Chapter 84 Discovery of bamboo forest, bamboo fruits, bamboo rats, and bamboo shoots!
After returning from the search for relatives, the team adjusted for two days and then joined the farming team, never mentioning the topic of their daughter again.
Miao Jinfeng didn't say anything, but she was also depressed for two days. The Li brothers, especially Li Tuo, were obviously unhappy.
It wasn't until Lu Xuan led his team out to scout the area again that they discovered a large bamboo forest, which diverted the Li family's attention.
"My goodness, this bamboo forest is huge!" Lu Qing stared wide-eyed at the endless bamboo forest in front of her, her face filled with amazement.
The others reacted similarly, exclaiming in surprise and their eyes filled with delight.
The timing of this bamboo forest discovery couldn't be better!
The stream next to the square is about to dry up in the last two days, and it can't supply the water needed in the fields at all. They can only use the power of space to transport water.
However, almost every available space in the village was filled with supplies, and the amount of water that could be carried at one time was limited, making it still very inconvenient.
Carrying the water by hand is certainly an option, but the mountain roads are difficult to traverse, and fetching water would require a great deal of physical exertion, severely disrupting work. The village is currently wondering if there is any way to divert the waterfall's water to the fields.
Now that they have a bamboo forest, they can cut down the bamboo and build a long water line connecting the waterfall and the fields, and also connect a bamboo water pipe to the square to ensure their daily water supply!
Besides being used as water pipes, bamboo itself can also be used to make various bamboo products, such as bamboo baskets, bamboo mats, bamboo beds, bamboo chairs, bamboo buckets, and bamboo cups. Its uses are countless, and you don't have to worry about wasting any amount of bamboo you cut.
Without further ado, the hunting team quickly switched their bows and crossbows for machetes and split up to chop bamboo.
Bamboo rats are a common sight in bamboo forests. Whether it's due to a lack of predators nearby or the absence of human hunting, bamboo rats are becoming an infestation. The group discovered quite a few shortly after arriving.
What was there to hesitate about? The hunting party didn't forget to hunt while cutting bamboo.
The bamboo rats were also quite tormented by the extreme heat of the season, and their mobility was noticeably slowed down. Once they spotted a target, they would change their equipment and shoot arrows, hitting the target every time. Some of them couldn't stand changing their equipment and simply grabbed the target by hand, and they were able to catch about 70-80% of them.
In no time, the hunting team had caught dozens of bamboo rats.
At the same time, the collection team was also busy.
The hunting team cuts bamboo for hunting, while they are responsible for digging up bamboo shoots.
The bamboo forest is located on a shady side, where the temperature is much lower than in other places, just under forty degrees Celsius. The soil is also relatively less dry. Before the hottest season arrives, this area should be very suitable for bamboo growth, so the bamboo shoots are growing quite well.
When the first bamboo shoot was found and dug out, it gave everyone another surprise.
The bamboo shoots here are incredibly large!
Lu Qing, relying on her supernatural abilities, became incredibly strong. She pulled out an enormous bamboo shoot with one hand. Its diameter was wider than Lei Yan's head circumference, its length reached her hip bone, and its weight was conservatively estimated to be at least twenty kilograms.
It can't compare to modern bamboo shoots that can weigh over 100 kilograms, but it can still be called a giant bamboo shoot.
Others dug as easily as she did, and the bamboo shoots they dug were not as big as hers, but each bamboo shoot still weighed an average of four or five pounds.
The women looked at the bamboo shoots they had just dug out, and then at the vast bamboo forest around them, their faces flushed with excitement.
A bumper harvest! Another great harvest!
The viewers in the live stream were also amazed.
These bamboo shoots are huge! The mutant bamboo shoots I've seen before weren't even half this size.
[With such a large bamboo forest, how many bamboo shoots and how many kilograms of bamboo shoots must have been dug up? Conservatively speaking, each family should be able to get at least two or three hundred kilograms. The streamer's luck is truly incredible.]
However, are bamboo shoots this big really tasty? Won't they be too old and have a bad texture?
Lu Xuan also wanted to know the answer to this question.
He casually plucked a bamboo shoot with a pointed tip peeking out from beside his feet, peeled off its dark brown outer skin to reveal the yellowish-green flesh inside, broke off a piece, and tasted it.
Raw bamboo shoots taste bitter and leave a dry feeling in the mouth, making them far from delicious. However, it's not difficult to judge their quality by their taste.
