Chapter 66 We want to go down the mountain, but we mustn't disturb Lu Xuan!
The viewers in the live stream and the villagers who had found good spots to watch the excitement all lit up and exclaimed, "Wow!"
The villagers, once again acting on their instincts, began to clap and cheer!
Lu Xuan: "..." I already said it wasn't a circus act.
He could process rice and flour faster than minced meat. Under his control, the refined rice and bran in the box were directly separated into two layers. He poured out the top layer of bran and bran, leaving behind the pure, unblemished refined rice and flour.
Because of the extremely high level of precision in the process, the freshly processed rice and flour retain their integrity and nutritional value to the greatest extent possible. The grains are plump and shiny, and any grain store would price them as the highest quality.
More than 3,000 kilograms of rice and flour were processed in the blink of an eye. The speed was so fast that the viewers in the live broadcast room and the villagers were left wanting more, feeling that they hadn't had enough.
Because the loss rate was minimized, a total of 2,800 catties of refined rice and flour were produced, and about 300 catties of rice bran and wheat bran were also produced.
There's no need to worry about wasting rice bran and wheat bran. The former can be refined into rice bran oil for stir-frying, while the latter can be used to make various kinds of noodles. Although the texture is not as delicate as noodles made from refined flour, the taste is still quite good.
The rice bran residue left over from oil refining is actually edible, but the Lu family has no shortage of food, so they only plan to keep the rice bran residue as fertilizer or animal feed.
While Lu Xuan was processing the coarse grains, Lu Qing and the other women, as usual, made preparations in advance—preparing the fillings.
The minced meat was prepared yesterday. Today, I mainly need to dice or mince the cabbage, mushrooms, scallions, chives, scrambled eggs, fish, and other ingredients. I mix the ingredients that need to be mixed with the minced meat with the other ingredients separately.
In addition to savory flavors, three sweet flavors are also available: brown sugar filling, red bean paste filling, and jujube paste filling.
This makes the air today filled not only with the aroma of meat, but also with a rich, sweet fragrance that can make your teeth ache.
Once the three fillings were ready, the audience had already started to feast without Lu Xuan even having to urge them on.
It's sweet and smells delicious!
With the fillings prepared, it's time for the main event.
The first things to make are spring pancakes, stuffed pancakes, dumplings, and wontons, which don't require proofing. Once the dough has proofed, you can make steamed buns, twisted rolls, fried dough sticks, and so on.
The above are noodle dishes, while rice products are mainly porridge and rice.
There's plain rice, as well as fried rice with various ingredients like meat and vegetables.
We also need to make some rice balls and crispy rice crusts.
There are even more types of porridge: meat porridge, mushroom porridge, fish porridge, egg porridge, vegetable porridge, red bean porridge, and mung bean porridge can all be made.
As the audience frantically shoveled rice and porridge into their mouths, they exclaimed, "The ancients really knew how to enjoy life! They even made the simple act of eating porridge incredibly sophisticated!"
[I've got a great idea! Could we process the nutritional supplement using the methods our ancestors used to make porridge? That way, the taste would be better too! Essentially, we'd be enjoying some natural rice porridge!]
[…What a brilliant rounding technique! You're so clever!]
Is this an insult or a compliment?
[Bravo! It's too difficult to get natural rice and noodles, but if it's just some vegetables or mushrooms, you can easily manage to get a pound or two. Add a little bit to each nutritional supplement, and it'll be enough for several meals.]
[Wow! I never thought of this before! Starting tomorrow, I'll be camped out at the Star Alliance Mall to snag some vegetables!]
Because making dumplings and buns takes a long time, Lu Qing asked more women to help with the filling.
The women in the village prepare these foods beforehand, and they wrap them up very quickly. The older they get, the faster they can wrap them, all thanks to the experience they've accumulated over the years.
Seeing that he had no opportunity to use his skills, Lu Xuan simply went to Liu Daxi's place to help make tofu.
He can still use his superpower to grind soybeans.
Amidst the busyness, some people even came up to ask Lu Xuan what he had been doing last night.
Zhang Chengming, who had been feeling hot and bothered all night because he had eaten wolf meat the day before, even wondered if he had gone into the woods, cough cough... those who know, know.
Lu Xuan gave him a cool look. "I just got a really good thing from a god yesterday, and I took it out to look at it."
The viewers in the live stream burst out laughing, but after laughing, they felt a little wistful.
For some reason, they always felt that although Lu Xuan, the streamer, was very powerful, he seemed to have nothing to do with worldly desires.
When Su Ying flirted with him, Lu Xuan didn't even glance at her, let alone take the bait. He was completely unlike a normal man.
Viewers secretly speculated that the anchor might be asexual.
While they were racing along in their wildly imaginary paths for countless light-years, in reality, Zhang Chengming and the others couldn't help but feel envious.
Did the gods give Lu Xuan something good again?
The gods are too kind to him!
But what kind of large object, or rather, how large, could produce such a loud noise that even shook the ground?
Lu Xuan: "..."
That's huge! It's a whole villa!
