Chapter 51 Fruit Essence

Except for the mushrooms that were saved for dinner that night, Josh sold the rest in one go.

Make this simple butter baked mushrooms tonight.

Separate the mushroom cap and stalk. Josh will only eat the tender cap mushroom tonight, and keep the remaining mushroom stalks to dry, and then make fragrant fried mushroom feet.

Take out a large spoonful of butter and put it in a small pot to melt it. Wash the mushroom caps and place them facing up. Fry them slowly over low heat to bring out the juice and aroma. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper on them and they are ready to eat.

Not all mushrooms are the same variety. Some mushrooms have very little juice, so Josh puts them face down to soak them in the butter, which makes them taste different.

There are many valuable high-attribute mushrooms among them. Unfortunately, although Josh is an energy user, his energy is rarely used in daily life and there is almost no loss. After eating these good things, he can only taste them, but cannot feel the satisfaction of having his empty body filled with energy.

Just fill your hungry stomach.

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A day later, Qiao Xi regretted the big talk he had said yesterday. What did he mean by having endless energy? It was used up too quickly.

When Josh got up in the morning and inspected the farm as usual, he found that the crisp honey lime trees seemed to be showing signs of dying.

This gave her a big shock. Why did she suddenly become unwell for no reason?

As Qiao Xi studied it up and down, he found that the originally green leaves of the Crisp Honey Lemon had turned yellow. Hidden on the treetop was a green branch with a small fruit that was as green as jade and crystal clear on it.

Josh's heart was pounding, could it be?

She had some guesses in her mind, but she didn't dare to confirm.

"Kong Yanshu, can you help me pick that fruit?" Qiao Xi called Kong Yanshu and asked, pointing at the fruit.

"Squeak!" Of course.

The empty rock rat looked like it was a piece of cake.

He climbed up the crisp honey lemon tree in no time and crawled towards the treetop step by step.

As the empty rock rat exclaimed, Josh's expectations became stronger.

Ever since he discovered the difference between it and other giant lemons, Qiao Xi would give the Crisp Honey Lemon special treatment from time to time. For every fertilization other trees receive, he would fertilize twice; for every watering other trees receive, he would water it twice.

In short, every time Qiao Xi came to the orchard, he would listen carefully to what they needed, and then double the amount of Crisp Honey Lemon.

Did it work so quickly? Josh stared at the small figure closely.

I saw it stretching out its claws and trying hard to pick it up, but it failed and rolled backwards instead. Fortunately, its tail hooked onto the branch.

Qiao Xi's heart was in his throat. He took a step forward and wanted to catch the little squirrel, but fortunately it rolled over and turned back.

"Squeak!" Qiao Xi said pitifully, "I can't take it off. It's so strong."

"I saw it. Wait for me to try." Qiao Xi began to try to use his abilities to output for the first time.

If it can't be picked, it means it's not ripe, but it's obvious that the Crisp Honey Lemon has used up all its strength to nourish this fruit and has no more energy to supply it.

This is also the reason why the essence of the fruit rarely appears. The energy required is too great, and ordinary magic fruit trees do not have enough attribute fertilizer supply, so the fruit easily becomes useless.

This crisp honey lemon mutated by chance, and with the fertilization of the big-tailed yak dung that Josh brought from time to time, it had the luck to produce a fruit essence, but its own attribute energy was not enough, and even if it squeezed itself dry, it still could not provide enough energy for the fruit essence.

If Josh hadn't come and seen it today, the tree and the fruit would have been destroyed later.

After just one night of absence, the tree had already produced its fruit essence. Josh patted the trunk, thinking it was really capable.

Then it slowly released energy into the crisp honey lemon tree, and the energy was absorbed instantly like a mud dragon entering the sea.

Qiao Xi gathered all his energy and exerted his full strength.

Hu~Hu~Josh’s breathing was getting heavier and heavier. All the energy in his body was almost drained. He had to hold on a little longer. Hold on a little longer!

Finally, Qiao Xi saw that the crystal clear little fruit suddenly swelled up, and the fruit stem shriveled up, and it was ripe!

If the rock rat moved on the treetop, it would fall down, and Josh was so scared that his heart almost stopped beating.

Don't!

Fortunately, the big tail of the empty rock mouse hooked the branch again, and it successfully embraced the essence of the crisp honey lemon fruit.

Josh dragged his heavy body to take the empty rock mouse down from the tree and sat down under the tree.

The man and the mouse looked at each other, as if the fruit had fallen from the sky, and they didn't know what to do with it.

"Kong Kong, is this the legendary essence of the fruit? Why is it different from your iron walnut?" Qiao Xi took the fruit and observed it carefully in the sunlight. What a beautiful fruit.

"Squeak!" The essence of each fruit is different. Before I left the tribe, I heard that the essence of each fruit is unique and is a gift from nature to the lucky ones.

"Oh, I see." Josh sighed.

But a new problem arises: how to deal with this fruit essence? The fruit essence contains almost all the attribute energy of the magic fruit tree, and the energy is extremely abundant.

Keep it for yourself? How to eat it? Eat it directly or do you need to refine it? Who can eat it to maximize the energy?

Take it out to sell? How to sell it? Set up a stall to sell it? Qiao Xi is not a strong expeditionary corps. If he rashly takes such precious things out to sell, he will definitely be noticed, and then the peace of the farm will inevitably be broken.

All of a sudden, all kinds of thoughts popped up in Josh's mind. He suddenly had a priceless treasure and he really didn't know what to do with it.

Moreover, the Crisp Honey Lemon is a new magic fruit tree that has never appeared on the market, which means that people are not yet clear about its efficacy and may not even trust Josh.

The fruit came too early, and Josh was still a country bumpkin and didn't even know what to do with it.

Kongyanshu didn't care and told Qiao Xi that if she was too upset, she could just eat it. Anyway, her ability could help the magic fruit tree improve its quality, and there would be more opportunities in the future, so she shouldn't worry about it.

Having said that, Qiao Xi was afraid of damaging such a precious thing in his hands, so he didn't dare to eat it.

He carefully held it up and found the big-tailed yak, "Big-tailed yak, look, what is this? Our orchard has produced the essence of fruit!" Although he was conflicted, he must share such a happy thing with the big-tailed yak first.

It was a pity that the Brown-headed Vulture went to sleep again and did not come out, otherwise Josh would have had a good talk with it for not noticing the changes in the orchard.

I almost missed such a great treasure.

Originally, Qiao Xi had planned to prepare for land reclamation after inspecting the orchard, but now that the fruits have come out, how could he have the mood to do that?

Holding the fruit in his hands, he happily talked to the jumping lambs, the burrowing pigs, the burrowing rats, and even did not let go of the busy dung beetles.

This was a big happy event for the whole farm. Josh held the fruit and smiled foolishly for a long time.

(End of this chapter)