Chapter 72 The Frozen Rose - 14
That night when he came back from the black market, Luo Yan decided to make a taro pie as a supper.
The taro is steamed and chopped, then boiled with milk, honey, and butter to make a paste, put in the prepared pie crust and bake in the oven. This is a simple taro pie.
After the seeds I bought today are all planted, after a while, I can make apple pie, banana pie, yellow peach pie...
Which one will Li Ran like to eat the most?
In fact, after observing during this period of time, Li Ran quite likes to eat sweets.
Maybe because sweets are so scarce here, he never offers them.
But every time Luo Yan made desserts and sent them over for supper, Li Ran would eat them very carefully, and every time he would show a little unfinished look.
Seeing Li Ran wearing serious black clothes, solemn goggles, and showing a little bit of tongue licking the cake crumbs at the corner of his mouth, Luo Yan would feel weak in his heart, and then redoubled his desire to make delicious desserts for him. he.
It's just that in the desserts now, honey is used instead of real sugar. Although it is fragrant, it lacks the purest sweetness.
However, to Luo Yan's surprise, among the seeds bought at a high price today, there was another "sugar cane seed".
Luo Yan reckoned that if he could grow some sugar cane, he should be able to refine sucrose, so that he could make desserts with a more pure taste.
Ding!
The taro pie is out.
Luo Yan put the sliced taro pie on a tray, and brought it to Li Ran's study together with the milk squeezed out by the milk worm.
As usual, Li Ran ate most of the taro pie with great care.
There is still a small half, which he insisted on giving to Luo Yan.
After eating, Luo Yan didn't stand up immediately like before, but took out a small object from his vest pocket and put it on the coffee table.
"Sir, this." Luo Yan was a little nervous: "If you don't mind..." "
I want to give it to you."
On the coffee table was the kitten statue that Luo Yan bought from the black market today.
"Send me?" Li Ran's voice was full of surprise.
"En." Luo Yan nodded heavily.
I don't know why, looking at this pure black kitten and its slightly tilted head staring at people, Luo Yan always feels... something similar to Li Ran.
Is it because they are dark enough?
Of course, Li Ran's skin was not dark at all. He stretched out his fingers, pinched the kitten, and gently placed it
on his palm: "This is... a kitten?"
I know you."
Li Ran flipped the kitten statue with his fingers:
"I read about it in books when I was a child."
"But I have never seen a real cat..."
"However, I have seen a few large cats in the hilly area. Cats."
"It's so vicious, it almost bit off Zhou Wu's arm." "
Their teeth and bones are quite useful, and they can be very good farming tools with a little modification."
Luo Yan: "..."
Luo Yan wants to say that a kitten that is close to people is very cute, even if it bites you with its teeth occasionally, it just wants you to play with it.
However, Luo Yan couldn't say it out.
Otherwise he couldn't explain where he saw the kitten.
It can't be a dream.
Thinking of this, Luo Yan could only twitch the corners of his mouth in embarrassment.
Seeing Luo Yan's expression, Li Ran hurriedly said: "Well, but this one is small and cute."
"It's really...for me?"
Seeing that Li Ran didn't dislike the kitten statue, Luo Yan breathed a sigh of relief, eyes His eyes were bent: "Of course."
"This is a little thank you for my husband as an E-level."
Li Ran held the kitten in his palm and said with emotion: "Thank you, Housekeeper Luo."
"Actually... I I didn't take special care of the E-class either. Our resources don't allow me to do charity." "
I just try to give everyone a chance." "
Although most E-classes may have difficulty mastering any professional skills, after training , will also be a useful labor force."
"I have no reason to reject E-class."
Luo Yan looked at him without blinking.
When Li Ran said these words, Luo Yan felt the feeling when he saw this person moving freely in the air, or seeing him turn the entire space into an ice cave in an instant.
Just, handsome, the kind that makes your heart beat faster.
"Ah, too much talk." Li Ran smiled apologetically.
"By the way, I didn't even prepare any decent presents for you." "
I said before that I would give you a reward——"
"Huh?" Luo Yan raised his eyebrows: "I thought I had already agreed on what the reward would be." Already."
"Are you done?" Li Ran was a little surprised again.
