Chapter 32 Opening up wasteland

By the time all the work was done, Lin Yan's house had changed drastically, and it no longer had the same sense of emptiness as before.

In addition to the kang, some sundries were piled up in the two rooms on the left and right.

The room in the middle is like that for the time being, and will be slowly changed later.

The kitchen is the most full, with pots and other cooking utensils stacked up, as well as a pile of firewood.

A brick circle was built in the yard, about twenty square meters, specifically for raising rats and rabbits.

This was the family's staple food source. Lin Yan would never dare to ignore the breeding of pikas and rabbits until he found other food.

For safety, several families built courtyard walls with bricks, leaving only a doorway blocked by a fence.

In this way, each house is a separate courtyard, surrounded by brick walls, which makes it feel much safer.

While several families were busy repairing, other people from the tribe came to watch one after another, and then went back to start repairing their own houses.

After the house was renovated, it was already June, and the domestic pikas had already given birth to a litter of eight.

Half of the year has passed, and Hua Hong is busy preparing food again to prepare for the cold season.

Lin Yan saw that Auntie was busy without stopping and said hurriedly: "Auntie, when you go hunting, don't kill the pika. No matter if they are cubs or not, bring them back alive and raise them. Pika and rabbit breeding

Come on, as long as we catch a few more live ones, we will have a lot of rats and rabbits when the cold season comes, so we won’t have to worry about eating them at all.”

In the past few months, Lao Lin went out to catch fish from time to time, and each time he harvested a lot. He would give some to Lin Yan's family, and he would occasionally go hunting with him. The prey and wild fruits he brought back were enough for the family to eat.

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In fact, Lin Yan discovered long ago that food is not hard to come by. There are abundant supplies here, and as long as you are not lazy, you will never die of hunger.

In the past, it was too cold in the cold season and people couldn't go out, so they were busy stocking up on food.

Now that conditions have improved, raising pikas and rabbits and picking wild fruits to make dried fruits is enough to cope with the cold season.

She invited Lao Hei, Mao Mu and Lin Yun to work together to build a good kiln. She had the drawings for the kiln, so she just had to build it according to the drawings.

This kiln has good sealing, controllable temperature, and even heating, so the pottery produced will be better.

As long as you find the materials for the glaze, you can prepare the porcelain for firing.

In the future, if you find the materials for glass, you can also make glass by hand.

Although there is currently a shortage of materials, kilns are also of great use.

The eyes of Lao Hei and the others were bright, looking forward to the future described by Lin Yan.

Now that we have the bricks and the drawings, building a kiln is not a big problem. Lin Yan gave the things to Lao Hei and asked the three of them to work together to build the kiln.

The location of the kiln was chosen where the clay was originally discovered, so that it could be easily sourced from local materials.

Hua Hong went out for three days and brought back five live rats and rabbits, all of which were plump. One of them was about to give birth to a baby.

Lin Yan thought it was almost done, so she pestered Hua Hong to open up wasteland and plant roe hemp. She also collected some wild fruit seeds, including red apples and green lemons, and planned to plant them together.

Hua Hong didn't understand why it was necessary to go to the trouble of clearing land for planting. It was better to just sow the seeds and let them grow.

"Auntie, get rid of the weeds so that the things you plant can grow better and be easier to manage. Let's just carve out a small piece of land in the pika plain first. You won't regret it when you see the benefits of planting."

Huahong was dubious, "Really?"

Lin Yan nodded affirmatively, "Take me with you. Let's find a good place first, remove the vegetation on it, turn over the soil, plant the seeds, and wait for the harvest."

"It's easy to say, but it's too time-consuming to do. It's not easy to get rid of those plants and trees." Huahong said in disgust while taking the tools and Lin Yan and walked towards the pika plain.

"Auntie, when you open up wasteland and grow food, you won't have to hunt hard. If you are tired now, you will enjoy the blessings later."

"How can such a good thing be true? Our ancestors have been hunting for a living for generations. You suddenly said that you can have food by farming. Are you really not trying to trick me?"

"It's really not true. I'll know it in a few months."

The pika was originally on the west side of his home, and it only took about ten minutes to walk there.

Lin Yan let Hua Hong hold him and chose a piece of flat wasteland. There were no big trees and relatively few bushes, which made it easier to open up wasteland.

A piece of land was circled, about fifty meters long and thirty meters wide, and the two began to work.

Hua Hong went to clean up the bushes, and Lin Yan pulled the grass. The grass here is what pikas like to eat, so they don't waste it.

She tried her best to suck the milk, her little hands kept moving, and she was so tired that she was sweating profusely.

She kept muttering in her heart that it was really hard work. Since ancient times, it has been hard to live with your face facing the loess and your back facing the sky. She only knew how it felt after experiencing it for herself.

Nearly an hour later, Huahong finally cleared out some miscellaneous trees and took Lin Yan to the next bush.

When Lin Yan saw these weeds that looked the same and were close to two meters high, he saw that Grandma was about to take action, so he hurriedly shouted: "Grandma, don't do anything, this is a good thing, you have to keep it."

"What is it?" Huahong stopped and looked at this small patch of forest, seeing something he had never seen before.

After Lin Yan's popularization, she knew most of the vegetation around the tribe.

Lin Yan was a little excited. When he first enclosed the land, he thought it would be easy to clean up. He didn't expect that there would be such a surprise inside.

"Auntie, this is a hairy chestnut tree. Did you see the hairy fruits on it? They are fruits. Pick them and eat them to fill your stomach."

Lin Yan pointed at a hairy chestnut with his little finger, which was about the size of a baby's fist. There were quite a few of them on a tree.

Huahong took a look and saw that it was really a fruit. She reached out and picked it off. The green burrs looked inedible, so she asked, "Is this really edible?"

"It's edible." Seeing Huahong hesitate to put it into his mouth, Lin Yan hurriedly said, "That's not how it's eaten. You have to peel off the green fur on the outside, then break open the hard shell inside, and eat the innermost pulp."

Under Lin Yan's command, Huahong finally cracked open a hairy chestnut. The white and tender flesh left her mouth fragrant and smooth, which was very different from the taste of wild fruits.

Huahong's eyes lit up, "It's delicious."

The mother and daughter picked five or six more chestnuts to eat, and their eyes sparkled when they saw this patch of chestnut trees.

Huahong said: "These are hairy chestnut trees. Just keep them while I clear away the miscellaneous trees around them."

"Yeah, mom, this piece must be kept. After a while, the chestnuts will be mature. Let's pick them back and roast them over the fire to make them more delicious. These chestnuts can be stored for a long time, even in the cold season.

It’s edible.”

After cleaning for a whole morning, the two of them managed to clear out an area of ​​less than twenty square meters, but even the chestnut trees were not cleared out.

I took two baskets of grass that Lin Yan had pulled and went home to eat and rest. I felt very energetic again.

After seeing Mao Lizi, she felt that what Lin Yan said was right. As long as the wasteland was reclaimed, planted with other edible things, and taken care of regularly, there would be no need to worry about running out of food.

Lin Yan was too tired to move.

It is too difficult to clear land. Without tools and manpower, we don’t know when we can clear the land.
Chapter completed!