Chapter 851 ‘Ordinary’ daily life in the island countryside (Part 1)
Located in the central plain area, large rice fields are spread over large areas.
Next to the busy rice fields, there is a small village with hundreds of people.
It is said to be a village, but if you look carefully at the gray-paved roads and large, sturdy and clean houses, it is difficult to compare it with the backward and dilapidated villages that people have in mind.
There are independent second-floor villa-type houses surrounded by the compound, row upon row, forming a huge village together.
The architecture here is very different from the architectural style of Douluo Continent.
First of all, there are many huge transparent and clean glass windows embedded in the walls, which allow the outside sunlight to shine into the house without any hindrance, and reveal the warm and life-filled wooden floors, wooden tables and chairs inside to the world. In eyes.
It is simply unimaginable to apply such a large amount of glass to a house, especially in such a small village.
If the glass windows of this village were dismantled and sold on the mainland, at least close to 10,000 gold soul coins would be sold.
After all, Douluo Continent has not yet mastered the technology to mass produce high-purity glass.
However, on Blue Silver Island, large glass windows covering almost an entire side of a room can be seen everywhere.
In addition to the glass, what is even more amazing is that the walls of the house are completely covered with gray stone materials, with no exposed stones or gaps in the bricks.
This material with adhesive properties and a hardness comparable to stone is cement.
It is a hydraulic cementitious material made by mixing calcined lime and volcanic ash powder in a specific ratio.
Cement, which has quick-drying and hardening properties, was widely used in construction, water conservancy and other industries in previous generations.
As for why cement appears here and is used in house construction, this is obviously a change brought about by Izumi.
The Chemistry Department originally established by Izumi successfully developed cement, an important material, after the development of gunpowder.
The brand-new volcanic island hundreds of miles away on the west side of the island has accumulated a large amount of volcanic ash. To outsiders, this is just a barren volcanic island, but to Quan, it is a treasure mine.
Not to mention anything else, volcanic ash alone was one of the important raw materials for making early cement.
Thanks to Quan Yi's vision and knowledge and the practical testing of the Chemistry Department, cement has successfully entered the level of practical application.
The solid, safe, cheap and fast cement houses became the housing for farmers cultivating the surrounding rice fields.
White smoke flew out of the chimney of the cement house, and the housewives in the cement house were busy cooking food.
Fragrant fried fish and crystal clear white rice are the most important staple food and main meal.
The fresh sea fish caught by island fishermen on steam fishing boats, carefully prepared by housewives, become delicious food to nourish their families.
In addition to these two kinds, every housewife will prepare more balanced and nutritious dishes based on the fresh vegetables grown in her own yard.
This part depends on personal preference and cooking skills.
However, during the busy farming period, cooking is basically simple, and most people use iron pots to cook.
After finishing cooking, they quickly put the food into special metal lunch boxes, rode bicycles placed in the yard, and headed towards the central square of the village along the cement road paved at the door.
On weekdays, the leisurely square was now completely covered by steam engines and noisy people.
In the spacious square, there are a large number of large transport vehicles carrying food parked.
Some of them are loaded with rice ears that have just been harvested from the farmland. The automatic thresher is parked on the side of the square to remove the rice ears efficiently. The golden ears of rice will soon separate into snow-white rice grains and discarded husks after entering the constantly rotating machinery.
With this machine, a village with a few hundred people can efficiently harvest rice that would normally require dozens of times more people.
A small part of the separated rice will be kept inside the village, while the vast majority will be put into rice bags and transported to the empty transport truck on the other side.
Big bags of rice are piled up in giant freight trucks like hills. The loaded trucks will drive to the east road to move the rice out of the village.
From this, it can be distinguished that the vehicles parked on the west side and the east side are each responsible for different handling tasks.
To the west are those responsible for carrying the newly harvested rice ears, as well as the lunch boxes that the group of women sent to the rice fields.
The delivery truck that is waiting to clear the rice ears will collect the lunch boxes, and then accurately deliver them to every hard-working farmer according to the numerical stamp on them.
The avenue on the west side transports food to the densely populated towns and industrial areas on the east coast of the island.
In addition to farmers, these long-term drivers also work very hard.
In the center of the square, there is a circular pavilion, the only space where drivers can take a break from their busy schedule.
A middle-aged man with blond hair and blue eyes wearing short-sleeved shorts and a tanned face walked to the wooden table in the middle of the pavilion and handed it to the man sitting at the table.
"Village Chief Shi, please stamp it for me. The relevant information of this move has been recorded on it."
The man known as Chief Ishimura was a lean man with short black hair.
He is the leader responsible for the smooth execution of the entire grain collection and transportation process.
His appearance was ordinary, but he showed determination and kindness.
It is worth noting that he is wearing cool short-sleeved shorts, but his bare left arm is empty, and his right leg has been replaced by a special metal prosthesis.
However, even though his left arm and right leg were missing, no one present would underestimate the man in front of him.
According to rumors, before coming to the island, this person had served as a soldier in a kingdom affiliated with the Tiandou Empire. However, during the battle, his left arm and right leg were accidentally infected, and he had no choice but to become like this.
A poor young man who had not awakened his soul power originally wanted to change his destiny by joining the army, but he never thought that an accident would happen to him prematurely.
Although the kingdom did not charge him for treatment, how could a low-level soldier be taken seriously?
By the time the treatment was completed, the soldiers who had completely lost their ability to fight could only receive a small subsidy and were kicked out by the army.
If a man who is already poor loses a hand or a foot, it is basically equivalent to completely losing the opportunity to escape poverty and climb up.
Unable to bear the blow, the young man spent the remaining money in his confusion and gradually fell into a more miserable situation than before joining the army.
Time passed, and the man who survived to middle age with tenacity grabbed the ticket to Blue Silver Island and boarded the ship that changed his destiny.
Now, after several years of hard work, he has become a respected and trusted village chief.
Village Chief Shi took the book from the blond man's hand, opened it to the last page with written records, and carefully compared the various data on it.
After confirming, he picked up the red stamp on the table with his left hand and stamped it on top.
(End of chapter)