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The moon is full again in a blink of an eye.

After entering mid-January, although it was still cold in the morning and evening, the temperature had obviously begun to rise, and there was a hint of warmth in the river breeze that was rushing towards me.

After two drizzles of spring rain.

On the withered and yellow river beach, some blooming wild flowers began to be seen sporadically.

There are the most dandelions, and the yellow flowers look fresh and eye-catching.

There are also some emerald green shepherd's purse and other unknown weeds and plants.

In fact, this winter is definitely not cold for the winter Xu Chen has experienced.

It is not much different from the climate in Jiangnan, and it is even warmer.

It was only mid-December that there were two snowfalls, but it basically melted when it landed.

Even if there is very little freezing weather, it will not last more than ten days in total.

As long as there is enough animal skin to protect the cold and the house that shelters from wind and rain, it will basically be safe and without any problem.

But for these primitive tribes, it may be an insurmountable cold winter.

Because without powerful hunting tools, there will be no enough wild animals to be captured.

And not all animal skins have a good effect on protecting the cold.

The first choice is sheepskin and wolfskin. But in fact, before Xu Chen traveled, the tribe hunted the most were small wild deer, wild deer, and roe deer, with thin skin and thin hair, and very weak ability to resist cold.

Even if large tribes can hunt large beasts such as bison and boar through their manpower, the skins of these beasts are thick and hard, making them even less warm, and can be used as paving at most.

Therefore, it is very difficult for all tribes to get the soft and thick fur that is enough for the tribe to keep warm.

Even a powerful tribe with a population of hundreds of people like the Wu tribe cannot meet this condition.

It’s okay to have a warm winter. If you encounter a severe cold winter and have several heavy snowfalls, it is possible that all the weak tribes will freeze to death overnight.

The just-passed winter is a good warm winter.

Moreover, thanks to the exchange of pottery made by Xu Chen from other tribes to a large number of animal skins, the entire tribe almost didn't feel too cold and the whole winter passed.

Of course, the biggest reason is that the invention of bows and arrows and fishing nets, the Ba people obtained a large amount of meat far exceeding the previous years. The invention of pottery can eat hot foods and drink hot water at any time. In addition, they also consumed a lot of fish, yam, mushrooms and other foods with high nutritional value, which greatly warmed the body.

In short, Xu Chen's appearance completely changed the life state of the Ba people and quickly entered a state that was almost free of food and clothing.

Including building a house, the daily consumption of hiring nearly forty foreign men alone is almost more than the entire tribe in winter in previous years.

But the Ba people persisted without any damage, and everyone could still eat enough.

However, the situation of the Ba tribe cannot be replicated in other tribes.

In order to maintain the advantages of the Ba people, Xu Chen did not teach the methods of making bows and arrows.

Although the structure of the bow and arrow is simple, it will definitely take several years to fully learn how to make and put it into use on a large scale.

Moreover, in order to exchange for enough pottery, these nearby tribes had to squeeze out a large amount of already scarce high-quality fur goods to the Ba people.

As one goes up and down, Xu Chen doesn't know whether the other five tribes will freeze to death in this winter, but it is definitely not easy, or it is much worse than the situation of the Ba tribe.

But this is not the issue Xu Chen needs to consider now.

Survive in nature and survive the fittest.

He is not a savior, so he can only focus his attention and energy on the Ba tribe's land.

Only when the Ba tribe becomes stronger can other goals be achieved slowly.

Therefore, after clearing the wasteland, he took the men and women of the whole clan to start sowing seeds.

Of course, he did not simply dig a hole to plant seeds, but instead asked him to use a wooden hoe to dig a little looser the soil, dig a ridge and spread the seeds, so that the neatly sowed lines will be conducive to ventilation and weeding in the fields.

The ridges and ditches piled up by stones in the wasteland are roughly divided into seven pieces, which crisscrossed and looks like a farmland.

For ease of management and harvesting, oats and beans are sown separately.

However, these seeds are mixed together when harvested, and they can only be roughly distinguished when sowing. In fact, the large area is still in a mixed state.

Xu Chen was also helpless.

You can only do your best to the best of your ability.

