After going down the mountain, everyone drove the ox cart back. Because there were too many wood and mountain goods loaded, the speed of traveling was very slow. Everyone had to tie a rope and help a few old ox pull the cart together. Finally, they returned to the White Sand Castle at dusk!

The old, weak, women and children who were left behind had been waiting outside the gate for a long time. They were trembling with coldness and still refused to go back to the house to keep warm. Seeing that the team was back safely, they immediately rushed up cheering!

"I'm back, everyone is back safely!"

"It's great to bring back a lot of wood and mountain goods!"

"Woooooo!"

Although the people who go into the mountains to log wood are risking great dangers, aren’t these people who stay at home worried?

Now that I have returned safely, I finally feel relieved, and some people even started crying!

Next, the team entered the fort and distributed the wood and mountain goods to everyone. With these things, they could support them for a while.

However, when distributing the wood, Xue Yu specially left behind more than a dozen half-decaying wooden troughs, moved them into his residence, and placed them next to the fire pit!

I found a tool again, drilled many small holes on it, took out the collected dried mushrooms, rubbed them, stuffed them into the small holes, covered them with a small amount of soil, and poured some clean water!

My partner naturally doesn’t understand such a strange behavior!

Xue Yu didn't explain, but just told his friends to warm the kang and water the wooden pier every day. In a few days, there will be something delicious.

The first time I entered the mountain was safe and sound, which gave the military households great courage. In the days that followed, the team of the White Sand Castle went into the mountain to cut down and collect it many times. Every time I returned safely and full of loads!

So, people became bolder. In order to collect more mountain goods, they went deeper and deeper each time, and even went to the eastern mountains several times, hunted several times, and got a lot of prey, and were also safe!

The military households were even more relieved now. Some people thought that the fairies in the Red Stone Mountain had left here!

Some smart people also believe that there are no fairies in the mountains, and those who have caused trouble before should be some kind of beast!

In wild cases, tigers can usually live for twelve years, leopards can live for fifteen years, and the one who can live for the best is blind bears, only about twenty years!

Now twenty-five years have passed, even the most powerful beast is about to die. Perhaps after a while, its corpse will be found in a cave!

In that case, the secret in Red Stone Mountain can be solved.

Unlike everyone's optimistic attitude, Xue Yu has always been cautious because there is a feeling in the dark that tells him that there is indeed a terrible existence in the mountains!

Now, it is sleeping, and once it wakes up, it will definitely eat bloodthirsty.

At that time, a life-and-death battle will take place.

But, Xue Yu doesn’t have the energy to explore now because he has more important things to do!

"Boss, have mushrooms grown on those wooden trunks?"

"It really grew?"

"Really, there are so many!"

"Haha, okay, we have something to eat now!"

After being placed indoors for more than ten days, clusters of small white mushrooms really grew on the wooden pier placed by Xue Yu, densely packed, almost covering the wooden pier.

Pinch the next one and put it in your mouth to taste it, and it has a special umami flavor!

Mushrooms are a good thing, delicious, rich in vitamins and cellulose, and long-term consumption can also improve human immunity!

The most important thing is that mushrooms are easy to plant and have a very short growth cycle!

For example, if the straw mushrooms grown by Xue Yu are well taken care of, they will mature in more than 20 days and can be picked more than ten times a year!

The land near the White Sand Castle is barren and the grain produced is very limited. The military households are hungry all year round, and even starve to death!

When you are unable to change the environment, planting some mushrooms to supplement the lack of food is a good idea!

The rest was simple. After another seven or eight days, the first batch of mushrooms was ripe. Xue Yu picked them and gave them to the soldiers of the White Sand Castle to taste them from door to door!

In the cold winter, I received fresh mushrooms. Such a thing that goes against common sense, the military households naturally have to ask what the hell is.

Xue Yu invited them back to his residence, visited the wooden pier where he raised mushrooms, and explained in detail the methods of raising mushrooms in winter and various benefits!

The military households who had been worried about food rations immediately became excited. The next day, they organized a team and went into the mountain to get a lot of rotten wood back.

Every household's kang is covered with wooden trunks of mushrooms, watering them every day and caring hard!

That's not all. Grandpa Baihu also brought people to clean up all the empty houses and heated up the kang. He put wooden trunks on it, almost building the white sand castle into a mushroom paradise.

In the days that followed, the recipes of the military households changed consistently:

Morning: Mushroom soup, or mushroom porridge!

Noon: Stir-fried mushrooms, stewed mushrooms, mushroom meatballs, and mushroom stuffed buns!

Night: Dried roasted mushrooms!

