Chapter 138 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
The three large ships slowly docked at the side of a hillside where there was a stone forest, and the villagers hurriedly got off the ships.
"Hey, I finally found the right place."
"It really feels most reassuring to have your feet on the ground."
Zhang Chengming stepped on the muddy ground. Even though his shoes and trouser legs were quickly soiled by rain and mud, the expression on his face remained exceptionally relaxed.
The other members of the Zhang family and other nearby villagers had similar reactions.
The passenger boat... let's call it Boat No. 2, the Lu family's yacht is No. 1, and the cargo ship is No. 3.
The riding experience on Ship No. 2 is not bad, but as inland people, they still prefer the sense of stability of standing firmly on the ground.
Everyone stretched their legs happily, and then they were in the mood to observe the surrounding environment.
The area where they are currently located is geographically and climatically similar to the area between Shandong and Henan, based on modern reference.
It is better to say that it is the central region rather than the south.
It is not possible to continue going south, but the south has always been a place with a high population density and extremely complex distribution of power. Neither Lu Xuan nor the villagers are willing to come into contact with other surviving victims again in a short period of time.
Furthermore, earthquakes occur more frequently in the south than in the north. During one disaster period, you may need to change your residence three or four times, which is very tiring.
It's different here. The lowest temperature in the extreme cold season is at least ten degrees higher than in the north. The plates are stable, the frequency of earthquakes is low, and the magnitude is not high. They can live here for at least half a year without moving.
There are only a few low trees and weeds growing on the hill at your feet. The altitude is not too high, and there are several hills around it.
When the drone looked from afar, it could vaguely see a large bamboo forest and scattered fruit trees. There were quite a few trees, and there must be quite a few mushrooms popping up. It would be a good place to collect resources or prepare farmland.
The young and strong men set up an awning not far from the shore that was large enough to accommodate everyone. Then Li Tie, Lu Xuan, Old Man Zhang, and Wu Cheng gathered together to talk about business.
Li Tiedao said, "It's been a month since the last harvest. It's time to start planting again. The land here is quite large. Perhaps we can plant a few more acres?"
Wu Cheng frowned and said, "It's raining so hard, even if we plant the seeds, they will be soaked and ruined, right?"
Mr. Zhang suggested, "We can try growing more rice. We have a lot of good quality rice seeds among the supplies we found in the county."
He was halfway through his speech, his expression showing some worry. "But I'm afraid the rice can't withstand the daily rain, and the temperature has been too low lately, which is not conducive to crop growth. If we want to get a good harvest, I'm afraid we'll have to rely on Ah Xuan."
Lu Xuan picked up the teacup and took a sip of hot fruit tea, then said nonchalantly, "I cultivated some mutant rice seeds a few days ago, but the quantity is limited. I can only guarantee that each family will be given enough to plant half an acre. If the original seeds are planted in other fields, the yield will probably be far less than the other mutant crops we have planted before."
Li Tie and the others paused, their eyes showing obvious reluctance.
Lu Xuan: "If we want to ensure the yield, we must continue to plant other mutant crops. But as the old man said, even mutants cannot withstand heavy rain every day unless all the land is blocked with something."
Li Tie's spirits lifted as he said excitedly, "Awning! Can't we just use the awning to block it? Why didn't I think of this?"
Wu Cheng glanced at him and warned, "If we want to cover all the land, the cost will probably be very high."
If they only built a shed to shelter from the rain, Lu Xuan might not bother with them, but if they covered dozens or even hundreds of acres of land...
Li Tie subconsciously looked at Lu Xuan, who did not hide the fact: "The cost is indeed not low."
The price of the awning is calculated per square meter. The cost of one square meter is 100 points, which means one acre of land costs 66,000 points. If you plant a hundred acres of land... it will cost more than 6 million points.
Li Tie and others didn't understand the value of points, so Lu Xuan told them how expensive they were in a way they could understand.
"About the price of six large ships."
Li Tie's face turned green on the spot.
Barrage:
[Using a canopy to cover the greenhouse, 666, this means there is a mine at home. ]
[The one with the mine is the anchor, or we contributed it:)]
Even if the host can afford it, the villagers may not be able to use it.
"Honestly, spending millions on a shed is ridiculously inexpensive. The village chief's thinking was wrong from the start. Rainproof sheets are much cheaper and better!"
When the audience pointed out the key point, Lu Xuan also happened to tell the village chief and others about the existence of the rainproof cloth.
The price of rainproof cloth is much cheaper than that of awning. The specification of 10*10 meters is only 100 points, and 100 acres of land only costs more than 600,000 points, which is ten times cheaper.
The only problem was that, combined with the cost of the tarpaulin, the three-point dividend couldn't offset his investment.
