Chapter 0015 Xintian
This is the fifth day of heavy rain.
In the hut, the patriarch and a group of old men sat around silently, looking at the continuous heavy rain outside the hut, each of them frowning.
They are the talkers of every household in the clan.
It rained for five days, and they discussed it for five days.
As a result, no effective method was discussed.
Ye Qing has been very busy these days, jumping up and down, inside and out. During the heavy rain, he frequently goes out, and sometimes even braves the heavy rain to come and go in the rain.
Taikang didn't have the heart to care about him either.
A Xing often stopped him, but Ye Qing still did his own way.
Time is endless!
He was inspecting, he was making a plan, a plan that could save the tribe.
Now, the job is done.
Holding the sand tray made of mud, Ye Qing walked to the middle of a circle surrounded by old men.
He said loudly: "I have a way to prevent my tribe from starving!"
A stone shocked a thousand layers of waves, and Ye Qing's words shocked a group of old men to open their mouths.
The hope that appeared in despair, even no matter how small this hope was, it shocked them.
Ye Qing slaughtered the Shuanglong, who surpassed the ancestors, had already possessed considerable weight in their hearts. Coupled with this hope of reappearance, they automatically ignored the fact that Ye Qing was only six years old.
They are too helpless and eager to show hope!
Just like a drowning person, he discovers hope in despair, and even if this hope is just a straw, he will seize it tightly.
Looking at the black holes, teeth were falling and wide open mouth, Ye Qing emphasized firmly:
"I won't starve to death!"
"The rice is flooded in the water, and there is no hope, but we can plant it for another season!"
Several of the shocked old men showed doubts in their eyes.
Planting another season?
How is that possible!
Not to mention whether there will be any harvest after planting rice during this period, the problem of rice fields alone cannot be solved. The rice fields are still flooded in the water. How to plant them?
Ye Qing continued to say passionately:
"Paddling fields are flooded? Can't be planted? Then cultivate new paddy fields!"
The old men became even more confused.
Reclaiming new rice fields? It’s even more impossible. How to reclaim water by the river?
Moreover, if the cultivation is carried out in other places and the rain stops, the flood will eventually recede. By then, if there is no water in the new field, rice will not be able to be planted, and the rice planted will wither because there is no water. What's the use?
"Do you want to say that rice only grows by the river and cannot be planted elsewhere?"
Yes! The old men nodded unconsciously.
"Do you know why?"
The old men looked confused, obviously not sure the reason.
"Because... water!"
"Can the fish be caught on the shore without water? Can it survive? Can it not live! The same is true for rice. Without water, it cannot live!"
"Then, if we give it water, it can grow and grow the rice we eat, instead of saying that rice must be planted by the river to grow, right?"
The old men who were thinking about turning around with Ye Qing's mind suddenly realized it!
It's true!
As long as there is water, rice can be planted anywhere.
Ye Qing used fish to make analogies, which is far-fetched, but in order to make them understand, it is more intuitive to say this.
Hearing the old men around the mud-made sand table, Ye Qing pointed at the sand table to explain.
"This is a tribe, this is a river to the west of the tribe, this is a leze, and we have reclaimed this wilderness in the middle into paddy fields."
"Clog the river here..."
As he said that, he used a ball of mud on the sand table to block a location upstream of the river.
"Then dig a ditch!" Ye Qing said, drawing a curved groove on the sand tray with his fingers.
"Then……"
He poured a little water upstream of the river in the sand tray, and saw the water flowing along the scratches along the blocked river along the grooves he drew, and automatically flowing into the planned paddy fields. Soon, the paddy fields were filled with water.
"In this way, this newly reclaimed paddy field can be planted with water!"
The old men looked at the sand table, imagined with Ye Qing's explanation, and then, all of them were shocked.
The patriarch was trembling with excitement, but he was still very rational and did not give up thinking because of excitement. He hesitated and said:
"But, when you plant rice at this time, the rice cannot mature!"
