Chapter 66: Maximize the Value of the Game!

Maximizing the Value of the Game!

The maturation period for watermelons is typically between 85 and 95 days, meaning it takes about 3 months from planting the seeds to harvesting.

Currently, many agricultural experts are researching ways to shorten the growth cycle of watermelons. One technology has already made significant progress, capable of cutting the watermelon's maturation period in half by a month.

It seems the expert who developed this technology even won some minor agricultural award.

Qin Lin was not very familiar with this field, but looking at the watermelon seedlings that were already starting to vine, if these could be successfully cultivated to produce seeds—setting aside what quality the melon could maintain without the game's soil—shouldn't they at least give him an award just for a one-month maturation period?

Nearby, the transplanted seven-color symbiotic bougainvillea potted plant showed no signs of withering, which was a good sign.

If this seven-color symbiotic bougainvillea could be successfully cultivated, while a potted transplant could never grow into a full-sized plant, nor reach the scale of the bougainvillea by the sea, and would lack the game's attribute bonuses, it would still definitely be much prettier than ordinary bougainvillea.

By then, they could be mass-transplanted into pots, which should be very popular with many tourists.

"Boss, without a greenhouse, these watermelons might actually survive," Chen Dabei said with a slightly complimentary tone.

He had also been born in a rural village as a child, so he naturally knew that the temperature for growing watermelons needed to be between 25°C and 30°C; otherwise, the seeds would hardly germinate. But now winter was setting in, and everyone had already started wearing thicker long-sleeved shirts, with temperatures long having dropped below that range.

As expected of a new variety.

Since the game seeds could survive in reality, the first step had no problems. Now came the second step: cultivating Grade 2 seedless watermelon seeds in reality.

Seedless watermelons are seedless and cannot directly produce seeds. Using seedless watermelon seeds to cultivate watermelon seeds again is very troublesome.

During this time, he had also been reading relevant knowledge. First, he needed to treat the seedlings of the Grade 2 seedless watermelon seeds taken from the game with colchicine to turn them back into polyploids, and then pollinate them again with ordinary watermelons during the flowering period. After going through several troublesome procedures, the watermelons grown from that would produce seedless watermelon seeds.

Naturally, there were other genetic technologies, but those were too profound and involved a lot of knowledge that he did not delve into or understand deeply, making them completely incomprehensible to him.

He could only cultivate using the easiest method, leaving success or failure to luck. If all else failed, he would have to use simpler tissue culture, though that method could not be promoted on a large scale.

In other words, he would still need to plant ordinary watermelon seeds later on.

With winter arriving, ordinary watermelons would definitely rely on greenhouses.

Moreover, he had to keep track of the flowering periods of both the seedless watermelons and the ordinary watermelons in order to properly control the pollination timing.

After all, watermelon flowers were only open for pollination for two days, and some even opened in the morning and closed after pollination by the afternoon.

No matter how precious the game-produced seedless watermelons were, he still had to wait for the ordinary watermelons to set seeds before he could cultivate the new planting stock.

With this in mind, Qin Lin turned and instructed Chen Dabei, "Help me clear out about three mu of land nearby; I need to set up a greenhouse!"

"Got it, Boss!" Chen Dabei nodded.

Qin Lin returned to the lobby, went online to contact companies related to greenhouse construction, and placed an order. They would send people over to build it tomorrow.

Zhao Moqing walked in from outside holding a bag of coconut jelly. "Qin Lin, my brother has contacted channels for coconut jelly and a milk tea sealing machine, but it will still take time for them to be ordered and delivered. My brother said we can use the milk tea sealing machine and coconut jelly he originally prepared first, and we can just use the ones we ordered once his milk tea shop is renovated."

"Thank your older brother for me." Qin Lin smiled and nodded.

"Come and taste how the coconut jelly tastes soaked in medicinal honey water," Zhao Moqing said as she opened the coconut jelly, scooped two spoonfuls into a cup, took out the Grade 2 wild honey, mixed a cup of honey water, inserted a straw, and handed it to Qin Lin.

After taking a few sips, Qin Lin said, "Not bad!"

The Grade 2 honey water produced by the game already tasted exceptionally good. The coconut jelly felt somewhat superfluous, but as long as the taste wasn't affected, this way they could sell a bit more.

"Then this afternoon I'll have Yaoyao post a video to announce the new medicinal honey water product on the official account," Zhao Moqing said, holding Qin Lin's hand. "Now, we should head back first. Mom is urging us to hurry back with the ingredients for dinner."

"All set!" Qin Lin nodded with a smile.

