The first thing Rong Shichu noticed was the price of rice. He was delighted at the sight. More than a thousand star coins? !
Considering the current prices of agricultural products, how could rice be so cheap
She immediately opened her eyes and looked carefully, and saw that it was 10 grams of rice for 1,000 Star Coins. Her pupils shrank sharply. Rice was actually sold by the gram? When she remembered what netizens said about fruit being sold piece by piece, she suddenly realized.
"Aunt Rong, are the staple foods so expensive?" Rong Shichu sighed, "I need to eat more than 100 grams of rice for one meal, which is more than 10,000 star coins. I really can't afford it... I also have to save money to buy a protective shield."
There are also some staple foods such as rice in her space, but the key is that rice in different worlds grows differently. If it weren't for Rong Gu and the planting robot, she could take it out and eat it. Unfortunately, with them around, Rong Shichu had to eat the bought rice obediently. After all, she didn't know if someone in this world would suddenly have the idea of hacking into the chips of the two robots and knowing her secrets. Although the possibility is very small, Rong Shichu doesn't want to take the risk.
"Why don't you buy a few hundred grams to try first, and then grow your own staple food in the future?" Rong Gu suggested when she saw the young master's depressed look.
"This is the only way." Rong Shichu selected a kind of rice, bought one kilogram, and spent more than 100,000 yuan. She felt very distressed when she paid.
After buying the rice, she didn't know what staple food to grow. She liked rice, wheat, and corn, but if she had to plant them all, it would take too much time and energy. Even if she had a planting robot to help her with the chores, she still had to plant the seedlings one by one. When she thought about the amount of rice or wheat that needed to be planted on one acre of land, she felt dizzy. With so much, how long would she have to wait to finish planting
What's more, even if she really gritted her teeth and planted the seeds, the money to buy the seeds would be a huge sum. Ten grams of rice costs more than a thousand star coins. The seeds are more precious and definitely more expensive. The money to buy the seeds is enough to make her rich.
Rong Shichu immediately gave up the idea of growing rice or wheat. Otherwise, should she eat more Western food
Feeling lost, Rong Shichu lay on the sofa with her eyes covered, wondering what plants in her space were suitable to plant as her staple food.
Her mind raced, her consciousness scanning her own companion space...
When she saw a very tall tree with a canopy like a giant umbrella covering the sky, her eyes immediately lit up: Isn't this a breadfruit tree? She remembered that she was very surprised when she first learned about this tree. She even went to its place of origin to see it. After tasting the breadfruit it produced, she liked it very much, so she transplanted several of them into her own space.
I didn't expect it to grow so big. The oval-shaped breadfruits as big as basketballs are hanging on the tree, green and lovely, so many and big.
Rong Shichu's surprise was like a volcanic eruption. Wasn't this the staple food she had been dreaming of? She was very grateful to herself for having a collecting habit and transplanting the breadfruit tree into the space. Look, didn't it come in handy
Although there are currently no plants similar to the breadfruit tree in this interstellar world, her sudden planting of such a plant would arouse suspicion, but she could say that she found the seeds from the relics of her ancestor Rong Shiting, and she had all kinds of sudden ideas, but she didn't expect that she could actually grow it!
As for Rong Shiting's death thousands of years ago, this seed is also thousands of years old, how can it still be planted? Rong Shichu can only say that this seed is too tenacious, maybe this is its peculiarity.
Anyway, no matter what, we can just blame the ancestor. Rong Shiting was so talented, it is possible that he had one or two magical seeds. As for why he didn't grow them, maybe he forgot about the seeds or didn't have time to grow them.
In short, the dead won’t speak, and Rong Shichu is not afraid of his lies being exposed.
She immediately took a few seeds of the breadfruit tree, and excitedly found Rong Gu, saying excitedly: "Rong Gu, look, these are some seeds I found from my ancestors' relics. I wonder what kind of plant these seeds are from?"
Rong Gu came over and scanned it, then shook her head in confusion and said, "There is no information about this kind of seed in my knowledge base. Is my knowledge base too small?"
Rong Shichu quickly comforted her: "No, no, you have always been very knowledgeable. Maybe this seed is too rare. But no matter what kind of seed it is, I will try to plant it. If it grows, I will know it naturally. If it doesn't grow, then it doesn't matter if I don't know its type."
As she spoke, she went out excitedly. The breadfruit tree likes sunlight, is heat-resistant, moisture-resistant and drought-resistant, and is very easy to grow.
Rong Shichu buried the seeds in a suitable open space and immediately began to use the plant's supernatural power to induce growth. Of course, she only planned to plant one breadfruit tree, so she did not induce growth of the other seeds but only of the strongest one.
Pretty green buds soon emerged from the soil, and then the tender buds grew taller, branched out, and spread leaves... Before long, it became a vibrant seedling. Rong Shichu did not stop until it grew to a foot tall.
She lay on the ground, looking at the delightful young seedling, her heart full of anticipation that she would be able to eat breadfruit soon.
Breadfruit has a very high starch content. After being roasted over fire, the flesh tastes like real bread, soft and delicious, sweet with a slight sourness.
In addition to baking, the fruit can also be boiled or fried, and it tastes similar to potatoes. In short, breadfruit is an affordable and delicious staple food, and its yield is also very high. A medium-sized breadfruit tree can produce more than 300 breadfruits a year, which is enough for Rong Shichu to eat by himself.
Breadfruit is simply the staple food tailor-made for Rong Shichu in this world. Rong Shichu once again thanks himself for having prepared for a rainy day.
From then on, in addition to putting the necessary energy into various vegetables and fruits, Rong Shichu put all the remaining energy into the breadfruit tree. As a result, in just one week, the breadfruit tree grew to seven or eight meters high, and in another week, it would bear fruit.
Rong Shichu worked even harder at night. She almost tore apart the notes left by the ancestors of the Rong family. She absorbed all the experience and knowledge of her ancestors like a sponge that constantly absorbs water.
Fortunately, she was smart enough and had enough plants for her to experiment with. After combining theory with practice and gaining a thorough understanding of it, her planting skills improved at a rapid pace, and the plants in the yard also grew rapidly.
Looking at the green vegetable fields, Rong Shichu decided to keep the ones for himself and sell the rest.
This time she couldn't take the plants to an auction house. She was alone and powerless, and couldn't let people know that she could grow so many plants. So she decided to open her own shop online to sell the plants, sell them anonymously, and keep a low profile for now.