Chapter 151, exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City, boasts 100 million followers and features the processing of lotus roots, shrimp, and crabs…
Not only the Lu family, but most of the other villagers also ate shrimp, crab and lotus root tonight.
The villagers' cooking methods are relatively simple, mainly consisting of steamed shrimp, steamed crab, stir-fried lotus root slices, or cold lotus root slices.
While eating, the able-bodied men kept telling the elderly and children about Lu Xuan's heroic feat of dividing the floodwaters, which drew a lot of amazement.
Because the Lu family prepared a large variety of dishes in a complex way, they arrived a quarter of an hour late, after the No. 2 ship had already started eating.
The viewers in the live stream, who had been waiting impatiently, cheered as they saw a large table full of fresh river delicacies.
[It was worth the wait, so much delicious food!]
[Haha! We're in for a treat tonight!]
[Braised shrimp in oil, garlic shrimp, steamed crab, spicy crab, garlic crab, stir-fried crab with scallions, lotus root sandwiches, cold lotus root slices, lotus root and pork rib soup... I can't take it anymore, my mouth is watering! I'll eat first!]
[The idiots are still reciting the recipes, while the smart ones have already started eating! Waaaaah! The crabs have so much roe, they smell so good!!!]
[So delicious! Pure, natural wild river seafood tastes so much better than the polluted or artificially cultivated seafood of ancient times!]
The audience ate with gusto, and Lu Chen ate with gusto too.
"Brother, the crab is so delicious!" Lu Chen scooped a spoonful of crab roe into his mouth, stomping his feet with delight as his little face was filled with satisfaction.
"It's really delicious! Not just the crab, but also the shrimp and lotus root sandwiches, they're all very tasty!" After tasting each dish, Lei Yan gave Lu Qing, who had prepared the meal, a thumbs up, giving her full emotional value.
Lu Qing said with a smile, "It's mainly because the ingredients are good."
The shrimp and crabs they used to catch in the river near the village were thin and small, only good for their freshness.
The shrimp and crabs I brought back today were huge and plump, especially the crabs, each one was full of roe and fat. With such excellent ingredients, it would be hard to cook them badly.
Besides lotus root cakes, the main dish was crab roe sauce noodles, which I made especially after discovering that the crab roe was particularly plump.
Crab roe sauce made with scallion oil, minced ginger, and mushroom powder is added to remove any fishy smell and enhance the flavor. It's so delicious that it will make your mouth water when you mix it with noodles.
The Lu family had no shortage of food and drink, and they ate very well for three meals a day. However, this meal was unprecedented. Except for Lu Xuan, everyone else was stuffed. The four of them ate more than 30 catties of shrimp and crab.
After finishing their meal, Lu Qing and the other two were reluctant to take digestive medicine. They sat for a while and then took a walk on the boat to aid digestion.
Lu Xuan did not go with them and went straight back to his room.
He took out a jar of ten-year-old wine, poured himself a glass, and while drinking, opened the backend and clicked on the flashing system information.
[Achieving the '100 Million Followers' milestone will reward you with a 24-hour homepage feature on the capital city's website, a cell tower, and 1 million points. Next milestone: 500 Million Followers.]
Lu Xuan smiled with satisfaction.
Not only did the number of fans successfully surpass 100 million, but it also increased by more than 5 million, and the number of online users exceeded 450 million.
It wasn't all for nothing that he used up more than 70% of his supernatural power during the day to drain the floodwaters from more than 20 acres of land.
Upon seeing this notification, viewers in the live stream flooded the chat with congratulations: [Congratulations to the streamer on becoming a third-rate streamer in the Star Alliance! Applause!]
Lu Xuan: "..." This doesn't sound like a compliment. If you don't know how to compliment someone, then don't.
Lu Xuan carefully examined the reward details.
The featured time is shorter than last time, but last time it was a featured planet on a secondary planet, while this time it's a featured capital planet, so the significance is different.
We can skip the points rewards; the last thing is the cell tower.
Lu Xuan glanced at the description and found that it was similar to the signal tower he remembered—a signal transmitting device, only with stronger and wider functions and coverage than modern ones.
With this signal tower, drones that would normally lose contact after flying a maximum of a hundred kilometers can now fly thousands of kilometers with a strong signal, and communication devices that limit communication distance can also connect to much farther distances.
As for how far exactly, it roughly covers the entire plane of existence.
Lu Xuan: It really is a good product!
[Hey, the streamer got the signal tower! Now he can find people to play online games with in this world.]
Lu Xuan: "? What game? How do you play it?"
【Of course, it's a holographic game!】
[Once the streamer gets his hands on a holographic pod... well, probably not anytime soon. Let's get a holographic helmet first! Then we can play holographic games online with the rest of the village! Let's give them a taste of the awe-inspiring technology of outer space!]
