Chapter 035 Preparing to Start Work

After learning that the big cave could also be equipped with a gate like the Lu family's, the villagers were immediately overjoyed. Only a few people were a little reluctant to provide food, and their eyes flickered.

Li Tie, however, anticipated some people's subtle intentions and snorted coldly, warning with a fierce look on his face, "Let me be frank. If anyone is unwilling to contribute even this little food, move out of the cave and don't try to take advantage of others. And don't say I don't care about your lives. Didn't Lu Xuan tell you yesterday that there are a few caves further away from here? Anyone unwilling to contribute food can move there."

Those who wanted to play tricks immediately shut their mouths.

The whole village was so scared that they couldn't sleep even though they lived together. If they went out to live alone, they would probably scare themselves to death before being killed by wild beasts.

Forget it, it’s just twenty or thirty kilograms of food, who can’t afford it?

This concerns the safety of the entire village, so it is better to do it sooner rather than later. Li Tie asked Lu Xuan to install the security door for them now if possible.

Lu Xuan said, "Let's repair the cave entrance first."

The big cave was formed naturally, and the shape of the cave entrance is irregular. Without proper repair, it is impossible to make it fit the size of the security door completely.

When Li Tie heard this, he thought it made sense, so he quickly called out a few men who often went out to work and help people repair houses. They came over and knocked on the entrance of the cave according to Lu Xuan's request, while he himself went to each household to collect food.

It took about half an hour to repair the entrance. Lu Xuan checked it and made sure there was no problem, then took out the newly bought security door.

"Huh? Why does this door look different from the one used by the Lu family?" someone suddenly asked.

Li Tie also noticed this and questioned Lu Xuan with his eyes.

Lu Xuan asked, "The entrance to the cave is too large. We'll need twice as much material. Can the village afford two thousand kilograms of grain in exchange for a door?"

The villagers, led by Li Tie, said: "This..."

Even Mr. Zhang shook his head and said, "Two thousand pounds is too much."

Lu Xuan said, "So I chose another one with a better price-performance ratio. Don't worry, it's strong enough to handle ordinary beasts. Even if I use twice as much material, the total price will still be two hundred kilograms cheaper than what I use at home."

After saying that, he looked at Li Tie and asked, "Village Chief, do you want my model or this one?"

Li Tie said without hesitation: "I think this one is pretty good!"

The villagers nodded repeatedly. "That's right, since you said this door can keep out wild animals, it's more than enough."

Lu Xuan nodded, "Then I'll install the door right away."

The people in the live broadcast room felt a little funny and speechless when they saw Lu Xuan installing a security door in the big cave.

[They live in a cave, but they use fingerprint security doors... It really doesn't make sense no matter how many times I see it.]

[What's wrong with being incongruous? As long as it's safe, who wouldn't love alloy security doors when facing wild beasts all over the mountains?]

[Tsk tsk, the anchor made a net profit of 800 kilograms without doing anything, he really knows how to run a business.]

[It's really shady, right?! The security door the host brought out is the same model I have at home. I remember it costing 5,000 Star Coins. That's only enough to buy five kilograms of natural food, and even for a larger door, you'd need to buy double that. But the host sold 800 kilograms. Tsk tsk.]

Lu Xuan glanced at the barrage of comments with a look of disapproval.

How could there be anything wrong with the food he earned through his own ability?

If it weren't for him, no one would be able to produce such a high-tech security door, let alone 800 kilograms of food, even if they were given ten times the amount.

He asked for too little, so the villagers inevitably thought that the things given by the gods were cheap and lacked the proper respect. Things like being grateful for a little and then grieving for a big are very common in troubled times.

In order for everyone to continue to live in harmony in the future without having to resort to force, this amount of food is essential.

The anti-theft door was installed quickly. The villagers looked at it in and out of the cave, touched it carefully, and their faces were full of love.

The anti-theft door is equipped with a glass window, which not only allows you to check the situation outside at any time, but is also bulletproof and explosion-proof, making it quite advanced.

"With this door, we can sleep peacefully in the future, right?"

"I heard that you need to press your fingerprint to enter this door, right?"

Lu Xuan looked at the person who spoke speechlessly and said, "There's no way to enter all the fingerprints of over a hundred people. We can only enter and exit with a password."

He simply set the password to yesterday's date as a commemoration of the beginning of their life in the mountains.

As for the key cards, there were three of them. He kept one as a backup and gave the other two to the village chief, asking him to hand them over to the right people.

The village chief looked at the villagers around him who were looking at him expectantly, and silently put all the key cards into his arms.

The villagers immediately looked away in disappointment.

Forget it. If I really get the key, it would be terrible if I lost it. Anyway, I have the password, so it’s much easier.

Soon, everyone took advantage of the excitement and started trying to lock the door, open the door with the password, lock it and open it again, having a lot of fun.

"Move aside, let me try to see if this door is really strong." Xiong Mao pushed away the people around him, clenched his fist and blew a sound at his mouth, then without waiting for others to stop him, he punched the alloy door hard.

The villagers cried out in fear, and Li Tie yelled angrily, "Xiong Mao! What are you doing? What if you break the door?"

