bookrandom Chapter 190 Sheep Town
Chapter 190 Sheep Town
After choosing a location to build the house, Liefeng brought four peacocks and two peregrine falcons to start preparing the foundation. Many orcs from the Sheep Tribe also helped.
There is no sticky tree sap here, the soil at high altitudes is relatively dry, and the foundation is not as deep as that of Yaobei City. It is covered with crushed pebbles, so stability is not a problem.
Yiyun took his partner and followed Yangli to the rice fields to watch them harvest rice.
Seeing the sheep beastmen picking ears of grain with animal skin bags, Chen Shiyue hurriedly stopped them.
All I learned from childhood to university was harvesting rice, but I have never heard of picking rice.
Yang Li was puzzled: "Shiyue, don't we just want this golden millet? Can't we pick it this way?"
Chen Shiyue said: "You have a stone knife or a bone knife, use it to cut."
Yang Yi: "There are few bone knives, but there are some stone knives. I'll go get them."
Chen Shiyue asked Huanyue to search for the image of a simple threshing rack and draw it on the ground for Yiyun to see.
Yiyun nodded: "It's not difficult, I'll do it." He asked Yitian to get a tree and do it next to the rice field.
Chen Shiyue commanded the orcs to harvest rice.
Yifei and a few sheep beastmen were weaving rattan mats, which were used to spread on the ground to collect rice.
Chen Shiyue sat aside, fanning herself with a straw hat, watching the sheepherders bending down to cut rice, feeling like an old educated youth going to the countryside.
Yiyun finished making the threshing frame in less than an hour, and tried to thresh the grain according to the method Chen Shiyue told him. He just shook it gently and the grain fell down, which made Yang Li excited.
The sheep and beastmen rushed to thresh the millet, and the harvesters became more active, as they had agreed to thresh after each round of harvesting.
Yiyun made five threshing racks in a row before stopping.
Chen Shiyue obtained some images of grain grinding machines and grain blowing machines from Huanyue, selected a few and drew them, and told Yiyun about them.
Yiyun called Liefeng to study together. The two orcs studied harmoniously for most of the day and actually made a set of magic stones and a wooden grain blowing machine.
They tried to grind some millet that had been dried in the cave of the Sheep Tribe, and poured it into the grain blower from the top. They turned the wind wheel and saw the husks being easily blown away and the white rice falling into the basket. The orcs couldn't help cheering.
Yang Li was excited: "I led a group of orcs to do a few sunrise jobs before. With these two machines, we finished the work in less than half a day. It's unimaginable. Sure enough, without a smart brain, life is difficult. Fortunately, you have made our life so good."
Seeing that the machine was really useful, Yiyun and Liefeng excitedly made another set each.
The orcs of the Sheep Tribe took great care of the machines made by the two city lords and continued to use them for hundreds of years. This is a story for later.
Chen Shiyue looked at the golden waves of grain and said, "After harvesting so much grain, it will be a problem to dry it. Uncle Yang, do you know if there are any knotty trees nearby?"
Yang Li thought for a moment and said, "A knotty tree? Yes, it's quite far away, near the forest over there."
Chen Shiyue and Yiyun Liefeng discussed: "We don't have bamboo in Yaobei City. Bamboo is easy to grow. Why don't we dig up some roots and take them back to plant. Also, cut a lot of bamboo and weave some bamboo for drying things. Leave some for the Sheep Tribe and take some back."
Yiyun: "Okay."
Liefeng: "Okay."
So, Yi Tian and others were sent to cut bamboo. After using the bamboo they cut, they taught the orcs of the Sheep Tribe how to weave bamboo, and then they agreed that everyone would weave their own bamboo.
Harvesting millet, drying millet, grinding millet, and blowing millet are all solved in one stop.
In just two days, all the ripe rice in the surrounding area had been harvested, and the remaining unripe rice would probably have to wait for another seven or eight sunrises.
Yang Li: "Shiyue, you can take all the harvested rice away after drying it and grinding it into rice. We can keep the unripe ones for ourselves, is that ok? You can take as much corn and yam as you want."
Chen Shiyue: "Leave some of the millet for us to use as seeds, and take it back to Yaobei City to plant. We have too many orcs and females in Yaobei City, and we need too much food. What you plant can only be eaten by the whole city for a few sunrises."
Yang Li found it hard to imagine how many orcs and females there were in Yaobei City.
When the first two-story earthen house was built, its solid walls and independent rooms immediately made the orcs and females of the sheep tribe fall in love with it.
Considering that the Sheep Tribe had no flying beasts and needed to climb high to clear the snow in the cold season, several movable wooden ladders were made.
Yiyun: "You have all learned how to build mud houses. It is up to you to decide whether to continue building."
The orcs and the females surrounded Yang Li: "Chief, this house is great, we need to build more."
