Xiao Yun began to explain to everyone the parts of the waterwheel. How to do it, according to what standard—the axle of the water wheel is directly processed by ready-made round wood, which is processed by the more powerful Ashan; the large wheels are for the Snow Wolf tribe to slowly sharpen the sickle; the delicate sink is for the manul used their manual skills.　　

The processing of wood according to the specified length is something that no one has ever touched. At the beginning, it is inevitable that the 10 cm part is longer than 15 cm. Fortunately, before Qingcao and Dahe, he helped Xiao Yun build a hand-operated spinning machine. After manuls came to the tribe, he has been dealing with this hand-operated spinning machine. After several times, he can understand the importance of proper parts in assembly.　　

After five days, the 3.5-meter-diameter waterwheel with the simplest card-type tenon and tenon structure was finally completed.

The side of the water inlet of the water channel is built with red bricks to form a platform where the bearing logs are inserted. The other end of the bearing is supported by wooden piles driven into the river bottom. The platform on the river bank can be filled with masonry to raise the bearing, and the wooden piles in the river are also cut out There are multiple positions for supporting the height of the bearing. Depending on the water level of the river, two snow werewolves can adjust the height of the waterwheel.

After entering the water, the wheel of the waterwheel rotates due to the blades driven by the flowing river water. Amid the friction and creaking sound of the water wheel and the log bearing, the deeper triangular water tank on the side wheel is filled with water and follows the water wheel. The turning of the river brings the river water to a high place and flows into the wooden trough that receives the drainage water...　　

The tribes who worked hard and sweat stood on the bank of the river, watching the water slowly being brought into the canal by the waterwheel, one by one. Novelty and excitement... After watching for a long time, the blank Qing Yan turned his head and looked at Xiao Yun: "Ayun, this water doesn't seem to be sucked up quickly?" 　　

"It's really not as good as a few people scooping water with a clay pot. "Xiao Yun nodded. The waterwheel is so big and the sink can be so deep. Naturally, the efficiency of water absorption is not much higher. "But this thing won't be tired or rested. When we do other tasks, it will It absorbs water when we sleep. It can't work when the river is frozen in winter. It will be here every day and year after year. It will never stop bringing the river water to the canal we dug and let us You can water the fields nearby." 　　

"Oh..." Everyone understood, and all showed shocked little expressions.

Xiao Yun smiled and looked at everyone: "This is the convenience of tools. The wood we cut down is processed by our hands to make tools. This tool will always bring us convenience. With the waterwheel, With the canals we dug out, as long as there is still water flowing in the river, whether we water the fields, take water, take a bath and cook food, we don't have to go to the river to scoop water by ourselves. So everyone said, why don't we How about digging a canal and building a waterwheel?" 　　

"Yeah!" Everyone nodded together, Ashan was especially happy, "Tools are really good things."

"Nature is a good thing. Our intelligent race is compared to those wild beasts, beasts of prey, and even the magic beasts, only us can make tools to use. For example, uncle, when you and Hongye hunt, your bows and arrows are more lethal than the claws and teeth of the most ferocious beasts. Another example is the house we built, the heatable bed and heated floor are more suitable for life than the most expansive cave occupied by the dragons...The best cave is cold when it snows, right?"

Xiao Yun waited the others all nodded, and continued to fool the tribes to work, "So if we want to live a better and happier life, we cannot do without all kinds of convenient tools. Well, since everyone agrees so, let's make another one. Waterwheel, everyone has experience, this time it will definitely be easier to build than the first time." 　　

"..." The people who hadn't recovered from their joy and excitement looked at Ayun stiffly.

Watering 3,000 acres of land, including a large amount of draught vegetable plots, one canal is not enough, how can a waterwheel be enough to solve the water absorption problem... Now it is still in the first summer to save energy and see rain, and wait until it is relatively dry. When there is not enough water, then wait for the production to be reduced-this is all for the tribe's great farming cause, it is not Xiao Yun trying to toss people!　　

Well, Xiao Yun didn't participate in the whole process of making the waterwheel. It was not that he wanted to be lazy, but that he had more important things to do-60 large fields and 600 acres of wheat fields had entered an important tillering period.

Winter is too long and casually is 20-30 degrees below zero on the prairie, winter wheat is impossible to plant, at least don't think about it before you don't have the ability to produce frost-resistant wheat seeds. The tauren who is the Yuan Longping on the grassland did not go to toss about this matter.　　

Compared with winter wheat, which has a longer growth cycle and is more delicious, spring wheat has a poorer taste, but it is better than a short growth cycle... Just sixty days after planting, the wheat seedlings in the wheat field have entered the tillering stage.

