Chapter 7 The Botanical Garden
After a simple meeting with the four of Iruka, Sean originally planned to spend some time to see his territory for real, but in the end he gave up on this idea and plunged into the land behind the lord's mansion. In the botanical garden on the hillside.
"My lord, the Green Field Botanical Garden started planning five years ago, and started construction three years ago. Now it has been completed. All planning is carried out according to the drawings given by the family. Among them, the most important ceremony is the foundation of the natural field of Wuzhen. Part of it has already been prepared.”
Walking through the heavily fortified checkpoint, Iruka began to introduce the green botanical garden to Sean.
"Your lord, you can see that this entire hill belongs to the botanical garden, and a protective wall has 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.
"My lord, the entire green botanical garden is roughly divided into three parts, the foot of the mountain, the middle of the mountain, and the top of the mountain. Among them, the part of the foot of the mountain is mainly planted with fruit trees, both brought from the Old World and collected in the New World."
"oh?"
Hearing this, Sean was quite interested. As a wizard of nature, he was naturally curious about new types of plants.
Looking at the surrounding fruit trees, besides the familiar apples, crispy pears, and coconuts, there are indeed several kinds that he does not know at all.
"Sir Iluka, what kind of fruit tree is that?"
It is summer now, and most of the fruit trees are not bearing fruit. As the only ones that bear fruit among the fruit trees that Sean does not know, 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 kind of plant, but it was normal, after all, he was in charge of the administration of Green Field Town, not the specific things in the botanical garden. At that time, a lady who came down from the mountain solved his embarrassment.
Looking at the woman walking down the hill, Iruka's eyes lit up.
"Hayes, come here."
Hearing the greeting, the woman cast her gaze over, and seeing that the person calling her was Iruka, she immediately quickened her pace.
"My lord, Hayes is one of the resident staff of the Green Field Botanical Garden. She is an outstanding graduate of natural sciences from 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."
Hearing this, Sean had a general understanding of Hayes' identity. Ivy University is the only university in Yorkshire where the Montell family is located. It has a close relationship with the Montell family. Although it is not as good as Foster University, its natural science and history are at the top level in the country, and the Oak Foundation is the A student fund established by the Montel family, its main function is to subsidize poor civilian students and be responsible for their related expenses during their studies, and correspondingly these students need to work for the Montel family after graduation to repay their debts.
"Good day, Sir Iruka."
Walking over quickly, Hayes saluted Iruka as a lady. Although he didn't know Sean's identity, Hayes also saluted him.
"Hayes, let me introduce you. This is Sir Sean Montel, the lord of Greenfield Town."
Hearing Iruka's introduction, Hayes's water-blue eyes revealed a look of surprise. Although she knew that Sean should be a person of status, she did not expect Sean to be the lord of Greenfield Town.
"Good day, my lord, please forgive my previous faux pas."
Unable to hide her surprise, Hayes once again saluted Xiao En as a lady.
To be honest, by Sean's standards, Hayes is not beautiful. She has long flaxen-colored curly hair, aqua-blue eyes, unprotrusive facial features, and tiny freckles on her face, but she looks like she is saluting. Sean had to admit that this outstanding Ivy League graduate had an intellectual air about the standard Hayes who looked like a model.
"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 honor, my lord."
Hayes naturally would not refuse Sean's simple request.
Glancing at the plant Sean was pointing at, Hayes said without hesitation:
"My lord, this plant is called Kesimi by the Cherokee people, and it is one of their daily food sources. It has a not-so-hard shell on the outside, and white granular kernels inside, like It's corn in a husk."
As he spoke, Hayes went over and picked a fruit from the cosago tree.
The size of the sago fruit is about the same as that of corn, and the color of the husk is various, including blue, yellow, and red, and the one in Hayes's hand is a red one.
Taking out a fruit knife from the pocket of the overalls, Hayes twirled it around the middle of the fruit, and then gently broke the fruit shell, revealing the white flesh inside.
"My lord, please take a look."
After taking the cosago fruit from Hayes, Sean looked at the pulp protruding from the husk. Sure enough, as Hayes said, the pulp is like corn kernels one by one, except that it is bigger. Much higher, much fuller.
Looking at this Cocoa, Sean always felt that it was very similar to the cocoa he had seen on TV in his previous life, but he was a little uncertain.
"My lord, you can try it. The pulp of Ke Simi is a bit sour, but it also has a sweet aftertaste. It's just that the pulp of Ke Simi is not much. There is only an outer layer, and the inside is a larger The core..."
Seeing that Sean was very interested in Kesimi, Hayes took advantage of the opportunity to introduce the taste of Kesimi to Sean.
Hearing Hayes' words, Sean did not hesitate, and took out a corn kernel-like pulp and put it in his mouth.
In his previous life, Sean had never eaten cocoa fruit, so he didn't know if it tasted the same as cocoa fruit, but looking at the gray-black core in his hand, Sean felt that cocoa fruit and cocoa fruit were similar. If they are really similar species, then sago can be a good economic crop. After all, the chocolate made from cocoa in the previous life was sold all over the world.
"Hayes, what do you think of the plant Cosago?"
Hearing this, and looking at Sean who was still looking at the sago fruit in his hand, Hayes hesitated for a moment before expressing his true thoughts.
"My lord, according to my observations with two colleagues, although the plant sago has good damage resistance and environmental adaptability, its taste is average, and the pulp content is too low to be of great value."
After finishing speaking, he quietly glanced at Sean, only to find that Sean's expression hadn't changed, Hayes breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's it, Hayes, are these Kesago fruits ripe?"
Saying that, Sean's topic suddenly turned a corner.
Although Hayes was a little confused about this, he quickly gave an answer.
"My lord, these Cosago fruits are indeed ripe."
"Well, in this way, Hayes, you will lead someone to pick all these fruits later, ferment the pulp and core together, then dry them first, then bake them, and finally grind them. Do a few more experiments to see how the final results are. In the same way, if you encounter problems in manpower or material resources during this process, you can go to Sir Iruka and let him help you solve it."
With that said, Sean turned his attention to Iruka.
"No problem, my lord, I will provide Hayes with corresponding help."
Feeling Sean's gaze, Iruka made his promise. Through Sean's words just now, he has already felt that Sean attaches great importance to this matter.
After making corresponding arrangements, Sean stopped paying attention to Ke Simi. He still had other things to do. As for the final result, he didn't know. After all, he wasn't sure whether Ke Simi and Coco had similar characteristic.