fish street dad

In order to see the whole Fish Street conveniently, Lu Zhan led Bai Chunsheng to climb to the top of the mountain by detour from the hillside behind. Most of the mountains by the sea are not high, and it only took ten minutes to walk up this hill. Standing on the top of the hill, you can have a bird's-eye view of the whole Fish Street.

The newly built Fish Street takes the coastline as the horizontal line and presents a pattern of two vertical and eight horizontal. The two vertical streets provide four rows of pavements for the Fish Street. The one near the pier is more spacious and specially reserved for two The wide passageway where the bullock carts drive in opposite directions is clearly marked out for the purpose of transporting fresh fish. The one near the mountain is a little narrower, but the houses marked out on both sides are much more spacious. , There are already several houses built in that area, which should be the houses built by several sea monsters who went ashore.

"Princess, we also want to build a sea pond close to the shore and pour it with cement. If the sea tide rises in the future, it will not flood the fish street and the backyard." Lu Zhan pointed to a ditch that had been dug by the sea and explained.

"I almost forgot! Thank you for being careful." Speaking of the seawall, Bai Chunsheng said in surprise, it seems that people in this time and space have studied the safety of the coastline, otherwise there wouldn't be such things as seawalls.

"The concubine guessed wrong. It's not that the subordinates are careful. It's just that there are a few soldiers under the subordinates who used to live by the sea and participated in the construction of the local seawall. However, the limestone they used on the mountain is not as good as our cement. Sturdy and easy to use." Lu Zhan smiled, not greedy for merit.

"Remember to write down the rewards for them. In the future, if you come up with a good idea like this, which is beneficial to the military camp and Yu Street, you will be rewarded. It will be considered worthy of their good intentions." Bai Chunsheng instructed.

"There is one more thing that needs to be decided by the princess. Although this town is under the jurisdiction of Xincheng County, it still doesn't have its own name. It can't always be called the Garrison Wharf, can it? Name, my subordinates can report to the county government office to replace the household registration books for the people here."

"This is an important matter. How about this? Let me discuss with the prince, show him a few names, and choose a suitable one for you." Bai Chunsheng has never been an official in his life, and he never thought of building a town. There are so many cumbersome matters, what he didn't expect is that Lu Zhan can solve many things by himself without bothering him. Only in this way, if he really can't make a decision, he will ask him to make a decision. He is definitely a good employee who is considerate of the boss. .

"Then my subordinates will wait for the good news." Lu Zhan received a satisfactory answer. The person he sent to pick wild fruits nearby also came back. There were several kinds of fruits in the basket, which were washed and sorted with big trees. Lu Zhan carried the basket to Bai Chunsheng, pointing to him one by one: "I'm afraid the princess is thirsty all the way here. It just so happens that although the place looks barren, there are some delicious wild fruits on the mountain." .”

"This is called peach red honey fruit. It is the fruit of a cactus covered with thorns. Although it looks ugly on the outside, the pulp inside is very sweet. The local aborigines will peel off the skin of this fruit, mash the pulp, and take it Come to make sauce, children like to eat it very much.”

"This is a yellow lantern fruit, and there is also a red lantern fruit, both taste similar, and that kind is not as sweet as this one."

"This is a bitter plum. It is a bit bitter when you first eat it. After chewing it for a while, you will feel sweet. It is very good for quenching your thirst. When your subordinates see the local aborigines going to work, they will bring some bitter plums. When they are thirsty, they will chew a few bites. But if you eat too much, it will hurt your spleen and stomach, Wangfei, let's have a taste."

As Lu Zhan introduced, Bai Chunsheng took the fruits and tried them one by one. Except for bitter plums, he had eaten the other two in his previous life. One is the fruit of cactus, and the other is also called yellow lantern, both of which belong to the relatively small crowd. , but semi-wild fruits with relatively high nutritional value.

However, probably due to the large temperature difference between day and night at the seaside, the wild fruits here are also sweeter, especially the bitter plums, which are a bit bitter when you first bite them down. It was getting sweeter and sweeter, and it was especially thirst-quenching. After Bai Chunsheng ate one, he wanted to eat again, but Lu Zhan even snatched the basket back.

"My concubine's forgiveness, it's not that my subordinates won't let you eat more. It's just that the prince has an order to order my subordinates to take good care of the concubine's food and daily life. Don't neglect it. If the concubine likes to eat these bitter plums, I will wait for my subordinates to find some natives. , use these bitter plums to make some candied fruit, then the princess can eat it every day."

"Okay, you've made up your mind." Bai Chunsheng put down his hand that was reaching out to the wild fruit embarrassingly, pointed to the large uncut coconut grove behind and asked, "What is that place reserved for?"

"Returning to the princess, that place was specially ordered by the prince to be left by his subordinates. From now on, part of it will be used as a separate courtyard of the palace by the sea, and part will be used as the workshop of the Bai family. Now we can dry the salt by ourselves. The sea salt that is dried The cost is lower than that of boiled rock salt, and in the future, the inexhaustible and inexhaustible seafood can be made into marinated seafood, and cities far from the seaside should like this kind of seafood very much.”

Lu Zhan was probably brainwashed by the two fathers of the Bai family. He was obviously the general in charge of the garrison, but now he is full of business experience. It would be a pity not to do business.

