Chapter 7 Botanical Garden

After a brief meeting with the four Irukas, Sean originally planned to spend some time to have a real look at his territory, but in the end he gave up the idea and plunged into the place behind the Lord's Mansion. In the botanical garden on a hillside.

"Lord, the planning of the Green Field Botanical Garden began five years ago, and the construction began three years ago. Now it has been completed. All planning was carried out in accordance with the drawings given by the family. The most important one is the foundation of the natural realm of the ritual witch formation. Part of it is also ready.”

After passing the heavily guarded checkpoint, Iruka began to introduce the Green Field Botanical Garden to Sean.

"Lord, you see, this entire hillside belongs to the botanical garden. Protective walls have been erected around it to prevent wild animals from breaking in and destroying the precious plants inside."

With that said, Sean and Iruka officially entered the Green Field Botanical Garden.

"Lord, the entire Green Field Botanical Garden is roughly divided into three parts, the foot of the mountain, the mountainside, and the top of the mountain. The foot of the mountain is mainly planted with fruit trees, both brought from the Old World and those we collected in the New World."

"oh?"

After hearing this, Sean was quite interested. As a natural wizard, he was naturally curious about new plants.

Looking at the surrounding fruit trees, besides the apples, crispy pears, and coconuts that he knew, there were indeed several types that he didn't recognize at all.

"Sir Iruka, what is that fruit tree?"

It's summer now, and most of the fruit trees are not bearing fruit. As the only fruit-bearing trees that Sean doesn't recognize, three rather peculiar fruit trees caught Sean's attention.

"this……"

Following Sean's gaze, Iruka suddenly felt a little embarrassed because he didn't know this plant, but this was normal. After all, he was in charge of the administration of Green Field Town and was not responsible for the specific things in the botanical garden. Fortunately, this Then a lady who came down from the mountain solved his embarrassment.

Looking at the woman walking down the hillside, Iruka's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Hayes, come here quickly."

Upon hearing the greeting, the woman's eyes came over, and when she saw that the person calling her was Iruka, she immediately quickened her pace.

"Lord, Hayes is one of the permanent staff members of the Greenfield Botanical Garden. She is an outstanding natural science graduate from an Ivy League university and is also a recipient of funding from the Oak Foundation. She is far more familiar with this place than I am."

After hearing this, Sean roughly understood Hayes's identity. Ivy League University is the only university in York County where the Montel family is located. It has a close relationship with the Montel family. Although it is not as good as Foster University, its natural sciences and history are among the top in the country, and the Oak Foundation is Montel's. A student aid fund established by the Montel family, its main function is to support poor civilian students and be responsible for their related expenses during their studies. After graduation, these students need to work for the Montel family to repay their debts.

"Good day, Sir Iruka."

Walking over quickly, Hayes bowed to Iruka as a lady. Although he didn't know Sean's identity, Hayes also bowed to him.

"Hayes, let me introduce you. This is Sir Sean Montel, the lord of Greenfield Town."

Hearing Iruka's introduction, Hayes' aqua blue eyes showed a look of surprise. Although she had known that Sean should be a person with status, she did not expect that Sean was the lord of Greenfield Town.

"Good day, Lord, please forgive me for my previous rudeness."

Unable to hide his surprise, Hayes once again made a lady's salute to Sean.

To be honest, according to Sean's standards, Hayes is not beautiful. She has long, slightly curly flaxen hair, aqua blue eyes, unprominent facial features, and small freckles on her face, but she looks like she is saluting. The standard Hayes looks exactly like him, and Sean has to admit that this outstanding graduate from an Ivy League university has an intellectual air.

"Hayes, Sir Iruka just told me that you are very familiar with this botanical garden, so could you please introduce this plant to me?"

Pointing to the three fruit trees bearing fruit, Sean said.

"My pleasure, Lord."

Naturally, Hayes would not refuse Sean's simple request.

After taking a look at the plant that Sean was pointing at and knowing it well, Hayes said without hesitation:

"Lord, this plant is called kesimi by the Chelochi people. It is one of their daily food sources. It has a not-so-hard shell on the outside and white granular kernels on the inside, like It’s corn wrapped in a husk.”

With that said, Hayes walked over and picked a fruit from the Cosimi tree.

The size of the sago fruit is about the same as that of corn. The shells come in various colors, including cyan, yellow, and red. The one in Hayes's hand is red.

Taking out a fruit knife from the pocket of his overalls, Hayes circled the middle part of the fruit and then gently broke it open. The shell cracked, revealing the white pulp inside.

"Lord, please take a look."

Taking the Kesimi fruit from Hayes' hand, Sean looked at the pulp exposed from the shell. Sure enough, it was just as Hayes said, the pulp was like corn kernels, but it was larger. Much better, much fuller.

Looking at Kesimi like this, Sean always felt that it was very similar to the cocoa fruit he had seen on TV in his previous life, but he was a little unsure.

"Lord, you can try it. The pulp of Kesimi is a little sour, but it also has a sweet aftertaste. However, there is not much pulp in Kesimi. There is only an outer layer, and the larger ones are wrapped inside. Fruit core..."

Seeing that Sean was very interested in Kesimi, Hayes took the opportunity to introduce the taste of Kesimi to Sean.

After hearing what Hayes said, Sean did not hesitate, took out a corn kernel-like pulp and put it into his mouth.

Sean had never eaten cocoa fruit in his previous life, so he didn’t know whether it tasted the same as cocoa fruit. But looking at the gray-black core in his hand, Sean felt more and more that cocoa fruit was similar to cocoa fruit. If we say that the two They are really similar species, so cocoa can be a good economic crop. After all, chocolate made from cocoa as raw material in the previous life was sold all over the world.

"Hayes, what do you think of the plant Kesimi?"

Hearing this, and looking at Sean who was still looking at the Kesimi Fruit in his hand, Hayes hesitated for a moment before speaking out his true thoughts.

"Lord, according to the observations of my two colleagues and me, although the plant Kesimi has good pest resistance and environmental adaptability, it has a mediocre taste and the pulp content is too low and it does not have much value."

After saying that, Hayes glanced at Sean quietly and found that Sean's expression had not changed much, and Hayes breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's it, Hayes, are all these cosmi fruits ripe?"

As he said this, Sean's topic suddenly took a turn.

Although Hayes was a little confused about this, he quickly gave the answer.

"Lord, these Kesimi fruits are indeed ripe."

"Well, in this case, Hayes, you will lead people to pick all these fruits later, ferment the pulp and core together, then dry them in the sun, bake them, and finally polish them. Do a few more experiments to see what the final result is. In this way, if you encounter problems with manpower or material resources during this process, you can contact Sir Iruka and let him help you solve it."

With that said, Sean turned his attention to Iruka.

"No problem Lord, I will provide Hayes with corresponding help."

Feeling Sean's eyes, Iruka made his promise. Through Sean's words just now, he had already felt that Sean valued this matter.

After making corresponding arrangements, Sean no longer paid much attention to Keximi. He had other things to do. As for the final result, he didn't know. After all, he was not sure whether Keximi and Coco had similar feelings. characteristic.