The fame of Weijie Inn has indeed done more harm than good to everyone.
The inn was already fully booked every day, so there was no need for any additional advertising. The local residents and their friends were enough to meet the inn's accommodation needs, so there was no worry about finding guests.
The unexpected fame of the Microworld Inn made the inn's staff and Chen Yang uneasy, as if they were being watched every time they went out. Even Ye Wu was unhappy, let alone the others.
Fortunately, Yun Hu and Guo Zifeng have a wide influence in HZ. Yun Hu even made a direct phone call to a high-ranking official in the military and resolved the problem.
The regular residents were even more furious. Now, getting a room, whether free or paid, was incredibly difficult. Every day, a huge number of people were competing with them, and even the lucky Xia Yue couldn't get a free room.
Chen Yang couldn't do anything about it, since the Micro Realm Inn didn't belong exclusively to the Realm Citizens. Although Ding Qihan had suggested it, Chen Yang currently had no such plans.
Fortunately, no matter what happens outside, their lives within the micro-world remain unaffected.
The camp is still developing steadily. In the time acceleration zone, new potatoes and corn have been planted, and Jiang Bo's father is in charge of taking care of them.
The fishpond is now very stable. The fish caught by the fishing traps no longer need to be put back in, but some fish food needs to be thrown in from time to time. Some of it is food scraps from Yang Yu's camp, and some is insects.
Now everyone has meat with almost every meal, so many of the traps have been dismantled. Their smokehouse has enough smoked meat, and the animal husbandry is going well. They can slaughter one or two animals occasionally. As long as the hunting team goes out hunting occasionally to satisfy their cravings, there is no need to use traps to catch more animals.
Now, meat is no longer in short supply, but the variety of plants is still lacking. They can only occasionally find a small patch of wild vegetables, and many vegetables that are common in real time cannot be found in the micro-world.
A balanced diet is very important, which is one of the important reasons why modern humans are living longer. Therefore, Chen Yang is also actively looking for vegetables that can be grown and often goes to Yebolin.
However, instead of finding vegetables, he stumbled upon a large vineyard. Although the grapes were not ripe and hadn't even started bearing fruit yet, Chen Yang recognized them. He had stolen grapes when he was a child, so he knew the shape of the vines and leaves very well.
So, they built trellises for the grapevines in this grove, allowing them to climb and even voluntarily twine their vines around the branches they had planted.
In a few more months, when the grapes ripen, they can eat them. They can also dry them into raisins and make wine. Grape seeds can be pressed for grape seed oil. Humans have so many ways to use grapes, and each one is very popular.
Whether it's wine, raisins, or grape seed oil, they are all excellent products.
The vineyard needed someone to manage it, and this task fell to Jiang Yining, because she was the only one among them with experience; she had actually worked a summer job at a vineyard during her university years.
The vineyard was quite large and half a day's journey from the camp, so Zhang Jian and Xiao Qi helped her out. Chen Yang and several men spent three days clearing weeds and boulders from the path to make it passable for horses, which would be much more efficient. Jiang Yining and the others would need to maintain it regularly when they traveled back and forth.
These grapes weren't growing very well originally, but after Jiang Yining took care of them, they improved a lot. Chen Yang and the others even cut down several tall trees around them so that the grapes could get enough sunlight.
However, it looks like we won't be able to harvest any particularly good grapes this year. The sunlight here is still insufficient, and the temperature difference between day and night is small, preventing the grapes from accumulating enough sweetness during their growth. We'll have to wait until next year to replant them with the grape seeds in another location.
Grapes were an important discovery, but they still hadn't found the green vegetables they were looking for. They had to keep searching, but the chances of finding them now were slim. The autumn harvest season would be the time when vegetables were plentiful.
To the west of the camp, beyond the western border river, lies the desert; to the north, snow-capped mountains are visible to the naked eye; and to the south, the Tianyin Mountains and the Loess Plateau. Only the east remains unknown. They had ridden eastward for two days and could sense the climate changing, but they had not yet discovered any truly abnormal climate zones.
Ding Qihan speculated that there should also be a climate anomaly zone to the east, but he couldn't be sure what it was.
They should be able to get there in a few more days, but Chen Yang has no plans to go yet because they don't have the extra energy to develop new areas right now.
Many of them are already scattered around places like the Xindu Camp, the West Boundary River, the Lake Island, the Tianyin Mountains, and the Loess Plateau. Moreover, any new discovery in a certain place will require manpower. Therefore, developing new areas now is not a good idea. In addition, if development is to be carried out, the Cang'er Snow Mountain should be given priority, as everyone has long wanted to go there.
Chen Yang plans to take a break and develop the Cang'er Snow Mountain area in the summer. At that time, the temperature in Cang'er Snow Mountain should be lower, and they will take this opportunity to prepare some warm clothing.
The nettles have been harvested and are being woven into clothing, but they are not warm enough.
By summer, with three times the usual amount of time, those two sheep should be shearable twice, enough to make warm shoes and hats for everyone. As for clothing, since it's still just fur, you'll only need to wear an extra layer for warmth.
However, that's for the summer; right now, the most important thing is the development and construction of the camp.
After the mill was completed, everyone started building houses.
The first thing that needed to be built was the house on the island in the middle of the lake. Chen Yang and Li Sen went to help, and together with Hou Yu's family and Hong Gui, who worked as a blacksmith on the island, they began to build the house next to the spring on the island.
This time, they built a stilt house modeled after the Dai people. The building has two floors: the upper floor is for living, and the lower floor is for storing goods and livestock.
Because the humidity on the island in the middle of the lake is relatively high and the temperature difference is small, if it is isolated from the ground, body heat will not be lost to the ground at night. With some insulation measures, underfloor heating is actually not necessary; a small fireplace would suffice.
Many of the stilt houses of the Dai people are made of bamboo, but their bamboo resources are now limited, and it is basically impossible to transport them from the Xijie River, so they can only use wood.
Fortunately, Hou Yu's family had prepared some wood in advance, so they could continue logging while building.
Yunshi applied some mortise and tenon structures to the stilt house, designing the first floor. The second floor was the same as before, as everyone was already very experienced.
Building a house is no simple task, especially trying to build a house that has never been built before. Chen Yang and his group estimated that they would be staying on the island in the middle of the lake for quite some time.
The third update is here.
(End of this chapter)
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