If it were to be increased by another 20%, the villagers would only be able to get 30%, which would make Lu Xuan feel like he had become part of the exploiting class.
So before Li Tie could even bring it up, he spoke first, "In exchange for the rainproof sheet, I'll reduce the number of times I use my wood-based abilities. The mutant seeds have a high enough survival rate. As long as we avoid heavy rain, the harvest won't be much reduced. At most, it'll take a while longer to harvest."
That is, 20 days are extended to one month, and the original three rounds of harvest are reduced to two rounds.
From the perspective of the village, missing one harvest means tens of thousands of pounds of grain being lost, so it would be more cost-effective to pay for the rainproof cloth directly at a fixed price.
But Lu Xuan took the initiative to bring up this method, perhaps to remind them that he could not always help the village to have children.
It’s time for the village to become self-reliant.
The other villagers who were sitting not far away and listening attentively looked a little hesitant, but when they saw that the village chief didn't say anything, they didn't interrupt to express their opinions.
If it weren't for Lu Xuan, this season would not be the time to harvest crops. Whether it was two rounds or three rounds, they still made a profit. People should be content and not be too greedy.
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After solving the basic conditions for planting, the next step is to determine the specific number of acres to be planted.
Short-distance activities are not suitable for mobilizing large ships, so Lu Xuan took out a batch of kayaks that he had prepared.
Li Jing, Zhang Chengming, Xiong Mao and other married young people's eyes lit up when they saw the kayak that looked like a small house on the water after the tent was set up.
Zhang Chengming held Lu Xuan's shoulder and whispered, "Can we change this kayak?"
Having already witnessed once how hard young people worked to survive the night, Lu Xuan nodded calmly: "Of course we can exchange it once the supplies are in place."
Zhang Chengming patted his shoulder happily and grinned, "Okay, okay! I knew you wouldn't forget us!"
Xiong Mao came over and asked about the price of the kayak.
Lu Xuan said: "Small manual boats can carry 300 kilograms of supplies, medium and large boats can carry 400 to 600 kilograms, and power boats can carry 800 to 1,000 kilograms of supplies depending on the size."
The several motor boats that Lu Xuan took out happened to be of different sizes. Zhang Chengming and others took a look and found that the size of the small boat was enough for the two of them.
Only 300 kilograms of supplies, great! Very cheap! This is it!
The idea was good, but when they got on the powerboat, started the engine, and felt the thrill of sailing through the flood, which was completely different from the intelligent control of a large ship, they all changed their minds at the same time.
Why buy a manual boat? If you are a man, you should drive a power boat!
The audience in the live broadcast room who watched the whole process of several people slapping each other in the face were speechless and complained:
Do they still remember the main purpose of switching to a kayak?
What kind of power do you need for a kayak you're preparing for sex? Are you supposed to be able to have sex while you're zipping along? Aren't you afraid of flying off the boat in the middle of it?
[Pfft, god, he flew out halfway through, and there's a scene.]
Of course, the specific model of kayak to be replaced cannot be easily decided by just talking about it. The most important thing right now is to go to several nearby hills to check the terrain and determine the number of acres to be planted.
After more than an hour of field investigation and asking for opinions from other villagers, the final number of acres decided was 200 acres.
It's doubled than expected.
Previously, each household cultivated 123 mu based on the number of people, but now it has increased to 345 mu per household. The extra part is reserved for vegetable gardens and Lu Xuan’s fruit orchard.
The audience in the live broadcast room commented sharply: This is because the villagers knew that they would have one less harvest and decided to make up for it by increasing the number of acres.
Lu Xuan didn't care about it.
The data in the live broadcast room has been growing steadily since the rainy season began.
A few days ago, when the flood peak came, there was an expected small outbreak. The number of online users and fans increased significantly, and the points also increased from the top three to the top four.
More than one million points is not a small amount, but the area is large, so he gets a large share, and he still has to spend it.
Furthermore, there was one thing Lu Xuan did not say.
There is no need to use awnings as greenhouses during the rainy season, but in the extremely cold season, there are no greenhouses. Unless he uses his supernatural powers to maintain them around the clock, no crops can grow well in an environment of dozens of degrees below zero.
But as the audience said, he can afford to spend the points, but the villagers can't.
In order to save costs, the scale of planting in the extreme cold season will inevitably be greatly reduced. In this case, it is a good idea to grow more food during the rainy season.
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After determining the number of acres, Lu Xuan bought enough rainproof cloth in the mall, and together with others, he covered the flat hilly area with few obstacles.
In order to ensure that the tarpaulin will not be blown away by the wind, additional fixing rods are needed to position it at certain intervals.
When you achieve the live broadcast duration achievement, the items unlocked in the mall include herbicides.
Use a plant protection machine to spray herbicides on the designated fields. After half an hour, the green weeds will quickly turn yellow and then rot and die.
