At the beginning of harvesting rice and wheat, Lu Bing demonstrated how to use the sickle made from the arrow bone and dragon bone. Afterwards, Lu Bing left ten Chinese cabbages for the best seeds, and cut the rest into piles. Dry it aside and marinate it tomorrow. In addition to the Chinese cabbage, water spinach, mustard greens, and red and white radishes that I brought earlier, the vegetable field here also collects onion, ginger, garlic, pepper and fennel and other seasonings in the wild. Water spinach and mustard greens are almost eaten, except for the seeds, and the others are cleaned up according to needs. The older the ginger, the better. Lu Bing has half an acre of old ginger here. In the end, Lu Bing will transplant it to the planting area in the East Room.

Pull out the red and white radishes, and pickle all the white radishes to make sour radish red and keep them for eating. The mustard greens are also cut from the roots and dried in the sun, and the peppers and fennel are also picked and dried in the sun. Maxine had already cut the rice and wheat and piled them up in one place. There was not a drop of water in the vacated field, and a few pieces of animal skins that had been sewn and removed from the fur were spread on the ground. Maxine carried out a hand-cranked threshing machine and a blower from across the river and put them on the animal skins, then turned around and broke off the old corn cobs from the seven or eight cornfields that had been transplanted everywhere and piled them on the side of the vegetable field. The pods of soybeans are captured and placed on a piece of animal skin to continue drying. After finishing these, Maxine looked up at Lu Bing, who had pulled out all the red and white radishes.

"I'm ready, drink some water and start threshing millet." Lu Bing got up and took the bamboo cup handed over by Maxine and drank the honeysuckle mint water in it in one go. Shake the handle before threshing. Grumblingly, it started to spin, and after smoothing, Maxine took the rice and turned it a few times on it to see that the grains on the ears of rice were clean. Seeing the effect, Maxine and Lu Bing looked at each other with a smile and got busy. .

The two cooperated very well, but the tools couldn't keep up with Maxine's speed. It took more than half a day to thresh the rice and wheat to remove impurities. Now the sun is already in the west. Maxine doesn't want to go to the forest to hunt. Many fish touched some river mussels and snails. Lu Bing grilled fish and boiled mussels and snails, and Maxine spread the millet and wheat separately on the animal hides, tied the stems into bundles, and dried them like umbrellas. After the meal, Lu Bing washed the white radishes by the light of the fire and cut them into strips and placed them on a clean bamboo plaque. Maxine peeled off the skin on the corn cobs and put them on the two knots. While waiting, hang it on a drying rack on a bamboo pole to dry.

It took Lu Bing two days to move the pickled vegetables to a cool place under the opposite cliff. Since the seeds of other vegetables were not ripe yet, Maxine only set up the planting area in the east room and broke off the place where the old ginger sprouted and wrapped it up. Grass ash was transplanted, and the long stone box on the empty shelf was poured with nutritious soil mixed with farm manure river mud and dried for seven or eight days. The millet, wheat and corn will still be in the sun for several days, and there are very few flying beasts passing by in Mishi. Now these things are not afraid of being stolen or ruined.

After tidying up the farmland, Maxine and Lu Bing had a short rest time. This day, Lu Bing rode on Maxine's snake and flew far away to see if there were any good things in other places. After the rainy season, the floods carried a lot of seeds. When the flood receded, these seeds would bloom and bear fruit in the harvest season. Those with a short growth period are now bearing fruit. Picking a forest and riverside that neither of them collected on weekdays, Lu Bing found a lot of olive trees. Olives smelled so bad that many herbivorous beasts didn't like to eat them. Lu Bing patted Maxine on the back to make him come down, and Maxine didn't turn around to check around and came back. Lu Bing had already climbed up the tree to check the condition of the olives.

Jumping to the tree, Maxine also plucked an olive and ate it. The Snake Tribe has a lot of it stored for a season of ice and snow. These olives are one of the few fruits of females during the ice and snow season, and this is also the first time Maxine eats them at such a big age. Lu Bing asked Maxine to take him down the tree and directed Maxine to spread animal skins under the olive tree and knock the olives with a bamboo pole, and then he went down to the river to find familiar medicinal materials with a bamboo basket on his back.

The grass by the river is not very dense, and the leaves of many medicinal herbs have been chewed. Lu Bing hung snake repellent powder on his waist and held a bamboo pole to explore the way. After walking fifty meters, Lu Bing stood there thinking for a while and turned back to a place three meters behind him. Here is a large open space with a small amount of withered and yellow thin vines. Just now, seeing no medicinal materials, Lu Bing passed by directly, now with a skeptical attitude, Lu Bing took out a stone knife and dug up the soil.

It's potatoes. Lu Bing looked up at the open space of about two minutes, grinned and began to dig. Maxine knocked down the last olive tree, and then sorted out the leaves and branches of the fallen olives and packed the olives into animal skin bags, which were full of forty-nine bags. Maxine went down to the river to look for Lu Bing, and Lu Bing also carried the animal skin bag there. Maxine was already hungry, seeing Lu Bing packing up something that looked like sweet potatoes, he ran to the river to catch and grill fish. The bag was sewed through thin strips of animal skin with bone needles. Lu Binghe washed his hands and drank some water contained in a big gourd. Maxine asked him to eat grilled fish.

