Franchise God - Chapter 5



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Franchise God Episode 005

Chapter 2 Off-season Mushrooms (2)

Jeon Seong-ryeol smiled faintly at those words.

For the first time in a while, I felt a sense of pride.

“Hey dude, I’ve been doing this for over 30 years. I can estimate this amount by eye. 50kg, to be exact.”

“Wow, as expected from a veteran. I guess it was a good idea to come to the boss first.”

“Just wait a moment.”

“No. I’ll go with you. While you’re out collecting money, I can play a prank on Songi. I can even switch a few boxes.”

“He doesn’t seem like the kind of person you’d want to be… but if you go with him, I’d be grateful. If he suddenly disappears after changing his mind and changing a few things, I’d be like a dog chasing a chicken.”

After repacking the boxes of mushrooms, Jeon Seong-ryeol and Ha Su-yeong went straight to the bank.

Since it was just the time the bank opened for business, Jeon Seong-ryeol withdrew 23 million won in cash.

While waiting, I tried to get information from Ha Soo-young by asking her various questions, but I didn’t get any satisfying facts.

“Here’s 23 million won. Want me to count it?”

“Yes, just a moment.”

Ha Soo-young counted the money carefully and then asked nonchalantly.

“You’re giving me 500,000 won more.”

“It’s nothing. It’s just a bribe to ask for your favor.”

“There’s nothing I can do to help you better.”

“If you ever get something like that again, bring it to me so I can buy it for you.”

“Haha, so are we accomplices now?”

“Did you really collect it illegally?”

“Sir, what’s important isn’t whether it’s legal or illegal, but that it’s not Songi Cheol right now, right?”

It was a gaze that gave off a strange sense of overwhelming emotion. It was a leisurely look that was unusual for someone his age. But Jeon Seong-ryeol strangely felt good.

“How old are you? You look like you’re in your early twenties, but judging by your guts and everything, you’re much older than that…”

“I’m twenty years old. I was born in 2000.”

“…….”

“I don’t hear any complaints about my age when I go there. People just look at me as if I’m my age.”

Jeon Seong-ryeol couldn’t help but laugh at her strangely confident attitude.

“You seem like you’re going to be a very big deal later on. For better or worse. I’m looking forward to it.”

“I don’t have any intention of living a grand life.

“I would be satisfied if I could just buy one or two reasonably pretty and stylish buildings in Cheongdam-dong.”

“With these mushrooms, bring exactly 6 or 7 tons, no more, no less. Then we can build a building like Cheongdam-dong.”

“Hey, where else can you get mushrooms like that? These are precious mushrooms that I just got lucky with.”

Jeon Seong-ryeol felt that Ha Su-yeong was joking for some reason. Her expression, her eyes, and her sly tone of voice gave off that feeling.

“Still, I hope to see you again later.”

“Okay. If you find anything like this, contact me again.”

“I’d like to do that too.”

Ha Su-yeong, who got into the truck driver’s seat, waved her hand out the window and then stepped on the accelerator.

Jeon Seong-ryeol, who was watching the truck moving away, found himself in awe.

“That’s a manual transmission, but it drives very reliably. The young man is amazed.”

Judging by the way he was able to climb the slope steadily, it wasn’t the skill of someone who had only been driving for a year or two.

I was on my way back home.

Ha Soo-young hummed and looked at the envelope of cash that had been thrown onto the passenger seat. Just looking at the bundle of 50,000 won bills made her stomach full.

“One drop a day. Two drops every two days. Three drops every three days.”

The exclusive property of the ancient gods.

A mystical holy water that is said to allow one to transcend humanity if consumed consistently, one drop a day.

But now to him… … .

“I said it’s good mushroom fertilizer.”

The pine tree grows mainly by attaching to the roots of living pine trees. It receives nutrients from the tree through mycorrhizae and transfers minerals such as potassium and phosphorus and water to the roots.

Only when the three-way relationship among trees, fungi, and soil is well formed can pine mushrooms reproduce.

However, pine mushrooms cannot be artificially cultivated. They can only be collected naturally.

Its rarity, high demand, and eye-popping price.

Because of this, there is even a saying that if a method for artificially cultivating pine mushrooms is developed, it is only a matter of time before you will be sitting on a mountain of money.

The problem is that it is extremely difficult to create a growing environment.

It is extremely difficult to even grow one or two artificially in a laboratory, let alone commercialize them.

But it’s different when you use elixir.

“It is truly the best mushroom fertilizer because it can be grown regardless of soil or trees.”

Ha Su-yeong leisurely scattered the pine cones on the dirt floor and shook them off. This was to spread the spores inside the cones onto the ground.

The dirt floor was covered with a wide area of ​​pine needles and fir needles, tangled in a mess. They had been roughly picked up from a nearby mountain.

Growing matsutake mushrooms was the most difficult task for him.

“It’s okay if there are no pine needles, but it’s still necessary to have at least the bare minimum. You never know what will happen to people.”

Ha Soo-young filled a large basin with water and placed the glass cup containing the elixir inside.

Then, I stirred slowly but vigorously so that the elixir was well diluted in the water.

As soon as a single drop of the elixir was added, the entire water glowed golden for a moment before fading away again.

Ha Soo-young filled a large syringe with the elixir solution.

On a smooth plastic board were scattered small pieces of shredded pine mushrooms.

Ha Su-yeong dripped water little by little precisely onto the pieces of pine mushrooms.

Ha Su-yeong dropped the diluted solution onto all the pieces of pine mushrooms, then put them in the basket.

“What good is giving something like that? I’m sick of being sick now. In this peaceful era, it’s better to use something like an elixir like this. Anyway, thank you, Father.”

He noticed the elixir’s growth-promoting properties and wondered if it could be used to grow high-quality crops.

For example, expensive food ingredients that cannot be obtained through farming, such as pine mushrooms.

And that prediction turned out to be remarkably accurate.

“One drop a day, seven drops a week, 12 kg in a week. About 50 kg in a month.”

Ha Su-yeong came out into the garden and whistled happily, dropping the pieces of pine mushrooms little by little onto the field.

“By the way, when are you going to build a building in Cheongdam-dong?”

He stood still and looked around the pine field.

In fact, it was too narrow and shabby to be called a field. It was not a field created in a mountain or a field, but a field created on one side of the garden inside the house.

He and his father lived in a house with a large garden in the suburbs of the city.

It was a semi-rural area with inconvenient transportation, so the land itself wasn’t very expensive, but it was nice because it was spacious.

The reason he created a pine orchard inside the fenced garden was because he was concerned about theft.

Although it was a remote mansion, it was not as if there were no people living nearby.

If you go just a few hundred meters from your home, you will find a small village where dozens of households live together.

These are people who make a living mainly by growing crops in orchards or greenhouses.

“I wish my father would give me just a hundred drops a day. Then I could produce five tons of Songi a month.”

Ha Su-yeong looked at the Milky Way and sighed.

I don’t understand why you are so stingy with the legacy you left us to eat well and live well. Just one drop a day.

The amount of pine mushrooms that can be grown with one drop of elixir per day is about 50 kg per month. Converted to a week, it is about 12 kg.

The cultivation period could be shortened or lengthened, but the amount that could be produced with one drop per day was about 50 kg per month.

Ha Su-yeong adjusted the harvesting schedule to once a week, taking into account the size of the garden.

Considering the area and number of harvests, that was the most appropriate.