After that, it was the usual earth-based ability to turn the soil.
The original villagers of Yunlu Village had seen this many times and were not surprised, but the newcomers were all shocked.
They have seen many other people with special abilities in the village demonstrate their abilities in the past few days, but how can the performance of condensing a small water ball/fireball, or carrying a water tank with one hand compare with the power of Lu Xuan's large-scale soil turning?
The visual impact is totally different!
Lin Qingfu sincerely felt that his initiative to recommend himself might be the best decision he had ever made in his life!
The hilly areas do not have the thick humus soil like the deep mountains, and the original nutrients in the soil have been washed away by the rain during this period.
In order to avoid a reduction in harvest, Lu Xuan purchased another unlocked item, plant nutrient solution, after the herbicide.
Plant nutrient solution, to put it simply, is interstellar fertilizer. It is made from the mutated plant and animal residues left after extracting the ingredients of edible nutrients. It can provide the soil with a variety of trace elements and deliver the nutrients needed for crops.
The fields were fertilized with plant nutrient solution and then sown with a plant protection machine.
Lu Xuan infused the wood-type ability into the seeds to promote germination, ensuring that the mutant seeds continued to maintain their characteristics and would not degenerate.
How it grows afterwards depends on the seeds themselves.
The villagers were busy in the bright lights until nearly midnight, when they returned to the boat to rest.
The next two days were spent concentrating on mountain activities.
The steps are the same as in the Yunlu Mountains. First, pull out the vines, thorns and some trees, cover them with rainproof cloth, and then use a lawn mower and herbicide to get rid of the weeds.
Because most of the work could be done by the young and strong people in the village, Lu Xuan, who had free time, took out the ordinary fruit trees and mutant fruit trees that had been reborn in the first half of the month and planted them, and planned the fruit forest.
Lu Qing, Miao Jinfeng and other female family members also planted mutant vegetable seeds in the vegetable garden.
By the time the young and strong men had planted various crop seeds on the two hundred acres of land, the first batch of leeks, which grew the fastest, were already edible.
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As soon as the work in the fields was finished, Qian Erniang couldn't wait to arrange the marriage of Wei Dayong and Ke Wei.
The disaster period is different from the past, and the wedding process is kept simple.
Both parties agreed on the amount of betrothal gifts and dowry, and asked Lu Xuan for a day with relatively good weather and no taboos so they could get married.
On the wedding day, the young women who helped prepare the wedding banquet sat under the awning, picking vegetables and chatting.
At first they were just chatting casually about some topics about new people, but somehow the topic turned to Li Yue.
Ye Ping recalled the little incident from the previous two days and jokingly asked Li Yue, "Tell me honestly, what do you think of Wu Yang?"
Li Yue, who was picking bean sprouts, paused, glanced at his ankle, which had fully recovered, and said nonchalantly, "What are you thinking?"
"Still pretending." Su Ying, who was sitting opposite Li Yue, snorted softly, "Don't tell me you can't tell what Wu Yang feels for you. We grew up together in the village, so we know each other."
Even if you were a little slow and didn't notice it before, think about how anxious and nervous Wu Yang was when he rescued Li Yue in Yangshan County, and how Li Yue accidentally fell and sprained her foot while collecting data two days ago. When Wu Yang found out, he carried her back to the camp without saying a word.
It's so obvious, even a fool knows what Wu Yang means.
Lu Qing and Liu Yu looked at each other and remained silent tacitly.
Li Yue got engaged to Zhou Chenghai when she was just over fifteen years old, and she got married in town the following year. At that time, Wu Yang was just a half-grown boy and could do nothing but watch his sweetheart get married.
Things are different now.
When Li Tie beat Zhou Chenghai half to death, he personally wrote the divorce agreement and asked Zhou Chenghai to put his fingerprints on it. Li Yue is now a free agent, so isn't Wu Yang's chance here?
Lu Qing casually said, "Come to think of it, when we were in the county, every family in the village who needed someone was busy looking for someone, but Wu Yang had no intention of looking for one at all."
Wu Yinyin, as Li Yue's younger sister and Wu Yang's older sister, took the opportunity to say, "I've known for a long time that Ayang has feelings for you. I know his personality very well. Once he sets his mind on someone, it's impossible for him to change his mind."
The reason why Wu Yang did not express his feelings to Li Yue early on was that on the one hand he was too young and ignorant about matters of the heart, and on the other hand it was also because she had already married Li Jing at that time and the two families had become in-laws.
She has had a good relationship with Li Jing over the years and has been living happily in her husband's family, but she has to watch her brother living alone. Even when Li Yue occasionally returns to her parents' home, she only looks at him from afar and doesn't bother him much. It would be a lie to say that she doesn't feel distressed.
