The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Only a small group of people went to sea, and those who rowed small boats and spread fishing nets on the sea were the task force of Huotou camp to collect food.

In addition to some soldiers who stayed on board the ship, there were about 8 people who got up early and started clearing vegetation on the way to Tamsui Lake after breakfast.

Some craftsmen began to look for suitable places nearby to build brick kilns and find suitable materials for burning cement in preparation for building a cement factory.

As for the steel, they collected part of it in Lingnan when they came, and it was enough to build a temporary house. If they wanted to carry out large-scale construction on this land, they had to find iron ore.

If the road cleaning team encounters big trees blocking the road, they will cut them down and pile them on the roadside, which can then be used to build houses and make furniture.

At noon, the small kitchen prepared a full seafood feast. When the children saw each seafood being served on the table, their eyes gleamed and they were so greedy that their mouths almost drooled.

These ingredients are the result of their hard work together, and they all smell better than the previous meals.

The only regret is that the whole table has seafood but no green leafy vegetables.

Li Jingfu and Xia Jing washed their hands and sat at the table. They moved their chopsticks, and then the children picked up their chopsticks to pick up the seafood in front of them.

Xia Jing took a sip of the seafood porridge and reached for the spicy crab with her chopsticks. "Fortunately, we collected a lot of dried chili peppers when we were in Lingnan. Otherwise, even trying to eat chili peppers during this trip would be a luxury."

Over the years, Li Jingfu has gradually adapted to eating chili peppers. After listening to Xia Jing's words, he turned his chopsticks to the spicy crab: "You still have the foresight. Not to mention it is a bit spicy, it is very appetizing."

"Well, it's an appetizer. The only regret is that there are no green vegetables." Xia Jing said, looking at the children who were busy eating, "We went to catch the sea in the morning, and you followed me to pick wild vegetables in the afternoon. Now here we are. On land, everyone has to work so that they can adapt to life here as soon as possible.”

The children had just arrived on this land and were new to everything here. Not to mention that Xia Jing asked them to follow her out to pick wild vegetables. Even if she didn't tell them, they planned to wander around in the afternoon.So they obeyed the order without saying a word.

Seeing that the children all agreed, Li Jingfu took a sip of rice wine and asked, "Do I want to go?"

Xia Jing glanced at him: "It's up to you, just don't hold us back when the time comes."

Li Jingfu didn't want to hear this, so he tutted: "Tsk, what do you mean by that? I'm such a big man, am I not as good as these little brats?"

Xia Jing smiled and said nothing.

After the meal, several children gathered together to discuss what tools they should bring to the wild to pick wild vegetables. This was something they had never done since they had grown up in fine clothing and food, so it was quite novel for them.

"Brother, what tools do you think we should bring? How to pick these wild vegetables?"

Li Mingwu frowned slightly, thinking for a long time but still had no idea. The ancestors said they would rest for half an hour after the meal before setting off. They had to prepare the tools in advance.

Li Mingtong felt the sea breeze blowing on his face, squinting his eyes slightly with a look of enjoyment. After listening to Li Mingwu's words, he slightly raised the corners of his lips: "You don't need to worry about this matter. The people waiting behind you will prepare it for you."

Li Mingwu frowned displeased, turned to look at the servants behind him, and saw them smiling at him, his brows tightened even more.

As a child of the royal family, they have been surrounded by a bunch of servants since they were young. They really don't have to worry about some trivial matters. Someone will take care of everything for them.

But Li Mingwu thought that there was someone to worry about, but he couldn't rely on the servant for everything. Otherwise, wouldn't he become a waste if he left the servant?
Li Mingdong looked at the two of them and asked the question he was most concerned about: "Brother, is picking wild vegetables as fun as catching the sea?"

"It should be fun." Li Mingtong was not sure because he had never picked wild vegetables before.

Li Mingdong didn't get a definite answer, so he turned around and asked the slaves standing behind him: "Do you know whether picking wild vegetables is fun?"

A group of slaves: "."

He wanted to say that it depends on the situation. It would definitely not be fun if you were going to pick wild vegetables during a famine, but it would be fun if you had nothing to do and experience life.

"Dangla, tell me!" Li Mingdong directly named him.

The young man took a step forward and said with a smile, "Mr. Dong, picking wild vegetables is fun."

Li Mingdong got the exact answer and looked forward to it. He glanced at the main tent and then at the sun in the sky, obviously impatient to wait.

Before going out, Xia Jing asked the maid to bring a piece of handkerchief to wrap the hair on her head. Looking for wild vegetables is different from chasing the sea. There are branches on the mountain to catch the hair, and she is afraid of insects falling on her head. It is most convenient to wrap her hair with a cloth. Safety.