The others also became anxious after they came to their senses. Yes, this was the door they had bought with 800 kilograms of grain. If it was smashed, could Xiong Mao afford the compensation?

Thinking of this, everyone looked over worriedly, only to find that the security door was intact, but Xiong Mao's fist was obviously red and swollen.

Villagers: “…Pfft.”

The audience in the live broadcast room laughed so hard.

[Is he trying to be funny? This is made of a special alloy. Even a Level 3 psychic can only slightly deform it with a punch. If an ordinary person could cause damage with just a single punch, the production company would be bankrupt.]

[As expected, Xiong Mao is a simple-minded fool with strong limbs.]

Su Ying, who failed to stop Xiong Mao, saw in the crowd that he had indeed made a fool of himself. The corners of her mouth twitched and she looked a little speechless.

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief and felt completely at ease.

Although Xiong Mao certainly cannot be compared with ferocious beasts, his sturdiness does make people feel at ease.

Li Tie simply handed the collected grain to Lu Xuan.

The extra two hundred kilograms were mixed together and it was difficult to return them, so I just kept them as food for the upcoming period of time when we would eat from the same pot, so as to avoid having to hand them over every day.

No one has any objection to this.

The door was installed, breakfast was eaten, and everyone quickly got to work.

Their main task today was to clear out a space in front of the cave that was large enough for them to move around.

The big cave and the small cave are located at the foot of a huge stone mountain, stretching for hundreds of meters on both sides. The Lu family's small cave is located on the left side of the big cave, and the other caves mentioned earlier are a little further to the right.

Except for the stone mountain, the other three sides are covered with dense forests. A dozen meters in front of the cave are towering trees.

The branches of the giant tree are very dense. How dense are they?

It can probably completely cover the area with a radius of more than ten meters between the tree trunk and the cave, so that this area is completely shrouded in the shade of the tree.

It is because of the shade of these trees that the temperature under the trees is 32 degrees. Once you leave the shade, the temperature rises by at least four or five degrees. The closer it gets to noon, the higher the temperature.

Someone tried to walk out of the shade of the tree and stand there for a while. After maybe a dozen breaths, his face and back were already wet.

The others were immediately reluctant to go out, but if they wanted to use the area under the giant tree as their daily living area, they had to first cut down the trees growing under the giant tree.

These trees are blocked from most of the sunlight by the branches of giant trees, and they do not grow very well. However, they are trees in the deep mountains after all, and they are at least several decades old. Their trunks are quite thick, so it is not easy to cut them down.

Yesterday, we only cleared a small area near the hole where we cook, where weeds as tall as a person's calf were growing. We will continue weeding today.

In addition, the huge rock fragments in front of the cave that were smashed by Lu Xuan also need to be moved away.

Although it is called broken pieces, in fact, except for a small number of severely broken pieces, most young and strong people can only pick up one piece at a time.

There is a lot of work to do.

Li Tie assigned the work to everyone. The young and strong people were given the task of felling trees, while the women, the elderly, and the children over ten years old were responsible for weeding. A small number of people who were not able to move around were left behind, such as Wei Xiang's lame father and Ye Jing, the pregnant daughter-in-law of Carpenter Ye. Su Ying volunteered to take care of the younger children to prevent them from running around and getting lost.

Getting lost in the mountains is no joke.

"Village chief, what should we do if we don't have enough machetes? We can't use the farm tools to cut down trees." Someone looked embarrassed while holding a hoe in his hand.

Li Tie asked: "How many machetes are there now?"

"There are only eighteen. There are three other houses that have saws."

Li Tie was a little embarrassed.

Lu Xuan said: "I can provide some machetes. I happened to buy a lot in the capital."

As he spoke, he looked at the young and strong men who were assigned to cut down trees, and directly replenished the machetes according to the number of people.

The villagers were stunned when they saw him take out dozens of machetes at once.

No, buy so much! ?

A machete costs at least half a tael of silver. How could he have spent more than ten taels just on buying it?

How much food can be bought with so much silver!!!

The villagers, who were originally quite proud of having machetes, looked down at the old machetes with missing teeth in their hands, and then looked at the brand new iron knife that Lu Xuan took out, and the corners of their mouths suddenly couldn't curl up.

Li Tie sighed in his heart at Lu Xuan's generosity, and soon became happy, "With so many machetes, the work will be much easier."

Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows, casually ordered a few things in the mall, and took them all out.

The villagers, who were already beaming with joy at the new machetes, brightened up when they saw him pull out several more unfamiliar objects.

"Did the gods send you something again?"

Lu Xuan corrected: "It's not a gift, I exchanged it with the immortal."

Everyone gathered around, looking at these strange things and asking curiously, "What did you exchange with the gods for?"

Lu Xuan pointed to the machine on the left and said, "This electric saw has similar uses to a saw, but it's more efficient at cutting down trees."

He pointed to something on the right that looked like a vacuum cleaner and said, "This is a weed eater. As the name suggests, it's a machine for weeding."

Knowing that they were curious about how to use it, Lu Xuan demonstrated it to them directly.