Chapter 056: Cutting the Grass and Eradicating Its Roots
There is no need to process wild vegetables, mushrooms or fish. They mainly deal with pheasants, rabbits, and a dozen wolves.
Because we spent a lot of time looking for the child, it was completely dark before long and the lights in the square came on.
With the efforts of a group of people, all the prey was processed in less than half an hour. After Li Tie counted all the harvests of the day, he distributed the supplies according to the rules.
The collection team found a total of 42 baskets of wild vegetables and mushrooms, six large fish, and more than 20 pheasant eggs today. Except for the half-grown boys who had a slightly smaller harvest, almost everyone else had three baskets of harvest.
The two hunting teams caught a total of about fifty pheasants and hares, four roe deer, a fox and six birds.
The harvest of pheasants and rabbits was not as good as yesterday's, not because they were unlucky, but simply because the resources near the waterfall were abundant, and they happened to find a whole nest of wild ducks, so their harvest was relatively large yesterday.
It is impossible that there are only chickens and rabbits in the deep mountains. Catching dozens of them in a day is already a big harvest.
Each member of the hunting team received at least one pheasant/hare and two or three pounds of roe deer meat. Lu Xuan's team hunted more roe deer, so they received more roe deer meat, more than four pounds.
The subsidy distributed to each household is one-third of a pheasant or rabbit and half a pound of roe deer meat.
Each member of the collection team was given more than three pounds of wild vegetables/mushrooms, two pounds of fish, and an egg. The household subsidy was a little more than one pound of wild vegetables and mushrooms, and half a pound of fish.
Except for a few lonely families who only receive income divided among their households, generally every household has an income of at least four or five kilograms of meat and the same amount of wild vegetables and mushrooms.
But today's big head is wolf meat!
After processing the fifteen wolves, a total of 650 kilograms of meat, more than 200 kilograms of bones, 8 complete wolf skins, and 7 incomplete skin pieces were produced. The internal organs were too fishy and there was a fear that they would cause problems if eaten, so they were not included in the meal. They were planned to be used as bait when they went back to catch fish.
According to the rules, Lu Xuan was given 200 kilograms of wolf meat, 70 kilograms of wolf bones and five complete wolf skins, and the public supplies left 130 kilograms of wolf meat, 45 kilograms of wolf bones and three complete wolf skins.
The rest was divided among the households, with each household receiving seven pounds of wolf meat and three pounds of wolf bones. The broken pieces of skin that were difficult to divide were confiscated first.
Compared with the previous one and a half catties, this time seven catties of wolf meat in one go made every household laugh.
With the income from these two days, I won’t have to worry about not having enough to eat even if I don’t make any money in the next ten days or half a month!
At this time, when the villagers looked at Lu Xuan again, there was no longer any nervousness or fear at all. It was as if they were looking at the God of Wealth, the kind that would make him lose several pounds of weight if they looked at him for a few more seconds.
Lu Xuan: “…”
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After distributing the supplies, the villagers started preparing dinner.
The people in the big cave took turns using the stove. When the Lu family had a production square, Lu Xuan built a stove in front of the small cave alone, so he didn't have to compete with others.
While waiting for dinner, everyone went to the stream to take a shower, and after coming back they exchanged some information with each other.
Wu Cheng said, "We found several hazelnut and chestnut trees while hunting. I see they have a lot of fruit on them, but they're not ripe yet. I estimate we'll have to wait for more than a month."
Lu Xuan said: "Next time I will take some time to ripen them and then pick them."
Now that I have found the things, why should I wait for more than a month? Who knows what will happen in more than a month? Good things should be received as soon as possible.
Miao Jinfeng's eyes lit up. "That's great! Does that mean we can pick any unripe fruits we find in the future?"
Lu Xuan nodded. "I can help if you need me. It's not a big deal. The wild vegetables and mushrooms here are growing very lushly, so we should be able to pick a lot. We also found two cinnamon trees and several European plum trees. The fruits on them are ripe, so the next time the collection team comes over, they can pick them."
The bark of the cinnamon tree is the raw material for the meat stew artifact.
Life in the mountains requires harvesting meat, but the meat of many wild animals, especially carnivores, is quite fishy, so seasonings to remove the fishy smell are essential.
Most villagers only have salt and soy sauce in their seasoning reserves, so the more spices like cinnamon, bay leaves, and star anise that can remove fishy smells, the better.
Miao Jinfeng said excitedly, "I'll have to ask everyone to weave more baskets later. Most of the mushrooms we picked today were put away by my husband as public supplies, and the baskets were left behind. We won't have enough baskets for tomorrow's collection, so we need to get some more."
As they were talking, dinner was ready and everyone went back to eat.
Because they no longer eat from the same pot during the day, the food levels of each family have dropped a lot, but with today's harvest, many families have returned to the level of the previous few days, and even improved to some extent.
After all, there was no one else competing for it, and it was only eaten by family members, so each person got obviously more meat.
However, this only applies to families who did not go out to look for their children.
Seeing with one's own eyes how the vampire vines strangled the wolves, ripped off their heads, and caused a bloody mist to spread all over the ground, even if the fear was suppressed, unless one was a particularly heartless person, it would be difficult for others to continue eating as if nothing had happened.
