Chapter 170： Niu ploughing the fields

After dealing with the Mantis tribe, winter has come quietly.

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After the snow closed the mountains, the Vine tribe was still like every winter before. The ordinary people worked hard to make various tools, and the warriors went fishing and hunting in winter to add some food to the tribe.

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It is worth mentioning that, because the food is relatively abundant, Jiang Xuan selected some skilled tourists outside the vine wall, and asked them to join the vine tribe to polish stone tools, make weapons, and sew animal skins for the tribe.

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As for the unskilled tourists, Jiang Xuan also gave them a way to survive, and that is to work for the Vine tribe.

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The grinding of stone tools and bone tools is a very time-consuming job, and it takes a lot of time to make tools that are enough for the entire tribe.

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Therefore, Jiang Xuan distributed some stones and bones, and let the tourists polish them day and night, and then exchanged for a little food or animal skins, so that they would not starve or freeze to death.

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At the same time, Jiang Xuan allowed these tourists to trade with the Fuji tribe.

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For example, some tourists are lucky and find better stones or animal bones in the forest.

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Then they can take out these stones and animal bones and exchange them with the Vine tribe for food, animal skins, and even salt.

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By being hired and traded, some strong and lucky tourists can survive this winter.

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As for those tourists with weak strength and bad luck, they can only be eliminated by nature.

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Because even if they work hard and obtain a little survival resources, they are likely to be snatched away by stronger people.

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This is the sadness of being weak.

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No matter how good or bad people are, time always passes at its own pace, little by little.

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In the blink of an eye, the cold and torturous winter passed.

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There are many people who sleep in the winter forever, and there are many people who have survived the winter and ushered in the spring.

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……

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The fifth year of the establishment of the Vine Tribe, in early January.

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"The sun is coming out!"

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"We finally made it through!"

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When the long-lost sun warmed the earth again, the ice and snow began to melt, and the tourists outside the vine wall jumped up with excitement.

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Winter is desperate. Under the heavy snow, it is very difficult to find some food.

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Spring is different. Even if we eat grass roots, wild vegetables, and insects, there is always a way to survive.

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In the rattan tribe, Jiang Xuan engraved a line on the Hsinchu bamboo slips made in winter: Five years from the rattan tribe, January 1, sunny.

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"It's the fifth year!"

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After Jiang Xuan finished carving, he was very emotional.

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When he first came to this world, facing all kinds of traps, he didn't know how to survive.

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But in the blink of an eye, four or five years passed.

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Although he encountered all kinds of difficulties and dangers, he survived all of them.

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The Vine tribe has also grown from five people at the beginning to more than 2,000 people now, and even continues to grow.

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"Squeak..."

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Jiang Xuan opened the door of the house and looked at the sunshine in the yard, feeling relaxed and happy.

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"Hey..."

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Tang Yuan came out of the giant bird's nest in the bamboo shed, and excitedly flapped its wings a few times, but fanned the snow in the yard all over the place.

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In another bamboo shed, the black wind rhino Crescent Moon was lying in his nest, flicking the snowflakes that flew to his head, he snorted helplessly, and exhaled two hot breaths from his nostrils.

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In terms of body shape, it is no better than Tangyuan, and in terms of combat power, it is even more incomparable to Tangyuan, so even if you are dissatisfied, you can only endure it.

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Tang Yuan held her head up, not looking at the crescent moon at all.

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It skillfully opened the courtyard door, then went out from the door that had been widened several times, trotted all the way to the open space in front of the altar, and took off directly.

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It can't wait to find fresh prey.

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"Crescent Moon, let's go, let's go out too."

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Jiang Xuan greeted him, and Crescent Moon immediately stood up from the nest, shook the fur on his body, then walked to Jiang Xuan's side, and knelt down on his knees so that Jiang Xuan could sit on it.

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After Jiang Xuan sat up, Crescent Moon stood up again, and then walked outside with Jiang Xuan.

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At this time, although the sun has risen, only a small part of the ice and snow has melted, and many bamboos bent and broken by the heavy snow can be seen everywhere.

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Fortunately, the rattan tribe had already cleared a very wide road in the middle of the bamboo forest, otherwise it would be really difficult to get out.

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Outside the bamboo forest, most of the people of the rattan tribe came out to bask in the sun.

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Jiang Xuan walked to the house on the left of the tribe and saw Uncaria and Fuling, Fuling was still holding their child in her arms.

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Jiang Xuan jumped off the back of Crescent Moon, walked to Fuling, and looked at the child she was holding.

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"Yo, Tiny Tiandong is growing very fast!"

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In just over four months, Asparagus has grown from a wrinkled baby to a plump, plump baby.

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Round face, long eyelashes, big eyes, cute little nose, ruddy little mouth, fat lotus root-like little hands, very cute.

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Fuling smiled and said, "Thanks to the tribe's abundant food, they eat well."

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The Fuji tribe treats pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and babies preferentially. Even in winter, they try to let them eat as much winter-caught fish and fresh animal meat as possible.

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Jiang Xuan shook Tiandong's little hand and said, "Grow up quickly and become a brave and powerful warrior in the future!"

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At this moment, Xiao Tiandong grinned, a pure smile that made people feel better.

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On the side, Uncaria also laughed. Since becoming a father, he has matured a lot and has become more stable in his work.

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Jiang Xuan teased the child again, and then rode on the crescent moon to continue patrolling the tribe.

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When he walked outside the stone tool workshop, he unexpectedly found that many members of the planting team were here, and everyone's expressions were quite excited.

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What is this doing?

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Jiang Xuan was puzzled, so he got off the back of the crescent moon and prepared to go in and have a look.

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At this moment, the people inside ran out one after another.

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"Come out, come out!"

