156 Growing at the Speed of Light
He Xing went up and down for another 20 minutes before he returned with two large woven bags full of soil. Looking at the several hundred catties of soil in front of her, Du Yue found some more logistics boxes in her interspace. Back when Du Yue was organizing the supplies, she bought a lot of logistics boxes for the convenience of storage. Now that things could be taken out and placed directly in the space, the logistics boxes could be emptied to store soil.
The two of them put the soil into the logistics boxes together. Three bags of soil filled up eight logistics boxes, which was a lot. Du Yue returned to the bedroom and took out the bowl with the seeds. The two of them squatted side by side in front of the logistics boxes, digging small holes in the soil with their hands before placing the seeds into the small holes one by one. Finally, they covered the seeds with a thin layer of soil and watered them.
There was no heating equipment in the living room, so the temperature was not much higher than outside. The two of them had just poured water on the soil, and it did not take long for the soil to freeze. Du Yue touched the frozen hard soil. “This soil is as hard as stone. Can we really grow anything like this?”
“Let’s not worry about it since we’ve already planted the seeds. Let’s just wait and see,” He Xing said in a relaxed manner.
“Alright.” Du Yue nodded. “Let’s go into the bedroom. It’s too cold here.” Even though their bodies were more resistant to the cold than before, they would not choose to suffer outside in the cold when they could stay in a warm and comfortable bedroom.
The two of them watched a movie and ate in the room, no longer thinking about the frosty snow fruit. When He Xing was leaving, Du Yue watched him walk to the door and close it. Then, she quickly snuggled into bed. It was not until the next afternoon when Du Yue had finished her training and had lunch that she finally remembered that there were still frosty snow fruits growing in her living room.
Although she felt that only one night had passed, and there would not be much progress on the seeds, she had nothing to do anyway. Thus, she decided to go out and take a look. She pushed open the bedroom door and was stunned by the scene in front of her. It was 11 o’clock in the afternoon. The curtains in the living room were not drawn, and there was only a layer of gauze curtain. The sun shone into the living room, and the scene in front of her could be clearly seen.
White sprouts had already grown out of the eight storage boxes filled with soil in the living room. Yes, Du Yue was not mistaken. They were white sprouts. Du Yue closed the bedroom door and walked quickly to the logistics boxes. She squatted down and observed them carefully.
The shape of the tender shoots was no different from the weeds on the side of the road. The only difference was the color. If it was not for the fact that there was no snow in the living room, no one would have noticed these little sprouts growing in the snow. Du Yue measured them with her fingers. It had only been one night, but the sprouts had already grown by about ten centimeters.
The rate of growth was as fast as the speed of light. Was it because of the growth rate of the frosty snow fruit itself, or was it because they had been watered with the nutrient solution? Du Yue thought about it for a while, but she could not figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it. She did not care why the plants were growing so fast. The only thing she cared about was that at this speed, it seemed that they would be able to harvest the fruits in a month.
Previously, Zuo Mingdong had promised them that if the frosty snow fruit could be planted, he would give them the first opportunity. Therefore, Du Yue estimated that only a few people in the base knew about the frosty snow fruit, excluding government officials and scientists. If she and He Xing could take this opportunity to plant more fruits, they would be able to sell the ripe fruits to the base in a month’s time. They should be able to make a lot of money.
Even when the base had a large area of these plants in the future, they could still grow these and eat the fruits themselves. Du Yue was still thinking when she heard He Xing open the door. She followed the voice and looked over. He Xing smiled when he saw her. “I thought that you’d come out to take a look at the progress of the plants after you were done with your training.”
“Your guess was quite accurate! Quickly come and take a look!” He Xing strode over and squatted down beside Du Yue.
The two of them stared quietly at the sprouts of the frosty snow fruit for a while before Du Yue told He Xing what she planned to do. He Xing did not hesitate at all because he had planned to do the same. “That means the soil we have isn’t enough. Should we go out and dig up more soil?”
Du Yue nodded. “Yes, let’s go outside the base to dig. If we dig too much soil in the base, it’ll attract attention.”
The two of them had the same thought. Du Yue returned to the bedroom to change out of her pajamas. Ever since the two of them confessed to each other about their spaces, they did not need to bring anything with them when they left the base. After all, they had everything in their spaces.