Chapter 26: Grapes that restore mana
Night.
In the guest room of Ma Kelun Farm, Li Quan opened the door to receive an expected guest. Father Marcoran's daughter, Mabel.
Mabel was still wearing the long dress she wore during the day, and she looked particularly glamorous and moving at night. When she saw Li Quan, the first thing she said was, "You didn't say it, did you?" β
"Say what?" Li Quan pretended to be stupid.
"That's it...... That thing ......"
"Which thing?"
"What about me and Tommy...... In the forest. Mabel gritted her teeth.
"Oh!" Li Quan suddenly realized, smiled, and said, "Don't worry, I didn't say anything." Your father doesn't know yet. β
"Thank you." Mabel let out a sigh.
"I can ask, ...... between you and Tommy"
"We are lovers." Mabel reached out and picked the bangs on his forehead and looked directly at Li Quan's gaze, "His name is Tommy Stonefield." β
Li Quan looked surprised. I see, no wonder she refused to tell her family, and the two of them ran into the field...... Li Quan originally thought that the two were looking for excitement, but it turned out that they were having an underground relationship with their backs to their families.
The daughter of the Marcoran family and the son of the Stonefield family, the two actually fell in love. According to Duhan, the two families are a feud for more than ten generations. These two people fall in love, and you can imagine what the consequences will be.
Mabel's expression darkened, and he suddenly hid his face and said discouragedly, "Oh my God! I'm so miserable! I fell in love with Tommy Stonefield, but we both had a bitter hatred. There are very few opportunities for us to meet, and today I just couldn't help but not want to miss such an opportunity. You may not know that your arrival is a rare opportunity for us. I can't usually go to see him, but I miss that handsome face all the time! β
Li Quan got goosebumps. The heart said that the blonde women were really cheerful.
Mabel didn't notice Li Quan's strange expression, maybe she found but she didn't care, and continued: "I'm sure Tommy is the same, he must be waiting for news from me at the moment. But I couldn't go to him. We are two of the most miserable people in the world. Forgive me, Your Excellency, can I ask you to do me a favor? β
"What's the busy?"
"I want to write a letter, please help me get this letter to Tommy. He would wait for me every day in the woods by the river west of Stonefield Farm. Yes, it is where we 'meet' today. You can go see him, and I can't. Yes, please. β
"What's in it for me?" Li Quan asked. This kind of love story sandwiched between the feuds of the two families is not often played in Korean dramas, and I will actually encounter it. But he didn't want to be nosy.
"You're a good person. Please! Mabel said.
This is the issuance of a good person card? Li Quan couldn't agree anymore.
"Unfortunately, I'm going back to Flashgold tomorrow and not passing by Stonefield Farm." Li Quan said.
"Oh, I'm in real pain...... My dear Tommy, I may never see you again......" Mabel grabbed her hair, her face full of loss, tears quickly filling her eyes.
Li Quan pursed his lips and was about to say something to send off the guest. Suddenly, it occurred to him that he might really be useful to Mabel. Of course, he would never admit that it was because he had relented.
The vines that he asked for before, he has already submitted to the system. Grape seeds below level 4 appear in the system's exchange list. It was only then that Li Quan discovered that the seed would have some "special effects" from level 4 onwards.
Just before Mabel arrived, he was still lying on the bed in the guest room, looking up at the cobwebs on the wooden beams on the roof of the shed, studying the seed exchange list, and the effect of the level 4 grape seeds made him close his mouth in surprise.
Seeds at grades 1 to 3 are mostly only greatly increased in terms of growth rate and yield. Now that the system has reached level 4, you can exchange it for level 4 seeds. Seeds start at level 4 and have some special effects. For example, level 4 petunia seeds.
In addition to the effects of greatly increasing the growth rate, shortening the growth cycle, and blooming in all seasons compared to ordinary seeds, the Grade 4 petunia also adds a "greatly improved attraction to insects".
Of course, this is nothing, maybe it will be useful to people who keep bees, Li Quan doesn't care very much. Most of the flowers in the redemption list have a similar effect. Li Quan is interested in the new effects of the emergence of several of his plants.
For example, grapes are submitted to the system.
[Grade 4 Grape Seeds: The growth cycle is halved (Grade 1). 50% faster growth rate (level 2). Ripens in all seasons (level 3). Eats to restore mana (level 4)γ
Level 4 special effects can actually restore mana, and Li Quanxin said that it is worthy of the Azeroth species. The specific effect is not clear to him, but the system is produced and must be a high-quality product. As long as it is equal to one-tenth of the effect of the alchemy potion, it is enough for Niu B.
