Outside the base, there was no one around. The two of them had no scruples when collecting the soil.
However, they didn't just dig in one place. When they thought they had dug enough in one place, they would move to another.
It wasn't until they estimated that their homes would hardly have any space left to put the filled logistics boxes that the two of them stopped.
When they were busy, they didn't feel anything. But now that they stopped, they realized that it was already past lunchtime.
Liu Ruyan looked at Zhang Yuan. "Should we go back to eat or eat here?"
"If you're hungry, you can take out some food to snack on first. But for the main meal, let's go back and eat."
It was too cold outside, and eating anything would be less enjoyable.
After getting in the car, Liu Ruyan took out two portions of grilled cold noodles and stinky tofu from her space.
These snacks had just come out of the pan not long ago before Liu Ruyan put them into her space.
Whether it was the taste or the aroma, they were still in the best state.
Zhang Yuan also ate these snacks with great relish.
After eating, he didn't forget to give his comments.
"The meat is delicious, but these snacks also have a unique flavor."
Of course, Liu Ruyan couldn't agree more with Zhang Yuan's comment.
When it came to snacks, wasn't it all about the flavor?
Nowadays, many people missed this flavor but could never taste it again.
After having lunch, Liu Ruyan took out all the logistics boxes filled with soil from her space.
In the two houses of the two of them, as long as there was empty space, it was all occupied by the logistics boxes.
All the dozen or so Snow Fruits were cut open, and the seeds inside were picked out one by one. After planting all these logistics boxes, there were still some seeds left.
Liu Ruyan put the remaining seeds into her space, waiting to use them next time.
From that day on, Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan started their stay-at-home life again.
The Snow Fruit plants didn't need the two of them to take much care. They just needed to spray them with a certain amount of nutrient solution and water on time, and then they didn't need to take care of them at all for the rest of the time.
Most of the time, the two of them were still training, watching TV series and cooking.
Liu Ruyan could cook, but Zhang Yuan loved cooking more than her.
After learning various dishes from Liu Ruyan, whenever Zhang Yuan had time, he would be cooking.
With the range hood on, there was no need to worry about the smell spreading outside, so Zhang Yuan could cook to his heart's content.
Every time Zhang Yuan cooked, the amount of food was relatively large. Besides leaving some for the two of them to eat at that time, he put the rest in disposable lunch boxes and asked Liu Ruyan to put them into her space.
Thinking about the situation in the next few years, Liu Ruyan had no objections to Zhang Yuan cooking so much food. Instead, she also joined in cooking.
Zhang Yuan cooked big dishes, while Liu Ruyan cooked some simple food that could be eaten when they were out.
For example, the rice balls they had eaten before.
Besides that, there were also longan buns with various fillings, which were just the right size to be eaten in one bite.
When people were busy, time always passed very quickly.
Almost without realizing it, twenty days had passed.
Early in the morning on this day, after having breakfast, Liu Ruyan didn't train as usual. Instead, she changed her clothes and directly opened the door and walked out.
As soon as she came out of the bedroom, it was like entering another world.
There were iron rods standing upright on the logistics boxes, which were entwined by white vines, and there were fist-sized Snow Fruits hanging on them.
Each Snow Fruit was bright white and very beautiful.
The survival rate of the Snow Fruit was 100%. Every seed had germinated and grown long vines.
Neither Liu Ruyan nor Zhang Yuan had planted vegetables before, but they also knew that they couldn't let the vines grow randomly. So they specially prepared a lot of iron rods and inserted them vertically into the soil to let the vines climb up along the iron rods.
Liu Ruyan even counted on purpose. On each vine, there were at least forty or fifty Snow Fruits.
The yield was really high!
At present, there were not enough Snow Fruits in the base, and they hadn't been fully promoted yet. It was still in the collection stage.
Zhang Yuan asked Kong Rui, and Kong Rui said that as long as they were willing to sell, the base would buy them at the price of two contribution points for each Snow Fruit.
This price might not sound very high, but as long as the number of Snow Fruits was large enough, the final number of contribution points that could be exchanged would still be quite considerable.
Since the Snow Fruits had borne fruit, Liu Ruyan had been calculating how many contribution points could be sold.
After waiting for so many days, now, it was finally time to pick them!
Liu Ruyan stood there for a while and then heard the sound of the door opening.
It was Zhang Yuan coming!
The two of them didn't say much and directly started picking the Snow Fruits.
The ones picked by Liu Ruyan were directly put into her space, while Zhang Yuan could only put them into bags temporarily. When the bags were full, he would come to find Liu Ruyan.
Picking the Snow Fruits didn't require any technical skills. When the two of them cooperated, the speed was also very fast. Before noon, all the Snow Fruits planted by Liu Ruyan had been picked.
After having lunch, the two of them then went to Zhang Yuan's place together.
It wasn't until it was getting dark that they had picked all the Snow Fruits and dug out the vines and tied them together.
The things in the space were under the control of Liu Ruyan's mind, so it was easy to count the quantity.
When they were picking, they didn't feel much. But now after counting them once, Liu Ruyan found that they had harvested more than ten thousand Snow Fruits this time.
Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan discussed it and decided to keep the several hundred extra ones and only sell the ten thousand Snow Fruits to the base.
Just these ten thousand Snow Fruits could be exchanged for twenty thousand contribution points.
It only took twenty days in total, without any danger, and hardly needed any care. Except for the hard work when digging the soil, it was as if these contribution points were picked up for free.
The Snow Fruits were relatively hard and not afraid of being pressed, so they could be directly put into bags.
The next day after having breakfast, Liu Ruyan and Zhang Yuan carried the bags of Snow Fruits downstairs together and loaded them onto the car.
If the trunk couldn't hold them all, they put them on the roof of the car and took them all there at once.
They had informed Kong Rui in advance before coming.
Zhang Yuan's original words were that they had planted a few Snow Fruits.
However, when Kong Rui saw these bags of Snow Fruits, he didn't say a word for quite a while.
Finally, Kong Rui pointed at the Snow Fruits and asked Zhang Yuan, "You call this a few?"
Zhang Yuan smiled and nodded. "Yes, a few. We just planted them for fun. Certainly, it can't be compared with the large-scale planting in the base."
Kong Rui: "..."
If they hadn't known each other for a long time and he didn't know that Zhang Yuan was just like this, he really would have wanted to kick him.
No matter what he thought in his heart, Kong Rui still asked people to count the Snow Fruits and gave them the contribution points they deserved.
"The base has indeed planted quite a lot of Snow Fruits, and some private individuals have also planted some. With the ones you sent here, they can be used as seeds and promoted.
When you harvest next time and come to sell them again, I'm afraid it won't be at this price."
Zhang Yuan directly said, "We won't sell them next time. We'll plant fewer and keep them for ourselves to eat."
Kong Rui: "..."
He understood the reasoning, but what if he still wanted to kick Zhang Yuan?