Li Mingdong spotted her at the first sight when he came out of the tent. He ran over and said, "Ancestor, you are out. Can we set off now?"

The other children were a step behind and ran over.

Xia Jing rubbed his head and said to the children, "Let's go."

"Oh! Let's go!" the children cheered.

In the tent next door, Li Jingfu and Anu walked out of the tent when they heard the noise outside.

He smiled at Xia Jing and patted his eldest great-grandson Li Mingtong on the head, "Don't be too excited now, you will suffer the consequences later!"

Li Mingtong tilted his head and asked him: "Ancestor, is it bitter to pick wild vegetables?"

"What do you say?"

"I don't know." Li Mingtong shrugged.

"You'll find out later."

Li Jingfu saw that Xia Jing had already walked to the front and hurriedly followed her.

Xia Jing first climbed up the hillside to check the clearing status of the road. Not to mention, the mountain was originally lush with vegetation, and it was much easier to walk after it was cleared.

Many trees on the mountain were cut down and thrown on the roadside. It seems that they were not moved to the construction site until houses were built.

The branches, weeds and other vegetation cut down from the road surface can be burned as firewood when dried.

At the foot of the mountain is a basin that extends all the way to the freshwater lake, and the lake is located in the center of the basin.

"If this area is cleared, it will be the best place to build a city at present."

Xia Jing is very satisfied with this basin. After the city is built, the rest of the basin can be reclaimed to create fertile farmland. The lake water can not only be used for drinking by residents, but can also be used to irrigate fertile farmland.

Li Jingfu was also satisfied with this place. He waved his hand: "Let's go down and have a look to see if the land in this basin is fertile."

If it is fertile enough for people to open up wasteland, they can plant a crop of crops first.

From the hillside to the basin, it can be seen from the cleared trees and weeds piled aside that the vegetation in the basin is more lush than on the mountain.

On the cleared ground, in addition to piles of firewood, Xia Jing also found orange melons piled together. She thought she was dazzled, but when she got closer, she saw that they were actually pumpkins.Some of these pumpkins are completely orange, and some are orange mixed with cyan. They are all old pumpkins, and they are very large, oblate and round. They are original varieties and have not been improved by later generations.

In later generations, pumpkins were introduced to the Central Plains. It seems that they were called pumpkins because they were introduced from the south. Could it be that this is the place of origin?

Although Xia Jing was confused, there was no way to investigate now, and what was before her was the fact that she had discovered a pumpkin in Oceania in another time and space.

Maybe there are other varieties of vegetables in this basin, but no one has discovered them.

"What is this? Does it look so strange?" Li Jingfu saw the surprised and happy expression on Xia Jing's face, which made him extremely curious.

Xia Jing looked back at Li Jingfu and the children who were following her, and pointed to the mountain of pumpkins with a smile, "This should be a kind of melon. I have seen it in a book. It is edible and can be used as food to fill the stomach. It seems to taste pretty good.”

"Can it be used as food?"

Li Jingfu was shocked after hearing this. He didn't care whether it tasted good or not. He only noticed that it could be used as food. You must know that their fleet came here from Dayu, and the most lacking thing now was food.

After all, 10,000+ people consume a lot of food every day. After all, the food carried by the fleet is limited. It will be used up one day. Self-reliance or finding new food is the top priority.

Otherwise, the 10,000+ people brought here will really become primitive people.

Xia Jing nodded excitedly: "Well, let Huotouying cook melon porridge tonight so that everyone can have a taste of the melon."

Living in Dayu for many years, Xia Jing has always asked people to pay attention to whether foreign ships from Lingnan have brought back any strange seeds. No pumpkin seeds have been found, and there are no pumpkin seeds in her space.

Now that I think about it, pumpkins are native to here. It should be that the sailing Westerners have not yet discovered this continent. After all, among the existing routes, the Westerners prefer to pass through the Strait of Malacca and sail along the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Gulf. to Africa and then to South America.

However, the continent of Oceania was not on their established route. It was later accidentally discovered by navigators.

After hearing what she said, Li Jingfu was overjoyed and then worried: "Mr. Xia, is this melon really edible? If not, let's wait until someone tries the poison."

Xia Jing raised her eyes and looked at him, thought for a moment, and waved her hand: "Okay, let's go make arrangements right away, and let everyone try this melon in the evening."

When Li Jingfu heard this, he saw that she still had not changed her original intention and insisted that everyone eat this melon at night. He gave her a helpless look and asked Anu to make arrangements.

