Bang!
The hoe was driven hard into the soil.
The old village chief Tam stood on one leg in front and glanced at the Stassen villagers standing in rows.
About fifty people, old men and women, were arranged neatly, with the breath of the New Year bursting out of their old eyes.
They carried various farm tools and held them tightly with their bony hands.
On a dirt road in the field not far away, seven or eight young children, under the care of Ni Liya, were blinking their big eyes and looking curiously at the scene in front of them.
Mother-in-law Emma didn't come, so some old people in the village were left to make fire and cook food.
On weekdays, villagers only eat breakfast and dinner to replenish their strength for work in the morning. Eating a little at night can reduce hunger and fall asleep.
Today, the village specially brought out some stored grain to prepare for a small celebration during the lunch break.
"Old fellows, distant travelers have brought us grain and vegetable seeds!"
“In two months we will be harvesting potatoes and have enough to eat every day!”
“In three months, we can use corn to pay the principal’s tax arrears, and we don’t have to live in fear anymore!
"In five months, all kinds of grains and vegetables will be mature, and Stassen can exchange the remaining grain for cattle and sheep with neighboring villages!"
"Cattle and sheep...?"
The young fat man mixed in with the spring plowing team blinked doubtfully and made a small questioning sound.
"Brother Fei, are there cattle and sheep here? I thought all the domestic animals in the other world were different from those on Earth."
A'Zhu rubbed his belly and couldn't help but get scared when he thought of the cuckoo bird.
I never want to experience the feeling of turmoil in my stomach just now.
"How do I know? I'm afraid it's just that the meanings of the names are similar, and the looks and taste are..."
Xu Fei curled his lips and finally understood why Lei Yin was so obsessed with food just now.
The food at your place tastes terrible...
Today's cracked eggs scared him, and the grilled cracked eggs at the end were even more amazing.
Mother-in-law Emma and Ni Liya's simplicity and kindness are touching. It is impossible to say the word "unpalatable" from their mouths.
But the feeling after eating it is really unbearable...
After the meal, while chatting with Grandma Emma, Xu Fei learned that the cockatoo was the most commonly bred poultry on the Leitings continent.
Cuckoos are omnivores, simple and honest by nature and do not fly high. They are short in stature, but they produce very large eggs.
Usually when they grow to about 100 days, they will start laying eggs. One to two eggs every three days, about five times the size of a normal egg.
Because this bird is highly adaptable to the environment, it is bred almost all over the continent.
The only drawback is that the bird meat is very unpalatable, so people only use it for laying eggs.
So, isn't the Cuckoo Bird the 'chicken' of the Earth Star? Xu Fei thought to himself.
The impassioned speech was finished.
Tam turned to look at the children on the roadside with a loving smile.
The other old people also looked over there, with moisture in the corners of their eyes. That was their only hope for survival.
But soon they hid their sadness, rolled up their sleeves and rolled up their trouser legs, eager to try it out.
"For the children! Spring plowing has begun!"
Tam shouted loudly, and with only one leg, he jumped towards the farmland first.
"Oooo!"
More than fifty old men and three young men held farm tools high in the air, shouted and rushed over.
Go down with a hoe and dig into the ground for more than half a foot, and dig out the soil to the right side.
Xu Fei and others carried out the reclamation work very unskilledly.
They were assigned a farmland that had been cleared of weeds, and the three of them worked on it together.
Other ordinary villagers are responsible for two plots alone, and weeds need to be pulled out before reclamation.
How can Chief Tam have the nerve to really let his guests work?
It was only because Xu Fei and the others persisted that they made such an allocation.
Although the three young men were clumsy but strong, they quickly turned over an acre of soil.
Xu Fei approached the village chief, Tam, who really had no experience in farming, so he asked to take on more weeding work.
Around one o'clock in the afternoon.
Reclamation has been slow because much of the farmland has been abandoned for so long.
A group of old people gradually began to breathe heavily.
I saw a group of old women carrying food baskets appearing in the direction of the village entrance.
Tam put down the hoe and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
He smacked his palms twice and greeted everyone around him: "Old guys, come over and have a rest. Dinner is ready!"
A sumptuous lunch was placed on the ground, and everyone gathered around it.
Today's staple food is custard made from cockroach eggs and roasted taro?
Dishes include braised field mouse, boiled cockroach eggs with cabbage, wild vegetable cockroach egg salad and charcoal-grilled double-headed jumping fish.
It's just that the size of the field mouse is close to that of a suckling pig, and the so-called taro is actually about the same size as a small pumpkin.
As for the jumping fish... why is it two-headed? It looks really hard to swallow.
The old women brought dishes and rice, the children brought sweet river water, and everyone ate happily.
Only the three of them, Xu Fei, had expressions that were sometimes laughing and sometimes distorted.
Their blood-red eyes widened, and they were fighting against their instinctive physiological reactions.
Sure enough, Cang and Xu Fei guessed correctly, it wasn't just about the Cuckoo Bird.
All the food in this world is so terrible!
Xu Fei gritted his teeth and poured food into his mouth in a daze without looking at the food.
He is trying his best to reduce the taste irritation by not making contact with his tongue, so as not to appear unpalatable.
But looking at the villagers...
The old men feasted and laughed from ear to ear.
The old women ate with gusto, saving the meat and secretly stuffing it for the children.
Cang and A'Zhu were dumbfounded.
In their eyes, food with the level of biochemical weapons tasted like delicacies in the mouths of the villagers.
"The taste systems of humans in the two worlds may be different..."
Cang made a simple summary, and A'Zhu nodded in agreement.
Xu Fei shook his head and had a different view.
What is the specific reason? He does not have enough knowledge to tell.
But I always feel it has something to do with the energy density of this world.
Because Leiyin and Longhushan both said that human beings come from a common ancestral land and were scattered throughout the universe due to the catastrophe six billion years ago.
In this case, even though a long time has passed, from the appearance point of view, everyone is still the same, and the basic structure of the body should also be the same.
Just like if a person has eaten raw meat since he was a child, he may not feel any resistance to eating raw meat.
Durian is also an example. Many people eat it for the first time and it tastes sour and disgusting, but after trying it a few times, they become addicted.
"There are cuckoos!"
Suddenly, a villager stood up and shouted.
People looked in the direction of his finger and found a snow-white ball squatting in a field not far away.
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