Chapter 139 Jinjiang Exclusive
"We need to install air conditioning here?" Li Tie noticed that the mushroom house built by Lu Xuan was also equipped with air conditioning, and his expression was incredible.
Is it so extravagant to grow mushrooms?
Lu Xuan explained: "Humidity and temperature are both important for growing mushrooms. The current temperature is too low, and it's difficult to guarantee yields without raising the temperature."
The most suitable temperature for mushroom growth is around 25 degrees. If it drops below ten degrees, they will basically not grow.
The temperature during the rainy season basically remains between 10 and 15 degrees. It dropped below 10 degrees some time ago and has recently rebounded a bit, but it is still far from 25 degrees.
If you want mushrooms to grow well, you must make the necessary investment, and air conditioners are not that expensive.
Because of the high temperature requirement, Lu Xuan did not use rainproof cloth to decorate the mushroom house, but instead built a greenhouse with a awning that was eliminated due to high costs.
After the mushroom house is officially put into use, the air conditioner must be turned on continuously for twelve hours to maintain the necessary temperature.
The mushroom house covers an area of one acre, is half a meter wide, and has ten rows of two-meter-long iron racks, with a total of one hundred mushrooms.
There are five layers on the iron frame, which can hold seven to eight half-meter-long tree trunks vertically. The entire mushroom house can hold seven to eight hundred tree trunks.
However, considering that Lu Xuan has two different species of wood fungi and grass fungi, in addition to suitable tree trunks, he also needs to prepare half of the grass fungi planting bed made of rice straw, wheat straw, rice husks, rice bran, corn stalks and other materials.
At present, the iron rack where the tree trunks are placed is only half full, but the grass mushroom planting bed is ready.
The missing tree trunks will be almost collected in the next few days. Lu Xuan first spread the mushroom strains he had on the prepared mushroom bed in batches according to their types.
Among them, wood-growing fungi include shiitake mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, matsutake mushrooms, false honey fungus, hazel mushrooms, and thigh mushrooms;
There are fewer grass mushrooms, only four kinds: chicken leg mushroom, enoki mushroom, seafood mushroom and white jade mushroom. The last three kinds were freshly picked in the past few days.
In addition, the delicious cave mushrooms are naturally indispensable.
Lu Xuan has cultivated a mutated cave mushroom and given it a more suitable name.
——Meat mushrooms.
To make a large plate of meat mushrooms, just add a little meat and stir-fry. The final fried mushrooms taste almost the same as meat, and can be easily mistaken for the real thing.
If this isn't meat mushroom, what is it?
Maybe it can also be called mushroom meat?
After spreading the mushroom seeds, Lu Xuan said to Li Tie, "Next, we just need to have the villagers spray the plant nutrient solution on time every day, and spray water on the mushroom beds every morning, noon and evening to maintain sufficient humidity, and then we can wait for the harvest."
The growth cycle of mutant mushrooms is much faster than that of ordinary mushrooms, and they can be harvested every seven days.
And as long as you supply some supernatural energy for nourishment every month, you can harvest continuously, and mushrooms will not stop growing after three or five crops.
According to his rough estimate, this one-acre mushroom house should be able to produce 2,500 kilograms of various mutant mushrooms every seven days, which is 10,000 kilograms a month.
Lu Xuan has already provided mushroom house construction materials and mutant mycelium spores, which can be regarded as a technological investment.
He doesn't have to worry about the subsequent water spraying harvest and can just take 30%, which is more than 3,000 kilograms.
Live broadcast room audience:!!!
[Oh my god! I only paid a little over 60,000 points and can get over 3,000 kilograms of mushrooms every month? This is too cool!!!]
[This harvest is more than the grain! The anchor should just stop growing grain and plant hundreds of acres of mushrooms!]
[Let me do the math. If we really plant a hundred acres, wouldn't the host get... 300,000 kilograms?! A sea of mushrooms!]
[Don't be silly. Even if you grow a hundred acres of live broadcasts, you'll have to spend over six million to build a greenhouse. That's too much to invest. It's simply unrealistic.]
[Besides, mushrooms can't be eaten, and growing so many of them just takes up space.]
[Also, don't forget, this is the weight of fresh mushrooms; they will definitely shrink after drying.]
