Chapter 61: A Chance Encounter with Cordyceps

Driving to the flower and bird market in Qinghe City, Lin Zeng was familiar with the road and quickly found the shop where he had bought flowers.

The person in the shop today is not the middle-aged aunt from before, but a sturdy young man with a short dundun. He had a square face, dark skin, thick eyebrows, and eyes the size of brass bells.

Lin Zeng stepped forward and asked, "Hello, I ordered a thorn plant here before. You called me yesterday. ”

"Oh!" the young man from the dwarf dun was carrying a heavy pot of fortune trees, he heard Lin Zeng's question, nodded and said, "Yes, I informed you yesterday, the plant is in the store, I dug it when I went up the mountain yesterday, and the roots are still with soil." ”

After speaking, he took Lin Zeng into the store and found a very thick sack from the corner. opened the sack and said to Lin Zeng, "Look, I don't know what kind of plant this thorny vine is. However, the spines of this plant are very sharp and hard. I once didn't pay attention in the mountains and got a long cut on my calf. Even if the plant withered, the thorns would not fall off, but would become harder. ”

Lin Zeng looked at the plants in the sack with only three or four branches, each of which was less than fifty centimeters. This plant looks a bit like a triangular plum, but the shape of the leaves is not very similar, and under each leaf under the branches, there is a small spike hidden, Lin Zeng scraped the spike with his fingertips, it is indeed very sharp and sharp.

"Why is it so small?" Lin Zeng asked suspiciously. I don't know how many seeds can be refined into these plants?

"I can't dig the mature plants. The sturdy young man spread his hands and said helplessly, "I just saw a small tree and dug it for you, the big one is covered with hard thorns, even if you cut all the branches and dig them, it will take a lot of effort, and it will cost you more than twenty yuan to dig a big tree." ”

"In this way," Lin Zeng pondered for a moment, paid him twenty yuan first, and said, "I'll take the small tree first, and if I still need it, please help me go to the mountain to find the big one, and I will pay you more." ”

Lin Zeng, who has not yet become a one-star breeding apprentice, cannot do what he wants for the time being when refining plant seeds. Most of the results of refining are uncontrollable. It is possible to succeed at one time and obtain satisfactory plant seeds, or it is possible that the obtained plant seeds are not suitable for various attributes, so they have to be re-refined.

"It's okay," said the stout young man briskly, "but the mountain road is not easy to walk, and I don't usually go there, and last time I chased a muntjac to find it, and I took you there, and I had to give me fifty yuan for lost work first, and if I want to dig it for you, I will be paid another fee." ”

Lin Zeng nodded in agreement.

Taking the thorny plant, Lin Zeng prepared to leave the flower and bird market. There are several entrances and exits of the flower and bird market, and Lin Zeng deliberately changed an exit to leave, just in time to look at the shops that he had not visited before, looking for some special seeds.

When he was about to approach the gate, Lin Zeng suddenly saw a store with an interesting name. The signboard of the store's name is not an ordinary Song font or black font, but a few crooked and twisted fluorescent doll font blocks.

Lin Zeng recognized it, only to see that the name of the store was "A fat and a tuo's little shop".

What is it selling?

Lin Zeng's curiosity came out, and he couldn't help but walk into the store.

There were no other customers in the shop, only the crackling sound of keyboard tapping. Lin Zeng's eyes swept over the glass cabinet, and he was immediately attracted by the plants here.

Lin Zeng leaned forward slightly, staring intently at these strange-looking plants.

At this moment, the keystrokes stopped, and a slightly shrill voice sounded behind him.

"Hello, do you want to buy Cordyceps? I have the most complete Cordyceps in Qinghe City, do you want any varieties?"

Lin Zeng raised his eyes and saw a white fat man, even if he was wearing a tolerant T-shirt, he could see a round belly. He looked at him with a smile on his face with black-rimmed glasses.

"Is this pitcher plants?" Lin asked, pointing to one of the most conspicuous and showy plants in the store.

This one-man tall vine grows along a pole, with oblong leaves at the end of many large and small bottles, each of which is longer than Lin Zeng's palm, and the yellow cage body has colorful red spots and bright colors. Above the bottle, there is also a small lid that is slightly lifted, which looks very interesting.

"This is Miranda pitcher plant, the bottle is very large, ornamental is very good, this humid and hot and snowless climate in our south is very suitable for the growth of Cordyceps, if it is the first time to plant, you can consider planting it. The chubby shopkeeper smiled gently, wiped the sweat from his head, and patiently explained.

"Can it really catch insects or mosquitoes?" Lin Zeng asked curiously. This amazing plant that appears in books can also be grown around us.

The shopkeeper smiled, and after showing a smile on his round face, his eyes couldn't be found, and he completely narrowed into a slit, he said, "If it was other stores, it might be according to your words, but my family specializes in selling insectivorous plants, and I can't hide it from you, many customers who come to my store will ask this question, in fact, if you want to rely on pitcher plants to catch mosquitoes, it is very impractical." Not to mention that our current artificially hybridized pitcher plants have weakened a lot. Even wild pitcher plants are mainly trapped by insects that love sweet juices, such as ants. So if you buy insectivorous plants, it is better to put them on the balcony. It can not only have enough light, but also avoid insects being lured into the bedroom. ”

Lin Zeng didn't know much about pitcher plants, and he looked at the glass counters in the store, all kinds of insectivorous plants, and he was full of novelty.

Looking at the well-designed label next to the plant, different kinds of bottle grass have different colors and forms. There are also sundew plants with tiny hairs on their leaves, and flytraps that look like open shells.

He thought that pitcher plants were just a plant, but he didn't expect that there were such a variety of them.

I don't know, what kind of plants will be produced by these special insectivorous plants after being refined by the fusion furnace?

Maybe he could use these plants to try out other rune recipes.

Lin Zeng asked, "How are these cordyceps planted?"

"Wait a minute," the shopkeeper walked back to his computer and grabbed a pink A4 sheet of paper from the table. Handed it to Lin Zeng, he said, "Here are the planting methods and key points, in fact, in our south, because the temperature and humidity are more suitable, it is not difficult to plant pitcher plants." If it is in the north, it is very troublesome, and you need to spend money on planting equipment. ”

Lin Zeng picked up the A4 paper and saw that it was an introduction and planting instructions for pitcher plants, as well as some after-sales service. It turns out that this store pΓΉ also walks in the online sale of pitcher plants, and in the upper right corner of the paper, there is the name and URL of the online store.

Lin Zeng secretly learned from his experience, and in the future, he could also distribute such a promotional leaflet to every buyer in his online store.

Since it can be purchased online, Lin Zeng does not plan to ship it by himself. The descriptions and photos on the Internet will be more detailed, and when he is free, he will browse slowly.

"Then I'll buy it directly from your online store," Lin Zeng looked at the planting instructions and said to the shopkeeper.

"Yes, two trees are free shipping. The shopkeeper smiled and said, "I'm Ah Fat, if you have any planting problems, you can consult me directly online." ”