The old men nodded and replied with frown.
"You can mature!" Ye Qing said affirmatively: "I've seen it!"
In later generations, early rice seeds could be planted as late rice. Although I don’t know what kind of rice varieties were in this era, I think it’s a big difference.
Ye Qing thought carefully that if the rice is planted at this time, with the current climate, there will be no problem when the rice matures in autumn. At most, the yield will be a bit unsatisfactory.
He thought it very clearly that if the tribe wants to get rid of the embarrassment of relying on the weather, it must plant second-season rice.
Only by planting second-season rice can the tribe have sufficient food.
I only plant for one season, but I can't expand the planting area twice?
No!
You should know that it is the primitive era, and the tools are very backward and lacking. The area of paddy fields that can be planted by human resources is very limited, which is beyond the range of manpower. Even if the rice is harvested, because of insufficient manpower, you can only watch the mature rice be destroyed in the fields.
You should know that rice matures at the same time, and harvesting rice takes time. If there is not enough manpower, the mature rice will germinate if it cannot be harvested in time.
Sprout on rice ears!
Not to mention the rice that automatically falls off in the mud. Can it be picked up one by one? Even if it is picked up, it will sprout!
So you can only stagger the time and plant it in two seasons.
Since second-season rice needs to be planted sooner or later, it is better to start trying it now.
"Now, the most important thing is to plant the rice as soon as possible, the sooner the better!"
"How did the tribe plant rice in the past? Plough the fields, sow seeds, and wait for them to sprout and grow, right?"
"So, how long will it take to grow from sowing to such a high?" Ye Qing gestured at the height of the seedlings.
"One month!" Ye Qing asked and answered.
"We first cultivate a rice seedling field that does not require a large amount in this place near the water and sow rice seeds in densely so that it can sprout and grow first in this field."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! "A month later, the rice seedlings grew so high and became seedlings. We then spread the seedlings into newly reclaimed paddy fields. In this way, we will not delay the growth of rice, but we will also have time to reclaim new rice fields."
"In this way, the rice will have an extra month of growth."
He directly threw out the rice transplanting technique.
The tillering of rice in the tribe is not ideal, and transplanting can encourage more rice to tiller, which can greatly reduce the use of seeds and at least half of the seeds.
Moreover, the transplanted rice plants have strong resistance to lodging, and the tribe has a lot of wind and strong wind. If the lodging phenomenon of rice plants decreases, it will be equivalent to increasing yield.
"Whether the tribe starves to death or how many people will starve to death depends on how many new fields we can cultivate in this month! The more new fields are cultivated, the fewer people will starve to death. If they are cultivated enough, they will not starve to death alone!"
"And maybe a month later, the rice fields that were flooded by the river will recede? Although the rice has been drowned, but the fields are still there, so we have more rice fields to transplant seedlings and plant rice!"
"So, after the rain stops, we must reclaim the seedlings as soon as possible! Sow the rice seeds!"
The old men were convinced by Ye Qing.
Ye Qing's remarks convinced them very much, and Ye Qing's words "I've seen them" shocked them. They knew Ye Qing's experience of "one-day trip to the God Realm".
A blazing light of hope suddenly burst into their eyes.
The dull, gloomy atmosphere was swept away!
For a moment, the crowd was excited, and the heavy rain outside was no longer so terrifying.
The old men dispersed eagerly, and they wanted to tell their families the good news. At the same time, they spread Ye Qing's magic.
Soon, the entire tribe heard cheers one after another.
The tribe is revived.
The flame of civilization is still strong and immortal under the might of God.
Everyone was relaxed.
Ye Qing was not feeling relaxed, and there were many things to do later. It was not as simple as reclaiming new fields. This is a systematic project.
No matter how good the plan is, it will be useless if it is not implemented well.
Now that all of them are gone, only he has the ability to coordinate and plan this system project.
This is not overconfidence. The Xintian tribe members don’t know what to do. How can they plan in a coordinated manner?
Chapter completed!