Yang Li: "Okay, anyone who wants to build a house can go ahead and build one. Just don't delay collecting winter fodder."
Chen Shiyue: "Uncle Yang, if you want to increase the safety factor, you'd better build a mud wall outside the house to prevent wild animals from entering."
Yang Li: "Shiyue, you are right. This way we won't be afraid of being bitten by hungry wild animals in the cold season."
Yangli moved into the first mud house with the older animals and orphaned animals of the tribe.
Chen Shiyue asked Yitian and his friends to catch some rabbits and pheasants and tell Yangli how to raise animals. Including planting, Chen Shiyue told Yangli and his friends what she knew.
Since then, the Sheep Tribe has learned to cook food, build houses, grow plants, and raise animals, ending their days of eating only vegetarian food.
The things that Chen Shiyue and her friends taught the Sheep Tribe were so many that they could not be measured. Yang Li decided that in the first five winter seasons, half of the rice production of the Sheep Tribe would belong to Yaobei City, and Yaobei City could take as much yam and corn as it wanted.
Yiyun readily agreed.
Chen Shiyue had a headache. There were too many things, but not enough orcs came. The supplies she could take away were very limited. She had space, but she couldn't use it in public.
Finally, Chen Shiyue and Yiyun discussed it and went to the nearby hills on the pretext of checking. They collected a lot of corn, yam and some unknown wild fruits into the space.
The hills around the Sheep Tribe are amazing. They are a natural crop production area. There are many corn trees scattered around, and yams and weeds grow together. There are rice growing in several valleys, some are ripe, and some are not. In the shade, there are many wild vegetables that Yangmei and other female sheep eat.
Chen Shiyue collected a lot of wild vegetables and dug some wild vegetables with roots into the space, preparing to plant them after the cold season. Anyway, things placed in the space can be kept fresh.
In order to conceal his whereabouts, Yiyun made two rattan baskets and filled them with a lot of yams and corn.
Seeing a huge black tiger descending from the sky, Yang Li came up to it with a big smile: "Lord Yiyun, Shiyue, are there many corns and yams on other hills?"
Yiyun squatted down, and Chen Shiyue climbed down from the tiger's back, smiling brightly as she said, "Look around, there are quite a few, but not as many as around the Sheep Tribe. Here where you live, the food is the most and the best."
Yiyun put two full rattan baskets together with other supplies and said, "Your Sheep Tribe has good soil and plenty of food. I think you can try to grow other plants."
Yang Li wondered: "What else to plant?"
Chen Shiyue: "Sweet potatoes, taro, etc. Next time when orcs come, or when you go to Yaobei City, I will give you seeds."
Yang Li rubbed his hands happily: "Good."
Chen Shiyue sat on the ground: "Uncle Yang, Ayun and I have seen that there are many edible plants growing naturally on the small hills in this area. If we pull out the weeds and open up the mountain land for planting, dozens of sheep tribes will not be able to eat them all. This is a good place."
Yang Li sat cross-legged opposite Chen Shiyue, serious as a primary school student: "Shiyue, you must have some ideas, right? Tell me, how can we better develop our sheep tribe?"
Chen Shiyue thought for a moment and said, "Even if this place cannot be developed into a city, it can definitely be developed into a town."
Yang Li: "What is a town?"
Chen Shiyue discussed the town's vision with Yang Li in light of modern society.
Yang Li's beard trembled with excitement: "Can this really be built into the town you mentioned?"
Chen Shiyue smiled: "Of course, you can do it. But there are less than a hundred beastmen and females in your sheep tribe, which is too few. If you want to develop well, you must first increase the number of beastmen and females. Are there other herbivorous tribes around here?"
Yang Li nodded: "Yes, the Rat Tribe is about one sunrise away from us, the Deer Tribe is about two sunrises away from us, and there are some other smaller herbivorous tribes. However, our Sheep Tribe is too weak, and I'm afraid other herbivorous tribes are unwilling to migrate here."
Chen Shiyue smiled: "Where we can survive better is where we all want to be. The cold season is a crisis, but also an opportunity. From now until the early cold season, you should build more houses, store more food, and send orcs to notify other tribes that the Sheep Tribe has warm places to live and plenty of food. Everyone is welcome to spend the cold season in the Sheep Tribe. Once you come, will you want to leave?"
Yang Li smiled and stroked his goatee, "Yes, once you come here, you won't want to leave. Shiyue, what do you think, can we call this town Yang Town?"
Chen Shiyue nodded: "Okay, although there will be other races living here in the future, the origin is the Sheep Tribe, so there is no problem."
Yang Li stood up happily: "City Lord Yiyun, Deputy City Lord Liefeng, can I tell other tribes that Yang Town and Yaobei City have a long-term trading relationship?"
Yiyun and Liefeng both nodded, and a faint smile appeared on the faces of the two orcs.