Chapter 525 Chinese Cabbage
Suddenly seeing this familiar figure, Shao Xuan was still a little unbelievable. He stared at the other side carefully for a while and was sure that he was right. He quickly came down from the hill and headed towards that direction.
He didn't pay attention when he was walking in the woods before, and even walked back and forth several times, he didn't look at the figure that looked similar to the cabbage, because it was too big!
There are all kinds of strange plants in the mountains and forests. Shao Xuan has seen many plants with similar leaves, so he didn't pay much attention when he walked past there. But when he stood on the hill, looking from above and down, and seeing the figure clearly, Shao Xuan's shock could not calm down.
The leaves are very similar, but their overall appearance is so similar to the cabbage. However, this cabbage is taller than Shao Xuan himself!
When he came to this plant that looked very similar to Chinese cabbage, Shao Xuan took a closer look.
A slight crunching sound came from my ears.
Turning his head and looking over, Shao Xuan saw that a insect with a thick arm lie on it on a wide leaf outside the vegetable, gnawing the leaf into a hole. Perhaps because he noticed Shao Xuan's arrival, the strange breath gave it a sense of crisis. It stopped gnawing the leaf, raised its entire body in the first half, towards Shao Xuan.
If Shao Xuan had not been prepared for it and knew that this was just a bug that was eating vegetables and leaves, he might have mistakenly thought that there was a snake here.
The stains and patterns at the front of the insect look like a kind of green poisonous snake in the forest. The lines that are so thin that the scales are very clear, especially the two lines that look very similar to "eyes", which are very scary. When you suddenly see this, you feel like you are being targeted by a snake.
This is also a way for insects to save their lives.
However, Shao Xuan saw many similar insects, but was not scared by it, and stood by and observed for a while with interest.
Perhaps he felt that Shao Xuan was not in danger anymore, so the insect lay back and continued to eat around the holes that were gnawed out on the leaves.
There are some insects in the mountains and forests that will take years or even longer to turn into butterflies or moths. This insect is probably not far from changes.
Shao Xuan moved his eyes away from the insect and continued to look at the cabbage in front of him.
He raised his hand and cut off a piece of the leaf with a dagger. It was okay to smell it, but there was no strange smell, but Shao Xuan didn't eat it. He might not be able to eat what the insects could eat. He walked to the flying squirrel tied to the tree with the vegetable leaves. Unfortunately, the flying squirrel was not interested in the vegetable leaves at all. When he was angry, he bit one, but did not eat it, and vomited.
After trying several times, Shao Xuan looked at the flying squirrel up and down the mouth of the vegetable leaves as if he was venting his anger, but there was nothing unusual about it. Shao Xuan was slightly happy.
Stop tossing the flying squirrel.
Turning around the surrounding forest, close to the cave. Because of the heavenly vein, other plants did not grow well. Shao Xuan did not see a plant that looked like cabbage, so he had to look for it further. Like the one he just discovered, it was found a little far from the cave. It was able to squeeze out a piece of land in the forest to grow, and this vegetable was strong enough.
I didn't pay attention to it before because Shao Xuan had never paid attention to higher plants, and now he followed the leaves to look for them. He found about thirty of them in a short while. This was just the nearby area, and it was just an individual as big as this one.
There are more small plants on the ground that have not grown up, some of which have obvious signs of being trampled by animals in the forest, and some have been bitten by animals in the forest. The leaves are incomplete. There are too many seedlings like this, and Shao Xuan didn't count them. If he let them go, they will not survive. They will either be eaten and trampled to death by animals in the forest, or other plants will take away nutrients and starve to death.
After seeing it, Shao Xuan returned to the cave. Last night, in order to stare at the flying squirrel and see the effect of the sky veins, he didn't sleep all night. He started running around since early morning until now. He was a little tired, so he sat on the grass and rested. He ate the little meat left yesterday to relieve his hunger.
Shao Xuan was thinking about the origin of those "bacakes". Do they really grow here naturally?
Some people grow vegetables here, and the leaves are 60% similar to Chinese cabbage, but the leaves are much narrower and longer. Moreover, the kind of vegetables that are commonly grown here have large rhizomes. The main foods that the tribes grow are its roots and stems, and the leaves are just by the way. The vegetables that are commonly found here are large, but most of them are only Shao Xuan's waist high. If they are too small, people from the tribe will not be willing to grow them. But compared to the "Chinese cabbage" here, it is not enough.
Muted?
Shao Xuan suddenly thought of the vegetables grown on the sea.
There are also crops similar to cabbage there. Shao Xuan has seen them in Jiju's farm. However, although the leaves are wide, they are too scattered and very short, just reaching Shao Xuan's knees. Many tribes in the sea don't plant that, and they think the yield is too low and they are not hungry. But slave owners like it.
