Chapter 1759: Strawberries and figs

Seeing the captain turned into a fool who only knew how to laugh by a single orange, two dragon fruits, and three strawberries placed on the table by Xia Qing, Wang Liang sighed exaggeratedly, turned his head, and asked Sun Sun Zhaoxiu, who had regained consciousness, with his eyes, "Sister Xiu, how do I look?"

Sun Sun Zhaoxiu was pale due to excessive blood loss, and her voice was weak, but she was still painful when she pricked people, "Mummy-like?"

Wang Liang, who was hanging two plaster legs and a plaster arm flat...

Xia Qing smiled, "Sister Xiu, you can't eat fruit yet, I'll bring it to you tomorrow. What does Brother Liang want to eat?"

Wang Liang first bared his teeth at the captain before opening his mouth, "Sister Qing, I want to eat

"Okay." Xia Qing skillfully divided the dragon fruit into two halves, handed one half to Wang Liang and the other to Team Doctor Wang, then asked Yang Jin, who was sitting on the hospital bed with a laptop on one side and two mobile phones on the other, "What does Brother Jin want to eat?"

Yang Jin couldn't help but laugh like a fool again, "Strawberries, thank you, Sister Qing."

Xia Qing rinsed the three strawberries with water, handed them to Yang Jin, and explained, "These were grown in the laboratory's glass grid; they aren't dirty."

Yang Jin responded, first taking the largest and reddest one to let Xia Qing eat, and only then picking up the second one to taste a bite, his eyes lighting up, "The Qi element content has dropped below 0.25‰?"

Xia Qing answered happily, "0.23‰."

The lower the Qi element content of the fruit, the less obvious that indescribable, indefinable astringent taste became.

In the tenth year of the natural disaster, the Qi element content of the strawberries Yang Jin exchanged with Xia Qing was 0.3‰, which was the lowest Qi element content and the best-tasting among all the fruits Xia Qing planted.

After two years of careful cultivation, Xia Qing finally reduced the Qi element content by 0.07 per thousand. This was not something that could be done just by saying it; even Zhang Tao praised Xia Qing for being capable!

"No wonder it tastes so good." After Yang Jin finished eating one strawberry, he picked up the third one to hand to Xia Qing, but was stopped by her, "You eat it, I have more in my territory, and more than twenty more can ripen in a few days."

Yang Jin smiled even more brightly, took a bite of the strawberry, and asked, "Are the strawberry seedlings on the wooden rack against the fire wall in the bee-keeping greenhouse also of this quality?"

Wang Liang, who was gnawing on a dragon fruit, turned his head silently and made a face at Sun Sun Zhaoxiu.

Hearing Yang Jin mention the strawberry seedlings, Xia Qing's expression became even gentler, "Those are of lower quality. Brother Jin, how many points do you plan to sell the green-light fig seedlings for?"

The high-quality strawberries Yang Jin obtained were very suitable for planting within the territory of Northern District One. Xia Qing obtained two strawberry seedlings in the spring of the tenth year of the natural disaster, and in just one year, she used strawberry stolons to cultivate more than seventy strawberry seedlings.

Last spring, she kept thirty for herself and exchanged the rest with her allies.

After the allies obtained the strawberry seedlings, they also cultivated them carefully according to the experience Xia Qing introduced. During the Qi rain and Qi snow periods, the lords moved the flower pots where the strawberries were planted to hidden valleys, so after planting for a year, there were dozens of green-light strawberries in each territory.

Last winter, the strawberries everyone raised in greenhouses or hidden valleys all bore fruit. After everyone tasted the freshness, they all exchanged strawberries for equipment, high-quality seeds, fertilizers, and potions. Tan Qi, who loved strawberries the most, only dared to eat two.

Xia Qing did not sell strawberries to the outside world. She followed Zhang Tao to learn advanced breeding technology and finally overcame the difficulty of low germination rate of this strawberry seed at the beginning of last winter, increasing the germination rate from 1‰ to 25%.

