The campsite has also entered the busy autumn season, and everyone is working.

Expanding the camp and harvesting crops were the two most important tasks.

For example, corn needs to be dried, threshed manually, and ground into flour after harvesting. Nettles are even more troublesome, as they need to be woven.

Fortunately, wheat on the Loess Plateau matures relatively early. By the time they discover the wheat, it's already harvest time, and the next harvest won't come until the following autumn.

They simply collected fruits and vegetables to feed the animals, as they didn't have time to process them. Especially since they found so many wild fruit trees that they couldn't possibly eat them all; making jam would be a waste of sugar.

On the other side of the West Boundary River, the sugarcane has already been harvested. Sugarcane is the main crop along the West Boundary River; other crops are only planted in small quantities.

People can chew sugarcane when they're bored, and any excess sugar can be extracted and used to make sugar.

Jiang Bo specially made a sugarcane pressing machine, which is not as complicated as an oil press, and its efficiency is still quite good.

The entire sugar-making process takes place at the West Boundary River, and then the sugar is processed at the Xindu Camp.

Everyone is very busy every day.

But new problems have also emerged.

The new residents were suddenly put to such a busy schedule, which made them very uncomfortable.

The soldiers were alright; obeying orders was their duty, and Chen Yang was their highly respected coach, so they all obeyed commands.

Among the guests at the inn, one of the selected World Citizens was very uncomfortable. She got into an argument with Hou Yu's mother while working and quit the Micro World in a fit of anger.

Chen Yang noticed the next day that her name had disappeared. In other words, she was no longer a citizen of the realm.

Then, she suddenly spoke in the group, asking who had added her to the group.

Everyone fell silent, and then Chen Yang kicked him out of the group.

"He probably complained to someone in a fit of anger, revealing the existence of the Micro-World, and his memory was erased," Chen Yang said.

This situation hasn't occurred in the Microverse for a long time. The later arrivals had heard of it, but this was the first time they had witnessed something like this.

“If you’re not comfortable with the work, you can choose not to enter the Micro-World. If you don’t enter, there’s no consumption, and I won’t force you to do anything. But once you enter the Micro-World, you can’t just eat and do nothing; you still have to do things. It’s up to you,” Chen Yang said.

The original inhabitants had no problem, but the newcomers were somewhat silent.

But who would be willing to not enter the micro-world?

These past few days have been a bit tiring, but very fulfilling. In such a beautiful place, everything feels comfortable.

So, for the next few days, everyone did their work normally, and there were no further objections.

The autumn harvest is only busy for a short period of time. After most of the crops have been harvested, everyone just does drying and grinding work in the camp.

The hunting team went out again, brought back some game, and everyone celebrated the autumn harvest and the completion of the camp expansion project.

The construction of the Xindu camp took more than two months, during which four wooden cabins were built, each capable of accommodating four people.

To fire the roof tiles for the wooden houses, several kilns worked day and night, and the kiln in the accelerated time zone even cracked.

The hardest work is logging and transportation, as well as some carpentry work.

They crafted carpentry tools such as carpenter's squares (also called squares or Luban rulers), ink lines, planes, drills, chisels, and shovels to make the houses as exquisite as possible.

Hong Gui and Ye Wu also found the gold mine discovered by Chen Yang and are trying to find a way to mine and smelt it. Ye Wu also said that there is a lot of placer gold in the riverbed, and he is also collecting it.

If they finish smelting the gold, Lu Lin promised Ye Wu that she would buy as much as they could, since she was also in the jewelry business and could handle the entire gold mine.

Global Union Jewelry is no joke. If it weren't for the fact that she has so many hidden assets that are difficult to quantify, Lu Lin would have a place on the Forbes list.

However, even a business tycoon like Lu Lin, whose every move can shake the global economy, was honestly harvesting corn in the fields with her daughter and even asking Jiang Bo's mother how to weave nettles.

The newcomers were stunned when they learned Lu Lin's identity, and even Yan Su felt that his own status as a leader suddenly became insignificant.

In the micro-world, Yan Su, who was used to giving orders, had no choice but to obediently follow instructions, cutting down trees and moving and sawing wood together.

With Grandpa Yun around, Yan Su was clearly outmatched.

Yan Su tried to curry favor with Grandpa Yun, but Grandpa Yun barely paid him any attention. So he and a few members of the Hunter's Team secretly watched Grandpa Yun teach some children boxing.

Sometimes, Chen Yang couldn't stand watching them anymore and would offer some guidance. He also practiced with them every day.

Now, every morning and evening, a dozen or so people of all ages practice boxing together, sometimes as many as twenty. If you didn't know better, you'd think this was a martial arts school.

Every night, everyone gets lively and doesn't go to bed early like before.

They would bring out the brewed wine, barley wine, and ale to enjoy. Often, several grown men would gather around a plate of dried meat and a dish of peanuts and chat until late at night.

Homemade wine, homemade smoked meat, and homemade roasted peanuts just taste better.

Although pairing wine with peanuts is a bit odd, no one really cares about such details.

Sometimes, when the mood strikes, I'll even try some new dishes.

For example, slab steak.

They searched for heat-resistant quartz stone, polished it into a slab, and grilled it over a fire, then selected the best cuts of beef belly. As the beef sizzled on the slab and the oil splattered, everyone's mouths watered.

There aren't many cuts of beef from a cow that can be used to make steaks, and they rarely slaughter cows, so such opportunities are rare.

However, stone grilling isn't just for beef; it can be used for all kinds of grilling.

Guo Zifeng specially built a platform, selected a piece of high-quality quartz stone and carved it into a shape suitable for barbecuing, and made a stone grill platform.

Wang Bing continued to research sauces, believing that barbecue without seasonings is soulless!

The most regrettable thing is that chili peppers haven't been found yet, as Wang Bing used to love spicy food.

Although you can eat spicy food in real life, the lack of chili peppers in the micro-world is always a regret.

Many materials in the micro-world are all-natural, especially the meat of various animals, which is incomparable to that in reality. Not to mention, there are many animals that are simply inedible in reality, and some extinct species are unavailable even to the wealthy.

However, the various sauces available in reality are something that the micro-world cannot replicate.

For example, they still can't make soy sauce because they lack the most crucial ingredient, soybeans.

They also lack Western seasonings such as cumin powder and black pepper.

It must be said that this is a huge regret.

If he could gather all these seasonings and use the ingredients from the micro-world to cook a delicious meal, Wang Bing felt he would have no regrets.

Fortunately, they have found the most crucial seasoning – salt, and they also press their own oil, offering a variety of choices. In Chinese cuisine, as long as there is salt and oil, any ingredient can become delicious.

And having delicious food makes you feel better every day; that's the charm of food.

(End of this chapter)