Chapter 268, exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City, features anomalies and island exploration...
Bullet comments:
【so much! 】
Wow, wow, cleaning up an island can make you a fortune!
I knew the quantity was large when we were cutting down trees and picking fruit, but 100,000 coconuts and 100,000 kilograms of palm fruit is just too exaggerated!
Don't forget about coconut crabs! Although these land crabs aren't numerous, they're quite large, most weighing over five pounds, and some even reaching ten pounds!
[The coconut crab does look very meaty, slurp! When will the host make some for us to try and see how it differs from sea crab?]
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The people of Yunlu Village were also filled with shock.
Zhang Chengming exclaimed, "This is too much! One hundred thousand fruits! How long will it take to eat them all?"
Lu Xuan said, "There isn't much flesh in a coconut; it's mainly about drinking the juice."
As he spoke, he casually took out dozens of coconuts, used his supernatural ability to pry open the lids, took out lotus stems left over from when he harvested lotus roots to use as straws, and gave each of them a coconut.
The first children, including Lu Chen, slurped up their food with gusto, their eyes quickly lighting up with delight as they exclaimed, "So sweet!"
After tasting it, the adults also found the coconut juice to be sweet and delicious, quite different from other fruit juices.
Afterwards, Lu Xuan mixed some milk into some of the coconut jelly, stirred it well, and distributed it to Lu Qing and the other women, which surprised everyone even more.
"What a wonderful aroma!"
Coconut milk itself has a mild sweetness, but when combined with thicker milk, it becomes rich, mellow, and leaves a lingering aftertaste.
Lu Qing sighed, "This fruit is indeed a good thing."
The viewers in the live stream, slurping along, nodded in agreement; it really did taste good.
The villagers, who were initially not very interested in the fruit because of its grayish appearance, all grinned.
As usual, Li Tie then distributed the spoils.
Lu Xuan received 30%, public resources 20%, and the rest were distributed directly to each household.
Each family received over 900 coconuts and the same amount of palm fruit, as well as less than 40 kilograms of palm tree cores and over 30 kilograms of guava, and one coconut crab per family.
Everyone loves fresh food. As soon as the food was distributed, the women enthusiastically started making coconut milk, while the children ate guavas with relish, even though they were not nearly as tasty as other mutated fruits.
Coconut crab and palm heart were also indispensable items on the menu that evening.
Depending on individual preferences, coconut crabs can be steamed, spicy, or stir-fried with scallions. Some families even extract the crab meat to make crab porridge.
The heartwood of palm trees has a crisp texture when eaten raw, and tastes somewhat like bamboo shoots, but without a noticeable fibrous texture. It also has a slightly sweet taste. It tastes great when blanched and then served cold, stir-fried with cured meat, stewed, or used in soups.
Of course, steaming it and then mashing it into a paste to make pastries is also delicious.
Besides crabs and tree cores, the Lu family also made coconut chicken with coconut meat that night. The chicken was tender and had a unique coconut fragrance. It wasn't greasy at all. The family of four ate five chickens in one meal, and Lu Xuan ate three by himself.
Although the other families didn't cook chicken, they still had a delicious dinner.
Coconut crab tastes similar to lobster, but it's heavier and has more meat, making it a particularly enjoyable meal.
The villagers also really liked the unique taste of the palm tree heartwood. After one meal, many people went to the village chief to exchange the palm tree heartwood and coconut crabs from the public supplies.
Although even with the public supplies, there still aren't enough coconut crabs for everyone to eat a few meals, there are still quite a few coconut trees left on the outskirts of the island, so there's no fear of running out of crabs in the future.
Some felt there weren't enough trees on the outskirts to catch many crabs, so they urged Lu Xuan to quickly cultivate the mutated coconuts and plant more mutated coconut trees in the orchard.
There will be plenty of crabs and mutated coconuts by then!
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In the following days, each household continued to dry firewood and, incidentally, pressed palm fruits into palm oil.
The oil yield of palm fruit is about 20%. All 100,000 catties of palm fruit in the village were pressed into oil, yielding a total of 20,000 catties of palm oil.
Each family received at least 180 catties of oil, enough to last them two or three years just from the palm oil alone.
If it's not enough, we can exchange some more from public resources.
Needless to say, the Lu family had 6,000 catties of oil, plus soybean oil from growing soybeans and rendered fat from their prey, enough to last them forever.
By the time the villagers finished their busy work, half a month had passed since they landed on the island.
The island's layout has been completely transformed, with villages and large-scale greenhouses occupying most of the island's area. Lu Xuan's orchards, bamboo groves, and lotus ponds have also expanded to a larger scale than before.
Previously, the audience felt sorry for his loss, but in fact, with the mutated fruit, after obtaining the seeds and replanting, as long as the superpower provides enough, it is only a matter of minutes for it to grow back into a mature tree.
Using time-manipulation abilities to accelerate the growth of fruit trees to eight or ten years old, the fruit trees can quickly reach their peak production period.
If there was anything that made Lu Xuan feel strange during this period, it was probably the mutated growth process of the guava, coconut, and palm trees.
Based on past experience, Lu Xuan believed that the entire mutation process would take at least five days, if not seven or eight.
However, in reality, all three types of trees mutated in just two days. The speed was so fast that Lu Xuan felt a strange sense of unease and intuitively felt that something was wrong.
However, this feeling of unease was quickly interrupted by the new emperor, Ye Feiluan, Liu Wenchi and others urging him to go to the transaction.