Lu Xuan sat up slightly, intrigued.
Holographic games—I'd almost forgotten about them if you didn't mention them.
Isn't this exactly what everyone thinks of and is most interested in when talking about the interstellar age?
Before the apocalypse, he often played some technologically advanced VR games, but unfortunately, the realism needed to be improved.
Lu Xuan opened the system store and searched for holographic helmets and holographic pods, and as expected, found that neither of them had the purchase permission to be unlocked.
Not only is the in-game store not unlocked, but the daily discounts have also never been refreshed.
Otherwise, he should have realized that the Star Alliance would have such a good thing.
He asked the audience, "When will the holographic helmet be available?"
Hmm... I remember there was an achievement reward that included a holographic helmet, but I forgot which one it was.
[I do remember, but I can't quite recall it. Warning: This is a censorship issue.]
I can't say for sure, but it's unlikely in the near future, so the streamer shouldn't think about it for now.
Lu Xuan pondered the sentence, and after reviewing the reward types of each achievement, he quickly guessed which achievement it was.
If you do the math, it's definitely not going to happen anytime soon.
Since you can't achieve it, there's no point in being envious.
Lu Xuan didn't dwell on it any longer, just kept the matter in mind, and casually put away the signal tower, preparing to install it on the ship's roof the next day.
In any case, it's already a good thing that it can increase the operating range of drones and communication devices.
Perhaps Lu Xuan was particularly lucky today, because when he refreshed the daily discount, he successfully obtained an Evolution Fluid, and even opened another one from the Golden Blind Box.
Lu Xuan thought he had a great day and was in a good mood, so he decided to arrange the evolution fluid lottery in advance.
But then I thought about it again, and since the recommendations will start tomorrow, I decided to postpone it until tomorrow to maximize the benefits.
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The next morning, as soon as Lu Xuan opened his live stream, he was greeted by a rapidly increasing number of online viewers, a welcome sight after two months of absence.
The number of comments from new viewers also increased.
[Is this the dimensional streamer with the ability to copy superpowers that Xingbo mentioned before? Can he really copy any superpower? It must be fake, right?]
He's not as handsome as I expected; I'm a little disappointed.
I heard this livestream often gives away natural food in giveaways? When are the giveaways?
[A live stream of an ancient natural disaster? That sounds interesting, I'll follow.]
[I saw on Weibo that the streamer drained over 10,000 square meters of floodwater? Could you demonstrate that again?]
Lu Xuan could tell from the comments that fans were likely helping him attract more viewers.
Since all the lotus roots have been dug up, a demonstration is naturally out of the question.
His superpower will take several days to fully recover. Even a level seven superpower user's liver is still liver; there's no need to push himself so hard.
However, considering the large number of new fans today, Lu Xuan specially prepared a more lavish breakfast than usual as a welcome gift for the new fans.
The new audience reacted very strongly.
[Hilarious! The anchor's breakfast is so extravagant! I'm so jealous!]
[As expected, the old-school streamers all eat very well. Slurp, slurp, delicious!]
[Damn! Did all the previous fans eat this well every day? How much have I missed out on?! Why didn't the AI recommend this to me sooner?!]
[With so much viral content from streamers, who can you blame if you didn't see any of it?]
In just the time it takes to eat breakfast, the number of online viewers has increased by several million, and the number of followers has increased by over a million, which is higher than the total daily data increase for a typical live stream without any special content.
In order not to waste the rare recommendation and to retain new viewers, the content of today's live stream should be carefully considered.
But with so many lotus roots harvested yesterday, what we'll broadcast today has already been decided.
Process lotus root, shrimp, and crab.
It's true that this season is when crabs are at their fattest, but correspondingly, lotus roots have grown a bit too long by now.
Of the 20,000 jin of lotus root yesterday, at least 15,000 jin were old lotus roots. Old lotus roots have a high starch content and a fine texture, making them perfect for making lotus root powder.
Lu Xuan received 6,000 catties of lotus root, of which 4,500 catties were old lotus root.
Lu Xuan wasn't sure about the starch yield of lotus root, so just in case, he swapped all 3,000 jin of old lotus root from the public supplies. He also asked Lu Qing and Lei Yan to help him exchange some more from other households with larger inventories, eventually gathering a total of 10,000 jin.
Then we can start work.
As usual, they asked female relatives from familiar families to come and help, and this time they added Ji Xiuling as an extra person.
Before making lotus root starch, you must first peel the lotus root.
Peeling 10,000 catties of lotus roots is no easy task. It would be too slow and uninteresting to have the women peel them by hand, so Lu Xuan used his wind-type ability to assist.