The children were more curious than the adults about whether the melon was delicious. They turned around the mountains of pumpkins in curiosity.

"Ancestor, is this melon delicious?"

"You will know when you taste it tonight."

"Now that we have this melon, do we still need to pick wild vegetables?"

Xia Jing saw that many pumpkins were chopped to pieces by the soldiers who were clearing the vegetation, so she said to Ye Fei: "Let them collect these melons and don't chop them into pieces. If they are rotten, they cannot be preserved."

After instructing Ye Fei, she turned back and waved to the children with a smile: "This basin should be a cornucopia. Come on, let's walk around again to see if there are any edible wild vegetables."

Not to mention, this basin is really a cornucopia. They saw a group of soldiers waving hoes, and when they walked over, they found the soldiers digging sweet potatoes.

"Is this a sweet potato?" Li Jingfu had seen sweet potato vines when he was in Lingnan before.

The reason why I have seen them is because when Xia Jing was in Lingnan, she even planted sweet potatoes in the flower beds in the yard.

Looking at the sweet potato vines thrown aside, he was a little unsure, because the roots of the sweet potato vines were long and looked different from the sweet potatoes grown in Lingnan.

Xia Jing picked up a white-skinned sweet potato and looked at it carefully, and broke it into two pieces. There was white sweet potato pulp oozing out, and this kind of sweet potato has white skin, white flesh, and a purple circle under the white skin. It is a very beautiful original variety.

The sweet potatoes currently produced in Lingnan are seeds that Xia Jing took out from space. The sweet potatoes are hybrid varieties cultivated by later generations, with high yield and improved taste.Naturally, it is impossible to compare with this original variety.

"These should be sweet potatoes, but they are different from the varieties we grow. These are just because they grow in the wild and lack fertility, so they grow slender and not strong enough."

Hong Fuzhong was instructing people to cut down trees in another area and noticed Xia Jing and the others were coming. He ran over just in time to hear Xia Jing's words and confirmed: "The master is right, these are sweet potatoes, but the varieties are different. At noon My subordinates had some roasted and tasted them, they tasted pretty good, pink and glutinous."

Without confirmation, how could he order people to dig sweet potatoes here?

When the children heard how delicious the pink and glutinous potatoes were, they were instantly amazed and said, "Ancestor, are these sweet potatoes more delicious than those eaten in the capital? Can we try them?"

Xia Jing poked Li Mingdong's forehead with her index finger, "How come you kid always remembers to eat? You were born in a prince's palace and you shouldn't have been hungry since you were a child. Why do you think about eating everything?"

She asked him to pick up a few and take them home if he wanted to eat them, and asked his servants to cook them for him before he could eat them.

When the children heard this, they quickly asked their boys to pick a few and put them into the basket.

After discovering two things that could be cooked, Xia Jing stopped looking for them and went to the brick factory at the foot of the mountain.

The brick factory has just cleared the ground, and many people are digging pits and shoveling away the rot on the surface to expose the underground loess that can be used for making bricks.

Making bricks requires dredging, soaking, mixing the mud, making bricks, and finally firing.

Although these processes are simple, they are very physical and laborious.

If you want to build a city, bricks and tiles are essential building materials, so if you want to build a large number of houses, you must first bake a batch of bricks.

Fortunately, hundreds of craftsmen from all walks of life were brought out this time. Otherwise, it would be difficult for a fleet alone to gain a foothold in the wilderness.

After checking the brick factory, the site for the cement factory had not yet been chosen. Xia Jing did not ask. Instead, she told Hong Fuzhong to ask her if they came across a rare plant they didn't recognize when opening up wasteland to see if they could find something out of it. vegetable.

Of course, we can't just rely on looking for wild vegetables. Tomorrow, we will open up some land and plant the vegetable seeds brought from Dayu. I believe that in a month or two, we will have vegetables to eat.

Li Jingfu has never suffered much since he was a child. He went to the sea in the morning and went to the basin in the afternoon. After returning to the camp, he complained endlessly.

He was exhausted, and there was no time to rest every day.

It is not easy to survive in the New World.

Lying on the soft couch, he asked Anu: "Tell me, when can we go back? I heard from Xia that it will take a few more months before we return, and we don't know when we can live in a comfortable house here. It’s so hard for me to live such a miserable life every day!”

This night was not only miserable for Li Jingfu, but also for the two female members of the royal family.

They are pampered and pampered. People who grew up in Jinxiudui have never suffered like this. In their opinion, life here is like a savage.

To put it nicely, it’s enfeoffment, but it’s clearly exile!