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Chapter 6 Milk Fruit

The valley that Ye mentioned is not far from the foot of the mountain.

But it is not the fruit that Xu Chen thought, but a plant.

This plant grows strangely, and looks similar to Clivia, with wide leaves, and one person in the middle is more than a taller than a stalk. However, there is a fruit ear similar to corn on the top, with many fruit particles growing on it, both white and red, and a thick shell is wrapped on the outside. When eating, you must bite the skin like melon seeds before you can eat it.

White is an immature seed. The shell is soft and has a very sour taste. The red ones are also not very good. The shell is difficult to peel off. Not only does it taste astringent and sticky, but it tastes very sticky. However, according to Xu Chen's judgment, this thing is really similar to millet and contains a lot of starch. It is suitable for planting, but the taste is not good and the yield looks a bit stretched.

Such a large area has grown a lot. Although it is wild, it is obviously specially protected by this group of savages. There are few thorns and weeds inside, which are a kind of collection crop that can be planted on the hillside.

Seeing Xu Chen grinning at the grin, Ye was a little ashamed. Then he pointed to the side of the mountainside, then gestured for a while, and made a tooth collapse action.

Xu Chen immediately understood that what she said was the kind of nut that almost broke her teeth last night.

When Xu Chen thought of the nuts, he felt sore in his teeth, and a stream of saliva could not be suppressed.

The taste is as sweet and rich as milk chocolate, and it is indeed a rare delicacy.

So the two of them walked through the plant and walked towards the side of the mountainside.

The road ahead is relatively difficult to walk, and the hillside is relatively steep, but fortunately, many vines are hanging down, and as long as you catch these vines, you can barely pass.

Xu Chen used to conduct field inspections and ran around the mountains. This kind of mountain road was not stressful for him. Unfortunately, his legs are a little lame now, so he could only carefully pull the vine and follow Ye slowly.

The hillside in front became steeper and steeper. Finally, what appeared in front of the two was a large steep rock cliff, covered with low shrubs of more than a foot high.

This plant is actually a vine similar to a creeper, but its leaves are very large. The climbing vines are rooted on the rocks, and a large area of ​​cliffs occupy the entire mountainside.

There are also a large number of flowers blooming, with golden and red colors intertwined and fragrant, attracting a large number of bees and butterflies to circle and fly, and the scene is spectacular.

Standing between this sea of ​​green leaves and flowers, you can't see the top when you look up, but you can vaguely see the canopy of a big tree, which seems to be the crooked tree covered with ancient vines and green fruits.

Below is a steep cliff dozens of meters high, and you can see a stream that penetrates the canyon.

Sure enough, the beautiful scenery is often in the most dangerous places.

This kind of plant and landscape will never exist on the earth.

And the most beautiful places are often filled with unparalleled crises.

Even though he had seen many mountain roads, he felt a little frightened at this time.

According to visual observation, the slope of this hill is more than seventy and extremely steep.

If it were before, he would definitely not be afraid. After all, he had a full pair of wild climbing equipment, hiking boots and pickaxes, and even a safety rope.

When Xu Chen thought of the safety rope, he felt very upset.

As the saying goes, it is best to pay attention to your next life if you are dying.

His death was because he was careless and did not hang a safety rope.

However, it was obvious that God gave him a chance to make up for it, but it seemed that he was also a warning to reborn him into this primitive era.

But today, he still has no chance to hang a safety rope because conditions do not allow it.

Even now I don’t even have a pair of shoes under my feet, so I can only barefoot. The only benefit is that these feet are covered with thick calluses, strong toes, and long hair in the instep, which is very durable.

The leaves carefully climbed the vines in front and slowly climbed up the steep slope, then carefully searched under the wide leaves. Soon they happily pulled down a heavy fruit, held the shank in their mouth, and slowly returned and handed it to Xu Chen.

This fruit is a circle larger than the fist. There is a layer of rough skin like durian on the outside, but a gap has been cracked. It is obvious that there are a few brown seeds inside, which should be the kind of nuts that I had knocked my teeth last night.

