Isekai: Princess Marquess Becomes Entrepreneur of Tempe

Chapter 24. Drinking Bottle

"All right! Finally arrived today. Good morning everyone!"

"Forward, Miss Elona!"

"Greetings, Miss Elona Locke!!"

Elona greeted the workers who had gathered with him early in the morning on the former quarry he was working on, even before sunrise. Elona had already prepared herself to wake up not late this morning and head straight to the location.

Surely this astonished the workers, who were indeed ordinary citizens with low social status. They did not expect that a noble like Elona would wake up so early in the morning to be able to give instructions and lead them on this farm.

"So, today we will start planting soybean seeds. I know most of you have already planted these plants. But now, I want to match my thoughts with yours on how to grow soybeans so that there is no misunderstanding."

"Well, Miss!" the citizens in unison answered the opening instructions from Elona. The girl then asked Ryndall to prepare a whiteboard and chalk so that Elona could illustrate a simple illustration of soybean plants and other information.

"One soybean plant we will give a distance of 40 cm times 25 cm. So, one hectare we make as many as 251 rows of plants. And in each row there are 401 planting holes." explained Elona at length, while continuing to write information on the board.

"Miss, I want to ask." a resident raised a hand. Elona also gave.

"Why should the planting distance be determined to such an extent? As long as we were farmers, we never set our planting distance exactly as per centimeter as Miss said earlier."

"Oh, that's because so that every plant we grow gets the nutrients and sunlight are quite as much. If not given the same distance, then one of them can grow smaller or larger than the other."

"Ooh.." the citizens nodded in understanding.

Elona then gave a further explanation that one planting hole is filled with two to three soybean seeds only. But before doing all that, the girl suggested fertilizing the soil first, using the dried leaves of a previously failed crop.

Elona showed sacks of dried leaves that had been turned into compost, which he had brought from Locke's residence in a bull cart. With the help of a solution of rice and water as a decomposer as a moisturizer, Elona put the dried leaves in the sack for three weeks. After three weeks, be a compost that is shaped like black sand, which is very good for plants.

"Oh, I never knew that hardened rice could be fertilizer. I've been giving it to my cattle all this time!"

"Yes, yeah... Miss Elona is great, you know this..."

Residents began to busy talking about a new way that Elona introduced in making fertilizer.

"Ehem!" Elona cleared her throat to stop the whispers. The girl was a little afraid that the more people talked about the science of earth farming that applied, it would be more discovered that she was not the original inhabitants of the fantasy world where she was now.

"Err.. yuk, let's just get started!" elona hurriedly distracted them.

The process of work begins. Elona hopes the seed planting process runs smoothly, up to one hectare can be done in a day. So it took a total of four days to work on the land.

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Elona saw Art from a distance, working on the land together with ten friends brought by the young man. Elona was actually quite surprised to see the behavior of the man. In fact, he is not a citizen of Armelin, but just want to help him work on land in this region. In fact, bring ten friends with great stamina who are very reliable.

Art that he never told me about himself. I don't even know where she lives. Is he really a figure character huh, in that Heart Story webtoon?

Elona picked up a bottle and walked over to the man. Art was chatting with his friends while planting seeds.

"The art..."

The one summoned, at a split second speed, turned his head towards the source of the sound. What Elona does not know is that her voice can make the man hold his breath so happy.

"Huh-yes?"

"It's a drink first." Elona gave the drink.

Art received a flask bottle made from the skin and drank the contents. Once enough was felt, he returned it to Elona.

"Thank you..."

"Together! Do you have anyone to do it too?" Elona offered a drink while circulating a glance towards Art's friends.

One of them looked happy, then approached Elona and wanted to take the bottle from the girl's hand.

"Thank you, Miss! I happen to be very ha-" too"

"I'm still thirsty! This is for me!" art quickly interrupts his friend's words and takes over the bottle that Elona had almost given to the others.

Art's friend gawks when he loses his bottle. He looked at Art. But the young man gestured with his eyes shot, which made his friend shudder in horror.

That was roughly the meaning of Art's gaze on his friend. Obviously, Elona did not understand when she saw him.

"Kok you so, anyway, Art?"

"It's okay, let him take it himself in there." Art pointed towards the resting place that was quite a distance away from them.

"How come you are, Young Master!" his friend returned his gaze with pushy eyes.

"Oh yeah, I've never asked, where did you all come from?"

"From Rudiyart City, Miss!" answer them all almost simultaneously.

"Oh, the next town? You too, Art?" ask Elona. Art nodded his head.

"Where do you live next door?" ask the girl again. One of them answered.

"To the west of the city of Rudiyart, Miss, precisely at the residence of Eck-"

"In the countryside outside the city!" Art quickly cut through the conversation, leaving Elona shocked.

"O-oh, you're all villagers? Yes, yes, you deserve to be strong and your stamina is big. It turns out that it is the villagers, right? Meaning you guys farm a lot too?"

"L-yes, Miss." This time their answer was Art's eye-splitting.

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"Miss Elona!"

From a distance, Ryndall called out to his master while running around to him. Elona turned to look at her sister's secretary.

"This is the financial statement of all this land work, from the purchase of lime, the salaries of the workers, and the purchase of seeds, as well as the provision of equipment and other equipment."

Ryndall handed two sheets of financial statement paper to the young lady. Elona quickly understood what was written in it. It was really a big expenditure, especially when he had to ask his brother to provide a total of 60 tons of limestone lime to raise the soil pH.

"Hopefully all this will be able to return the capital when we have harvested these soybean seeds and sold them in the market" said Elona trying to be optimistic.

But that optimism was not welcomed by Ryndall. The look on her face showed a problem in Elona's words.

"What's up, Ryndall?" ask Elona to make sure. Ryndall fixed his glasses on his nose.

"Maybe we should go to the market in the city right now to check the current price of soybeans." Ryndall gave a suggestion.

Along with Mai and Ryndall, Elona set off for Armelin market that second as well. He saw the selling price of soybeans there is not much different from the price on earth.

According to the rough calculations in Elona's brain, with such a price should be able to close, even give 50 percent more profit in one harvest cycle.

"What's the matter, brother? I don't see anything strange" Elona said as soon as they saw the price of soybeans on the market. "We can still benefit 50 percent of the total expenditure."

"But we don't get 100 percent profit." said Ryndall.

"But it's okay, right? If later in the second harvest cycle our profits are also 50 percent again, we can return capital from Kak Stefan as much as one hundred percent in the third cycle! My brother no longer needed to modify me when it arrived, because it was fulfilled from the soybean harvest itself!"

Elona exclaimed with a sumringah, imagining that later in the third harvest cycle, she could reap profits and prevent the Locke family from bankruptcy. The ultimate goal will be achieved when the third cycle has arrived.

However, Ryndall looked at the young lady uneasily. Then, he took out a roll of letter paper from his bag, and handed it to his mistress.

"There's a letter from Mr. Stefan. Actually this is a letter to me, and I must not tell you the contents. But..."

Ryndall handed over hesitantly the letter in his hand. Elona looked at him confused.

"Can't you tell me the contents? What did Stefan say?"

"Read it yourself." replied Ryndall weakly. Elona immediately grabbed the letter and unrolled it, then read it in her heart.

"What...? Stefan can no longer afford me the capital for the second cycle?"

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