Chapter 240 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
Inside the lounge of Ship No. 1.
The official, who had taken off his raincoat and hat, couldn't help but ask when he saw Lu Xuan, "My Lord, why are the houses in your village gone?"
Although there was indeed a lot of water outside, an adult wouldn't necessarily be completely submerged if they fell in. Yunlu Village had so many elegant two- and three-story buildings; they wouldn't be washed away by the accumulated water, would they? It hadn't even become a flood.
Lu Xuan, who was sitting on the sofa in a relaxed posture, raised his eyebrows: "House? Of course it's put away."
Official: “???”
Put it away? How?
"The houses in our village can be retracted and opened freely. Um... didn't I say that before?" Lu Xuan tilted his head slightly, as if recalling something.
The official's expression was stiff and his eyes were wide open. You didn't say that!
“How can the house be put away?”
"Even the gods' houses can be folded up." Lu Xuan said casually, and opened his palm to show the other party the miniature model of the villa.
The official subconsciously moved closer, his eyes almost meeting those of the small villa in Lu Xuan's palm, and he was stunned.
He looked carefully at the house and found that it was exactly the same as the one he saw when he first visited!
The official's breathing quickened. "Can all the houses in Yunlu Village be shrunk like this? Doesn't that mean I can carry my house wherever I go?"
Lu Xuan nodded casually, "Indeed."
The official was excited and anxious and asked, "Why didn't you tell me before that you had such a treasure?"
Lu Xuan: "What good does it do to say that? The capital city has no shortage of houses. The only places that do have shortages are places like the camp you're managing now. Do you think anyone can afford such a precious house?"
The official opened his mouth and suddenly fell silent.
Lu Xuan: "Even if someone wants a sturdy house, a mobile cabin can satisfy that need, and the price is very low. Although it is not warm, if you want to keep warm, a greenhouse will be more cost-effective."
A greenhouse that costs more than 60,000 or 100,000 points per acre sounds expensive, but if it is used as a residence, whose house can cover an area of one acre?
For any greenhouse of dozens of square meters, more than 10,000 points are enough.
The system price of a safe house, even a single-person safe house, is hundreds of thousands of points.
The gap is not a little bit.
"Oh, how can they be the same?" The official was scratching his head anxiously.
With so many high-ranking officials in the capital, who wouldn't own a few villas? Many of these villas weren't necessarily occupied on a regular basis; they were often used to host banquets or simply to show off.
Rich and powerful people buy houses not to live in, but to show off their family heritage!
If the nobles in Beijing knew the existence of a treasure house that could be enlarged and shrunk, they would fight to the death for it.
The official looked at Lu Xuan eagerly, "My Lord, just tell me whether you will sell this house or not?"
Lu Xuan said: "If someone wants to buy it, I will sell it naturally."
The official immediately said, "Of course!" And there will definitely be no less.
Even he himself wanted to own such a flexible treasure house.
but……
The official thought of the most crucial question, "I wonder how much these houses are worth?"
If he settled the accounts based on the gold and silver before the disaster, he felt that he still had some assets, but if he used mutated food... he really didn't have much on hand.
"The price..." Lu Xuan pondered.
"A single-person safe house has 5,000 kilograms of mutant food, a double room has 10,000 kilograms, a two-story villa has 20,000 kilograms, and a three-story villa has 50,000 kilograms."
Official: “Hiss!” So expensive!
[Oh no! The safe house price has gone up, almost double the village price.]
[It's so expensive! If calculated according to Star Alliance prices, it must be over 10 million Star Coins, right? It's more than ten times more expensive than a Star Alliance safehouse.]
[You can't calculate it that way. Things in different planes have different values. Ever since the host built greenhouses in other cities, those places have been able to produce tens of millions of kilograms of food every month or so. The safe house only has tens of thousands of kilograms of food, which is already a good deal.]
[Although, tens of millions of grains are the food rations for all the people in the city, if divided equally, each person would not get much, not to mention that it may not be divided evenly.]
[After all, safe houses are luxuries that only the rich can afford.]
I wonder if this official can afford it.
Officials... really can't afford it.
He was not from the capital and had no land there, so naturally he could not ask Lu Xuan to build a greenhouse to grow crops.
The food he had on hand came from the salary he received from above and the money he stockpiled with his own money.
It would not be a problem to have enough food until the disaster was over, and he could even be relatively well off. But if he needed to take out tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, he wouldn't be able to do that even if he sold it.
You can borrow some food from someone in a single safe house, or you can buy some, but will you be left with nothing after that?
The officials were conflicted, heartbroken, and reluctant, but in the end they did not act impulsively.
Instead, he thought, even though he couldn't afford it, he could pass the news on to someone who could, and do them a favor! There was always some benefit to be gained.
Lu Xuan didn't care whether he could afford it or not.
He had thought about accumulating a large number of points by selling houses before, but after doing business and building greenhouses for other towns, the income from selling houses seemed less important.
If someone buys it, he will make some money; if no one buys it, it doesn’t matter.
·
Ship No. 1, outside Lu Qing and Lei Yan's room.
A group of women and some men gathered in the corridor, looking nervous.
