47 Bring It On! (2)
As one of the most useful plants in the universe, the Yunxia Bamboo received a great appreciation from Mu Qing Lang the moment it made its way into the production in his WUYI Saint Carriage.
The Relay and Storehouse is the first building entirely made from the Yunxia Bamboo. The only exception a few beams and columns of the building is made from gravel and stone mixture combined with the Binding Solution for enhanced durability.
Although the Eastern Changzhou is still on their way to be built, the fact Mu Qing Lang gave Han Xi eight bamboo shoots to be planted by the side of their future base of operation explains his reliance on the Yunxia Bamboo.
Secretly, they utilized the fifty grown Yunxia Bamboos to craft multiple different traps and tools, while continuing with their usual farming duties.
And at the same time, the current Mu's Settlement is slowly moving to the new Eastern Changzhou. With a land of fifteen times greater than the Mu's Settlement, this will allow them to expand without limit for the next ten to fifty years to come.
This will be Mu Qing Lang's gift to his people before he left for his next journey. But before this, he must make sure that he get rid of the external threat before leaving.
With so many different tricks is taught to Xiao Qing, Mu Qing Lang is confident that those bits of knowledge will not be expired for the next ten or twenty years. Leaving them on their own to build the defensive measures, Mu Qing Lang returned to his carriage after the collection of 4,200gm of Medicinal Opium Latex.
Both sides had their standstill and tricks, but none of them made Mu Qing Lang lost his sleep. Instead, he falls asleep faster than before because of all workload he had to handle as their chief.
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Day Thirty-Six.
Yulin came to him in the morning with a sack of Eastern Sea Spiritual Pearls in her hand. Due to getting high on unprocessed narcotics, that small amount of between 1.6gm to 1.7gm of Medicinal Opium Latex, the young Eastern Sea Oyster created fifteen pearls.
That exhaust him thoroughly in and out, putting him into a deep slumber at least for a few days. Still, Mu Qing Lang is happy for the fact the narcotic made the Eastern Sea Oyster produced fifteen pearls at one shot, instead of making it one by one as he like.
The harvest for today is as usual. The only exception for today is the maturity date for harvesting the Poppy Fruits, which yield him 1,560gm, the Prairie Rock Sage for 108 leaves, and the Prarie Golden Potatoes.
After waiting for a full fifteen days period, they finally harvested the first batch of Prairie Golden Potatoes. And as he expected, the yield for their effort two weeks ago yield them one tonne of matured potatoes, which is more than enough to feed them for an entire month!
"Master!" the goblins is, of course, the happiest of the bunch. By bringing the potatoes to his side, they kneeled and bows at Mu Qing Lang like the savior of their tribe. In their mind, how can this person who teach them how to plant crops, build houses, and gave them medicine can be a mere savior?
If the goblins learned masonry and sculpting, looking at his own sculpture is not impossible.
This surprising harvest made all their effort worth it. At this moment, everyone present will starts to accept the importance of farming and also how crucial it is to increase their own sustainability in term of food.
"We're going to have a promising meal tonight! Good job, everybody!" Mu Qing Lang did not spare on his praise and decided to give it out to them.
On that evening, the dinner preparation has met with an entirely different cuisine to prepare. The respected master brings up the task of deep-frying, Hotstone grilling, and steam-cooking.
Similar yet different, the fries, the cake, and mash became the top selection of food amongst the people of this settlement. The presence of Prairie Golden Potato destroyed the popularity of Wheat Noodles immediately, due to the versatility shown by their master.
As of now, the Wheat Flour can only be kneaded into noodles, where after eating them occasionally, the food becomes a hassle for the preparation members due to the need of kneading, proofing, cutting, and cooking before they can be eaten.
Instead, the Prairie Golden Potato can be prepared with both steam, fry, or boil. The lack of preparation before it can be eaten made them became the most popular food immediately. Furthermore, some humans found out that the mash can also be dried or mixed with the Wheat flour to create a more chewable consistency.
