Super Ranch: Brothers come to Africa to farm

Chapter 3 The First Gift

"Congratulations on successfully accepting the ranch. The super ranch is officially opened and the rewards have been distributed."

Although Wang Lu's experience in the past two days was bizarre enough, he was still taken aback by this sudden change.

"This crappy game just came into my head?"

Wang Lu, who roughly understood what was going on, was quickly attracted by a series of pop-up messages that appeared in his mind.

"Reward [-]: If you want to build a super ranch, a strong body is essential. Fight like a donkey in the production team!"

"Reward [-]: The vast land of Africa has fertile black soil. Maybe some small modifications will produce richer output!"

After Wang Lu read the pop-up message, there were only two words in his mind: That's it?
"Can't you get some cash rewards? Just let me generate electricity for love, right? What kind of bad game, and what the hell are the donkeys like the production team?"

After muttering angrily, the pop-up messages in his mind disappeared one by one, but the next moment Wang Lu felt his body tremble, as if there was something extra in his body.

But after careful exploration, nothing was found, but Wang Lu soon understood what that thing was.

"My physical fitness has been improved in all aspects?"

After a little verification, Wang Lu found that his strength, reaction, and speed had all improved a lot, and even the fatigue caused by running around for the past two or three days had been eliminated.

It seems that this is a reward for a so-called strong body.

This made Wang Lu think deeply.

"This broken system is not without its merits! Then could this second reward be about transforming the entire ranch land?"

Wang Lu couldn't help but his heart began to beat violently when he thought of this.

Although he came to Africa just because his brain was hot, he had done his homework on the way here.

Africa has always given people the impression of poverty and backwardness, but the main factors causing this result have always been the endless wars and the laziness of the people, and have nothing to do with the land.

In fact, except for those places with particularly harsh terrain, most of the African land is quite fertile.

There is even a lot of fertile black land, and Wang Lu has already discovered that his pasture is covered with fat and oily black soil under the desolate weeds.

In China, there is a saying that there is one ounce of black soil and two ounces of oil. Black soil has a natural advantage in terms of fertility.

In addition, the talented Wang Lu has already seen the magic of this system.

If, as the second reward says, the fertile black land is systematically transformed, I'm afraid it will be oily with just one shovel!
In an instant, Wang Lu realized what kind of land he owned with unlimited possibilities.And the greatest opportunity in his life has come to him.

But before that, Wang Lu had to consider his situation.

"Forget it, let's get familiar with the environment first!"

There are two wooden houses, one of which can be lived in. It only has a simple bed and sofa, and no other furniture.Another wooden house is stacked with tools.

Wang Lu picked up an engineering shovel, put on his backpack and walked in the direction where the sound of water came from. Water source is always the most important!
Soon Wang Lu saw the flowing Dome River. The scale of the Dome River was not large. The upstream section in front of him was only about five or six meters wide and the depth was no more than three meters.

It is said that the river downstream will be widened a lot, and in some places it will be ten meters wide, but the depth will be greatly reduced, only less than fifty centimeters.

However, Wang Lu found some fish wandering in the Dome River. They should be the most common tilapia in Africa. But Wang Lu didn’t have any tools on hand, so he could only watch them. He just didn’t know if there were any. Other fish.

At the same time, Wang Lu also discovered something else, some fresh wild boar footprints on the river bank.

It is not uncommon for wild boars to exist in Africa. Wang Lu just tightened the engineer shovel in his hand and continued to wander around.

The upper reaches of the Dom River are surrounded by grasslands, and there is not much to see in the flat plains. However, the Woulu Mountains gave Wang Lu quite a surprise.

There are various broad-leaved forests, shrubs, and vegetation zones that are quite abundant, and there are even mosses and lichens. This shows that the ecosystem here is quite complete, and the number of wild creatures in it is definitely not small!
At least I won't be in danger of starving to death for the time being!
It took two or three hours to wander around casually. Seeing that it would be night in three or four hours, Wang Lu looked at the stretching Woulu Mountains and made a decision.

"We have to find a way to collect some firewood!"

The wild boar footprints by the Dome River prove that there are likely to be large beasts nearby, and your situation is likely to be threatened once night falls.

The fire is a natural barrier that can deter most wild animals.

Wang Lu acted quickly. As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, he picked up a lot of dry firewood easily.

But Wang Lu was not satisfied.

"These firewood haven't been burned yet, we have to find some way to find some pine wood!"

Pine trees are rich in oil, have a low ignition point and are durable. They are a good choice for firewood. Wang Lu, who grew up in a mountain village, knows this best. There is a pine forest on the top of a mountain right in front of him, and it does not go deep into the mountains. How far.After picking up the engineering shovel, Wang Lu bravely went up the mountain, planning to see if he could drag a pine tree back, so that there wouldn't be a shortage of firewood in the past few days.

As Wang Lu stepped onto the mountain, he was in a good mood.

The entire Woulu Mountains had obviously not been set foot on for a long time. It was open to Wang Lu like a treasure house, with the unique wildness of Africa.

