She quickly and secretly opened her notebook, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the more than 700 luck points on it.
Fortunately, the hundreds of villagers he sought help from in the cave had given him a lot of luck points. He wondered if the message Wen Yuanbai had mentioned spreading on the Liaozhou border had any effect...
As if sensing her intention, the notebook immediately flashed a line of text: "No!"
Xiao You Ran: ……
She hasn't even said anything yet, okay?
The little notebook flashed again, "This little one needs 1000 points to level up!"
Xiao Youran rolled her eyes and closed the notebook.
What if this stupid notebook gets upgraded and fixes the bug where a ton of food only consumes 1 point of luck?
Forget it, let's just keep it at the 250 level for now.
Wen Yuanbai found it amusing to see his junior sister's expression shifting between joy and helplessness. "What are you thinking about?"
Xiao Youran snapped out of her daze and shook her head, saying, "It's nothing, I just feel like I can do a lot of things with this money!"
He reached out and gently pinched his junior sister's nose. "You little money-grubber, the Su family is the richest family in Dingzhou. When have they ever been short of your money?"
“It’s never been short, but who would complain about having too much money?” She chuckled. “We’ve seen so many refugees along the way. Senior brother, what do you think of our work-for-relief approach? I’d like to find another piece of land to build houses and workshops!”
Wen Yuanbai had been back for a month, so he naturally knew that the comprehensive commercial market they were building with the Jingzhao Prefecture was currently preparing for its structural completion.
Regardless of what happens in the future, in just the past three or four months, they have solved the food and clothing problems of nearly three thousand refugees through work-for-relief programs. Moreover, according to Ye An, the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, more than a dozen counties under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Prefecture have also resettled nearly 20,000 refugees using the same work-for-relief method.
As the year draws to a close and the coldest time of year approaches, some migrants are eager to return home to prepare for spring planting, but they are struggling with a lack of travel expenses and food.
Moreover, even by next spring, the lack of spring planting will be a problem. With famine and war raging, many government offices in Liaozhou and Taizhou, like Wufeng County, have run out of grain reserves. The two hundred cartloads of grain seeds he just asked Xiao Youran for from each of the two prefectures were precisely to solve the spring planting problem.
If we could take this opportunity to provide work relief... and distribute potatoes as wages to the refugees, we could solve their food problem on the road and also provide seeds for next year's spring planting.
The drought in the south is not as severe as in the north, so potatoes can be promoted in the south!
He nodded slowly. "You want to build a workshop? I have a piece of land in the suburbs of Beijing that is currently unused."
Xiao Youran chuckled, "That's great! Senior brother will provide the land, and I'll provide the money and the design plan. We'll split the profits fifty-fifty!"
"Potatoes, can you give me a hundred cartloads as wages?" he asked.
Xiao You Ran: ……
Do you really think I'm an inexhaustible granary?!
However... using potatoes instead of wages is also a good idea.
She blinked. "Senior brother, are you thinking about spring planting?"
Wen Yuanbai nodded, "Those two hundred cartloads of grain seeds are only enough for the border region."
Xiao Youran's eyes lit up, "If Senior Brother can get me some gratitude points, even better grain seeds won't be a problem!"
Wen Yuanbai's eyes also lit up. "A better grain variety? How so?"
The food provided by my junior sister is already of very high quality. If it were any better... could it be the kind with extremely high yield?
Xiao Youran couldn't just stand there in a daze in front of him any longer, so she just smiled and said, "I need to go back and do some research. Maybe there are some grain seeds that can yield a thousand catties per mu."
A yield of a thousand catties per mu? Wen Yuanbai gasped. At present, a yield of two or three hundred catties per mu is already considered very good.
He immediately decided to stay at the Xuanwang Mansion for a few more days, waiting for Xiaoyouran's good news.
After Xiao Youran returned, she immediately took out her notebook and asked, "Do you have any high-yield grain seeds?"
The notebook slowly revealed a line of text: "There is a super-grade rice that has been improved in the post-apocalyptic era, with a yield of 2,500 catties per mu."
Sure enough!
Xiao You Ran chuckled and asked, "Do you need special fertilizer?"
"yes."
"What if there isn't one?"
"Yield reduced by half."
Half that is 1250 jin!
Xiao Youran suddenly felt that this little notebook and the number 250 were really destined to be together!
Goose, goose, goose...
Xiao You Ran laughed out loud, making a goose-like sound.
She tried to exchange 1 point for 1 ton of super grain seeds.
It was successful and stored in the space.
She chuckled and said, "Sweetie, I'll use this to earn lots of gratitude points for you!"
The next day, she rushed to the Xuanwang Mansion. This time, the gatekeeper was much calmer, as his master was waiting inside.
Upon hearing Nan Zhuo's report, Wen Yuanbai quickly put aside the memorial he was holding. Then he saw Xiao Youran toddle in with her short legs, slam a handful of grains on the table with a thud, and put her hands on her hips. "Grain seeds that yield a thousand catties per mu! One hundred gold coins per cart!"
Wen Yuanbai was somewhat excited, "Can it really yield a thousand catties per mu?"
"No charge if it's less than a thousand catties!" Xiao Youran said generously. She had just specially changed to a small scale from the apocalypse and compared it with the scale Su Yue had found for this place. Right now, one catty is sixteen liang, which is about 590 grams. One thousand two hundred and fifty catties is a little over a thousand catties.
"Can it be grown in the north?"
“Uh…” Xiao Youran frowned, she had forgotten about this question… but it doesn’t matter, “If it is a cold climate region, I will give away fertilizer for free.”
Don't even talk about doubling the output, a slight increase of 30% to 50% would be great!
"Fertilizer?" Wen Yuanbai asked in confusion.
She beckoned him closer with her finger, "Senior Brother Da Bai, could you please ask the farmers who grow the grain to remember that Xiao Youran found these seeds? When the harvest is plentiful, will they remember to thank me?"
...
So Xiaoyou Ran got busy again. After the trade market was topped out, the interior decoration would begin, and a new project started here.
Her idea was to build a food processing plant, starting with instant noodles, and then various kinds of rice noodles. Once the potatoes and sweet potatoes were grown, they could be used to make rice noodles, and rice vermicelli as well.
Tsk tsk, if only there were glass noodles stewed with beef...
Then there's the wide rice noodles cooked to a fragrant and tender consistency in the sauerkraut fish hot pot broth...
With that in mind, she started preparing the hot pot.
Of course, he prepared a bunch of medicinal herbs and spices, then called on Su Yue to prepare a pot, and demonstrated how to eat hot pot.
It's winter now, which is the perfect season for hot pot.
When Zhao's mother saw it, she was excited again!
The young master is truly quick-witted; all these dishes have unique recipes.
Soon, You Ran Restaurant once again became incredibly popular.
First, a separate tea room and takeaway window was set up on the first floor of the restaurant, specializing in desserts and afternoon tea, which immediately attracted the attention and delight of many women.
Then, half a month later, the restaurant suddenly changed the square table into a round table with a hole in the middle, and launched a new dish that no one had ever seen before - hot pot.
In the dead of winter, steaming hot pot quickly became a sensation throughout Kyoto.
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