"How many bags are there?" Lu Bing gnawed a half-filled fish the size of Maxine's hand before asking, and gave Lu Bing another fish of the same size. "There are forty-nine bags. We can move them tomorrow."

Lu Bing bit the fish and nodded, and threw the bones into the fire after eating. "Did the river stop flowing when Maxine we came here? Is the river wide?"

"The river here is much wider than below us and has not stopped flowing, but the water is not as deep as ours and is shallower." Maxine has already eaten Two large fishes as long as arms, and three more on the fire rack. Lu Bing drank water and looked at the trees on the surrounding hillsides. Many trees that could not draw water from the river were all withered. "It's good if the flow is not cut off. Cut some dead trees and make a raft to go back later. There are no big fish in the river. Even if you fly over, you are not afraid of shrinking in the water. If the raft is made bigger, you can take all of these Take it back."

Maxine asked Lu Bing how to make the raft in detail, but Lu Bing didn't explain why he took out a dozen pieces of wood as thick as a finger from the dry wood pile, tied them with dead grass and put them directly into the water. Maxine bent down and stood by the river watching the raft the size of a palm floating on the water and going downstream. Lu Bing picked up small stones and piled them on the raft one by one. Five stones were pressed on the small raft the size of a palm. It was as big as an egg, and it sank into the river after the sixth piece was put on it.

Maxine did not speak while laying the stones, and did not slap his thigh until the raft sank. "This thing is really good. I can make more and put more things together."

Lu Bing picked up the small raft from the water, pointed to the raft and said to Maxine: "If you make two pieces of this kind of raft, you can change it later. If the rafts are stacked together, more can be placed, and if the raft is taller, the river water will not penetrate to it. Besides, there are many dead trees here, and these dead trees are another pile of wood when they are taken back to dry, so you don't have to work so hard."

Pulling up Lu Bing, Maxine hugged Lu Bing in silence at first, and after a while hugging Lu Bing was a deep kiss before Lu Bing opened his mouth. "With you here, I'm not tired at all."

"Big talk, what happened last time you were injured." Lu Bing slapped Maxine's arm away, and twisted the muscles on Maxine's waist with both hands to breathe out Maxine Then let go. "Make the raft first, I'll take a look here."

Scratching his head, Maxine took out an arrow bone ax from Lu Bing's back basket to cut wood by the river, and Lu Bing continued to collect the rope by the river. I found a few old loofahs, and picked them up to see that half of the two sticking to the ground were rotten. The three good ones went back to dry and planted a few seeds in the planting area. The meridians of the loofah are good for bathing and washing dishes. It is good. Lu Bing threw the loofah into the pan, opened his pants and looked at the dry skin. Get castile soap out before the first snow, and dish soap. Smacking his mouth, Lu Bing just thought of taking a break when he thought of living like this again.

Scattered potatoes and sweet potatoes were dug up on the roadside by the river one after another. After picking up some common herbs and wild vegetables, I returned to Maxine to see that he had already made two two-story rafts. dead tree with broken branches. Putting down the pannier and holding the bone needles and animal leather straps, Lu Bing began to sew up the bag containing the olives.

Maxine made four rafts connected together with animal skins and vines, and packed sixty bags of olives, potatoes and sweet potatoes on them. Seeing that the draft of the four rafts was not high, he tied the cut dead branches into several bundles and placed them on the next three rafts. After letting Lu Bing sit on the first raft, he turned himself into a beast shape with a noose around his neck. Wings folded, Maxine did not fly down into the water and dragged the raft all the way back to the field.

Ask Maxine to send half of the olives to the opposite stone cave, and the sweet potatoes to the storage room behind the living room. The raft is dragged out of the water and placed by the river. Lu Bing inspected a few pieces of corn and wheat that had been drying in the sun for several days on a large animal skin blanket, and bit a few that were completely dry inside. It can be put away for storage once. Maxine turned into a half-beast and kept flying up and down with the animal skin bag, while Lu Bing was there slowly shaking the blower to blow out the unfulfilled grains in the millet. These are hulled with earth huskers and left to cook porridge, and another bag of millet is reserved for planting next year, and the rest is used for wine making.

Maxine wanted to take over Lu Bing's job after sharing the olives and potatoes he brought back, but Lu Bing pushed him away and asked him to cook the soup first. Drive away Maxine, slowly blow the millet and wheat into bags, use the air blower again for the unfulfilled ones, and keep the ones that are too poor for the fire to feed the chickens. In the evening, Maxine sat by the fire and first carved out the powdered stone mill. After it was finished, Lu Bing asked him to make a small stone mill about 30 meters long, which was to be kept in the living room.

Regarding how to press olive oil, Lu Bing still knew that some oil presses had been seen in the mountains of Sichuan, and they were curious to try it a few times. A lot of animal skin bags were used in one day today. Lu Bing changed the animal skin blankets used to dry the millet and wheat into bags and used the rest for a day or two. After Maxine rushed to work in the past two days and nights to make the oil press Those bags of olives would be free