Chapter 77: Mobile Medical Containers Safeguard Your Love. ...
Processing fruit is much faster than processing meat. Even with the 1200 jin of fruit traded with the village chief, it was all finished in one morning.
Lu Xuan stored the majority of the finished products in a separate spatial bead, leaving only a small amount for the helpers' wages and food for his own family.
Other families in the village who were also busy drying fruit had also dried a lot of fruit, and following Lu Xuan's suggestion, they took some to make tea.
Some people only choose one type of dried fruit to make tea, while others use a variety to make a mixed fruit tea, but no matter which one they choose, the taste is very good.
Zhang Chengming even came over to ask Lu Xuan to help him chill it, and the icy-cold fruit tea tasted even better.
"I never imagined that dried fruit could make such delicious tea." The villagers sipped their fruit tea while enjoying the air conditioning, their faces full of admiration.
"The wild fruits I used to pick at the foot of the mountain were sour and astringent, and they didn't taste very good when brewed into tea. The reason why this tea tastes so good is all thanks to Lu Xuan's magic."
"I thought Lu Xuan already knew enough immortal techniques, but I didn't expect him to have the ability to create ice. With this ability, wouldn't he be able to drink cold drinks anytime during the hottest season? Why don't I have this ability?"
"Who says otherwise? Why did the immortals only give Lu Xuan so many abilities? It would be great if they gave me one too."
"What are you daydreaming about? Why would an immortal teach you immortal techniques? Are you better looking than Lu Xuan, or smarter than him?"
"Can't I even think about it?"
"There's no use thinking about it. I should be content with being able to benefit from Lu Xuan's influence and receive some of the immortal's blessings in this lifetime."
At that moment, they could never have imagined that their dream would actually come true in the near future.
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Having a rare free time in the afternoon, Lu Xuan greeted the audience and then turned off the live stream to take a nap and relax.
But unexpectedly...
"What are you all doing?" Lu Xuan, who had just woken up, looked at the several thatched houses that had sprung up in a corner of the square with a subtle expression.
He only took a nap, which took no more than an hour, and yet he started building the house.
[Just kidding, it seems the streamer missed a lot while sleeping!]
Why did they suddenly decide to build houses? Was the cave not big enough, or was the air conditioning not cool enough?
Xiong Mao said, "Don't you know what it is after seeing it? Building houses."
Lu Xuan: "Why build a house for no reason?"
Holding a pile of hay, Zhang Chengming sighed, "You're not married, you don't understand our suffering."
Lu Xuan glanced at the few who were working the hardest: Li Jing, Zhang Chengming, Xiong Mao, Liu Daxi's son Liu Chun, Zhang Gui, Zhou Lin...
These people are so distinctive, what's there to not understand? It's just adult stuff.
The people in the live stream are all adults, so naturally they can understand it.
[Hahaha—! It seems they're finding it inconvenient to spend the night in this big cave, so they're getting restless and deciding to find a new place!]
I suspected this day would come when these people got sick from eating wolf meat, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon.
[After all, they're both in their prime, and it's not like they don't have wives. Anyone would get tired of holding it in all the time. I can understand, I can understand, hehe.]
Lu Xuan twitched the corner of his lips. "Stop making a fuss, it's pointless to cover it up."
Zhang Chengming was puzzled. "How can it be a waste of money? We agreed on how we would take turns living there."
Li Jing nodded silently.
The viewers in the live stream thought Lu Xuan was just envious of someone having a wife and was deliberately trying to pick a fight. They were about to make a few sarcastic remarks when Lu Xuan said coolly, "Because there will be an earthquake tomorrow, even if you build it now, it will collapse tomorrow."
Zhang Chengming and others: !!!
Live stream viewers: !!!
Longtime fans carefully recalled the disaster occurrence time shown on the weather app, and it seems... there really will be an earthquake in the next couple of days.
They completely forgot!
Xiong Mao gasped, exclaiming, "Are you serious?! Does that mean he and his wife can't get intimate again?!"
