Chapter 46 Live Streaming Vegetable Sales

Around nine o'clock in the morning, people who were supposed to go to work went to work, and people who were supposed to go to school went to school.

An office worker was taking a break in the restroom, scrolling through short videos on his phone, when he suddenly saw a pop-up notification: "Li Chang'an, whom you are following, is currently live streaming!"

Because of work, the netizen was initially feeling down, but upon seeing this message, he was jolted awake and quickly clicked the pop-up to enter the live stream.

In Li Chang'an's live stream, the number of viewers in the upper right corner showed over 100,000.

He'd only been broadcasting for about ten minutes, and already so many people had come.

In the live broadcast, Li Chang'an appeared to be standing in front of a mountain, with terraced fields stretching behind him.

"Good morning, everyone," Li Chang'an greeted. "Long time no see."

You know it's been a long time, huh?

[I developed a habit of going to bed early and waking up early every day just to watch your live streams, and now you haven't streamed for almost three months!]

[The live stream is a bit late today. Have you fed the pigs? Have you finished the farm work?]

Li Chang'an smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I've been really busy lately."

"I've basically finished all the work I needed to do today, so I finally have time to start the live stream."

He leaned closer to the phone camera, seemingly operating something, and said, "I just posted a message on WeDog, which is our Xianshan Farm's website for selling vegetables. You can check it out."

What?! You're finally going to sell vegetables for us?!

Wait a minute, let me go back out and check.

Why not just put the link directly in the live stream? Why make us go through all that trouble?

Li Chang'an kept watching the comments on the screen and quickly said, "If we link to the product in the live stream, the platform and the company will take a commission. How about I include the commission in the price of the vegetables?"

"...You stingy bastard."

Li Chang'an's smile remained unchanged.

There was no other way; he was unwilling to share the profits from the vegetables he had painstakingly grown with the platform and the company.

The number of viewers in the live stream dropped a bit; most of them went to WeiGe to check out the website he posted.

When the website link is opened, the first thing that appears is the logo of Xianshan Farm. After the image gradually disappears, the homepage is simple, with several vegetables listed vertically. Clicking on them leads to the introduction of the vegetables, but the direct purchase button below is not yet lit up.

Clicking "Add to Cart" will bring up a registration pop-up window.

Within minutes, someone registered and entered the live stream room to continue watching.

When will the vegetables be available for sale?

Seeing the number of people online increasing, Li Chang'an said, "We'll start selling soon. Everyone, please fill in your shipping address and enable quick payment in advance. The quantity of food is limited, so not everyone will be able to get any."

"I will also be limiting purchases here. Let me introduce the vegetables I'm selling today."

After he finished speaking, he took a basket from outside the camera's view and took out a large cabbage.

"The vegetables we are selling today are all premium quality, and the retail price is 18.8 yuan per jin. However, they are pre-sales, so delivery will be slower. Please consider carefully before buying."

Premium quality refers to ordinary vegetables.

Eighteen yuan and eighty cents a pound? That's too expensive!

[Are you a new fan? The vegetables at Xianshan Farm are expensive, but the quality completely justifies the price; you won't regret buying them.]

Pre-orders are fine too, since freshly picked produce takes time anyway. I hope I can buy some today.

Li Chang'an weighed the cabbage in his hand and showed it to the camera, saying, "This cabbage weighs about 11.8 jin (5.4 kg), which is one of the smaller cabbages among all the cabbages in Xianshan Farm."

"The Chinese cabbage will not be packaged separately, but sold by the head. Each whole head will be priced at ten jin (5 kg), and each user is limited to purchasing three heads."

After saying that, he gently put down the large cabbage and took out a head of cabbage that was bigger than his head:

"These are premium cabbages, each weighing over 18 pounds. Due to their large size, they are sold in half-sized portions. Please note this when adding them to your cart. If you want to buy one, please write 2 in the quantity list. Each person is limited to two whole cabbages."