Only slave owners who liked these in the royal city would set a large amount of land in their own fields to plant them in order to eat this kind of vegetable. In this way, on the other side of the sea, only the slave owners had that kind of vegetable seed.
The "bird cabbage" around is not the type commonly planted by tribes here, and is also different from the ones planted by slave owners in the fields over the sea. Of course, there are many similar places, but so far, I have traveled so many places, and even Shao Xuan has traveled through the mountains and forests, but I have never seen such "bird cabbage" in any place.
After thinking for a while, Shao Xuan's eyes suddenly widened. He thought of a possibility.
This place used to be a place of an unknown small tribe, and they would also plant it. The surrounding terrain was relatively flat, and they might have planted the vegetables that were often grown by the land tribes here. So, even if that small tribe migrated, some vegetables would be left here.
What if the seeds sprinkled by the people of the Ji family here are not only the heavenly veins, but also the seeds of some kind of vegetable?
What if the three Ji family members in the cave had sprinkled a handful of rapeseed around them before they died?
Will the two similar but different dishes grown here produce a child with their advantages?
Maybe Shao Xuan thought too much, but what if it is true?
If this is true, Shao Xuan can only say, God's will!!
If it is artificially cultivated, I don’t know how long it takes to screen if I want to get a satisfactory dish. Even the vegetables grown by many tribes today are left behind by screening generations.
Here, different varieties of vegetables from two continents grew together and obtained offspring that melted their characteristics. Then, after a long natural combination and screening, there will be the offspring that survived and merged the advantages of the two, with the strongest adaptability and the most stable genetic inheritance.
These "bakeries" today are not only big, but also have balls.
Unlike many leaves that spread out on the sea, these "Chinese cabbages" here, except for the large leaves on the outside, have a tendency to embrace the heart inside, forming an erect elliptical ball.
Whether it is the result of hybridization or the mutated vegetables grown here, in short, just looking at the shape, Shao Xuan is very satisfied.
The remaining question now is whether it can be eaten?
No matter what, cut one and go back first.
Shao Xuan chose the first one he saw and waved his sword to cut off the big vegetable ball in the middle. The leaves that spread out looked too old and were not easy to carry, so he only cut the elliptical vegetable balls.
A vegetable ball that is taller than himself has a little weight, which also makes Shao Xuan more satisfied. Heavy prove that there are more leaves that form vegetable balls, unlike other scattered leaves. If they can be eaten, the yield will be higher after planting them.
Carrying the vegetable ball on his shoulder, Shao Xuan came to the cave, thought of something, and looked back at the flying squirrel hanging on the tree.
There was only a bitten straw rope left there, which should have been running while he was looking for "Baocai". Being able to bite the rope has a lot of teeth and a lot of physical strength to struggle. It seems that the flying squirrel's injuries have almost recovered.
There was no trace of the surrounding veins, which proved that the flying squirrel did not find the veins growing here. The uncut veins are similar to ordinary tree roots, and it is indeed difficult to notice.
Thieves and Thieves have been stealing for so many years and have stole so many treasures, but never thought that there were extremely precious things growing here. Perhaps, they had never thought about the direction of plants. After all, who would "throw" the "treasure" on the ground at will?
After dealing with the traces around, the Tianmai was wrapped and placed in the animal skin bag. Shao Xuan pulled some big leaves and straw ropes, wrapped the cut vegetable balls and tied them, and then left.
Here, Shao Xuan did not plan to make a big move for the time being. Now he has only one person, so it is impossible to get rid of everything here, especially the largest Tianzhi, which requires more careful digging and protection. He also wants to try to transplant this Tianzhi back to the tribe, requiring more help from others.
There are also other Tianmai here and the "big cabbage" grown in various places, which are all treasures. Shao Xuan plans to return to the tribe and call people and poach them all.
Everything was handled, and Shao Xuan left with a big dish ball.
The thieves chased them out for a night and never came back. The people who were patrolling the tribe on the edge were paying attention to the movements in the distance.
When they saw Shao Xuan's figure, the patrolman had not recognized it yet. They couldn't see it clearly because they were too far away. Moreover, Shao Xuan was carrying a big croquette, which seemed very strange. They were closer. When they saw that it was Shao Xuan coming back, the patrolman happily went over to greet him.
They didn't know what Shao Xuan was carrying, but seeing that the elder carried it back in person was definitely not an ordinary thing.
Not only the patrol soldiers, but others were inevitably curious when they saw Shao Xuan coming back with an unknown object. The thing was very big and it was difficult to ignore it.
Chapter completed!