Chapter: 882

The carriage stopped in front of a hostel where she was staying.

“Thank you for taking me.”

After thanking the coachman, Gretel opened the door and went inside.

As she walked inside to take a quick bath and rest, she saw a pile of books on the desk.

‘Hm?’

What caught Gretel’s eye was a stack of books. A small book was sandwiched between thick herbal dictionaries.

<The Basics of Cultivating Herbs>.

Gretel picked up the book as if possessed.

This is a book I haven’t read much. Gretel, who wandered from place to place, rarely grew serious herbs in one place. Rather, it was Astelle who lived in the eastern countryside who needed this book.

Five years ago, she lent Astelle this book and taught her how to grow herbs. Astelle grew and sold basic herbs in the years that followed.

When Gretel opened the book, she found many hand drawings of grass and flowers. The method of cultivating fields and growing herbs was written in abundance. Seeing it gave her a new idea.

I think I can grow detox herbs like this.

The first detoxifying herbs found by Fritz were from the western estates. The flowers that had been in full bloom had withered and fell, and new buds had formed.

Everyone was very disappointed because the flowers that had bloomed well withered and the newly formed flowers had not yet bloomed. But when the flower withered, a tiny seed formed beneath it.

Gretel took the remaining flowers to make medicine, and then kept the flowerpot in the Empress Palace.

If it was an ordinary flower, the seeds would have grown by now.

‘Why didn’t I think of it?’

That’s because the detox herbs are a flower from the southern region. When plants are grown in different areas, they do not grow well due to different soils and climates.

Moreover, these unusual herbs are difficult to cultivate artificially.

There were many cases where flowers did not bloom or wither due to illness when grown on flat land.

There is not even any known information on how to grow detox herbs.

So I thought it would be impossible.

But the emperor needs this.

‘We can build a plantation in the Southern Mountains and let it grow there.’

It would be possible to build a plantation for growing medicinal herbs in the mountains if it was ordered by the emperor.