Chapter 14 Treasure Hunt in the Mountains This beehive is so big, how much honey can we harvest from it...?
Having found five or six Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms in a row, Lu Xuan was in a great mood, and the audience's enthusiasm also increased significantly. Whenever a suspicious plant appeared on camera, people would leave frantic comments to warn him.
[Quick! Anchor! We've spotted one at the eight o'clock position! And it looks like there's more than one! Go pick them! They're worth a fortune!]
How much can this sell for? A thousand taels? Or a few hundred taels?
Lu Xuan walked closer and took a look, then said speechlessly, "It won't even sell for a tael. This isn't Ganoderma lucidum; it's a mushroom."
Interstellar people, Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms, can't tell the difference.
As Lu Xuan picked the mushrooms from under the tree, he shared some knowledge with the interstellar audience, "This is a type of mushroom called 'hazel mushroom,' also known as honey fungus. It's not very valuable, but it has a smooth and refreshing taste, making it the top choice for making chicken stew with mushrooms."
Once you find one mushroom, you can definitely find more nearby. He looked around and sure enough, he found a lot of hazel mushrooms growing under the other trees.
What are we waiting for? Of course we'll pick them all!
Although it doesn't fetch a high price, it's perfectly fine to preserve as an ingredient, and it's delicious whether stir-fried or used in soup.
Especially in ancient times when there was no artificial MSG, dried mushrooms ground into powder were a natural flavor enhancer and seasoning, so storing more wouldn't hurt.
After picking the hazel mushrooms, Lu Xuan found chicken leg mushrooms in another grove of trees more than a hundred meters away.
Chicken leg mushrooms generally grow in spring and autumn, probably because the mountains are shady and the air is relatively humid. Even though it is summer now, many still grow around here.
Chicken leg mushrooms taste a little different from hazel mushrooms, each with its own unique flavor. Lu Xuan, of course, wouldn't be picky and continued to collect all the ones he could find.
Once he was certain that there were no more fish that had slipped through his net within sight, Lu Xuan moved to another location to continue his search for valuable and precious medicinal herbs.
Perhaps he was just really lucky today?
As darkness approached, Lu Xuan discovered a wild ginseng that was quite large. This ginseng had long and dense roots and had already taken on a fairly complete human shape.
He had seen what a hundred-year-old ginseng looked like at an auction he attended before the apocalypse, and his family had also secretly kept one. This wild ginseng was noticeably 'fatter' than the ones he had seen before, and it must have been at least two or three hundred years old.
The audience had already heard Lu Xuan say that the hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum was very valuable, and now many of them were overly excited, urging him to pick it quickly and go down the mountain to sell it so they could have some fun.
Lu Xuan: "..." Does he think I'm stupid for coming down the mountain so quickly?
If you've already achieved this much on the first day, how much more can you expect in the following days?
He won't easily leave the mountain unless he gets what he wants.
However, it was indeed very late today. Lu Xuan found a small cave nearby that had not been occupied by wild animals as his lodging for the night. He lit a fire, took out some mushrooms and roe deer meat skewers, grilled them, and had a simple dinner.
There wasn't much to do livestream from inside the cave, so Lu Xuan simply said goodbye to his viewers and ended the livestream, then started counting the afternoon's gift earnings again.
Picking Ganoderma lucidum and digging ginseng were quite a spectacle, bringing Lu Xuan over 10,000 star coins as gifts. After buying the space ring, he only had a little over 2,000 points left. After exchanging the newly acquired gifts, his total points rose to over 4,000.
This amount of points is clearly not enough to buy another 100 cubic meter space equipment, but even if it were enough, Lu Xuan has no plans to buy any more for the time being.
That night, Lu Xuan slept soundly amidst the howls of wolves and the cries of many unidentified animals. With the blood-sucking vines secretly planted around him, he slept without any psychological burden until dawn.
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The next day, Lu Xuan woke up early, turned on his live stream, washed up quickly in a nearby stream, grabbed a quick bite, and then continued his treasure hunt for the next day.
My luck wasn't great this morning; I only found some common medicinal herbs, including the large and small thistles I'd picked the previous two times, as well as honeysuckle, isatis root, and mint. They won't fetch a high price, but they're good enough for our daily use.
It wasn't until nearly noon, when Lu Xuan was considering whether to find a place to have lunch, that he made another discovery.
It wasn't that some precious medicinal herb was discovered, but rather that rows of naturally irregularly shaped honeycomb combs were found under a towering tree with a trunk diameter of nearly two meters, connected between thick branches, forming a huge honeycomb that was more than one meter wide and more than half a meter long.
Each honeycomb was teeming with bees, and many more were active nearby.
Lu Xuan's eyes lit up slightly when he saw those nests.
The presence of a honeycomb means—there is honey!
At first, the viewers in the live stream didn't understand why Lu Xuan suddenly became so energetic, until he explained it briefly and they realized what was going on.
[...The mutated bees in interstellar space are huge and venomous. I almost forgot that in ancient times, before bees mutated, the honey they collected was edible!]