"Didn't you agree, sir, would you let me see your face under your goggles?" Luo Yan asked naturally: "By the way, I remember you said, we will discuss the time after we come back, and when will it be? What about it?"
"..." Li Ran, who had always been calm and composed, got stuck.
The tips of his ears were actually slightly red.
"Oh, that." Li Ran coughed lightly, then pursed her lips again: "Well, don't worry." "
Anyway, I'll definitely let you see it, and... it won't take a day or two."
Luo Yan curled his lips, his dissatisfaction was clearly revealed.
"Sir," he hummed, "You are really stingy."
Luo Yan had a faint feeling in his heart that Li Ran, who took off his goggles, would overlap with a certain shadow in his heart.
As for where this shadow came from, Luo Yan himself couldn't tell.
Li Ran's face was a little hot now: "Well, it's not my fault of being stingy..." "
Take off the goggles, control the ability to not go berserk, I need to do...some preparations in advance."
Luo Yan's eyes Lighted up again: "Then let's set a time!"
"It's like going to the experimental field to have a time, this 'reward', shall we also set a time?"
Li Ran had a helpless smile on his face: "If, If you're really in such a hurry..."
"Hurry up!" Luo Yan nodded vigorously: "I'm really curious." "
Then..." Li Ran pondered for a few seconds, then said, "After watching the experimental field, what's next?"
"Okay!" Luo Yan was so excited that he almost laughed out loud.
He even stretched out his little finger: "Come here, hook one."
Li Ran stretched out his little finger helplessly, and hooked him.
Luo Yan stood up contentedly, and began to pack the cups and plates.
When it was time to leave, Li Ran also stood up and opened the door for Luo Yan who was carrying the plate.
It stands to reason that no master would open the door for a servant.
But after these two months of getting along, the line between master and servant has long been blurred.
So Luo Yan didn't give in, and just said thank you generously.
"Luo Yan..." Looking at Luo Yan's back in the corridor, Li Ran held on to the door frame and couldn't help calling out again.
"Huh? Sir?" Luo Yan hurriedly turned around.
"...every time I see you looking so energetic, I will... be very happy." Li Ran said.
"Oh." Luo Yan smiled crookedly again: "Really? Then I will be very happy." "I'm
leaving."
"Good night, sir."
The corners of Li Ran's lips curled slightly: " Well, good night."
The next day, Luo Yan got up early again and started planting seeds in the flower beds.
This time he planted watermelons.
He has learned before that the summer in this area is very long, the spring and autumn are so short that it can be ignored, and the next is the unbearable winter.
Among the fruit seeds bought this time, watermelon grows the fastest.
Luo Yan calculated the time, planting watermelons at this time, and then using his skills to bless them, at least let everyone eat two stubbles of fresh melons.
If you want to plant others, firstly, the time is not guaranteed, and secondly, the space of the flower bed is still a bit cramped.
After burying the watermelon seeds in the ground, Luo Yan looked at the roots of the tree again:
the roots were still the same as before, the exposed part looked dark and unchanged.
……Huh?
On the dark tree roots, there seems to be a little green, thin thing growing?
Luo Yan squatted on the edge of the flower bed, bent over, his eyes almost fell to the roots of the tree:
Well, that's right.
Although it is very small and sparse, it does grow a little bit like moss.
what does that mean?
Luo Yan could also guess intuitively that this moss is definitely not ordinary.
It's a pity that [Little Island's Gift] has not been activated, and I don't know what effect the moss will have.
It stands to reason that anything grown in Luoyan grows very fast now.
For example, this watermelon, accompanied by Luo Yan humming songs and telling jokes to them every day, only five days after planting, it actually produced melons.
There is still only a little bit of moss, as if it hasn't grown at all.
After another five days, the fruited watermelon has become a big round one. However, this moss only grew sparsely and a little bit, Luo Yan was almost counting the number of tiny buds one by one.
Luo Yan could only persuade himself not to be in a hurry, not to be in a hurry, it was a key item, maybe there were other hidden conditions and the like.
He decides to shift his focus a little bit from the roots to the watermelon.
A total of 10 watermelons were planted in the flower bed, each one was very plump, with black patterns wrapped on the emerald green skin, and the sound was clear and crisp when knocked, indicating that it was already ripe.
