Doomsday foresight

Chapter 111

Within a few days after Jiang Chen came back, the snowfall became frequent. Taking advantage of the fact that the snow had not yet settled down, Yecheng started winter plowing. This time, the grain was planted in the outer layer, and the land in the inner city was used to grow vegetables. There were more and more people in the city, and the houses It is also taking up more and more space.

This year, because of the river, Jinxi and the others wanted to try growing rice. When they went to the south to look for seeds, Jinxi and the others also got a bag of rice seeds, but the summer was very hot. They didn’t grow rice here ten years ago. , now that the weather is hot, it is impossible to plant, but now it is better, and they have saved a lot of things with irrigation canals.

Jinxi remembers planting rice. He dreamed that it is now planted in the ground like wheat, and water will be poured into the ground in April and May next year. The water will not stop until mid-August, and the harvest will be in September. .

This method is a planting method in the south. It was not possible in the north, because even in April the weather is below zero, and the water in the fields will freeze, but now the water coming down from the mountain is running water and there are hot springs in it. , the ones frozen in the water may be much smaller, they can also give it a try.The left and right seeds have been placed for a long time, even if they are careful, most of them will be broken. After a successful attempt, there will be rice to eat, and if it is not successful, they will not want to.

After all the seeds were planted, it was already mid-October. After a week of heavy snowfall, the weather seemed to be getting colder. More than 200 people took refuge outside. Although there was not much time, the whole city worked hard and finally The roof was built before the weather became colder.

The ground roof is simple, basically a semi-underground structure, 100 meters long and eight meters wide, with a fire wall every five meters, and a house between the two fire walls. The house is divided into two parts, the inside is the kitchen and the bathroom, the kitchen It is about one meter shorter than the outhouse, and there is a flue through the flue wall and the outhouse floor. Because the fire wall and the outhouse are well ventilated, as long as the kitchen door is closed, the outhouse can hardly smell the smoke, and the floor of the outhouse is very warm and pleasant. It is also warm in the basement, separated by wind and fire walls, and the warmth in this room is almost the same as when there was heating in the past.It is even warmer than the old houses before. Those houses in the village that have collapsed also use this method to build houses, but they are bigger than them.

Such a ground house is enough for a family of four or five people to live in. If it is inconvenient, they can be separated by themselves, but it is a good thing to live in a warm house at this time.

The roof of the ground house is a wooden frame structure, and a kind of vine from the mountain is used, and there is no name. It should be a new species. Everyone is used to calling it green vine, which is just for convenience. When weaving it into things, and then putting it in a ventilated place to dry in the shade, the vine branches will be very strong. Earlier, the hunting team used this vine to drag their prey and found that it was very tenacious. Later, they found that the dried vine was very strong, not to mention not deformed. Later, when building a house, I was afraid that the beams, bricks and tiles would fall and people would be hit by the earthquake, so I tried this, but the heavy snow in winter did not break the vines, and even the house that was built with tiles during the earthquake All collapsed, but these vine roofs are fine.This time it was used to build a house.There are three layers of rattan boards on the roof, separated by corn poles and reeds in the middle, and several layers of straw on the outer layer, so that the house is warm and not afraid of rain or snow. Only the bottom layer of the roof is fixed It is very convenient to change the straw inside when the weather is good every year. The most important thing is that even if it breaks during an earthquake, it will not hit people.

Because reeds were found to be very popular with livestock as fodder, and the cattle and sheep they raised were very strong and fleshy. Before Jinxi left this year, he asked them to pay attention to the situation in the mountains and maybe they could find more useful ones.

Ye Qiu is a capable person. Originally, Jinxi paid attention to this matter even if he didn't mention it. After hearing Jinxi's words, he paid more attention to it. Apart from the vines he found earlier in the morning, he also found many good things in the forest. There are seven or eight kinds of them. Edible fruits. Fortunately, most of them evolved from the fruits in the mountains in the past, which makes the fruits taste better and bigger. There are two very good things that I have never seen before. One is the oil fruit that is fed to pigs to make lamp oil , this was discovered early, and now every oil and fruit harvest season has become an important day in Yecheng. The people in the city are divided into two groups, and they go out to pick them alternately. Not as good as in the forest.

