Chapter 392: Sugarcane Forest
At the mouth of the Pearl River in the south, the fleet rowed zigzag into the river. In www.biquge.info sky, four giant eagles hovered over the fleet from time to time.
The Pearl River has enough water that even whale-class boats can sail into it.
Wang Chuan stood at the bow of the boat and looked at both sides, behind the vast water, there was no trace of the appearance of a delta city in later generations, and there was only endless wilderness. The fleets walked in this wide estuary, like a civilized stick stirring the wilderness. In fact, this journey from south to north is almost the process of sowing the seeds of civilization.
Along the way, after several months of looking for a needle in a haystack, the little eagle went to look for the baby elephant, naturally there was no trace, and Wang Chuan didn't think about the scene even if he found it. After drifting like this for a few months, Wang Chuan's mind faded, and the others naturally had no hope. So making hydrological maps along the way, looking for more crops and medicines, tasting the unique products of the south, and even befriending the tribes encountered along the coast became the main thing.
Along the way, he met many tribes, and Wang Chuan led people to communicate with them in various ways. Communicative and friendly, Wang Chuan would tell them the concept of farming, teach them to burn pottery and cook food, and teach them to take medicine to resist the malaria ravaging in the south. This is the spark of civilization.
Of course, there will be all kinds of unfriendly encounters on the road. In this era of recklessness, people's consciousness is strange, and all kinds of hostility come inexplicably. For example, some tribes don't wear shoes, and when they see them wearing shoes, they think they are evil spirits and have to be killed, and so on. When encountering such a tribe, Wang Chuan naturally had no mercy on his side, and killed all the way and finished the killing.
Walking into the Pearl River on a whim, Wang Chuan came to see the situation of this big river at this time, so as to facilitate the boat in the future. Second, I also want to see if the barbarians have occupied the south, and the scope is mostly large. As for the search for baby elephants, it is only a small one.
There is nothing to see on the side of the ship. The one who could talk was tired of the endless sea view earlier than the tiger and the others, and went back to sleep in the cabin. They were now a little interested in getting off the boat, and they were almost screaming to go home.
Boredom, Wang Chuan took out the hook and began to sail and fish. This estuary was often infested by dragons in later generations. They live in crevices under the water, making it difficult to use nets. They like to eat live animals, and they generally don't eat bait, and the best way to catch them is to fish in boats. In later generations, as the waterways were busy, the wild ones almost disappeared. I don't know if I can catch a few fish and try them now.
The body of the dragon is larger, Wang Chuan picked a big hook, and the fishing line was replaced with a finger-thick hemp rope, and the other end of the rope was directly tied to the side of the boat without using a fishing rod. Here hung the bait and put it down, the boat made a zigzag, and the line in his hand sank, Wang Chuan thought it was a tick, and pulled it up and found that it was hanging on the algae. After hanging the algae a few more times, seeing that the estuary of dozens of kilometers was about to come to an end, the hook sank suddenly, Wang Chuan weighed the weight and pulled the line, and the line was ripped away, but fortunately, the other end was tied to the side of the boat.
Something made a splash on the other side of the boat, Wang Chuan looked over and couldn't help but exclaim: "I'll go." ”
It is really a dragon barge, but it is nearly three meters long, and it will definitely be the king of dragon barge in the future generations, and it can be auctioned for a sky-high price. But now it's a casual catch.
Everyone asked the boat to slow down temporarily, got off the big net and pulled the fish up, and estimated that it might be six hundred catties, and now the food of the entire fleet is available, although everyone is tired of eating fish for a long time.
Dozens of kilometers into the estuary, the boat saw a sandbar overgrown with long grass on the shore, several divergent streams, and almost went down the wrong waterway.
When it was dark, they stopped the boat next to a sandbar for the night, Wang Chuan, Bihu and others went to the sandbar, hunted back a lot of birds, dug up a lot of wild vegetables and came back to eat, which was very popular.