Lu Xuan casually rolled up dozens of lotus roots, and with his wind-type supernatural power, he easily peeled off all the skins in just a few swift movements.
The lotus roots that have been planted look almost exactly the same as when they were first planted, except that they have lost a layer of skin.
He then used finer wind blades to cut all the lotus roots into small pieces and stuffed them into a pre-prepared plastic box. He added water using his water-based abilities and continued to stir them into a paste using his wind-based abilities.
The whole process was so smooth and seamless that it wouldn't be wrong to call it a display of skill.
Once one batch of batter is mixed, move on to the next batch, peeling, cutting into pieces, and mixing.
During this process, the women would pour the powder into a clean cotton cloth, wrap it up, and rub it by hand until no water came out. Then they would add water and rub it again.
Lu Xuan cut, cut, cut; the women rubbed, rubbed, rubbed.
Soon a large amount of lotus root juice was rubbed out, and the lotus root residue piled up more and more.
Lu Xuan could process tens of thousands of catties of lotus root in one operation. Processing all ten thousand catties only required repeating the same operation dozens of times, and it was done in less than half an hour.
At this point, the women had only completed a small portion of their work.
Lu Xuan didn't wait around; he moved on to the next step.
Using time manipulation abilities to accelerate the sedimentation of lotus root juice, pouring off the top layer of water and repeating the sedimentation and water-pouring process again ensures that the lotus root powder produced is cleaner.
Finally, use fire-based abilities to quickly dry it, then grind it into powder, and the lotus root starch is ready.
The entire production process can actually be operated by machines, and Lu Xuan has more than one of the suitable instruments drawn from the gold blind box.
The choice was made to utilize all superpowers, or even a combination of multiple superpowers, in order to add more interest to the audience.
Sure enough, the inexperienced newcomers were frantically sending comments, which not only led to a faster increase in online viewership and followers, but also a more ferocious surge in gifts.
Lu Xuan even prepared some lotus root starch on the spot, adding sugar, walnuts, red dates, raisins and other fruits, so that the women and audience members could all taste it.
After tasting it, Miao Jinfeng couldn't help but exclaim, "It's so thick and sweet, it's really delicious! Let's make some lotus root starch noodles from our family tomorrow too."
Their family has mostly young and strong people. Yesterday, they received several hundred kilograms of lotus root. They can make noodles from half of it, which will last them for a while.
Although the starch yield doesn't seem high, the lotus root residue can be mixed with flour to make pancakes, so it's not a complete loss.
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After a busy morning, all the lotus root starch was finally made, but in the end, only 800 jin (400 kg) of lotus root starch was produced.
Lu Xuan left 100 jin for Lu Qing to keep, and kept the rest for himself, intending to use them for the lottery that evening.
The audience was surprised when they learned of his plans.
[700 kg of lotus root starch will be entered into a prize draw?]
[Working so hard all this time and not keeping a penny for yourself? That's so incredibly considerate of your fans! What an amazing streamer!]
[You can tell from the sound that the person upstairs is a new fan.]
[The gods are clearly us! :)]
[The streamer will definitely be breeding mutants later on. The original kind never tastes as good as the mutants, so if you're going to stock up, you should definitely stock up on the mutants.]
[So we can only make do with primitive species, how sad.]
[Wait until you can't even win a prize in a lottery before you start feeling sad, lol.]
I don't like hearing that, take it back immediately!!!
Lu Xuan said, "Not only lotus root starch, but also lotus root residue will be given to you to extract."
Of the 9,000 catties of lotus root residue, 4,000 catties were reserved for the livestock on cargo ship No. 3 to enrich their rations, and the rest were used for a lottery that night.
Making lotus root starch does not mean that today's processing is over.
After the old lotus roots are processed, there are still tender lotus roots left.
Of the 1500 jin of tender lotus roots, 1000 jin will be used for a lottery, and the remaining 500 jin will be made into pickled lotus root.
The pickled pepper brine we used before has run out, so we have to make a new one.
Lu Xuan didn't use the chili peppers he needed from his spatial storage; instead, he chose to force them to grow on the spot.
The ability of wood-based superpowers to create non-aggressive, edible mutant crops on-site is another highlight for new viewers.
In the past, I would use the pickled pepper brine I made after only two or three days in order to eat it as soon as possible.
This time it was different. Lu Xuan used his supernatural ability to accelerate the process of making the pickled pepper water by half a month.
After peeling and slicing the tender lotus root, boil water, blanch the lotus root slices, then pour in pickled pepper brine to cover the lotus root slices, and accelerate the process by three days.
The pickled lotus root with plenty of flavor was made on the spot.
Pick up a piece and try it; the taste is sour, spicy, and crisp, just as appetizing and delicious as pickled bamboo shoots.
