GBP Chapter 188 Yams and Corn
Chapter 188 Yams and Corn
Yang Mei was happy: "Shiyue, let's walk slowly. I'll take you to have a good look at our sheep tribe. See if there are any other useful plants in our sheep tribe besides grasses."
Yang Mei's three companions, Yang Li, Yi Yun, Chen Shiyue and Lie Feng, walked slowly towards the top of the valley.
Chen Shiyue looked at it very seriously and asked Huanyue in her mind: "Baby Huanyue, take a look, are there any useful plants?"
Huanyue flapped her wings and looked at them seriously: "Mother, you can go ahead. I have already started the comparison mode. I will tell you immediately if I find plants similar to modern ones."
Yang Mei: "Shiyue, what you are wearing doesn't look like animal skin, what is it? It's beautiful and comfortable."
Chen Shiyue smiled: "It's made of wool."
Yang Mei blinked her eyes: "Wool, is it the same kind of wool that we sheep beastmen have?"
Chen Shiyue smiled and nodded.
Yang Mei was shocked: "There are sheep beasts with red hair in this world?"
Yang Li and other sheep beastmen also looked at Chen Shiyue in shock.
Chen Shiyue smiled: "No, this red color is dyed on. It was originally white, and we dyed it red with a red plant liquid."
Yang Mei was even more shocked: "Colored plant liquid can change the color of wool?"
Chen Shiyue nodded: "Yes."
Yang Mei reached out and touched Chen Shiyue's sweater: "But wool isn't like this?"
Seeing that Yang Mei was very curious, Chen Shiyue explained a little: "The wool we use is the wool cut from ordinary sheep. We have to wash and dry the wool first, twist it into wool yarn, and then use the wool yarn to weave woolen clothes."
Yang Mei opened her eyes wide, which made her look even cuter. I really wanted to pinch her cheeks.
Chen Shiyue: "From wool to beautiful clothes, it's a bit complicated and hard to explain. If you are interested, you can come to our Yaobei City to have a look."
Yang Mei was delighted: "Can I go?"
Chen Shiyue: "Of course, many tribes come to our Yaobei City to trade and visit."
Yang Mei looked at Yang Li: "Dad."
Yang Li also wanted to see Yaobei City. He thought for a while and said, "It's far away. It's impossible to go there before the winter season. After the winter season, we can go to Yaobei City to have a look."
Yang Mei was curious: "Shiyue, how many sunrises does it take to get from your Yaobei City to our Yang Tribe?"
Liefeng said, "Our flying beast flew for five sunrises. For you, it would take more than twenty sunrises to go back and forth."
Yang Mei was disappointed: "It's so far, much farther than going to Qingqing Tribe."
Yang Li: "When the food is plentiful, the road will be safer and we can go a little further."
Suddenly, Huanyue's voice rang in Chen Shiyue's mind: "Mother, I found the Chinese yam vine."
"Where?" Chen Shiyue had eaten so many yams, but had never seen yam vines.
Huanyue: "Mother, those green leaves in front of you are all of them."
Chen Shiyue looked up and saw a large patch of yam vines. She wondered how the yams in the soil were growing. She couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise, "Ayun, there are yams over there. The rhizomes are edible. Go dig them up and see."
Yang Mei opened her mouth in surprise. There really are edible plants. This is not the plant she wanted to take Shiyue to see.
Yiyun saw his partner's happy face and thought it was a good thing, so he walked over obediently, changed into a beast, and dug with his four claws, soon revealing the brown roots in the soil.
Chen Shiyue was overjoyed: "Wow, it's really yam. Dig more and we'll stew it tonight. Ah Yun, be careful not to break it."
After hearing what his partner said, Yiyun didn't dare to dig around anymore and carefully dug up the soil without plant roots.
When the orcs of the Sheep Tribe saw the huge beast shape of Yiyun, they were a little scared. Although they were curious, they did not dare to get too close to watch.
Yiyun easily dug a large piece of soil, then jumped out and shook off the dirt on his body.
Yang Li brought a few sheep beastmen forward and carefully took out the yams one by one.
Yang Mei touched the yam curiously and asked, "Shiyue, can this really be eaten?"
Chen Shiyue smiled and said, "Yes, and it's delicious."
Liefeng scraped off a little bit of the yam skin with his fingernails, revealing the white yam inside.
Chen Shiyue quickly stopped him: "Don't scrape the skin with your fingers, it will itch. Go back and scrape it with a stone knife or a bone knife."