The other is a milky-white fruit with the size of a fist, which is similar to a mango and has a black mung bean-sized core. This kind of fruit has a strange smell when eaten raw. At first, everyone didn’t like it, so they left it because of the fruit. There is a lot of juice, and children like to play with each other. This thing is soft and not painful when it hits people, but the milky white juice is all over the body. The children feel that they are cola, so they picked a lot.It was also a coincidence that the boy from Ye Cheng's family was five years old and his father used to let him go into the mountains to pick a lot. The kid was playing around at home and dropped the fruit into the meat pot, which stewed a milky smell.It was only later that everyone realized that this food tastes strange when eaten raw, but it tastes like milk when boiled. After peeling the boiled fruit, it looks like panna cotta, very sweet.Now there is no rice, and no rice porridge to drink, but add the wheat flour to the water pot, and then cut the fruit, peel it, crush it, and cook it together with the juice. The taste is really good.This fruit is called milk fruit.

As for the effect of this fruit, Zhang Cheng and Zheng Yuan don't have any special equipment and can't measure it. After observation, they found that this fruit is very good for people's skin. It is not obvious to adults, but the children eat it more and more, the fairer they become.Later, I found that this fruit is very useful for anti-sunburn. Take the juice from the raw fruit and apply it on the face in the sun, so you don’t feel so sunburned.Of course, the effect is better if you eat it. Now people are afraid of tanning not because people are tanned. In fact, who cares whether tanned people are beautiful or not? Today’s aesthetics have changed. Both men and women like strong ones. In an age of unrest, only being strong and healthy is the best criterion for choosing a mate.Beauty is secondary.

Everyone is afraid of the sun because when the sun shines, if you don’t pay attention, you will get sunburned and lose a layer of skin, and if you get serious, you will get fire poison, which will not last for a long time. , a large piece of skin is dead.Now this milk fruit can cure fire poison, and it is not good to eat some sun-baked when the weather is hot.Definitely the most requested thing.

It's just that it wasn't long after this thing was discovered, before sending some to the castle, Jinxi came back.

Those milk fruit trees grow together in small pieces. They have already taken a good view of one piece, and they will transplant some to the village in the spring of next year.

The weather is cold, and there is no work left. When everything is settled, the grain harvested this year will be distributed. Now Yecheng people have no shortage of food, and it is not so important to go hunting together, so it is only every week Send out a team to hunt collectively, and distribute the prey to the villagers.

In this way, the meat distributed by each family is less than before, but because of the lack of collective activities, the hunting team members have more time to rest, and they also organize private teams to go hunting, and only pay one-tenth of the prey they get. The remaining hunting teams in Yecheng share their own points, and most of them will exchange with everyone if they have any leftovers. Most of the exchanges now use points. With points, they can go to the Yecheng Service Center to exchange supplies. Now this kind of point exchange is very mature. , everyone agrees.Even those in the city who cannot go out to hunt can also earn points through labor.

Those who have just joined the outer city have no points or few points. If they want to exchange, they must rely on the materials they bring for physical exchange, or exchange those materials with Yecheng. Basically, these people will get used to this after a while. kind of exchange.

Vic organized a scientific research team. These people are specially selected people with some skills. They are now preparing to use the waterfall and flowing water of Dongshan to generate electricity. If they are done well, the power generation can also do a lot of things.

After returning home, Jinxi took a good rest. Before that, he was busy building the castle and defending against the enemy. Although he didn't feel it physically, he was very tired in his heart, especially the earthquake was not dreamed by him, but It was a premonition that had been produced a long time in advance, and it was really tiring to make a judgment without being sure.His body is not as good as other people in the city, and he has been skinny for the past two or three years.Grandma made up for him severely these days.

Jiang Chen is very busy. He is becoming more and more competent as the city lord. Although he doesn't need to worry about specific things, he needs to control the general direction. He needs to handle the political affairs of the base and train the army. Did not relax, Jiang Chen left the base to go outside and was trained by Company Commander Zhao. When Jiang Chen was free, he took turns to take turns to practice in the forest. His physical fitness was more than five times that of the strongest hunter in Yecheng today. At the beginning of the battle Brown bears were worse, but now it was very easy. The most powerful prey in the northern woods were brown bears and tigers. They were no longer a threat to him. Perhaps encountering wolves would cause him trouble.With him leading, we can train better and safer.