Isekai: Princess Marquess Becomes Entrepreneur of Tempe

Chapters 15. Self Confidence

"Then what next, Miss?" ask Ryndall. Now they knew that the vacant land before them was acidic, which meant that it was impossible to grow plants that could be harvested properly.

To improve the acidic soil needs to be done calcification. Liming is a method of increasing the pH of the soil by giving agricultural lime to plowed land.

Agricultural lime is of various types, and the most commonly used is dolomite.

"What is dolomite?" Bran and Ryndall are both confused when asked by Elona.

"That's the material for making buildings. Any?"

"The building? We used limestone for that, Miss."

"Oh, so limestone is there?" Elona thought for a moment.

In addition to dolomite, limestone or limestone can also be used for calcification of the soil. Dolomite is actually a limestone that has a magnesium content reaching a certain level. But it seems that in this fantasy world, the public has not been able to distinguish which limestone has become dolomite and which has not.

Limestone can replace dolomite for calcification of the soil, although it is not as effective as the result when using dolomite. Because in limestone does not necessarily contain magnesium, while in dolomite there must be magnesium. Even if limestone contains magnesium, not as much as dolomite. Please note that magnesium is also one of the nutrients needed by plants in the formation of green leaves.

But maybe. rather than nothing at all.

Elona looked back at the empty land before him. It is a hundred hectares. If done liming, to raise one soil pH figure alone need 2 tons of limestone lime to be sown in the area of 1 hectare. Only 1 hectare needs 2 tons of lime. While the land before him was an area of a hundred hectares.

"We will not be able to work all this land at once." muttered Elona.

"What's up, Miss?" ask Bran. Elona explained his thoughts.

"For the first time, we can't work on this land all at once. I'll try 4 acres first. If successful, the next season will be added. Let's just give it a benchmark first."

Ryndall records all of Elona's words in his book carefully. "Then, Miss?"

"We need to plow this land. Dispose of all the crops that failed to harvest" Elona said, pointing to plants that were still stuck in the ground and rotting.

"Follow everything, but do not throw it away because it can be used as fertilizer later. Then, the ground was ploughed with hoes and rakes. Then-"

"Wait a minute, miss, I'm sorry I cut your conversation," Bran looked anxious.

"What's up, Uncle?"

"If what Miss mentioned earlier must be done to improve this land, the problem is its human resources..."

"I mean Uncle Bran?"

"That's why the people are desperate for this land. I'm not sure they'll help, miss." said Bran.

"But it's for them too?"

"I'm not sure they'll take it for granted with everything Miss says about soil pH and calcification."

Elona was stunned by Bran's words. What the man said was true. Elona brings a new breakthrough how to make the soil plantable, something that is modern. People who have experienced three failed harvests on the same land, will not believe it. They already believe that this land is cursed, that's all.

"But, Uncle Bran believes it?" elona asked half-expectively. Bran smile.

"I choose to believe, Miss. There's no way Miss is far from a cozy house in the capital here just to lie, right?"

"Thank you, Uncle..."

"But they dare not believe Miss Elona, who is clearly a member of Locke's family!" Mai spoke with a slight annoyance.

"Because they've never met Miss Elona. Different if the one who spoke to them was the late Mr. Edward who already had charisma in front of the citizens." Ryndall explained, but Mai quickly grabbed her collar.

"What do you mean! You think Miss doesn't have charisma?!" Mai shouted furiously. Ryndall was overwhelmed by Mai's attitude.

"I'm sorry, that's not what I meant" Ryndall said in a trembling voice. "But the trust of the citizens can't be taken for granted, because they don't know Miss Elona!"

"That's enough!" Elona yells. Mai instantly released her grip on Ryndall's collar.

"What Ryndall said is true" said Elona. Bran nodded too.

"Miss must explain to the citizens first what Miss thought, then there is a possibility they want to be invited to work together."

Elona then fell silent. Talk in front of a lot of people? She had never done that before, both in her memory as Elona and in her former life as Tara.

*****

Elona ran back to the lake behind her residence. Afternoon jogging in the lake area has become a routine sport since he arrived in the city of Armelin. While walking through the grass, the girl thought about what she had talked about this afternoon with Ryndall and Bran.