Even the Lu family's dinner menu today was quite light, with chicken stewed with mushrooms, cold water celery, and stir-fried wild garlic sprouts. There was not a single heavy dish, and the soup was a refreshing cucumber and egg soup.
After dinner, Lu Xuan took some tranquilizers and asked his family to take them. He also gave a portion to the village chief to prevent someone from knocking on his door early the next morning.
Li Tie did not accept it in vain. He took a big fish from public supplies as medical expenses and asked Li Jing to deliver it.
When Li Jing came over, he was accompanied by Xiong Mao and several young men including Zhang Chengming.
The former came to give Lu Xuan a thank you gift for saving his son, while the latter had new income and wanted to buy more ice patches for his family.
When exchanging supplies, a few brave young men laughed and said, "My family is having braised wolf meat tonight. You know what, wolf meat is really tasty!"
"That guy was too timid. He was frightened by the immortal vine that Lu Xuan brought out. He ate a bowl of porridge that night and said he felt sick. Tsk, he's really not like a man."
Zhang Chengming didn't take it seriously: "It's just a bit more blood. Hunting is all about blood. What's so strange about that? I ate a big bowl of wolf meat tonight and didn't feel sick at all. It was delicious!"
After he finished speaking, he specifically asked Lu Xuan, "You have such a big appetite, you must have eaten a lot at night."
Lu Xuan gave him a meaningful look and said leisurely, "I also eat light meals at night."
"Really?" Zhang Chengming was a little surprised.
He didn't think Lu Xuan, the one who actually did it, would be afraid of anything. He quickly thought of Lu Chen and Lu Qing and nodded in understanding: "Women and children are a little timid. My husband didn't eat much tonight."
Lu Xuan remained silent.
The audience in the live broadcast room have gotten to know Lu Xuan's personality better these days, and they intuitively feel that there is something wrong with his current attitude.
[The host's attitude... Could it be that the wolf meat is poisonous?]
How is that possible? Even if the host had a bad taste, it couldn't be poisonous, yet he didn't stop the villagers from eating it. He even got 200 kilograms himself.
What's with the host's weird reaction? There's clearly something wrong.
Lu Xuan said lazily: "You will know tomorrow."
Everyone talked with Lu Xuan for a while, and then thought about having to get up early to go hunting tomorrow, so they quickly said goodbye and left.
Just as they left, Lu Qing, who had gone to the big cave to find someone to exchange wild boar meat, also came back.
Because many people were given mushrooms today, Lu Xuan specially added mushrooms to the wild boar meat exchange list. Therefore, when Lu Qing came back, there was not only some more bacon and food in the space, but also more than 20 kilograms of mushrooms, and a small part of the wild boar meat was also consumed.
It’s just that I stockpiled too much before, and it will take some time to replace them all.
The family talked for a while. Lu Qing repeatedly emphasized to Lu Chen that he was not allowed to run around anymore. Seeing that it was getting late, they went back to their rooms to prepare for bed.
I don’t know if it’s because Lu Xuan dealt with the wolf pack today, but the wolf howls that were heard every night in the past few days were gone tonight. After the nut lamp in the big cave was turned off, there was no other animal roars except the chirping of insects and birds, and it was exceptionally quiet at night.
As usual, the big cave had people on night watch today, and coincidentally, one of them was Zhang Chengming.
He was yawning and looking at the square outside through the window of the security door, but he didn't notice a shadow flashing out of the Lu family's small cave in the darkness.
Lu Xuan moved quickly in the forest with the help of the faint moonlight filtering through the shadows of the trees. Soon he arrived at the place where he had found Lu Chen before. He followed the scent left by the wolves all the way to the wolf den and took care of the three adult wolves and two wolf cubs who were left behind.
Wolves are very vengeful animals. Now that we have killed the wolf pack, we cannot leave any other hidden dangers. It is essential to eradicate them completely.
After making sure that there was nothing else left nearby, they returned to the cave without disturbing anyone, just like when they came.
The live broadcast was on throughout the process, and the audience in the live broadcast room were not surprised by Lu Xuan's actions, but some people suddenly realized a problem at this time.
[Since mutant plants can scare away primitive animals, why didn't the host just scare the wolves away when he went up the mountain last time, and when he found his brother today?]
Lu Xuan asked calmly, "If we scare off the wolves, how are the villagers going to divide the meat? Besides, aren't you enjoying the sight?"
They always clamor to see the mutated vampire vines. Do they just want the vampire vines to come out and "dance" for them?
Without the battle scenes I want to match, where does the popularity come from? Where does the traffic come from? Where does the gifts come from?
Lu Xuan: "Besides, the pressure from the mutant plants will not only scare away wild beasts, but also ordinary pheasants and rabbits. Will the villagers be left with nothing?"
Audience in the live broadcast room: ...speechless.
After a while, someone said, "But today, the villagers were obviously terrified when they saw the vampire vines instantly kill the wolves. Aren't you afraid that they will be afraid of you?"
Lu Xuan said indifferently: "You didn't scare him to death, you'll get used to it after being scared a few more times."
As for fear, is it more important to be afraid than getting wolf meat? Or more important than changing into biological clothes or ice patches?
When it comes to personal interests, fear is a useless emotion and should be thrown away.
"Okay, it's time to draw the blind box. I'll go off the air after I draw the blind box."
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