Lu Xuan nodded. "Depending on the water content of the mushrooms, the weight of the dried mushrooms will be reduced to only 30% or even 10%."
【!!! It's shrunk so much, but it doesn't seem like a lot after all.】
More than 3,000 kilograms became several hundred kilograms. With the Lu family's appetite, there would not be much left.
Furthermore, the highest mushroom yield occurs only during the rainy season when it is sufficiently humid. It can be grown during the extremely cold season and the spring of the following year, but the yield will definitely decrease.
Not to mention the extremely hot season, the cost and energy consumption are too high, and it is not worth it to plant it.
Whenever Lu Xuan wants to eat mushrooms, he can grow them himself. The output from the mushroom house is just icing on the cake for him. The ones who really need this fixed output are the villagers.
According to his estimated yield, each household in the village can get about 30 kilograms of crops in a single harvest, which is almost three large baskets.
Even for families with large populations like the Li and Zhang families, this amount of mushrooms is enough for daily consumption, and maybe even half of them can be left over.
After Li Tie learned about the specific output of the mushroom house and calculated the amount each family could get, he no longer felt that installing air conditioners in the mushroom house was a luxury.
Isn’t it just the energy consumption of an air conditioner? Compared with the monthly output of 10,000 kilograms, it’s nothing!
Use it, use it, not to mention just one air conditioner, even adding a few more will be no problem!
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Lu family yacht, in the restaurant on the second floor.
Young people close to Lu Xuan, such as the Zhang family, the Li family, the Xiong Mao family, Wu Yang, and Chen Rong, gathered together with their wives and children and prepared a hot pot in a lively atmosphere.
Because there were so many people, two tables were set up in total, one for the men and one for the women and children. Each table had three pots of different soup bases, namely spicy soup, mushroom soup, and tomato soup.
The prepared ingredients include fatty beef, fatty lamb, fish balls, tripe, pig brains, various mutant vegetables, bean sprouts, enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, etc.
There are also several kinds of dipping sauces, including sesame paste with chopped green onions, coriander and peanuts, chive sauce, garlic sauce, and dry ingredient dishes.
The drinks at the men's table were alcoholic beverages, while the drinks at the women's and children's table were various juices and milk teas.
As soon as the vegetables and meat were cooked, everyone rushed to pick up their chopsticks.
"Hiss, it's so hot!" Zhang Chengming grimaced at the burning meat in his mouth, but he couldn't bear to spit it out, so he kept breathing in with his mouth open until the temperature dropped a little, then he couldn't wait to swallow it down. "It smells so good!"
Not only is the meat fragrant, the mutated vegetables are sweet, the bean sprouts and enoki mushrooms are crispy and refreshing, and the shiitake mushrooms, after absorbing the soup, are dipped in the right sauce and are so fragrant that they make your tongue savor.
“It’s so delicious!”
Not only the adults were satisfied with the meal, but the little ones also had their mouths full of grease. They actively put their favorite dishes into their bowls without the adults watching them.
Except for Li Tuo, who had not yet taken the evolutionary fluid and was not sure whether he would awaken, everyone else at the table was a mutant with a huge appetite. The whole table was devoured in no time.
I replenished it several times afterwards, and ate more than 30 kilograms of meat and more than 50 kilograms of vegetables and mushrooms before I finally slowed down and chatted while drinking some wine/juice.
The audience in the live broadcast room enjoyed the meal to their heart's content, and one by one they entered the sage time and became comfortable listeners.
Zhang Chengming said with emotion, "Before coming here, I went to the mushroom house to take a look. The mushrooms we planted first have already grown quite a lot. I estimate that we can harvest them in two days. We can grow a lot of mushrooms without having to brave the rain to pick them. It's so easy to get these supplies."
Not only are mushrooms easy to come by, but the seedlings in the fields are also growing well. After using herbicides, they don't have to weed every few days, and their lives are much easier than during the hottest season.
Chen Rong patted his bulging belly and grinned, "Isn't it good to be relaxed? Not being afraid of the rain doesn't mean that hunting and gathering isn't hard. Why bother getting up early and working late when you can just lie down and reap the rewards?"
Xiong Mao deeply agreed with this.
He felt that those so-called aristocratic families might not live as freely and comfortably as they did.
