"How can this be called bribery, this is called fair trade...... Zhao Min is now deeply rooted in Zhuang's true biography, "These children's bodies need sugar, we need blue stone leaf sap, this is mutually beneficial." ”

"Uncle Zhao, you're getting more and more shameless!"

"Everywhere, it is all taught by you, the owner."

Hey, hey, hey~

The two men laughed wickedly.

Zhao Min, who was honest and couldn't even handle a reporter, has long since grown into a character who trembles when he stomps his feet in the manor, and sometimes, what people lack is only a second chance.

It is estimated that looking back, even Zhao Min himself is unimaginable.

The so-called late bloomer, but that's it.

Although Zhuang never managed the agriculture of the manor, the agriculture of the manor was the most stable cash cow, which continuously supported the consumption of the manor and was also the ultimate confidence of the manor.

Where there is land and people, there is money.

Zhuang saw that there were many wooden barrels next to him, so he opened one casually, sniffed it, and said, "Is it maple sugar?" ”

"Yes, there is only maple as a sugar-producing crop on the manor, but the mixed wood forest is too dangerous to easily enter, so we planted some sugar maple trees outside the mixed wood forest."

There are two types of time acceleration in the manor.

One is controlled by the manor, with steady acceleration, which can be used by the manor.

The other is like the miscellaneous woods and moats, which are completely generated by the blood of time itself, this acceleration is uneven, and extremely destructive, the instability of time has caused the distortion of space, so far, except for the people whose lifespan and life form are stable to a terrible extent, and whose lifespan is almost infinite, no creature dares to enter it at all.

"However, sugar maple trees are so inefficient at producing sugar that the manor's population of stone ants will consume more and more sugar if it gets bigger, so we've recently been cultivating new sugar-producing crops to improve sugar production efficiency."

There are four common sugar-producing crops: sugarcane, sugar beet, sugar maple (sugar maple), and sugar palm.

For people in the state, the first two are more common, sugar cane in the south and sugar beet in the north. The latter two are rarer. The sugar maple tree, which is now also planted on the estate, produces sugar from starch stored in the winter, while the sugar palm tree, which is a tropical specialty, has its thick inflorescences that drip sugar juice when cut.

Of course, this is only a sugar-producing plant in the traditional sense, in fact, with the development of industry now, there are many cases of direct use of starch hydrolysis into sugar, such as corn syrup, which is also a large supplier of sugar ingested by humans.

But Zhao Min is not optimistic about sugar: "The sugar we use daily is only a high-purity crystal, there is no nutritional value, coupled with the stable supply in the international market, the recent sugar price has a downward trend, unless the ancient method of sugar, natural sugar, etc., the consumer IQ tax, otherwise the added value is not high, if the manor to plant, it is a waste of manor resources, so the manor's sugar crops, just as an emergency and supplement, for a long time, the manor's sugar demand, are mainly purchased." ”

Zhuang Buyuan nodded: "The IQ tax is not advisable to operate in this way, relying on the collection of IQ tax will not go far, you are doing it right." ”

"At present, the manor has cultivated more than 10 kinds of sugar varieties that adapt to different environments and different sugar yields, and will continue to optimize the varieties and strive to cultivate the best several specific information here, please take a look."

Zhuang looked at it from a distance, nodded with satisfaction, received this information in his bag, and said, "Okay, tell me the follow-up progress at any time." ”

Then, Zhuang was drooling over a pool of blue-leaved sap from a pool of trees.

In addition to the "area" function, the manor town also opened a "palace" for the owner.

Zhuang Buyuan has no concept of "Xinggong" at all, but fortunately, the achievement of the covenant of "building the power of the gods": one of the "great buildings", the construction of ten buildings that conform to the covenant will be rewarded with a drawing.

In other words, if you want to complete the upgrade of the manor, this is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

But to complete the "Great Building" achievement, you must build ten mega buildings!

The requirements for "great buildings" are extremely high, and the minimum must be at the level of the Phantom Mountain Tunnel.

Zhuang Buyuan was busy dealing with the threat of the Age of Exile, and he was also busy promoting this achievement, but he had not made much progress before, and with a steady stream of blue stone leaf sap, many of his plans could be implemented.

Zhuang Buyuan praised Zhao Min fiercely, making the old man so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

Not far from Zhuang, Zhao Min immediately called several of his deputies to arrange for them to continue to optimize the species and plant sugar-producing crops in the manor.

"The owner attaches great importance to it, and now in the manor, the most important thing is the sap of the blue stone leaves, and the production of sugar is the production of the sap of the blue stone leaves, we do not plant sugar, but the sap of the blue stone leaves! Come on, come on, cheer up, work hard! The rest of the work has been put on hold, and recently our focus has been on cultivating the perfect sugar-producing crop! ”

The botanists of the manor divided the four different sugar-producing crops into blocks, constantly selected and cultivated, and the experiment was in full swing, as the sugar-producing crops became more and more mature, the small half of the manor was wafting with a rich sweet fragrance.

