Elven Survival Manual

Nowadays, the fields outside the magic castle can no longer be visited with one pair of feet. If someone can see the entire Viv Continent from outer space, the green in the golden sand sea is like a part of the pie when the elves first planted it. Sesame seeds, you can't find them unless you look carefully.

Now it has changed from sesame to soybean. Although it is still small, it cannot be ignored.

Naturally, such a large area of ​​farmland and flower fields cannot be taken care of by the more than 1000 that were bought earlier.

A lot of labor is needed here, but buying slaves is not a good idea. The Demon King promised that the elves would try to reduce the existence of slaves. Naturally, the way of buying slaves will not make the slave trade more and more prosperous, so he finally chose to hire.

There are not many tribes close to the golden sand sea. The closest to them is Guma, which was the first human tribe to be occupied by monsters, but the occupied Guma did not put up any resistance. When the cattle belonging to the chief of the Guma clan were distributed to them, and when the wasteland around the tribe suddenly changed from wasteland to green land overnight, and when fruit-filled jujube trees were everywhere, they regarded these outsiders as newcomers. Master, I sincerely accept the rule of the Demon King.

So when the new patriarch asked them all to move, although the Guma people were panicked, they still obediently cleaned up all their belongings and followed the team into the sea of ​​golden sand.

At that time, the golden sand sea was not as hot as it is today. Although the journey was difficult, they did not lack water or food along the way. They successfully completed the sand dunes a few days later and entered the beautiful green world.

That was the first time they saw such a beautiful place. The purple flowers all over the ground were not only beautiful, but also seemed to be pasture. Without them driving, the camels and sheep that everyone brought spontaneously ran up to enjoy the food.

There are dug ditches beside the flower fields, unlike the turbid water they drank in the tribe, the running water in it is so clear that you can even drink it directly, and it is clean without any hint of meaning.

The large farmland behind the flower field attracted their attention even more. Even if they had never seen the plants with fruits, they could guess that these were all crops. People who had never seen so many fields were stunned. When I was in the tribe, I also farmed for the patriarch, but there has never been a field that grows as well as it does here.

There are many slaves working in those worlds, but if it weren’t for the slave marks on them, the Guma people would not believe that these people would be slaves at all. Every one of them looks healthy, and their bodies grow stronger because they don’t need to be hungry. Quite a few, they look stronger and more powerful than the Guma people, and they are wearing clothes remade from old clothes collected from monsters—our blood chief really doesn’t make the best use of everything—those clothes For the monsters, it should be thrown away, but for the slaves and the poor, it is a good thing that has never been thought of. Just look at the envious eyes of the Guma people when they look at the clothes on these slaves. up.

When they knew that they would make their home here, everyone could not wait to cheer to express the excitement in their hearts.

You don’t have to suffer from the scorching sun, you don’t have to worry about running out of water, and you can tell from the looks of those slaves that they won’t be hungry. For these Guma people who may starve to death due to lack of food at any time, there is no better place than here out of place.

Although the patriarch also said that they have to work here every day, they used to be busy from morning to night but still might starve to death, but now they still have to work but can support themselves and their families, which has satisfied them up.

Not only the Guma people were moved here, but also other tribes that were occupied by monsters near the Golden Sand Sea.

No matter what their thoughts were before they came, after seeing this huge "oasis", no one complained or felt uneasy anymore.

The monsters choose their place of residence according to the population of each tribe, and divide the surrounding fields for them to take care of. These people have only herded but not farmed before, so at the beginning, there will be slaves who are good at farming to teach them until they get started.

In order to improve the enthusiasm of these people, the monsters who took care of them also told them that if they took good care of the fields, then when it was harvest time, they could share one-twentieth of the grain in the fields they took care of.

Don't think that one-twentieth of the food is less.

In the era when the elves belonged, the average yield per mu of potatoes and corn had exceeded 10000 catties.

The corn and potatoes planted in these fields were taken out by the elves in the seed treasure box, and the seeds in the seed treasure box are all the best of their kind, not to mention new varieties that have been improved by the elves to better adapt to the environment here.

Although the potatoes and corn they planted here are bound to reduce production due to lack of planting experience, sufficient fertilizers, and high-tech help, but no matter how the production is reduced, as long as they are carefully tended, watered and fertilized frequently, one acre of land can be planted 5000 catties of grain can be guaranteed.