Most of the things were only allowed to settle due to bad conditions, and in fact he gradually became a habit.

The weather was good after sowing. Although the temperature was rising and falling, after two drizzles, the temperature began to rise rapidly. In just a few days, a large number of wild flowers were already blooming on the river beach, and the wild grass also emerged in batches, covering the deserted winter with a layer of fresh and tender green flower carpet.

The thorns in the mountains and fields have also begun to bloom in new green, and flowers that I don’t know are also blooming one after another. Especially on some hillsides, you can already see pink and snow-white flowers all over the trees, which look full of spring.

More than a dozen fruit trees planted inside and outside the courtyard also began to bloom, red like fire, pink like clouds, and white like snow. The whole courtyard was decorated with spring and a faint fragrance of flowers was filled with the air.

Various fruit and melon seeds sown in front of and behind the house also sprouted one after another.

The changes in the cultivated wasteland are even more obvious. Lines of neat buds arch out of the soil, and rain and dew hang on the tender green leaf buds. They sway gently in the cool breeze of early spring, looking extremely fresh and eye-catching.

Although I am not sure that Xu Chen's farming method is effective.

But since the seeds sown began to germinate on a large scale, both men and women of the Ba people will come to watch every day.

This is a unique labor experience and a completely different attempt. Everyone hopes to get different results after autumn comes.

Because Xu Chen has used various abilities to prove his magic and uniqueness.

Therefore, this large area called farmland carries the hope that the entire tribe will gain this year.

Xu Chen pays more attention to this farmland, and has to see it two or three times a day, and will carefully inspect and observe growth changes in each piece along the ridge.

These seeds have good germination rate and are growing vigorously, and they are changing almost every day. In just a few days, the farmland is completely covered with a layer of tender green.

However, not only are oat seedlings, but also a large number of weeds that thrive.

Because the large amount of wood ash left after the burning of wasteland makes the soil more fertile, making the seedlings and weeds in the farmland grow faster and stronger than other places.

The areas around that had not been burned were still half a person tall and yellow weeds and thorns. The new greens that emerged from it were not eye-catching, but the farmland mixed with the deserted beaches and mounds was already full of green, which made him both surprised and depressed.

If there are too many weeds, it will inevitably rob the fertility of the crops.

It is too early to weed, and you need to wait until the seedlings grow bigger.

But every day, watching the wild grass growing wildly and gradually covering the oatmeal seedlings, Xu Chen could only sigh helplessly.

All plants are now wild.

Whether it is oats or wild beans, although they belong to crops, they are not yet considered a crop.

These pure wild plants have strong vitality but have few yields. If you want to harvest a lot, you still need to go through countless generations of seed selection and cultivation.

This process cannot be achieved overnight. It may take hundreds or thousands of years to truly obtain high-yield crops.

Therefore, for Xu Chen, the significance of growing crops is to guide primitive humans to develop into agricultural civilization, first open this correct upgrade channel, so that primitive humans can see the advantages of farming in survival security.

This large area almost used up all the oats and wild beans left by the Ba people.

The quantity cannot be calculated accurately, but the estimated amount is six or seven hundred kilograms.

If it is used as food rations and supplemented with wild vegetables, yam, meat, etc., it can allow the entire Ba people to eat it for about a month.

Therefore, when sowing, although Moba and all the men and women did not say anything, they could clearly feel their distress.

Since ancient times, they have only obtained it from nature, and have never had such a situation where they return the harvest to the wild.

But Xu Chen said that they would plant it, and they would not ask for reasons or reasons, because Xu Chen is now the backbone of the entire Ba tribe and no one can replace it.

Xu Chen kept observing every day. Although he knew that farming would produce harvests, he was also worried when he saw the scene where weeds grew wilder than crops. He began to have serious doubts about the previous estimate that he could collect fifty kilograms per acre of land.

However, everything is difficult at the beginning. Even if the yield is low, it will definitely be much higher than that in the pure wild state. Even if the yield per mu is only 30 kilograms, the scale of this hundred acres is 3,000 kilograms, which is definitely several times higher than that in the pure wild state.
Chapter completed!