The Rise of a Farm Girl

The ship was built quickly, and many secret guards and bodyguards were arranged, and the people who would go out to sea with them were also arranged.

Two ships were loaded one after another and tied together with thick chains.

There was a lot of food and various dried vegetables on the boat, all wrapped in oilcloth, as well as a lot of food, clothing and daily necessities.

They also found many local fishermen who were willing to go out to sea to fish. Thanks to their generous wages, these people were willing to go on long sea voyages with them.

Everything was ready, the most important thing was fresh water. They prepared enough fresh water. Wang Jingru asked the people in the space to dig a big puddle and find a place with mountain spring water, and collected the spring water into the puddle in the space.

Enough mountain spring water was prepared, more than enough to last for decades.

Besides, there was not much water prepared in the space for those who were working, so it was just right to get more water this time. As for Wang Jingru's spiritual spring water, he was reluctant to take it out.

Originally there was a small river in the space, but there were many fish there and they were afraid they would get sick if they drank the water, so Wang Jingru had always brought mountain spring water from outside for them to drink.

This time there is no need to transport water back and forth. The water stored in the dug pit is enough for everyone to drink. The problem of fresh water, food, drink and clothing is solved.

They chose a good day and set out by boat, with a few small boats on board in case of emergency.

They brought a lot of weapons, fearing that they would encounter pirates at sea. They boarded two large ships and set off, bringing 20 villagers, 60 secret guards and guards with strong martial arts skills, plus Wang Jingru and his wife, and Xuanyuan Lei and his wife.

They sailed on the sea for more than ten days in a row. The weather was calm and they encountered no danger.

At this time, they had already left the territory of the Dayu Dynasty. They did not have a map of the sea and did not know what area this was. Xuanyuan Lei felt dizzy on his first boat ride and clung to the edge of the boat, vomiting bile.

Finally, Wang Jingru couldn't bear it anymore and forced some spiritual spring water into his mouth. After drinking the spiritual spring water, Xuanyuan Lei felt much more energetic. He went back to the cabin and lay down again.

Knowing that what Wang Jingru gave him to drink was good stuff, he just recovered a little and asked his wife to quickly give him some more. Wang Jingru didn't pretend to be hypocritical. This was at sea, and she had to take good care of her body.

Wang Jingru filled a cup of spiritual spring water and personally brought it to Xuanyuan Lei. She was afraid that her sister-in-law would spill it. That would be a waste of her spiritual spring water.

Xuanyuan Lei drank another cup of spiritual spring water and felt like he was alive again. He also gradually adapted to life at sea and no longer suffered from seasickness.

After sailing for several days, they found a small island ahead, but there were many reefs on this side and their ship was too big to approach. They could only change direction and stop at the island.

The big ship was parked near the island, and enough people were left on board to guard the ship. The rest of the people went to the island, and Wang Jingru followed Wu Tianyang. The two of them walked around the island and found that there were people living on it. The island was not small.

But there don’t seem to be too many people living on the island. There are dense trees on the island. I wonder if there are any large wild animals. If there are, I guess they are not small. After all, this is an island and there is no one living on it, so it is very suitable for wild animals to grow.

Xuanyuan Lei did not let his wife get off the boat, for fear that she might encounter danger. Xuanyuan Lei followed Wang Jingru and the others and walked towards the depths of the island.

After passing through the dense woods, we saw a cave with signs of human activities outside the cave.

When a few people were about to walk over, they saw two people really walking out of the cave. These people were very short, and they were shirtless.

There is a piece of leather wrapped around its lower body, which looks like snake skin if you look closely. Judging from the width of the snake skin, the snake is quite thick, and even the thread must be about 40 centimeters thick.

Several people felt very strange. The key point was that this man was so short, how could he kill the big snake? Could it be that they had another expert?

Just as they were thinking about something, they were discovered by two dwarfs who had just come out of the cave. They were only about 1 meters tall.

Wang Jingru saw that the two dwarfs had discovered them, so they didn't hide and walked straight over. The dwarfs screamed towards the cave. Maybe it was their language, but none of them could understand it.

Soon, more than 1 people came out of the cave, both men and women, all more than 1 meter tall. The women were shorter than the men, some were less than meter tall, and all of them held bows and arrows.

