7. Flower Market
Without hesitation, Li Quan also donated this pot of cactus.
In this way, he collected 5 plant samples and completed another contribution task.
"The contribution task has been completed. Rewards 1 contribution point. ”
[Current Contribution Value: 10 points]
It was destined to be a sleepless night.
"System, display the redemption list." Finally scraped together enough 10 contribution points, Li Quan couldn't wait to open the system to exchange and buy upgrade seeds.
After the system reaches level 2, the exchange list shows him all the seeds that can be exchanged below level 2.
As expected, level 2 seeds have a better bonus than level 1 seeds, and the corresponding exchange price is higher. Take petunia as an example:
Level 1 Petunia Upgrade Seed, Effect: Bloom in all seasons.
Redemption requirement: 10 contribution points.
Level 2 Petunia Upgrade Seeds, Effect: Blooms in all seasons, halving the growth cycle.
Redemption required: 20 contribution points.
Li Quan immediately checked on the Internet, and it takes at least 60 days for petunias to bloom from sowing, and halving is 30 days. And it blooms in all seasons after flowering.
Li Quan believes that as long as this seed appears in the flower market, it will definitely be the king of flowers.
The system also told him that the upgrade seeds were all from the system space. The system space is a world that is being rebuilt, and the plants that are submitted to the outside world will be genetically optimized after entering the system space. Therefore, regardless of the plant variety, the seeds exchanged from the system space can break the ground and germinate within 24 hours after planting.
That's amazing. You must know that many plants can take a few days or even months from sowing to germination. The ability to germinate within 24 hours is a sure surprise to botanical experts.
Looking at the dazzling array of dozens of upgrade seeds in the list that can be exchanged, even if he had planned for a long time, Li Quan still hesitated, just one exchange opportunity, what seeds can be exchanged?
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On Saturday morning, Li Quan woke up early to wash up, carrying a travel bag containing a bag of seeds that he had exchanged. With a piece of bread in his mouth, he went straight out to the flower market
There was a basketball game yesterday. As the current star of Class 2 and the pillar of the team, Li Quan has lived up to the expectations of the whole class and the class teacher. When facing the 3rd class next door, which is also a sophomore in high school, Li Quan ruthlessly controlled the score with his personal ability to finish 61-33 and win this game.
As a result, Class 2 entered the second round in advance as the first place in the group and ranked among the top 16 in the school.
Before the game, no one expected that Class 2 would achieve this kind of result, and they were the first to break out of the group with two senior classes. On the contrary, the senior 10 class, which has been favored by everyone since the draw, has been demoralized since the fiasco of the 2nd class competition. Li Quan not only won the game, but also crushed their arrogance. The senior 10 class is currently on the verge of elimination after another upset defeat in another senior class competition in the same group.
And Li Quan, the initiator of all this, didn't take the matter of the school competition to heart at this time.
Today he comes to the flower market with two major tasks. First, inspired by the night of collecting plant samples downstairs at his house, he came up with a great way to complete the task of contributing.
That is, find someone to collect it for him.
That's right, hire someone to find those plant samples, and he buys them and submits them to the system. This not only leaves him with a lot of time, but also makes him more productive.
After all, he was running around on his own, digging into the grass, and the plant samples he could find were quite limited.
But if you're a professional, it's different.
If you want to find professionals who work with plants, apart from the botanists in the scientific research institutes, it is the flower merchants who sell flowers.
"I have to admire my own wisdom." Li Quan thought as he looked for which stall to trade with.
It is the largest flower market in the city. The business is not only limited to flowers, but also includes turf, tropical plants, green seedlings, etc., and even a fruit and vegetable products trading hall. There is also a daily flower festival led by the municipality.
It can be said that all the plant samples here have been taken out, not a thousand species, but eight hundred, which is enough for Li Quan to digest for a while.
After all, he was still a high school student and didn't have much money in his pocket. Like those high-end indoor ornamental plants, the one-meter-high Brazilian iron tree, the half-meter-high money tree, etc., the price on it can start at 1,000 yuan, and tens of thousands of yuan is not unusual. Li Quan can only shy away from these high-grade plants. Today he brought a total of 2,000 dollars. This is the living expenses that his parents have sent him for this month and the next month.
In order to earn contribution points, Li Quan was out of the way. He firmly believes that his investment today will bring him a tenfold or even a hundredfold return in the future.
Li Quan observed the stalls along the way, and the stall owners were also observing Li Quan. Seeing that Li Quan was wearing a school uniform, he looked like a student, so he ignored him.
Li Quan didn't speak, just walked all the way, watched all the way. Secretly keep the price of each plant in mind and bring it into your budget.
"The budget is only 2,000 yuan, and if you want to maximize the value of 2,000 yuan, those expensive plants must not be bought, and the cost performance is too low. It's best to pick up some cheap flowers and plants to get started. Most of these stalls deal in high-end tropical ornamental flowers, and it looks like I'm in the wrong place. ”
This is Hall 1, next door to Hall 2, Hall 3, all the way to Hall 5. Li Quan didn't bother, walked out of Hall 1 and entered Hall 2.