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The crowd surrounded the old man Heishi, and their eyes were all focused on a piece of equipment in his hand.

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Jiang Xuan only glanced at the appliance, and couldn't move his eyes away.

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"Quyuan plow! It's really made!"

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The old man Heishi was holding a curved plow made of wood and stone.

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The plow shaft is made of natural curved wood, and the plow tip and plow bed are also made of high-quality wood.

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The plow shovel and plow wall are made of high-quality stone.

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Among them, the most important plough shovel is made of high-quality stone, which is extremely hard and not easy to damage.

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Although this curved plough looks simple, it has actually been made for a long time and has been improved countless times.

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If it can really work, the productivity that will happen with the current production method of the Vine tribe will be greatly improved!

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After Jiang Xuan arrived, the onlookers gave way and let Jiang Xuan in.

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Everyone respects the leader very much.

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After Jiang Xuan entered, he saw Gan Song squatting on the ground, stroking the Quyuan plow like a baby, and his movements were very gentle.

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"Manufactured?" Jiang Xuan looked at the old man Heishi.

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"It's done." Old Man Blackstone nodded affirmatively.

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"However, whether it can be used or not will only be known after the snow melts and the cows are led into the field to try it out."

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Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "Then let's try it when the snow melts. If it can be used, your stone tool workshop has done a great job, and the rewards you deserve are not small at all."

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The old man Heishi said humbly, "Thank you, Chief."

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On the ground, Gan Song didn't even want to say a word, all he saw was Qu Yuanli.

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He is looking forward to whether this thing can bring about huge changes to the planting team as the leader said.

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The people in the planting team, including other people watching the fun, also talked excitedly, everyone wanted to know what kind of effect this thing could play.

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……

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After five days, the temperature gradually increased, and most of the thick snow on the ground was melted.

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"Crash..."

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In the Feiyu River, the river water began to surge again. Because a lot of ice and snow melted, the water level even rose a lot.

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In the crop field, with the sun shining, the soil has become moist and soft, and the experiment of cultivating the field with cattle can be carried out.

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"Moo..."

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Big Horn personally pulled the most obedient ox, and the old man Heishi brought the curved plough with ropes attached to it and put it on the ox.

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The planting team sent a soldier with the most experience in farming, holding a bamboo whip in his hand, and excitedly walked behind the cow.

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Jiang Xuan, Chi Shao, and many members of the Teng tribe gathered next to the crops to watch this historic scene.

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"It must be successful, it must be successful!"

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Gan Song stood nervously by the side, if he hadn't only had one hand, he would have carried out this test himself.

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Jiang Xuan walked up to the soldier who was in charge of ploughing the field and taught him how to use the curved plough.

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"He's holding the plow in his left hand, the bamboo whip in his right hand, and the ox rope. Yes, it's ready."

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Under the guidance of Jiang Xuan, the soldier of the planting team nervously supported the plow, holding the bamboo whip and the ox rope.

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"Okay, now drive the cow and let it go forward."

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"Hey, let's go!"

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Under Jiang Xuan's instructions, the warrior waved the bamboo whip, but it didn't land on the ox's butt.

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Because this cow was domesticated by divine vines, it was very obedient and didn't need to wear a nose or be whipped vigorously.

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"Moo!"

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The tall ox let out a low growl, then lowered its head and dragged the curved plough forward.

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At the shoulder of the ox, there is a curved log with strong ropes tied at both ends, connecting the curved plough.

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When the ox moves forward, the curved plough will also be dragged by it.

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"Chichi..."

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After the ox had taken two steps, the plow shovel was brought into the soil and continued to move forward.

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The soil was first dug up by the plow shovel, and when it hit the curved mold wall, it immediately fell to the left.

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As the cattle continued to move forward, a row of opened soil was left in the crop field, which not only dug deeply, but also very evenly.

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When the ox came to the edge of the crop field, Jiang Xuan walked over again and instructed the soldier to swing the tail of the plow over, then pull the rope to make the ox turn.

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This step is a little more difficult. The warrior and the cow cooperated four or five times before finally learning to turn.

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Time passed little by little.

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The cooperation between the warrior and the ox, from the initial stumbling and stumbling, became a little tacit understanding later, the speed of plowing continued to increase, and the lines of soil quickly turned over.

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When the crop field was completely turned over and the ox dragged the curved plough ashore, everyone at the scene cheered.

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"Successful, successful!"

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Gan Song waved his fists excitedly, his face flushed from being too excited.

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Jiang Xuan was also very happy that he finally no longer had to rely on manpower to plough the fields.

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The old man Heishi breathed a sigh of relief. The Quyuan plow has been made for a long time, and now it has been successful. Finally, the hard work has not been in vain. The land just feels like a dream.

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He squatted on the ground, grabbed a piece of dirt, and said incredulously, "It's really fast, it's really fast, it's much faster than digging with a bone stalk."

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Jiang Xuan said with a smile: "Of course, the cooperation between Quyuanli and cattle is much faster than a few people digging together."

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"In the future, we will make more curved ploughs and domesticate more cattle, so that we can cultivate more fields and produce more grain."

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Jiang Xuan's words made everyone excited again, and they looked forward to that day.

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"Continue plowing."

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The soldier in charge of helping the plow cleared his mind and drove the cattle to another field.

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If you want to master the skill of ploughing with oxen, there is no shortcut, you just need to spend a lot of time and effort to practice.

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Soon, there were people standing next to another crop field.

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Everyone watched the magical ox pulling the plow with relish, watching the soil turn over quickly.

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Naturally, Gan Song couldn't just let one person learn. He arranged for several fighters to take turns to learn.

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In the future, more curved ploughs will be manufactured, and more oxen capable of pulling ploughs will be cultivated, so that the planting team will be able to cultivate wider fields and produce more grain.

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