All of this was recorded in the Bai Family's library.
Bai Lanxin ventured a bold guess, recalling what Ye Chuqi had said about Giant Clam's origins. "Are you saying the grass has that effect because of Giant Clam?"
"More or less." Remembering how she had discovered Giant Clam, Ye Chuqi found it rather amusing too. "I was interested in that grass back then, so I went to investigate the island and discovered Giant Clam, along with all the little shells living around him. It was the mucus those little shells secreted that altered the grass's properties and gave it the ability to enhance flavor. Their mucus only had that effect because they'd lived with Giant Clam for so long and mutated under his influence."
So Giant Clam was still the key. She had taken some of the little shells with her too, apparently because she had worried Giant Clam might get lonely. She had left most of them to Jun Ruofeng as a basic resource, letting him make greater use of their flavor-enhancing properties and earn a considerable sum in the process. Judging by the dividends Jun Ruofeng sent Ye Chuqi every year, he must have been making even more.
Her innate instincts led Bai Lanxin to think a little further. "Is enhancing flavor their only effect?"
Ye Chuqi spread her hands. "That I don't know. I left everything afterward to Uncle Jun." She paused. "Jun Ruofeng, that is. He never mentioned whether he kept studying those shells, and I never asked."
Still, knowing Jun Ruofeng, Ye Chuqi felt sure he would not overlook their hidden potential. How exactly did the chemical reaction between the little shells' mucus and the grass occur? Why were the other plants beside the grass unaffected? Could more plants, or even medicinal herbs, undergo remarkable