Su Xiaocai replied with a smile, "Donât think of me as high and mighty, Iâm just farming, really!" The attached picture was a dug-up patch of soil, with only dirt and a few uprooted weeds.
"Amazing, Iâll take one too."
"So this is how you play, see, I have it too."
"What? Look at this, a whole mountain of soil."
"Farming for twenty years, let this old farmer tell you, mountain soil isnât any good, you should dig field soil and pond mud, thatâs the good stuff."
"Hehe, mine, freshly mixed nutritious soil, I plan to write a paper on it."
"Writing a paper on soil? As an ordinary person, thatâs out of my realm."
"My son just mixed some cow dung with ash from burning garden plants, mixed it all up, and this is the color we got. By the way, my son is fifteen."
"I can picture it now, I didnât originally believe in this line of work, itâs too hard to succeed, and being a farmer doesnât pay well, but Caicai likes it. I also think this industry isnât entirely without future. Mang Blood is doing well, contributing to humanity, and besides farming, itâs worth researching these things."
"Iâll... still just show soil to Caicai, donât want to dampen anyoneâs enthusiasm."
The comments section was full of soil pictures, some yellow, some green, even some freshly dug from a lotus pond.
Su Xiaocai scrolled through these soil photos.
The soil from every planet is different, Su Xiaocai discovered several types of natural soil that can compete with the black soil.
Really want it.
Su Xiaocai looked at the good soil, fascinated, wondering when she could move some to her own planet.
Liking each one to express appreciation.
After dinner, she went to do some testing and carried out some small experiments on todayâs samples.
Before nightfall, Su Xiaocaiâs certificates were hot off the press.
The certificates were printed by Colonel Yuan, who personally handed them to her.
"Congratulations."
Fresh from the lab, Su Xiaocai accepted the certificates, "Actually, I could print them myself."
"Itâs no problem, itâs convenient here, and I came to give you an account of what happened this afternoon in the lab."
Thereâs a follow-up? Only then did Su Xiaocai invite him in to sit.
Colonel Yuan: "..." The human gossip gene was once again effectively at work.
"After investigation, it turns out they were indeed working as a syndicate, all their documents were fake."
"I suspected that, what I really want to know is their true identity." Su Xiaocai thought it was worth digging deeper.
Colonel Yuan: "Hui Rizi, foreign national, her mother was a deep-cover spy. Hui Rizi was strictly trained by her mother from a young age. The training was so brutal that it affected her mental state."
"Will she get the death penalty?" Wouldnât mental illness exempt her from punishment?
"Why do you think that? Mentally ill offenders who harm society, as long as thereâs severe aggression and lead to fatal incidents, theyâre sent to forensic psychiatric care (research) for a period of time, and ultimately face sentencing." Mental illness wonât be an excuse to escape death, the judge might reduce the sentence at most.
For someone like Hui Rizi, she wonât be sentenced until sheâs extracted of no more intel, even Colonel Yuan didnât know what her fate would be.
"Next, next one." Su Xiaocai listened with relish, even though Colonel Yuan wasnât adept at storytelling, gossip of this level wouldnât be easy to come by in a regular day.
"Lu Yunzhi, originally named Lu Songzhi. He went through plastic surgery five times, changing identities each time, each with a meticulous plan, the specifics are here."
It wasnât convenient for him to dictate, given his story-telling style, Su Xiaocai would likely roll her eyes at him several times.
Su Xiaocai happily took it, interested in reading more.
Lu Songzhiâs life was legendary, a gambler, but quite clever.
Lost every gamble, couldnât quit. What to do? He set his sights on being a "craftsman", roaming various black markets to see what side hustles he could earn from.
Forging fake certificates was his first "part-time job", apprenticing, visiting many fake certificate vendors, learning whatever he could.
Later, realizing fake certificates required a back office, he forged the identity of a second-generation entrepreneur and connected with the female supervisor of a recruitment site managing talent resources, thus beginning his "harem" era.
He even didnât shy away from selling himself.
The plot was so exciting, novelists couldnât have written it.
Su Xiaocai was completely absorbed in the ups and downs of Lu Songzhiâs life.
Colonel Yuan left, escorted by Xiao Wanzi.
After reading Lu Songzhiâs autobiography, it became traceable how he managed to get the position of a small spy boss, unwilling to settle after experiencing "disgrace", realizing fake certificates could be too easily exposed, he started conspiring with various factions.
Ultimately, he discovered that being a spy was the most lucrative, and being a spy boss was even more so.