Based on this figure, one-twentieth of an acre of land has at least 250 catties of grain. However, given the perennial water shortage and harsh environment of the Weifu Continent, the yield per mu of fields in other places may not even have this amount, let alone their The fields of the country often lose crops due to drought.

250 catties of grain, people like them who are hungry all the year round may not necessarily have so much food in their mouths in a year.

What's more, aside from corn, potatoes can mature in about three months, not to mention four seasons in a year, but two seasons and three seasons can still be done. After three seasons, they will only get more food in a year.

And this is only the food allocated to one mu of land. When the monsters divide the fields, it is calculated that an adult takes care of five mu of land, while minors under the age of 14 need to take care of two mu of land, and younger children need to take care of five mu of land. No work will be arranged.

This means that if there are two adults in a family, they can get at least one-twentieth of the grain of ten mu of land, which is [-] catties. Such a large amount of grain can feed three or five people. Children are enough.

What's more, the poorer the family, the more they love to have more children. Families that can avoid starvation basically have several adult laborers, and the food that a large family can get will only get more food.

These people didn't understand these truths at first. When they arrived, the corn was just a few seedlings, and it was not yet time to bloom and bear fruit, while the potatoes were growing in the soil. What they saw was only a piece of green. Know what amazing yields these crops can produce.

But they are still very excited about the fact that they will share their food.

The life of ordinary people in the tribe is not much better than that of slaves. They work for the lords, not to mention the poor wages, and sometimes they can't even fill their stomachs.

Originally, they only wanted to work hard to fill their stomachs, but now they can not only fill their stomachs but also get some extra food, no one is not happy.

So the settlement of these people was unexpectedly smooth, and no one caused trouble at all. I originally wanted to catch a few monsters with thorns and rectify them, and saw that they were behaving, so I gave up this plan.

And when the elves returned to the magic castle, it just happened to catch up with the time when the first batch of potatoes were about to ripen.

The elf also wanted to see how many acres of potatoes these people could produce, so he also came to see when the potatoes were harvested.

Originally, the harvested things can be done as long as the monsters who know earth magic come and move their fingers to turn over the ground, but now the monsters are busy unifying the continent, and most of them have been sent out. The remaining monsters have their own actions. Where is the time? Come dig the ground.

And farming is the job of these humans, and it's not that the elves need manpower, so it's too cheap to ask them to help these humans.

The monsters all agree that since the land has been handed over to these humans to take care of it, let them harvest by themselves when harvesting. It is a bit tiring, but this is their job, and by the way, they can enjoy the joy of harvest , understand how good the magic castle is for them.

Knowing that the demon king and elves are coming, the monsters responsible for managing these humans waited for them to arrive before letting the people who could not wait to start doing it.

These farming humans have long known that this plant called potato grows underground. When they usually take care of the fields to water and loosen the soil, they will accidentally turn over some potatoes that are buried shallower, and they know what it looks like .

Now that they heard that it was time to dig, one by one immediately picked up the tools and started harvesting.

Everyone has been taught how to harvest potatoes a long time ago. Old people with weaker strength use sickles to cut off the withered plants, while adult men and women with greater strength use hoes to dig deep into the ground, and put the potatoes buried in the ground together with the soil. The potatoes were dug out, and the children who followed behind cleaned the potatoes from the clods and placed them on the ground to dry.

But when they saw the densely packed fruits that were bigger than a fist growing under the first plant they dug up, everyone was shocked.

No one thought that so many fruits could grow under these seemingly low plants. This is just one plant, how many other fruits will there be?

Everyone's eyes lit up, but they always remembered what the monsters said back then, they had a share of the food.

Think about the few acres of fields that you are responsible for taking care of, and then think about the ones assigned to the rest of the family. Without anyone urging, the people who work become harder and harder.

No one is lazy, and no one is tired. Even the young children are working very hard to do their work seriously. They all understand what these seemingly inconspicuous lump-like fruits represent.

The smiles on everyone's faces couldn't be stopped as more and more potatoes were laid out on the overturned field.

Many people laughed and laughed, tears came out.

As long as the monsters don't regret it, the food that will be distributed to them will be enough for all of them to eat for a year and there will be leftovers.

They no longer have to worry about being hungry, they can sell the surplus food to the magic castle, and the money they harvest can buy various necessities for the family, and even make new clothes for the children.

Really good.