The commotion quickly drew the attention of onlookers, who panicked upon learning that another earthquake was expected the next day.
Li Tie also got anxious, slapping his thigh and saying, "Why didn't you say so sooner!"
Lu Xuan said calmly, "Talking about it too early is pointless except for making you too anxious to eat. Don't worry, this earthquake isn't strong enough to crack the cave or the plaza; it'll just shake a bit at most."
Once the earthquake was mentioned, Lu Xuan went on to say a little more.
"In the years since the disasters began, large-scale disasters have indeed taken two or three months to change, but earthquakes can happen every ten days to half a month, or even a month. You'd better get used to it sooner rather than later."
The villagers nearly vomited blood upon hearing this.
They don't want to get used to this!
That evening, the villagers were all so worried that they couldn't eat dinner, couldn't sleep peacefully, and some even wanted to stay outside.
...Then the mosquitoes in the mountains taught him a lesson, and he returned to the cave covered in bites.
That wasn't the end of it. While everyone believed in Lu Xuan's abilities, they were also worried about the possibility of something going wrong. Before dawn, they started moving supplies to the square, fearing that the hard-won supplies would be buried.
Seeing this, Lu Qing and Lei Yan couldn't help but say, "Should we also pack up our supplies and furniture? It would be such a waste if such nice things got damaged."
Lu Xuan waved his hand, "No need, let's have breakfast first."
The villagers had been busy all day and finally took a breather. When they turned around, they saw the Lu family sitting together eating breakfast as if nothing had happened.
Everyone: "..."
For a moment, they felt like clowns.
After breakfast, Lu Xuan checked the time. "They're coming soon."
Less than three breaths after he finished speaking, the ground began to shake.
With the familiar tremor, the terrifying memories that had been so hard to forget were rekindled. Although the tremor was indeed far less intense than the last time, many villagers still collapsed to the ground on the spot.
The heavily pregnant Ye Jing was so frightened that she went into labor and cried out in pain. Ye the carpenter and Ye Lin, disregarding the earthquake, tried to stabilize their swaying bodies while carefully protecting Ye Jing from falling.
About thirty breaths later, the ground returned to calm. Except for a few villagers who were so frightened that they touched the ground and got some scratches, most of them were unharmed.
Seeing that Ye Jing's face was pale, Lu Xuan asked Lu Qing to give her a pill to prevent miscarriage. As soon as the pill was taken, Ye Jing's face visibly became rosy.
The village chief led a group to assess the damage from the earthquake... but in reality, there was hardly any damage to speak of.
Apart from the fact that some of the fences around the square were loose and needed to be re-secured, none of the not-so-sturdy stoves were damaged.
If there was any damage, it was that the thatched houses that held the dreams of Zhang Chengming, Xiong Mao, and other young men for a wonderful nightlife collapsed one by one.
A group of young men surrounded the ruins of the thatched house, their expressions filled with deep sorrow and regret.
Especially Xiong Mao, who had a beautiful wife and was the most frustrated, had a ferocious expression that looked like he was about to eat someone up at any moment.
The viewers in the live stream felt both sympathy and amusement.
[So tragic, but so funny, lol.]
[Why don't you lend them a hand? They've had a tough time.]
[Didn't the streamer draw a single-player safe house? Why don't we lend it to them?]
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow. Lend them the safe house to do their business? What would that make him? The owner of a love hotel?
Forget it.
However... there are other ways to solve this problem.
"Stop staring blankly at each other. You just want to get things done by blocking the sound and preventing others from seeing you, right? I have what you need here," Lu Xuan said calmly.
A group of young men turned around quickly, their eyes like those of wolves and tigers. "What is that?"
The audience guessed it was probably a tent.
The streamer did indeed win several tents of different sizes in the draw, but hadn't had a chance to use them yet.
But tents don't block out sound either. What's the difference between using a tent in a cave and the curtains that the villagers are using?
A moment later, Lu Xuan built a model room for the village chief's family inside the cave.
The audience suddenly realized what was going on when they saw the small house that looked both familiar and unfamiliar.
