Chapter 32: There will be bread

Tropical rain forests are the most stable ecosystems with high resistance, high species diversity, and rapid changes in biological communities.
White Pillow lived in the tropical rain forest in the south of the empire from an early age. Because of her familiarity, she is more aware of its danger. In particular, the species on the tropical island has a very high specificity, which is very different from those she is familiar with, so she has always maintained the highest vigilance.
The two proceeded northward, and found some basil, rubber trees, and hibiscus along the way. Huamu even saw a plant similar to sugar cane.
But besides that, the two did not find more, and it was not early.
The entire north coast is almost a sandy beach, and the road was not covered by the cliff until the white pillow bypassed the north shore line.
From the topography, the west side of the island is part of the mountain. As if cut off by a huge force, the entire West Bank is covered with cliffs.
White pillow found some good things here.
Several large trees with a height of more than ten meters grow on the hillside, and the fruit growing on it can be clearly seen with the eyesight of the white pillow. Many of them have matured and the original cyan peel turned yellow.
White Pillow is most familiar with this plant. She used it as a staple food for more than ten years.
Hua Mu saw that there was no road ahead, but the white pillow looked at the top of the hillside and did not return immediately. He asked, "Are n’t we going back?"
The discovery of water sources and spices made her in a good mood, because this at least guaranteed that she would not look too embarrassed when she went back.
White Pillow seemed to be in a good mood, and the questions she asked were a little nervous.
"Miss, do you want to eat bread?"
The location of the bread tree is not far from the coast. If you climb up from the side cliff, you do n’t even need to pass through the rainforest.
Hua Mu did say this when she was most vulnerable yesterday. She wanted to eat bread.
But thinking about it now, this sentence is really shameful, and there is no essential difference from the ancient "why not eat meat emperor" coma.
Where there is no wheat on this island, where is the bread?
"Why suddenly say this, I will just talk about it casually."
"I saw the bread tree, have you eaten it?"
The bread tree exists as a food crop in the tropics, and its fruit is rich in starch. It is named after the bread has a soft and soft taste after baking.
Upon hearing the name at first glance, Huamu thought it was similar to the candy tree in the fairy tale and the chocolate syrup lake, but the sentinel was obviously not a girl of this type, so she also quickly reacted to the name Just called the bread tree.
"I haven't eaten ... is it delicious?"
The white pillow put Hua Mu down, a look missed on his face.
"It contains a lot of starch, and it tastes like bread after baking and it's sour and sweet, you might like it."
So it ’s called bread tree?
Hua Mu is drooling.
She has n’t eaten carbohydrates for almost a month, and now she can chew even if she is given a dry and hard loaf.
"You, where did you see it?" Hua Mu looked towards the hillside, but with limited eyesight, he could not see anything, "Is there any danger?"
Bai Zhen didn't worry about herself, she was worried about Hua Mu.
"I won't be in danger. I can come back in at most ten minutes. But you are here alone, and I am not relieved."
Hua Mu wants to eat bread, even if she just tastes like bread, she also wants to eat it. Protein can't bring satiety for a long time. She feels that she has never been full after coming to the island.
"What's the danger on this beach? Coconut crabs? I won't be scared anymore," she gestured with her cane. "If you really come, you will have another seafood meal."
Just after taking a bath, Hua Mu looked a lot more energetic, and he looked very energetic.
"Well, you are waiting for me here, and I will be back soon."
"go Go."
Hua Mu couldn't wait to eat sweet and sour bread. The white pillow seemed to be quite waiting too. She ran towards the cliff before her words fell.
There are many plants growing on the cliffs, especially the large vines that cover the mountain like a net.
The white pillow jumped up, using both hands and feet, and climbed a distance of five or six meters in just ten seconds.
Where did Hua Mu know that she was going to climb directly from the cliff? I was frightened and screamed again and again.
Is this still dangerous?
"White pillow, I, I don't want to eat, you come down!"
She yelled at the sentry, but the white pillow just turned and waved to her, indicating that she was fine.
Hua Mu looked at her with her hand hanging, her heart hung to her throat, and covered her mouth nervously, not even yelling.
She was afraid of distracting the white pillow and really let her fall.
Come back to her and settle the account!
The white pillow was agile and took only a few minutes to climb from below to the hillside. The two bread trees are more than ten meters high, with thick branches and clumped branches. The oval leaves with split feather edges are very lush. Because the bread tree is a stalk flower plant, the flowers grow directly on the branches, so the fruit grows from the root to the top of the tree.
The bread tree yield is very high, more than nine months a year can produce fruit, and one plant can feed the family. Although the parents of White Pillow died early, they left her with more than a dozen bread trees. With the care of her family, she has never been troubled by food since childhood.