After he finished his introduction, before he could even bring out the next dish, he saw someone in the live chat questioning him:

[You didn't even weigh it! What if it's underweight? The price is so high, we'll be the ones who lose out.]

Li Chang'an paused, then turned to Tianxuan and said, "Wait a moment, I'll have my friend go get a scale."

Tianxuan nodded, slipped into the house, and within seconds brought back an electronic scale and an old-fashioned weighing rod.

Today he is Li Chang'an's assistant, helping with odd jobs and managing the vegetable shelving.

Li Chang'an gestured: "This is an electronic scale that has been inspected by the Market Supervision Bureau. There are labels attached here."

He placed the electronic scale on the ground, moved his phone, turned it on, and weighed both the Chinese cabbage and the bok choy on it.

The Chinese cabbage weighed exactly eleven pounds and eight ounces, and the bok choy weighed eighteen pounds and six ounces.

Then they weighed it again with an old-fashioned steelyard, and once the steelyard was balanced, they held it up to the camera for the audience to see.

"The vegetables I bring out here are all the smallest variety from the field. After you receive the vegetables, you can record an unpacking video to have them weighed again. I will never shortchange you."

How could your prediction be so accurate? Did you weigh yourself beforehand?

Li Chang'an stood up, put his phone down, and said, "I didn't weigh it beforehand; I just picked it up by hand. Practice makes perfect."

When he wasn't filming, he took odd jobs everywhere. Sometimes he would help people watch their stalls and sell fruit on market days. Over time, he developed this skill: he could tell how heavy something was just by picking it up and feeling it.

Li Chang'an picked up another cauliflower.

This cauliflower is smaller than a cabbage, with tightly packed buds and no black spots at the tips.

"Cauliflower is also sold by the piece, each weighing more than three pounds. It is calculated based on three pounds, and each person is limited to five pieces."

"The rest are sweet potatoes, pumpkins, white radishes, and eggplants, all sold by weight, with a limit of ten jin per person."

As Li Chang'an spoke, he took out the remaining dishes and showed them to the camera.

He used the mountain god's antlers to harvest, and the crops in the fields, such as sweet potatoes and white radishes, were intact, without even any soil, as if they had been washed with water.

In no time at all, the vegetables that had been planted were introduced.

Is this all the food? No spirit rice?

Li Chang'an: "The spiritual rice has a long growing period and is not yet ripe. We have only planted these vegetables so far, but there is a lot of them, and we are trying to make them available to more people."

After he finished explaining, the viewers in the live stream stopped worrying and started commenting with approval.

Li Chang'an picked up a sweet potato and started peeling it with his fingernails.

The sweet potato skin is crisp and thin; with a gentle pry, pieces of skin fall off, revealing the orange-red sweet potato flesh.

This looks familiar; I used to eat raw sweet potatoes like this when I was a kid.

Li Chang'an watched the comments section while the sweet potato in his hand was already half-peeled.

He took a bite; the sweet potato flesh was crisp and had a sweet taste when eaten raw.

"You can buy it and steam it, bake it, or eat it raw. It tastes very sweet and has a little juice."

[Did they start doing mukbang (eating broadcasts) after selling all the goods?]

[Don't eat yet, the goods haven't been put on the shelves yet, how are you all going to buy them?]

I really want to eat some too! It looks so crispy and delicious.

Li Chang'an glanced at the time; it would be 10 o'clock in three minutes.

Tianxuan, who was standing to the side, gestured and turned the computer in her hand to show Li Chang'an.

The website backend has all the dishes and inventory set up; you just need to publish them to put them on the shelves.

"Okay." Li Chang'an nodded and said to the viewers in the live stream, "It will be available at 10 o'clock sharp."

[10:00 AM! Only two minutes left!]

I'm leaving now; let's see if I can still snag some vegetables.

The live stream originally had 500,000 viewers, but in just a short while, that number dropped by half.

Netizens clicked on the Fairy Mountain Farm website, added the vegetables they wanted to buy to their shopping carts, and kept refreshing the page.

