Farming? I'm making a killing with my fairytale vegetables!

Chapter 8 Tomato Seeds

After returning home, Xia Shiyu counted the money and found that she had earned more than a thousand yuan in total, including the money from last time.

Just imagine, once the bok choy and water spinach are fully harvested, she could earn tens of thousands of yuan at once, which is much easier than the ten thousand yuan she used to earn from harvesting corn.

Moreover, these vegetables can be sold immediately after harvesting, without needing to be dried or threshed, which is more convenient.

After calculating the money, Xia Shiyu laughed for a while before calming down again. Of course, she was still excited, since her second mission was about to begin, and she wondered what kind of seed she would get this time.

She returned to her room, lay down on the bed, closed her eyes, and let her consciousness sink into another space.

When I opened my eyes again, I saw that the invisible barrier that had been blocking my way had expanded a little, and I had more room to move forward.

She looked happily at the panel in front of her to check the second task.

[Please help Mother Tit pick tomatoes. Current progress is 0.]

"Wow, it's tomatoes." The moment Xia Shiyu saw this task, many delicious tomato dishes flashed through her mind: scrambled eggs with tomatoes, tomatoes with sugar, and tomatoes eaten raw. She was already craving the taste she had before, not to mention that the ones in the fairy tale world would be even more delicious.

So Xia Shiyu packed her things and headed in that direction. She thought that by following the map, she would encounter another mushroom house, but she didn't expect to find one when she arrived at the destination.

She looked around and finally found a small treehouse in a tree, from which a beautiful silver-throated long-tailed tit flew out.

Its body was round and plump, its feathers looked fluffy, its tail was thin and long, and it was very small. It flew lightly to Xia Shiyu's side, and Xia Shiyu carefully stretched out his palm to let it land in his palm.

Looking at the mother titmouse, she thought she was very cute and wanted to touch her, but that thought was too presumptuous, so she held back and said to the titmouse, "Hello, I'm here to pick tomatoes."

The long-tailed tit chirped twice, then a gentle voice sounded in my ear, "Hello, new neighbor, come with me."

The long-tailed tit flapped its wings twice, propelling its round body forward. Xia Shiyu quickly followed, and soon they arrived at a tomato field.

Looking around, the tomatoes here were big and red, covering the whole area. Xia Shiyu looked at the tomatoes in front of her and knew that her task this time should be to pick them. So she took a bamboo basket and began to carefully pick them one by one.

These tomatoes are large and plump, and picking them is a real pleasure.

Xia Shiyu picked the tomatoes deftly, and soon basket after basket of tomatoes were collected. She continued her work happily, and finally, after three hours, the tomatoes were all picked.

Xia Shiyu wiped the sweat from his brow and spoke to the mother titmouse who flew down, "Hello, I've finished picking all the tomatoes."

The titmouse flew around, its beady eyes scanning the surroundings carefully. Then it picked up a packet of seeds from the wooden house in the tree and placed it in Xia Shiyu's palm before flying back to the tomato plant. "Your task is complete. Here are the tomato seeds you needed."

Xia Shiyu's face lit up with joy. "Okay, thank you."

I couldn't wait to get back to the starting house with the tomato seeds in my hand. Then I planted them on the empty farmland around the starting house, and they'll be ready to ripen tomorrow.

Then I gathered up the seeds of bok choy and water spinach that I had planted and replanted a new batch. After all that busy work, I finally returned to reality.

When Xia Shiyu woke up, it was already evening. She got up to make dinner.

After thinking about it, I decided to make oil-splashed noodles tonight. First, I kneaded the dough, then chopped it into small pieces and stretched it into strips. After cooking them, I rinsed them in cold water and drained them. Then, I sprinkled them with a mixture of pepper, five-spice powder, and other spices. Finally, I heated the oil and poured it over the noodles. Instantly, the noodles sizzled with the hot oil, and the aroma filled the air.

Adding the previously cooked water spinach to the top, two bowls of oil-splashed noodles were ready. Xia Shiyu brought the noodles to the table, and they started eating after Yu Juan returned.

The spicy chili peppers gave her a stimulating sensation, the noodles were chewy, and the vegetables were fresh and delicious, making her eat one bite after another.

While eating, Xia Shiyu said, "This is the taste. The oil-splashed noodles at the noodle shops near the school are not spicy enough. It has to be the chili peppers we grow ourselves."

Yu Juan nodded in agreement. Her family loved spicy food, and she was no exception. "We specifically bought this kind of spicy chili pepper back then, but Xiao Yu, your cooking skills are getting better and better."

Xia Shiyu took a bite of noodles and said, "If I get the chili seeds from the company I've been using recently, the chili powder I make will definitely taste even better."

As she said this, she couldn't help but imagine that if she got her hands on the wheat seeds and various spice seeds later, the flour and spices grown from them would definitely taste even better, and this bowl of oil-splashed noodles would undergo a qualitative change.

The more he thought about it, the more his mouth watered. Xia Shiyu considered himself a foodie and paid special attention to food, but unfortunately he was only just getting started, so he could only eat the oil-splashed noodles in his bowl to satisfy his craving, although the taste was quite good.

After dinner, Xia Shiyu and Yu Juan went for a walk to digest their food. Enjoying the night breeze and looking at the sparse stars in the sky, they felt much more relaxed. This was the life she wanted. She also felt that her hair loss hadn't been as severe lately.

After waiting for two days, I harvested a batch of tomato seeds and planted them during that time.

Yu Juan was initially worried, "The tomatoes are already ripe, is it really okay for you to plant them now? By then it will be past season."

While processing the seeds, Xia Shiyu said, "It's okay, Mom. People eat tomatoes all year round. These aren't grown in greenhouses; they're all-natural and taste good. There's definitely no shortage of buyers."

Yu Juan thought about it and realized it made sense, so she stopped worrying. "That's true. If all the seeds from this company taste equally good, then there's no worry about selling them."

However, tomato cultivation requires trellises, which is more troublesome than growing water spinach and bok choy. When she picked tomatoes at the mountain sparrow farm, she noticed that they were mainly large tomato varieties, so trellises made harvesting easier.

What Xia Shiyu and Yu Juan need to do now is soak the seeds first and then sow them. Later, when they are growing, they just need to pay attention to spreading fertilizer and building bridges.

After several busy days, the tomato planting project was almost completed, and the bok choy and water spinach planted earlier were also nearing maturity.

The first to lose their composure were Xia Shiyu's customers in her WeChat group.