She really misses this kind of food and picks a lot of them unconsciously. After seeing that she couldn't take it back, she stringed the breadfruit on the back with a climbing line, and then climbed off the cliff.
At this point the sea water began to rise, and many nocturnal animals seemed to be preparing to leave the nest. There are many large and small caves on the cliff, and the white pillow suddenly sensed something.
Hua Mu watched nervously as the white pillow carrying a series of football-sized fruits crawling down from the cliff. The agility was not so much more than that of a monkey. It almost fell a dozen meters in a blink of an eye.
But halfway down, White Pillow didn't know why he suddenly changed his direction. He grabbed the vines and jumped to the outside of the cliff for a distance of five or six meters. Huamu almost didn't faint. It didn't take long for the white pillow to shift its direction. She didn't know where she was from the bottom of the original path, and a group of black long-winged creatures fluttered. After flying around, she disappeared in the direction of the rainforest.
White Pillow waited for a while before starting to crawl down again. Hua Mu saw her legs soft, but she did not dare to look away. She waited until White Pillow was about to end before she ran over.
"Don't I say you don't want to eat? What else do you pick!"
As soon as she reached the white pillow, she couldn't help but add up her fists and feet. Although the strength was not very powerful for the sentry, she expressed her anger very well.
Although White Pillow doesn't always understand Hua Mu's girl's heart and soul, she still knows certain aspects of her.
Changing her mind halfway did n’t mean she did n’t really want to eat, but she was just afraid that she was in danger. The way Missy cares about people has fumbled for several years, and she can finally see something.
White Pillow didn't care about the little fist that fell on him. While putting down the fruit on his back, he comforted: "Miss, I'm fine."
"It's okay, you almost scared to death ... cough, I mean if you fall down, isn't the scene scary? I don't care about you."
Seeing her so calm, Hua Mu felt that she was worried about feeding her dog.
White Pillow knew that she shouldn't be taken through at this time, and changed the subject with a smile.
"Miss, I picked a lot, and you will have bread at night."
Hua Mu went to see the seven or eight yellow-green fruits on the ground that were as big as footballs. "What's this, ugly, how can it look a bit like jackfruit."
"Miss, you have a lot of knowledge. The bread tree is also a genus of jackfruit."
Breadfruit is the same as jackfruit, so there are many knobs on the epidermis, and the fruit is also huge.
"Humph, that is." Hua Mu was touted and suddenly forgot the dissatisfaction in his heart, and became curious about the breadfruit. "How to eat this thing, do you want to cut it?"
It was not too early, and White Pillow was afraid that the two would not be able to go back later, and suggested: "Let's go back to the water source, let me tell you on the way."
On the return trip, the white pillow was still carrying Huamu, because there were more supplies found along the way, and the white pillow was covered with things.
Hua Mu supported a few breadfruits to relieve the burden on the shoulders of the white pillow while listening to her knowledge of the popular bread tree.
"In this way, you are considered a big family out of a dozen? A dozen bread trees, ah, will not starve for a lifetime."
Bai Zhen didn't hear Hua Mu's ridicule and said quite seriously: "We have more than one hundred patriarchs, but my family is not much."
"..."
I can't understand even jokes. Who really can see the dozen or so bread trees!
"What did you encounter halfway through?"
Hua Mu decided to change the subject.
"It's a bat. I didn't expect there to be bats on the island. There are a lot of caves on the cliff, and there are some spaces that are not small. I didn't notice that the bats were inside when I came down."
"Bat!" Hua Mu's impression of bats mostly comes from vampire novels, and he can't help but feel a little uneasy. "Can you blood?"
"It shouldn't be. It's probably a fruit bat. It's not too much threat." Fruit bats are the largest bats. The larger individuals can even spread their wings to two meters. Although the group of people you saw just now is not too big, the physical characteristics should be closer to the fruit bat.
In general, vampire bats are very small in size, weighing only forty or fifty grams, and can never grow to such a large size.
Hua Mu was relieved a little, and felt palpitated: "I once heard Derek say that the spirit of a sentry is a vampire bat, and he sucked his guide to death.
White Pillow frowned, "It's impossible, Master Derek is afraid he doesn't understand us."
Derek's father is the queen's cousin and the fifth heir to the throne. There were some signs that he might have participated in the assassination of Huamu, but there was no evidence at all.
And Derek is neither a guide nor a sentry, which makes him not the sixth heir to the throne.
White Pillow has always had no affection for this young master, not only because of his father's lascivious style, but also because he loved to scare Huamu from an early age.
The author has something to say: the bread tree is of the genus Jackfruit, which is different from the baobab tree. Baobabs are plants of the kapok family, which grow on tropical grasslands and adapt to dry climates and cannot grow in tropical rain forests.
But the fruits are delicious.