Elona had to speak in front of a crowd. He must be able to convince and persuade them to cooperate in working on the vacant land once again.

The problem is, Elona does not understand how to persuade someone. The girl was convinced that she had no talent for persuasive speaking to others.

Elona came to the shore of the lake, and he laid himself on the grass. The afternoon sky looks orange up there. The same orange color that had also been liked by him while still alive as Tara on earth, when both parents were still there. After they died, Tara never even enjoyed the afternoon like now.

His life which was always made a servant by his relatives and bullied by his cousins made the girl always in vigilance and anxiety. All the achievements he got like a class champion and such were never appreciated. It makes him discouraged if he has to face the crowd.

Tara felt that she was not that valuable for her words to be heard by others. He is always alert and anxious that maybe other people actually do not like him and his words.

And when they step back, Tara thinks that they are not close to becoming friends. So, the girl restrained herself from asking them not to go away. And finally, he had to be alone again.

"Ah, are you here again?"

"Eh?"

A voice appeared before him. It turned out to belong to the young man who yesterday Elona helped because of an incision in his body. Today the young man appeared before Elona with an already healthy body like he had never been injured, wearing a simple tunic and long black pants. Then the young man sat down next to Elona who was currently trying to get up from her fall.

"Oh, you... What's your name? Art?" ask Elona to make sure. The young man nodded.

"You're hurt again?" ask Elona worriedly. Art laughed when he heard it.

"I don't get hurt every day! Yesterday was just a coincidence."

"Oh, I guess. Ahhaha..." Elona laughed. But Art looked at him curiously.

"What's seeing me like that?" elona asked, feeling strange.

"You must be in trouble, huh?"

"Kok you know?"

"Looks clear." replied Art briefly.

"Not a big deal actually..." Elona wondered what it was necessary to tell a stranger about her problems.

"If you want to tell a story. Neither is it okay, I won't force it" Art said casually.

"I want a story. But will you believe it?"

"About what?"

"So like this." then Elona told about all the events that happened to the City of Armelin, about the land of the former sand dune that was abandoned and could not be planted with any plants, he said, and his distrust of the crowd."

"So the plan, tomorrow I have to talk to the residents so they want to be invited to work on the land once again" said Elona ended the story.

Listening to all of Elona's stories, Art was stunned. "What did you all say this to be true?"

Elona then took out a piece of turmeric that he had used to measure the soil pH. "Look, here's the proof. I'm not lying."

"OK..." Art tried to digest all of Elona's words quickly. "So, now your problem is, you're not sure you can persuade the citizens?"

"Yes..." Elon answered weakly.

"alright. Want to hear my advice?"

"What?"

"Bring another sample of turmeric into a soil dough that is pH neutral." Art then looked around. "Well, from the ground on the edge of this lake can be too."

Elona obeyed Arthur. Once again the girl conducted an experiment. And after thirty minutes, pieces of turmeric came out of the ground batter with a still bright color.

"That could be a comparison later when talking in front of the citizens" Art said again while paying attention to Elona's experiment. Actually the young man was quite surprised, but he did not show it.

"After that?"

"Yes stay smart if you just talk. Don't hesitate, others will doubt too. You can practice in front of a mirror if you want. You have to be patient, but don't give up."

"Is that so?"

"Yep."

"alright. Thank you very much." Elona smiled happily. "When you're done talking to the people, I'll meet you here, I'll treat you to a picnic!"

"Tractier? You want to feed me?"

"Yes! So you don't have to hunt anymore to find food, do you?!"

"Huh?"

Elona thought Art hunted to such an extent because of hunger to find food. But Art did not have time to explain, the girl had been called by her guards to go home.

"All right, until Art tomorrow!" Elona rushed to run towards her residence.

"Hey wait! I'm not-"

But Elona had already gone away leaving Art, aka Arthur Eckart the son of the duke, in astonishment.

Not only did she not recognize me, even the girl thought I was a poor person?!

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((Author Ryby: It has been 20 thousand kata~ :D Research chapter is making this much longer. ("-_-) Don't forget the liking!) Thanks!)