Another clay kiln for firing bricks was built, and now the two clay kilns are burning mud bricks almost day and night. These mud bricks were not only used to build the city walls, but Chen Qi also planned to use mud bricks to lay the roads in the tribe. After all, the stone slabs still needed to be reserved for building houses.
The school was built only after all the houses where the tribe lived were built. The school only built three rooms, one was intended to be used as an ordinary classroom for teaching the orcs to learn characters, and the other was built with several stoves, which was intended to be used to teach the beasts. The one where people learn cooking techniques, and the last one is used to learn how to make things by hand.
Although the house has been built, it will take some time to build the desks inside, so there is no rush to open it. On the other hand, outdoor places like playgrounds are full of weeds because of the advent of summer, and we can’t tell what kind of weeds are before they bloom and bear fruit. Chen Qi plans to wait for the surrounding weeds to grow taller after a while. See if there are any things that can be used before disposing of them. Anyway, it will take a long time for the wall to be completed, so you can take your time.
The next day after Ah Jing received Chen Qi's task, he called all the orcs who were underage in the tribe. There were only three of them, except Ah Jing who was the youngest, followed by Ah Zhu, and the remaining two Although the female is also very thin, she is already seventeen or eighteen years old, close to adulthood, and her body will not be stunted like A Zhu's, and she can already faintly see the shadow of growing into a strong female.
Because Azhu came here once, she was not as nervous as before. The other two females looked restrained, their hands and feet were stiff, and they dared not even sit on the side of the chair. up and down.
Chen Qi didn't start teaching them characters right away, but asked Ah Jing to take out the stories he had written on the gum leaves, read the words on them to a few people, not many, and read them every morning In one article, Chen Qi also provided an illustration for each story, so that they would have a stronger sense of substitution while looking at the illustrations and listening to the story.
The orcs have never heard a story before, and after listening to it a few times, they became obsessed with the story class every morning. Every day before dawn, they automatically ran to the door and waited for Ah Jing to get up to read stories to them. The words written on the leaves were also full of interest. Of course, what made them more interested was the charcoal drawings drawn on the wooden boards. Unfortunately, as long as they touched them with their hands, the drawings would be wiped off. When I looked around for the first time, I even deliberately relaxed my breathing.
Probably because they got acquainted with each other after coming here a few times, and the little girls were no longer as restrained as they were at the beginning, and now Chen Qi asked them to have breakfast together and would obediently sit at the table. Ah Jing is also like a little adult, he has imitated ten percent of Chen Qi's appearance when he was teaching him, and Chen Qi's head is full of black lines.
Chen Qi twisted a potato seedling that was completely shriveled, and frowned, did he water too much? Or is the soil fertile enough? Or are the plants here not suitable for being dug up and replanted? Chen Qi regretted that because he found a few potato seedlings, he was so excited that he fried the last few potatoes that had been stored for a winter into French fries.
"Aze, let's not plant potatoes yet." Chen Qi took the dead potato seedlings and turned the soil over again with a bone hoe.
Aze took out a few wild ginger seedlings with soil in his backpack, saw Chen Qi's slightly disappointed expression, and comforted him: "It's just entering summer, there should be a lot of potatoes nearby, I can look for them tomorrow If some come back, you don’t have to worry, there will always be someone to feed you.”
Aze hadn't gone out hunting since the beginning of summer. He was busy building the tribe every day or looking for the seedlings of plants that Chen Qi needed. Now almost all the things planted in the yard were found by Aze.
On the other hand, Azhang would bring a newly formed hunting team into the forest every three days, and the hunted prey would be divided equally among the heads of everyone in the tribe, plus the occasional big fish caught in the Chishui River. The other people in the village also began to implement the three-meal system like Chen Qi and the others, so there was no need to worry about not having enough food.
Chen Qi shook his head, took the wild ginger seedling from A Ze's hand, first dug a suitable hole in the loose soil, then put the wild ginger seedling in, buried it with soil, poured a little water, and lightly Gently poking the tender green leaves of wild ginger with his hands, he replied: "Didn't you say that the fruits on the plain will mature in about three months? Instead of messing around here by yourself, it's better to wait until the wild potatoes are harvested once." Let’s keep it planted.”
In just one month or so, he had planted potato seedlings for three rounds, and the death rate was much higher than other plants. Chen Qi was heartbroken. Anyway, wild potatoes are not small. They have been dug up, and they will have to go further afield to find them in the future. It is better to harvest a round first and then try to save seedlings. Maybe the survival rate will be a little higher than the current method of directly digging the seedlings back for planting.
Aze doesn't know much about planting. Since Chen Qi said to wait until the potatoes on the plain are harvested, he will silently write this down in his heart. Next time, he will try to find a place where potatoes grow densely, so that When the potatoes are ripe, they can go straight to digging.
"Chen Qi." Azhang shouted from outside the courtyard door, and then stepped in. Chen Qi raised his head and saw other people in the tribe following behind him.