It was lunchtime, so Lu Xuan simply took a large bucket of meat porridge and shared it with the women. He also took a pot of braised pork and ate a simple but not at all perfunctory lunch with pickled lotus root.
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All the lotus roots have been processed; next, we need to process the shrimp and crabs.
First, clean the shrimp and crab thoroughly, remove the shrimp veins from the shrimp, and then prepare the sauce.
Lu Xuan originally intended to ask the audience how to make the sauce, but he didn't expect Ji Xiuling to know how, so he let her take charge of the sauce part.
Lu Xuan poured high-proof liquor (made from previously harvested grains) into the jar containing the processed shrimp and crabs to sterilize them.
Afterwards, the white wine is poured out, and the two slightly different sauces prepared by Ji Xiuling are poured over the shrimp and crab. Yellow wine is also added to the crab. Finally, the cooking time is accelerated by three days to fully infuse the flavors, and the drunken shrimp and drunken crab are ready.
The cooked drunken shrimp is tender and smooth, almost melting in your mouth, with a sour, spicy, and sweet flavor that you can never get enough of.
Drunken crab uses female crabs full of roe. The already delicious crab roe is enhanced with a subtle wine aroma, making it even more flavorful and leaving a lingering, unforgettable taste.
As soon as the finished product was brought out, the audience ate it with great gusto.
Of the more than 500 jin of shrimp and crab, 300 jin were used. The remaining crabs were used to make five jars of crab roe oil, because Ji Xiuling said she could also make crab roe oil. She also took out 50 jin of the fattest and largest male and female crabs and used lard, scallions, ginger, rice wine, pepper and other seasonings.
This stuff is much more precious than lotus root starch, and the taste is absolutely amazing. It's just as good as the crab roe sauce that the Lu family had last night when mixed with rice or noodles.
This concludes today's processing.
In the evening, there was once again a delicious meal to satisfy the appetites of the new audience.
We had fresh river fish yesterday, so today we had a hearty meal.
There was a restaurant serving pork, beef, mutton, rabbit, venison, chicken, etc., but only one dish of stir-fried seasonal vegetables and a few cold dishes to cut through the richness.
The new audience members enjoyed a delicious meal together with the veteran audience members.
After the meal, the long-awaited lucky draw finally arrived.
With a large amount of lotus root residue as a base, Lu Xuan directly drew 10,000 slots today.
Half of it was lotus root residue, the rest included 1,000 catties of tender lotus root, 700 catties of lotus root powder, 400 catties of pickled lotus root slices, 1,000 catties of ordinary fruit, a vat of ordinary fruit wine divided into 100 portions, 100 catties of mutated fruit, and the last amount was made up with grain.
Each reward is limited to one pound. Processing by-products and mutated fruits are limited to long-time viewers who have followed the account for more than a month. All other rewards are open to fans. Casual viewers who have not followed the account can only draw lotus root residue.
The grand finale is five vials of evolution fluid, which can be participated in by everyone in the live stream.
After all 100,005 spots were drawn, the entire live stream went wild. Gifts were raining down like they were free, and the number of viewers and followers saw another surge for the day.
Currently, the cumulative number of online viewers has exceeded 500 million, and the number of fans has grown to 130 million.
While the online growth rate couldn't match the over 100 million increase after 72 hours of recommendations following 10 million followers, compared to other live streams that received the same recommendation slot, this growth rate was already among the top.
Moreover, the fan conversion rate has increased from three to one to two to one, which is still quite considerable overall.
Furthermore, the capital planet has an advantage that other satellite planets don't have: wealthy people! There are a lot of wealthy people who are willing to spend money!
The evidence is that Lu Xuan's balance was over 90 million yesterday, but today it jumped to over 110 million in just one day, a surge of 20 million, more than ten times the usual amount.
After drawing the prize, Lu Xuan opened the daily discount refresher and refreshed for Evolution Fluid as usual. He got it after only three refreshes.
Then, he looked at the other products on the page and clicked refresh again.
Viewers, still caught up in the excitement of the lottery, were somewhat confused.
[Hasn't the evolution fluid already respawned? Why is the streamer still refreshing it?]
Lu Xuan remained silent, only refreshing the page repeatedly.
After refreshing the page eight times, I finally found a product and discount that I liked, and I clicked to buy it without any problems.
The audience was astonished when they saw what he had bought.
The streamer actually bought a flying machine!
What kind of wind is blowing here?!
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Author's note: Writing this chapter made me so hungry, I'm both hungry and craving food (ˉ﹃ˉ)
Wasn't I very diligent today? [doge emoji]
I'll write more while things are going smoothly; who knows, I might go back to writing 3 chapters a day someday [winking emoji]
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