Luo Yan picked a watermelon and cut it into teeth, and served it to everyone as fruit after dinner.
Among the people at the table, only Li Ran had eaten this, and the others were seeing it for the first time.
When Zhou Wu tried to take a bite of the red melon flesh, Luo Yan was not surprised to find that the young man shed two lines of tears.
"It's so delicious, it's too sweet. What grows in the ground is actually so sweet." Zhou Wu choked up, biting the melon.
Luo Yan had no choice but to persuade him to remember to spit out the watermelon seeds.
After harvesting watermelon once, Luo Yan decided to temporarily stop planting other vegetables, and use the watermelon seeds this time to replant the entire flower bed with watermelon.
Because everyone loves it so much.
Moreover, Luo Yan was still thinking about growing some melons, and Li Ran could send some to the barracks for everyone to share.
Luo Yan doesn't know how the residents of other districts think of the legion and the barracks, but at least he himself is very grateful to these people for maintaining order in such an apocalypse, and for allowing people in a district to live in safety, and even feel happy taste.
As more and more things are planted, it takes time to fertilize, fertilize, water, and catch insects. In addition, Li Ran doesn't agree with Luo Yan's continued exploration, so Luo Yan stays at home most of the time.
Considering that the current food materials are much richer than before, and the points for collecting raw materials have also increased a lot, Luo Yan is not in a hurry to explore outside the wall, but stays at home to farm, tidy up, Cooking, storage, and delivery.
Yes, take delivery.
In the black market, in addition to the face-to-face transactions that Luo Yan has seen, there is also a non-face-to-face large-value transaction that is only open to high-end customers.
The minimum amount of such a large-value transaction is 1 million Singapore dollars, and a part of the handling fee needs to be paid to the middleman who facilitates the transaction.
Recently, for some reason, Li Ran ordered a lot of things through this large transaction.
The first thing I received was a large roll of fabric sent by someone from the sixth district.
The sixth district, when it was partitioned, had a unique environment:
they had a lot of trees and a lot of farmland.
In their area, a large area is full of orchards, woodlands, wheat fields, rice fields...
When other areas have never even seen fruit, their residents can eat fresh apples almost every week.
Not only that, they also have surplus food to raise pigs and cattle.
Now more than half of the ham that Luoyan rations every week is made of pork exported from the sixth district.
And the fruit seeds circulating in the black market are basically secretly passed from the sixth district.
Of course, District Six isn't exactly paradise.
While planting and animal husbandry developed, their industry can be said to have declined in an all-round way.
There is not even a civilian car on their streets-
the only cars and oil are for the Legion.
Their hospitals and clinics can only provide ancient herbal medicines, and some massage and bloodletting treatments.
Monsters like S-level and A-level who hardly get sick are fine, but humans below B-level, if they are unfortunate enough to have appendicitis, they can basically only pray to the sky.
Even electricity is supplied for a limited time every day.
Residents of the sixth district have nothing to do after dark, so they can only indulge in making little people.
Of course, they are not without "industry" at all.
For example, the "textile industry", which relies entirely on manpower, is relatively developed in the sixth district.
Among all areas, only the sixth area has enough natural cotton, as well as unique "mulberry trees" and "silkworms", which can produce the most textured or most comfortable fabrics.
That morning, when Luo Yan heard the doorbell and went to open the door, what he saw was a carriage that had driven all the way from District 6, and the horses pulling the cart snorted at Luo Yan.
To be honest, Luo Yan really didn't expect to see a living Malaysia in the last days.
After helping the driver unload the thick roll of cloth, he couldn't help touching the long horse's face, and ran to the kitchen to get a piece of carrot for it.
In the evening, Luo Yan found Li Ran with the warehouse registration booklet, and told him that a lot of new fabrics had arrived, and they were all the most expensive ones.
It's really expensive, so expensive that when Luo Yan signed for Li Ran, his hand holding the seal trembled a little, and he almost thought he had lost a zero.
Li Ran glanced at the brochure and couldn't help laughing when he saw the fabric pattern neatly hand-painted by Luo Yangong.
He didn't say much, but asked Luo Yan to find a worker who could sew tomorrow, and change these fabrics into bed sheets and quilt covers.
Luo Yan responded, feeling a little strange: Sir, do you want to change the sheets? The sheets at home are pretty good.
