Chapter 232: Found a Treasure (Second Update)
Xia Chujian immediately said, "You mean, strike first?"
Huo Yushen was very satisfied with Xia Chujian's comprehension.
Although she was a 학사, she at least had one redeeming quality.
He nodded and said, "Yes, strike first. Before the other party can react, if you can kill them, what difference does it make to you whether they are a Gene Evolver or an ordinary person?"
Xia Chujian's eyes lit up: "Inspector Huo thinks so too?! When I'm on missions with my team in the Dark Night Hunter Association, I'm always the first to shoot! But my team leader always says I'm too reckless, shooting randomly, and says I..."
"Says what?"
Xia Chujian didn't want to say it originally, but since the conversation had come this far, she said awkwardly, "...that I waste bullets..."
Huo Yushen: "..."
Remembering her impressive record of firing one hundred thousand bullets at once, Huo Yushen revealed a slight smile: "Here, no one will ever say you waste bullets. No matter how many bullets you need, I can afford to give them to you."
Xia Chujian: "!!!"
Since meeting this man, who was colder than the frost in the Land of the Far North, this was the first time Xia Chujian felt that his words resonated with her.
And, he looked quite good when he smiled.
Xia Chujian eased the tense atmosphere and praised, "Inspector Huo, may you have a lifetime of peace."
Huo Yushen: "..."
He knew he shouldn't have said another word to this 학사.
He restrained his smile, turned around, and left a sentence: "The assessment is over, you can leave."
Xia Chujian didn't care at all, and made a face at Huo Yushen's departing back.
...
Today was Sunday, and after more than two months of intense training, Xia Chujian finally had a day of leisure.
Usually, from Monday to Friday, she spent her time going to school to do test papers and doing test papers after school.
Saturdays and Sundays were for intense physical training.
Today she could finally rest for a day, but early in the morning, she was called by Huo Yushen for an "assessment."
Fortunately, she got home early. After returning, she didn't want to do test papers, and wanted to see her plot of land.
The whole family was still asleep, so she took the initiative to make breakfast.
Although her cooking skills weren't as masterful as her Aunt's, she had learned from her Aunt, and cooked very delicious food.
Today she was making Glutinous Rice Wild Rhinoceros Pig Meat Shaomai.
The glutinous rice was personally grown by San Zong.
He hybridized Tantai Royal Field Rice with ordinary glutinous rice, creating a new variety of glutinous rice. The grains were plump like round little pearls, soft and glutinous without sticking to the teeth, and sweet without being greasy.
He only planted a small plot, and it was said that it could be harvested every two months.
This was the first harvest, and Xia Yuanfang brought it back last weekend when she went to their place.
Xia Chujian was very skillful and quick. She quickly rolled the snow-white and fragrant Plain Girl Flour into thin, almost transparent wrappers, and each shaomai wrapper had twenty-four pleats.
The shaomai filling could be anything you wanted, pork, beef, mutton, seafood, and vegetables could all be used.
Xia Chujian made a Wild Rhinoceros Pig meat filling today, and also added a little Purple Salmon meat. It was tender, smooth, refreshing, and had a layered texture, as well as a very satisfying feeling of fullness.
Half an hour passed, and shaomai with snow-white wrappers like a beauty's pinched-waist cup, filled with rouge red meat filling, and topped with small pearl-like glutinous rice grains, were gracefully taken out of the pot.
Xia Yuanfang, Si Xi, and Wu Fu were almost awakened by the aroma.
"Aunt, I don't have to go to training today, let's go outside the city to see that plot of land!" Xia Chujian flattered, putting out the breakfast she had made all over the table, and asked hopefully, "Since the wall was built, I haven't seen what the place looks like. Also, how is the house we built?"
Xia Yuanfang thought for a while, knowing that Xia Chujian had indeed been working very hard recently.
Not only was she serious about her studies, but she had also passed the recent mock exams without her help, relying entirely on herself, and she had also been working hard on physical training.
It was time to let her go out and play, a balance of work and rest was the way to learn...
Xia Yuanfang agreed, saying, "Okay, let's go take a look together. That wall is really well-built. The house is already finished, now it's time for the interior design. I haven't decided how I want to decorate it yet."
Xia Chujian was even more anxious, wishing she could immediately put on the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha and fly over to see it.
But she still had to be patient, finish breakfast with everyone, and then wait for Aunt Chen to come and take them over.
...
Ten minutes later, Aunt Chen brought them to a stop on the land outside Mulan City.
The group appeared in the gatehouse on the south side of the wall.
Xia Yuanfang said, "The wall was completely finished more than a month ago. The entire wall has only two gates, a north gate and a south gate. We are here at the south gate."
Xia Chujian pushed open the gate and walked out of the gatehouse on the south side, first going outside to admire the wall around her land.
Back then, Bai Li Xin had said that the wall they were building for them was called the "Nine-Bend Corridor".
From the outside, it looked like a simple, unadorned gray and white wall, but the material of the wall was not ordinary building material. It had added earthquake-resistant measures, with special metal mixed with steel as its skeleton.
Even if there was a magnitude twelve earthquake, the outer skin of the wall might fall off, but the internal structure would remain intact.
The wall was more than two meters high, and with the electronic fence fully equipped on top of the wall, it was a full three meters high.
