Chapter 264 I'm not interested in making money
The ointment worked very well; after applying it, Qingfeng's wounds healed completely, and his skin was no longer red and swollen.
Qingfeng went off to conduct his research feeling refreshed.
Out of curiosity, Meng Qingyin followed to investigate.
Qingfeng brought a lot of experimental equipment, none of which she could name, and they all looked very expensive.
After looking at it for a while, Meng Qingyin gave up, because she really couldn't understand it.
...
In the middle of the night, Meng Qingyin was woken up in a daze.
"Master, Master!"
"I've figured it out! The juice of the mutated dragon's beard grass can inhibit the activity of black-winged beetles!"
Qingfeng's excited voice came from outside the door.
Meng Qingyin immediately woke up, her drowsiness vanishing instantly.
She jumped out of bed and opened the car door, meeting Qingfeng's excited eyes.
"Can its sap inhibit the activity of black-winged beetles?" Meng Qingyin murmured.
Qingfeng nodded emphatically, "Yes! Mixing the juice with water creates a mixture with low concentrations that can inhibit the activity of black-winged beetles, while higher concentrations can kill them directly! Moreover, it can also weaken the reproductive ability of black-winged beetles! This is a natural insecticide!"
After saying that, Qingfeng shook the spray in his hand and pretended to roll down the car window. "Master, shall I demonstrate for you?"
Meng Qingyin nodded, "Okay."
If the juice of the mutated dragon's beard grass really has such miraculous effects, it would indeed be the best insecticide.
As Qingfeng moved, the moment the car window opened, the black-winged beetle flew into the car.
Qingfeng reacted quickly, closing the car window with one hand to prevent more black-winged beetles from entering, while spraying the beetles inside the car with the other hand.
The effect was immediate; the black-winged beetles, upon contact with the spray, were as if they had been drugged with a powerful sleeping potion, falling to the ground with a series of crackling sounds, completely dead.
Meng Qingyin never expected that the juice of the mutated dragon's beard grass would be so magical, with effects immediately after spraying.
This is so effective!
As for the claim of slowing down their reproductive capacity, they would be wiped out as soon as they flew in, so they probably wouldn't have time to reproduce.
Qingfeng squatted down, gesturing for Meng Qingyin to look at the ground.
Confused, Meng Qingyin squatted down as well. "What happened to the ground?"
Qingfeng pointed to a spot on the ground: "Master, take a closer look, there are insect eggs on the ground."
Meng Qingyin was shocked. In such a short time, the black-winged beetle had actually laid eggs?
She stared at the ground Qingfeng was pointing to, but after a long while she couldn't see anything unusual.
"Use this to look." Qingfeng handed her an instrument that resembled a telescope.
Meng Qingyin took it and examined it; the entire field of vision was filled with densely packed white insect eggs, in extremely large numbers.
She immediately moved the instrument away, "The reproductive capacity of these black-winged beetles is indeed abnormal."
Qingfeng: "Under normal circumstances, these insect eggs will hatch into new black-winged beetles within half an hour. But..."
She chuckled and sprayed the insect eggs, saying, "They won't have a chance to grow."
Meng Qingyin: "Can the juice of the mutated dragon's beard grass also kill insect eggs?"
Qingfeng: "Yes, once the mixture of juices reaches a certain concentration, it can eliminate both black-winged beetles and their eggs in one fell swoop."
Meng Qingyin beamed, "Qingfeng, this time I'll help you make a fortune."
Qingfeng waved his hand, "I'm not interested in making money."
Meng Qingyin: "..."
For some reason, I thought of a businessman.
Fearing she wouldn't believe him, Qingfeng added, "The reason I studied the mutated dragon's beard grass wasn't to make money, but because I enjoy studying various mutated plants. Master, you provided me with research materials, and I'm giving you the results of my research. What you do with those results is none of my business."
Meng Qingyin felt bad, but she also knew that Qingfeng wasn't just being polite.
She said she wasn't interested in making money—which was infuriating, but Qingfeng definitely thought so too.
“In that case, I won’t force you,” Meng Qingyin said. “I will try my best to grow more mutated plants for your research.”
Qingfeng smiled, "Okay!"
Although that's what they said, both of them knew that plant mutations were completely random and uncertain, and wouldn't change because of Meng Qingyin's words.
"Oh no, if I had known that the mutated dragon's beard grass was so useful, I should have used the seed collector to collect its seeds first," Meng Qingyin said regretfully.
Qingfeng: "Don't we still have gold ingots?"
Meng Qingyin remembered it too, and immediately picked up Yuanbao and sent it to help pick the mature mutated dragon beard grass.
Yuanbao stood in the ceramic basin, looking somewhat bewildered. "Squeak?"
Wasn't it eating a peach just now?
Where did the peaches go?
Meng Qingyin urged, "Yuanbao? Are you awake yet?"
Yuanbao rubbed his eyes, still half asleep, before finally waking up.
Without peaches, it has to help its owner with chores.
"Squeak!" it said to Meng Qingyin.
Meng Qingyin stared at it, "What did you say? I don't understand."
Zaizai translated: "Yuanbao said he wanted to eat peaches after finishing his work."
Meng Qingyin agreed, "No problem, I'll get you some peaches in a bit."
The peaches were picked from the Peach Blossom Paradise map and are all stored in my spatial ring. There are still quite a few left, but only Yuanbao likes to eat them.
Having received Meng Qingyin's promise, Yuanbao recalled the dragon's beard grass he had seen and stretched out his hands to pluck it.
Fortunately, the terracotta pot shrinks the size of the plant; otherwise, it would have taken Yuanbao quite a while to uproot a normal-sized dragon's beard grass.
The dragon's beard grass wasn't very big at the moment, and Yuanbao could easily pull it up.
The moment it was pulled out, the ordinary dragon's beard grass changed instantly. It grew larger, and the snail-shell-like tendrils became even more plump and greener.
This is a mutated dragon's beard grass!
Meng Qingyin reached out and picked up the mutated dragon's beard grass, while Yuanbao plucked another one.
There are about twenty plants in this small ceramic pot, and four other planting pots also contain dragon's beard grass.
Yuanbao remained silent, focusing solely on pulling weeds.
Meng Qingyin remained silent, focusing solely on picking up grass.
Qingfeng remained silent, watching the man and the monkey with a maternal smile.
After working for more than ten minutes, all the mature dragon's beard grasses turned into mutated dragon's beard grasses and lay quietly on the ground.
Meng Qingyin remembered to use the seed collector in advance this time. She glanced at the time and it was only a little past four in the morning.
Sending a message to Lear now would be too much of a disturbance to his peaceful sleep.
But what if the message is sent too late, and Lear has already rented out the seed collector?
Meng Qingyin's rationality was torn between speaking out and not speaking out.
In the end, she set an alarm for 5 a.m., planning to send it at 5 a.m.
Five o'clock, isn't that a bit too early?
Having made her decision, Meng Qingyin stopped worrying about it. She first washed the peaches for Yuanbao, and then browsed the chat area to pass the time.
Unexpectedly, someone else had already done it before her.
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