Rushing to the sea is only a small group of people, rowing small boats to cast fishing nets on the surface of the sea is the task force of the battalion to collect ingredients.

In addition to some of the soldiers who stayed on the cabin, there were about 80,000 people who got up early and started clearing the vegetation after breakfast, and the way to the freshwater lake was to clear it out.

More craftsmen began to look for suitable places to build brick kilns nearby, looking for suitable materials to burn cement and prepare to build cement factories.

As for the steel, they collected a part of it in Lingnan when they came, and it was enough to build a temporary house for the time being, and if they wanted to build on this land, they had to find iron ore.

And if the road clearing team encounters a big tree in the way, they will also cut it down and pile them on the side of the road, which can then be used to build a house and make wood for furniture.

At noon, the small kitchen made a seafood feast, and when the children saw the same seafood being served on the table, their eyes lit up, and they were so hungry that their saliva almost flowed.

The ingredients were the result of their labor together, and they all smelled more fragrant than their previous meals.

The only regret is that there is no leafy greens on the whole table of seafood.

Li Jingfu and Xia Jing washed their hands and sat down at the table, they moved their chopsticks, and the children picked up the chopsticks to pick up the seafood in front of them.

Xia Jing took a sip of seafood porridge, and her chopsticks stretched out to the spicy crab, "Fortunately, we collected a lot of dried chili peppers when we were in Lingnan, otherwise it would be a luxury to eat chili peppers along the way." ”

After a few years, Li Jingfu has slowly adapted to eating chili peppers, and after listening to Xia Jing's words, his chopsticks turned to the spicy crab: "You are still prescient, not to mention a little spicy, very appetizing." ”

"Well, appetizers are appetizers, and the only regret is that there are no green vegetables." Saying that, Xia Jing looked at a few children who were working hard, "In the morning, we went to catch the sea, and in the afternoon you followed me to pick wild vegetables. ”

The children had just arrived on this land, and everything here was fresh, not to mention that Xia Jing asked them to follow her out to pick wild vegetables, even if she didn't say it, they planned to go around in the afternoon. So they listened to the command, and without saying a word, they answered.

Seeing that the children had agreed, Li Jingfu took a sip of rice wine and asked, "Then I want to go?" ”

Xia Jing glanced at him: "Whatever you want, don't drag us back then." ”

Li Jingfu didn't want to listen to this, so he snorted: "Tsk, what did you say, I'm such a big person, isn't it as good as these little kids?" ”

Xia Jing smiled and didn't speak.

After the meal, several children got together to discuss what tools to bring, to the wild to pick wild vegetables, this is from the small brocade clothes and jade food to now, really have not done this work, it is quite new to them.

"Big brother, what tools do you think we should bring? How do you pick this wild vegetable? ”

Li Mingwu frowned slightly, he didn't have a clue after thinking for a long time, the old ancestor said that they would set off after resting for half an hour after dinner, and they had to prepare the tools in advance.

Li Mingtong felt the sea breeze blowing on his face, squinted his eyes slightly and enjoyed it, listened to Li Mingwu's words, and slightly hooked the corners of his lips: "You don't have to worry about this, the people waiting behind you will prepare it for you." ”

Li Mingwu frowned in displeasure, turned his head to look at the servants behind him, and saw them sneering at him, and his brows tightened.

As a child of the royal family, he has been surrounded by a bunch of waiting servants since he was a child, and they really don't have to worry about some trivial matters, and someone has someone to take care of everything for them.

But Li Mingwu thought that someone was worried, but he couldn't rely on the servant for everything, otherwise, wouldn't he become a waste if he left the servant?

Li Mingdong looked at the two of them and asked the question he was most concerned about: "Brother, is it fun to pick wild vegetables to catch the sea?" ”

"It should be fun," Li Mingtong was unsure, because he had never picked wild vegetables.

Li Mingdong didn't get a definite answer, so he turned his head and asked the servants standing behind him, "Do you know if picking wild vegetables is fun?" ”

A bunch of slaves: ."

He wanted to say that depending on the situation, if it was a famine to pick wild vegetables, it would definitely not be fun, and if it was idle and had nothing to do, it would definitely be fun.

"Dangla, you say!" Li Mingdong directly named him.

The little maid took a step forward and said with a smile: "Dong Gongzi, picking wild vegetables is fun." ”

Li Mingdong got the exact answer, with a look of anticipation, he looked at the main tent, and then at the sun in the sky, obviously a little impatient.

Before going out, Xia Jing asked the maid to bring a handkerchief to wrap the hair on her head, looking for wild vegetables is different from catching the sea, there are branches in the mountains to hook the hair, and I am afraid that insects will fall on the head, and it is most convenient and safe to wrap the hair with a cloth.