As for the wild game I was embarrassed to make it into bacon and sell it to the market for sale, so that it could be replaced with cloth, salt, seasoning and other daily necessities. Therefore, the military households in the white sand castle could only eat mushrooms.

Mushrooms are indeed nutritious and delicious, but they can be eaten three times a day, and they will inevitably get tired of eating mushrooms!

First of all, the children in the White Sand Castle had anorexia, and they hid when they saw mushrooms, and even vomited when they saw mushrooms!

At this time, the old military households would carry the children's ears and teach them a lesson, and then tell them the tragic past, what kind of food they had no food in the famine years, they could only peel the bark, dig grass roots, and how many people had starved to death!

Now that I have mushrooms to eat, I dare to dislike them. I should close the door and stay hungry for a few days. It will be delicious when I eat shit.

As a result, after a period of time, the children in the White Sand Castle had their ears longer and they jumped around while walking, and their eyes were almost red.

The lesson has played a certain role, but the body can’t stand it when eating mushrooms every day!

Therefore, Xue Yu got some wooden pillows back and started to try to grow fungus, so he could change his taste for everyone!

I wanted to build a few more vegetable greenhouses, but unfortunately there was no insulation and light-transmitting materials, and the lack of vegetable seeds, so I had no choice but to give up!

However, Xue Yu secretly vowed that one day, he would build rows of winter greenhouses near the White Sand Castle and plant various fruits and vegetables!

At that time, if you want to eat cucumbers, you can pick cucumbers, and if you want to eat tomatoes, you can pick tomatoes!

But, tomatoes are native to South America and are now spreading to North America, Europe is slowly spreading, and it will be a long time before they enter China!

I have to think of a way to get more seeds in the future!

...

The sun and the moon pass by, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, winter passes, the earth begins to warm up, and all things revives, snakes, insects, rats and ants all drill out of the cave, and the people who have been dormant for a winter are also active.

Renovate the farm tools, take out the seeds, and replace the scalpers with new hooves, feed them to the fullest, and prepare for the spring plowing that is about to begin!

And a dozen days before spring plowing, Grandpa Baihu found Xue Yu again!

"What, let me lead the team to fight?"

"That's right!"

"The frontier is peaceful, who are we going to fight?"

"Yongxing Fort!"

"Intra-fighting, then why am I leading the team?"

"You are born handsome!"

When Xue Yu heard that he was going to fight, he was shocked. After asking, he understood the cause and effect!

After the Bailong River disappeared, the Kuye River became the most important water source nearby. In the northwest region, there is a lot of drought and rain all year round, so the farming can only be irrigated by the river water!

The problem is that the water level of the Kuye River is too low and the terrain on both sides is too high. It is impossible to irrigate the fields by digging canals and digging water!

But, between Baisha Castle and Yongxing Castle, there is a large area of ​​land that is relatively low-lying, which can be used to divert river water for irrigation. Therefore, it has bumper harvests every year and produces a lot of grain!

Of course everyone wants such a good piece of land, but it is located between two fortresses, so ownership has become a big problem?

In order to compete for this land, the military households of the two forts fought many times, and they were in chaos and bloody heads and even caused a life!

It’s really worth it to lose your life in order to plant a land, but the problem has to be solved!

So, after many consultations, the two sides came up with a good idea, which was to decide the ownership of the land by fighting, but it was not for adults to fight, but for the children to fight!

Near that land, there is a fortress left in ancient times. Although it has been through years of storms, it still stands tenaciously!

The specific method is that Baisha Castle and Yongxing Castle each produce thirty boys over ten years old and under fifteen years old, holding wooden weapons and using ancient barriers to fight an offensive and defensive battle!

The winning side can get 80% of the land.

The failed party can only get 20%!

This kind of battle is held once a year, and the time is set before spring plowing, while the White Sand Castle has lost for nine consecutive years.

There is no way, the population of White Sand Castle is already small, and there are even fewer boys over the age of ten and under the age of fifteen. Sometimes the number of people is insufficient, so younger children can only be sent!

On the contrary, Yongxing Castle has a large population and many boys can compete. In addition, practicing martial arts has become a trend, so it always has the upper hand in the competition!

As the failed party, the amount of land obtained is less, the food produced is less, and the population can naturally be raised is even less!

Because of the small population, I lost the game again!

Under such a vicious cycle, fewer and fewer people in the White Sand Castle and their strength became weaker and weaker.

But this year is different. The White Sand Castle has more than 100 children, and the number of people going to the battle is no longer a problem. There are also young heroes like Xue Yu, so it is no problem to choose the commander!
Chapter completed!