The importance of wheat tillering is self-evident. The number of wheat tillers directly determines the number of heading stages. The most powerful wheat seedling tillering is the legend that someone used one wheat seed to cultivate hundreds of tillers and extract more than 100 wheat heads, maybe it was a fake news.--Well, just listen to this kind of myth, Xiao Yun would not have this dream.

In the wheat field where the green wheat seedlings grow in ridges, Xiao Yun walked in and checked the results of weeding...Uh, there was no herbicide, and it was the land that was reclaimed the first year. Although there was no embarrassing situation of sparse wheat seedlings. There were still so many weeds that appeared to be disgusting--this was the case when Xiao Yun sprinkled soapy water to weed the weeds before fertilizing and planting.

Weeding in the wheat field is likely to damage the roots of the wheat seedlings by pulling weeds, so before the tillering stage, Xiao Yun dragged the manuls and sprinkled soapy water again to weed...　　

The weeds were controlled a lot this time. , But there are still scattered ones. In this case, Xiao Yun has nothing to do. He can only hope that an iron plow can be used after the harvest. dead.

Squatting down and inspecting the wheat seedlings, it turned out that some of the wheat seedlings' base leaf axils had already protruding tiller buds that were slightly shorter than the fingertips. On the ground, he opened his eyes and counted carefully. There are more than 30 pieces of the tillering buds-Fertilization before sowing and top dressing after emergence are still very effective. Xiao Yun hard-hearted efforts pulled the tribesmen and manuls, to work hard with the sweat (and tears) sprinkled in the wheat fields made these wheats domesticated by tauren grow gratifying.

"I remember my uncle said that the number of tillers should be controlled during the tillering period... This is probably not necessary. This wheat seed is not the wheat seed that has been tuned by agronomists on the earth. It does not have the gene for crazy tillering. There are about 30 tillers. The bud might be the limit." Looking at the wheat seedlings with joy, Xiao Yun recalled his knowledge about growing wheat, "What else should be paid attention to... The tillering period is an important period for the growth of the root system. And the temperature is not afraid. Now the weather is warm and the sunshine is still long, and the climate on the grassland is quite suitable for wheat growth. If water is available, the wheat fields with drainage priority, don't worry, just pay more attention to watering... Well, after a period, we will fertilize the wheat fields again. "　　

When the wheat seedling comes out, the compound fertilizer of bone meal is applied once. After that, Xiao Yun didn't forget the fertilizer while urging the people to do the work... How did the crop grow? One water, two fertilizers and three pesticides. Without these three items, half of the population on the planet starved to death.　　

Now in the tribe that the population of the main ethnic group is only 32, it is more beautiful than dreaming to engage in the flower fertilizer industry, and only natural fertilizers can be counted on. Fortunately, the weather is getting warmer at this moment, and you don't need to spend many months to ferment like in winter. The humus layer shoveled in the jungle, bird droppings, bone meal smashed by bones from the old lair of manticores, human and animal droppings. The black mud dug in the swamp has been piled up and fermented in the open space near the wheat field for more than 40 days, and it is ready to be used by shoveling.

It should be noted that top dressing in this period cannot be carried out in the early stage of tillering. It has to wait until the peak of tillering. The standard name is "joint top dressing". The purpose is to promote the formation of large tillers and increase the rate of ear formation, strive for large heads and more grains to ensure harvest time output.

In the process of top dressing, it can't be applied evenly as before. They have to pay attention to the details. For wheat seedlings with more tillers (more than 30 buds), slightly reduce the amount of fertilization and control watering; medium tillers (about 30 buds) apply the average amount. If there are fewer tillers (below 20 buds), fertilize more and water more.

The fermented mature soil and fertilizer are mixed with water and rotten. Depending on the tiller of the wheat seedlings, carefully apply the fertilizer water to the soil near the roots of the wheat seedlings... This kind of thing has to be done by the snow werewolves last year it's more difficult than having them embroider.But now...well, human potential is forced out, this is absolute truth...

After five days of work stoppage, all staff fertilized, and the work was finished. Although not tired but beyond description, the snow wolves all lay on the edge of the ridge silently looking at the sky, remembering the carefree days of grazing and hunting...the result Before they missed the tears, the devil called them again and announced a very important event: 　　

"Our Chinese cabbage should be harvested!" 　　

"Huh?" the patriarch who beat the old waist insist did understand.