Xu Chen instantly understood why this fruit tasted good and nutritious, but why these savages didn't pick them in large quantities. Because it was too dangerous, he could only get one at a time. Once he fell into a cliff, he would definitely be crushed to pieces.

However, at present, he could only eat one or two of the delicious food, so he looked around and then his eyes lit up.

The reason why these savages can only get one at a time is that the seed coat outside this fruit is relatively large and difficult to carry, and there is no container in the bag to store, which makes it very troublesome to pick and transport.

There were many green vines hanging on the way we came just now. The vines were slender and flexible, and they could be used to weave a basket of rattans. This way, you can get more by climbing up one time.

So at Xu Chen's instructions, the two of them returned the same road and walked dozens of meters away, found a safer and flat place to settle down, then folded a few green vines on the hillside with chopsticks, and sat on the hillside to start weaving.

If rope rubbing is a basic skill in rural life.

Then weaving baskets is an intermediate skill. Basically, most middle-aged and elderly men will get a few strokes. If they are well weaved, they can rise to the ranks of craftsmen. However, compared with more advanced skilled jobs such as carpenters and bricklayers, they are a little worse.

Xu Chen naturally saw rural people weaving bamboo utensils, baskets, and baskets, which are essential for every household. Therefore, it is not too difficult to weave a basket with vines according to the gourd. The most important thing is that it does not require exquisite and beautiful woven. You only need to be able to hold this fruit that is larger than a fist to ensure that it will not be missed.

Seeing Xu Chen busy work, although the Ye was puzzled, he still diligently helped him to fold a lot of green vines from the hillside, clean the leaves on them, and put them neatly next to them.

Compared to rubbing ropes, it is indeed more difficult to weave a basket than to rub ropes. However, after all, Xu Chen has seen someone who runs a pig and knows the general procedure. He first uses a thicker base to make the tendons, and then uses thin strips to wrap them up one by one.

After more than ten minutes, the bottom of a basket with a diameter of about one foot was woven out. After getting to know it slowly, his movements became more and more smooth and fast. As the circles of rattans were intertwined, the prototype of a three-dimensional rattan basket gradually appeared.

The savage girl gradually became surprised and excited from the beginning of her confusion.

Because Xu Chen once again showed his magical creativity, he actually used the most common vines to make an artifact she had never seen before.

And it is easy to know its use, that is, to hold things.

Half an hour later, Xu Chen cut off the green vines, and at this time a complete vine basket had appeared in his hand. Although it was a crooked and ugly batch, it was indeed a container with functional significance.

For convenience, he also used Qing Teng to braid two shoulder straps like braids, which could be carried on the back like a basket.

"Come on, try it on your back!"

Xu Chen stood up, threw the picked fruit inside, and then signaled the leaves to turn around and hung the vine basket on her thin shoulders.

"Xiaga,#¥…"

The girl's excited voices trembled with her vine basket on her back.

“Do you feel uncomfortable?”

Xu Chen asked while helping her tidy up her shoulder straps, but it was obvious that this sentence was too complicated and exceeded Ye's understanding. However, she also understood the meaning of the question through Xu Chen's movements. She shook her shoulders back and forth a few times, indicating that it was very comfortable.

"I can pick more when I go up this time, so be careful!"

Xu Chen pointed to the steep hillside.

So the girl excitedly grabbed the green vine basket and ran away. On the edge of the steep cliff, the fur skirt was flying in the wind, and her black butt made Xu Chen's eyelids twitch.

A bare savage girl was carrying a crooked and broken vine basket, but she was as happy as a small beast on a cliff, full of nature and simplicity, exuding the primitive charm of the road.

...

One hour later.

Xu Chen and Ye each carried a basket of wild fruits, which he named Milk Fruit, back to the cave.

However, as soon as I walked to the front of the cave, I found several women quarreling, especially three pregnant women, who looked very excited.

A group of children had already come back. When they saw Xu Chen and the others, they immediately rushed to greet them with cheers.

When a group of women who were quarreling saw the rattan basket and milk fruit on their backs, they all stopped arguing and gathered together to watch.