This made the food choice in their settlement immediately boom. After Mu Qing Lang returned to the WUYI Saint Carriage, they start to get livelier for the sake of creating the way of eating the potatoes.
As for himself, Mu Qing Lang went to the Material Preparation Shelf to process one of the materials he has forgotten.
[Toot!]
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[Please choose from the following option:]
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[1] Xian-Ren Grass Processing
[2] Prairie Herbal-Cress Processing
[3] Demonic Juniper Fruit Processing
[4] Medicinal Opium Latex Processing
[5] Prairie Sugar Root Processing
[6] Prairie Rock Sage Processing
[7] Miscellaneous Processing
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"Let's go for the seventh option." Mu Qing Lang moved his finger and tapped on the Miscellaneous Processing Option.
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[Please choose from the following option:]
[1] Chang Empress Poppy's Seed
[2] Eastern Sea Spiritual Pearl
[3] Ashen Equipment
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"Choose option one."
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[Please choose from the following option:]
[1] Produce (10) ml of Empress Poppy Oil from (1) kilogram of Chang Empress Poppy's Seed
[2] Genetically produces (1) drop of Empress Tear from (15) kilograms of Chang Empress Poppy's Seed and (1) kilogram of Medicinal Opium Latex.
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"Si... What kind of terrible exchange rate is that?" Mu Qing Lang took a deep breath from the ridiculous requirement to produce Empress Tear from the second option.
In term of availability, Mu Qing Lang only has a total of 4.1kilograms of Poppy's Seed stored inside his carriage. To produce 40ml of Poppy Oil was not a good investment for him at all.
And since the production for this item cannot be completed, Mu Qing Lang back off from the Material Preparation Shelf and decided that was all for today. Taking the usual medication and the Suqin Pill from the Storage Chest, Mu Qing Lang took one and positioned himself into a meditation posture.
One cycle after another, it continues. The repetitive meditation soon increases Mu Qing Lang's Control Stat for a (0.5) point of increment, while he was still in the cultivation trance. His experience point had reaches 1,654/2,000 without himself paying attention to them.
It seems that only a few more efforts are all he needs to surpass this limit and go one step further than where he stands now.
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"What did you say?" Han Xi emotionally stands up after he listened to the word from an Orc.
"Mister Han, we found two groups of Prairie Goblin Tribe. There are a total of sixty-nine of them, led by two hobgoblins." the Orc had brought them over in case Han Xi decided to absorb all of them into the Mu's Settlement.
Without wasting his time, Han Xi quickly met with the two hobgoblins and persuaded them to submit to their settlement. In return, they will be protected and treated as a member of their family.
But little did he know that these two groups of goblins weren't here looking for protection, but to plunder! Put in a situation where no guards are monitoring them, they revealed their true nature. Although weaponless, that wasn't a matter to be worried about.
How many villages and human settlement had they robbed before, is literally littered with sharp pebbles, stones, and even wood and grass available for them to use?
"We won't lose even if we attack them without a weapon!" that's what is inside their mind the moment they are escorted into a spot waiting for Han Xi to come and attend to their needs.
Not too long after that, Han Xi has indeed come to meet them like all the other people. His arrival hinted the goblins to start arming themselves with everything they could pick.
"I am Han Xi. Can the hobgoblins of the two tribes come in front?" the unsuspicious Han Xi request for the two leaders to come up. That's all they need to start the ambush!
[GUA! GUAGUA!]
The two hobgoblins stand up and ordered everyone to strike!
This call alerted the entire camp, as the Orcs quickly armed themselves to fight against the pack of goblins.
But dreams often made for somebody to crush them.
Because the ground was stabilized prior for construction, it can be said to be cleared from gravels or larger rocks. Since there's nothing there, how can the goblin arm themselves?
[Gu?]
Their plan failed. Lack of rocks and even gravels, the goblins are forced to fight using their own tiny fist.
The fight continued for an hour, where the entire force of 69 goblins and 2 hobgoblins are captured.
"Force them to work on behalf of our Eastern Changzhou!" Han Xi said.
