Chapter 61

Therefore, the prices of nutritious ingredients remain high.

There are reasons why nutritious ingredients are difficult to grow. Luo Bi didn't know the reasons but guessed they might be related to the soil or the climate. She couldn't change the climate, but she could try to change the soil. No one was managing her, so she could do whatever she wanted.

Luo Bi didn't plan to cultivate the seeds conventionally. Whether it worked or not, the seeds didn't cost any interstellar coins, and she was just growing them for fun, so she could plant them however she wanted.

Each time the furnace residue ash was produced, she didn't throw it away but collected it. Now, Luo Bi found it in a corner. She hadn't bought any planting pots, and there was nothing suitable for seed cultivation at home. She looked around but couldn't find anything.

The rain gradually became heavier. Luo Bi poked her head out to look at the planting field in the rain and decided to give up. After some careful thought, she ran along the eaves to the warehouse and found a small cardboard box. Following the vine trellis to the planting field, she scooped some soil into the box with her hands since she didn't have a shovel.

Back in the glass hall, Luo Bi slowly poured the furnace residue ash into the box and mixed it with her hands. Suddenly, she felt something the size of a cherry. Luo Bi was a bit puzzled—there were no stones in the furnace residue ash. When she took it out, it was covered in gray soil, and she couldn't tell what it was.

She wiped it with her dirty hands, and it turned out to be a bright red. Was it a red jade stone?

To see more clearly, Luo Bi went to the sink and washed it clean, then held it up to examine it closely. The color looked like red jade stone, but she felt it wasn't. Where did this thing come from? Luo Bi thought for a long time. Since it came from the furnace residue ash, it must be related to her alchemy, even though it was quite strange. That was all she could think of.

Anyway, it looked pretty, so she kept it.

When Luo Bi continued to mix the soil, she was more careful and found another one just like it.

The soil was wet, and the furnace residue ash was dry. After mixing them evenly, Luo Bi found the moisture was just right. She carefully planted the red fruit seeds one by one and moved the box to a corner of the glass hall where the rain couldn't reach.

With nothing else to do, Luo Bi washed her hands, took a chair, and sat at the entrance of the glass hall to watch the rain. Although she wanted to go home, she didn't plan to leave early. She knew from her previous life that she had an impatient personality, which was a flaw that needed to be fixed.

At nine o'clock, Guan Zhuting called: "Your father and your eldest brother are coming home today. They should arrive around noon. Do you have time to come back?"

Luo Bi was watching the rain and feeling annoyed. She walked back and forth at the entrance of the glass hall while talking on the phone: "I know they're coming back. I called my father last night, but the rain is getting heavier, and Feng Ling isn't at home. How can I go back?"

"Don't worry." Guan Zhuting thought for a moment and said, "I'll contact your father first to see when they will arrive. Then I'll have your father borrow a hover car to pick you up."

"Okay!" Luo Bi felt reassured: "Mom, what are you making for lunch?"

"Your father and your eldest brother will bring back exotic beast meat. I didn't buy any, but I bought two phoenix-tailed fish, which are rich in nutrients." Guan Zhuting was happy with her daughter's coquettishness and knew that Luo Bi loved fish, so she said, "I plan to braise one and steam the other for lunch."

Luo Bi couldn't wait: "Have Father come to pick me up early."

Guan Zhuting laughed: "I know."

Luo Bi, thinking about going home, hoped the rain would stop soon. However, the rain eventually turned into a heavy downpour, and the wind kept driving the rain into the glass hall.