12dz Chapter 268 Cleaning Up
Chapter 268 Cleaning Up
Liu Daxi was so focused on cleaning up the cartloads of mushroom residue that he didn't even notice what was causing the laughter among the people behind him.
Liu Daxi walked straight to the gate, stretched out his hand to grasp the bolt, and pulled it hard. As soon as the door opened, the scene that came into his eyes made him gasp.
Even his pupils shrank unconsciously. Outside the courtyard gate, the poisonous mushrooms that were originally as big as umbrellas now seemed to have been cast under some kind of growth spell, and they were much larger than when they were just eradicated.
The caps of many mushrooms had grown to his lower abdomen, which looked quite strange. Some of them were particularly large and were almost reaching his chest.
Standing there crowded together, they look like a strange mushroom forest, exuding an aura that makes people feel creepy.
Liu Daxi frowned and thought to himself that this mushroom was too weird, how could it grow so fast?
Forget it, why think so much, let's just clean up the surrounding building first
So he quickly turned around and pushed the pile of poisonous mushroom residue that he had just shoveled out of the yard on a cart.
In fact, it is reasonable to throw these poisonous mushroom residues far away from the building, but once the door was opened, it was densely covered with these poisonous mushrooms, and there was no way to walk too far.
Liu Daxi hesitated for a moment, walked out and shoveled away two large mushrooms to make some space, and then dumped the poisonous mushroom residue directly there.
At this moment, Liu Danan was holding a large gourd ladle, carefully scooping up the water mixed with the antidote, and sprinkling it little by little along the stone path in the yard.
Behind him were several diligent servants, who were cleaning the floor carefully with brushes, trying to completely remove the remaining mushroom roots and other dirt.
Liu Danan accidentally looked up and saw the huge poisonous mushrooms at the door. He was immediately frightened.
He almost lost his grip on the gourd ladle in his hand and exclaimed, "Oh my, why do I feel like this mushroom is even bigger than before? This is too scary!"
After hearing this, Liu Daxi quickly responded, "I think so too. This thing is very weird. I don't know what it will become if it grows any longer."
Liu Danan frowned and thought for a while, then his eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "Daxi, since this antidote can clean up all the traces of mushrooms on the stone slabs in the yard, will it also be useful for these poisonous mushrooms outside? How about we give it a try?"
Liu Daxi nodded and thought it was worth a try. There was no better way anyway.
Upon seeing this, Liu Danan scooped up a full bucket of antidote and, with all his strength, poured it towards the patch of poisonous mushrooms outside the door.
A magical scene happened. When the antidote was poured onto the poisonous mushrooms, it was like pouring boiling oil into a pile of snow.
The poisonous mushrooms that were sprinkled first made a few "puff" sounds, and a strong stench came out, and then they began to shrink rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The originally towering umbrella-cap suddenly drooped down, and the thick rhizome became shriveled. The small patch of poisonous mushrooms that originally looked so menacing suddenly fell to the ground.
After a while, it shrank into a small pile. It no longer looked as scary as before, but instead looked a bit like a dried and shriveled mushroom.
Seeing this, Liu Daxi and Liu Danan were stunned at first, then looked at each other in surprise, their eyes full of disbelief and excitement.
Liu Danan shouted excitedly: "Oh, if I had known earlier, I wouldn't have had to use so much effort to shovel them to death. I could have just sprinkled the antidote and they would have been easily dealt with. We have worked in vain for so long!"
Liu Daxi was both angry and amused, scratched his head and said: "Who would have thought that this antidote would be so effective on mushrooms outside, but now it's good to know, there is no need to spray water on them specifically.
Let's just sweep the water used to clean the yard towards the front door. Once the water flows into the ground, it will destroy the roots of the mushrooms, and the poisonous mushrooms will naturally not survive."
"You're right. I'll go tell Uncle Song now." After Liu Danan said that, he handed the water scoop to one of the servants and ran to the other side to find Song Mingtao.
Liu Daxi continued to dump several more truckloads of mushroom residue outside the yard gate.
Liu Danan trotted over to Song Mingtao. At this time, Song Mingtao was bending over, carefully checking whether there were any remaining mushroom roots in the cracks between the stone slabs. Beads of sweat on his forehead kept sliding down his cheeks, but he didn't bother to wipe them off.
"Uncle Song, Uncle Song!" Liu Danan shouted anxiously.
Song Mingtao straightened up when he heard the voice, and turned to look at Liu Danan with a puzzled look on his face, "Danan, why are you running so fast? What happened?"
Liu Danan said quickly: "Uncle Song, let me tell you, the poisonous mushrooms outside the courtyard gate have grown bigger again, and they look scary.
Daxi and I thought that this antidote would be very effective in the yard, so we tried to sprinkle some on the mushrooms.
Guess what? The mushroom shrank all of a sudden and became shrunken, no longer as scary as before!"
When Song Mingtao heard this, his eyes widened in surprise. "Is it really that magical? That would be great. This way, it would save a lot of trouble to deal with these poisonous mushrooms."
"Yeah, Daxi also said that we should sweep the water used to clean the yard directly towards the gate. When the water flows into the ground, it may destroy the roots of those mushrooms, and they will naturally die." Liu Danan continued excitedly.
Song Mingtao frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and nodded, "Well, Daxi's idea is worth a try, but we have to be careful.
After all, this poisonous mushroom is very strange, who knows if there will be other variables. Let's do this, Danan, you go and call a few more people, let's lead the water to the door together, and I will go and tell the girl to let her know about this situation."
"Okay, Uncle Song, I'll go call people right away." Liu Danan responded and turned around to greet other people.
Upon hearing this, everyone was amazed at the magical effect of the antidote, so they all changed direction and swept the antidote on the stone slab directly towards the door.
Song Mingtao walked quickly towards the fifth floor, still thinking about the poisonous mushrooms along the way.
When he reached the fifth floor, he saw Su Yue talking to Nanny Yang, so he stepped forward and told her everything.
After hearing this, Su Yue was also surprised, "It actually has such an effect? It seems that the antidote is more useful than we expected.
It's a pity that I don't have many detoxification pills left, otherwise I could ask Uncle Wu to prepare more detoxification water. For now, let's follow your method and see how many poisonous mushrooms we can destroy."