They were not panicked when they saw the people coming, as if there were other people visiting their island frequently.

These people put on their bows and arrows, ready to shoot at any time. At this time, an old man came out of the cave. The old man had a long white beard and was leaning on a cane. The people standing outside the cave automatically made way for the old man.

When Wang Jingru and the others came over, the old man spoke, "What are you doing on this island?"

Or what is your purpose for coming here? We don't have what you are looking for here. This is just an island. We have lived here for generations, and outsiders are not welcome here.

Please leave as soon as possible. After listening to what the old man said, the dwarfs all nodded vigorously.

Wang Jingru stepped forward and said, "Old man, we have no ill intentions, we are not bad people, and we don't want to get anything from your island. We are just passing by here and saw an island so we went ashore to rest. We will just rest for one night and leave."

The old man saw that Wang Jingru was a woman, so he became less hostile to him. But he still said seriously, I hope you can leave here as soon as possible.

Wang Jingru nodded quickly and said, "We will, thank you, old man." Wang Jingru wanted to follow the old man to find out some things about the island.

The only option was to take out something to exchange with them. Wang Jingru said, "Wife, we have rice and flour on the boat. I wonder if you have anything to exchange with us."

When the old man heard the words rice and flour, his eyes lit up.

They used to exchange some rice and flour with people on land, but the ore they mined became less and less, and the rice and flour they exchanged also became less and less.

They survive on sea fish every day and have not eaten rice or flour for a long time.

The old man asked tentatively, "How much rice and flour do you have? What do you want to exchange for it?"

We don’t have anything else here, but we do have some minerals, Wang Jingru said, why don’t you take some out and let us see how much you can exchange for?

When the old man heard what Wang Jingru said, he knew that they had no idea that there was such a shiny mineral on their island.

The old man asked the people around him to get two pieces. He said that this kind of ore is very difficult to mine because it is too hard.

The people in our tribe work day and night to mine, but can only dig up a few pieces of ore.

Wang Jingru understood what the old man meant. The ore was difficult to mine, and if the exchange for rice and flour was less, he would not do it.

Soon the people who took the ore came back. When Wang Jingru saw the ore, her eyes lit up. What kind of ore is this? Isn't this a diamond? Moreover, the diamond is red and green. This kind of chicken blood stone diamond is the most precious.

Wang Jingru said to the old man, "How much ore do you have? How much food do you want to exchange for? Just tell us the number. If we have that much food, we will exchange it with you. If not, forget it."

In Wang Jingru's opinion, these two large diamonds could be exchanged for a shipload of food. But you can't think like that, after all, this is on the sea.

Transportation is difficult and food is very scarce. So, I want to hear how much the old man is going to exchange.

After a while, the old man asked someone to bring all the ore in. He said that we used to be able to exchange one basket of ore for two baskets of food, but recently the ore mining was less, so we did not go out to exchange for food.

Wang Jingru said, "Uncle, your ore is very precious. This kind of ore is very precious on the land outside. It is impossible to exchange one basket of ore for only two baskets of grain."

How about this, I don't have much food with me, but I can still exchange some ore with you. Wait for me to get the food, and then I'll come back to exchange it with you.

After hearing this, the old man wondered if he had been deceived all along.

So the old man nodded, and Wang Jingru and the others left and returned to the boat. Wang Jingru put the food in the space into the cabin, more than 3,000 kilograms, and asked the guards on the boat to pack the food in bags. They carried the food and followed him to the cave. There were a total of 30 bags, and each bag contained about 100 kilograms.

There were about 20 bags of rice and bags of flour. The old man was stunned when he saw so much food.

They have been exchanging food for so many years, but never so much.

Every time they were reluctant to eat, they only gave some rice porridge and noodle soup to women who had given birth and children who had just turned one year old. This amount of food was enough for them to eat for several years.

Not only the old man was excited, but everyone else in the cave also came out, including the elderly, children, women and young men.

They don't speak Mandarin, so I don't know what they are saying. They seem to be singing and dancing in circles on the ground.

But then the old man became worried again. They only had ten baskets of ore, but dozens of bags of grain. The old man felt that these ore were not enough to exchange for grain.

Afraid that Wang Jingru and the others would not exchange with him, the old man said, "We have very little ore. Can you stay here for a few days? Let our people mine day and night, and then we will mine some ore for you."

