Survive through the ancient apocalypse

Today, the wind and the sun are beautiful.

During the autumn harvest break, Ye Mingze decided to take his younger siblings to the mountains to harvest the autumn.Since he came to the Daxing Dynasty, except for going up the mountain to chop some firewood from time to time, he has hardly walked around the mountain.In the novel, the protagonist can often find some species that have not been used in ancient times, and he thinks he can also try it out.

In fact, after a few months, he has already felt that most of the modern foods can be found here.He just wants to try his luck, he can meet the best, and he can collect some of the wild goods here without any extra gains, no matter what, there is no loss, right?

The back mountain is close to the village. In previous years, only children would go up the mountain to pick dried fruits and goods during the busy farming season.Due to the drought this year, the adults also took advantage of their free time to go up the mountain to work.When Ye Mingze remembered, there were only scattered fruits hanging on the branches in the back mountain.

The Ye family has a lot of fields, and the adults hardly have much free time. Even if they have, they should hurry up and rest to cope with the next work. Therefore, only the children in the family go up the mountain because they are greedy for fruit.

In recent years, the Ye family's granary has been abundant, and the mountain products picked by the children, and those that can be used as snacks, belong to themselves, not to the public.In previous years, there was no such treatment. A lot of mountain goods can fill the stomach, and the family can't let them go to waste.

This time I traveled a long distance, only boys and girls over ten years old came, and there were nearly ten of them in total.

The back mountain is not too high or too big, and soon, a group of people turned over.There are relatively fewer people harvesting autumn at the back of the mountain, and a little stuff is left for them who came later.

Ye Mingze and the others' goal today is the Ziqing Mountain Range. After passing the back mountain, they climbed over a few small hills and reached the edge of the mountain range.This place is not inaccessible. The hunters and young adults in the village come here to hunt from time to time, and human footprints can be seen everywhere.

The group was divided into two groups, the eldest cousin Ye Minghai led the first team, and Ye Mingze led the second team.

Once here, there are occasional beasts that hurt people.The children are usually strictly required, and they will never enter here without the guidance of adults.Usually, the uncle at home thinks that children are troublesome, so no one wants to take them.It's rare to come in today, they are all jumping around happily.Several brothers and sisters had to be distracted from time to time.

The smaller girls all ran to their favorite fruit trees, such as brocade lanterns, sand fruits, crabapple fruits, and blueberries.The resources here are actually quite rich.

Ye Mingze asked Mingxi and Mingjiang to pay more attention to his younger sisters, while he looked around.

Pine nuts, hazelnuts and hickory nuts are special products in the north, and they were discovered and eaten in the Daxing Dynasty.After everyone saw it, they spontaneously and consciously started picking.

After wandering around for a while, Ye Mingze didn't find any missing fish waiting for his visit.He simply found a walnut tree and stuffed it into the basket silently.

They went up the mountain after the dew harvested in the morning, and it took them almost half an hour to reach the edge of the Ziqing mountain range.After everyone was busy, it was lunch time.

Ye Mingze took out the oilcloth he had prepared earlier and spread it on a flat stone slab.The two teams took out dry food and boiled water, and started to eat lively.

There are few people here, and the group harvested very well in the morning.

"Brother, when will you come next time?" Ye Minghu was a little excited.

"Ten days and a half months at least. You've got a good idea, kid. When I let you carry your things on your back and walk the mountain road for half an hour, you'll know what's going on." Ye Minghai gloated at his second brother.

"Oh, why didn't I think of that!" Ye Minghu was very annoyed, he only thought about picking more mountain goods, but didn't think about how to bring them back.No, the more you gain, the more tired you will be when you go home?

Although Ye Minghu is 15 years old and often goes to the fields, he has never carried heavy burdens, let alone walked with heavy objects on his back for more than half an hour.

The other girls and boys also had bitter expressions on their faces.

Afterwards, the whole group was in pain and joy, while thinking about reciting less, and at the same time wanting to gain more.

"Ouch!"

"Little sister, what's the matter?" Ye Mingze quickly put down what he was doing.

"Brother, it's okay, I was stabbed by a thorn ball."

Ye Mingze felt relieved after confirming that there was only a red mark on Ye Liu's hand.Spike ball?What is that, never heard of it.Ye Mingze carefully picked off the culprit. When he saw it, he looked familiar. Isn't this a chestnut?

Knock off the outer skin with a stone, and a round brown fruit appeared in front of his eyes. It really was a chestnut.

I looked around this chestnut tree and found some more, scattered sparsely.Further inside, there is a large chestnut forest.Chestnuts are not big, and they can't hold up to a large number.There are only a dozen or so of them, and half of them are little girls, so they can't bring much at all.Coupled with the fact that they had already picked a lot of other mountain products, there were even fewer chestnuts that could be brought back.

Ye Mingze held up a thorn ball and called out to everyone: "I just peeled off this thorn ball and looked at it. The fruit inside should be edible. Look, the squirrel over there is holding one!"

He didn't know if anyone knew Chestnut in other places, at least not in the memory of the original owner, and he had never even seen Thorn Ball.This is not the fault of the villagers, there are no chestnut trees on the hills near the village.Farther away, fewer people enter, and they only focus on hunting. This kind of thorny and hard-shelled one is easy to miss.

