Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 381 - 92 Inquiring Everywhere_1

Chapter 381: Chapter 92 Inquiring Everywhere_1

The scent of the blood from the slain shark had attracted more of its kind.

These sharks, known as the Cretaceous spiked sharks, could grow seven to eight meters long in the sea during the dinosaur era. They were nowhere close to the Ichthyosaur’s speed and nowhere close to the body size of the large Kronosaurus.

But in the vast marine world, they managed to survive continuously.

Having identified these types of sharks, Yan Fei had lost interest in them.

As the sky darkened and underwater visibility became increasingly poor, Yan Fei decided not to continue his search for ’ingredients.’

Just as he was preparing to leave, small octopuses drifted up from the deeper waters.

By now, he knew that these were actually squids.

The sight of these little creatures brought back memories for Yan Fei. He remembered that when he first became a Compsognathus, he had eaten one of these little creatures in his excitement, only to feel nauseous for half a day afterwards.

It was because of this incident that he took the time to learn and could now differentiate between squid, cuttlefish, and octopus! This was indeed a challenging feat, seeing as all these creatures were soft tentacled weirdos.

So many things had happened over the last year, but it felt like it all occurred a long time ago.

With his mind clouded with nostalgia, he did not hesitate to snatch up numerous squids, preparing to re-experience their taste. Of course, this time he planned on cooking them properly.

Upon returning to Vegetable Garden Island, Yan Fei did not hurry to do anything else, but as soon as he transformed into a cinereous vulture, he began to fly desperately towards the Provincial City.

It wasn’t too late when he reached the Provincial City. Yan Fei transformed into a small insect above the Agricultural University campus, found a secluded area to emerge riding his bike, and rushed to the library before closing time.

He hurried inside and began scouring the bookshelves.

He couldn’t help but curse under his breath as the Agricultural University’s library had even kept cookbooks. Was the university training talent or foodies?

Having a cookbook wasn’t the problem; it was that it didn’t have everything.

Why not get a comprehensive cookbook from the dinosaur era? Among the half-day scrolling, only shark fin and squid recipes were available. Well, he decided to pretend that the unidentified sea creatures were crabs and a large variation of grey shrimp along with kelp.

Yan Fei jotted down all the useful recipes, not caring to copy them one by one. If it tastes good, he’d naturally remember it after making it a few times.

Once he returned to Vegetable Garden Island, he began preparations.

Whatever resembled kelp, he treated it as kelp, and whatever resembled crab, he treated it as crab.

He had encountered very few ’seafood’ in his past. Besides kelp and beltfish, there was nothing else he had seen – even seaweed, which he often saw later, he hadn’t seen at that time.

Even kelp and beltfish he had seen were dry seafood—dried kelp was bundled together, and beltfish were dried one by one.

That’s the fate of inland cities. During an era of underdeveloped transportation, ordinary people could not get their hands on many marine products.

After everything was prepared according to the cookbook, he was finally able to taste the food.

Perhaps it was good luck. He had caught a lot of sea fish at the river’s estuary before, but none tasted particularly good. The ingredients he prepared today, however, tasted surprisingly good.

This led Yan Fei to conclude that in his dinosaur world, there were no creatures that couldn’t be eaten, just some that he didn’t know how to cook yet.

Just following the recipes could yield pretty delicious dishes, which showed that if you mastered the method, there’s really nothing that can’t be eaten.

He had prepared a feast in the morning, waiting for his wife to come back and taste. He felt that these things were harmless after eating, so he was ready to present them to his wife. About where they came from, the kelp had always been there, and aside from the obviously marine creature such as the squid, others could basically pretend to be freshwater.

In the end, it was just him taking advantage of his wife that she hadn’t eaten seafood before.

Unfortunately, Xu Xiaoyan had no idea that he would come so early in the morning. Besides, breakfast in the school canteen had always been the cheapest, so she didn’t even come home in the morning.

Since that was the case, there was no hurry to find his wife. He decided to take advantage of the morning to finish the urgent tasks.

First, he found a public telephone and dialed Wang Jiuming’s number to ask about the place where earthworms are sold, intending to explore prices.

His voice was still screaming on the phone, probably because he was once again in an area with a weak signal. Based on Yan Fei’s inquiry about the selling place of earthworms, Wang Jiuming’s joy was palpable over the phone, although, sadly, he informed him that he hadn’t yet found a solution for the earthworm manure issue.

There were no suppliers around Wan City utilizing earthworm manure as organic fertilizer. Currently, if he wanted to sell earthworm manure, there was no way to do this—Wang Jiuming did not advise him to transport the earthworm manure to the Provincial City to sell, asserting that it isn’t cost-effective.

Fortunately, Yan Fei informed him that his greenhouse vegetables had been successfully planted, and they were about to bloom and bear fruits, so the earthworm manure can be directly used. This slightly cheered up Wang Jiuming; otherwise, he would not feel very comfortable if the project he introduced ended up being a failure in someone else’s hands.

Subsequently, Yan Fei inquired about the issue of fodder grass.

This was easy to solve since Wang Jiuming knew many people involved in agriculture. After learning that he planned to look for some fodder grass seeds for experimental planting, he gave him an address.

Then Yan Fei started rummaging around the Provincial City to find the place.

The issue of fodder grass seeds was easy to solve, Wang Jiuming provided not only the address but also a contact person.

This organization was technically affiliated with the Agricultural Academy. After reporting the person’s name, they asked him about his business. When they found out that he just wanted to buy some fodder grass seeds, they asked him how much he intended to plant.

Yan Fei dared not say that he had over a hundred acres of land, since the land in the dinosaur world could not be made known to others. Seeing that he couldn’t buy too much, else he wouldn’t be able to explain where he was going to plant them.

When he said that he was planning to try out planting it in some barren land next year, they handed him two catty seeds without asking for money.

Reasons were simple, firstly, because it was introduced by Wang Jiuming, whom they respect; secondly, there aren’t many people planting fodder grass at this age, and they were willing to give Yan Fei seeds to try out; this type of unit also carries a promotional function, maybe after he succeeds, the seeds will be widely promoted.

After he got the seeds, Yan Fei went to find the place where earthworms were bought according to the address.