I once watched a streamer from the past who also managed to get some honey. It tasted incredibly sweet when mixed with water!!! So much better than artificial fruit juice!
[I want to eat this! The streamer will make it!]
This honeycomb is so big, I wonder how much honey we can harvest from it!
Lu Xuan smiled and said with a smile, "I counted roughly, and this honeycomb has eight rows of honeycombs. Although not all of the honeycombs contain honey, such a large honeycomb should yield at least several dozen kilograms of honey, enough to last us a long time."
Someone in the live chat asked if bees sting people, and whether he would get pricked all over his body while collecting honey.
Lu Xuan said, "Of course we can't cut it directly."
As everyone knows, the method of harvesting honey in the wild is nothing more than smoking.
However, beehives in rocky caves and similar places can indeed be smoked at will. Lighting a fire in the mountains just to smoke out bees... If you accidentally set fire to the surrounding trees and bushes and start a wildfire, it's no joke.
While telling the audience the rule that "setting fire to the mountain will land you in jail for life," Lu Xuan contradicted his words by picking up some branches and damp fallen leaves, piling them up, and taking out his tinderbox.
Why does the streamer say one thing and do another?
[Lighting a fire in the mountains is no joke, streamer, don't get yourself into trouble.]
[While I'd also love to see the streamer earn honey, burning down a mountain for a little food is a bit unethical.]
[What do you mean "a little bit"? It's downright immoral!]
Even putting aside the possibility of it going wrong, the streamer's fire is way too far from the beehive; it shouldn't be able to smoke out the bees.
Lu Xuan calmly lit the fire, watching the thick smoke rise slowly, and said, "The area around the beehive is full of weeds, and it's too close to the tree. Once it's lit, it won't be able to be stopped. As for not being able to be smoked... the wind will blow it away and it will be smoked."
Just as the audience was about to ask where the wind was coming from, a gust of wind precisely blew the thick smoke in the direction of the hive, and the originally peaceful bees were immediately agitated by the smoke.
Audience: !!! What a coincidence!
[The streamer is so lucky!]
[It just happened out of nowhere; is the streamer's mouth blessed?]
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow, "There's such a thing as 'consecration' in interstellar space?"
[Yes, it's a cultural legacy left by our ancestors. The host hasn't even answered yet, how do you know there was wind? I watched the live stream all morning, and there was absolutely no wind where you are today.]
Lu Xuan said leisurely, "Who knows? Maybe it's just that the weather has changed."
Audience: Really? I don't believe it.
Why not when the weather changes? It just so happens that the wind comes just when you're about to smoke out the beehive.
There's definitely something wrong!
If you asked them what the problem was, if Lu Xuan hadn't previously revealed the mutated vampire vine, clearly demonstrating his wood-type ability, they might have guessed he was a wind-type ability user. But now…
Uh, that shouldn't be possible, right?
He's a wood-type, how could he possibly be a wind-type?
Yes, it must be a coincidence!
While the audience was suspicious of Lu Xuan's actions, many bees in the hive were startled and flew around wildly. Because Lu Xuan had been quite far away from the beginning, the bees did not realize that he was the one who was behind it.
After waiting for another ten minutes or so, many bees were scared away, and only a few were still flying around the hive in a daze.
Lu Xuan saw that the time was right and went over.
He first checked the condition of the honeycomb to confirm which honeycomb contained honey, then opened the system store and bought several eco-friendly plastic boxes for storing honey from the daily necessities category.
As a simple everyday container for holding things, this thing isn't expensive. You can buy several large ones with just a few dozen points, enough to hold honey.
It took Lu Xuan about fifteen minutes to harvest most of the honey.
He picked up the full box, padded it slightly, and smiled with satisfaction: "This box should have about ten pounds of honey."
He filled three boxes in total, and one box was only half full, which together weighed more than 30 kilograms.
Pure, natural wild honey is a valuable product even in modern times with superior living conditions. Not only does it taste good, but it also has many benefits such as moisturizing the lungs and relieving constipation, detoxifying, relieving hangovers, reducing inflammation, and beautifying the skin.
Lu Xuan didn't care about its effects, but he said that the taste of honey was hard to resist.
Besides, sweet things were not cheap in ancient times. Dozens of kilograms of wild honey should have been worth at least several dozen taels of silver, right?
Of course, he could earn enough money selling medicinal herbs, but he didn't plan to sell the honey. He would keep it for himself to eat slowly and also to help the Lu family, whose living conditions had never been very good, to improve their health.
He put away the three full boxes of honey, leaving the one that was only half full. He broke off a piece and put it in his mouth. The rich and sweet honey instantly filled his mouth. It was very sweet, but if you tasted it carefully, you could also taste a slight sourness in the sweetness.
Yes, that's the taste!
These honeys contain many different floral scents, so they could probably be considered wildflower honey. The more intense floral scents allow Lu Xuan to roughly determine what flowering plants are nearby, thus gaining insight into the resources available in the area.
The audience watched as Lu Xuan, lost in thought, savored the honey, and their mouths watered.
【Ughhhh, I've been looking for ages and I can't smell anything at all! I'm going crazy!!】
Give me just one bite! Please!
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