Not only are their living conditions inferior, but if the nobles knew that these common people possessed the ability to move mountains and seas, they would probably be jealous to death.
Thinking of the shock Lu Xuan felt every time he turned the soil, Xiong Mao couldn't help but ask Lu Xuan: "Is there any way to improve the level of superpowers as quickly as possible?"
If he could also turn over a large area of land with a wave of his hand like Lu Xuan, or build a high wall on flat ground like he did in the Yunlu Mountains, wouldn't his wife be fascinated by him?
Lu Xuan glanced at him and said, "There is no other way except to continuously deplete your energy and then slowly recover it."
Barrage:
[Before cross-dimensional live streaming appeared, there was really no other way except what the anchor said, but now the situation is different.]
[Unlikely, the anchors won't be able to enjoy this in a short period of time. Besides, the anchors are already level seven, and it's not easy to get to level eight.]
[Indeed, many level 7 psychics in the Star Alliance never reach level 8 in their entire lives. Even if they rely on %￥# to obtain resources, whether they can upgrade or not is still a matter of luck.]
Lu Xuan noticed the garbled characters on the barrage, his eyes moved slightly, and he guessed that it was probably related to some new functions that he had not yet unlocked that were blocked.
He could roughly guess what the other upgrade method the audience mentioned was based on the previous words, and even guess a few of the new features that might be involved later.
only……
Lu Xuan observed the comments for a while and found that no audience urged him like before. He probably understood that even if such a function existed, it would not be unlocked in the next stage.
As for the next stage... it will take too long, so let's not think about it for now.
Noticing that everyone had more or less disappointed expressions on their faces, Lu Xuan thought for a moment and said, "I can't teach you how to upgrade, but I can teach you some techniques for using superpowers, and how to maximize your power with minimal effort. Do you want to listen?"
"Of course!" Everyone's spirits were rekindled, and they looked at Lu Xuan with burning eyes, their eyes full of curiosity and ambition.
Lu Xuan nodded, "Then tell me."
Soon, the dining table was moved aside, and a group of men stood in the spacious open space and began to demonstrate their special abilities one by one according to Lu Xuan's instructions.
The women and children sit by and watch. Occasionally, when it is their husband/father's turn to perform, they cheer them on. If they perform well, they will applaud and cheer to provide emotional value.
The audience in the live broadcast room laughed while pointing fingers at these first-level psychics: it felt like they were watching an acrobatic performance.
After everyone had performed their skills, his already limited reserves of supernatural powers were completely used up, and most of the food he had eaten not long ago had been digested.
Xiong Mao, who worked the hardest, also consumed the most energy. He leaned back in his chair with an expression of being drained, touching his empty stomach and feeling a little suffocated.
"Superpowers are good in every way, but they consume too much energy. No matter how much I eat, it's never enough. My family's meat is consumed too quickly since the rainy season began."
Su Ying at the next table agreed with this.
She is in charge of all the supplies in the house, and she knows best how quickly the meat has been consumed recently.
Today's ingredients were all provided by Lu Xuan, so they can eat as much as they want. They wouldn't dare to do this normally.
In order to save meat, she even asked Lu Qing to exchange a lot of meat and mushrooms for them. However, Xiong Mao was a meat lover, and even though the taste was similar, his pursuit of meat remained unchanged.
The meat in the village chief's public supplies had long been exchanged by the villagers. If she couldn't find a way to get some meat, she would have to consider reducing the quality of Xiong Mao's three meals.
It's not just the Xiong Mao family, the Zhang and Li families with larger populations also have high consumption.
During the hottest season, the harvest is abundant, and everyone has become accustomed to having meat and vegetables for every meal. It’s not that we can’t survive if we reduce the amount of meat and vegetables, but we just feel that we can’t let our lives get worse, right?
Zhang Chengming asked Lu Xuan, "Ah Xuan, do you have any ideas for us to get more meat? Maybe we can drive the hovercraft to other places?"
The others also showed a hint of anticipation on their faces.
Lu Xuan sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, tapping his thigh lightly with his fingers. "It's not impossible to go hunting in a hovercraft, but it's quite risky."
Except for the area where they were, almost all the surrounding areas were flooded. If they wanted to find a suitable place to hunt, they had to go further. Unless he could follow them every time, their safety could not be guaranteed.