At 10 o'clock sharp, some people's Internet connection was slightly lagging. When they refreshed the page again, they found that the stock of the vegetables they wanted to buy had decreased by more than half!

At 10:02, all the vegetable stock was sold out!

That's way too fast!

[Wait, everyone's usually complaining about how expensive it is online, so why are they all typing so fast right now?]

[Free shipping! Thumbs up!]

My internet connection froze for a moment, and when I refreshed the page, everything was gone. I didn't get to buy it, boohoo!

The comments scrolled up very quickly, one after another flying up.

But Li Chang'an's eyesight is now very good, and the bullet comments seem to slow down in his eyes, making them clear to him.

He stopped chewing half of the sweet potato.

Li Chang'an turned to Tianxuan in surprise: "Sold out?!"

"Sold out." Tianxuan nodded in confirmation.

"The website experienced a brief two-second lag, but it is generally running smoothly. However, it will probably need an upgrade."

More and more people will definitely buy groceries in the future, so the website needs to be improved as well.

Li Chang'an stared blankly as he finished eating the sweet potato in his hand.

Excluding the vegetables supplied to Xiaoping'an Supermarket and Qingfengpai, there were 200,000 heads of Chinese cabbage, 140,000 heads of cabbage, and hundreds of thousands of kilograms of other vegetables, and they were all sold out in just two minutes?!

He snapped out of his daze and looked at the screen. The viewers were still lamenting that they hadn't managed to buy any, or showing off that they had bought every kind. Some even asked him if he could put more on the shelves.

Li Chang'an said, "The vegetables that were grown in the fields were all put on the shelves today, and they're all gone. However, there will be spirit rice in half a month, and premium vegetables and spirit vegetables will be put on the shelves again in a month."

Another month to go?

【Yay! I can finally buy Ling rice!】

[Spirit-grade vegetables? Are they the same quality as spirit rice?]

"Yes, the quality is the same as Lingmi rice."

Among those watching the live stream was the junior disciple of the Xia Du Lian Tian Sect.

He had previously asked a scalper in Ling'an City to help him buy a pound of spirit rice. After eating it, he felt that his cultivation had improved.

It may not be a lot, but what if you ate more of it, or ate it every day?

His heart was racing, so he quickly called home and asked his family to help him buy Lingmi rice together in half a month.

In the live stream, Li Chang'an was still answering questions from the chat.

"...What if I don't know how to cook? I'll post some recipes I often look at on Weibo later, you guys can take a look."

"What will we plant next? We'll plant a little bit of everything, we have plenty of land."

"Could we take a look at the terraced fields?"

Upon reading this, Li Chang'an thought for a moment, took his phone off the stand, and flew to the Ningjing River.

[I'm so dizzy! Something just darted past!]

[Oh my god, I almost got motion sickness during the live stream, even though I don't usually get carsick.]

Li Chang'an stopped and apologized to the audience after seeing the comments: "I'm sorry."

He switched the camera and aimed it at the distant Wolu Mountain.

"Currently, only 600 mu of terraced fields have been cultivated, and they are not yet fully cultivated."

【OMG! What a huge piece of land!】

No wonder they hired professionals to design it; once it's all cultivated, these terraced fields will be even more spectacular than any other terraced field scenic area I've visited.

[I didn't see this mountain last time, how did it come about?]

"Originally there was a seal, but after the mountain god was worshipped, the seal was broken and this mountain came into being."

Some people are curious about the specific rituals performed to worship the mountain god.

Li Chang'an casually said, "We used some grains, fine wine, pigs, and the head of a Golden Core stage demon as offerings."

Fans in the live chat were all saying, "No wonder he wants to farm and raise pigs."

After all, the conditions for sacrificial rites are there, and only by farming and raising pigs can the requirements be met.

After chatting for a while, Li Chang'an closed the live stream at 11:00 PM.

After lunch, he carried a bucket of Ningjing River water and a large bag of Ling rice up Wolu Mountain.

Unbeknownst to Li Chang'an, his live stream today caused another sensation among the cultivators.