Chapter Ninety-Three: Shrub Village and Nanhu Village
Swamps, weeds, bushes, primeval forests, volcanoes, deep lakes, long rivers, barren mountains, deserts, deep pits, wolves, lions, tigers and monsters are infested, and legends say that there are monsters hiding in them.
One morning in October, Yuan Yijia rode an immortal crane, with an immortal bullet submachine gun hanging from his neck, a purple yin divine sword on his waist, and a jet-black divine stick in his hand, leading a group of 38 people into the wilderness.
What appeared in front of them was a swamp with black air above it. The thick black air obscured the sky and the sun, darkening the entire swamp, and several terrible screams could be heard in the distance, which was terrifying.
Yuan Yijia took out a hundred night pearls and distributed them to everyone. Two for each person, both inlaid on clothing for lighting.
Seventy-six pearls of the night illuminated the marshland.
Most of the marshland is covered with grass, and some places are water depressions. Some loaches, eels, and long snakes can be seen sliding under the grass.
Yuan Yijia rode on the crane, flew one meter high against the swamp, and plunged the jet-black magic stick into the mud.
He recited the secret to urge the magic stick to stretch, and did not stop reciting until he reached the bottom.
He pulled out the stick completely, and visually saw that the part of the stick inserted into the mud was about two kilometers. The quagmire is so deep.
They flew quickly over the swamp when a lotus flower suddenly appeared and attracted them.
I saw that there were about hundreds of acres of lotus flowers in full bloom in front of me, and the brilliant sunlight shone on the lotus flowers, the scene was very spectacular, and I could not see a trace of black gas again.
It's incredible how many beautiful lotus flowers can exist in this boundless swamp. The lotus flower here is a hundred times larger than the lotus flower elsewhere, and it is simply a lotus essence.
Everyone put away the Night Pearl and put it in their travel bags.
Yuan Yijia concocted the same method, and used the magic stick to reach into the mud under the lotus flower, and found that the mud swamp here was even deeper, about three thousand meters deep.
Yuan Yijia didn't plan to stop here, he decided to fly over the Heavenly Desolation first, so he continued to fly forward.
Four hours later, when they flew to the end of the lotus, they saw a bush. The crane stopped in the bushes, and everyone got down.
The bushes are also far from the horizon, and they are very vast.
At this time, it is already dusk, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the bushes, making people feel tired of returning to the forest.
Thirty-eight of them must spend the night here tonight. Everyone took out tents, small stools, small tables, pots and pans, as well as some vegetables and water, and began to cook on the fire.
The afterglow of the setting sun had gradually dissipated, and the night had gradually covered the land. Several bonfires were built in the bushes, and Yuan Yijia and his party of 38 people ate rice, noodles, dried fish, and pickled vegetables around the bonfire.
The grass on the ground had withered and yellowed, and Yuan Yijia ordered everyone to set up tents and ordered people to take turns to keep vigil in case of accidents.
One after another, the people went into the tents to sleep. There was no sound in the vicinity of the bushes, except for a few screams from time to time. It is very quiet at night.
After waking up the next day, everyone had breakfast, packed their bags, rode the crane and set off again, and flew over the bushes. The bushes were also very vast, and after flying for two hours, they came to a mysterious forest.
Everyone dropped the cranes one after another and walked into the big forest.
I saw that the ancient trees in the forest were towering to the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and the ground was very dry, and there was no grass left, all of which were withered yellow deciduous and withered grass, and their feet rustled on the ground.
Because the cranes are psychic, the beasts have avoided it, and after walking for more than three hours, they found a green lake, with a radius of ten miles, horizontal as a mirror, and the light can shine on people.
Yuan Yijia scooped up a bowl of water with a bowl and tried it with ivory to see if it was not poisonous, secretly surprised. It's a really good lake, and if you live here in the future, the water problem will be solved. It is also convenient to make a house here, and you can cut down ancient trees in the large forest and use local materials.
Yuan Yijia decided to lead everyone to make a few wooden houses here for living in.
He said aloud, "Guys, let's stay here for a while, make a few houses, and let us be here to reclaim the deserted home." "Everybody said yes.
Due to the ample preparation made in advance when setting off from my home town, everyone brought a lot of tools. There are tools for cooking, there are tools for making houses, there are tools for repairs.
After a week, everyone cut out an open area near the forest area on the south side of the lake, about the size of a village of about 30 households.
Some trees are so big that six people can't hold them together, and some small trees can be carried by one person. We picked out some trees that were suitable for making houses, processed them, and worked for two months in a row, and finally built more than a dozen houses.
The walls of the house were made of mud, and the top of the house was covered with branches, dead grass and fallen leaves.
Because this area is located in the south of the lake, Yuan Yijia named the village "Nanhu Village". After everyone's hard work, Nanhu Village has become very much like a village. But the difficulty is that there are no necessities such as food and vegetables here, so I have to go to my town, which is far away, to buy them.
This is a very troublesome thing, every time I always send people and cranes back and forth to transport daily necessities, which is a waste of manpower and material resources.
Yuan Yijia thought about it for a long time and decided to build a road from Nanhu Village to the bushes and dig a ditch to open up the bush area into a comprehensive agricultural production base for grain, vegetables and animal breeding.
He sent people to ride cranes to transport live chickens, live ducks and other poultry and crop seeds from my town, and personally led the people to reclaim the bushes for half a year, opened up more than 20 acres of fields, land, and gardens, and built ten pigsties, sheep pens, and cattle pens with wood, mud bricks, thatch, etc., and raised 20 cultivated cattle, as well as more than 100 pigs, sheep, and hundreds of chickens, ducks and geese.
These poultry are all transported from my town, thanks to the cranes. In particular, the big guy like the ploughing cow is very heavy, and a crane can only carry one cow at a time. Unlike transporting pigs and sheep, you can transport five or six at a time, because all the piglets and lambs are transported.
Yuan Yijia led everyone to build more than a dozen houses here for people to live in.
In this way, with animals, a field garden, and a house, the team members can farm in this kind of field. Yuan Yijia named the village "Shrub Village". He divided the 38 people into two groups, 20 people were assigned to the shrub village, specializing in production, to solve the problem of food and drink, and the remaining 18 people lived in Nanhu Village and continued to pioneer north.
A year later, the village harvested rice, wheat, corn and other grains, as well as potatoes, sugarcane, soybeans and other crops. Since then, these 38 pioneers have solved the problem of eating and drinking, and can eat fresh vegetables, fresh and delicious pork, mutton, chicken, and duck.
Some team members also specially brought fish fry from my town to stock in Nanhu, because the water in Nanhu is very good, so the fish raised are also very delicious.
Everyone is very happy and has started to like this place.