"Why is there no sound inside?" Xiong Mao asked suspiciously, "My wife screamed so loudly when she gave birth."
Su Ying next to him twisted his waist hard and said, "No one will think you are dumb if you don't speak." What do you mean she screamed so loudly that it's easy to think wrongly.
Besides, "Didn't they say Lu Qing would give birth in the medical cabin? With the anesthetic, it wouldn't hurt at all. Why would they still scream?"
Aunt Liu, Aunt Chen, and other female relatives sighed with emotion, "This is great! In the past, giving birth was a life-threatening situation for women. Now that we have the medical cabin, it will be much safer for young women in the village to give birth again."
Ye Jing, who was standing with Ye Lin holding her son, was also feeling quite sad.
If she had gotten pregnant later, the delivery might have been much easier.
Zhu Qiaoer, Ke Wei and Lu Qing were all found to be pregnant at the same time, but Ke Wei was a month late.
But both of them were pregnant for the first time and about to give birth for the first time. They had heard of many cases, or even witnessed with their own eyes, of other women having difficult labor, heavy bleeding, and two deaths.
Ji Xiuling almost died from hemorrhage at the time, which was a narrow escape. It would be a lie for the two of them to say they were not afraid.
But when I learned that the medical cabin could help with painless delivery, I felt relieved.
We have decided that when they give birth, they will also be given birth in the medical cabin!
A group of people waited outside for nearly two hours before seeing the door opened by Lu Miaomiao. She glanced at the others and said to Lu Xuan, "It's born, mother and child are safe."
Lei Yan, who had been on edge, relaxed and asked anxiously, "Can we go in now?"
Granny Lin, who came out behind, said cheerfully, "Qing has changed her clothes. You can come in."
Upon hearing this, Lei Yan rushed in quickly.
Lu Xuan and Lu Chen followed closely behind, and behind them were Li Yue, Su Ying, Wu Yinyin, Ye Ping and other female relatives with whom they had a good relationship.
The other men did not enter because of the gender differences.
In the room.
Lei Yan held Lu Qing's hand, his expression moved, "Thank you for your hard work."
Lu Qing smiled gently and shook her head, "It's not hard at all."
Lu Xuan stood aside and quickly looked Lu Qing over. After making sure that there was nothing wrong with her, he didn't say anything more.
However, the audience in the live broadcast room kept throwing gifts to congratulate, saying that this was a meeting gift for the baby.
Wu Yinyin looked at Lu Qing, whose face didn't look even slightly haggard, and exclaimed, "Look at your rosy face. You really can't tell you just gave birth."
Lu Qing also laughed, "I think it's amazing too. I didn't feel any pain during the birth. I was even shocked when I saw the baby was already born."
The other female members of the family also laughed after hearing this, and then their eyes shifted to the baby who had been washed and wrapped in swaddling clothes beside her.
Lu Chen was now leaning over to the baby, greeting him excitedly: "Nephew, do you know that I'm your uncle?"
The women found it funny, but they looked at the child with obvious amazement.
Ye Ping sighed, "This child is really good-looking."
Wu Yinyin and Su Ying nodded in agreement.
"When my son Kangbao was born, he was much uglier than this. His facial features were squeezed together and he looked like a little old man. At that time, I even suspected that the midwife had taken the wrong child."
Su Ying also said: "When Dabao was born, he was thin and small, with sparse hair, not at all like my Xiong Mao." Later, when he grew up, he looked exactly like Xiong Mao when he was a child.
Unlike the baby in Lu Qing's family, although his little face is inevitably red because he was just born, his facial features are still very delicate. He will definitely be a handsome boy when he grows up.
Li Yue recalled the scene when her daughter was just born, and a hint of sadness flashed across her eyes.
Seeing Lu Qing talking to others while keeping her gentle eyes on the child, Li Yue couldn't help but feel her mind wander and couldn't help but gently stroke her belly.
She would never forget her daughter who died of illness, but she also wanted to start a new life and give birth to a child for Wu Yang.
I just don't know when this fate will fall on her.
·
After giving birth, Lu Qing rested peacefully on the boat to recuperate. She didn't have to worry about anything at home. She only needed to feed the baby, and the childcare was left to Lei Yan and Lu Miaomiao.
Lu Xuan and Lu Chen would occasionally help change diapers or hold the baby to sleep.
Newborn babies tend to cry at night and are not easy to take care of. However, Lu Miaomiao is a robot and is not afraid of fatigue. Therefore, although the Lu family has a newborn, they did not experience the fatigue that normal families would experience. They only enjoyed the joy of having another family member every day.
Even Lu Xuan's live broadcast focused mostly on the baby, and the audience didn't mind it.
Five days after the baby was born, the redness completely disappeared and the baby became white and tender. The already delicate eyebrows and eyes looked even more adorable. Many people in the live broadcast room were so engrossed in watching the baby that they were almost unconscious.
[Just look at the baby's facial features and you'll know he'll be even more handsome than the host in the future!]
[Except when hungry or wet, he hardly cries. What a good cub! Look at my stinky cub who cries every day even when he's full. I really want to crawl over and steal his cub.]
