Quick, female general, I traveled through time to save my father

Chapter 456 Xiao 5 goes home 6

Aunt Li and Aunt Wang are different. People here don't like to pry into other people's backgrounds, but Aunt Li and her friends are businessmen.

Never look down on these new residents who have just been exiled.

No one knows what connections and relationships they have.

They say a lean camel is bigger than a horse. What if that happens?

Who knows what secret passage is hidden behind these two young men who look embarrassed?

What if they can really get compressed biscuits, expired canned food, or a few inconspicuous antibiotics from outside?

If they can make a profit from the price difference, it will not just be as simple as "making some money"!

When Muchen heard Aunt Li say this, he also moved over with a mercenary look on his face.

The two of them rubbed their heads together and whispered in front of the counter, "Is the fruit selling well?"

"Fruit?! Oh my god! Do you think this is a luxury goods counter in the galaxy's capital?

That's something only rich gentlemen can afford to keep in sterile glass cases! In this damn place, even smelling it is a sin!"

Her reaction was incredibly genuine, but she caught on quickly and was able to talk about fruit with ease.

That means they must have eaten it before: "Have you eaten it before? Can you get some?"

"Hey, I ate a lot. That stuff is hard to preserve. If you really got it, could you sell it?"

Aunt Li rolled her eyes at Mu Chen and said, "Don't try to frame me, kid. As long as you have it, I have the connections to sell it to you. The price is negotiable!"

Mu Chen rubbed his hands awkwardly, like a newcomer who had said something wrong, but the tentative glint in his eyes remained. He immediately brought out another basic staple food from Blue Star: "Then... rice? Flour? The kind that can be steamed and cooked into white rice or white steamed buns..."

As he spoke, he glanced at the shelf behind Aunt Li from the corner of his eye. The glaring fragments of the escape pod burned his sensory nerves like a brand.

"Rice? Flour?" Aunt Li was really stunned this time. She frowned, and her cloudy eyes were filled with pure, undisguised doubt.

It was like listening to some alien dialect, "What the hell is that? I've never heard of it!"

Muchen asked curiously, "What did you eat before the war started?"

"Nutrient solution! Isn't it always this kind of stuff?" Aunt Li looked curious: "Where did you come from? Don't you usually take nutrient solution?"

Muchen was a little embarrassed when Aunt Li asked him this. He knew a little about interstellar affairs, all of which he learned from Xiao 5. He was particularly afraid of revealing any flaws.

I mean, besides the nutrient solution, you don't eat anything else?"

Aunt Li's words brought back memories.

Besides nutrient solution, can I eat anything else?

How long ago was that?

"Stop thinking about those nonsense!" She slammed the counter, as if to shatter those unrealistic fantasies.

"Here, before the war, we mainly relied on this."

She groped around in a small, extremely hidden drawer under the counter and took out a seed... a shriveled, gray seed, only one-third the size of an ordinary corn kernel, with some strange purple-red texture.

She held the insignificant seed in her hand, as if displaying a fragment of a rare treasure:

"Here, Star Grain. This is our staple food. It's hard to chew, but it tastes good."

There was a hint of distant nostalgia in her tone, and her eyes fell on the seed, and the turbidity faded for a moment.

A hint of vicissitudes of life: "Now... this precious thing has long been extinct.

Only a few smart guys did it in the early years when the war had just ended and the pollution was not so serious.

I have dug out a few bags of clean soil from the muddy ground that was never completely covered with garbage..."

"Just that little bit of precious soil, placed in a specially made large flowerpot, treated as if it were your lifeblood." Aunt Li's voice deepened.

"Throughout the year, only a few plants can grow. Harvesting a handful of millet is enough for the whole family to have a snack. It adds a little taste of grain to our mouths, which is better than drinking porridge that is not much better than motor oil every day."

Muchen took the seeds from Aunt Li's hand and looked at them.

Isn’t this the corn seed they have there?

It's just that the grains are smaller than those there, and have purple lines.

Muchen could see that Aunt Li treasured these seeds very much, even though they were shriveled and looked terrible.

But Muchen didn't dare to damage the seeds, although he really wanted to break a seed open to see the color and structure inside.

Mu Chen placed the seeds on the counter and asked, "Aunt Li, if I can get some food similar to this, how many star coins can I get in exchange?"

"This thing is a rare commodity! It depends on how much you can get!"

Aunt Li emphasized the word "how much", as if to say, "If you can get a hundred pounds, that's the price the Jade Emperor would pay.

If you only get one…” Her eyes were full of distrust.

Muchen and Sirong have no shortage of them, there are a lot of them in the space.

Muchen looked at Sirong, and she quickly used her mind to take out a handful of corn seeds from the space and handed them to Aunt Li.

"Would you... take a look at this?"

Aunt Li’s eyes suddenly fixed on the palm of her hand!

Under the dim and greasy light, the golden and plump grains look like magical creations from another world!

They don’t have the gray and shriveled appearance of star grains, nor do they have those mysterious purple-red lines. They are pure, full, and even full of vitality golden!

“This...?!” She carefully picked up a grain with her calloused and greasy fingers, brought it close to her eyes and examined it inch by inch, her cloudy eyes wide open.

No lines. Bigger. Deeper. Looks... so healthy! So healthy... it's almost unreal!

"this……?"

Aunt Li looked up at Muchen and Sirong, her eyes moving back and forth across their faces, full of scrutiny and great uncertainty.

"This thing..." She swallowed hard, "It looks like... a large, plain star grain?"

Her tone was full of strong temptation, mixed with disbelief, "Where... did you get this?! Is this thing... edible?!"

Aunt Li was hesitant to make an offer because she had never seen this thing before and was not sure if it was edible.

She turned around and held the corn seeds in her hand in front of Old Li who was busy welding.

I hope my husband has more experience than her and can understand this thing.

But Old Li disappointed her. He looked at it for a long time and shook his head at Aunt Li, indicating that he had not seen it either.

"It's okay, Aunt Li." Mu Chen also saw their concerns: "This is a little bit for you. Take it home and boil it in water. You can eat it when it becomes soft.

After you taste it, we can talk about the price."