Chapter 227: Pearlmaking
The shopkeeper was a little curious: "Girl, the seeds from other places can not be planted in our realm, even if they sprout smoothly, they will not bear fruit, what is the use of you collecting these things?" ”
Lin Ruan smiled innocently: "I just want to see what those things look like, even if they don't bear fruit, I also want to see their leaves." It is always said in the book that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read 10,000 books, but unfortunately I am a daughter and I am destined to not be able to travel 10,000 miles, so I can only think of other ways. ”
When the shopkeeper heard her say this, he smiled and said, "What the girl said is quite reasonable, and it is not difficult to collect seeds, but the caravan's itinerary is very rushed, and it may not be able to help you find much." ”
Lin Ruan heard that he agreed, and hurriedly said: "You can have as much as you want, as long as you can bring it back to me, I will be very grateful." The shopkeeper, these five taels of silver are considered the deposit I gave. ”
The shopkeeper took her money, and in her presence, wrote down her collection of seeds in the order book. "Girl, our trading house has five caravans, and the time for going back and forth is uncertain, and it is possible for a long time, three or five months, so you have to wait patiently."
Lin Ruan responded with a smile and thanked him again and again before leaving.
After returning to Yulin County, Lin Ruan planned to attack Shen Wushan.
There is still a lot of silver to buy the shop in Qingzhou City, and she only has about two thousand taels of silver in total, and there is still at least eight hundred taels of silver.
In addition, the store needs to be turnover, so she has to get at least a thousand taels of silver.
The tooth shop had given her ten days, so she had to get the money together within that time.
Shen Wu Mountain is now her private property, and it is very reasonable for her to get things from Shen Wu Mountain.
But what do you want to do this time?
Especially since it snowed again in the mountains last night, and now it is white everywhere, and I can't see anything.
Lin Ruan aimlessly let the big tiger take her around the mountains, wandered around for a long time, and arrived at the stream.
This small stream, which flows from the depths of Shenwu Mountain, then joins the small river in the village and flows in front of Lin Ruan's house.
She had wandered around the mountain for months, and had passed by the creek several times, but she had never followed the creek up to see the source.
Taking advantage of this time, Lin Ruan took the big tiger and the little tiger up the river, intending to explore the source.
The mountain is high and the road is dangerous, and the snow has just fallen, and one man and two tigers have walked with difficulty for nearly an hour before finally reaching a valley.
Entering the valley, Lin Ruan was shocked by the scenery in front of him.
It's just that the valley is surrounded by cliffs, and the cliffs are covered with all kinds of shrubs and trees, and because of the heavy snow last night, the treetops are covered with a thick layer of snow, and they rise up one after another, all the way up into the clouds.
The valley was covered with snow all around, except for a waterhole in the middle of the valley, about an acre in size, which was frozen and scattered with snowflakes piling up on it.
Lin Ruan stood outside the valley and observed carefully for a while, and found that there were some deep and shallow footprints on the snow, so he raised his feet and walked inside.
If there are small animal footprints, it means that the valley is safe.
Many places in Shenwu Mountain are very dangerous, and this is the first time she has returned, so she must be very careful.
As soon as the big tiger and the little tiger entered the valley, the king's spirit spread out, and there was a sudden noise in the valley, and all kinds of birds came out of the trees, flapping their wings and flying into the air, leaving the birdsong all over the valley and the snowflakes that were beaten down.
Lin Ruan used his hand fan to float to the snowflakes in front of him, and when the dust settled, he raised his feet and walked towards the pool.
After approaching the pool, Lin Ruan found that the water in the pool was crystal clear, with green aquatic plants growing in it, and large and small fish swimming leisurely in the water.
Lin Ruan used his ability to control a fish, causing it to descend from the surface of the water to the bottom of the pool, and estimated that the water in the pool was at least two meters deep.
Letting the fish swim forward, Lin Ruan found a spring at the bottom of the pool.
And the waters of this puddle gushed out of the spring.
Lin Ruan felt that it was amazing that there was an underground river in such a high mountain.
Control the fish into the spring, all the way down, through the fish she can perceive some pictures, the underground river is pitch black, nothing can be seen.
After walking a distance of nearly 200 meters, the fish was cut off from her.
It's not that the fish is swept away by the current, it's that her abilities are only so far so far.
Retracting his ability, Lin Ruan recaptured a fish and let it "bring" its ability to explore at the bottom of the pool.
The bottom of the pond is very beautiful, with stones of various colors hidden among the aquatic plants, fish and shrimp wandering leisurely among the aquatic plants, and large and small river mussels stretching out their soft tentacles from the hard shells to find food.
After walking around, Lin Ruan stopped his ability on the river mussels.
She remembered that some of the varieties of this thing could produce pearls.
However, she didn't know much about what the pearl-producing river mussels looked like, and when she saw that the river mussels in this pool were quite large, she immediately became interested.
Her luck has always been good since she crossed over, maybe this time she was blindfolded again?
Thinking of this, Lin Ruan immediately used his ability to make one of the river mussels float out of the water, and then swam towards her.
smashed the ice on the edge of the pool, fished out the river mussels, and took it in his hand, it was quite heavy, and it was estimated that it could weigh two catties.
I swept around the mussel's stomach with my ability, and it was empty, nothing.
Lin Ruan didn't give up, and fished another one, but there was still nothing.
Catch another one, or a result.
Well, it looks like she's been lucky this time.
Lin Ruan flattened his mouth and knocked on the hard shell of the river mussel, "Bai Chang is so big, why doesn't a pearl grow?" ”
Then he laughed hesitantly: "However, you are also lucky, you met me, I will let you old clam pearls!" ”
She has a special ability, which can improve the genes of plants, so that this river mussel can produce pearls, which is not a difficult task.
So Lin Ruan pulled on the ground for a while, found a few grains of sand, stuffed them into the stomach of the river mussel with his ability, and then threw them into the fruit, and used the ability to urge them to quickly secrete nacre and start to "make" pearls.
At the end of the first round of ability, Lin Ruan rested on the big tiger, and when the ability was restored again, he began to continue making pearls again.
Tossing like this until the afternoon, Lin Ruan finally scooped up the river mussels.
After weighing the weight again, Lin Ruan smiled happily.
Not wanting to kill these river mussels, Lin Ruan carefully opened the river mussels with his ability, and saw that each river mussel had a pearl slightly smaller than a baby's fist in its belly.
She pursues quality, so she let these mussels produce only one pearl one by one, and all the abilities are smashed in their stomachs, and the pearls produced are naturally larger.
What surprised her even more was that one of the mussels produced a black pearl.