Coming out of the tent, Li Mingdong spotted her at first sight, and he ran over, "Ancestor, you are out, can we leave now?" ”

The other children ran one step behind and ran over.

Xia Jing rubbed his head and said to the children, "Let's go." ”

"Ou! Let's go! The children cheered.

In the tent next door, hearing the movement outside, Li Jingfu walked out of the tent with Anu.

He smiled at Xia Jing and patted the head of the eldest great-grandson, Li Mingtong, "Don't be too excited at this time, you will suffer later!" ”

Li Mingtong tilted his head and asked him: "Ancestor, picking wild vegetables is very bitter?" ”

"What do you say?"

"I don't know." Li Mingtong shrugged.

"You'll find out later."

Li Jingfu saw that Xia Jing had already walked to the front, and hurriedly followed.

Xia Jing first climbed the small hill to check the cleaning of the road, not to mention, the original vegetation on the mountain was flourishing, and it was much easier to walk after being cleaned up.

Many trees on the mountain have been cut down and thrown on the side of the road, presumably because they will not move them to the construction site until the houses are to be built.

Vegetation such as tree branches and weeds cut down from the road surface can be used as firewood when it is dried.

At the foot of the hill is a basin that stretches to the edge of the freshwater lake, which sits in the middle of the basin.

"If this area is cleared, it is the best place to build a city at present."

Xia Jing is very satisfied with this basin, the city is built, and the remaining areas of the basin can be cultivated into fertile land, and the lake water can not only be used for residents to drink, but also can be used to irrigate fertile land.

Li Jingfu was also satisfied with this place, and he waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go down and see if the land in this basin is fertile." ”

If fertility can be cleared, plant crops first.

From the top of the hillside to the basin, the vegetation in the basin is more lush than in the mountains, as can be seen from the weeds that have been cleared out and piled aside.

On the ground that was cleared, in addition to the firewood piled up, Xia Jing also found orange melons piled together, she thought she was dazzled, but when she got closer, it was really a pumpkin.

Some of these pumpkins are all orange, some orange is mixed with cyan, they are all old pumpkins, and they are very large, flat and round, the original variety, which has not been improved by later generations.

Later, pumpkin was introduced to the Central Plains, and it seems that it was brought in from the south, so it is called pumpkin, is the origin here?

Although Xia Jing was puzzled, she was now unable to investigate, and what was in front of her was the fact, she found a pumpkin in Oceania in another time and space.

Perhaps, there are other varieties of vegetables in this basin, but no one has found them.

"What is this? Looks so peculiar? Li Jingfu saw Xia Jing's face with both surprise and joy, which made him very curious.

Xia Jing looked back at Li Jingfu and the children who came over, and pointed to the mountains of pumpkins with a smile, "This should be a kind of melon, I once saw it in a book, it can be edible, it can be used as food to fill the stomach, and it seems to taste good." ”

"Can it be used as food?"

When Li Jingfu heard this, he was shocked, he didn't care if it was good or not, he only noticed that it could be used as food, you must know that their fleet came here from Dayu, and what they lacked most at present was food.

After all, more than 100,000 people consume a lot of food every day, and the food carried by the fleet is limited after all, and there will always be a day when it will be consumed, and self-reliance or finding new food is the most important thing.

Otherwise, the hundreds of thousands of people brought in would really come to be primitive people.

Xia Jing nodded excitedly: "Well, let the gang cook melon porridge in the evening, so that everyone can taste the taste of this melon." ”

Living in Dayu for many years, Xia Jing has always paid attention to whether the foreign ships in Lingnan have brought back strange seeds, and no pumpkin seeds have been found, and there are no pumpkin seeds in her space.

Now that I think about it, pumpkins originated here, and it should be that the seafaring Xiyi people have not yet discovered this continent, after all, the existing shipping routes, the Xiyi people prefer to cross the Strait of Malacca, sail along the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Gulf, all the way to Africa and then to South America.

The continent of Oceania, on the other hand, was not on their intended route, and was later discovered by navigators by accident.

Li Jingfu listened to her words, and after being happy, he was worried: "Xia's, can this melon really be eaten?" In case you don't, let's wait until someone tries the poison. ”

Xia Jing raised her eyes, looked at him, thought for a moment, and waved her hand: "Okay, let's arrange it now, and let everyone taste this melon in the evening." ”

When Li Jingfu heard this, he saw that she still hadn't changed her original intention, and she had to eat this melon at night, so he glanced at her helplessly and asked Anu to arrange it.