"Come on, one for each person!"

Xu Chen put down the basket, then helped Ye put down the basket, took out a few pieces from it and divided one for each savage.

"Yew~~"

The children didn't care about the vine basket, they only cared about the food, and got delicious milk fruits. They immediately scattered and found a place to smash the stones.

A group of women were all around the vine basket, with rich expressions and emotional excitement. Ye was even more excited, and told the group of women that they had painted and told Xu Chen's magical creativity.

Xu Chen limped straight to the puddle with wild Tianqi.

There is nothing to study about the vine basket. The weaving is in a hurry and the handmade is rough. It can only be said that it can hold things, but the gap is large and crooked and ugly. He was embarrassed to take a few more glances. One of them was almost broken on the way back.

Compared to a simple vine basket, this precious wild Tianqi is the life-saving treasure.

Although this world is different from the once familiar world and the types of plants are very different, since there are such medicinal materials as Tianqi, there will definitely be more medicinal materials and plants I know. It’s just that the environment and climate are too different, which leads to too many plants I don’t know.

For example, this kind of milk fruit.

If it was placed in a familiar world, it would definitely be a kind of excellent nut. It would never have been heard of. The biggest possibility is that this thing is extinct.

According to the historical development process, the matriarchal clans still belong to ancient prehistoric civilizations, and there are still thousands or even tens of thousands of years before the true human civilization.

Although ten thousand years are just a flash of fingers for the earth and the universe.

But for the development of humans and nature, it is very long, and it is enough for species to produce several mass extinctions.

Not to mention the distant past, let’s talk about the prehistoric flood recorded by different civilizations of human beings. The disaster that swept the world and even led to the massive extinction of ancient humans and organisms occurred thousands or even tens of thousands of years later than it should be now.

The prehistoric floods took away not only human civilization, but also due to the long-term climate disaster that followed, the earth gradually became colder, a large number of species became extinct, and food was gradually scarce, which also forced humans to develop from the stage of hunting to agricultural civilization, so as to ensure the survival and reproduction of ethnic groups.

What can also be compared is that because Africa has a unique climate and natural environment and abundant food, when human races in other continents have entered high-tech civilization, the locals are still in the primitive hunter-gathering tribe stage, and they can't even make fires and weave cloth, or make pottery farms, and they still live a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood without any butts.

Therefore, the basis that influences the evolution of human civilization is the source of food.

When enough food is available without hard work, people become lazy.

For example, in the current tribe, women can only collect it to ensure that the entire tribe survives. Therefore, men are not diligent. They sleep well and eat enough to go out to hunt. They don’t know what they are doing all day in the wild. If they get something, they will be carried back with great pleasure. If they don’t get something, they will not affect their eating, drinking, and urinating. This is why women in matriarchal tribes have a higher status than men.

Because women can live well without men.

This is the paradise for female boxing fighters.

Of course, you can say that they are not enterprising, but you can also say that they are primitive and rich.

At present, because the land is vast and sparsely populated, the temperature is suitable, the variety of animals and plants, and the food is sufficient, these human tribes do not have enough evolutionary driving force.

But the satisfaction of the primitive man does not mean that Xu Chen is also satisfied.

After all, for him, it was far from enough to have food that could barely survive.

Not to mention mobile phones, TVs, car refrigerators and other unthinkable technological products.

At least you must ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing.

After all, collecting and hunting is not a long-term solution. In addition, he lived in a cave and slept in a grass nest in his previous life, never thought that he would have lived such a miserable life one day, and even his dogs had never been so miserable.

Not to mention the garden villa Simmons, at least the most basic living facilities such as large beds, pots and pans, towels and toothbrushes, and bathrooms and toilets are still needed.

In addition, eating and drinking enough, you can't use these rough calluses to satisfy yourself every day. There must be women...

Xu Chen turned his head and looked at a group of female savages who were talking excitedly around the vine basket with their breasts exposed. He couldn't help but tremble slightly and quickly took a few sips of cold water to suppress his shock.

Perhaps, being a single dog for life is also a good choice.
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