Under the guidance of Partias, Yusheng and his party came to Xiaoyao Island smoothly.

Xiaoyao Island is not big, about 20 miles in radius, there are cliffs on three sides, only the south side is a sandy beach and a gentle slope, the overall form is like a handful of dustpans.

The island is called Xiaoyao Island because of its shape that prevents people on the island from being attacked by typhoons and waves.

Yu Shengzhi saw several large flags with the word "Li" planted on the island on the boat, and Parthias told him that this was the flag set up by Li Xiaofei when he passed by here a few years ago, and he also left dozens of people on the island to guard it.

After arriving on the island, he saw only many houses on stilts made of wood, and some of them had unextinguished fires outside, Parthias took out a flute and blew it for a while, and the people on the hill to the north began to shout in response.

"It seems that the people here are scared when they see these dozens of big ships coming, haha, these people are all people who were rescued from the sea by Lord Li a few years ago, and they are arranged here"

"I said that Li Xiaofei has not returned to the Central Plains for more than ten years, and he dares to be the king overseas by himself, and he is free. Ha ha! ”

As he spoke, Yu Katsuyuki led the people and began to walk towards the depths of the island, Parthias took a spear and held it in front of him, "Beware of the rats and birds here, they will eat people!" ”

The soldiers burst into laughter, and this white man was too timid to be afraid of even rats and birds.

After walking half a mile, everyone began to be vigilant, some flowers on the side of the road were bigger than the grinding plate, and they were still wriggling, and some of the flowers actually had animals similar to dogs lying on them.

Someone opened his bow and arrows and was about to shoot down, Parthias hurriedly stopped "These things don't hurt, this is not a dog, this is a wolf, but vegetarian wolves, they, like bees, feed on pollen, and their tongue is a slender tube that specializes in sucking pollen!" ”

"I didn't see it with my own eyes, and I can't believe it, in the words of the reader, it's called the white wolf lying on the flowers! Haha, absolutely! "Yu Katsuyuki has read books for a few years, so he can still blurt out poetry

"Be careful, there's a rat ahead!" Parthias pointed his spear forward, and saw a brown rat the size of a fat pig hunting a wild beast in front of him.

Yusheng Dingqing saw that it was an elephant that was preyed, but this elephant was only the size of a fat pig, and the rat had already made the elephant all over the body with its fangs and claws.

"Bold rats, so rampant, shoot it!" Yu Sheng gave the order, and the soldiers opened their bows and arrows to shoot at the giant rat.

The giant rat was immediately pierced into a hedgehog, but instead of falling to the ground, he abandoned the baby elephant and turned to run for Yukatsu and them.

At this moment, even Yu Shengzhi panicked, and some of the soldiers began to retreat, Parthias threw out his spear and shouted, "Block him with a spear, quick!" ”

Yu Shengzhi also reacted immediately, grabbed the banner of the soldiers around him and stepped forward, just collided with the giant rat, and staggered Yu Shengzhi.

The rat tore the flag with a few flaps of its front paws, and the spear-wielding soldiers behind him swarmed up and stabbed the spear through the rat's cheek, and the rat writhed desperately for a while before dying.

Looking at the corpse of this giant rat, Yu Sheng's heart palpitated, "This place outside the Central Plains is really incredible, I can't imagine that there will be such a huge mouse!" ”

Then, Yu Katsuyuki realized something and shouted: "All the army is on alert!" Shield spear array! ”

The rats lived in groups, and there must have been more than one, and sure enough, there was a movement in the woods in the distance, and after a while, five giant rats came.

Another spear shot and stabbed the five giant rats to death on the spot.

"With such a great rat, wouldn't the serpents and eagles of this island be much greater, Parthias

Sir, let's go! How is this called Runaway Island? I really don't understand! ”

"General Yu doesn't know that there is a lot of sulfur and hot springs on the rocks and underground of this island, and snakes can't live here! And there are no bugs here, and the eagles can't stay! Without predators, the rat grew bigger and bigger on the island! By the way, the melons and fruits on this island are also surprisingly large, so the rats and birds can have plenty of food! ”

Next, Yu Sheng's trip saw a large bird that was eight feet tall, a pumpkin that was three feet square, and a peach the size of a human head.

Some soldiers knelt on the ground and chanted words, constantly gesturing, praying for God's blessing, while others thought they were dead and went to hell, and kept begging Lord Yama to spare their lives.

Seeing this scene, Yu Shengzhi couldn't cry or laugh, and the people who fled to the depths at this time also ran back and knelt on the ground, shouting and gesturing.

Parthias gestured for a while, and the men gestured to the wooden houses they had built, and Parthias took Yukatsu and his party to the nearest wooden houses.

It's a house, it's better to say it's a wooden shed, these people are not from the Central Plains, there are black skin and brown skin, and they will simply put the wood branches and leaves together.

After Yu Shengzhi left, he took his thousands of soldiers to cut down trees and build houses, and in less than three days, there were simple pavilions and pavilions on this Xiaoyao Island.

Looking at Zanxin's house, the dozen or so natives were excited, jumping and shouting and kneeling to worship.

The thought of waiting here for half a year, Yu Shengzhi felt a little aggrieved, but the soldiers felt very good, they couldn't stand the bumps in the sea for a long time, and now that they had a place to live, they didn't want to leave.

So many people are here, the living creatures on this island have become almost all the meals on the plate in less than a month, in order not to starve to death in the mountains and air, Yu Shengzhi divided the team into three groups, one group of people went out to sea to fish, one group of people planted the beans and grains brought from the Central Plains on the spot, and another group of people drove five boats to hunt and collect food on the nearby island.