But he was not short of supplies. In rainy weather, he would rather stay in a warm and comfortable room, eat, drink, lie down and enjoy himself, and did not want to go out.
Lu Xuan said, "If you just want to get some meat, you don't necessarily have to go hunting. Isn't there another option?"
Everyone was puzzled. What choice?
Lu Xuan turned his head and looked out the window. "The thing that is most in demand during the rainy season is water. Besides mushrooms, isn't there another easy-to-obtain material?"
The others followed his gaze, and Lei Yan was the first to react, "You mean... fish?"
Lu Xuan nodded. "There must be rivers and lakes around here that have burst their banks due to the flood. If we take a kayak around there, we should be able to find a lot of fish."
Compared to the increasingly difficult-to-find prey in the mountains, fish are readily available and much easier to obtain, making them a very good choice for villagers who lack meat.
When the others realized this, their eyes lit up instantly.
The rain on the second day was unusually lighter. Except for the elderly and women who stayed behind to look after the children and the mushroom house, almost all the young and strong people went out.
More than forty people formed groups of two or three, drove a kayak and carried the fishing nets provided by Lu Xuan, and dispersed around the location where the big ship was docked.
Because it was the first day, Lu Xuan also participated.
He and Lei Yan were in a group of two, and they also brought Lu Chen along to join in the fun.
What they were riding in was not a kayak, but a small fishing boat worth 100,000 points that Lu Xuan drew from the golden blind box last night.
Fishing boats are more comfortable than kayaks, and there is a radar device on board that can detect whether there are fish in the water, and can display their location and number.
In addition to driving the boat, Lu Xuan also took on the task of telling Lei Yan and others the location of the fish.
"Li Jing, there's a school of fish three hundred meters to the south."
"Xiong Mao, drive 500 meters northwest and there are some big fish."
"Wuyang, go east for 600 meters... Wei Dayong, go north... Liu Chun, pass Li Jing's group and continue forward for more than 200 meters. There is another school of fish."
Through radar monitoring, Lu Xuan discovered that the area they chose was indeed the right one.
The flood brought many unexpected fish, and we could see quite a few of them without having to walk far.
The only trouble was that the flood water flowed too fast and the fish moved quickly. Every time Lu Xuan told him the location of the fish, he had to rush over quickly and chase them for a while before he could intercept them.
Once the speed slows down, you can only reposition.
Lu Xuan chased the fastest, but the harvest of each net under Lei Yan was still not much, basically only thirty to fifty kilograms.
Lu Chen, accustomed to catching hundreds of kilograms of fish at the waterfall, sighed and said regretfully, "Why is this all?"
The audience in the live broadcast room were also a little disappointed.
[The anchor's brother-in-law is not good. The reduction in his income is too great.]
[If I share a few dozen kilograms of fish with the villagers, will the remaining fish be enough to fill my stomach?]
However, Lu Xuan knew that it was not Lei Yan's fault.
The fish living in the big waterfall pool in Yunlu Mountain are all large fish that have no pressure to survive. They are often as long as an arm and weigh ten kilograms.
The fish brought by the flood do not have as good a life as the fish in the mountains. The largest fish caught in the fishing nets is only the size of two palms, and there are very few of them. Most of the fish are the size of a palm or smaller.
It would be difficult to catch such a big fish weighing hundreds of kilograms in a turbulent stream, even if people dumped the fish into the river in batches and then fished them out manually.
Asking other groups about their catches, they found that on average they could only catch about 10 to 20 kilograms per net, and a little over 20 kilograms at most.
It was already good enough for Lei Yan to catch dozens of kilograms.
Seeing that Lu Chen still looked somewhat unsatisfied, Lu Xuan patted his head and said, "The conventional method of fishing is indeed a bit inefficient. Why don't we try a more special method?"
Lu Chen asked with sparkling eyes: "What special method?"
Lei Yan and the audience in the live broadcast room were also curious.
Lu Xuan didn't rush to tell them the answer. He just avoided the crowd and drove the fishing boat a little further away. After finding an area where fish were active, he temporarily handed the boat over to Lei Yan and walked onto the deck.
Lu Xuan said to Lu Chen who followed him: "Watch carefully."