Wang Jingru said, "Wife, you have enough ore. Ten baskets are already a lot. If we come back and pass by here again, we will exchange some ore with you." The old man was very excited when he heard this, and he led all the tribesmen on the island to kowtow to Wang Jingru.

Wang Jingru asked people to carry all the ten baskets of ore onto the boat, and then she asked people to get some meat and some dried vegetables. Most importantly, she asked people to get more rice.

I will cook a meal in front of the tribe's cave and eat with them.

The old man also asked people to bring a lot of dried fish and some fresh fish that they had just caught at sea that morning.

There are also some kelp, crabs, and prawns. Wang Jingru likes seafood the most. But the people in these tribes are not good at cooking such things. They only use water to cook them. They have a natural freshwater lake.

Normally, we just need to get water from the lake. This freshwater lake is very large and has never dried up.

Wang Jingru also took a look at the freshwater lake, took out a hundred kilograms of potato seeds from the space, and handed them to the old man in his tribe, who could also be said to be the patriarch of the tribe.

Wang Jingru said, old man, these seeds are called potatoes. Plant them around your lake. When they are ripe, keep some seeds and boil the rest directly in water.

Although this kind of food is not as delicious as rice and white flour, potatoes can also fill the stomach. We people on the land all eat this kind of food.

Wang Jingru originally thought that she would have to spend some time talking, but she didn't expect that the tribe leader had exchanged this kind of food on land last time. After returning, she boiled it in water and ate it directly. It was delicious and filling.

Wang Jingru said that if the old man's potatoes sprout or rot, they cannot be eaten.

If it sprouts, you can just break it into small pieces and plant it in the ground.

Wang Jingru also gave the tribe leader a demonstration and told him how to plant, what to pay attention to, and what to pay attention to on this island.

Potatoes are evergreen all year round and can be planted crop after crop.

Wang Jingru asked people to bring oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and made a sumptuous seafood meal. As soon as the seafood came out of the pot, it instantly attracted everyone in the tribe.

It smelled really good, but the pot was so small that not everyone could get a share. Wang Jingru, Fu Ya, Xuanyuan Lei, and Wu Tianyang, the four of them, filled the big plate, and the rest was given to the people in the tribe.

If the tribe leader hadn't shared the food with them, they would have fought. It was so delicious that Wang Jingru and the other four ate until their mouths were full of oil. It was so fragrant. Fu Ya said as she ate, "I didn't expect seafood could be cooked this way."

The seafood I ate before was all boiled in water, but this thing can be fried. Sister Jingru is really clever and skillful.

Looking at Wu Tianyang and Xuanyuan Lei, they were just concentrating on eating. They ate very quickly and finished the big plate of seafood in no time.

Feeling that they still wanted more, they decided to get up early tomorrow morning to pick up more seafood at the beach. They would let Jingru cook a big pot of seafood for them. They would eat until they were full.

The two of them had the same idea as the people in the tribe. They wanted to learn how to cook and how to cook this kind of seafood. They planned to get up early tomorrow morning to go to the sea and pick more seafood so that this beautiful woman could teach them how to cook.

After Wang Jingru and her friends had finished their meal, they strolled around the island. The tribe leader said, it was getting dark and they should not walk around because there were large wild beasts on the island. He pointed to the snakeskin skirts they were wearing, which was the big snake they had fought together on the island.

The animals on the island are very big. Even the rabbits are twice as big as those on land, and the wild boars are twice as big as those on land. So don't walk around randomly, because ordinary people on land cannot beat the wild beasts.

Although we are short, we are very strong. We can kill a wild boar with one punch. Otherwise, we would not be able to mine such hard ore because it is extremely hard.

It's all because of their immense strength. A one-year-old child on their island can lift dozens of kilograms of weight. You are just ordinary people, so don't walk around on the island. It's okay during the day, but it's very dangerous at night.

Wang Jingru was shocked when she heard this, and asked everyone to return to the boat and moor it farther away from the shore. She was afraid of the wild beasts and that they might destroy their boat again.

Wang Jingru’s idea was right. The boat was parked more than 20 meters away from the shore, and they were also afraid. After all, their shipbuilding technology was not that good. If they encountered pirate ships that were better than theirs, Wang Jingru would find a way to snatch them and take them for herself.