On the deck of the Americas One, the two groups of people sat opposite each other, and they didn't use any chairs, so they just sat cross-legged on the deck. The one with his back to the bow of the ship was shirtless, his neck and wrists were covered with all sorts of strange ornaments, his face was painted with various patterns, and he held a spear-like weapon in his hand.

The leader of this group of people is a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties, with prominent cheekbones, a broad face, and a darker complexion than the average Han people, but it is lighter than the natives of the South Seas. And the most conspicuous thing on this middle-aged man is the colorful feathers on his head, which looks like a peacock with an open screen, and the eyes of the people who are shaking are light. Needless to say, the person dressed like this must be the chief of this group of natives.

And on the opposite side of this group of natives, Lu Wan sat there with some important people of the fleet, among them, the language genius Liu Kata was sitting next to him, trying his best to communicate with the other party, after all, the language of the other party's group of natives did not belong to the Nanyang language family, so if Liu Kata wanted to figure it out, it was estimated that it would take a while.

Just yesterday afternoon, Luvan's fleet finally came to a vast land, although because of time, Luvan could not tell whether this land was America, but it had already made everyone ecstatic, convinced that the place where they were was the legendary America.

However, when approaching this land, Lu Wan and the others were very cautious, after all, they had already known from Li Yu that there were a large number of natives living on the American continent, and these natives were likely to have formed a country, so they did not know the attitude of the local natives towards these outsiders. You have to be very careful. After all, they had worked so hard to get here, and if they were wiped out because of a conflict with the local natives. That's a big joke.

It is precisely because of this that they saw the land from a distance yesterday. But they did not rush to the shore, but searched along the coastline to see if there were any traces of the activities of the natives, and they soon found a small village inhabited by the natives, and even saw that there were still natives working in some fields along the coast.

The local natives were shocked at the arrival of their fleet, and the natives in the small village ran to the beach after seeing their boat. pointed at their fleet, but no one dared to approach, and Lu Wan and the others did not dare to go ashore.

After a night, what Lu Wan didn't expect was that this morning, the natives on the shore actually sent people, these natives took a strange shape of a small boat, and then shouted to the boat, although Lu Wan and they couldn't understand the content of the other party's words. But looking at the other party's appearance, it seems that there is no hostility towards them, and there is even a sense of friendliness.

That's exactly the case, so Lu Wan and the others took each other on the boat. After all, these natives only sent a dozen people, even if they were allowed to get on the ship, there was no danger, and they were also trying to make contact with the local natives. So the above scenario emerged.

“##￥%&…… ¥%&" The feathered chief spoke first.

However, Lu Wan and the others all looked at Liu Kata after hearing this, and Liu Kata had a bitter face. The language of these natives is obviously not Nanyang, and he does not understand it at all. But he was sure that if he was given some time, he would be able to master the new language.

Seeing Liu Kata's appearance, Lu Wan didn't have much hope, and said with a kind smile at the moment: "We came from the far west and went through countless difficulties to get here, and now my crew is very tired, so I want to rest here for a while, I hope you don't mind!" ”

Although he knew that the other party couldn't understand, Lu Wan still said it very seriously.

It is naturally impossible for the feather chief to understand Chinese, and after hearing this, he also showed a puzzled expression on his face, and then talked a few words in a low voice with the people around him, and then said a series of bird languages, but everyone still looked at each other, the language barrier is indeed a big problem, no matter what Lu Wan said, the other party couldn't understand, in the same way, Lu Wan They couldn't figure out what the other party was saying, so the two sides could only talk like chickens and ducks, and then guess the meaning of each other's words in their hearts.

Although it was impossible to communicate in words, the first contact between the two sides was quite pleasant, especially Lu Wan asked people to take out some small gifts, such as various glass ornaments, cotton cloth, porcelain, etc., these specially prepared exquisite gifts immediately won the other party's great favor, just look at the feathered chieftain's happy look can know that the other party is obviously very satisfied with these gifts.

Just after Lu Wan and the others sent these people ashore, soon another local people came in a dozen small boats, and the boats carried all kinds of food and fruits, it seemed that Lu Wan and them were entertained as guests.

