Chen Suwen strolled around the market and exchanged quite a few things.
Later, Huang Xiaomei traded the roots of the water fern she had dug up for brown sugar, and she also gave her a few small fruit tree seedlings as a gift.
"Auntie, this mango sapling is our own. It grew from the pits we use to eat mangoes, so you can rest assured about exchanging it."
"And these longan tree saplings, and lychee tree saplings too. They all grew from seeds we use for our own consumption. Can we trade them with you?"
Chen Suwen examined them and found that the saplings were indeed very small, with only a few leaves growing on them.
These saplings might not even bear fruit, but Chen Suwen still accepted them.
“I really like these saplings. Here, I’ll give you two ounces of brown sugar in exchange.” Chen Suwen handed the brown sugar to Huang Xiaomei.
Of course, she also gave them two extra candies, because in addition to lychee, longan, and mango, these saplings also included guava and star fruit saplings.
Chen Suwen accepted all comers; her family had a large courtyard where they could plant all the trees.
She didn't actually intend to grow these saplings into trees that are several meters tall; their yard couldn't accommodate such large trees.
But if she dwarfs these saplings, making them grow to a maximum of about 1.5 meters, they could easily fit in her yard.
"Thank you, Auntie, you're so kind." After receiving the candy, Huang Xiaomei was very sweet-talking, saying all sorts of nice things to praise Chen Suwen.
Once Chen Suwen had gotten what she wanted, she stopped browsing. Before Huang Xiaomei returned, she had already exchanged all the eggs, live chickens, and live ducks, so there wasn't much left to exchange.
On the way back, Ye Yulian looked at her with a puzzled expression, "What do you need so many saplings for?"
"These saplings may not even grow up, and even if they do, they probably won't bear fruit."
Moreover, since it's not a place specifically for fruit cultivation, the varieties of lychee and longan aren't very good; they're characterized by large pits and thin flesh.
Mangoes are similar; mangoes that are about the size of duck or goose eggs have pits almost the size of chicken eggs.
Even if you grow such a fruit with such a large pit and thin flesh, what good will it do?
It doesn't taste good either.
"What if the planted fruit yields very few fruits, and they are very sour with thin flesh? Wouldn't that be a waste of land and fertilizer?"
It's quite a waste of time.
After all, fruit trees need several years to grow before they can bear fruit, and these saplings look only a few months old, not even half a year old.
When will we be able to wait until they grow to a size where we can eat the fruit?
"Since I'm just idling around anyway, I'll see if I can raise it for a while, and then I can try to graft a variety with a small pit and thick flesh."
Even without good varieties to graft, her wood-based superpower can fundamentally genetically modify these fruit tree seedlings, making the fruits they grow sweet and with thick flesh.
Ye Yulian looked at her with a complicated expression. What do you mean by "idle"?
Do you really think housewives have a lot of free time?
You have to worry about the whole family's food and drink, and manage the family's expenses. If there is spare land at home, you can grow vegetables. If there is no spare land, you can bring back flower pots to grow vegetables.
Because they live in the city, unlike those in the countryside who have their own plots of land to grow vegetables, they usually need to buy vegetables to eat.
To save money, even if there are no suitable conditions for growing vegetables at home, people will still bring back a few flower pots and plant some scallions, ginger, and peppers, as well as some water spinach, sweet potato leaves, and the like.
"Buying groceries is always a hassle. It would be great if there were vegetable varieties that don't have to be picky about where they grow."
“My yard isn’t as big as yours, and there’s not much space to grow vegetables.”
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"I was thinking, if only I could put a few flower pots on the wall of my house and grow some vegetables."
"Why don't vegetables like bok choy and cabbage grow freely like winter melon and bitter melon, climbing up walls?"
Ye Yulian kept talking to Chen Suwen about vegetables. Even in the countryside, they didn't grow many vegetables on their private plots. Sometimes when there were no vegetables to eat, they would eat wild vegetables.
It would be great if there were vegetables with exceptionally high yields that didn't require much land selection.
Potatoes and cabbages are produced in large quantities, but there are conditions for achieving high yields.
If only there were vegetables, especially leafy greens, that could grow back after being cut like chives.
As Chen Suwen listened to Ye Yulian's complaints, she gradually formed an idea.
Open source and reduce expenditure, open source and reduce expenditure...
They certainly don't have any way to cut back on expenses, so she definitely wouldn't lower her own quality of life.
As for lowering the quality of life for his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren, there's nothing that can be lowered.
Therefore, the only option is to open source it.
So, should she research the vegetable seeds?
Her wood-based superpowers can accomplish a lot.
In the apocalypse, wood-type ability users have many career paths, such as planters, who specialize in studying various plants, whether they are naturally mutated plants or plants that they, as wood-type ability users, have manipulated and mutated.
It's actually not that difficult to simply change the genes of a plant to make it evolve.
In particular, Chen Suwen's wood-type ability is level 8, second only to the max-level healing ability, so changing the genes of plants to make them evolve is not a difficult task for her.
"If there are vegetables that grow quickly, you can eat a batch every five days, and then you won't dare to eat them."
Suspecting there might be something strange about the dish, I dared not eat it.
The flowers that Ye Yulian complained about were simply a case of loving dragons but being terrified of them.
Many people say that chickens have multiple claws and wings, and they would never dare to eat a chicken if it actually had three heads and six arms.
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