After walking only a few steps, Wang Lu saw several large pieces of rosin, which were lumps condensed by the oil seeping from the surface of the pine tree.

"It's a pity. If this were in my hometown, I could still sell it to a purchaser!"

However, this thing is also a pretty good fire starter, and it is very durable. It can be used now, so Wang Lu collected them all without hesitation.

Wang Lu even found a lot of berries in the bushes on the roadside, but as he was not familiar with African berries, he did not dare to pick them randomly. He could only endure the sour and sweet taste stimulation that he imagined.

After a while, Wang Lu saw a pine tree lying on the ground, but there was no joy on his face. Instead, he frowned and looked around with wary eyes.

After confirming that there were no other abnormalities around him, Wang Lu stepped forward. This was a pine tree that was only as thick as an adult's calf. Judging from the traces, it must have been uprooted by something.

There are not many animals with this kind of power in the forest. Except for some larger wild boars, that is grizzly bears. What's more, there are several traces of bark being rubbed on this pine tree. There are only some large ones. Traces left by wild beasts.

The resin exuded from pine trees can make their hair smoother and harder, and can also repel mosquitoes.

Whether it was a wild boar or a grizzly bear, Wang Lu didn't have much confidence that he could run faster than them if he encountered them directly in the mountains and forests.

But Wang Lu soon came to the conclusion that it should be a wild boar. There were once distributed bears in Africa, but they have long been extinct.

Just when Wang Lu was about to drag the pine tree up and hurry down the mountain, when his eyes glanced at the root system of the pine tree, he suddenly froze.

There were several strings of black spherical bumps with uneven and irregular surfaces on the roots of this pine tree. It was these bumps that attracted Wang Lu's attention, and then Wang Lu showed an excited look on his face.

"Truffle?"

Speaking of truffles, Wang Lu had to thank Zhou Papi, a fat guy, for squeezing his overtime hours to spend time with clients. Otherwise, he would not have been able to recognize what a truffle looked like.

When Wang Lu saw this thing for the first time, it was sold by the gram, costing hundreds of grams per gram. It was absolutely valuable.

"Are there truffles in this pine forest?"

After reaching the conclusion excitedly, Wang Lu was no longer in a hurry to go down the mountain.

Compared with the possibility of encountering large creatures such as wild boars or grizzly bears, Wang Lu was more afraid of facing the embarrassing situation of being short of money.

Obviously, these truffles are the ranch’s first gift to itself!
And there is an explanation for the fact that this pine tree was knocked down by the roots. Truffles have a good reputation internationally, but in the southwestern province of China, they have an unscrupulous name, pig fungus.

In rural areas of southwestern provinces, there are domestic pigs that search for these fungi that grow on the roots of forest trees to eat. Now it seems that the taste of this African wild boar is similar to that of its distant relatives.

Wang Lu carefully collected all the truffles left over from the roots of the pine tree that had been eaten by wild boars. Wang Lu estimated that they were almost half a catty!
Then Wang Lu picked up the engineering shovel and dug into the roots of another pine tree on one side without hesitation. The soil turned out was fertile and dark.

An engineer shovel was almost turned into an afterimage when it was swung by Wang Lu. At this moment, Wang Lu really responded to the system's words, digging like a donkey in the production team!
Fortunately, truffles usually grow on trees such as pine, oak, and oak trees where the root system is less than thirty centimeters. Wang Lu dug to this depth with almost no effort.

But what disappointed Wang Lu was that there was no trace of truffles on the root system of this pine tree.

The only option was to backfill the soil, but Wang Lu was not discouraged. If every pine tree could produce truffles, they wouldn't be sold by the gram!
He searched for the roots of dozens of pine trees but found nothing. Fortunately, after digging for more than half an hour, Wang Lu finally found another pine tree with truffles 50 meters away from the uprooted pine tree.

Looking at the black lump with a head slightly smaller than a baby's fist, Wang Lu couldn't help but burst out with joy.

Unsaid, after all the truffles were looted, Wang Lu's motivation reached its peak again!

In the empty pine forest, the only sounds were the sound of Wang Lu wielding his shovel and the sound of the engineer's shovel digging into the soil.

It wasn't until the sky was getting dark and twilight was closing in that Wang Lu was suddenly startled and stopped.

There are wild boars in this forest. During the day, he can be brave enough to dig truffles for money or even his life, but once night falls, that is no longer a concept.

Wang Lu quickly packed the dug truffles in cloth bags, tied them tightly around his waist, then carried the fallen pine tree and some bundled firewood, and Wang Lu hurriedly went down the mountain.

All the way back to the wooden house where he stayed temporarily, he went to the Dom River at the foot of the mountain to fetch some water. After all this work, it was officially dark, and Wang Lu realized belatedly that he had been working hard all afternoon and was carrying Although he was exhausted from walking on a log for so long, it was absolutely impossible for him to do it before.

Wang Lu built a simple bonfire, lit a piece of rosin with flint found in the wooden house, and then ignited other firewood.

With the blessing of the fire, Wang Lu felt a little more at ease. Unless there were special circumstances, even large beasts would not attack him easily.

(End of this chapter)