Moreover, isn't it a pity that such an expensive fabric is only used to make bed sheets...
Luo Yan thought hopelessly.
But anyway, my husband is rich, and rich people are so willful.
But Luo Yan didn't expect that "workers who can sew" were quite difficult to find, and Luo Yan couldn't find it after searching for two days.
Afraid of delaying Li Ran's arrangement to change the sheets, Luo Yan simply asked Li Ran if he could sew the sheets himself if he didn't dislike his craftsmanship.
Well, Luo Yan actually doesn't know how to sew, but [Points Mall] happens to have such a [Happy Eight-legged Spider] skill card, which can easily turn Xiaobai into a sewing master.
Luo Yan originally thought that Li Ran would be worried that his craftsmanship was not up to standard and wasting the expensive fabric, but Li Ran actually said: "If Luo Yan has time... that would be better." Luo Yan didn't understand why it would be "better" to sew by
himself ".
Maybe it's because Li Ran trusts herself? Think you can do anything well?
Thinking of this, Luo Yan couldn't help but feel a little proud again, even the needle and thread in his hand became faster.
Two days later, Luo Yan received another courier from the car sent by the third district, which made his jaw drop.
The third area is also a very special area.
In this area, there are no farmlands, no mineral deposits, neither mountains nor seas.
However, this area has raised a large number of idlers whose ancestors were once rich.
These idlers have an almost morbid obsession with and maintenance of the "good old days".
They would rather live in a shack-like place than keep the "museum" before the cataclysm.
They would rather be huddled and shivering in the cold in winter, and would never burn books in the library or paintings in the art gallery to keep warm like people in other areas.
The reason why people in this area can still survive until now is because after other areas gradually stabilize, they will be taken advantage of and are willing to pay high prices to buy some antiques from them.
But Luo Yan never thought before that Li Ran, who has always been the most pragmatic, would one day become one of these bullies.
The people in the third district carefully moved a large wooden box out of their car.
Facing the sun, they opened the wooden box.
Seeing the glittering and bright reflection in the wooden box, Luo Yan put his arms around Xiaotong and shouted in his heart: "It's too bright, it's so bright that I'm going to be blind!" The
things in the wooden box are a whole set of crystal utensils and silverware. tableware.
When the delivery man handed Luo Yan a magnifying glass for Luo Yan to inspect the goods, Luo Yan looked at the luster on the crystal vessel and the exquisite decoration made of mother-of-pearl, his hands trembled a little, and he felt that he had become The staff of the museum are receiving what handed down treasures.
However, the strangest thing is more than that.
When Luo Yan picked up an extremely exquisite crystal box, he saw at a glance that there was also a beautifully packaged, smaller box inside this box.
This is……?
Luo Yan took out this smaller box.
After seeing the patterns and words on the box clearly, he even held his breath:
a lifelike rose was drawn on the box.
And under the rose, there is a line of small characters written, to the effect that this is a new product of a certain technology company, and the super long-term preservation of flower seeds allows you to easily grow flowers for your loved ones.
[Ding dong! ]
['Island's Gift' works! ]
['Lost Rose Seed' detected! 】
So, so, really, it's rose seeds!
Luo Yan's hands began to shake.
This... Maybe many years ago, a man with money and leisure wanted to grow some flowers for his lover, so he put this small box inside.
As a result, things change.
People are long gone, only these seeds survived by accident.
Looking at this incomparably precious seed, Luo Yan's heart beat so violently that Li Ran, who was in the barracks, sensed something was wrong and called him directly with his bracelet.
Luo Yan took a few breaths, suppressing his excitement and excitement:
"Sir! Roses, roses—that kind of lost flowers, I, I met their seeds!"
Li Ran was quite calm, and only let Luo Yan Put things away.
After cutting off the call, Luo Yan's hands were still trembling.
It wasn't until he signed for Li Ran that he saw the price of the complete set—8 digits.
The full name of this set of items is "The Fragile Past Hidden in Dazzling Lights".
Only then did Luo Yan have another guess: perhaps, the reason why this set is so expensive is not because of these crystals and silverware, but because of the small box of seeds... So,
Li Ran is a flower. I paid 8 digits and bought it back... rose seeds?