They were hosting Zhao Moqing's parents for lunch at home today, and the Grade 2 items along with some ordinary seafood were already prepared.

Entering the storage room behind the bar to retrieve the items, Qin Lin said to Gao Yaoyao, "Yaoyao, keep a close eye on the resort this afternoon. We're heading back first."

Although Gao Yaoyao was young, she still had ability. Now serving as a shift supervisor, she could handle things as long as they weren't major issues.

Zhao Moqing drove her brother's BMW to take Qin Lin home, then drove out again to return to Dongcheng Residential Area to pick up her parents.

Parking the car, she gave her parents a call.

Moments later, Chen Xiao and Zhao Xianhong walked down together with Zhao Moyun and Li Jiawen.

Li Jiawen was the first to greet her sister-in-law, "Moqing, your brother and I are coming over to freeload a meal today. Don't lie to me—is there really a 30-plus-pound big fish to eat?"

Zhao Moqing teased, "Jiawen, you're such a little foodie. How are you not fat yet?"

Li Jiawen proudly replied, "Your sister-in-law was born with natural beauty and has a body that doesn't put on weight."

"Yeah, that's except for when she complains every night that she's gained weight again," Zhao Moyun teased from the side, earning a fierce, teeth-gritting glare from Li Jiawen.

"Dad, Mom!" Zhao Moqing stepped forward between her parents and linked her arms through theirs.

She felt somewhat different than before. Previously, she was just a member of her parents' household, but now she had another home of her own and was going to pick up her parents to be guests at her own place.

"Hmph!" Chen Xiao let out a light snort, pretending to ignore her daughter.

"Mom!" Seeing this, Zhao Moqing immediately acted like a little girl and playfully coaxed her mother.

Zhao Xianhong smiled and said, "Moqing, don't mind your mom. She was carefully dressing up upstairs earlier, afraid she'd embarrass you!"

Seeing her husband expose her, Chen Xiao gave him a very dissatisfied look.

After everyone got into the car, Zhao Xianhong asked Zhao Moqing, "Did you invite your uncle today? You relied on his connections to get into the tax bureau, so you should treat him to a meal to thank him even after resigning."

"I already asked him," Zhao Moqing nodded and said, "but Uncle said another township enterprise ran into trouble, and he has to lead a team for a closed-door audit again."

"Ah, well, that matter is more important," Zhao Xianhong nodded.

Once inside the car, Chen Xiao, who had been holding back for a long time, finally couldn't help asking, "Moqing, how is Qin Lin's resort doing now? I saw online videos showing that the resort has a lot of guests."

"It's alright, I guess!" Zhao Moqing explained, "We tallied it up earlier, and the daily turnover has already broken 250,000."

"250,000 a day?" Zhao Moyun blurted out in astonishment.

He knew Qin Lin's resort was very popular right now and had even guessed its turnover, but he truly never imagined that the turnover would be this high.

He knew that the monthly turnover of his own KTV was only 400,000, yet Qin Lin's resort surpassed that amount in just two days.

Moreover, out of concern for his sister, he had also looked up relevant information and knew that such suddenly viral scenic spots were extremely lucrative.

In other words, his hard work for an entire month couldn't even match another person's two days?

At this moment, Zhao Moqing added, "However, this turnover is temporary. Tomorrow we're launching new products. Plus, the resort has a limited guest capacity, so we've started restricting visitors for now. Once the resort develops new projects, we'll be able to host more people."

"..." Zhao Moyun suddenly lost all desire to speak.

Zhao Moqing continued, "The county government is also worried about Qin Lin and is rushing to help him develop projects. It seems they're about to approve over 23 million in support funds to develop the resort."

"..." Zhao Moyun fell completely silent.

He felt his sister was showing off on a whole new level of "humblebragging."

Hearing this, Zhao Xianhong and Chen Xiao were also completely shaken. Chen Xiao even let out a silent sigh, feeling rather embarrassed. Had she known Qin Lin would find success so quickly, why did she blindly worry about whether her daughter would suffer?

Sensing his wife's mood, Zhao Xianhong smiled and teased, "Is the husband our daughter picked out for herself okay?"

"..." Chen Xiao!

Zhao Moqing also smiled and said, "Mom, I always said Qin Lin is very capable, didn't I?"

"..." Chen Xiao!

Why couldn't this husband and daughter learn to read her facial expressions?

Thank goodness for her daughter-in-law, who was quiet and considerate.

Li Jiawen suddenly teased, "Dad, Moqing, it's not like you guys don't know how much Mom cares about saving face. She's definitely going to choose to refuse to answer this question."

"..." Chen Xiao! It seemed there wasn't a single worry-free person in this family.