In addition to tropical plants, there are also some common flowers and potted plants on the ground in Hall 2. Like cacti, chrysanthemums, peonies, tulips, all kinds of flowers are overwhelmed.
Li Quan walked around, and finally found a stall in a remote corner. The stall owner is a middle-aged man who is sitting there alone and fiddling with his mobile phone boringly.
"Ahem, that, excuse me."
Li Quan's words attracted the man's attention, and he raised his head and looked over. He first looked Li Quan up and down, and a trace of disappointment flashed in his eyes, but he still smiled at Li Quan and asked, "Little brother, is there something wrong?" ”
"I want to buy some flowers." Li Quan said directly. The reason why he chose this stall was that there were very few people here, and the booth was deserted, and there were no guests. Moreover, this stall is located in the corner of the entire trading shed, which shows that the stall owner's financial resources are average.
Li Quan knows himself very well. He was a poor student, and it was impossible for those stall owners who sold a potted plant for thousands of yuan to collect samples of various plants for him, a poor student. Even if he could come up with two thousand yuan, people might not be happy to take on such a troublesome business.
The general stalls are different. The scale of the booth is small, and the profit is small. Li Quan believes that such a stall owner should be willing to accept his 2,000 yuan order.
Hearing that Li Quan was going to buy flowers, the stall owner couldn't help but smile and introduced, "Little brother has come to the right place." I have a wide variety of flowers here. All are goods from regular plantations. What flowers does the little brother want to buy, and how many plants? ”
"A pot." Li Quan replied.
When the man heard this, his face collapsed, and he said that he thought he was coming for business, so he wanted a pot. smiled slightly wryly, and said in his heart that it was right, how much money a student could spend, and he asked how many plants others bought.
"Oh, a pot...... Then little brother, you can pick whatever you want, which pot you like, tell me. ”
Li Quan then said: "The same pot." I don't know how many kinds of flowers and plants you have here, I don't pick varieties, as long as they are not the same, help me get a pot. It's best to be 5 yuan, 10 yuan a pot. Don't be expensive. It's a total of 2,000 dollars. ”
The man froze. It took a long time to react.
Glancing at the pile of pink in Li Quan's hand, a smile reappeared on the man's face, and this time he smiled sincerely. Although it was the first time I encountered someone who bought flowers like this, the wad of money would not lie. Business is business, and a business of 2,000 yuan is not small for him.
"Little brother said it earlier. You see, I have so many kinds of flowers here, all kinds of varieties. There are also 5 yuan a pot, and there are many 10 yuan. The man said with a smile on his face, "By the way, what does the little brother do when he buys so many kinds of flowers?" ”
"Collection." Li Quan had already made up the reason.
"Oh! Understand. The man suddenly realized, and said in his heart, it turned out that he was playing with specimens. I just don't know if it's an individual purchase, or a school purchase. However, the man was not interested in caring about this, and directly began to pick and choose from the potted flowers placed on the ground.
Li Quan was also secretly happy in his heart. The program is well underway. This owner is not bad.
"Little brother, my surname is Zhu. I don't know my little brother's surname? Boss Zhu chatted with Li Quan while picking.
"The surname is Li. Expensive. ”
"It turned out to be Brother Li." Boss Zhu picked up a pot of cosmos and asked, "Brother Li, how about this pot of cosmos?" Definitely this year's new chrysanthemum. Just in the flowering period. If you use it as a taxidermy, it's absolutely fine! ”
Whether the flowering period is in bloom or not, these Li Quan don't care. Plant samples submitted to the system, with the only requirement that only species must not be repeated. As for the growth stage of the plant, there is no question of whether it has bloomed or not.
"No problem. I don't have any requirements for any of that. The only requirement is that the variety cannot be repeated. Only one pot is needed for one flower. It doesn't matter if anything else. ”
"Okay."
Two thousand yuan, not too much, not too little. According to Li Quan's original plan, if the average price of a pot is 5 yuan, 2,000 yuan can buy 400 kinds of flowers. But in fact, because 5 yuan a pot of flowers is not very common here, after all, this is mainly a high-end flower trade. Even if this kind of cheap stall is mostly 10 yuan, or 20 yuan a pot of flowers. So in the end, Boss Zhu pouted and was busy for a long time, and only picked out a hundred pots, most of which were ornamental chrysanthemums, tulips, daffodils, roses, peonies, etc.
These have exceeded Li Quan's budget of 2,000 yuan. Boss Zhu gave Li Quan a friendly discount, counting two thousand.
Li Quan confessed, so he decided to sell the first bag of upgrade seeds he had exchanged from the system here.
"Does Boss Zhu want seeds?"
"Huh?" Boss Zhu, who was pouting his ass and busy packing, looked inexplicable.