Chapter 192 When the fruit ripens, the bees come
According to normal growth efficiency, the Bigen Green Peach will not mature until next year, but under the eye of truth, the first batch of fruits have already been produced in advance.
Although there is a high wall, you can smell the charming sweet fragrance dozens of meters outside the wall.
Pushing open the door and walking into the courtyard, Raven's eyes narrowed slightly.
The regular green peach is as short as a potted plant, but the one here has turned into a small tree that can reach the height of a person's shoulders, with plump fruits hanging on the branches, almost bending the branches.
Due to the infusion of the two elements of life and blood, the colors of the fruits produced by the Big Root Green Peach are also distinct. Half are green like jade, and the other half are deep red like blood, all exuding their own luster.
"Lord Baron, here I come!" Bucky walked into the courtyard, closed the door, and placed a box of various tools on the ground.
Magic plants have their own unique needs from planting to harvesting.
Take the green peach as an example. Regular fruits must be harvested with a wooden sickle, but for dark black fruits, metal must be used, and the technique must be delicate and must not be broken. Remove the peel, otherwise the medicinal properties will be greatly reduced.
For the first time collecting, Raven of course asked Bucky, an experienced alchemist, to give a demonstration. After all, no matter how well it is recorded in the book, reading it a hundred times is nothing compared to practicing it once.
Then Bucky, who had just straightened up, was stunned.
He is like a gold digger who has been chasing gold all his life. If the green peach tree last time was nugget gold, which made him think that he would never see it again in this life, then this time it is like It's like diving headlong into the treasury!
“So many!?” Bucky’s hands were shaking.
"Can you handle it alone?" Raven asked.
Raven's words were originally meant to ask if he needed help, but Bucky interpreted them as trying to pinch him, and immediately nodded: "Yes, yes!"
With that said, he rushed forward like a bull seeing the red cloth.
"Be careful, don't break it." Raven warned.
These words made Bucky calm down somewhat. He took a deep breath, put his fingers on the fruit, and waved the small wooden sickle, and the palm-sized green fruit rolled into the palm of his hand. He was immediately stunned: "Is this...?"
Leaven was a little strange: " What happened?”
“Strange thing, strange thing…” Bucky frowned and raised the green peach in front of Raven: “Logically speaking, after the green peach matures, , it should be as soft as syrup, but look, it’s incredibly hard like this!”
Hearing this, Raven poked with his hand.
If the ripe green peach feels like a baby's face, then this one feels like hard bamboo.
Judging from the eyes of truth, this fruit is rich in life elements, so there is nothing wrong with it!
"Is that so?" Bucky smacked his lips: "Lord Baron, I have a guess, but I need to peel it off before I can verify it. I don't know if you..."
Although green peaches are common, not many can grow to this level. If they were to be sold, they would be worth at least five gold coins, so Bucky would carefully seek Raven's opinion.
Raven understood his scruples and said, "Then peel it open and see. There's nothing wrong with a piece of fruit."
Hearing this, Bucky finally felt relieved and first wiped off the fruit with his fingers. Fluff, and then gently cut out a herringbone shape with a wooden knife.
The peel is peeled off, and the texture of the pulp is like that of a kiwi fruit, with gum-like juice flowing out from the edge and fixed next to the opening.
Bucky's eyes lit up, and he suddenly pulled out a sharp short knife from his waist and cut a wound on his wrist without any explanation.
Before Raven could ask, Bucky put the green peach to his mouth, and with just a slight squeeze, the juice and peach flesh were sucked into his mouth: "Well... it's so delicious! ”
Immediately afterwards, he raised his wrist: "Lord Baron, look!"
Raven's pupils shrank because the scars on Bucky's wrist were shrinking rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!
This fruit has such an obvious effect in healing injuries!
Bucky praised: "Lord Baron, you are blessed by the gods to be talented in growing magic plants! I have only seen green peaches of this quality in books, and they also have A name - Beacon Treasure!"
"Beacon Treasure?" Raven raised his eyebrows, feeling that this name was not serious.
"Yes, it's Beacon Peach!" Bucky said with passion in his eyes: "Normally, Beacon Green Peach needs to be combined with other magic plants to extract healing potions, but at this level, it can be used to refine healing potions. Potion, it’s such a waste!”
