Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 10: The Rolls-Royce of Steel

Li Xiang looked back at his house. It was not too far away, only about 150 meters away. He decided to bring the sweet and clear spring water to his backyard.

If we build a reservoir with continuous water flow there, we won’t have to worry about water problems whether we are cooking, washing clothes, taking a bath, etc.

Isn't this better than that tap water?

When Li Xiang returned home and told his grandmother about it, she was also very happy. She no longer had to fetch water. It was good to have her grandson back.

"Grandma, when I finish building this reservoir, we will move the kitchen to the backyard, and convert the small tile house in front into a storage room."

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to my eldest grandson in everything!" Grandma smiled.

Since Li Xiang was busy renovating the backyard, cooking was left to his grandmother.

After eating the first-level exotic herb, giant purple-gold matsutake, grandma’s health improved and she can now cook without any problem.

Li Xiang first found three large water tanks at home. They were of different heights and sizes, but the smallest one could hold more than 300 kilograms of water, and the largest one could hold 700 kilograms. The three large tanks were connected from high to low through "waterfalls" to form a reservoir, which was more than enough to meet daily needs.

But if you want to make a "waterfall", you need to open an opening at the appropriate position of the water tank, either on the edge of the tank or on the body of the tank. Otherwise, there will be no "vent" and the water will just overflow "wantonly".

"It's just that I'm missing a cutting machine. I can knock a notch out of it, but it will be ugly. I might accidentally break the whole water tank. Forget it, I'll wait a little longer and go to the county town to buy some tools when I have time."

Li Xiang placed the water tanks one by one and put them aside for use, then took a hatchet and a saw and went to the mountain to cut bamboo.

Bamboo is hollow. If you split it in half and then break through the membranes at the nodes, it will become an excellent natural water pipe.

The bamboos on the mountain behind Li Xiang's home are often more than ten centimeters or even more than twenty centimeters in diameter, and some are nearly twenty meters long. After sawing off the thin part at the top, the usable part is at least fifteen meters. After splitting it, one bamboo becomes two, so cutting a dozen bamboos should be enough.

The relatively thin part of the top that is sawed off can be used as a support.

The "bamboo water pipe" cannot be placed on the ground, it needs to be supported by a bracket to make it more stable. He plans to make the bracket about 1.5 to 80 centimeters long, and ensure a gentle slope based on the specific terrain so that water can flow smoothly to the water tank.

The largest water tank is exactly eighty centimeters high.

After the water tank, the bamboo water pipe is no longer needed. I plan to put a few relatively flat large bluestones, and the "waterfall" will flow on the large bluestones, where I can beat and wash clothes.

The next step was to dig a drainage ditch, run it around the backyard, and finally lead it to the creek.

Firstly, it can be used for irrigation to ensure that the soil in the backyard has sufficient moisture to meet the needs of the plants. Secondly, it can solve the problem of drinking water for poultry and pets at home without having to feed them specially.

The ditch can be beautified by laying some pebbles picked up from the stream.

The backyard is so big that you can actually consider digging a pond, planting some lotus leaves, lotus flowers and lotus roots, and raising some fish, but there are too many things to do, so I won’t consider it for now.

Li Xiang did it right away. He took his mobile phone with him and filmed while working.

However, something went wrong when he cut the first bamboo. When he chopped down the bamboo, the system sent a prompt.

"Congratulations to the host for felling the second-level golden thunder bamboo and receiving a surprise reward: three first-level exotic grass snow skirt white jade fungi."

Li Xiang felt a little regretful, but then he was relieved. The Golden Thunder Bamboo needs to wait until the end of the world to mutate, but now he has obtained three first-level White Jade Fungus. One needs to wait for ten years, but the other can be enjoyed immediately. It should be a profit.

The rewards were still distributed in the system warehouse. With a thought, a white jade fungus with a snow skirt appeared in his palm. It was as white as jade and looked like a fairy in the snow. Judging from its appearance and name, it was probably a mutated bamboo fungus.

The tempting aroma made Li Xiang want to take a bite now.

"I'd better wait until dinner time to mix it into the dishes and eat it with grandma. Well, let's make a pot of bamboo fungus soup and say that I found it when I was chopping bamboo."

Bamboo fungus originally grows in bamboo forests and is a very rare wild delicacy.

Although there are only three flowers, each one is far superior to ordinary bamboo fungus.

Li Xiang wielded the axe again and chopped down the bamboo.

System: "Congratulations to the host for felling the second-level golden thunder bamboo and receiving a surprise reward: three first-level exotic grass snow skirt white jade fungus."

Li Xiang: "..."

I realized quickly that this was because bamboo is a plant that can actually produce many roots, and the ones in front of me might all be from the same rhizome underground.

Sure enough, Li Xiang cut two more and got rewards, a total of twelve first-level exotic grass Snow Skirt White Jade Fungus.

"Enough to eat, enough to eat." Li Xiang decided to change places. These golden thunder bamboos are potential species, and they should be kept for the end of the world, when they can be truly "mature" and cut down.

The second-level golden thunder bamboo is very rare. He marked the bamboo forest and planned to protect it in the future. Well, if he feels greedy, he can still come and chop down a few bamboos.

After changing the location, there were no more prompts, and it was just ordinary bamboo being cut.

Li Xiang cut seven or eight long bamboos, dragged them to a flat area in the backyard, and began to make "bamboo water pipes".

When the first "bamboo water pipe" was successfully completed, Li Xiang picked up the pickaxe, enlarged the spring again, and connected it with a thick "water pipe". After a try, he found that the water could be drained out smoothly.

He quickly began making more bamboo pipes and installing brackets...

Li Xiang is now a first-level transcendent. He feels that he has "endless" power in his body. He will not feel tired at all when doing this kind of work. However, after building more than 60 meters of "bamboo water pipe", he was exhausted!
It’s not that his body can’t take it, but that the hatchet can’t take it.

Looking at the broken blade and the badly curled hatchet, Li Xiang shook his head. This knife is no good.

I've been through it several times along the way.

When he returned home, his grandmother asked him some questions and Li Xiang told her what had happened.

Grandma was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "There is something in the west wing. Go and see if you can use it." Then she walked towards the west wing.

Li Xiang quickly followed: "Grandma, what is that?"

Grandma started to move the debris to the side, and Li Xiang also helped. Soon, Li Xiang saw a rusty semicircular piece of steel lying quietly in the corner of the west wing.

(End of this chapter)