Douluo's journey to becoming stronger begins with eating soul beast meat

Chapter 851: Ordinary Daily Life in an Island Village (Part )
In the central plains, large rice fields are spread over a large area.

Next to the busy rice fields lies a small village with hundreds of people.

It is called a village, but if you look closely at the paved gray roads and the sturdy and clean houses, it is hard to compare it with the backward and dilapidated villages that people have in mind.

The independent two-story villa-style houses surrounding the courtyard are lined up one after another, forming a huge village.

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 unimpeded, and display the warm and life-filled wooden floors, wooden tables and chairs inside to the world.

It is simply unimaginable to use such a large amount of glass in a house, especially in such a small village.

If the glass windows of this village were dismantled and sold on the mainland, at least nearly 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 the Blue Silver Island, large glass windows that almost cover an entire wall 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 material, with no exposed stones or gaps between bricks.

This material, which has adhesive properties and a hardness comparable to that of stone, is cement.

It is a hydraulic cementitious material made by mixing calcined lime and volcanic ash powder in a specific proportion.

Cement, which has the characteristics of quick drying and hardening, was widely used in the construction, water conservancy and other industries in the past.

As for why cement appeared here and was used in house construction, it was obviously a change brought by Quan Yi.

The chemical department originally established by Quan Yi successfully developed cement, an important material, after developing 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 volcanic island is just a barren land, but in Quan Yi's eyes, it is a treasure mine.

Not to mention other things, volcanic ash alone is one of the important raw materials for making early cement.

Thanks to Quan Yi's vision and knowledge and the practical tests of the Chemical Department, cement has successfully entered the level of practical application.

Stable, safe, cheap and quick to build, cement houses became the homes of farmers who cultivated the surrounding rice fields.

White smoke was rising from the chimney of the cement house, and the housewives inside were busy cooking food.

The fragrant fried fish and crystal clear white rice are the main staple food and main meal.

The fresh sea fish caught by island fishermen on steam fishing boats are carefully cooked by housewives and become delicious food to nourish the family.

In addition to these two types, every housewife will combine fresh vegetables grown in her own compound to create more balanced and nutritious dishes.

This part depends on personal preference and cooking skills.

However, during the busy farming season, the food is generally simpler and most people use iron pans to cook.

After cooking, they quickly put the food into special metal lunch boxes, and rode the bicycles parked in the yard along the cement road at the door to the central square of the village.

On normal days, the leisurely and relaxing square was now completely filled with the sounds of steam engines and noisy voices.

In the spacious square, there are a number of large transport trucks carrying food parked.

Some of them were loaded with rice ears just harvested from the farmland and parked at the automatic thresher on one side of the square to efficiently remove the husks from the rice ears. The golden rice ears, after entering the non-stop rotating machine, will soon be separated into snow-white rice grains and discarded husks.

With this machine, a village of only a few hundred people can efficiently harvest rice, which would normally require dozens of times more people.

A small portion of the separated rice will be stored inside the village, but most of it will be packed into rice bags and transported to the empty transport vehicles on the other side.

Big bags of rice are piled up in giant freight trucks as big as hills. The fully loaded trucks will drive to the east road to move the rice out of the village.

From this, it can be seen that the vehicles parked on the west side and the east side are responsible for different transportation tasks respectively.

To the west are those responsible for carrying the freshly harvested rice ears and the lunch boxes that the group of women deliver to the rice fields.

After the delivery trucks have emptied the rice ears, they will collect the lunch boxes and then accurately deliver them to each hard-working farmer according to the numbers stamped 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 the farmers, these long-term drivers also work very hard.

In the center of the square, there is a circular pavilion, which is the only space where drivers can take a break from their busy schedule.

A middle-aged, sturdy man with blond hair and blue eyes, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts and a tanned face, walked to the wooden table in the middle of the pavilion with a notebook recording the amount of grain transported and handed it to the man sitting at the table.

"Village Chief Shi, please stamp it for me. All the relevant information about this move has been recorded on it."

The man called the Village Chief Ishi 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 was wearing cool short-sleeved shorts, but his exposed left arm was empty, and his right leg was replaced by a special metal prosthesis.

However, even though his left arm and right leg were missing, no one present would underestimate this man.

According to rumors, before coming to the island, this man 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 became like this.

A poor young boy who had not awakened his soul power wanted to change his destiny by joining the army, but he never expected that an accident would befall him too early.

Although the kingdom did not charge for his medical treatment, how could a lowly soldier be taken seriously?

After the treatment was completed, the soldiers who had completely lost their ability to fight could only receive a small amount of subsidies and were expelled from the army.

For a man who was already poor, losing a hand and a foot basically meant he had completely lost the chance to escape poverty and move up.

Unable to bear the blow, the young man spent what little money he had left in a daze, and gradually fell into an even more miserable situation than before he joined the army.

As time passed, the man who had tenaciously survived to middle age grabbed a ticket to the 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 notebook from the blond man, turned to the last page with words, and carefully compared the various data on it.

After confirming it, he picked up the red stamp on the table with his left hand and stamped it on it.

(End of this chapter)