Chapter 175: with translation of chapter title

Cangqiong listened to his subordinate's reply without blame, raised his head and looked from the doorway; with his excellent eyesight he could see clearly the situation inside the Yuequan Lou hall several hundred meters away.

As Yingxi said, the one standing behind the counter is a female.

Black hair, black eyes, fair skin, delicate and pretty features, she wore a black long dress with the collar and cuffs embroidered with splendid red thread forming blooming red roses; although she sat behind the counter, her impressive figure could be seen.

In Kuangsha City, even a random shop has such a beautiful female.

Lettuce, and the Holy Maiden Fruit he had never heard of before, Kuangsha City truly made him feel extremely surprised.

Cangqiong's golden eyes were full of interest.

It wasn't because of the beautiful female in the hall; females of such beauty he had seen many due to his status, and occasionally seeing one in Kuangsha City couldn't catch his attention.

He withdrew his gaze, raised his hand and gestured to his subordinate behind him: "Return to the Wushen Temple; tomorrow, Yingxi, you come alone to buy Holy Maiden Fruit, the rest of you watch over Wen Jing, the lettuce for the medicinal elixir—I will not allow any mistake."

"Yes." The subordinates obeyed, and the group quickly disappeared into the street.

Yuequan Lou's Lin Manzhi was unaware; during this time she quickly organized today's ledger.

The Holy Maiden Fruit elixir had never been brought all at once before; today she brought a total of 1000 bottles of Holy Maiden Fruit elixir, priced at 6000 Beast Coin each, yielding a revenue of six million Beast Coin.

As for cost, the cherry tomatoes grown in her own Spiritual Field are not counted as cost for now; Huang Cai and the others' wages for refining the elixir, after offsetting with the cherry tomatoes, amounted to 60,000 Beast Coin over these three days.

Moreover, the most expensive item is the Liuli bottle; the Liuli Workshop is hers, the raw material is sand, which is not scarce in the desert, so there's no need to spend manpower and money to seek it elsewhere, greatly saving the original cost; only the workers' food and wages need to be paid, and these can be accounted for in the Liuli Workshop's income and expenses.

Calculated this way, the cost of a Liuli bottle is about 5 Beast Coin each; the Liuli bottles she obtains for her own business are at cost price, whereas if such small Liuli bottles were sold outside, they would fetch at least 1500 Beast Coin each.

So calculated, the cost is still under 100,000 Beast Coin—producing the elixir is truly enormously profitable.

Lin Manzhi sighed inwardly, and skillfully calculated the revenue from the fresh Holy Maiden Fruit as well.

2329 cherry tomatoes, 1,397,400 Beast Coin.

Lin Manzhi locked the box containing the Beast Coin, then waited for Mo Lie to come down from upstairs before following him back.

After returning, Mo Lie went to attend to his affairs, and Lin Manzhi also had no time to rest; first, in the neighboring lettuce planting greenhouse, besides Mu Qiao and Mu Qian, she additionally selected twenty male beasts of weak bloodline but very obedient to help.

Early tomorrow morning the lettuce must be sent to the Wushen Temple; when Lin Manzhi brought the lettuce seedlings over, half of the lettuce had already been harvested, and it wouldn't take many people to finish the rest quickly.

The harvested lettuce was neatly packed into wooden boxes, a damp cloth placed on top; the lettuce roots taken from the water tank were chopped and directly thrown into a huge jar, water added and covered, left to sit for twenty-odd days or a month to make fermented fertilizer, which can be kept for use on the land of Planting Base No. 2.

There is much to do; Planting Base No. 2 still has over forty mu of land to plant, so Lin Manzhi sped up.

She arranged for Mu Qiao to lead people in harvesting lettuce, while Mu Qian took half the people to separate lettuce seedlings, replanting those lettuce that had sprouted two leaves into the planting water trough, with the cloth fastened in the pre-reserved holes, just letting the lettuce roots soak in the water.

After arranging the lettuce greenhouse, Lin Manzhi saw that the sky was still early; after thinking, she bought many seeds from her space, took a big bundle, and went to the planting base outside Xicheng.

Mo Lie arranged a twenty-person guard squad for her; as long as Mo Lie is not by her side, they will follow her closely without leaving her side.

Thinking that Kuangsha City is not safe, Lin Manzhi did not refuse; this twenty-person elite guard squad can be said to go wherever she goes.

Around four in the afternoon, Lin Manzhi arrived at the planting base; currently Xiang Sa is on duty leading the team, and from afar he saw the giant wolf guard squad beside Lin Manzhi, quickly opened the planting base's gate, descended from the city tower, and went forward to meet her.

Xiang Sa stood beside the giant wolf's leg, looked up at the female on the wolf's back, and said with an envious face: "Oh, Lord Lin, you've arrived."

Lin Manzhi sat on the giant wolf's back, lowered her head to see the person in charge here, Xiang Sa, and said: "Take all fifty planters to Greenhouse No. 2."

Xiang Sa immediately set off; when Lin Manzhi arrived at Planting Greenhouse No. 2, the fifty planters were all standing in the outer aisle of the greenhouse waiting for her.

Lin Manzhi didn't waste time, taking out the water tray she had brought from home earlier, which contained the spiritual spring water she had obtained from her space; along the way it had been exposed to the sun, so the water was somewhat warm.

Considering the afternoon time, she opened several packets of cherry tomato seeds and poured them into the tray to soak.

She also had Xiang Sa lead people to loosen the soil in Greenhouse No. 2, break it into a non-clumpy loose state, then let them divide the ground into ten plots, and using tools break the soil into small clumps the width of two finger joints, preparing for sowing.

The small square soil clods were nutrient-rich soil brought back from elsewhere, not yet planted, so Lin Manzhi did not add any further fertilizer.

She walked over to look at the two water trays placed beside the greenhouse; the seeds that had been soaking in the water for several hours had already sprouted white buds, and Xiang Sa closely followed her.

Lin Manzhi looked and saw Xiang Sa stretching his head to look into the water tray, and casually said: "Next I will teach you how to sow."

Thinking that Xiang Sa was a carefully cultivated team leader of planters, Lin Manzhi said in detail: "The seeds have been soaked in warm water for over four hours; seeing the seeds sprout, they can now be planted in the soil, one seed per small square."

She lowered her head, picked up a small spoon, scooped the seeds out of the water tray, and poured them into a wide tray; cherry tomato seeds are small, not easy to separate, requiring gentle and patient handling.

While Lin Manzhi was teaching Xiang Sa how to plant, unbeknownst when a large group of planters gathered around her, all watching her actions attentively.

In the small square soil clod, using a branch to make a small shallow pit, then with a homemade small wooden piece placing the sprouted cherry tomato seed into the pit; finally, she took the soil pulled to one side and casually brushed back a bit of loose soil to cover the seed.

The operation is simple, not difficult; everyone can learn it at a glance. Seeing Lin Manzhi manually sow a dozen or so seeds, Xiang Sa and the others hurriedly followed suit, beginning to learn her method of sowing.

These small tools had been prepared long ago; after Xiang Sa and the others ate the Holy Maiden Fruit, they no longer had the previous mental discord from building the city walls, and while sowing, a group of sturdy men were even more careful than Lin Manzhi.