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

Chapter 76: Perform well and I will reward you
The steamer is an ancient cooking utensil. In the past, most of them were made of pottery. Now, with the development of the times, it has gradually evolved into a "wooden steamer". The outside is a bit like a wooden barrel, but the grate inside is a conical steaming bottom made of bamboo strips, slightly arched inward and upward, with many small holes, so food can be placed on the pot to steam.

The wooden steamer in Li Xiang's family is made of fir, because fir is more common, and its texture is light and soft, with straight grain, making it an excellent material for making steamers.

There is no fixed size for the steamer. It can be made as big as you want. The diameter of Li Xiang's steamer is about 30 centimeters at the bottom, 40 centimeters at the top, and 50 centimeters high. Half a steamer of rice can hold 7 or 8 kilograms. If you eat in small bowls like city dwellers, this half steamer of rice should hold at least 30 bowls.

Before Li Xiang returned to his hometown, his grandmother always cooked simple porridge with only one vegetable or a plate of pickled vegetables. She rarely ate meat. When she wanted to eat occasionally, she would not go to the trouble of making rice or drained rice, but would instead use a ceramic pot to steam a small earthenware pot.

Fortunately, we have two dogs and a cat at home, otherwise we would have to cook even less.

Now that Li Xiang is at home, he can earn money and eat, so the variety of his meals has increased.

Today we have radish and pork ribs soup, pickled vegetable rolled tofu, braised lion head, spicy braised beef, stir-fried wild boar meat with dried red peppers, and braised winter bamboo shoots. Grandma Li Xiang’s cooking skills are quite good. She has practiced the art for decades, and every dish is delicious.

After dinner, Li Xiang went out for a walk with a three-pronged steel fork, mainly patrolling around the village to see if there were any wild boars invading the area.

These days, he went out for patrol almost every evening, but fortunately, nothing happened.

In fact, wild boars are social animals. They have their own territories and usually appear in groups. The lone boar last time must have been driven out by the herd.

Li Xiang guessed that it might be the loser in the competition for the pig king? Was he driven away by a younger and stronger boar? If so, wouldn't that stronger boar have higher potential?

The news said that in other places, there have been several incidents of groups of wild boars invading villages and vegetable fields.

It is said that there are 800,000 wild boars in Sichuan Province, but they are scattered across the vast province, so the density is not that high. They all hide in deep mountains and forests. If it weren't for the heavy snow, you wouldn't be able to see them easily.

When Li Xiang got home, his grandmother was already asleep. He turned on his computer and started filling out and uploading various information. After submitting, he waited for review. Then he filled in the hot water and sat in the bathroom, soaking his feet while watching the fan group.

The discussion in the group has already been heated.

This news was quite popular, and Li Xiang also said in the group that he was going to clean the mountains in the next few days, so everyone was even more excited.

"Why is the official recycling price more expensive for living ones than for dead ones?" a fan asked.

Someone said: "Maybe it tastes better when it's alive. Live wild boars are killed and sold right after, so they are naturally fresher."

"Oh my god, this is really possible? Could it be that some high-ranking official is greedy and wants to try something new, so he issued such a bounty?"

"It's not impossible. Otherwise, why would you insist on making life more expensive and forbid the use of poison?"

"Yes, it's made with poison, how can you eat it?"

"I find it a little funny that now to catch a wild boar, you need a certificate of no criminal record, otherwise you are not qualified to catch the boar."

"Haha, that's a must. People with criminal records are deprived of this right."

"It could also be due to safety considerations. After all, those who have committed crimes are all ruthless people. They have weapons in the deep mountains and old forests. If things go wrong, they might cause a murder."

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, should we just use our hands to catch it?"

One fan said: "Many things can be used, such as traps, nets, spears, daggers, bows and arrows, steel forks, etc."

"Didn't they say that bows and arrows can't be used?"

"No, the regulations only say that crossbows cannot be used, but bows and arrows can be used. Crossbows and bows are different."

"Indeed, the crossbow is equipped with a firing device and a sight. It has a fast firing rate and strong power, reaching more than 200 pounds, and can easily penetrate iron plates. At close range, it is more lethal than a gun." "When I play PUBG, I use a crossbow and kill one person with one arrow. Those with guns can't beat me at all."

"Generally, compound bows and recurve bows only have 80-100 pounds of power, and they need to be charged and practiced for a long time before they can be accurate. If you are given crossbows, you can just recruit a few people, old, weak, sick or disabled, and they can quickly form a fighting force. But if you are given bows, the requirements are high. They cannot be compared."

One fan added: "The crossbow is small and easy to hide, while the bow is usually large and can be easily spotted."

Everyone expressed their opinions and the conversation was lively.

One fan even asked curiously, "Why is it the Forestry and Grassland Bureau, not the Forestry Department? Aren't provincial agencies generally called departments, and only city and county agencies are called bureaus?"

Someone explained: "It is now the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Natural Resources. The provincial ones have long been renamed, but some still retain their original names."

"Oh, that's it."

"I always feel that this bounty order is a blessing from heaven for Brother Xiang."

"That's right, isn't this just giving money to Brother Xiang? Without guns, crossbows, or poison, who can be as efficient as Brother Xiang in hunting?"

"It's a pity that I'm a city dweller. I have to go to work even when it snows heavily. Otherwise, I really want to follow Brother Xiang to hunt wild boars!"

"This bounty came at the right time. It seems like it was made for Brother Xiang."

Li Xiang quickly explained: "It just happened to be a coincidence."

When he showed up, everyone became even more excited and asked Li Xiang how his preparations were going.

Li Xiang said that he has already formed a team and signed up. He is just waiting for the review to pass, and for him to get the hunting qualification certificate. Once the sled is ready, he will start going into the mountains to hunt wild boars.

I also took photos of the prepared supplies and posted them in the group.

Everyone commented and said what was missing, but Li Xiang felt that it was enough and was too lazy to buy more.

Somewhere, in a mansion, a little girl with an unworldly temperament and beauty who looked like a fairy smiled slightly, her lips curled up, and she became interested. She rarely sent a message in the group: "Brother Xiang, perform well in this trip to the mountains. If you perform well, auntie will reward you. A lot of it."

Everyone laughed: "Didn't you call yourself sister before? How come you are aunt now? How can you call yourself old?"

Luo Feifei raised her eyebrows and replied, "I'm happy. I'm 43 years old, more than enough to be your aunt."

"From now on, Sister Bangda will be called Aunt Bangda."

Luo Feifei: "Aunt, haha."

Everyone urged Li Xiang to call her "Auntie" so that he could earn some money for changing his words.

Li Xiang: “…” Naturally he couldn’t say it out loud, so he immediately found an excuse to log off.

In a distant mansion, Luo Feifei covered her cherry lips and laughed like a goose.

Soon, no one paid much attention to her anymore, because the number one aunt on the list was too ugly, and from her profile picture, everyone thought it would be better to call her Aunt or Fat Aunt.

　Thanks to "08a" for the reward. Thanks to "Book Friend 20210301105378603618", "Song's Third Brother", "I Don't Know What's His Name", "tyhandtyn", "Book Friend 20210301106504552960", "The Roaring Wind 1994", and "The Soy Sauce Bear" for their monthly tickets.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)