Lu Xuan could only keep this matter in mind for the time being, and led the able-bodied young men who were engaged in business in the hunting team to the Western Continent again in their flying vehicle.
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While they were busy transforming the island, the greenhouses on the western continent also reaped their first harvest.
Because the land in the western continent was all uncultivated, even with enough plant nutrient solution applied, the yield per acre in the first harvest was still more than 100 jin lower than before the tsunami. Fortunately, the planted area was large enough, and the final yield was still enough for most of the disaster victims to receive or buy enough food to sustain their lives.
Even those who aren't getting enough to eat can have a few extra after switching to nutritional supplements.
The new emperor and the leaders of various towns were even more well-off, which was evident in their increasingly extravagant displays of wealth when exchanging supplies with Lu Xuan.
Because the weather has become increasingly unpredictable lately, apart from the lack of snow, disasters in spring, summer and autumn have been occurring in various forms over and over again.
In addition to purchasing large quantities of daily necessities, they also spent a lot of money to buy several small submarines after learning about Bai Xuefeng's deeds.
The Western paintings found in the shipwreck, which were enough to make anyone blush, were also sold smoothly at high prices to prominent families in the capital.
In addition, Lu Xuan took the initiative to bring out the new products that had been added this time: mutated coconuts, mutated guavas, and palm tree cores.
The mutated fruit is quite large.
A single coconut can weigh up to 30 pounds, and a guava is as big as a cantaloupe. The taste is also much better than before, with a rich fruity aroma and a sweet flavor.
The largest tree core originally weighed no more than two pounds, but now it weighs five pounds. At first glance, some people might mistake it for peeled sugarcane.
Since these were all ripening for the first time, the quantity was not large. Lu Xuan only took out enough for the people in the various towns to distribute, and there was basically no way for it to reach the bottom.
Ordinary disaster victims who wanted to eat could only trade with merchants like Zhang Chengming and Xiong Mao, and it was a matter of first come, first served.
The prices aren't exactly cheap, but as long as you can snag one or two to try, no one can resist the taste.
When Lu Xuan came to make the deal, Huo Tiankuo was leading the Huo family army back in triumph.
Not long ago, Huo Tiankuo personally led a team to the pirate island to suppress the bandits.
He led 5,000 soldiers and a large number of firearms, and took over the entire pirate island in just three days. The number of wounded was less than 200, and no one died in battle.
After spending some time cleaning up the mess, they brought back a large number of women who had been kidnapped by pirates and some of the young men from the Central Plains who had been enslaved, while Lu Xuan and his group were staying in the Western Continent.
When Zhang Chengming and the others watched the Huo family army disembark at the dock, they took a closer look and muttered, "It seems like we didn't see them bring back any prisoners? Could they have killed them all?"
Li Jing exclaimed in surprise, "That can't be right, can it? Didn't Lu Xuan say there were tens of thousands of people on that island?"
Everyone else turned their gaze toward Lu Xuan.
Having already heard the inside story from the new emperor, Lu Xuan said calmly, "They weren't killed, but they were all left in the local area to do labor as atonement."
To be precise, they killed a group of ruthless outlaws, leaving behind other relatives who simply enjoyed the wealth brought back by the pirates.
There are several gold and silver mines on that island, but the harsh environment makes it too difficult for their refugees to mine. It's better to let the people of the pirate island mine themselves.
However, the matter of the mineral vein was of great importance and could not be made known to the outside world; only a small number of high-ranking officials in the court knew about it.
Zhang Chengming and the others didn't think too much about it and nodded in agreement, saying, "Isn't it said that those who are not of our race will surely have different hearts? If we bring back those people from the island country, they might bring some bad influences. It's better to let them stay and work locally."
After enjoying the novelty, the group quickly forgot about the matter, traded away the remaining supplies, and returned to the island without lingering.
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Early morning, on Island No. 1 of Yunlu Village, the temperature is 20°C.
In the only safe house for one person in a corner of the village, a young man who had been watching the surveillance cameras all night yawned as he handed over his shift to the person who came to relieve him, preparing to go back to sleep.
The completion of the island's renovation does not mean it is completely safe; someone still needs to keep watch at night to guard against any potential dangers.
However, the island was too large, and the manpower and energy required for night watch were very high. Therefore, Lu Xuan directly deployed a lot of surveillance cameras throughout the entire island, including Islands 2 and 3.
With these surveillance systems, they only need to arrange for a few people to take turns monitoring the entire island and the surrounding waters to keep track of the situation.
After the shift in the monitoring room changed, most households in the village had finished breakfast and began their busy day.
A few women stayed home to do housework, while the rest took the village children to the mudflats on the east side of the island to go beachcombing and retrieve the fish traps they had set the day before.
Some of the elderly went beachcombing, while others found a 'lucky spot' to fish and pass the time.
The able-bodied men of the hunting party are the busiest.
Except for five people who stayed behind with the guards to water and fertilize the fields in the greenhouse, everyone else, including Lu Xuan, went out to sea.
The purpose is neither sea fishing nor to catch fish by hand, but to find more wild islands, and perhaps more coconuts, tree cores and coconut crabs.
If three islands can bring them hundreds of thousands of kilograms of harvest, what about five, ten, or even more?
With such a huge temptation in front of them, who could resist?
Thus began the two-month-long exploration of the island by the young and strong.
Midway through, Ye Feiluan, Chen Bing, and others learned of this and joined in, bringing a large influx of humans to many uninhabited islands in the distant sea.
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