“Now, Its real value is that it can be used to refine 'primary recovery potion'! ”
Although the primary recovery potion is only a first-level magic potion, its effect is quite amazing - it can heal limbs to a limited extent. Defects, such as missing a piece of ear or two missing teeth.
As for broken fingers, blindness, etc., nothing can be done.
Bucky looked at Raven and suddenly bowed: "Baron, I have a request that may not be appropriate."
This move made Raven a little surprised: "What request?"
"I hope you can sell me all these green peaches!" Bucky gritted his teeth: "Every fruit , I am willing to pay, I am willing to pay eight gold coins!”
In this era, oral problems are very common. Elderly nobles generally have poor teeth, and this is especially true for wealthy businessmen.
The primary restoration potion can give people a good set of teeth - Bucky has a deep understanding of suffering from toothache. He is over seventy years old this year, and there are only a few good teeth in his mouth. .
If it doesn’t hurt, you won’t get sick, but if it hurts, it can kill you!
If this potion could be developed and produced stably, Bucky would surely become a guest of many nobles and wealthy businessmen!
Leaven did not agree immediately.
In fact, he had his own plan on how to deal with these green peaches.
The first batch has three different uses.
Part of it was sent to the Wallace Hotel to see if we could develop new dishes.
A part of it was transported to the World of Warcraft breeding farm and fed to Kapibala to see if it would have any additional effects on the growth of Warcraft.
The last part, he plans to use to refine a healing potion and initially recover some of the cost.
Actually, these are not his ultimate goals for growing pecan green peaches, but he has no choice. The new factory has not been built yet, and the pecan green peaches themselves are not resistant to storage. When the factory is completed and put into production, Raven will use the pecan green peach to shock the entire Nord province!
And Bucky’s proposal can be said to have given Raven a way to immediately recover the cost.
Seeing that Raven didn't respond for a long time, Bucky slowly raised the price: "If eight gold coins are not enough, then nine gold coins...otherwise, ten gold coins?"
"It can't be higher, Lord Baron!"
Lei Wen came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I didn't say I wouldn't agree, but there are two of these hundred green peach trees. Can you really eat one hundred, seventy and eighty pieces of fruit?"
Bucky nodded immediately: "Yes!"
"Okay, I can handle this batch of ten gold coins. I'll give it to you." Raven shook his finger: "But I will take 50% of the profit from the primary recovery potion you refine!"
"This..." Bucky heard this, thought twice, and gritted his teeth: "Just listen to Baron Raven!"
While speaking, Bucky's heart was bleeding, this breath He had to hand over 2,780 gold coins, which was all the wealth he had accumulated over decades of working in Meng'en City!
In order to earn this money, he did everything from mixing water into medicines, selling expired medicines, and buying stolen goods at low prices, and now Raven has squeezed them all away.
My liver hurts!
But when he thought about the bright future of refining the primary recovery potion, Bucky immediately gathered his energy and began to harvest the green green peaches.
A total of 281 fruits were harvested, which were placed in wooden boxes. They were neat and beautiful!
Then there are the hundred black green peach trees. Bucky does not intend to buy them, but it does not prevent him from being responsible for picking them.
As for the role of these black fruits, Raven is going to follow the three steps mentioned above.
Baki is also in his seventies. Although he is an alchemist and has taken some potions that can enhance his physical fitness, after a long day of hard work, his movements are still a bit stiff and his efficiency has begun to slow down. down.
At this moment, there was a buzzing sound. Bucky looked up and saw a mass of black insects flying towards him. Bucky was so frightened that he quickly retreated.
Then, an insect as big as a fist was crawling on the green peach!
The huge compound eyes are metallic in color, and the two tentacles on the top of the head are like reeds. Under the locust-like chestnut face, there is a triangular mouthpart like a mantis, with more than a dozen tentacles sticking out, which is disgusting and terrifying.
Its chest is orange-yellow, its back is covered with fine hairs, three pairs of long limbs are hooked on the branches, its waist is too slender, and it drags a huge cyan abdominal sac behind it, which looks like Just like a wasp, the spikes on its tail are thick, short and sharp, as if made of steel!
At this moment, this weird insect is lying on the green peach plant, greedily eating the purple and black fruits, and disdainful of the green fruits that have been picked on the ground.
“Locust-headed wasp!”
"It turned out to be a locust-headed wasp!!"
These two sentences came out of Bucky and Raven's mouths almost at the same time, but their attitudes were completely different.