"Quick! Hurry up and compare it, this thing should be the legendary sweet potato, right? "On the deck of America One, Lu Wan held a pamphlet with an oblong crop drawn on it, and the word 'sweet potato' was annotated in Chinese characters next to it. At Lu Wan's feet, there was food sent by the natives, among which Lu Wan was holding an adult's fist-sized object in his hand, which was almost exactly the same as the sweet potato in the album.

"And this, this should be the chili pepper that His Royal Highness King Qi asked for!" Feng Shijie picked up a bunch of red strips of fruit from the deck, each of which looked like fingers.

And Lu Wan hurriedly turned the album in his hand to the first page, and found that the plant with the word chili was exactly the same as the one in Feng Shijie's hand, and there was also a line of small characters below, with some characteristics of chili peppers, in fact, you can guess from the name that this chili must have a spicy taste.

"I'll try it!" The second man next to him grabbed the chili pepper, and then stuffed it into his mouth without looking at it, and chewed it a few times, but his face immediately changed, his whole face rose red, and the only eye was full of tears, and then he spit out the chili pepper in his mouth and shouted: "Water!" Hurry up and give me water! ”

"Quick! Go get water! Lu Wan was also taken aback, after several years of experience, Erhanzi's temperament has become more and more fierce, even if he is stabbed, he probably won't cry out in pain, but just such a small pepper makes his tears and snot flow down together, which shows that this thing is definitely not ordinary spicy.

In fact, in the condiments of the Central Plains, there has long been a spicy taste, just for some reasons, the spicy taste is not too widespread, but in some individual places there is output, generally used are the seedlings of dogwood, and then made into dogwood sauce, of course, the spicy taste is not as good as the pepper, Li Su has eaten a few times, always feel not spicy enough, and he has long been accustomed to the spicy pepper, so he is not too cold to the dogwood sauce, and at the same time makes him miss the pepper more, so in the American specialty atlas for Lu Wan, the pepper is ranked first.

However, Erhanzi couldn't wait for others to bring water, and when he saw the fruit sent on the deck, he picked up a few and stuffed them into his mouth, but the sweetness of the fruit finally made the spicy taste in his mouth much lighter. Finally, when the water came, he rinsed his mouth a few more times, and then he felt better, but he still kept inhaling the cool air.

"It's spicy! This is much stronger than dogwood sauce, and if it can be grown in Taiwan and other places, it will definitely sell well! Feng Shijie picked up another chili pepper and tasted it, but with the lesson of Erhanzi, he naturally had to be much more careful, and only took a bite, which still made his tongue feel a hot taste.

Lu Wan also tasted it carefully, and immediately praised it: "It's indeed a good thing, not to mention anything else, just this kind of chili pepper is worth our trip!" ”

In fact, Lu Wan's words were a little too arbitrary, because he didn't know that the reason why chili peppers could be ranked on the first page was mainly because Li Su, in order to satisfy his appetite, what really benefited the country and the people was actually the sweet potato he saw before, this kind of high-yield crop that does not pick the land, if it can be promoted in the Central Plains and other places, then in the next few hundred years, the Central Plains at least do not have to worry about food.

The discovery of sweet potatoes and chili peppers in the food finally made Lu Wan and them sure that this was their destination America, and as far as he knew, the Americas were actually divided into two continents, north and south, of which chili peppers were mainly produced in the middle of North and South America, which was similar to their original inference. It was just a regret for Lu Wan that they did not find the corn, tomatoes and other plants in the atlas in the food sent by the natives.

It was only later that Lu Wan learned that among the food sent by the native Americans, there was a kind of crispy cake, which was made of cornmeal, and it was not until a few days later that they came ashore and saw the scene of the locals making corn cakes, and then they suddenly realized.

After learning the news of really arriving in the Americas, although all the crew members had some certainty before, they still couldn't help but feel ecstatic, and at the same time, the big stone in their hearts finally fell to the ground, and some people were even fantasizing about the scenery after returning to Taiwan.

In the evening of the same day, the fleet held another carnival to celebrate the arrival in the Americas, but neither of them could have imagined that the date of their first contact with the native people of the Americas would later become the first official holiday on the American continent, which was later called the 'Day of Discovery', to commemorate this great geographical discovery. On the day of the festival, everyone makes a cake with sweet potato noodles, wrapped in pork and chicken, and served with a drink made from chili peppers, which is said to have come from the small village where Lüvan came into contact. (To be continued......)