Because they had that Ultra-Miniature Controllable Nuclear Fusion Generator as an energy system, the coverage rate of the electronic fence on the wall was one hundred percent.
With electricity, it was durable! It was already late March and early April, and the weather was finally warming up.
However, since the heavy snow at the beginning of the year, it had not rained in Mulan City.
The weather was very dry, and the vegetation on the ground was no longer the green color common at this time of year, but sparse and withered yellow, truly like the pitiful hair on a mangy head.
Because the wall was high, you couldn't see what was inside the wall while standing on the ground.
Xia Yuanfang pointed it out to Xia Chujian: "Such a long enclosed wall, with only two gates opened on the north and south sides. The land inside the wall is quite large, so I bought two self-driving vehicles to use inside."
Xia Chujian said with a smile, "Aunt is really generous. I never thought I could live in a mansion with traffic lights in my own yard."
Xia Yuanfang couldn't help but laugh, saying, "I really thought about installing traffic lights. Although no one really drives inside the wall."
Currently, the permanent residents inside, Aunt Chen and Yingying, didn't need vehicles.
San Zong might need one, but he liked to run barefoot on the ground and rarely used them.
The rest were people from the Bai Li Family, but they had their own cars and didn't need Xia Yuanfang's cars.
Xia Yuanfang bought the cars as a precaution.
Xia Chujian admired it outside for a while before walking inside the south gate.
Once inside, she found that the scenery was many times better than outside.
Inside the wall, on one side, was a wooden corridor with a roof, with a simple and grand design, but also with distinct edges and corners, possessing both the sharp feeling of high technology and the elegant beauty of ancient buildings that had been tempered by time.
Xia Yuanfang said, "When choosing the wood, Bai Li Xin said that Hemlock Wood would be fine, as it was cheap to build, but as hard as steel."
"But Aunt Chen said that in the Exotic Beast Forest near the Land of the Far North, there were many Zelkova Wood trees that had grown for who knows how many years. They were very old, and the wood was a deep dark red when cut down, with its own glaze without needing to be painted."
"Moreover, Aunt Chen said that Zelkova Wood was not only much harder than Hemlock Wood, but also had a characteristic that prevented people from feeling jealous."
Xia Chujian understood and clapped her hands, saying, "That's great! Does that mean that even if someone sees my corridor, they won't think about taking it for themselves!"
Xia Yuanfang said, "Of course, without jealousy, there will be no greed. Aunt Chen's help has really touched our hearts."
Aunt Chen hurriedly said, "Xia Researcher, you flatter me. This is just a small thought from a small person. We are ordinary people, with no backing, and yet we have such a large property. If we don't keep a low profile, I'm afraid we won't be able to keep our wealth..."
Xia Yuanfang nodded, saying, "That's right, I was once worried that we were too high-profile, clearly ordinary people with nothing, suddenly having a piece of land. If the output is even better in the future, then it's really not certain that we can keep it."
Although Xia Chujian didn't think so, thinking that if anyone wanted to take her family's land, she would definitely make sure they had the desire but not the ability! But it was better to avoid trouble, and she wasn't a real killer...
At this moment, looking at her own elegant corridor with its own glaze, she only felt that the sky was high and the road was far, and her heart was peaceful.
Sure enough, it was very calming and prevented greedy thoughts.
Xia Chujian asked again, "Since we provided the wood ourselves, the construction cost on Bai Li Xin's side should be reduced, right?"
Xia Yuanfang said, "Yes, because we provided the wood ourselves, Boss Bai Li's construction cost was reduced by one hundred thousand at once."
Xia Chujian immediately felt even more refreshed.
She looked at the white path in front of her, unsure what kind of building material it was made of. It looked very delicate, but it wasn't the smooth texture of ceramic tiles.
Apart from that, everything was lush green lawn, which, compared to the withered desolation outside the wall, was like another world.
Xia Chujian couldn't help but ask, "The grass here grows so lushly, how is it different from the outside? Isn't there a water shortage?"
Aunt Chen said, "This was done by San Zong. He worked for two months, and when the Bai Li Family people weren't around, he came out to build underground channels, drawing water from that small lake around the perimeter of the wall."
"Ah? That lake didn't look very big to me. Drawing water on such a large scale, is that lake... still there?" Xia Chujian was very curious.
Aunt Chen clapped her hands and said, "Chujian, isn't it strange? That lake doesn't look big, but San Zong made such a long underground channel to draw water, yet the water level of that lake hasn't changed at all. It's still as deep as ever, neither more nor less."
Xia Yuanfang said, "That lake is probably connected to other large rivers underground, otherwise it wouldn't be like this."
Xia Chujian laughed heartily, cupping her hands and saying, "We found a treasure! We really found a treasure!"
She originally thought it was a wasteland, and it would take San Zong a few years to turn it all into fertile land.
She didn't expect San Zong to solve the water source problem in just a few months!
Aunt Chen said, "It's not that easy either. If it weren't for the generator you brought, this underground channel wouldn't have been able to draw water."
Xia Chujian sighed, "So, energy is the top priority!"
In that case, it's not that no one had ever thought about how to manage this wasteland before, but the cost was too high, and it wasn't cost-effective, so those people gave up.
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