[I don't know if the baby will be able to acquire special abilities in the future, and if so, what kind they will be.]
[This baby is so cute, he must be a special one! ]
【By the way, have you chosen a name for your baby? 】
Lu Xuan said, "Yes, my full name is Lei Xiao, and my nickname is Xiao Shitou."
[Lei Xiao, so it's Xiao Xiao baby, what a nice name! ]
【Why is it called Little Stone? 】
I guess it's because of Lei Yan's name. Yan means stone, and a big stone can give birth to a small stone.
Lu Xuan nodded.
From ancient times to the present, many places have the habit of giving children humble names that are easy to raise, but he would never give his own nephew a name like Er Gou Gou Dan. Xiao Shitou is a good name and sounds very solid.
After having Little Stone, Lu Chen no longer always played holographic games in his spare time except for classes. He would stay with Little Stone when he had nothing to do, talking about his daily life, regardless of whether the other party could understand him or not.
·
On the seventh day after Lu Qing gave birth, Zhu Qiaoer went into labor.
With the help of the medical cabin, it took four hours to successfully give birth to a boy.
This child can be said to be the grandson that the Liu family has been waiting for for many years. The whole Liu family is overjoyed, and Liu Daxi and Aunt Liu can't stop smiling.
It was also on the second day after Zhu Qiaoer gave birth that the continuous rain for more than ten days finally caused floods.
The villagers who were busy working on the hills all returned to the boat just in case.
When the flood mixed with many broken wood, branches and other debris rushed in, Boat No. 1 and the large boat carrying the villagers inevitably shook under the impact.
Ship No. 1 is not as big as the big ship, so it shakes a little more.
But that's all.
The boat neither capsized nor suffered any damage. Instead, due to the increasing depth of the flood, the hull slowly floated up, truly fulfilling the function that a boat should play.
Everything looked the same as last year. Having experienced this once, the villagers were not at all panicked. They were in a mood to appreciate the magnificent and shocking sight brought by the flood that submerged the surrounding area.
Other gathering places are not as relaxed as Yunlu Village.
The flood did not arrive at the same time in all places. Some settlements encountered the flood before Yunlu Village.
Because there were so many disaster victims in the city and various minor unexpected accidents delayed the process, the flood arrived earlier than expected, and the gathering place suddenly became chaotic. Many people fell into the water before they could escape.
Although most of the victims put on life jackets or lifebuoys in advance, there were still many people who did not have time to put them on.
Not to mention that this flood was mixed with a large amount of acid rain. People who fell into it had their skin soaked in the acid rain water, and they screamed in pain.
When others panicked and fished the man out, there was almost no intact flesh on his body. His body was covered with blisters and his skin was torn. It gave people goose bumps.
To make matters worse, floods and hail collided in some areas.
On the one hand, they had to prevent being washed away by the flood, and on the other hand, they had to avoid being hit by hail. Although everyone wore helmets, they could not avoid being hit by hail.
The better off ones would just have some bruises on their bodies, but the unlucky ones might even have their bones broken by accident.
When Lu Xuan received this news, all places had already passed the most dangerous moment and had settled down initially.
Lu Xuan asked about the number of casualties in several gathering places.
In addition to Yangshan County, which was not affected by the flood because it moved to the mountains, there were also many underground cracks in the surrounding areas that absorbed a lot of rainwater and did not suffer from floods. In addition, there were also Beijing, Luochuan, Fengxian, and Licheng, where an average of hundreds of people died, dozens to hundreds of people were missing, and more than a thousand people were injured.
I thought with the help of the streamer, no more people would die, but I didn't expect so many to still die.
[Even if the anchor has a lot of good stuff, there is no guarantee that there will be no unexpected accidents. ]
[The anchor is not a god. It's impossible, and I don't have the obligation to protect everyone. It's good enough to be able to save most people. Don't be too greedy.]
[Imagine the corroded flesh of a person falling into a flood. Huh.]
[Don't say that!!! My hair is standing on end.]
As the audience said, the life and death of other disaster victims were indeed not within Lu Xuan's responsibility, so he knew it but did nothing.
Two days after hailstorms hit other places, hailstorms also hit Yunlu Village.
It was still a fist-sized sphere, smashing down wildly with a crackling sound, leaving many obvious dents on the decks of Ship No. 1 and the large ship.
However, Lu Xuan and the villagers had used waterproof cloth to block the boat in advance, so the windows and greenhouses on the boat were not damaged.
The hail lasted for two days before it stopped, and the rain also stopped at the same time.
"Has the rain stopped?" The villagers, who had almost stopped all outdoor activities recently because of the heavy rain, looked out the window excitedly.
The women usually do a lot of housework indoors, so they don’t feel too suffocated, but the men are really frustrated.
Chen Rong was the first to impatiently call out to the others, "Let's go out and get some fresh air! This damn rain is finally going to stop for a day!"
Xiong Mao, Zhang Chengming and others were also bored of staying on the boat, so they followed without saying a word.
However, as soon as the group of people reached the deck, they couldn't help but let out an "eh" sound, and found that a thick fog had suddenly appeared outside.
It was still a thick fog that made it impossible to distinguish between people and animals more than one meter away.
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