"I mean, the Chinese cabbage we planted should be harvested." Xiao Yun wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Well... I have to apologize to everyone first. The three vegetables' seeds given by Tauren , the Chinese cabbage are the best to plant. It's usually harvested in about fifty days...but I'm not so busy, things come one by one...but it doesn't matter if the harvest is ten days or so late, at most it is a little older. In short, The Chinese cabbage in our field has to be harvested quickly, and if we harvest it, we can continue to plant another crop!"

The snow werewolf and manuls added Qingyan all looked at each other, and cast their sights on Xiao Yun... Can't blame them for their slow response. These days, even the cat's paws of the manuls clan are called to work everywhere, and the time to sleep is getting shorter day by day. Every day they open their eyes and they can't even think about anything, so they were rushed by Ayun. Now Xiao Yun tells them what is the harvest of crops-there is no sense of reality!

In a daze, all the staff followed Ayun to the vegetable fields where Chinese cabbage was grown... At a glance, there were rows of ripe Chinese cabbage, grown plants about the size of a tauren's head, and part of the outermost old leaves mature and rotten in the ground.

Xiao Yun looked back to see everyone's reaction.　　

There was no reaction from everyone.　　

Xiao Yun was a little puzzled, stretched out his hand and shook it hard in front of them a few times.　　

Still nothing happens. Everyone's previous expressions are still expressions now.

"I said... Although we only applied fertilizer once at the beginning of the vegetable and watered it twice at the end, we did not care about it at other times, but it is also a vegetable plot that we have grown by ourselves. Don't even think anything about it?" Xiao Yun said with a twitch of his mouth.

egetable plots require a lot of water, so Xiao Yun chose to grow vegetables in fields that are relatively close to swamps and low in terrain. The weather in spring and summer is still relatively strong. The next time it rains every three to five, he has encountered it once in two months. It hasn't rained for ten days... Xiao Yun, who has to pay attention to everything and pay special attention to the wheat fields, naturally ignores these Chinese cabbages, which also need people to take care of.　　

And the people of the tribe...to be honest, they can't finish the work every day, so they don't have the mood to think about things--can anyone have a chance to sit down and take a nap? The unreasonable Ayun dragged people up to work in the middle of the night, not once or twice, because there was not enough time.

The patriarch slowly turned his head to meet Xiao Yun's gaze, and slowly raised his finger to the Chinese cabbage, and his voice was like sleepwalking: "Ayun? We planted it?"

"Yes, we planted it." Xiao Yun nodded. .　　

"We planted it?" 　　

"We planted it!" Xiao Yun raised his voice and drank.

With a "boom", the clansmen exploded, and the voices became noisy, and they were inaudible at all...　　

"Okay!" Xiao Yun knocked hard with a hoe and a sickle. Nonsense, hurry up and collect the vegetables! The old yellow leaves and the ones in the rotten ground are quickly put away, and the ones that are not rotten are put away first!" 　　

... Well, the sound of the iron farm tool that is the source of the Snow Werewolf's pain sounded , Everyone was honest immediately.　　

Inside the tribe, there is a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere.　　

Fertilizing, a physically demanding job, Xiao Yun was not cruel enough to use the senior kindergarten students and the lower grades of elementary school sudents, so the four manul cubs cleverly stayed in the tribe to look after the house.

The cats have always been curious. They sneaked close to the mushroom house and were scolded by Sal several times. These cubs did not learn well. Seeing that Sal, who had been busy for most of the day, left the mushroom house and went back to wide bed room to rest. These manul cubs slipped out of the activity house again, sneaking close to the most mysterious and enclosed enoki mushroom production area in the snow werewolf tribe...　　

"Wow, wow, wow!!" 　　

The howling suddenly sounded startled the manul cubs who had only touched halfway. The four of them quickly fled back to the activity room with holding hands. After a while, they secretly popped out their heads and looked out curiously.　　

Then they saw... Oxhorn was dragging the trawl net of vines, and the trawling net was carrying small hills of unidentified greenery, and they were running into the tribe spouting rough air.

Oxhorn entered the tribe, untied the trawl, moved the Chinese cabbage on the trawl quickly with both hands and piled it up into piles, and put the tow rope cover of the rattan grass net on the shoulder, as if something bit the ass. Rushed out.

Manul cubs: "??" 　　

Before these manul cubs came out to see what Oxhorn was dragging back, I heard the strange sound of "Wow, wow, wow. wow —" from outside the tribe, this time again they look that it is Qingyan who is dragging the same object back.　　

Manul cubs: "?!" 　　

Qingyan drags much less than Oxhorn, and quickly unloads everything to the ground and ran away again.

Then Hongye...Ashan...Ayue...　　

The manul cubs looked at the more and more unidentified green leaf objects piled up in the tribe with horror, their brains were full of question marks.