The beehives were cut off, carried back to the ship, and a quick breakfast was eaten.

Then he set sail and continued upstream.

Yu Le is in charge of maneuvering the ship.

Li Zhi took the women to deal with these beehives.

There are no specialized tools and presses.

Use the most earthy method, directly squeezed by hand!

Find a few wide-mouthed clay jars, bamboo buckets, and a baking tray.

Put the pieces of beehives on the baking tray and burn them for a while.

When the honey inside is heat-treated, the honey softens and is easily squeezed out.

Squeeze into the clay jar.

Because there is no filter gauze, you can only use your hands directly, and impurities are inevitable.

But it doesn't matter, it's self-eaten anyway, and I don't pursue any appearance.

At most, after going home, find a filtered bamboo basket and simply filter it.

Several women, while squeezing the honey, have already secretly tasted the taste of fresh honey. ate one by one and praised each other, and the praise was endless for a while.

Yu Le used a bamboo paddle to set the course, and from time to time he looked back at these coaxing women, who happened to meet Su Wu's eyes, and when he saw that no one was paying attention, he pouted at her very rogues, made a kissing appearance, and asked, "Is it sweet to shout so loudly?"

Su Wu gave him a pretty look, his expression paused, then he broke a small piece of beehive and walked over to him.

"Now, taste it for yourself!"

Yu Le smiled, didn't reach out to pick it up, and said, "Don't want this, I want to taste what is on your mouth." You still have it on the corner of your mouth, and your eyes are squinting when you smile, you must have eaten the sweetest piece!"

Su Wu hurriedly stretched out his hand to wipe the corner of his mouth, but he didn't wipe anything, he knew that this guy was teasing himself, and stuffed the bee block into his mouth: "You just eat it, it's not serious!"

Yu Le sucked the honey in the beehive and pulled her: "Come on, give me a taste!"

"Hooligans, shameless, shameless, obscene!" Su Wujiao escaped with a smile and avoided it from a distance.

Yu Le was hit on the head by this series of adjectives and rolled his eyes again and again.

I'm a shameless and obscene embryo, how did you fall in love with me in the first place? Well, it's true! Not shameless, not obscene, not thick-skinned, dare to occupy a few lovers?

……

After all the honey juice was squeezed out, it was stored in a large urn with a narrow mouth and a big belly, and two large urns were filled, which was as much as hundreds of catties.

The sailing ship crossed Chongming Island and came to the mainland on the north shore.

Then continue along the riverbank.

The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, this area, belongs to the alluvial plain. It is a land of great wealth with waterways, abundant water resources and fertile land.

Although there is no modern development and production in this world, even if they look for some wild things, it is enough for Yu Le and others to come by empty boat and return with a full load.

Now it's autumn harvest again, and many things are also harvesting season.

On the third day, Yu Le and others found a hazelnut forest in Nantong.

Hazelnuts, also known as mountain chestnuts, are a well-known nut snack.

One by one, someone's thumb is thick.

Yu Le and others found it on the river, immediately dismounted the sail and stopped the boat, went ashore to look at the growth, and saw that it was ready to be harvested.

So he stayed and picked all day, weighing two or three hundred pounds, and took it away with the ship.

This stuff can be used as a snack when it is fried dry.

Boiled food can also be used as a substitute for staple food, and a few meals can be eaten once in a while.

Its nutritional value is not lower than that of rice and wheat.

In the next few days, I harvested some wild Ganoderma lucidum and wild shiitake mushrooms.

In some riverside lakes, there are also many aquatic products.

Dishes such as mushrooms, lotus roots, and lettuce, as well as herbs known by Yu Le and others, such as half-branch lotus, houttuynia cordata, white front, rush grass, and water centipede.

If necessary, Yu Le and others will collect some and take them away in case of emergency.

Yu Le and Li Zhi's original plan was to first look up along the north bank, and then go back along the south bank, so that they would sweep both the north and south shores, and it would take about 20 days to fill the entire boat, and they would arrive home again.

Ten days later, a small half of the various items have been filled in the cabin.

But the main two resources.

Staple food and coal, but little progress.

That is, the day before yesterday, a plant was found on a wetland island called Changqingsha in the center of a river.

This thing, more than half a person tall, looks a bit like a dog's tail grass, and the falling spikes are yellow and clear, which is very eye-catching.

At first, everyone didn't know what the plant was and whether it could be eaten.

At that time, it happened to be on this island for the night, Fei Fei, the little girl, picked some to play, and finally peeled a few seeds, Li Zhi and others researched it, and felt that this might be the yellow rice sold in the market.

Of course, this is not cultivated, but wild.

One by one, I put it in my mouth and chewed it, and I felt that I could eat it.

When it comes to yellow rice in the market, many people can recognize it.

But this is wrapped in a husk, and the crops that have not yet been processed are almost unrecognizable.

If it weren't for Fei Fei, the little girl, who was naughty, broke off the ears of grass to play with, and peeled off the shells to ask people, Yu Le and the others would definitely have missed it and treated it as weeds.

Yellow rice was called millet in ancient times, and it is one of the five grains of rice, millet, millet, wheat and mushroom.

This grain used to be the main food crop of people, which can be used as a staple food, can also be used as a pastry, and can also be used to make wine, because it has glutinous properties and tastes very good.

It's a nice thing!

It's a pity that the production is too small.

On this small island, I searched for a long time, and only found this small piece of millet in this small depression.

The next day, it took only half a day to harvest.

With a visual measurement, that is, one or two hundred catties, not much, not enough for this large collective to eat for half a month.

So we have to keep looking.

According to the plan, after two or three days, if they still can't find what they need, Yu Le and the others will have to take the return trip to the south bank.

Twenty-day itinerary plan.

Set off along the north shore upstream, and the plan will take about thirteen days.

Then we will cross the south bank, plan for another seven days or so, and then we will be able to walk home.

Because when you go back, you don't need to hang your sails at all, and the speed must be much faster.

It's only a few hundred kilometers away, and if you don't stop collecting resources, you can return to the mouth of the Yangtze River in a day or two.

At night, Yu Le and Li Zhi breathed a breath, gathered the women, and talked about the itinerary.

"If we can't find the staple food and coal we need, in two or three days, we will have to cross the south bank and go back to find it. ”

Yu Lezheng was talking, but Guo Biyan on the side suddenly interrupted him: "Coal, I may know where it is!"

(End of chapter)