On the second day, the boat was stopped as usual, and the eaglets and others were allowed to go out hunting, and everyone observed the hydrology around and visited around. In the afternoon, the eaglet unexpectedly returned to the fleet early, its talons empty, and only a few long golden hairs were on closer inspection.
Wang Chuan took a few from the eaglet's talons and looked closely, and the eaglet had already turned its head and flew out. Ma Wang stepped over and sniffed Wang Chuan's hand, Wang Chuan didn't know what it smelled, and his sleepy eyes seemed to be enlarged a little. Then it looked up at the eaglet and jumped to get off the boat.
In the distance, the eaglet circled twice over the north plane, flew a short distance north, and then circled again. Wang Chuan knew that this meant to lead the way.
"The color of the coat is wrong." Wang Chuan smiled in disbelief. What is this, there is nowhere to find it when you step on iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it? Ordered the marines to disembark, and he was going to go with Kitty Hawk to have a look.
Wang Chuan is holding the long hair of a mammoth, yes, Wang Chuan can even tell that this is the hair on the back of a mammoth, but this is not like the hair on the baby elephant. The eaglet used to get along with the baby elephant, and basically used the baby elephant as a landing gear, because he often scratched the back of the baby elephant, and later Wang Chuan tied a rack on the back of the baby elephant for the little eaglet to stand on. Before there was a shelf, such long hairs would often appear on the talons of the eaglet.
The eaglet is very vigilant and does not dock to other large animals indiscriminately. It has an expression like the King of Horses, and generally speaking, this is probably not possible. But what's the deal with this golden retriever? Wang Chuan's heart was full of expectation and joy, but he was afraid that he would make a mistake, but he was entangled in these details.
Bihu and Tiger Riders, who were visiting nearby, heard the movement and hurried back. The tiger exorcist took the long hair from Wang Chuan's hand, looked at it, sniffed it again, and said, "Haha, the baby elephant has changed its moult." "He used to live in the herd for a long time, and he knew more about the changes in the color of the animals' coats than Wang Chuan's two knives.
Bihu also has feelings for the baby elephant, and immediately laughed: "I haven't seen you for a few years, and I don't know what this slippery head has become now." Let's go and pick it up. ”
The eaglet flew for half a day, but everyone could walk for several days, and after the fleet made the duty arrangement, the people and horses here got off the boat, and even the saddle of the baby elephant was moved on the horseback.
The crowd followed the eaglet to the northwest, where there was also a tributary of a river, and the bank was full of long grass and sandbars. After walking like this for a long time, everyone found a lot of people on the ground, which made everyone a little worried.
At this time, Wang Chuan looked at some of the long grass around him with a surprised expression. Later, in the stunned eyes of everyone, I saw Wang Chuan break a long straw as thick as bamboo, bite and chew it.
This scene made everyone wonder if the king was incarnated as a panda.
"Bamboo cane?" Wang Chuan looked at the plants growing together with the reeds and miscanthus around him, and his eyes were full of surprise and joy.
Bamboo cane is a kind of sugarcane, the skin is green, the hardness is harder than the common purple sugarcane, but the sugar content is higher than that of purple sugarcane, and it is the main raw material for industrial sugar production in later generations. Sugarcane is said to be native to India, but Wang Chuan did not expect to encounter such a treasure here.
Wang Chuan stood on the back of the king of horses and looked around, regardless of the bumps, and found that the grass on this side of the river bank was boundless, and this kind of bamboo cane could also be found everywhere in the miscanthus grass and reeds. Even looking at the way you came, there are many places where you can see this kind of bamboo cane. It is a huge sugar cane forest with countless sugar canes in it.
Wang Chuan suddenly felt that the baby elephant should be around here.
Wang Chuan turned his head to the sky to take a look at the flight trajectory of the eaglet, and the next moment, he immediately lowered himself from the back of the king of horses: "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! ”