"What's the matter? Did something happen?" Chen Qi stood up, and before he had time to clean up the dirt on his hands, he rushed up to meet him.
"I heard from Ah Jing that you asked him to teach a few underage females to learn characters. There is nothing to do at night. I brought other people from the tribe here, and I want them to learn from Ah Jing first." Zhang also knew that Chen Qi stayed in the yard every day to wait on the land with plants, so he didn't plan to let Chen Qi teach it himself. Anyway, they all learned from Ah Jing, and Chen Qi was there Watching from the side, I believe it is enough for A Jing to teach.
Chen Qi was stunned, looking at the old men with gray hair and wrinkled faces walking in front, imagined that A Jing's small body was standing in front of them, posing as a serious little teacher, how could it be so unsuitable Woolen cloth.
It was not easy for Chen Qi to let them stand outside the courtyard door and talk, so he quickly let everyone into the courtyard. It is already evening, and the sun will be going down in a few minutes. There are no electric lights here, and the lighting is almost complete. Depending on the fire, it is naturally impossible to squeeze all of them into the room in such hot weather. Chen Qi asked Aze to bring out some animal skin blankets and spread them under the fig tree. Chen Qi had already sorted out an open space for activities there. It is just right for twenty or thirty people to sit together.
"Your yard is still tidy." Ale looked around curiously as soon as he came in, and said enviously. Although his family has also built a yard, but the yard is now full of knee-high weeds, I am afraid that after a while, those weeds will grow higher than the fence, naturally it is not as good as Chen Qi's here tidy.
Summer is not as cold as winter, and Chen Qi doesn't need to get back into bed early at night, and his house is not short of oil, so he lights up a few oil lamps and torches every day to tidy up the yard with light. A gravel road was paved, and a small open space was paved with stone slabs even under the fig tree. A table and a few wooden benches were placed on it. At night, when you were tired, you sat under the tree, made a pot of tea, and enjoyed the wind blowing. The month is simply indescribably comfortable.
"You can tidy up like me when you have time, and you can try to grow something by yourself, it's also comfortable to look at." Chen Qi suggested with a smile.
Ale waved his hands again and again, "This thing can't be fed, so I won't waste my efforts." Then he sat down next to Ah Xu.
Ah Le is right. Once the plants on the plain are dug up and moved, the survival rate is very low. Now in the tribe, apart from Chen Qi, only A Li's family has opened a few plots of land for planting.
Strange to say, it is obviously the same treatment method, the survival rate of the things planted by Ali is higher than that planted by Chen Qi, at least two potato seedlings planted by Ali still survived, while Chen Qi's place was directly wiped out. Chen Qi even wondered if he had no talent for planting.
Seeing that Ale had no interest in planting, Chen Qi did not force it. He himself was still in the experimental stage, and it would not be too late to teach them to plant after the survival rate of the plants had improved.
Ah Jing, who was doing the homework assigned by Chen Qi in the room, also came out when he heard the commotion in the yard. Perhaps because of the crowd, the little wolf cub did not follow behind him as usual, but hid behind the door Probing his head, he looked curiously at the crowd waiting in the yard.
A Ze cooked a pottery pot of scented tea. Maybe there is not much food in summer, but the only thing that is not lacking is all kinds of flowers. Chen Qi didn't dare to pick all kinds of flowers, so he only picked a few kinds Aze, who I recognize, also said that it was no problem to collect some, dried it in the sun and usually soaked it to drink.
What Aze is soaking now is a kind of flower similar to a daisy, after being dried by Chen Qi, now soaking it in water, the shriveled petals stretch out in the water, it is really beautiful.
Naturally, the cups at home were not enough, but fortunately, there were quite a few bamboo tubes in storage before, and each bamboo tube was filled with half a bamboo tube of scented tea, and A Jing asked Ah Jing to help deliver it to the people in the yard.
After Azhang delivered the people, he greeted Aze and left. The earth kiln for burning bricks could not be turned off, and A Li was taking care of it. Anyway, he was relieved when the clansmen handed it over to Chen Qi, so he planned to help A Li. fire to go.
A Li and A Zhang got married before the summer, but only a few people who lived together in the winter knew about it, and even A Xu and the others didn't tell them. The fact that two females are together would not be blessed by the beast god, so it's better to keep a low profile and let a few of you know about it, so no one told them.
Their couple ceremony cannot transfer information to the same shadow stone like Chen Qi and Aze. But now the hand-carved bone ring on the ring finger has replaced Shadow Stone's position in their hearts. The other party's name is engraved on the inside of the bone ring, as if the other party has always been by their side.
Chen Qi originally planned to teach the people in the tribe to learn knowledge, but he just wanted to arrange courses for them after the school officially opened.
He asked Aze to help make dozens of wooden boards the size of a palm, and instead of giving lectures to these people immediately, he looked around at the crowd with a hint of bewilderment and curiosity on their faces and asked: "Do you know what you are doing?" What's your name like?"