This smell not only attracted the stone ants, but even many servants from the Age of Exile in the manor stretched their necks and inhaled desperately beside them.

On the contrary, it is the servants of the earth, one by one, they are afraid to avoid it, especially Zhuang is not far away, he has covered his face for several days, he had tooth decay when he was a child, and now when he smells the sugar, he still feels that his face hurts.

Zhao Min finished working for a while, took a few sugar crystals, came out of the test field, and saw that the roadside was full of manor servants.

There are the Sunrian people, the three-pupil people, the lamp bearers, the velvet people, and the fallen dragons......

Even the domesticated rabbit dragons, dog dragons, and tiger people of the manor have them.

Seeing Zhao Min come out, the two brothers came forward and asked, "What is this?" ”

"Sugar." Zhao Mindao.

"Sugar? Is it that little white grain of sand? Isn't that for stone ants? "Three catties and four taels looked confused," how do you smell...... Delicious? ”

"Won't you...... You haven't eaten it? Zhao Min was stunned, people on the earth have been promoting the harm of eating sugar all day long, and they have been promoting less sugar intake all day long, even children know that eating too much sugar will cause toothache, these guys, have never eaten it?

"I didn't ...... No, can you eat it? ”

"I've eaten, I've eaten, it's delicious!" Dad Zhuang had boiled the syrup under Xiaofu's maple tree and poured it on shaved ice for them to eat, and the belly of the meal was round.

However, the master room not far from Zhuang is not accessible to everyone, and it is impossible to attract so many people as it does now.

Zhao Min looked at him with everyone's eyes, smiled, and handed over a few crystals in his hand.

Relying on his big hand, Sanjin grabbed it, stretched out his snake-like tongue, and licked it.

"Ouch......" At that moment, Sanjin was stunned as if he had been punched.

The next second, like a large squirrel, he picked up the large piece of candy in both hands and stuffed it whole into his mouth, and the large lump puffed up a bag on his cheek, which would bulge to the left and then to the right.

Next to him, Siliang looked at him blankly, twitched his nose, and then pounced.

"You didn't give me such a delicious thing?"

"I'll kill you, believe it or not!"

"Spit it out for me, you spit it out for me!"

At the risk of being bitten off his fingers, Siliang first punched Sanjin into a daze, then broke Sanjin's mouth, took out a large piece of pond from his mouth, and regardless of the saliva on it, he stuffed it into his mouth and gave him a dark circle under his eyes.

Zhao Min: "......"

Evil or not disgusting?

Are you really brothers?

Did your mom hug the wrong one?

Seeing that Sanjin shook his head, got up from the ground, and waved his fist to call over, Zhao Min hurriedly said: "Don't, don't fight, and, there!" ”

Looking at the look of the group of people in the back, he said: "All of them, all of them!" ”

Outside the farm, at the edge of the experimental field, a group of manor servants, squatting on the ground and sipping sugar cubes, is really spectacular.

A group of manor servants burst into tears as they swallowed sugar cubes.

"Woo woo, it's delicious."

"Why is there such a delicious thing in this world......"

A group of earthlings felt like watching a monkey show, and wondered.

Is it really that delicious?

Nong Li Xin said: "In fact, for human beings, before the development of industry, sugar was also a very rare delicacy. It can stimulate the human brain and produce dopamine, think about what it was like to eat sugar when we were children, when substances were still relatively scarce? The less abundant the substance, the more sweet it is, after all, sugar is the most direct energy supply substance...... In the era of exile, material resources are very scarce...... Moreover, sugar seems to be more attractive to Exile creatures than humans......"

A group of earthlings looked at the servants of the exiled era in front of them with emotion, as if they were children in famine.

It was supposed to be just a small episode that passed quickly.

In the evening, everyone rested, and the next morning, everyone returned to the test field, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Nong Lixin opened the warehouse door and took a look, and suddenly shouted: "No...... Oh no, there's a thief in the manor! ”

Zhao Min rushed over when he heard the sound, there was a lot of sugar stored in this warehouse, but now, the entire warehouse was empty.

"Last night's production hasn't been told...... This...... Who stole our sugar! What stole the sugar! ”

A worker ant passing by turned around and ran.

Three pounds and four taels covered their mouths: "I didn't ...... Gurgle...... Steal. ”

A blush flashed across the Sunrian's face: "We Sunrians never steal......"

The three pupils of the three-pupil man were dilated: "I didn't see anyone stealing the ......"

The velvet man licked his sticky paws: "I...... Suck ...... Suck ...... Nothing is known. ”

Zhao Min: ......

"I, I'll go to the owner!"