The fishing fleet has a harvest every day, but everyone is tired of eating fish, so they change their way to eat sea crab shells and other things on the beach.

The people who planted the land were very happy to see the bean sprouts and seedlings grow at first, but they often all died in less than half a month, and they were not able to plant until Li Xiaofei arrived.

Those who went out hunting were much more miserable, first encountering poisonous snakes and dying, and later being preyed upon by some wild animals.

There was an island more than a hundred miles away, and when it landed, it was full of snakes, and they were all extremely poisonous. The people who landed on the shore were bitten by poisonous snakes and died, and the rest of the people had to get on the boat to escape, but some of the snakes would fly up and jump on the boat, and some of them were bitten to death in panic.

On other islands, lizards the size of cows and horses were either bitten to death, or they were injured by unknown animals, and the meat of many of the animals caught was too smelly to eat.

The hunting party lasted only a month before it was stopped by Yu Katsuyuki, and dozens of tombs were built on Xiaoyao Island, and the soldiers were brought to worship.

Fortunately, Li Xiaofei met a group of merchant ships on the way and bought some dried meat and cheese to bring to Xiaoyao Island, otherwise they would have to eat soil.

It's not that I haven't eaten it, but I am mainly not used to eating sea fish and melons and fruits on the island, which are really big, but they are all light and tasteless, and they taste like chewing wax.

There are no plants and trees on the island that can be used as spices, and the fish and melons and fruits are even more unpalatable.

When leaving Xiaoyao Island, Yu Shengzhi and others hated and said that they never wanted to come to Xiaoyao Island again, what a leisurely thing, it was simply a crime.

"People, always cherish when they are lost, and go further south

, I'm afraid it's hard to find even this light and tasteless food, it's all neat, put on all the dried fish you dried, and after Xiaoyao Island, you have to walk for about half a year before you have a place to replenish food! Those melons and fruits are also carried, so you can replenish water! ”

Li Xiaofei persuaded hard, and he also picked up a bag of dried fish and unloaded it on the boat.

Although the rest of the people were reluctant, in order not to starve to death and die of thirst, they had to carry all the things they were tired of eating every day on the ship.

Yu Shengzhi asked about the matter in Qiyun Kingdom, Li Xiaofei smiled indifferently, "The three-tailed falcon also flew over from the south, and I am afraid that there is no such thing on this Xiaoyao Island!" I don't know if you've seen it."

Everyone recalled together that on this Xiaoyao Island, the big bird that was only eight feet tall was eaten by them, and they didn't see a single bird like the three-tailed falcon.

"I've never seen a three-tailed falcon, but the eight-foot-tall bird is letting us eat it!"

"The three-tailed falcon is such a small bird, I'm afraid it won't survive on the island, only on the mainland!"

The old conch looked at Li Xiaofei and Wang Ruoyun's expressions, and twisted his fingers, "If you go southeast, there will be a continent, and there are some strange beasts and birds on it!" That's where the three-tailed falcon lived! ”

"Well, I remember, the rats there are all walking standing and walking, with a pocket in their stomachs, and little mice in their pockets! There are also dogs with duck beaks, which are very weird! There are also those eight-foot-tall birds that are very fierce! Li Xiaofei also immediately responded

"Master Li, let's talk about it, are there mustard greens, peppercorns, cinnamon, ginger, green onions, and garlic, we will lose our stomachs when we eat these light birds!"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's okay to have ant eggs, it's sour, even if it's plums, it's not bad for bitter gourd!"

"The point is that there is no salt, it is good to have salt!"

Li Xiaofei and Lao Conch were taken aback: "Why don't you even have salt when you guard the salt farm?" This sea water can make salt! ”

Yu Katsuyuki and his subordinates were dumbfounded, "This, impossible, how to make salt from seawater?" This, why didn't you say it earlier? ”

"The easiest thing is to boil the sea water over and over again to get salt! You've been on Xiaoyao Island for so long, and you can even make good salt, alas, it's a pity! ”

Yu Shengzhi and the others beat their chests, knelt on the ground and cried, as if they had died of their relatives.

Li Xiaofei was also speechless, so he had to stop everyone and go back to Xiaoyao Island to boil salt first, there was no salt to eat, and many people were about to faint.

When they arrived on the beach, Li Xiaofei ordered everyone to scrape up all the shiny sand on the beach, rub it into a mound of soil, expose it to the sun, and stir it to dry at any time.

When the sun was almost dry, the old conch took the dried "salty soil" and piled it up into a shape similar to a dam, and dug a pit in the middle.

There were many soldiers, so they built two more dams on the periphery of the dam, and when the dams were built and the seawater had been stored, the seawater was diverted to irrigate the embankment with the "salty soil" in the innermost part.

When the tide recedes, the dam mouth is blocked and the water is blocked, the soil is re-piled and transpired in the sun, the dam is built to irrigate the tide, and the gate is closed to block the water.

After repeating it three times, the seawater was flushed again, and after this time the gate was closed, Li Xiaofei ordered everyone to collect the seawater with clay pots and porcelain bottles and take it to the side of the house on the shore to be exposed to the sun.

Ten days later, Li Xiaofei and others actually posted 300 catties of salt, and this time, Yu Shengzhi and others were convinced and knelt down to worship.

The barbecue and melons on the night before departure were so fragrant that many soldiers were so overwhelmed that they could only climb up with their hands and feet when they got on board.

It took a month to get it