Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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After the servants moved out, the whole place immediately became quiet.
This was almost the most peaceful moment Lu Huan had experienced in the past decade. The only sound between heaven and earth was the falling snow.
He couldn’t help but take a deep breath, and his brows relaxed a lot.
After Lu Huan changed into a dry robe, he did not rest for a moment. Instead he found a hoe from the corner of the firewood yard and walked around the entire area awarded to him by the old lady. After inspecting it for a while, he finally stopped at an open space behind the bamboo forest.
The snow here was soft, with some tender buds and bamboo shoots faintly emerging, indicating that it was suitable for planting.
It was winter now, so he couldn’t plant anything, but he could start clearing the land…
Lu Huan acted quickly, and in less than an hour he had turned over the land.
Then he went to several other yards that had become empty after the servants had left, and violently tore down the fences in those yards. He then carried the fences to the clearing site and set up camp there.
If he turned the soil every few days, it would be more suitable for planting next year.
The vegetables grown could be eaten by oneself or sold – in any case, livelihood would not be a problem in the future, and being self-reliant was much better than being constrained in every way like before.
After doing this, he skillfully tied up the remaining fences and made a circle outside his firewood yard to make a small chicken coop. He also used local materials, the dismantled wood from several other firewood houses, and straw to make a nest for the hens to keep them warm in the winter without thinking.
Su Xi cheered for him from outside the screen, “Hurry up, buy a hen, you have to eat more eggs to replenish your body.”
Not far away was the servants’ small kitchen, which was previously used by servants on night duty to cook midnight snacks. After the old lady rewarded him with this house, those people in the back kitchen also had to move out.
Although this small kitchen was simple and not as big as the back kitchen in Ning Wang’s Mansion, it had everything he needed, such as a stove and firewood.
There was a layer of sweat on Lu Huan’s forehead, but he didn’t stop for a moment, instead he took the tools to clean up the simple small kitchen.
He finished all these quickly and it was almost dark, but he didn’t stop. He took the silver and walked briskly towards the side door of Ning Wang’s Mansion.
It was obvious that he was planning to use the three taels of silver he had just received to go to the market to buy some tools, chickens, ducks, etc.
And outside the screen, Su Xi was biting a bun and was enjoying the show so much!
While she was having breakfast, the baby stick figure sketch was running around on the screen, now here, now there, working with his hands.
The fences were put up as quickly as the city walls, the ground was turned over and became softer, and the snow was full of footprints of the kid walking around.
Su Xi felt it was simply breathtaking!
——Wow, how come her kid is so great! Not only is he hardworking, he is also very active, he works very fast and doesn’t talk much, he really knows how to live!
Why would she still watch Li Ziqi[1]’s live broadcast? From now on, just watch her kid farming!
Su Xi wanted to go over and see what the ancient street market outside Ning Wang’s Mansion was like. She was extremely curious and wondered if there would be jugglers, sugar figurines holding lanterns, and the like.
However, because it could not be unlocked for the time being, she could only watch the game character disappear from this place.
“Every time the accumulated points can only unlock one location, when will all of them be unlocked?!” Su Xi was left in the empty space, so she wiped her hands with a tissue with a lingering feeling.
The system said: “Please work hard to complete the main mission. As the difficulty of the mission increases, the reward points will also increase.”
Su Xi casually asked, “What is the next main mission?”
The system message popped up: “Please accept the main task 2 (primary): Help the protagonist to increase grain production to 2,000 kilograms, and successfully get to know the richest man in Beijing, Wan Sanqian, and get his support.”
“Difficulty level 4, gold coin reward 100, point reward 8.”
No–
What the hell??? As a liberal arts student who was not good at math, Su Xi quickly opened the Baidu page and checked what the output of 2,000 kilograms was.
She took a look and almost fainted.
“There is only one person in the game. You want him to grow 2,000 kilograms of crops on this kind of crappy land? How long will it take? Can he still become an emperor?”
The system mechanically said: “So the difficulty is four stars.”
“Besides, the background of the game is in ancient times. There were no excavators or any modern facilities. Even fertilizers of different varieties had not been discovered. Other merchants could produce several hundred kilograms per mu, which was already alarming in the capital. You want me to produce 2,000 kilograms?!”
The system repeater said: “So the difficulty is four stars.”
Su Xi asked suspiciously, “What is the total difficulty rating? It can’t be ten stars, right?”
The system was silent for a moment, then said, “There are a total of one hundred stars.”
Su Xi: “……………………???”
This game was so fu**ing perverted. This was only the second main mission and Su Xi had no idea what other missions were waiting for her.
But she was eager to try.
It was obvious that everyone in Ning Wang’s mansion was a villain, and only the old lady could be the support of the cub.
But the old lady had an indifferent personality. At most she could only give the baby some help and benefits. It was impossible for her to completely stand on the side of the baby and protect him.
If the baby wanted to become stronger, he would have to rely on people outside Ning Wang’s Mansion – or in other words, gradually recruit soldiers and build up his own power.
To put it simply, it meant recruiting younger brothers.
Just imagine, if Wan Sanqian became baby’s little brother, how would the people in Ning Wang look like?
Su Xi looked at Wan Sanqian’s information and found that this richest man in the capital was doing very well and had contacts with officials of various levels in the capital, including the prime minister, the minister of rites, the vice minister of the ministry of justice, etc.
Rumor had it that he had more money than the national treasury and was as wealthy as a country.
Money made the world go round, and that also applied to games.
So the next goal was: help the kid grow a new type of rice that didn’t exist in ancient times? And make it popular in the capital?
System: “…” The girl had a good idea.
But there was no rush now, she had to take it step by step.
She was afraid things won’t be peaceful in Ning Wang’s mansion in the future. Although Lu Wenxiu had been locked up for a month to reflect on his mistakes, Ning Wang’s wife was still trying to find ways to deal with the baby.
They still had to be careful.
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[1] Li Ziqi, is a Chinese video blogger, entrepreneur, and Internet celebrity. She is known for creating food and handicraft preparation videos in her hometown of rural Pingwu County, Mianyang, north-central Sichuan province, southwest China, often from basic ingredients and tools using traditional Chinese techniques.