Become a founding empress in ancient times with the system

This time they set out directly in another direction. Since many people came to the edge of the forest to look for food and trampled a path, it was relatively safe now.

As we walked a little further inside, the grass became thicker and thicker. There was no road to the naked eye, so we had to rely on people to clear the way.

Li Dashan looked at the sky and said, "Sir, why don't we rest here for a while? The road inside may not be easy to walk on."

Sheng Changan naturally had no objection. He found a place to sit down and asked, "How long will it take before we encounter miasma?"

Li Dashan calculated the distance and said, "At this rate, it will probably take another month."

A month. This forest was incredibly large, so explosives would be a safer option if they wanted to get through it. She also had to find a way to make a path through the forest. She had to make sure the sea was right at the edge of it.

Du Zhong sighed and looked at Sheng Changan from time to time.

Sheng Changan's eyes moved. "Speaking of which, have you chosen someone to study medicine? If not, why don't I appoint a few."

Du Zhong choked. Why didn't she play by the rules? "Do you know how long I haven't rested? I'm an old man, but I still have to come here every day to collect herbs. I'm busy all day long."

"Why don't you let others pick the fruits, and you just come and give some pointers occasionally." Sheng Changan hesitated. Eucommia ulmoides is indeed not young. In ancient times, people in their sixties were considered long-lived.

"Is that what I meant?" Du Zhong was immediately furious. She usually looked quite clever, but now she looked so stupid. Could she be doing this on purpose? Du Zhong's eyes swept over Sheng Changan's face.

Sheng Changan looked innocent. She really didn't know what had happened to Du Zhong so she asked tentatively, "What do you want to say?"

Du Zhong hummed a few times before saying, "I heard that you are planning to split up the house recently."

"Yes! The county government office also needs to be renovated." Sheng Changan really didn't know why he suddenly brought up this issue.

Du Zhong began to puff out his beard and glare, "What about me? I heard that you plan to build houses for everyone. Why don't I have any?" If he hadn't heard the people talking about it, he wouldn't have known about it.

"Didn't anyone tell you? You all have it. I have arranged people to build it and also prepared a clinic." Sheng Changan was a little helpless.

Du Zhong's expression changed from time to time, and he hummed a few times and sat down. "I thought you had forgotten me."

He had been angry because he had only agreed to stay for five years and she had no intention of giving him a room. But when he heard that the apartment was already under construction, he began to feel guilty again.

Sheng Changan raised her eyebrows and asked, "So have you chosen someone?" She had been so busy recently that she forgot to ask this question.

"Choose again, choose again. Do you think it's so easy to choose?" Du Zhong said unhappily, moved his position, and simply stayed away from her.

Sheng Changan didn't say anything else. Just choose. She closed her eyes and prepared to take a rest.

Thinking about how to deal with the miasma, she remembered that burning realgar and atractylodes could remove the miasma, but considering the area of ​​the forest, a little bit might not be enough, and large-scale planting would be needed.

“Lots of night lights.”

"It's quite pretty."

There was a burst of secret discussion in the corner. Sheng Changan opened his eyes curiously and was stunned. It was fireflies. It turned out that they were called night lights here!

The ancients were quite good at naming. Although a fire was burning on the ground, it could not cover its light at all. Thousands of fireflies shuttled through the forest, forming a magnificent picture.

Sheng Changan couldn't help but feel a little emotional. She hadn't seen fireflies in modern times for a long time, but she didn't expect to see them here. The scenery was really beautiful. Sheng Changan leaned against the tree, her eyes slightly lost in thought.

At daybreak, the group set out again, but after two days they still didn't see the salt lake. Their only luck was finding wild ginger.

Note the location, and come here next year to dig some ginger for seeds, so they will never lack ginger in the future.

Suddenly, Sheng Changan stopped in his tracks. Although there weren't many seeds, they looked like rapeseed seeds. "Dashan, do you recognize this?"

Li Dashan came over, took a closer look, and said with doubt: "This thing seems to have yellow flowers. I've seen it before."

Sheng Changan's eyes lit up. Oil, she finally found the oil. Sheng Changan took a deep breath and said, "Do you have any more?"

Li Dashan scratched his head, not understanding why the adults were so excited all of a sudden. "There are a lot of these. I've seen a large patch of them in this forest. I just call them yellow flowers."

Sheng Changan's mouth twitched. Yellow flower, what a concise name, but not now. "It's called rapeseed flower, and its seeds can be used to extract oil."

"After you go out, find someone to collect its seeds as much as possible and plant them next year, so we won't be short of oil." In those days, the most common oil was lard, and Guangping County was so poor that most people probably hadn't eaten oil for a long time.

Li Dashan heard the word "oil" clearly and nodded very seriously. He knew the importance of oil.

Du Zhong came over curiously and asked, "Girl, how do you know so many things?" Some of them were obviously unknown to others, but she knew them.

Sheng Changan glanced at him and teased, "I was a god in my previous life, how could there be something I don't know?"

She had no idea where this outrageous rumor came from, and it would be beneficial for her to accept it, so she simply agreed.

Du Zhong pursed his lips, he didn't believe such words.

Sheng Changan smiled, said nothing more, and started walking forward again.

What she didn't notice was that the two soldiers at the back of the team looked at each other, their eyes gleaming with a strange light, and silently said, "Look, the adults themselves have admitted that she is a fairy."

The other person also nodded in agreement. How could someone who was not a god know so much? He didn't expect that Wang Yi was not talking nonsense.

Later, when Sheng Changan found out, the rumor had already spread that the gods could not bear to see the disasters everywhere in the world, so they sent her down to earth to experience the disasters, and she would return to heaven after completing her merits.

Even because of this rumor, people gradually built many temples to worship her, and her business became widespread.

"Sir, there is water ahead." A soldier ran over excitedly. They didn't have much water left, and they didn't expect to encounter a lake.

Li Dashan put on a barely perceptible smile and said, "Sir, let's go to the front and rest for a while."

Sheng Changan nodded. When she arrived, a soldier was already holding a bamboo tube and preparing to move forward to fetch water.

Sheng Changan's face was serious, and he shouted sternly: "Don't move, retreat."