Cave Refuge

Dong Tianyu's idea for choosing fruits is rather simple. Since each branch of the Fruit Tree yields around a hundred pounds, there's no need to worry about the fruit's yield.

However, Tianyu Dong doesn't choose the fruit based on the past prices. Instead, he chooses the ones he loves to eat.

The Kyoho melon doesn't need too much introduction. Even the most expensive first-class Kyoho melons in Pengcheng didn't cost more than about ten yuan per pound in the past summers.

Although the price is more than ten times that of ordinary melons, which costs seven or eight yuan, it must be acknowledged that the crisp and sweet Kyoho melons are indeed delicious.

The Kyoho grapes are even more unspeakable. Indisputably, its price is definitely more affordable compared to other varieties such as the Golden Ingots or any other common variety both in terms of taste and cost.

In fact, around Pengcheng, especially in Shaw County near Pengcheng, most lands have been planted with grapevines by different households.

During the massive market supply in August, September, and October, even the special grade Kyoho grapes were sold for about three yuan per pound in previous years in Pengcheng.

As for Red Fuji apples, it's local produce. Unless it's a special occasion, the retail price of regular apples in Pengcheng isn't high.

In comparison to the three types of fruits with retail prices in single or barely two digits, the price of Dandong strawberries can indeed be said to dominate.

Most fruits can be planted in Pengcheng as this place has distinct seasons, excluding ones like coconut and durian which require a special environment.

Strawberries, of course, are also being planted here. Pengcheng has a rather famous strawberry base. Although it's not as well-known as those in Dandong County, it is very well known in the surrounding cities.

With that being said, they have a rather unpleasant practice where they sell strawberries to wholesalers for just a few yuan per pound after picking, classifying, and packaging them.

However, the strawberries visitors handpicked in the orchard, after paying an entrance fee, can cost as high as fifty to sixty yuan per pound.

The strawberries sold on the pop-up stands on both sides of the strawberry field are larger, cleaner, and more economical.

It is hardly worth it to come here, where you have to pay a high price for the strawberries you handpicked in the strawberry field, which aren't as fresh or as plentiful.

After Dong Tianyu went there once, he never again visited such a place. Whether the fruit in the fruit shop isn't fresh enough, or the girls in the fruit shop aren't pretty enough, there was no reason to travel so far just to be taken advantage of.

Despite having strawberry bases in Pengcheng, only common varieties are always seen, such as Spring Fragrance and Cream.

Although some might plant special varieties like white strawberries, the quantity is not high, let alone the large strawberries like those in Dandong.

It's not clear how the big strawberries are sold in Dandong, but in Pengcheng, Dandong strawberries are sold differently from ordinary strawberries. Ordinary strawberries are sold by the pound, while big strawberries are sold individually, costing twenty to thirty yuan each, which is more expensive than a pound of ordinary strawberries.

It's hard to have enough of them, but occasionally buying two for taste was affordable. After tasting them, Dong Tianyu really thought they were many times better than ordinary strawberries.

Therefore, without hesitation, Dong Tianyu spent more than half of his savings to add Dandong strawberries to the mix.

After the Fruit Tree grew from a seed, Dong Tianyu gained a better understanding of the magical tree.

Some of the information not available on the Data Layout had now emerged in his mind.

For example, it says on the Data Layout that once a seed is devoured, a branch will bear the corresponding fruit. But after careful exploration, Tianyu Dong found out that not only fruit seeds but also vegetable seeds like pumpkins and tomatoes can likewise bear corresponding fruits.

Though there are some limitations, compared to bananas which only bear fruit once and then need replanting, after devouring a banana seed, the branch can repeatedly bear bananas.

However, for fruits like sugarcane which don't bear fruit, the corresponding branches of the Fruit Tree will not bear anything similar to fruits, but they will grow more branches, which are exactly the equivalent to sugarcane.

Further, regardless of the original fruiting cycle of the devoured seed, the fruits on the branches of the Fruit Tree will appear twice a year after concretion, each batch lasting ten days.

If they are not harvested in time within these ten days, the fruit on the branches will instantly shrink, its nutrients absorbed by the branches, and the next batch of fruits will be optimized to a certain extent.

Also, as the Fruit Tree matures with more and more branches, its size will get bigger and bigger, which may make harvesting more troublesome.

However, for Dong Tianyu, the master of the Cave Mansion, as everything in the Cave Mansion is under his full control. When the fruits ripen, there is no need for him to climb up and down to pick them. As soon as he has a thought, he can collect the ripe fruit into the Shadow Space.

Looking at the Fruit Tree before his eyes, and then at the seed packet in his hand, he couldn't help but wonder about the amount of time it would take for the Fruit Tree to finish devouring all the seeds in the packet.

The seed packet that Dong Tianyu bought online is the newest luxury version, which is known to contain seeds of 80% of the world's known plants.

Many of the seeds belong to endangered plants. As many folks jokingly say, endangered plants are endangered plants, seeds are just seeds.

Even if you purchased the seeds, there's no fuss as long as you don't get them to sprout. If you do, however, you'll be in big trouble.

For instance, a young man in E City bought a pair of beautiful birds from the Bird Market, bred dozens over a few years, and when he was about to sell them, he was told they were endangered species, barred from private breeding.

As it was his first offense, they confiscated the birds and fined him. Then they sent these endangered birds to the zoo, who unfortunately, did not survive a couple of years.

The existence of the Fruit Tree has initially solved the problem of fruit supply. However, looking at the large empty spaces surroundings, he thought it was a waste to leave them vacant.

So, he took a bag of bamboo seeds and randomly scattered them.