The weather at the end of November was really cold, the temperature was only about 10 degrees, and the windows were covered with a faint layer of moisture.

After eating the breakfast prepared by Hua Bai, I was ready to go out in nine days to complete the tasks of the system. Ten Lingzhi stores, each of which has to stay for at least an hour, is not bad if you can run three stores a day. Last night, I had already inquired about some large and small Lingzhi stores in Zhengcheng City. I decided to go from near to far.

The first shop was in an old vegetable market, it was more than eight o'clock in the morning, and there were many people in the vegetable market, most of them were some middle-aged and elderly mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law, etc., picking and choosing to buy vegetables and sell meat in various stalls. The stalls selling vegetables and meat in this kind of vegetable market are generally home-grown, and because the stall price and rent are low, the price is cheaper than that of ordinary vegetable shops or overtime.

"Oh, fresh pork! Young man, do you want to buy meat? The pig I just killed this morning is very fresh. ”

As soon as Jiutian walked in, the lady of the pork stall next to the entrance of the vegetable market immediately greeted him enthusiastically. He waved his hand and continued to walk towards the market.

The vegetable market is quite large, in addition to the various vendors who buy vegetables in the middle, there are also shops selling kitchen utensils and selling seafood and river fresh food on both sides. As he walked and looked, he finally found a small flower shop between two fish shops.

This flower shop is really small, about the same size as the bubble tea shop, and it is called Shenghong Lingzhi Store.

Is there really a spirit plant in this kind of shop? Jiutian walked into the store with some doubts, anyway, he came here, let's take a look first, and then run to the next one.

An old man with reading glasses sits behind the counter reading a newspaper. When Jiutian came in, the old man didn't get up, raised his head to look at him, and said, "See for yourself, tell me which one you like." ”

Jiutian didn't care, he walked around the store, there are no flowers sold here, most of them are rich bamboo, tiger tail orchid and other more common domestic green plants. However, these plants are very well cared for, and they are growing well, with green leaves and full of life.

He touched a few at random, and in the feedback information on the system panel, the growth status of these plants was all excellent, and none of them were defective.

At this moment, a middle-aged man hurriedly walked in outside the store, this person should be a regular customer here, and he was very familiar with greeting the old man.

"Yo, there are guests?" After the middle-aged man greeted the old man, he saw Jiutian squatting on the side, and asked, "Did the young man raise these flowers and plants before?"

"I haven't raised it. Jiutian shook his head, he really didn't lie, he really hadn't raised this kind of common green plant at home. As soon as he got started, he was directly a spirit plant.

"Then don't look at it, Uncle Hong won't sell it to you. The things in this store are Uncle Hong's own treasures, and they are never sold to novices. Some of our regular customers can buy it here. The middle-aged man said with a smile.

And this rule? Nine days are strange, I didn't expect this store to be big, and the boss is quite interesting.

But Jiutian didn't plan to buy it. After looking at the time, it had been ten minutes since he entered the store, and fifty minutes were still there. But so far, he hasn't seen any spirit plants in the store. But the signboard clearly says that it is a Lingzhi store.

"Boss. Don't you have a spirit plant here? Can I take a look. Jiutian asked.

"No, I can't. The old man glanced at Jiutian and refused directly.

Jiutian knocked on his ears and said to himself, "Oops, my ears rang suddenly. You just said okay, didn't you? Thank you very much. ”

The middle-aged man who watched the excitement suddenly squirted, laughed twice, and said, "The young man has a future." This thick-skinned man is rare in his life. ”

The old man was also choked, and glared at Jiutian and ignored him.

"Okay, Uncle Hong, it's not easy for people to come here. Bring your baby out for people to see, I haven't seen it in a long time. The middle-aged man leaned on the counter and laughed.

"You want to see it, right?" the old man snorted. Jiutian asked him to ignore it, but the middle-aged man was an old customer in the store.

The middle-aged man was not embarrassed when the old man said that he was thinking, so he smiled and begged a few more words.

The old man hesitated, but got up and walked to the back. Only then did Jiutian see that there was a door behind him, and after opening it, there was another room.

After waiting for a few more minutes, the old man came out of the back room, still holding a blue-black old-fashioned flower pot in his hand.

As soon as this flower pot appeared, a look of surprise flashed in Jiutian's eyes.

In this small flower pot, there was a misty scene, and in this cloud and mist, several mountains loomed in it. From a distance, it looks like a landscape ink painting presented in front of you.

"What is this?" Jiutian recalled the knowledge in his head, and found that the appearance of the unintentional spiritual plant could be compared with the scene in the flower pot in front of him.

"Cloud grass. The old man gently placed the pot on the table. When the pot touches the table, it shakes slightly. The clouds above began to surge. It was as if I had really seen the scene of a sea of clouds in the mountains.

The middle-aged man stopped talking, staring at the pot of flowers obsessively for a long time.

Nine days began to rack his brains again, and finally remembered the record he had read in a certain book.

"Cloud mushrooms. One of the extinct mushroom spirit plants, it is the size of a finger cap and emits clouds of mist gas when it matures. It grows in alpine areas above 5,000 meters above sea level. Sex likes cold and moisture. ”

This was a complete surprise for Jiutian, I didn't expect that a small spirit plant shop that didn't look amazing would still hide an extinct spirit plant!

Jiutian's fingertips touched the swirling cloud, and the system panel quickly fed back information.

[Plant name]: cloud mushroom.

[Status]: Normal.

[Growth stage]: Mature stage.

[Judgment]: Due to the unsuitable growth environment, the growth of cloud grass has been affected, and the state is average......

"How's it going? This cloud mushroom looks good, isn't it?" the old man was a little proud.

"It's so beautiful......"

"General. ”

The middle-aged man's words of praise stopped abruptly as soon as he said half of them, staring at Jiutian in amazement.

"What are you talking about?" The old man stared at Jiutian in disbelief, he had been raising this cloud mist mushroom for seven or eight years, and it was the first time that someone in front of him openly said that the cloud mist grass was actually ordinary.

"You heard me right, I'm talking about average. If I come to raise it, it will definitely look better than you. So I want you to cut your love. Jiutian said calmly. He estimated that this might be the last cloud mushroom in the world, and it would be nice if he could get it.

"You know what a fart!" the old man was annoyed and angry, and said, "If you don't like to look at it, hurry up!"

As he spoke, the old man was about to take away the cloud mushrooms, but the middle-aged man was anxious and said, "Don't take it away." It's not that I've offended you, let me take a few more looks. ”

The old man was unmoved, and was about to put the flower pot back.

The middle-aged man glanced at Jiutian sadly, and complained: "Little brother, don't think about it, last time someone offered three million, Uncle Hong didn't sell it." ”

"The plateau permafrost may not be the most suitable soil for cultivating cloud mushrooms, you can try cold green wood chips mixed with silver snow wood chips and mixed into the highland permafrost, the ratio is two to one to seven. If I'm not mistaken, the rockery inside should be just ordinary bluestone. If it is replaced with cold mountain stone, it will also be more suitable for the growth of cloud mushrooms. Jiutian said to the old man's back.

The old man's footsteps suddenly stopped.