Lu Xuan said, "Not old, tastes good."
Take it back, cut it into pieces, blanch it to remove the bitterness, and after a little processing, it becomes a delicious dish.
Stir-fried bamboo shoots with shredded pork, braised bamboo shoots, stir-fried bamboo shoots with soy sauce, and bamboo shoots stewed with pork ribs are all delicious dishes. But the most mouthwatering are pickled bamboo shoots and pickled pepper bamboo shoots. Whether eaten alone as a side dish or used in stir-fries, they are all excellent, refreshing and appetizing.
Thinking of the taste of pickled bamboo shoots, Lu Xuan couldn't help but use his earth-based ability to loosen the ground in the entire bamboo forest, making it easier for the harvesting team to dig up the bamboo shoots faster.
The women were overjoyed to discover the change in the soil. They thanked Lu Xuan and began frantically digging for bamboo shoots.
Lu Xuan helped for a while, but suddenly a viewer reminded him, "[Host, there seems to be something growing on the bamboo at the two o'clock position, could you go take a look?]"
Following the audience's suggestion, Lu Xuan looked over and couldn't help but be surprised, "That should be bamboo fruit."
Most of the audience were confused. What were bamboo seeds? They had only heard of bamboo shoots.
Lu Xuan walked to the bamboo stalk that had grown bamboo seeds and explained, "These are the fruits of bamboo, also called bamboo rice. Bamboo that has grown for a certain number of years will grow these. However, not all varieties of bamboo will grow them; it depends on the variety."
He didn't know much about bamboo, but since the bamboo in front of him had grown bamboo seeds, it meant that the bamboo here was a viable variety.
Since it's called bamboo rice, it naturally means that bamboo fruit can fill you up and can be eaten as a staple food. Moreover, he remembered that this special fruit has a very high nutritional value.
Lu Xuan took a basket and picked the bamboo fruits; judging by their weight, they weighed less than a pound.
He walked around the area and found six more bamboo stalks that had produced bamboo seeds. After picking them all, they weighed just five pounds, not even enough to fill a tooth gap.
After pondering for a moment, he simply channeled a large wave of wood-based supernatural power into all the obviously older bamboo stalks around him.
Soon, bamboo berries began to grow on these bamboos, and because of the abundant energy, the number of berries on each bamboo stalk doubled and doubled again.
[Although the streamer has used his superpowers many times, the wood-based growth-enhancing ability is still the most captivating to watch!]
I understand you; after all, no one can resist the temptation of abundant, naturally grown foods.
[Host, hurry up and encourage more bamboo to grow! This little bit of bamboo rice isn't even enough for one person's meal. Keep pushing! Push the whole bamboo forest to grow!]
They didn't say it, but Lu Xuan had originally planned to do the same.
He spent some time exploring the entire bamboo forest, channeling his supernatural abilities wherever he went, and stimulating every bamboo stalk that could produce bamboo seeds.
After all the bamboo berries had grown, I switched to my wind-type ability and patted them in batches. With a series of 'shush' sounds, the bamboo berries began to fall in large quantities.
Lu Xuan casually waved his hand, and before the bamboo fruits could even hit the ground, they were swept away by a gust of wind and fell into a large plastic box that had been prepared in advance, filling it up with a clattering sound.
In the end, Lu Xuan astonishingly harvested a thousand catties of bamboo seeds!
Of course, others also gained a lot.
When the others returned to their lodgings after finishing their work in the fields in the evening and learned about their harvest, they erupted in deafening cheers.
One thousand catties of bamboo seeds!
More than 300 plump and strong bamboo rats!
More than 700 large bamboo shoots, with a total weight of over 10,000 jin!
Aside from the half that Lu Xuan and the public resources took, the remaining half was divided according to the rules, and each family could get at least 30 catties of bamboo seeds, 10 bamboo rats, and about 300 catties of bamboo shoots.
For families with many members, this number may double!
This time we've really struck it rich!
With so many supplies harvested at once, and everyone having worked quite hard recently, besides sealing the bulk of the supplies in vacuum bags for preservation, every household kept some to try.
The Lu family has big appetites, so Lu Qing specially selected two bamboo shoots of suitable size, weighing about 20 pounds in total, as the main dish for tonight.
The bamboo rats were about the same size as chickens, and four were taken, one for each person. The one that Lu Chen couldn't finish could be handled by the other three family members.