You must know that primary mana potions are much more difficult to prepare than primary healing potions. William had said that it would take more advanced herbs and much more complex alchemy to make a primary mana potion. There were no materials before, and Li Quan hadn't learned how to configure a primary mana potion.
The most important thing is that grapes are woody.
What does woody mean?
Herbs such as Tranquility Flower and Silver Leaf Grass, they are all herbaceous plants. Herbaceous plants generally only grow for one season before they die. In other words, it can only be picked once.
Woody plants, on the other hand, grow perennially. The grapes are harvested for one season when they are ripe and can grow again the following year. That's the difference, it's determined by biological characteristics.
Due to this, the biggest disadvantage of exchanging seeds from the system is that the number is fixed. Regardless of the level of seeds, how much contribution value is spent, the system will give 1000 seeds for each exchange. Ignoring the value of the two, 1,000 Ningshen Flower seeds can be planted, and 5,000 Ningshen Flowers can be harvested, and then there will be no more. However, if you change it to grape seeds, you can continue to harvest grapes if you plant them.
As for the yield? Li Quan is quite confident in the grape yield. This is a level 4 seed, planted in a systematic plantation, and the growth rate is calculated by multiplication: the growth cycle is halvedΓ the growth rate is +50%, Γ the time flow rate is 13 times. The overall growth efficiency has increased more than 100 times. If you plant it, you may receive the grapes the next day. This also shows how powerful the plantations unlocked by the level 4 system are.
Even at the lowest estimate, this grape allows a mage to use magic more often. Its value is incalculable.
Previously, when the dream team was dealing with the princess, Li Quan had seen Johnson use magic. In the second half of the battle, he could clearly feel that Johnson's ice arrows had dropped a lot more frequently. Thinking about it later, eighty percent of it was due to the depletion of mana. The magician has exhausted his mana, and he is not even as good as an ordinary person. A wine that replenishes mana, I wonder how much combat power can improve a mage?
That's right, not grapes, it's wine.
Why do you want to make sake in the trouble? Nonsense, of course, to make wine. Li Quan couldn't imagine the scene of a mage casting an ice arrow while chewing a handful of grapes in his mouth......
As for whether a drunken mage can continue to chant mantras, that's not something he has to worry about.
Mind back to the present moment.
Maybell, who was in tears, still begged Li Quan to help her deliver the letter. Li Quan thought that after growing a large number of grapes, he would have to make wine. It's easier and safer to open a processing plant directly in Azeroth than to bring it back to Earth. Maybell is the right person. The Macoran family has been making wine for more than a dozen generations, and there's no reason Mabel wouldn't.
Having made a decision in his heart, Li Quan asked, "Do you know how to make wine?" β
"Absolutely." Mabel looked up.
"Alright," Li Quan nodded, "let's make a deal." I'll send you a letter to Tommy, and you're going to make wine for me. β
"No problem!" Mabel was overjoyed, wiped away her tears, and asked with some curiosity, "Are you going to let me make wine for you?" But why not just buy it at my house, our Macolon wines are world-famous. β
"Of course I do. But I need you to make a batch for me privately, using the grapes I have provided. Li Quan said.
"Your grapes?" Mabel was even more curious, "But you need a lot of grapes to make wine. Also prepare barrels and cellars. These ......"
"It's not a problem." Li Quan said, "You just need to know and agree." β
"I agree!" For the sake of the longing lover, Mabel is willing to give everything. Not to mention winemaking, which she mastered at the age of 5. Even if Li Quan wanted her to fight the kobolds, she would do so.
"Good." Li Quan nodded and said, "You can write now." I'll send it right away. Also, you are ready, I will come back to you soon. When the time comes, you may need to go to the town of Shining Gold more often. I'll start making sake there. β
Li Quan plans to ask Du Han to help find an empty house. The population of Shanjin Town is not large, and Li Quan has seen some abandoned houses around the town, and it should be good to use one as a winery.
The wine can be sold to his future wizards, to the mages in the mage district of Stormwind, or even to Dalaran. Li Quan had already anticipated the scene of the gold coins rolling in.
In a short time, Mabel, lying on the table, wrote a letter, which should be called a love letter strictly speaking. Because Li Quan listened to Mabel the whole time, this chick wrote and read it out. Li Quan's flesh was numb, and he was trembling up and down. Xin said that this dog food came too suddenly, and he was caught off guard.
The letter reads as follows:
My dearest Tomy,
As time went by, my heart became more and more lost because of the absence of you. Yes! May our families rise above the foolish hatred between them and recognize that the real sin is actually this hatred. Hatred eats away at our happiness, and we could have been very happy together, every day.
If they can understand this, then maybe one day we can really come together. No more sneaking around like this in the woods, in the farmhouse, by the creek. I hope to wait until that day when I will live for it.
Love you Mabel dearly.