"Is this really edible? There's a big piece over here!" The little girls began to chirp, "Second cousin, this looks quite like a hazelnut, is it the same?"

"I don't know, but it's bigger than a hazelnut, and the flesh should be bigger than a hazelnut. Let's break it open and have a look." After Ye Mingze finished speaking, he cut it in half with a knife, as if he had never seen it before.

The squirrel was fine after eating it, and the few people watched Ye Mingze pick up half of the fruit and tasted it with peace of mind: "What does it taste like? Is it delicious?"

"The raw ones are quite crispy, with a strong powdery taste. I don't know what it tastes like when cooked? Let's pick a basket and go back to taste it." Ye Mingze handed the other half to Ye Minghai.

"Well, it's a bit like a potato, with a high powder content." Ye Minghai fell into deep thought after tasting it, "If this can be stored for a long time, it's a good product."

This season, when the chestnuts are ripe, a small layer of fruit is spread on the ground.A dozen or so people quickly filled a basket.Everyone began to move to other mountain goods again.

This place is relatively remote, not near the entrance of Ziqing Mountain. Ye Mingze marked it near the chestnut forest, so as not to find the place next time.

At the end of the day, a group of people began to pack their things and prepare to go home.

When going down the mountain, everyone was miserable.Whether it was Ye Minghai, the eldest, or Ye Yu, his cousin who was just ten years old, they all carried weights that exceeded their abilities.

Ye Mingze found that his strength was growing, and so did his eldest cousin.The weight of two hundred catties hadn't reached the limit yet, the two looked at each other and smiled.

Everyone walks for a while and rests for a while.When they were about to reach the back mountain, the Ye family sent their uncles and aunts to pick them up.When they came out this time, almost half of the juniors were taken away, and the family members would definitely be worried.

"Hey, aren't those boys and girls from the Ye family? Where do they go to get so many mountain goods?" There are many people harvesting autumn near the back mountain, and the harvest is naturally not great.

"Who knows, why don't you ask?"

"Why don't you ask?"

"Doesn't this leave you with a chance?" The aunt who was speaking smiled mischievously.

Before the two of them finished discussing this question, someone nearby had already stepped forward to ask.A dozen or so people can carry at least a thousand catties of things. This is the harvest of several acres of land in a year, and everyone is jealous.

"It was picked near the entrance of Ziqing Mountain." Ye Minghai, as the eldest brother of this generation, naturally let him come forward at this time.

Seeing the Ye family who came to pick them up, the big guy let go of his persistence, and simply found a place to rest and answer the villagers' questions by the way.As for the next section of the road, don't worry about them, the uncles and aunts will carry it home.

When the surrounding villagers heard that it was there, most of them dispersed.It's not that they don't know that the deeper the mountain, the greater the harvest, but they also need to have that ability and luck, right?They will not go into the mountains unless it is absolutely necessary.

The Ye family can rest assured because Ye Minghai has learned to hunt, and Ye Mingze has good skills, otherwise, who would dare to let a dozen children into the mountains.

The basket of chestnuts was divided into several parts, and they were all placed at the bottom of the basket, so I didn't worry about being discovered.Other things, mountains and forests can be seen everywhere.Everyone saw that there was nothing rare, and soon dispersed.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Ye Minghai and Ye Mingze forcibly pulled up a few girls who were sitting on the ground and didn't want to get up. After a tiring day, the more they rested, the more tired they became. If they sat down again, they probably wouldn't be able to walk.

In the end, the little ones supported each other and swayed home slowly.

This time the harvest was bountiful.After looking through them, Mr. Ye found that half of them were easy-to-store nuts such as walnuts, hazelnuts and pine nuts. A smile appeared on his dark face.These are not cheap!Wait until the end of the year to sell for a good price.

For the remaining half of the fruit, Mr. Ye had a headache.Shaguo and Begonia can be stored for a while, but other berries are not easy to preserve, and they are not reprocessed at home, so it is really difficult to deal with.

Now is the peak season for these fruits to mature, and they can't be sold for much money, and it takes time and effort.If you don’t sell it, you can’t finish it at home, and it’s not easy to give it away. Every household in the neighborhood has these.

Ye Mingze looked at his grandfather who was very happy at first, but later showed a bitter expression, very puzzled.Shouldn't you be happy after collecting so many things?

"Grandpa, what's wrong?"

"It's okay. I picked hundreds of catties of fruit this time, and I'm thinking about what to do with it."

"Grandpa, there are so many people in the family, and our family is not short of this little money now, let's keep it for ourselves!" Ye Mingze still had the right to speak, even in front of his grandfather.

"Keep it, how do you keep it? It's easy to talk about these dried fruits, but how do you get those fruits? No one at home can make preserved fruits, jams and the like."

"I have some recipes, why don't you give it a try?" Ye Mingze still remembers some production methods. The agricultural and sideline products he manages in Modern Times naturally include fruits, but he has only seen the production process in the factory, but he has never tried it himself.

"Okay, then you can try it. If it doesn't work, you can take it to the county town and sell it cheaply."