?? C? < s? # hhy??? S? {???? [? * iD???? I??? H? Z???] ??? ?? The fishermen had not yet reported the pink pearl conch, so Liszt did not know where he was going to find this kind of conch. He could only wait.
He had been on Black Horse Island for a week and was ready to return to Flower Town.
By the way, he would complete the new smoke mission.
"Mission: The fishermen of the oyster settlement are no longer afraid of the shallow waters on the shore. They dare to dive into the seabed to fish for seafood, but they do not know all the seafood. As a seafood lover, why not guide the fishermen to identify the delicacies in the sea? Reward: a mutant rubber tree. "
The carpentry workshop uses thorns and rubber to produce many high-quality sampans so that the fishermen can be armed and can fish offshore.
However, they have seen many marine life on the seabed, but it is not easy to distinguish which marine life is edible. It has always been the few kinds of seafood that can be picked up on the beach.
"I don't seem to know much seafood. I can eat it, but I can't catch it." He thought about it and decided to take a stupid approach. He asked the fishermen to fish up all the creatures that could be fished from the bottom of the sea, and then he would select the ones he knew and did some toxicity experiments to verify whether they were edible.
Just as he was about to leave Black Horse Island, his heart suddenly moved.
A faint restlessness came, and he quickly opened his eyes. "It's the rubber worm triplets." He immediately asked the servant to bring three rubber worms.
At this time, one of the triplets, which liked to line up and synchronize their movements, left the line and crawled around in the jade box.
It could be felt that it was very restless, more restless than the other two.
This was a rare situation.
"Little guy, what's wrong with you?" He carefully established a deeper spiritual communication with the rubber worm, which was supported by the contract.
Soon, he distinguished a unique emotion from the restless mood of the rubber worm. It actually wanted to spit out its worm stalk.
"The worm stalk of the rubber worm has not been planted in the rubber garden and has not been moved since the contract. What does this rubber worm mean?" Liszt suddenly raised his eyebrows. "Could it be that it has brewed a new worm stalk in its body?"
Thinking about it carefully, it was really possible.
Perhaps this was the reward of the smoke mission — the agitation of the rubber worms.
Since the rubber worm wanted to spit out worm stalks, Liszt naturally wouldn't refuse. He quickly rode the chocobo Loki to the rubber field. For the time being, the rubber plantation was planned to cover an area of 1,000 acres. Eventually, it would reach 10,000 acres or even 100,000 acres. For such a magical crop, the more, the better.
However, there weren't many rubber trees in the rubber plantation. There were very few of them.
The original rubber tree worm stalk was still standing in the middle of the garden. Liszt roughly estimated its radiation range and walked into the distance. He found a flat area suitable for planting rubber trees and put the very restless rubber worm in his hand. "Little guy, spit it out."
The rubber worm crawled on Liszt's palm, raised its head, and opened its mouth.
It spat out a faint green light, which contained a small seed. After the seed fell to the ground, it quickly sprouted and grew.
At a speed visible to the naked eye, it grew into a rubber tree that was as tall as the previous rubber tree's worm stalk within three minutes.
But the difference was very obvious. The rubber tree's worm stalk was actually densely packed with white spherical fruits. Ordinary rubber trees, including the first rubber tree worm stalk, showed no signs of bearing fruit. Moreover, rubber trees relied on adventitious buds at their roots to reproduce.
New seedlings could often be found growing around the rubber trees, which originated from the roots of the rubber trees.
Liszt ordered the serfs to dig up these new seedlings and plant them in rows in the rubber plantation, constantly expanding the size of the rubber trees.
Therefore.
This was a plant that reproduced asexually.
That's why Liszt was surprised. The flowerless and fruit-less rubber tree worm stalk had actually borne fruit. He thought for a moment. At the risk of damaging the worm stalk, he plucked a fruit — the fruit, leaves, and the like of a worm stalk would quickly lose its magic power after being plucked and become an ordinary plant, or at best, better.
It was not a big problem to pluck only one rubber fruit from a tree full of rubber fruits.
While fiddling with the rubber fruit, which was gradually losing its magic power, Liszt could not help but sigh: "Sprite worms are truly extraordinary. It was clearly a worm stalk, yet it gave birth to three sprite worms. And now, the three sprite worms gave birth to a new worm stalk … Does this mean that the next time the rubber worm becomes restless, it will give birth to a new worm stalk? Or a variant worm stalk? "
The matter was settled.
He returned to the port town, took the Flower, which had already been loaded, and set off for Flower Town. The Flower was fast and was his exclusive ship.
When he was bored sailing, he teased the Blizzard Beasts.
He spent more time studying rubber fruits. When he drilled a hole in the hard shell of the rubber fruit, he found that it was all rubber stored inside.
"In other words, the new variety of rubber tree concentrates rubber in its own fruit?" He was pleasantly surprised. "Does this mean that the new variety of rubber trees will be easy to collect rubber without harming the tree itself? When the new seedlings come out, I will immediately let the serfs try farming them! "
Rubber collection was troublesome and harmful to the tree. If the rubber was concentrated in the fruit, not only would it be convenient to pick, but it would also be easier to store.
Such a rubber fruit could be preserved for several years like a fragrant coconut without spoiling.
The value was even higher.
… …
After arriving at the Port of Flowers.
Liszt's expectations for the rubber fruit had been suppressed.
He rushed to the administrative office first and saw the administrative officer Isaiah. "The oyster settlement's dinghy fleet is already familiar with shallow sea fishing, but they still know too little about seafood. Isaiah, immediately give the oyster settlement's dinghy fleet an order to search for all kinds of creatures from the bottom of the sea. "
"Sir, what do you mean?"
"We need to develop new seafood to re-occupy the Coral Island's market. We can't just rely on oysters and oil consumption. I need to restore the seafood market that is more popular than last year."
"Yes, Sir. I will immediately give the oyster settlement an order to salvage all the creatures that can be salvaged."
"In addition, send someone to Coral City to buy a batch of boat nets and fine nets. There should be schools of fish in the sea near Flower Town. You can try to catch them."
At present, the seafood fished in Flower Town consisted of some shellfish, mollusks, and shrimp and crabs. There were very few fishes.
However, the sea was definitely filled with all kinds of fishes. Liszt would not let go of such a resource. If everything went smoothly with this year's development order, he would definitely bring back tens of thousands of serfs. As such, there would definitely not be enough food. He could only use fish mixed with grains to fill the serfs' stomachs.
"I see." Isaiah replied, and then added, "Sir, there is a new discovery in the cornfield that you had me pay attention to."
"Oh, what discovery?"
"A newly discovered piece of mutated corngrass with fat stems and leaves and equally fat ears can be directly pinched to produce thick oil. It tastes very fragrant, very much like the butter we eat."
Liszt raised his eyebrows again.
Without a doubt.
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