The children were more curious than the adults about whether the melon was good or not, and they turned around the mountains of pumpkins in surprise.

"Ancestor, is this melon delicious?"

"You'll know when you taste it in the evening."

"Now that we have this melon, do we still need to pick wild vegetables?"

Xia Jing saw that many pumpkins had been cut down by the soldiers who were cleaning up the vegetation, so she said to Ye Fei: "Let them collect this kind of melon, don't cut it down, it can't be saved if it's rotten." ”

After instructing Ye Fei, she turned her head and beckoned to the children with a smile: "This basin should be a cornucopia, let's go, let's walk around again to see if there are any edible wild vegetables." ”

Not to mention, this basin is really a cornucopia, they saw a group of soldiers wielding hoes, and walked over to find that the soldiers were digging sweet potatoes.

"This is a sweet potato?" When Li Jingfu was in Lingnan before, he had seen sweet potato vines.

The reason why I saw it was because when Xia Jing was in Lingnan, she even planted sweet potatoes in the flower beds in the yard.

At this time, looking at the sweet potato vine thrown aside, he was a little unsure, because the rhizome of the sweet potato vine was long, which looked different from the sweet potato grown in Lingnan.

Xia Jing picked up a white-skinned sweet potato and looked at it carefully, and broke it into two sections, there was white sweet potato pulp oozing, and this sweet potato has white skin, white flesh, and a purple circle under the white skin, which is a very beautiful original variety.

At present, the sweet potatoes produced in Lingnan are the seeds that Xia Jing took out of the space, and the sweet potatoes are hybrid varieties that have been cultivated by later generations, with high yield and improved taste. Nature cannot be compared with this original variety.

"This should be sweet potatoes, but they are different from the varieties we grow, these are only grown in the wild and lack of fertility, so they grow slender and not strong enough."

Hong Fuzhong commanded people to cut down trees in another area, and found that Xia Jing and they were coming, he ran over and heard Xia Jing's words, so he confirmed: "The master is right, this is sweet potato, but the variety is different, at noon, his subordinates let people roast a few, tasted it, it tasted good, the powder was glutinous." ”

If he didn't confirm it, how could he have ordered people to dig sweet potatoes here.

As soon as the children heard that the flour was glutinous and delicious, they instantly came to their senses, "Ancestor, is this sweet potato better than the one you eat in the capital?" Shall we try it? ”

Xia Jing poked Li Mingdong's forehead with her index finger, "Why do you always remember to eat, you should not have been hungry since you were born in the palace, why do you think about eating everything." ”

She asked him to pick up a few and bring them back if he wanted to, and asked someone to cook them for him before he could eat them.

When a few children heard this, they hurriedly asked their little servants to pick a few and put them in the basket.

Finding two things to make into, Xia Jing did not look for them again, but went to the brick factory at the foot of the mountain.

The brick factory has just cleared out the ground, and many people are digging pits to shovel away the humus on the surface, exposing the loess in the ground before it can be used to make bricks.

To make bricks, it is necessary to dig mud, dip in mud, mud, make bricks, and finally fire.

Although these processes are simple, they are physically demanding and hard.

If you want to build a city, bricks and tiles are an indispensable building material, so if you want to build a large number of houses, you must first fire a batch of bricks.

Fortunately, this time he brought out hundreds of craftsmen from all walks of life, otherwise, it would be difficult for a single fleet to gain a foothold in the wilderness.

After checking the brick factory, Xia Jing did not choose a site for the cement factory, so she did not ask, but told Hong Fuzhong that when they opened up the wasteland, if they encountered rare plants they didn't know, they would come to her to ask her to see if they could find one or two vegetables from it.

Of course, you can't rely on wild vegetables, let people reclaim some land tomorrow, plant vegetable seeds brought from Dayu, and I believe that there will be planted vegetables to eat in a month or two.

Li Jingfu has not suffered much since he was a child, he rushed to the sea in the morning, went to the basin in the afternoon and went around the basin, and complained bitterly after returning to the camp.

He was tired to death, and there was no time to stop every day.

It's not easy to survive in the New World.

Lying on the soft couch, he asked Anu, "You say, when can we go back?" I heard Xia Shi say that it will be a few months before he returns, and I don't know when I will be able to live in a comfortable house here, so I have to live so hard every day, it's too difficult! ”

This night, it was not only Li Jingfu who said that it was difficult, but also the two ladies of the palace who were also miserable.

They are pampered, and the people who grew up in the splendid piles have suffered like this, and in their eyes, life here is like a wild man.

This is a separation, obviously exile!