Chapter 414 [The path by the river]
Fang Chang suddenly interrupted and said with a smile: "When I was traveling north and south, I learned a few skills by chance, but I am not afraid of monsters. You tell me the place, and I will drop by tomorrow to have a look."
The guys at the same table only thought that he was bragging after drinking, but they didn't take it too seriously.
But Bai Jing still said: "Walk two miles north from Mushroom Village, and you can see a river. Go east along the river for more than two miles, and you will find the small temple. Originally, there was a path by the river, but it snows heavily in winter. , everything is covered up, so it should be impossible to find it.”
Fang Chang nodded and wrote down.
Then Wu De, who was next to him, took everyone to drink together, and a new topic started: "A few days ago, under the order of Boss Bai, I went to Qiuming Town to recruit people, and it went very smoothly. Many people there expressed their willingness to Come here secretly, but it still needs time to arrange."
Bai Jing took the mutton with chopsticks, chewed it carefully and said:
"At that time, my brothers will keep an eye on it. After all, the few pieces of land we have opened up by logging can only be used by skilled hands. The people in Mushroom Village are still good at hunting and fishing. Farming is such a thing. Son, it’s really hard to fix without someone.”
Fang Chang was a little curious, so he asked about it.
So several people explained to him in a hurry.
It turns out that Mushroom Village lives by fishing and hunting all year round, and occasionally grows vegetables and a very small amount of food. Before, it was very nourishing.
But now, with the population of Mushroom Village growing, hunting is becoming more and more difficult. Many larger and easier prey have gone far away, or the number of people being hunted has decreased. Even if the hunters in Mushroom Village strictly followed the rule of not catching nursing mothers and young animals, they could not stop this decline.
But the catches in the river, especially the fish that migrate in autumn, are not affected by hunting. So now in Mushroom Village, fishing in autumn has become the most important source of food throughout the year.
For the knowledgeable Shirai, this situation is very dangerous.
After all, the source of large quantities of food is becoming more and more single. Even under his suggestion, the people in the village have exchanged a lot of food that can be stored outside, but if there is any fluctuation in the fish in the river, the village will still starve.
So, as the leader, he asked the people in the village to join forces, and then started logging around Mushroom Village.
Several men told Fang Chang that although there are dense jungles growing here, the land under the trees is good, deep and fertile, and flat, very suitable for farming. There is a small river two miles away, and it is not difficult to open a small canal to divert water.
Even the good wood they cut down was sold. Of course, the price given by the merchant who came to collect the wood was a bit too low in Fang Chang's opinion. It is also easy to transport out. You only need to tie it into a wooden raft and throw it into the river.
But the reclaimed arable land made it difficult for the people in Mushroom Village.
After all, everyone is good at hunting and fishing. They rarely plant on weekdays, and they know nothing about tending the cultivated land. In addition, the seeds are also expensive, and the people in the village are afraid to do it. There is no other way, so Bai Jing has no choice but to think of going to the town outside.
It is said that it is under the rule of the government, and the harvest from farming on weekdays is not only returned to the landlord, but also handed over to the government, which is not as free as here.
So Wu De's solicitation was quite effective. Mushroom Village promised that as long as they came to farm, they would be treated equally with the people in the village.
His promise in Qiuming Town outside is that for the people who are willing to flee their tenants and come here, the distribution method of the village will be directly implemented, and no one will be hungry.
This condition is quite attractive to the farmers in Qiumen Town.
According to Bai Jing's plan, this winter, people who are willing to escape will be taken over, and they will be allowed to farm in the spring.
For the life in the next few years, the four members of Mushroom Village present are very hopeful.
When talking about the topic of everyone learning how to farm, their eyes were shining brightly. Shirai even suggested that in the future, when there is more food in the fields in the mushroom village, he should go to a distant place to invite a gentleman to teach the children in the lower village to read, so as not to lose money. I don't even know the name of the gods in it.
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The next day, the sun was shining brightly, and the snow surface was full of gold.
Fang Chang bid farewell to Bai Jing who had hosted him overnight, and walked out of the village.
They drank very late yesterday, so Wu De, who had just met in Mushroom Tun, was still drunk, so Fang Chang just talked to Bai Jing, who was not deeply drunk, and walked outside. He was going to continue walking north, looking for The last training hall for monsters.
Of course, he planned to visit the small temple first on the way.
From Mushroom Village to the north, after walking dozens of steps through the dense forest at the edge of the village, there is a very thorough land reclamation area.
The upturned land has only been simply leveled, and it looks bumpy. In the gaps that are not completely covered by snow, you can see a black fertile section with roots remaining on it, branching towards the sky.
I don’t know how much effort the people in Mushroom Village spent digging out the roots of the tree.
Of course, this is also a necessary step in order to reclaim arable land, otherwise the roots of the forest will be rooted in the ground, making it impossible to cultivate. This is also one of the reasons why this forest has been firmly rooted here for many years and has not been pleaded for farming by the people.
At the corner near Mushroom Village, there are a few small pieces of land that have been cultivated, and there are some radish sprouts left in it, mixed with the snow. It seems that this is the place where the residents of Mushroom Village grow vegetables.
The reclaimed area extends all the way to the small river.
Many tree roots piled high on the riverside. Due to too many gaps, the snow was not completely covered, and the curved tree roots were intertwined and intertwined. Fang Chang was in the Mushroom Village before, and saw that the fuel used by the people in the village was mostly made of these tree roots.
The cut trunks piled up into mountains, and the branches and leaves were simply removed. There were also a few pairs of half-punched wooden rafts thrown there.
Fang Chang leaned down and grabbed a handful of soil from the ground.
Sure enough, it is very fertile. In the words of an old farmer for many years, "you can almost squeeze out oily flowers", which is very suitable for farming. It is estimated that next summer and autumn, there will be a booming scene of food everywhere, of course, the premise is that Bai Tunzhu's solicitation plan is successful.
He cast a descaling spell on his hand and continued walking forward.
The small river was frozen hard. Due to the shallowness of the river, Fang Chang saw that the bottom of the river was frozen solid, and there was no undercurrent under the ice at all. There were fish in the ice that kept swimming and were frozen in place. Not far away, a fox even froze to death on the ice with its left front leg still lifted, as hard as the river below.
Fang Chang blew lightly, and lifted a piece of snow by the river, and there was indeed a path underneath, extending along the river.
Thank you Abyss level diver for your reward.
(end of this chapter)