Lie Feng stopped his movements, his eyes and eyebrows were full of smiles: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Yang Mei was very happy: "Shiyue, there are plants like this in many places on the mountain. We never knew we could eat them."
Chen Shiyue felt that this trip to the Sheep Tribe was well worth it. The rice, corn and yam alone were a huge harvest, and if they discovered something else, it would be an even bigger harvest.
She said to Yang Mei, "We'll take these yams back later. Yang Mei, take us to see other plants."
Yang Mei happily took Chen Shiyue to continue walking. This road might be often walked by the orcs of the Sheep Tribe, so it was not difficult to walk on.
Soon, they came to a cornfield. This cornfield was not the cornfield that Chen Shiyue had seen before. As you can imagine, there were many cornfields in the area where the Sheep Tribe was located. Of course, this cornfield was wild and overgrown with weeds, but this did not affect the growth of the corn.
Yang Mei pointed at the corn and said, "Shiyue, can you tell me if the fruit of this plant is edible?"
Chen Shiyue smiled brightly: "It can be eaten, and it's delicious. This is called corn, the kind that can fill you up." As she spoke, she broke off a corn, peeled off the surface, removed the corn silk, revealing the plump corn kernels inside.
This wild corn is not as big as the modern cultivated ones and is relatively thin, but it is indeed corn.
Chen Shiyue took a bite and found it slightly sweet and juicy, not bad.
"The corns with yellow silk are ripe and can be picked. Don't pick the ones with green silk yet. Leave them for a few days."
Knowing that it was edible, everyone started picking corn.
Liefeng looked at it and said, "I'm going to weave a rattan basket." He looked at Yang Mei's partner and said, "You two should learn to weave rattan baskets from me."
Yang Mei's partner was very happy, and the strong beast wanted to teach them how to weave wicker baskets.
Yang Li said happily: "I'll call my tribesmen to come and work." He turned into a sheep beast, bleating all the way.
Chen Shiyue picked corn for a while, then looked at Yang Mei and said, "Let's go check out any other plants, otherwise we won't be able to see clearly when it gets dark."
Yang Mei: "It's not far from here, just over there." She pointed to the low area of the valley.
Yiyun quickly hugged his partner and said, "Lead the way."
Liefeng looked at the work in his hands, pursed his lips and didn't follow. It's not far away, so it doesn't matter if you don't go.
When Chen Shiyue followed Yang Mei to the plant field she mentioned, she felt regretful. There were so many okras, but unfortunately they were all dry.
She sighed and said, "Meiyangyang, your sheep tribe is a really good place. It grows a lot of edible plants. This is okra, it's edible, but it's a pity that it's dry now. Okra can't be eaten once it's old. You have to pick it when it's green and cook it."
Yang Mei felt very sad when she heard that these things could have been eaten before but now could not be eaten because of old age.
In the space, Huanyue looked at the expressions of the two females and couldn't help but laugh: "Mom, old okra can't be eaten, pick the dry ones and make seeds to take back and plant."
Chen Shiyue suddenly realized that it was a waste of her college life to not think of this. She told Yiyun about her idea and asked Yiyun to pick some dried okra to take back.
After that, they didn't find anything. Seeing that the time was almost up, they returned to the cave of the Sheep Tribe. As for the corn and yam, the sheep orcs would take them back.
When they arrived at the cave, Chen Shiyue took out the animal skin clothes, shoes, ceramic pots and jars that she had brought with her. These things instantly amazed all the orcs and females of the Sheep Tribe.
Yang Mei cried out with tears falling down her face: "Shiyue, thank you so much, Yaocheng, for bringing us so many good things. You have already given us so many things in advance, and now there are so many good things that we have never seen in the trade fair."
Yang Li patted his chest and said, "City Lord Yiyun, Shiyue, Deputy City Lord Liefeng, you can take as much of what our Sheep Tribe has as you like. Even if you take all of it, it is not worth the supplies you brought."
Chen Shiyue looked at Yang Li and said with a smile, "Uncle Yang, it's a deal, we can take whatever we want, and as much as we want."
Uncle Yang smiled kindly: "As long as we have it." Last winter, they only ate grass and got through it. He was not worried that Yiyun and the others would take away all the yams and corn.
Chen Shiyue looked at the valley where the Sheep Tribe was located. It would be a good idea to build a village here. It would be better to let the Sheep Tribe develop here. She knew that some plants had soil requirements. If they left the original soil and climate, they might not grow well in another place.