"Then let's go down and have a look, it's too far away, it doesn't look real." With no wild fruit to eat, Bai Chunsheng simply decided to go down the mountain to have a look. After all, he has been away from Fish Street for so long, and he also misses the place where he used to live. .

On the way down the mountain, Bai Chunsheng saw many local children wearing fish skin culottes and jackets, carrying baskets bigger than their bodies and picking up things on the ground. Seeing his curiosity, Lu Zhan explained with a smile——

"They're picking moss from the ground."

"What do you pick moss for?"

"I don't know the princess. This moss is a kind of food unique to the sea. Don't look at it as it grows inconspicuously on the rocks. The local mountain people pick it back, dry it, grind it with a stone mill, store it, and eat it. At this time, take a bowl of thick noodles and half a bowl of this moss. After stirring well, spread them on a large pan made of rocks like we spread pancakes. Make a lot at a time. When eating, take out a few pieces and put them in the cauldron. Let’s heat it up, wrap it with their homemade fruit sauce, and a kind of sauce made from small crabs, it tastes really special.”

"There are human tribes here?" Bai Chunsheng was surprised. He thought that after the scourge of the bird demon, there were no human beings living in this area.

"There are, but not many, and these sea people don't cultivate the land, but they are very good at catching fish in the sea, and they will exchange the fish and other villages for food and animal skins, but since the bird monster came After here, there are fewer and fewer tribes that can exchange prey with them. The princess just saw that those sea people wore fish skin dresses and ate coarse wheat noodles mixed with moss and fish. After arriving here, they asked the people below to exchange some food with them, and then they dispelled their fear of outsiders like us and continued to live here, but they still refused to leave their tribe." Lu Zhan sighed.

The aborigines here are probably frightened by the bird monster, and their garrisons are either monsters or half-monsters, and they have attracted a group of sea monsters to settle ashore. For the sake of food, right?After all, before they came here, they probably had been out of food for a long time, otherwise they wouldn't even have eaten moss.

"It's okay, as long as they continue to live here, when our fish street becomes prosperous, they will gradually get used to the life at the bottom of the mountain." Bai Chunsheng didn't bother to ask where these people lived. A small village with dozens of people is not a problem at all. Maybe those adults are still a little afraid of the outside world because of the past, but just look at the children in front of them. When they grow up, they will definitely yearn for the world below the mountain. .

At that time, no one can prevent them from blending into the bustling world below the mountain.

Walking down the path halfway up the mountain, I happened to come to an alley in the residential area. This alley is not open to traffic, but three people can pass in parallel. There are separate side doors on both sides of the house. Through the drainage ditch, through the alley, the first commercial street is outside.

He ran into an acquaintance head-on.

"Uncle Ao?" The one who opened the door and came out, isn't it the lobster essence?

"Oh! It turned out to be the nephew of the old Bai family's princess! Come in! This is my new house. I was planning to go to the sea to invite some old friends from the neighborhood to my house. You just came, so we will come to the house together in the evening Shall we eat?" Crawfish Jing warmly invited, he is very satisfied with the new place he lives in now, and he is also very grateful to the Bai family who helped him to settle ashore, "I wanted to invite your two fathers to my house as guests, but it's a pity that the family I don’t have anyone to serve me yet, so I want to catch some humans around here to help with the housework when I have free time, and I don’t know where there are human settlements in the village..."

Bai Chunsheng and Lu Zhan looked at each other, and they were sweating profusely. They just told those mountain people not to be afraid of the monster clan, when the crayfish came out and slapped them in the face.

Lu Zhan was not familiar with crayfish. In the end, it was Bai Chunsheng who wiped off his cold sweat and tried to persuade him, "Why should Uncle Ao go catch it himself? I have many prisoners of war there, and I will send a few to serve Uncle when I turn back, Uncle The family life is rich, and it is their blessing that they come to serve you."

I can only take the captives as the top of the vat, Bai Chunsheng sighed inwardly, fortunately those prisoners of war are very happy as long as they can eat enough, many of them have no homes, so sending them here is a good way out, after all, The crayfish spirit was originally a local tyrant, but he wasn't so cruel that he wouldn't give food to others.

"Oh, I see. Your father told me that the wealthy families on the shore all want to buy or hire people to do work at home. Did you buy or hire?"

"Hired!" Bai Chunsheng hurriedly fought for the human rights of the captives. Hiring a worker sounds better than selling yourself as a slave.

"Haha~ It's fortunate that I exchanged some silver with your father before, otherwise I'm afraid I can't even pay the monthly salary for hiring people, so why don't you send some over here, is there anyone who can cook?"

"This...should be there, I'll go back and let them look for it." Bai Chunsheng wiped off his cold sweat, and decided to train a few people who can cook as soon as they go back. These sea monsters are really scary.

"That's really going to trouble you, come in and sit down, I'll boil some hot water." Crawfish Jing hurriedly turned around and went to the kitchen.

"Don't be too busy, Uncle Ao. General Lu and I are going to inspect the construction progress of Yu Street. You can go to work first. I will definitely come for dinner!" Bai Chunsheng looked around and found that there was not even a teacup in the home of Crawfish Jing. No wonder he was so anxious that he wanted to arrest someone to help him at home, he didn't dare to bother him anymore, so he hurriedly left with the excuse of busy business.