"Tong," Luo Yan's voice seemed to be dreaming: "How rich is the target person?"
System: [Hey. ]
[Anyway, he spent the money on things that would make him happy. ]
Luo Yan: "Oh?"
"Li Ran... like roses...?"
System: [...]
[I suddenly feel a little tight in my chest, I have to drink white fungus soup. 】
[Bye to the host, grow watermelons well. ]
Oh, yes.
Although Li Ran bought back rose seeds, Luo Yan was too embarrassed to ask him if he wanted to plant them --
8 digits! Who has such a thick skin to ask someone for 8-figure items!
What's more, the melons in the flower bed are growing vigorously, and Luo Yan has no plans to plant anything else for the time being.
A few days later, the watermelon harvest was bumper again.
In addition to sending some to the military camp, Li Ran also presented a watermelon in his own name to the commander of the 12th district who usually has close contacts.
Soon, the other party gave back five boxes of "Treasure Spider's Silk".
When Luo Yan took the five big boxes from the opponent's adjutant, he couldn't help sighing in his heart, the commander of District 12 is really sincere.
One watermelon, in exchange for five boxes of precious medicines.
No matter how you look at it, it's all my own money.
He was about to put the five boxes in a pile and move them to the warehouse with great difficulty, when Zhang Chi came back from the barracks.
"Steward Luo is going to the warehouse? It's inconvenient to have so many things. I'll help you." Zhang Chi said while taking three boxes from Luo Yan.
Luo Yan is very familiar with the four of them now, and it is common to help each other with something, so Luo Yan did not refuse, but carried the remaining two boxes, chatting with Zhang Chi and walking to the warehouse .
It turned out that Zhang Chi came back to get Li Ran's helmet.
In the afternoon, Li Ran planned to hide his identity as the leader, put on a helmet, and pretend to be an unidentified high-ranking person to investigate some things secretly.
Mentioning this, Luo Yan's heart moved, and he asked casually: "By the way, Zhang Chi, Mr. Tong either wears goggles or a helmet, is it because of his supernatural power?" Zhang Chi said: "That's right.
"
"Actually, in the S-level, other districts also have abilities like leadership—" His chin clicked on the box in his hand: "For example, the leadership in District 12 is a bit similar to our leadership ability."
" It's just that the commander of the 12th district uses his hands to display his abilities."
Luo Yan didn't think much about it: "Oh, the commander of the 12th district wears gloves every day?"
Zhang Chi smiled: "That gentleman Ah, yes. Unless he is in his own home and only with his adjutant."
Luo Yan said "oh" at first, and then thought it was a bit strange: "It means when he is with the adjutant , are they all controlling the ability?"
In Luo Yan's previous understanding, the "goggles" were used to prevent Li Ran's ability from getting out of control.
Therefore, if Li Ran wants to take off the goggles, he only needs to control the ability additionally.
Zhang Chi said "hmm", as if he was thinking about something, and finally smiled: "Well, it is difficult to control their level of abilities by force." At this time, the two had arrived in the warehouse
.
Luo Yan climbed up the ladder by himself, put the boxes one by one into the shelf and locked them, and continued to ask:
"It's hard to control? Isn't this deputy of the 12th district commander very dangerous?"
Zhang Chi frowned. Frowning, he seemed to be hesitating what to say, and finally said: "It's not dangerous."
Luo Yan was completely confused now: "Huh?"
Zhang Chi said slowly: "Actually, the ability to lead them, if there is no guardian Goggles or gloves can easily injure people around him indiscriminately."
Luo Yan frowned, thinking that Li Ran promised to take off the goggles? Could it be that he is just fooling me?
Zhang Chi said again: "But... there is an exception."
"For example, the adjutant of the commander of the 12th district, after he has slept with the commander of the 12th district, he will not be harmed by the ability again."
Luo Yan's eyes widened in shock.
Zhang Chi pretended not to see Luo Yan's expression, and continued:
"It's the same reason if it's our commander."
"Only those who have slept with him can see that he doesn't wear goggles and helmet, and is open. The way you look at it."
Bang!
"Ah, butler Luo, what's wrong with you! Why did you fall off the ladder!"
The author has something to say:
Everyone can guess why Li Ran bought so many things hahahaha~