Now, not only Xia Qing but also the lords of Northern District One were following Xia Qing's lead, using strawberry stolons and strawberry seeds to cultivate a batch of strawberry seedlings. After the first Qi rain, everyone would sell them to the outside world at the same time.

This was a wealth-making opportunity for every member of the alliance and also a top-secret of the territory alliance. Therefore, even though everyone in this hospital room could be trusted, Xia Qing still stopped at the right point and changed the subject to talk about fig seedlings.

Mentioning fig seedlings, Xia Qing thought of Ma Jun, who died in the ruins continent. The fig seedlings in Xia Qing's territory were discovered by accident last July when she went to the southern evolved forest to carry out a mission to kill a giant eagle.

Because the fig tree grew in the territory of the southern hyena pack, Xia Qing teamed up with Yang Jin, Wang Liang, and Ma Jun to successfully cut off a branch and bring it back, using fig cuttings to propagate a batch of fig seedlings.

According to the plan, this batch of fig seedlings would be sold after the first Qi rain this year.

Hearing Xia Qing mention figs, Wang Liang, who was gnawing on a dragon fruit, gradually couldn't laugh anymore and turned his head to stare at Sun Sun Zhaoxiu's infusion tube.

Yang Jin had already considered this question, "I heard from Yin Zhao Jie that this kind of fig has a dependency on the native soil?"

Xia Qing responded, "Sister Tao did a growth environment adaptability test. This kind of fig can only be planted in the open air in our base, Hui One, and Hui Five bases; other bases can only plant them in standardized greenhouses."

After Blue Star evolved, many Yi-evolved organisms developed a high dependency on their native environment, and after leaving the native environment, their quality would decline rapidly.

"This is a high-yield, high-quality, scarce tree species that can be propagated by cuttings and can only be planted in the open air in three bases. If we release the news, the planting centers and territories of Hui One, Hui Five, and our base will definitely want to exchange for them to cultivate as specialty agricultural products and sell them to the outside world." Yang Jin first analyzed the preciousness of this batch of fig seedlings and then proposed a quote, "20,000 points for a green-light one, and 15,000 for a yellow-light one not higher than 6‰?"

Worthy of being an iron rooster, the price was 5,000 higher than the one she offered! Xia Qing naturally wanted to sell them for more, but she felt this price was a bit outrageous, "With the pricing so high, can they all be sold?"

The fig seedlings in Territory No. 1 and Territory No. 3 added up to more than two hundred.

Yang Jin nodded, "They can be sold even if they are more expensive, because the departments that buy the seedlings can propagate dozens of seedlings by cuttings within two years. By then, whether they sell seedlings or figs, they will have profits to make."

Yang Jin said they could be sold, and Xia Qing felt that she had taken a big step toward the fortress, asking about the fig quality in Territory No. 1 in a good mood, "I can sell 115 here, including 101 green-light ones and 14 yellow-light ones, with Qi element content not higher than 6‰. How many does Territory No. 1 have?"

"The fig seedlings in Territory No. 1 are all planted in standardized greenhouses and are all of green-light quality." After Yang Jin reported the quality of the fig seedlings in Territory No. 1, he began to tell Xia Qing about the arrangements for these seedlings, "... Leave 10 in the greenhouse, and leave one for Ma Jun's uncle; Ma Jun said his uncle quite likes to eat this."

Mentioning Ma Jun, Yang Jin's eyes turned red, and Wang Liang, who was holding the dragon fruit, burst into tears.

Last July, when they obtained high-quality green-light fruits and branches and were happily driving back to the territory, that big fool Ma Jun, who had no discernment, stood between the captain and Xia Qing as a light bulb, as bright as it could be.

Now, the big fool who fought side by side with him for twelve years lay in the ruins continent and could no longer shine.

Sun Sun Zhaoxiu glanced at Wang Liang and looked up at the liquid in the infusion tube, dripping down drop by drop.