Teyvat: The road to becoming a god begins in the desert

Chapter 52 The very principled Dolly

No matter how angry you are.

Dolly followed Rhodes to his experimental field and watched with her own eyes as he directed people to kill the date palm trees he purchased one by one.

This also made Dolly, who was still angry, have some interest.

Planting date palms is indeed popular in the desert.

As long as tribes and villages can find settlements, they will plant date palms.

But no one has ever planted date palm trees neatly at a certain distance like Rhodes, and surrounded them into a structure similar to a tree wall.

"It's a bit interesting."

This was something that was not included in Rhode's plan. Dolly blinked and finally felt that her trip was worthwhile.

Because of windbreaks, Rhodes chose mature trees crudely and simply.

In order to ensure that these adult trees can maintain sufficient vitality after transplantation.

After the mature tree is planted.

Rhodes deliberately spread a circle of bounties under each tree.

The same goes for the relatively more fragile saplings.

Dolly saw it and took it to heart.

She did not criticize Rhodes for wasting precious fertile benefits on these powerful date palm trees, but carefully recorded every step of Rhodes' current operations.

"A tree wall to block the wind and sand?"

"This is indeed a fresh approach."

Dolly, who had a sharp eye, saw at a glance Rod's idea of ​​​​arranging the date palm trees in this way.

"If it works out well."

“This is how I will promote date palms when I sell them in the future.”

Dolly looked at it, stroking her chin and thinking.

Date palms are worthless.

Date palm saplings are also not valuable.

Moreover, transplantation is very troublesome and requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

Like this time when she sent date palms to Rhodes, the shipping and labor costs were several times higher than the value of the date palms.

But there is no basis for words.

These tree walls will have to withstand a sandstorm to see the results.

If it is effective in preventing sandstorms, it will become a gimmick when promoting date palm trees in the future.

Dolly nodded with satisfaction.

Although she was so angry at Rod's house that her stomach still hurts now, but now that she saw the little surprise Rod showed, Dolly had a lot more expectations for what he would show next.

It took a day.

A windbreak forest is beginning to take shape.

"Are you going back to Kavanyi today?"

"Still living in Aru Village?"

Looking at Dolly who had no intention of leaving, Rod asked with a smile.

Standing in the center of the windbreak, the cold wind that had started to rage again as night fell had now been weakened a lot.

Although it is impossible to completely isolate the wind and sand.

But the cool breeze blowing across my face was actually very pleasant.

In response to Rod's question, Dolly replied: "Live in your house!"

"Oh."

"also."

"It's getting dark today. Let's do the rest tomorrow."

Rhodes glanced at Dolly's guards, raised his chin and said, "Where are they? I can't accommodate so many people here, not to mention, I don't prepare so much food for them to eat."

As the richest businessman in Xumi, Dolly naturally needs to bring enough guards to protect herself when traveling in person.

Rhodes just looked at it casually.

I found at least five guards with divine eyes, not to mention the guards stationed outside the village who did not show up here.

Such a protective force.

Even if he was placed in front of the thirty-man group hired by the Holy Order, he would still be able to make no concessions.

It seems.

In terms of protecting herself, Dolly is still willing to spend money.

"whispering sound--"

On the other side, Dolly snorted angrily at Rod's stingy words: "They are staying at the hotel in Aru Village, so you don't have to worry about them."

"Hehe, that's it."

Rhodes stretched out his hand to invite with satisfaction.

The dinner Rod served Dolly was simple.

Sunset fruit stew, sautéed greens, and a large serving of mushroom soup.

"what?"

"Aren't you good at your craftsmanship?"

Dolly took a bite, then licked her lips and praised her, and then asked: "Have you studied cooking in Liyue?"

The traditional cooking methods of Xumi vegetables are nothing more than stewing, roasting, and cold salad.

The technique of stir-frying is rarely used.