It turns out to be a mobile modular hospital!
As the name suggests, this is a modular house similar to a modern container house, which can be disassembled and assembled. The material is lighter and stronger than that of modern container houses, and the total weight is only ten kilograms.
In the Covenant, such rudimentary dwellings are only used in the slums of remote, technologically underdeveloped planets. However, for the ancients, mobile cabins were a very practical and useful alternative to safe houses.
And it perfectly meets the needs of young people like Li Jing and Zhang Chengming, with outstanding sound insulation!
Lu Xuan specifically let them enter the makeshift hospital to experience it. No matter how loudly the people inside shouted, they couldn't hear any noise outside.
Zhang Chengming and the others were overjoyed.
With such a good mobile modular unit, why bother building thatched houses!
Moreover, this makeshift hospital is incredibly cheap, costing only 50 kilograms of supplies, the same price as a bio-suit, making it affordable for almost everyone.
Li Tie rubbed his hands excitedly: "With this makeshift hospital, won't we no longer have to worry about not having a place to live?"
He hadn't forgotten that Lu Xuan had said they wouldn't be staying here for long, and that they might not be able to find a large enough cave elsewhere to house the entire village.
With mobile modular housing, they can reassemble it and live anywhere they go.
Lu Xuan said, "Mobile cabins are soundproof and breathable, and they can also keep out the rain, but they can't block out hot and cold air. Once winter comes..." Sleeping in a mobile cabin can freeze a person into an ice pop.
Compared to tents, the only advantage of modular housing is sound insulation.
It was precisely because its functions were too rudimentary that it was eliminated by most planets in the Star Alliance, and only marginal planets with overlapping economic strengths used it.
Li Tie let out a sigh of regret, but then he thought that you get what you pay for, and you can't expect too much from the price of fifty kilograms of supplies.
Every household in the village that needed supplies came over to exchange for a mobile shelter. Apart from mixing in 10 to 20 kilograms of grain, the rest of the 50 kilograms of supplies were replaced with meat, fruit, and other items.
Soon, more than twenty mobile cabins were added inside the cave.
In addition to the four walls and the roof, the makeshift hospital is also equipped with spare partitions that can be divided into two or three small rooms, which can avoid the embarrassment of the elders at home when young people are doing things.
Viewers in the live stream couldn't help but joke: "Mobile shelter, protecting your love."
The makeshift hospital's miraculous function allowed the villagers to quickly forget the fear brought by the earthquake.
That evening, the young people who moved into the mobile cabin finally got their wish and had an extremely passionate night. Many "old married couples" who had been married for more than ten years rediscovered a bit of the sweetness of newlyweds for the first time.
Two days after the villagers moved into the cabin.
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow at Li Tie, "You mean the village is planning to grow vegetables?"
Lei Yan and Lu Qing, who were sitting on the other sofa, couldn't help but brighten up.
Li Tie nodded, "It's getting even hotter these past few days. Many of the wild vegetables the gathering team found are too old to eat, and mushrooms can only be found near the waterfall. The fresh vegetables that each family brought when they went into the mountains are almost gone. If we don't grow some ourselves, we're afraid we'll only be able to eat meat every meal in the future."
Live stream viewers: !!! Listen to this nonsense! It's so Versailles-esque! Isn't it good to eat meat every day?
Lu Xuan asked, "You only grow vegetables and not grains?"
Li Tie sighed, "Of course I want to grow grain, but it's the wrong season. I'm afraid the seedlings will wither in the sun after only a few days..."
Halfway through the conversation, he thought of Lu Xuan's fertility-inducing magic, and his heart stirred.
But they quickly lost their nerve.
The village has over a hundred mouths to feed; they can't all rely on Lu Xuanyang. What would they become then?
Unexpectedly, Lu Xuan offered, "Don't worry about the season, I can help."
"Really!?" Li Tie stood up excitedly.
“However…” Lu Xuan changed the subject, “I need to move first.”
Li Tie's expression changed drastically. "What!?"
Lu Qing and Lei Yan also stared wide-eyed in surprise.
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