Chapter 399 (2/2)

Perhaps the slave masters already had something like that but this was a first for the people here. Other than curiosity, joy also brought them here as they huddled around him.

“Elder, what is this?”

“You use this to plant crops?” Everyone was curious.

Plows were used on farms and usually connected to farmed animals like cattle. However, there were no tamed animals suitable for farming here so it had to be pulled by humans.

At least the Flaming Horn people were as strong as bulls so it was easy for them to use.

“Just like that, it will break the soil into smaller pieces. This plow will make farming easier since you are all starting to plant seedlings.”

After a demonstration, he let them try.

Many people wanted to try but in the end, Qi Qi’s granddaughter, Ji Ling, got to it first.

Ji Ling was about fifteen or sixteen. She was very young but her totemic power was already awakened. She had just returned from a hunt a few days ago and since it wasn’t her turn for patrol duty, she came to help Qi Qi during her spare time. Now that Shao Xuan was here with his plow, she had huddled over to watch. With everyone working together, she pulled the plow like how Shao Xuan did with another middle-aged woman helping from the back.

She must have hit a rock because she stopped in a moment. Without even a knife, she dug into the ground to fish out a rock as big as a winter melon. Without even a look, she flung it far away.

Shao Xuan watched as the rock as big as a melon flew in an arc over the river and into the forest ahead, scaring a few birds. He turned to see her sharing her experience with a few eager friends.

Shao Xuan was speechless.

The girls here were strong.

The people who worked on the farm weren’t just people without awakened totemic power- some of the laborious work was done by the totemic warriors too. They did not have to hunt or patrol every day so people like Ji Ling came to help out.

There were two kinds of people in the village-- the weaker individuals without totemic power and the totemic warriors with awakened totemic power.

Many people helped out during this season to plant seedlings. Other than the fields within the tribe, there were also crops planted on the other side of the river within the forest. They used a more primitive method of open burning and then planting on the burned piece of land.

As they spread the seeds, the person in front would dig holes with a tool while the people behind would put the seeds inside. They did not have to fuss over the crops too, merely observing it every now and then or chase away the birds. Their main food source was from hunting and the second source was the tribe’s inner farms. The crops planted in the forest were just something to kill time. Any harvest was a bonus. After they harvested, they would move to another plot of land.

Shao Xuan did not spend his time in the fields or outside the tribe. He built a fence around a seventy-meter-squared piece of land and started to plant one hundred grains.

The Thousand Grain Gold was found on a hill. Shao Xuan was now living on one, near the peak too. Although the altitude wasn’t high, Shao Xuan did not want to leave it on the peak of another hill. He did not have the time to watch for birds.

The weather and soil quality here was different but he did not think too much into it. It was just an experiment. He wasn’t too invested in it anyway. It would be great if it grew but if it didn’t, he could just eat the remaining grains. He hoped they were edible.

After a while, the seeds started to germinate. More than half of the grains had germinated. This was very satisfactory to him.

However, when Qi Qi called him over, he realised the grains they planted had already grown two or three leaves. More than 90 percent of their grains had germinated, a far better statistic than his own.

They were the experts after all.

Shao Xuan was delighted to see the seedlings. It didn’t matter who planted them, as long as they lived.