How to become a mermaid

Chapter 154 Counting Harvesting and Planting Flowers

evening.

The Moni stopped quietly in the sea, shaking slightly with the waves.

Shamanleir and Alicia have returned to the boat and finished their dinner.

They were sitting in Moni's room, carefully cultivating the plants picked from the island.

A pile of large and small bowls and basins were placed in front of them, ranging from the size of palms to the size of foot basins.

Auer Star has limited land resources, so there are actually very few ceramic products, and most of the products used in daily life are sea sand products.

Take the sand out of the sea, wash it, break it into finer particles, then add a special seaweed juice glue, knead it into the shape of a vessel, and then polish the smooth inner wall, and a bowl is ready.

If possible, you can also apply a thin layer of seaweed oil on the utensils, which is waterproof and beautiful.

Unlike glass that needs high-temperature calcination, this kind of thing is not transparent and bright, most of which are inconspicuous yellowish brown, and only the inner wall that needs to be placed is slippery, and the outer wall has a sandy texture to the touch.

But Samantel still likes these things, and feels that they have a natural beauty.

"Dong dong..." Shamanlael held a hammer and nails in his hand, and was making a hole in the bottom of a palm-sized sand bowl.

Since you are going to make a flower pot, you need to make a hole for ventilation and drainage.

"Dong dong..."

There was already a row of these small bowls on the floor, some made by Shaman Lair and some made by Alicia, both of them happily doing parent-child handicrafts with a hammer.

"One, two, three...six, seven." Shaman Lair counted the number of bowls that had been holed.

He felt that it should be enough, so he reminded Alicia: "It's enough, there is no need to punch holes, we just need to plant the last batch of flowers, and we can almost enter the forest."

The ceiling of Moni's room was open, and Shamanlael could see the crimson sunset when he looked up.

The crooked moon has emerged from the other side of the sky, indicating that the world will soon change to a new moon tomorrow and usher in the night.

He took out a few clumps of small plants from his cloth bag and put them on the floor.

These plants are not big, the longest one is only as long as a little finger, with small white flowers the size of a fingernail at the top, no leaves, only a solid silver-gray stem.

The thickness of the stem looks the same as the nails in Samantel's hand, and the color is also similar. It is not as soft as a plant when pinched, but as hard as an iron rod.

Therefore, this plant is called [Iron Nail Flower].

The role of the nail flower is to laxative and moisten the intestines. Although Shamanleer and Alicia rarely have constipation, since they have found them, it is better to have a few varieties, in case they are useful in the future.

Fill the seven bowls placed on the floor with the remaining soil in the cloth bag, which is just enough to fill, and there is a little more.

Shamanlell pressed the soil with his hands, made out the shape of the nest, and inserted the iron nails into the soil.

The hard stems and roots let them be inserted into the bottom of the soil at once, and they are straight in the bowl like small flowering nails.

Pulling the soil around the plant to the middle, Shamanlell pressed the soil layer twice, compacting the soft new soil.

The roots of the nail flower are relatively hard, and it can grow tenaciously even in the dry and hard soil layer, and it does not need much water. Its drought resistance is similar to that of a cactus, and it is a relatively easy-to-care plant.

After planting them, Samantel watered them with about a dozen drops of water and placed them on the side of the house.

In addition to this row of nail flowers, there are thirty or forty pots of various flowers and plants in this area.

The most conspicuous ones are those half-meter-high fish head grasses, which are arranged in a row from short to tall. The bright red "fish heads" open their mouths, which looks quite spectacular.

There are three large washbasins in the back, with some ordinary-looking grasses planted in them.

These grasses are no different from the weeds on the side of the road. They are as tall as a finger and are emerald green. Each grass grows two small leaves, and each plant is densely covered with the whole pot. nice.

If an ordinary person saw it on the road, they would definitely think it was a clump of ordinary weeds.

However, the grass that can be used as a potion must have some characteristics.

This pot of grass is not a single plant, there is actually only one plant in the whole pot, and its roots buried under the soil are completely connected as a whole, and it is a grass growing like a clump of grass.

Therefore, this kind of grass is also called [Big Grass on the Lying Ground], or [Uncommon Grass].

Its lowermost stalk is used medicinally to treat dysgeusia.

Behind the big grass lying on the ground is a row of [three-color flowers].

As the name suggests, the tricolor flower usually has only three petals, and the color of each petal is different, and the color scheme of each plant is also different.

Take the row currently planted by Samantel as an example, there are basically no duplicates, the flowers and leaves are red, yellow and blue, blue, white and green, and red, blue and purple... and so on.

These three-color flowers cannot be used to make potions for the time being.

Because it is not three-color flowers that are needed to make potions, but four-color flowers.

The plant of the tricolor flower blooms once every three months, basically with three petals each time, and withers after three days, but under certain circumstances for unknown reasons, it will bloom once every four months A flower with four petals.

This four-color flower is the potion material, which has a miraculous effect on healing burns.

At present, no one has fully figured out the principle of four-color flowers, and everything can only depend on luck.

Behind the tricolor flowers are four pots of strange-looking plants.

This kind of plant is long strips, about two or three meters long, with small dark brown bumps on the outer skin, which look like some kind of scales, scattered all over the ground, like snakes crawling out.

This is [Snake Grass], which can be used as a seasoning or potion.

Stewing soup with fresh snake grass will make the soup sweet, and it can be dried and ground into powder and can be used for barbecue. Just sprinkle a little bit to remove the fishy smell of meat. It is a relatively expensive dish. spices.

If it is used as a potion, it will have the effect of removing scars.

Behind the snakegrass are several dwarf shrubs.

These shrubs are not big, only about [-] to [-] centimeters high. The green leaves and gray-brown trunk are just a miniature version of a small sapling.

It looks indistinguishable from other common shrubs and is easily overlooked at first glance in the forest.

However, they are "hairy".

The back of each leaf is covered with fine needle-like fluff, which is slightly prickly to the touch.

This kind of plant is called [Small Coniferous Shrub], and the part that can be used to make potions is the thin needles on their leaves, which are the main material for making aphrodisiac potions.

Although Shamanleir doesn't use it now, and probably won't use it in the future, he still brought it back to plant.

After that, there is only one plant left.

It is the most beautiful plant in this area, but unlike other plants placed together, it is separated by a glass cover by Shaman Lair.

This plant is about one to twenty centimeters high, and its shape looks like a small pine tree, but it is not green, but a misty snow-white from the stem to the leaves.

Standing there quietly, it looks like a lonely pine standing proudly on a snow mountain.

However, this is all an illusion, its white color is actually false.

It looks white because the surface of this plant secretes a kind of mucus, which turns into white powder and sticks to the tree when it dries. Over time, a thick white camouflage is formed. Once the outer layer of powder is scraped off, It was still dusty underneath.

These white powders are poisonous. If a person has a wound on his finger, he will be poisoned if he rubs the powder on his finger, and he will die suddenly within ten seconds.

However, the toxicity to mermaids does not seem to be that great. When Shamanleir found it, the information he saw with his eyes was slightly poisonous, and the toxicity was not even comparable to that of some sea anemones. There are too many sunflower stings to produce poison resistance.

Anyway, he just pulled it out and brought it back.

The name of this plant is [White Mist], and the powder on its body can be used to make potions, but it is not poison, but an antidote.

(End of this chapter)