The preparation of bamboo rats is relatively simple, just braise them. As for bamboo shoots, they are sliced, blanched, and then all the methods that Lu Xuan had thought of during the day were used.
The staple food is bamboo rice, as well as bamboo tube rice made with glutinous rice, diced shiitake mushrooms, diced chicken, and diced Chinese sausage.
The only downside is that the pickled bamboo shoots won't be fully flavored until tomorrow, and the sour bamboo shoots will take three to five days to cook, so we won't be able to eat them tonight.
Fortunately, the other dishes were enough to satisfy their appetites.
After the food was served, not only did the Lu family enjoy their meal, but the viewers in the live stream also cheered with delight.
[The bamboo rat meat is so tender! It has absolutely no gamey smell like wild animals, and even has a bamboo aroma—it's so delicious!]
[Wow!! It smells so good! Braised bamboo shoots are delicious, stir-fried bamboo shoots with pork are delicious, every single one is so good!]
[These bamboo shoots are so big and taste so good, they must have come to repay a debt of gratitude!]
The best thing to eat is bamboo rice! The aroma of bamboo is irresistible; I can't imagine how wonderful it would be to enjoy it in a bamboo forest!
Everyone, both inside and outside the live stream, thoroughly enjoyed their dinner, with Lu Chen so full he could barely move.
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It's late at night, time for the daily summary again.
During the two days when she was asleep and didn't go live, the live stream data stagnated, but after she went live again, the data surged when the show was called "Absence Makes the Heart Flutter".
Afterwards, Lei Yan and his wife both awakened, and today's bamboo shoot digging in the bamboo forest is quite a sight to behold. Currently, his online presence has reached over 30 million, and his fans have reached over 6 million.
After redeeming today's gifts, and adding the ones from the previous days, the total points balance reached an astonishing three million.
Lu Xuan did some quick calculations and figured that at this rate, it would be less than half a year before he could afford a spaceship.
Very good, keep it up!
Before ending the broadcast, he did his usual blind box draw and received a large number of repetitive daily necessities, energy, and a few new items.
He placed the items that he didn't need for the time being in a separate space bead.
The remaining items that can be used by the family or that villagers often come to exchange are placed in another spatial bead.
The other spatial beads also contain different supplies, categorized into food, cloth, meat, fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, processed by-products, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, wine, and other miscellaneous items.
The bamboo berries we dug up today were put into the 'grain' bead, while the bamboo shoots were put into the 'vegetable and mushroom' bead.
Because the largest space was moved, apart from grains and meat taking up a large portion of the space, the rest only occupied a corner, leaving plenty of room to fill.
After several thousand kilograms of bamboo shoots were packed in, the space for vegetables and mushrooms was filled up. However, these bamboo shoots still need to be sliced, dried, and processed, so their weight will be reduced by at least half.
Even if only a thousand catties remain, it will be enough to eat for a long time.
Lu Xuan checked all the supplies in the spatial beads, nodded to himself at his own abundance, then withdrew his mental energy, turned off the lights, and went to sleep.
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The next day, apart from the gathering and hunting teams that had set off, the rest of the group began to work on the large amount of bamboo they had cut down the day before.
To ensure sufficient water supply, the bamboo stalks cut down were at least 20 centimeters wide. The group first cut the bamboo stalks vertically in half, removed the nodes (without separating them) from each section, and then used sturdy rattan or a mortise and tenon joint to fix the bamboo stalks together.
The base is secured with a whole bamboo frame about one meter high, and then one bamboo pole after another extends from the square to the fields, and then all the way to the waterfall.
Because of the long distance and the need to navigate through extremely rugged terrain, the entire water pipe connection work was not completed until evening.
As the waterfall water gushed through the pipes into the fields and even the square, all the villagers couldn't help but cheer!
With bamboo water pipes, they will never have to worry about water again!
Dozens of huge plastic boxes, which they had obtained from Lu Xuan, were placed in the field. Overnight, all the boxes were filled with water, and everyone could easily carry a bucket to the field to irrigate.
The villagers who stayed behind no longer needed to go to the nearly dried-up stream to fetch water. They could simply open the blocked outlet and have an endless supply of water for watering the vegetable garden, washing vegetables and clothes, boiling water and cooking!
As the villagers filled containers with water, they exclaimed: "This is what life should be like during the hottest season!"
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