Bucky’s words were filled with fear, while Raven had an unexpected smile on his face.
The magic potion that can make people awaken to become magicians has an important raw material, which is the honey of this second-level magic beast, the locust-headed bee.
Locust-headed bees are almost impossible to raise, so honey is also expensive. One ounce, or thirty milliliters, costs more than three hundred and forty gold coins. The average price per milliliter is about eleven gold coins!
Unexpectedly, I was attracted by the ripe green peach!
Leaven waved his hand slowly, signaling Bucky not to make any move - Locust-headed wasps are not carnivorous insects and have no interest in human flesh and blood, but if they are disturbed to collect honey and eat, it will lead to endless attacks. attack!
Baki, who is deeply involved in alchemy, obviously also knows the habits of this insect very well, silently counting the number of these monsters.
One head, two heads, three heads...
He did not dare to move too much, but what he saw so far was nearly a hundred!
For the Locust-Headed Wasps, which are second-level monsters, this is quite a large swarm. This also shows that there must be magic plants nearby that allow them to steadily collect nectar, so that they can grow to such a large size!
Lei Wen is very patient. Losing some green peaches is nothing, since they will grow again in the future. But if the locust-headed wasp misses it, it will be hard to find it again!
Time passed, the sun rose to the middle of the sky, and then gradually set. Five or six hours passed. The locust-headed wasps ate until their bellies became round, and their originally green bellies turned black. Then they shook their heads. It shook and flew away, heading far to the northwest.
That is the direction of Bloody Highlands!
When the swarm of locust-headed wasps flew further away, Raven whistled, and with a whistle, Xiao Bai flapped his wings and landed in the courtyard. Raven got on Xiao Bai's back: " Bucky, collect the rest for me, and inform Old Gordon that I’ll be out for a few days!”
Before Bucky could agree, Raven had already picked up Xiaobai and flew high into the sky!
In the blink of an eye, five days passed, and Raven arrived at the Bloody Highlands.
In fact, if you really just want to reach the Bloody Highlands, with Xiaobai’s speed, it will take one day anyway. However, the flight path of the locust-headed wasps is not a straight line. They will always fly to a place and stay for a while. Then it will take off again.
This is not a waste of time. Wild magic plants are growing wherever the locust-headed wasps stay. If they had not led the way, no one might have found traces of these magic plants in a hundred years.
Leiwen also made a fortune easily. Following the Locust-Headed Wasp, he obtained the seeds of two first-order magic plants and one second-order magic plant. In addition, he also stopped at several oases. , added some supplies.
On this day, Raven was chasing the Locust-Headed Bee, and as soon as he passed a hill, he felt something was wrong.
The sound of horse hooves sounded like thunder!
Not far away, a group of horse thieves came roaring in groups, like a colony of ants gathered together, causing the locust-headed wasps to fly around in fright.
In the center of this group of horse thieves, several horse thieves suddenly ignited fighting spirit, and they drew their long bows and pointed them at Raven!
Lei Wen's heart tightened, and he pulled the reins suddenly, and Xiao Bai suddenly rose up!
But...it's too late!
Purple, green, and red, the three colors of fighting spirit wrapped in three sharp arrows pierced the sky, rising like fireworks.
Leiwen pulled out the staff, tapped his finger, and uttered a syllable in his mouth. The light on the dragon locust wood staff flashed, and a storm crocheted wind curtain wrapped around Xiaobai!
This is the second-level magic that Raven had stored in the staff in advance, the storm shield!
Xiao Bai flapped his wings and dodged the arrows wrapped in purple and red fighting spirit. The green fighting spirit arrows flew towards him, but were suddenly blown away by the cyan wind curtain woven by the storm!
As long as it rises another hundred meters, it will be completely out of the range of these horse thieves!
However, at this moment, the group of horse thieves split apart, and a ballista appeared in Raven's field of vision!
Almost instantly, the crossbow car adjusted its angle and locked onto Xiao Bai. A horse thief grinned and knocked down the crossbow car's machine expansion!
The giant crossbow as thick as a human arm broke through the atmosphere, tore apart the protection, and suddenly nailed into Xiao Bai's chest!
The next moment, the sound of breaking through the air came.
Blood was splashed, feathers were broken, and Xiao Bai's figure fell from the sky.
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(End of this chapter)