He raised one arm and gently waved it at the water surface. A blue lightning fell into the water, stirring up countless sparks and making a sharp crackling sound.
Before long, countless fish and shrimps, large and small, that were electrocuted, floated up to the surface of the turbid water.
Lei Yan: “!”
Live broadcast room audience: ! !
Lu Xuan cast the fishing net down and caught all the fish and shrimp on the water surface. He used his hands to weigh it, and it was at least more than 80 kilograms.
The reason why there are still less than a hundred is simply because the total size of this school of fish is just this small.
Lu Chen looked at the net full of fish and shouted excitedly, "Wow! So many fish! And shrimp!"
The audience in the livestream lamented, "Thank goodness the Covenant ships use a special, non-conductive coating on their exteriors. If this were back in the early days of technology, wouldn't the streamer have electrocuted himself first?"
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The young and strong men returned to the shore one after another to unload the cargo.
The harvest of others was only 30 to 50 kilograms, but when it came to Lu Xuan and Lei Yan's group, it soared to more than 300 kilograms.
Mr. Zhang was shocked and said, "How come you gained so much more than others?"
Lu Chen couldn't wait to show off his brother's special fishing skills.
The female relatives who stayed behind couldn't help but look amazed when they heard him tell how Lu Xuan used his supernatural powers to easily electrocute the fish and shrimp and then fished them out.
Is this even possible! ?
Lu Qing turned to look at Lei Yan, her eyes sparkling as she asked, "You also have lightning abilities. Can you catch fish like Xuan?"
Lei Yan touched his nose and said helplessly: "My superpower reserves are not as good as Ah Xuan's. I can only shock him once, and the effect is not as good as his."
Lu Qing nodded with an expression that showed she was expecting it.
Ah Xuan is the most powerful, so it is normal that Lei Yan cannot compare with him.
Lei Yan: “…” I understand the logic, but as my wife, you don’t have to show it so obviously.
Wave after wave of fresh fish were poured into plastic boxes, and the people who stayed behind quickly began to classify the fish.
In addition to the common river fish and a small amount of river shrimp, this batch of fish also includes a lot of eels and loaches, and occasionally one or two small animal corpses mixed in with a pile of fish.
If any of the meat is found to be rotten, it will be thrown away immediately. As for the fresher ones, Lu Xuan will test whether the meat is edible.
It's not just the animal carcasses. There's no telling what kind of pathogens there might be in the floodwaters, and fish also need to be tested to confirm their safety before they can be eaten.
With Lu Xuan's support, the harvest after working hard for most of the day was better than everyone expected. The total harvest of various fish and shrimps exceeded one thousand kilograms.
Isn't this much better than the young and strong men who work themselves to death and wander around the mountains but can only bring back prey weighing one or two hundred kilograms?
In addition to the share that Lu Xuan and the public supplies received, each family, including the young and strong, received about ten pounds, an average of more than ten fish.
As for the public supplies, everyone immediately exchanged them for food, so that each family could harvest an extra four or five kilograms.
That night, a variety of fish and meat dishes appeared on each family's table.
Common ones include steamed fish, braised fish, sweet and sour fish, boiled fish, and others include sour soup fish fillets, pan-fried fish fillets, pepper and salt fish... The latter ones are basically on the Lu family's menu.
The audience in the live broadcast room feasted on the food again with the Lu family.
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late at night.
Lu Xuan lay on the two-meter-long bed and drew today's blind box as usual.
Today's ordinary blind boxes and silver are no different from usual, but the gold blind box gave him a big surprise.
[Golden Blind Box Ten-Piece Combo: Points 2233, Points 1782, Points 1001, Points 4129, Large Inflatable Water Platform, Energy Converter, Lung Cancer Specific Medicine, Basic Bio-Coat, Gene Evolution Fluid*2.]
Lu Xuan: “!”
Live broadcast audience: "!!!"
The inflatable platform and biosuit can be ignored.
The energy converter supports multiple energy conversions such as water power, wind power, thermal power, and electricity, and is a good thing.
One bottle of the special medicine for lung cancer can cure lung cancer in any early, middle or late stage. Although there are no patients with lung cancer in the village, it cannot change the fact that the special medicine is a treasure.
But these two good things are not as good as the last one.
Gene evolution fluid...2!?
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