Lu Xuan glanced at the curious villagers and said, "I'll show it to you when I have the chance."
Some people wanted to suggest showing it now, but then they remembered how badly the villagers had been frightened the night before, and changed their minds, saying, "It's a deal then. You must show it to us when you have the chance to broaden our horizons!"
While the Lu family was bustling with activity, a group of people were not paying attention to them. Instead, they gathered together and whispered something before finding Li Tie, who had returned to the cave to cool off.
One of them stepped forward as a representative and said to Li Tie with a serious expression, "Village Chief, we want to go down the mountain!"
"Cough, cough, cough—" Li Tie, who was holding a pipe and looking through the accounts of public supplies, was suddenly choked by the smoke and looked at the people in front of him in astonishment. "What did you say!? Going down the mountain? Why would we go down the mountain in the first place?"
Zhou Yunshan said with a stern face, "We want to go down the mountain to see if we can find our married daughter."
Li Tie opened his mouth, looked at the people who had come looking for him, and was instantly speechless.
Yunlu Village has more than 40 households. Seven of them have married out of the village. Besides their family and the Liu family who make tofu, there are five other families. The people in front of us are from these five families.
The Liu family didn't come because before the disaster, Liu Heshi detained her and her grandson despite her daughter's objections.
After the major earthquake, the Liu family became the only family among all those whose daughters had married out of the village to be reunited.
Every time his wife saw Liu Yu, she would regret not having forced A Yue to stay as well.
Li Tie himself must have regretted it too.
He silently took two puffs of his cigarette, and after a long while said, "Have you thought it through? Are you really going? Those villages might be like ours, swallowed up by the earthquake and left with nothing. Even if you go looking, you might not get any good results."
Li Tie sighed, "Although I don't know what the situation is down the mountain, with earthquakes and extreme heat coming one after another, the world must be in chaos. Putting aside whether we can find anyone, if we encounter other disaster victims, your own safety may not be guaranteed. If you encounter any danger, the villagers will not be able to come to your aid."
Zhou Yunshan nodded and said, "We've thought about all of this, but how will we know the outcome if we don't try? Our village survived, didn't we? We warned the surrounding villages, and perhaps some of them, like us, went up the mountain to hide and survived."
Another villager nearby said, "If I don't go looking for her once, I'll always be worried about her and won't be able to sleep. My husband keeps dreaming that our daughter is covered in blood and screaming for help..."
The others couldn't help but have their eyes redden slightly.
Li Tie cautioned, "It's getting hotter and hotter now, and without shade at the foot of the mountain, it will only get hotter..."
Zhou Yunshan: "We will bring more cooling patches. Old Zhao's son is on the hunting team and has changed into a bio-suit. If it gets too hot, he can change into it. There shouldn't be any major problems."
Old Zhao nodded.
Thinking of the Li family's situation, Zhou Yunshan said, "Village Chief, your Li Yue..."
Li Tie paused slightly, "My family doesn't plan to find anyone. If something happens to her, it's just her bad luck."
The group looked at each other, speechless for a moment.
After a moment, a thin, middle-aged man who had been silent said, "Then can we ask Lu Xuan to come with us? He's strong, and with him there, the chances of finding the person are higher."
"No way!" Li Tie, who had been calm all along, suddenly turned serious. "Lu Xuan doesn't have any married sisters, so why should we let him go? Go ask the other villagers if they agree."
Although Lu Xuan always seemed reluctant to take on responsibilities, his extensive help to the village had long made him a pillar of support for everyone.
Having Lu Xuan present or not present evokes completely different feelings.
This is also why he was nervous last night after thinking there had been an earthquake but then learning that Lu Xuan was missing.
While others marveled at Lu Xuan's ever-growing strength, he secretly worried that the gods might take Lu Xuan away one day because they liked him too much, leaving them unable to find him.
Thankfully, it was just a misunderstanding last night.
Li Tie warned firmly, "Go ahead and look for people, I won't stop you, but you're not allowed to bother Lu Xuan. Don't think I'm selfish, as the village chief, I have an obligation to protect more people, and I can't just disregard the wishes of the rest of the village for the sake of your few families."
He not only stopped them from going to find Lu Xuan, but he himself also had no intention of testing Lu Xuan's intentions.
He didn't even ask them to keep an eye out for Li Yue's whereabouts while they were there; he didn't have the nerve to ask.
Part of the reason was that he didn't really believe they would gain anything from this trip.
“We understand what you mean, we’ll find it ourselves.” Zhou Yunshan nodded understandingly. “Then let’s pack up and set off as soon as possible while it’s still early.”
The group quickly left the village chief's house.
After they went outside, Zhou Yunshan told the others to quickly pack their luggage, and then he and Lao Zhao got together to discuss how much dry food and water to bring.
The two didn't notice that two villagers exchanged glances, and instead of returning to their own curtained houses, they ignored the village chief's warning and left the cave to find Lu Xuan.
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Author's Note: My collection count hasn't increased, and the release date seems far off. I'm torn between whether to take a break from updating... [crying][crying][crying]
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