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Chapter 178: West Sun City’s Tap Water Plan
When Liu Feng arrived at the bamboo forest, he found it bustling with activity. Many people were cutting down bamboo, which was used for the bamboo tubes at the Drunken Night Restaurant.
For the sake of convenience, many people even cut down small bamboo. This caused Liu Feng to furrow his brows.
Seeing this, Anri asked in a small voice, “Young Master, is something wrong?”
“Of course something’s wrong. Cutting down the large bamboo is fine, but if you cut the small ones, what will people cut next year? And the year after?” Liu Feng pointed towards the distant Forbidden Mountain Range. “Are they planning to go deep into the mountains to cut bamboo in the future?”
West Sun City would only develop faster, the population would only increase, and the demand for bamboo tubes would only grow. With the way these commoners were cutting bamboo without care, they would soon have to travel long distances to find bamboo.
“Understood!” Anri understood. Liu Feng had told her about this sustainable development before.
“Let’s go and take a look over there.” Liu Feng casually mentioned, trusting Anri to handle the arrangements. For such minor matters, he would let Anri do most of the work and practice, while he would secretly keep an eye on things.
Arriving at another bamboo grove, Liu Feng saw tall bamboo trees about 40 to 50 meters tall and 30 to 40 centimeters wide. This reminded him of the Earth’s giant dragon bamboo, which was similarly huge.
“What kind of bamboo is this?” Liu Feng turned and asked Nicole. He wasn’t familiar with the bamboo in this world.
“This is hard bamboo. Its walls are thick, and it can lie underground for over a dozen years without rotting. It’s even harder than some wood, but very few people use this type of bamboo,” Nicole explained briefly.
“Have people cut one down,” Liu Feng instructed his attendant. He wanted to see just how thick the bamboo walls were.
“Understood!”
Liu Feng and his companions stepped aside. After all, a 40-meter-tall hard bamboo falling down was no laughing matter.
Crack. crack.
The steel-made horizontal sword struck the hard bamboo, revealing that the cuts were extremely fine. Indeed, this bamboo was harder than some types of wood.
“How long does it take for this bamboo to grow this tall?” Liu Feng asked.
“Mmm…” Nicole tapped her chin, pondering for a moment before replying, “My father talked about it before and said that it’ll take about 10 to 20 years.”
Liu Feng nodded. It was a reasonable amount of time considering the thickness of the bamboo. Perhaps this was the type of bamboo he needed.
Bamboo had many uses: bamboo floor tiles, walls, chopping boards, wine barrels, tea barrels, and food packages. With advancements in technology, it could even be used to make high-quality paper and rayon.
Bamboo could be considered a renewable resource. This large bamboo forest contained 5 or 6 types of bamboo. The bamboo tubes used at the Drunken Night Restaurant came from bamboo with thin walls and short joints, which only needed 1 year to grow.
Furthermore, Liu Feng had found information online that bamboo fibers, combined with tree resin, could produce pipelines comparable to cement.
Well, Liu Feng had yet to seriously explore the tree resin and other aspects of this world. Upon returning, he decided to have someone investigate to be prepared for any situation.
Bang!
The sound of bamboo falling brought Liu Feng back to reality. Everyone hurried over and saw a piece of hard bamboo lying on the ground.
“The bamboo walls are really thick,” Liu Feng was amazed. The hard bamboo walls were about 5 centimeters thick, making it a natural pipeline.
As Nicole had said, it could lie underground for over a dozen years without rotting. With such thick walls, as long as they had sufficient carpentry skills and used the embedded systems methods, they could very effectively prevent leaks.
“Very good. Keep an eye on this patch of hard bamboo. There are to be no large-scale cutting without my permission,” Liu Feng instructed.
“Understood!” Anri immediately noted it down.
Liu Feng also needed to design how to lay the hard bamboo and ensure an adequate water supply. The pressure needed to be sufficient for delivering water to residential areas; otherwise, it would be difficult to deliver water to the houses.
“Nicole, isn’t there a waterfall not far from West Sun City on that mountain? I heard that the terrain there is very high?” Liu Feng asked in a soft voice.
“Yes, there’s a waterfall group there, very spectacular. My father took me to see it once. It’s very beautiful,” Nicole replied.
“Good, next time we’ll have a picnic there.” Liu Feng chuckled softly. He just needed to inspect the high-altitude waterfall.
“Yay! I want to eat iron plate fish,” Tess exclaimed first.
“Sure!” Liu Feng nodded repeatedly. He had everything he needed. As for the pressure aspect, there was no need to worry about the tap water problem as long as he made good use of his knowledge of siphon physics.
“Anri, have people bring more cement pipes back. They should be twice the usual size,” Liu Feng added.
“Okay!” Anri nodded.
In fact, none of them knew why Liu Feng had come here or why he was doing all this.
“All right, we’re done for today.” Liu Feng stretched lazily. Having worked from morning till now, today was one of his most productive days.
“Young Master, are we going back?” Nicole asked softly.
“No, when you come to a bamboo forest, you have to leave something behind.”
Liu Feng smiled lightly and turned to Tess. “Go to the carriage and bring down that box of wine.”
“Okay!” Tess ran off quickly.
“Young Master, are you planning to drink here? Should I have someone hunt some game?” Nicole remembered there were snakes and bamboo rats in the bamboo forest, which were delicious.
“No, I’m planning to make bamboo wine. It’ll be ready to drink by winter,” Liu Feng replied, shaking his head.
Liu Feng had wanted to make bamboo wine before, but the incident with Dali’s injury had led him to go back to perform surgery, which made him forget about it. Now was a perfect time to do it.
“Bamboo wine? What’s that?” Nicole and Anri blinked in confusion. They had only heard of wheat wine.
“You’ll see soon,” Liu Feng said mysteriously.
“Young Master, I’ve brought them here.” Tess arrived with a large wooden box and placed it before Liu Feng.
“Come on, let’s go over there. We need some green bamboo,” Liu Feng said, leading the way toward another patch of bamboo. Hard bamboo wasn’t suitable for bamboo wine.
Soon, they arrived at a new bamboo grove. Then, much to the bewilderment of Anri, Tess, and Nicole, Liu Feng made a small hole in the bamboo and injected wine into it using a needle, sealing the hole afterward. He did this for about a dozen bamboos.
“Young Master, this is bamboo wine?”
“Young Master, you’re so wasteful. Giving wine to bamboo, you should have just given it to me instead.”
“Young Master, you’re a bit strange today.”