Chapter 953: Future Life

Is this, then, how people are supposed to live?

A group of Huaxia officials accompanied Baoxi as he toured every part of Huaxia City; Baoxi finally understood what farming was, what architecture was, and he also understood why Huaxia could be so prosperous and possess so much grain.

He walked beside the wheat fields, stroking the field that swayed in the wind like water waves, watching it in a trance; every ear of wheat contained seeds that were more numerous and plumper than wild Grass Seed, and he could not bear, nor did he dare, to touch them forcefully; every Huaxia official also walked along the edge of the field, never stepping a single foot into the wheat field.

Baifeng plucked an ear of wheat, rubbed off the still-green and resilient wheat husk with his hands, and threw the still-green wheat into his mouth to chew; soon, the rich starch became elastic under his chewing, just like chewing gum, which made Baifeng recall his own childhood.

When the wheat was ripe, the apricots should also be ripe; every day, one would bring a bag of plump, juicy apricots, pack some unleavened bread, and go to the fields to harvest and pull wheat; no matter how young you were, this was something you were supposed to do.

Summer vacation always started a week before the wheat ripened, sending a not-so-important laborer back home; however, in his childhood, compared to the golden wheat, Baifeng preferred the wheat fields when they were green, layered on the terraces, looking like ocean waves when the wind blew.

The sesame bloomed with sky-blue flowers, the sea of flowers becoming the most beautiful spray in the green waves; the morning mist rose from the valley as if drifting from the sea; who said one had never seen the sea? One had seen a sea that others could never see in their entire lives.

Baifeng was distracted for a while, and no one called out to him, just not knowing what their King was doing.

Suddenly startled awake, Baifeng swallowed the tender wheat pulp, which tasted bad and was extremely sticky to the teeth, and sighed: "So-called history is nothing more than wheat ripening thousands of times."

Everyone felt it was somewhat inexplicable, but could only nod in agreement, while Baifeng thought that if the wheat ripened another four or five thousand times, he might be able to return to his former home.

Baoxi visited the orchard, though no fruit was ripe at the moment; the apricots had grown quite large, but taking a bite would make your teeth sour, yet they were both sour and tempting to eat.

There was also the vegetable garden; of course, the scale could no longer be calculated as a "garden," as the vegetables here supplied almost the entire Huaxia City; however, families with their own land would grow various vegetables they liked in their own plots, and Huaxia generally provided vegetable seeds for the first year, after which they would exchange and ask for them among themselves.

Huaxia provided the vegetable seeds for free, but with only one requirement: if a particularly large or particularly good vegetable was grown, it had to be reported; after the Agriculture Department checked and confirmed that it could be used for seeds, that vegetable could no longer be eaten and had to be saved for seeds, but there would be a reward, a reward large enough to equal the value of a family's entire vegetable garden.

Therefore, the people of Huaxia were very active and self-conscious in this regard, which was also one of the main reasons why Huaxia could cultivate various new seeds faster and better.

By the time they reached the Pasture, everyone was already quite exhausted; fortunately, they were all riding oxen or sitting in ox carts; if they had walked around Huaxia City like this, it would have been the death of them.

Moreover, the main farmland of Huaxia had now been moved outside the city; the cultivated land within the newly built city walls was long ago insufficient to feed the people of Huaxia City, so now, besides changing its use, the main high-quality farmland was basically used as experimental fields for the Agriculture Department.

This was because Baifeng was intentionally controlling the urbanization process of Huaxia City; otherwise, it would probably be hard to see the shadow of farmland in Huaxia City now.

The situation at the Pasture shocked Baoxi even more; he had never thought that wild beasts could be domesticated like this; he had not been to many places in Huaxia, to the point that he had not even seen the most loyal partner of the Huaxia people: the dog.

And at the Pasture, he saw many dogs used to drive cattle and sheep; in his impression, wolves were animals that would compete with humans for these cattle and sheep, but he did not expect them to become the best assistants to humans here.

The cattle and sheep were not that afraid of people either; on the vast grassland, wooden fences were nailed at the edges to limit the movement of the cattle and sheep, which was also an important means of guarding against wild beasts; Baoxi really could not imagine that hunting, his main means of survival, had become so easy here in Huaxia; if you wanted to eat meat, you just had to catch one here and slaughter it, without needing to expend any effort at all.

After a brief shock, Baoxi suddenly remembered that he was now a person of Huaxia, a Noble of Huaxia, with the title of Sui Emperor; all of this was something he could enjoy, not just something to envy; in the future, his own clansmen would also be able to live such a life, so he could not help but laugh out loud.

Baifeng went over and patted his shoulder: "How is it, Baoxi? Now you know how people in the future should survive."

"The cattle and sheep here, besides being used for meat, if the temperament of the ox is good, it can be trained to pull carts and plow fields, or even for battle."

"As for sheep, the wool on the sheep grows back every year; when it is hottest in the summer, the wool is sheared off, and after being washed clean, it can be used as bedding or as filling for quilts, allowing you to spend a warm Winter."

"People in the future will no longer need to run around in the forests and wilderness to survive for the sake of food; hunting will also become something done to pass the time when bored; Huaxia is still insisting on hunting now, but only to let everyone have a little more meat to eat, but it is not that Huaxia cannot get meat."

Baoxi was very joyful: "I can already imagine the scene of my clansmen and Soldiers grazing cattle and sheep on such a grassland; the hundreds of thousands of people of the Suiren Clan can harvest grain in fields that stretch as far as the eye can see; from now on, no one will ever starve to death again."

Everyone let out a hearty laugh at the same time.

On the way back, Baifeng asked Baoxi: "How about it? Did you see any work you liked today? If not, tomorrow we will go to the various factories and schools to take a look; the factories are responsible for smelting Iron, forging weapons, manufacturing Cement, Glass, and things like that, as well as weaving cloth and so on."

"The school is what I told you about, a place to teach things; today has been very tiring, and we have seen enough places, so let's leave it at that for today; go back and have a good rest, how does that sound?"

Baoxi tried riding on the back of an ox for the first time; although it was very steady, he dared not lose focus and could only say briefly: "Good, no problem, let's take a look again tomorrow."