When Rod was cooking just now, Dolly watched from the sidelines for a long time.

From his skillful skills, she could easily tell that he didn't learn how to cook in Xumi.

"more or less."

To Dolly, Rhodes was not in the mood to reveal his identity as a time traveler, so he simply responded with an ambiguous answer.

"What do you mean it's almost the same."

"Humph."

"If you don't want to say it, don't say it."

Dolly didn't bother to worry about this kind of thing. Seeing that Rhodes didn't want to talk about it, she just gave up.

Subsequently.

Dolly turned her attention to Kelai who was still reading while eating.

"Hey, this little girl is quite studious."

The book Kelai was reading was "The Encyclopedia of Teyvat Literacy", and Dolly was a little surprised when she saw it.

In the desert.

It is rare to see such a diligent and studious child.

Unexpectedly.

Kelai's answer was: "After completing the exercises, if you get them all correct, you can get an extra piece of milk candy."

"Milk candy?"

Dolly raised her eyebrows and became curious about the milk candy that Kelai was talking about.

How delicious candies are there to make a desert citizen have such a strong motivation to learn?

Rhodes noticed her confusion, took out a piece of milk candy from his pocket, put it on the table and pushed it over: "Here, this is it."

Milky white candy without packaging.

Dolly first looked over it over and over again, then put it under her nose and smelled it, then put it in her mouth and tasted it.

"Well--"

"Um--"

"The taste is okay, with a few flaws, but it makes sense and the texture is quite novel. Did you make it yourself?"

Unlike Desiya and Kelai, who couldn't find any faults at all, Dolly's taste was obviously much more sophisticated, and she could find many faults after just eating one piece.

For example, the sugar was not boiled for enough time, too much cream was added, the milk was added at the wrong time, etc.

"The recipe is good. If you add some juice or something here, the taste will be richer."

What else can be said?

Rhodes had nothing to say.

It can only be said that she is worthy of being the richest person in Xumi. Her knowledge and experience are indeed unmatched by ordinary people.

He can now even foresee that there will be a wave of milk candy in Sumeru in the future.

Fortunately.

Rhodes had no intention of using milk candy to make money.

He is not a professional candy maker. This kind of simple milk candy was just a very common household practice in the previous life. It was enough for coaxing children, but it was still far from being mass-produced and sold as a commodity. What kind of formula patent is even less qualified.

But here's the surprise.

Originally, Rhodes thought that Dolly would be able to figure out what the milk candy was made of after eating it, so he could just go back and copy and mass-produce it himself.

But she estimated the price very seriously.

"A candy recipe that has never been seen in Sumeru."

"Although the recipe is simpler and the preparation method is also simple and easy for others to learn, the advantage is that it is novel. No one has ever seen it before. Before others start to copy it on a large scale, you can still make a fortune in a short period of time."

"One hundred thousand molas."

"I bought your milk candy recipe."

"Don't bargain."

"It's only worth so much. If you think the price I'm offering is cheap, then go find someone else to sell it to."

Dolly's nonchalant words made Rhodes feel like he got to know her all over again.

This is what Sumeru people call a super profiteer with corrupt moral character.

He is really a very principled person!

Chapter 53 The Lost Eye of God

Dolly stayed at Rod's house for several days.

During the day.

She followed Rod in the experimental field and carefully observed Rod's novel farming method.

It is different from the standard three steps of sprinkling water, planting seeds, and spreading abundant benefits that Xumi is used to now.

Rod pays great attention to the depth when burying seeds.

Some seeds he will bury deeper, and some seeds he will bury shallower.

Moreover, it is a mixed species, and will be replaced with seeds of another crop at a certain distance. It is not like the Sumeru people who plant the same crop in one piece of land.

"Sure enough, the benefits of abundance are not used."

After seeing the traditional practice of just cultivating the soil, fertilizing and watering after Rhodes buried the seeds, Dolly thoughtfully wrote down one more thing.