When Li Yue and Zhou Chenghai were in a harmonious relationship, she couldn't do anything to break up their marriage, but since Zhou Chenghai had been kicked out, she naturally had no worries and seized the opportunity to help her brother.
Li Yue looked a little unnatural, "Sister-in-law is joking."
Wu Yinyin said seriously, "Who's joking? I'm serious. Ah Yue, do you hate Ah Yang?"
Li Yue shook his head, "Of course not."
Wu Yang is good-looking, good at hunting, and has awakened special powers. Who would hate such an outstanding man?
Wu Yinyin said: "Since you don't dislike him, why don't you consider him?"
Li Yue said calmly, "It is precisely because he is so good that he deserves a better woman. I am not worthy of him."
With Wu Yang's conditions, he could easily find a younger, prettier, unmarried wife, rather than a prostitute like her who had given birth to a child for another man.
Wu Yinyin disagreed, "How can you not be worthy? As long as he thinks you are worthy, then you are worthy!"
Su Ying guessed Li Yue's thoughts immediately and sneered, "Since Wu Yang isn't avoiding you, it means he doesn't mind your past. Why are you still being so hypocritical? Do you really have to wait for Wu Yang to tell you personally that he doesn't despise you, and make all kinds of promises and sweet words to you before you agree?"
Or are you afraid that the villagers will gossip about you and think that you are having something going on with Wu Yang not long after you broke up with Zhou Chenghai, and you feel lonely?
Those gossipy aunts in the village may indeed gossip, but it is your own life that you live. Can a few meaningless words from others be worth living a good life yourself?
Do you live for yourself or for others? Would you die if someone told you to?
Wasn't she the subject of much gossip in the village before? She and her husband Xiong Mao were still living a prosperous life.
Seeing that others disliked her but couldn't do anything about it, she even ate an extra bowl of rice.
Lu Qing secretly nudged Su Ying with her elbow and signaled with her eyes that she should hold back and not say too much, as not everyone had the same good attitude as her.
Li Yue's face was a little stiff, and he looked a little embarrassed as if a sore spot had been touched, but at the same time his heart was deeply touched.
Liu Yu saw that everyone else had expressed their feelings, so he thought about it and said something from the bottom of his heart.
"To be honest, if I had the chance, I would also like to remarry. A woman always needs someone to rely on. She can't always rely on her parents for support. Even if my parents and brother don't mind, I still feel bad about it."
"Besides, if I don't remarry, I'm afraid others will think I'm clinging to my past. It makes me sick just thinking about it."
Li Yue was stunned for a moment, thinking that someone misunderstood that he couldn't let go of Zhou Chenghai... His expression suddenly became as disgusted as if he had eaten a fly.
She silently picked the remaining vegetables in her hand for a long time without speaking again.
Only when everyone else felt their persuasion was in vain did he relent and say, "Right now, the most important thing is to get through the rainy season. As for the rest... what's destined to happen will happen eventually, so just let it happen naturally."
The others looked at each other, and finally there was a hint of smile in their eyes.
With Wu Yinyin's tip-off, Wu Yang soon learned of Li Yue's movements.
Wu Yang was excited, but he didn't forget to say to Wu Yinyin, "Don't force her. She's waited for so many years. It doesn't matter if she waits a little longer. I'm not in a hurry."
He didn't want Li Yue to agree to him reluctantly because of the instigation and inducement of others.
He hoped that one day Li Yue would really respond to his feelings, simply because she liked him.
If not, he would rather keep the status quo.
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After the Wei family's happy event, the villagers did not sit idle. They still went up the mountain every day to collect supplies regardless of rain or shine.
In addition to the essential mushroom picking, they also went to the bamboo forest they had discovered earlier to dig autumn bamboo shoots and picked wild fruits such as pears, dates, peaches, kiwis, etc. scattered in various directions in the mountains.
If I have to say something I'm not satisfied with, it's probably that hunting in the rainy season is more difficult than in the extremely hot season, and the harvest of prey is much less.
Every day when the harvest was counted, the village chief and others couldn't help but sigh and boo.
Although the collecting team can pick hundreds of kilograms of mushrooms every day, each family can only get three to five kilograms, which is not enough for two meals for a family with a large population.
There is even less meat, and the harvest is not as much as the consumption. Many families have begun to consider reducing the amount of meat at home.
After Lu Xuan noticed this, he thought about it for a while and then opened up a separate area on the edge of the hilly field.
What are they going to do with this place? Naturally, they're going to grow mushrooms.
If the meat harvest is not satisfactory, then use other supplies to fill the gap. Just as the rainy season is the peak period for mushrooms, and three or five kilograms are not enough to eat, then grow thirty to fifty kilograms, or even three to five hundred kilograms!
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