Chapter 49 Feedback

Chen Qiuxin is an office worker.

She has been working for several years since graduation. With her excellent work ability, she bought a small apartment of her own in a first-tier city and brought her mother, who has poor eyesight, to live with her.

Every morning, Chen Qiuxin gets up very early, goes for a morning run, buys breakfast for herself and her mother, eats it quickly, and then exercises in the living room.

A Pilates video was playing on TV, and Chen Qiuxin was practicing it attentively when she suddenly heard a "tap-tap" sound, as if someone was knocking on her window.

But she lives on the 20th floor, so why would someone knock on her window?

The "tap-tap" sound started again; it couldn't be a hallucination.

Chen Qiuxin felt a chill run down her spine. She stopped what she was doing and turned off the TV. She then noticed that the "ticking" sound was clearer and seemed to be coming from the direction of the balcony.

She slowly walked to the balcony and drew back the white sheer curtains—

A blue bird, carrying a cardboard box on its back, stood on her balcony and gently pecked at the glass of the sliding door twice with its beak.

The bird's feathers are very beautiful, shimmering with iridescent colors, and it is almost a meter tall.

Chen Qiuxin: !!

"What's going on? Am I seeing things?" Chen Qiuxin rubbed her eyes in disbelief and looked at the balcony again, but the bird was still there!

"Xin Xin, what's wrong?" Chen Qiuxin's mother heard the commotion in the living room and came over in confusion.

"Oh my, where did this bird come from? It's so big!"

"I don't know either, it seems to be a spirit bird." Chen Qiuxin was completely confused as she opened the sliding door.

She looked at the blue bird and asked, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

The blue bird is the kite that came to deliver the package.

Seeing that Chen Qiuxin had opened the door, it used its spiritual power to place the cardboard box on its back on the ground.

"Chirp—" It spread its wings and chirped clearly.

"This is..." Chen Qiuxin looked at the cardboard box with a puzzled expression and saw the delivery slip.

The shipping address was very simple: Xuanling Immortal Mountain, Ling'an City, and the sender was Li Chang'an.

"Oh!" Chen Qiuxin suddenly realized, "Mom, the groceries I ordered have arrived."

She looked at the spirit bird with delight and a touch of novelty, "It's actually a spirit bird that's delivering goods."

Seeing that she had accepted the cardboard box, the bird lowered its head slightly, as if nodding in greeting, then turned and spread its wings to leave.

Chen Qiuxin suddenly remembered something, ran to the living room to pick up her phone, but could only capture a picture of the bird's back as it flew away.

Mrs. Chen laughed and said, "They actually use spirit birds to deliver goods. This vegetable seller is really interesting. Which sect are they from?"

"No, it's Xuanling Immortal Mountain, do you know it?" Chen Qiuxin shook her head and carried a box of vegetables back to the living room.

"Mysterious Spirit Immortal Mountain? It sounds familiar. I might have heard someone mention it before, but I can't remember."

While opening the delivery box, Chen Qiuxin said, "It's that secret realm left behind by the deity six thousand years ago. It recently got a new owner, and that owner is growing vegetables in the immortal mountain."

"Oh, oh." Upon hearing the mention of the deity, Mother Chen understood.

She was illiterate and had a low level of education. Records of the Boundless God Venerable were all found in cultivation books or history books, so she had only heard others mention him and remembered that he had once saved the Cangxuan Realm, but she might not be able to remember the Xuanling Immortal Mountain.

But as long as it is said that Xuanling Immortal Mountain was left behind by the God, she will understand.

"Growing vegetables is great, growing vegetables is great!" Mrs. Chen said happily.

Chen Qiuxin smiled and took out the first bag of sweet potatoes.

She bought the maximum quantity of each vegetable allowed, including ten pounds of sweet potatoes, each one bigger than her palm.

Then she took out a bag of pumpkins.

The pumpkin was a green, tender pumpkin, about the size of two of her palms.

This is specifically noted on the Xianshan Farm website. Li Chang'an also said that if you want to eat old pumpkins, you have to wait for the pumpkins in the field to grow a little longer.

Tender pumpkins are also delicious; they can be stir-fried or boiled.

Chen Qiuxin became more and more satisfied as she looked at it.

Every vegetable on Xuanling Immortal Mountain is very fresh. The eggplants still have their stems on, long and tender, with a slight firmness. You can make a fresh crescent-shaped mark by gently pinching them with your fingernail.

The white radish was juicy and plump. Chen Qiuxin broke it in two with her hands, and there was even juice at the broken end.

She didn't even bother to wash her hands before taking a bite.

The white radish is crisp, juicy, and has a refreshing sweetness. It's not spicy at all, just a mild aftertaste.

Chen Qiuxin was somewhat excited.

In her memory, raw radishes have a bitter taste and a very pungent spiciness. Only white radishes harvested after the first frost are sweeter than spicy.

I never expected that the white radishes produced in Xuanling Immortal Mountain this season would taste even better than those produced after the first frost.

"Mom, you should try it." Chen Qiuxin quickly handed the other half to her mother.

After taking a bite, Chen's mother was pleasantly surprised and praised the food.

The mother and daughter then took out cauliflower.

Surprisingly, these cauliflowers had no black spots of spoilage or insects.

What she sees in the live stream is what she gets in her hands.

Heaven knows, Chen Qiuxin's biggest fear is handling cauliflower. Because occasionally, when she breaks open the branches, she will accidentally see small green insects hiding among the branches. If they are not cleaned properly, she will find the dead insects at the bottom of the bowl after cooking.

At the bottom of the cardboard box were three large Chinese cabbages and two extra-large cabbages, all with tender leaves and no damage whatsoever.

Mrs. Chen said with satisfaction, "These vegetables are so fresh, Xin Xin, you really know how to buy them."

"Of course." Chen Qiuxin hummed proudly twice, picked up her phone and was about to click on the website to confirm receipt, but found that it was already past eight o'clock.

"Mom, I'm going to work now. Be careful with electricity at home."

Chen Qiuxin returned to her room, quickly took a shower, changed her clothes, and prepared to go out with her bag.

Before setting off, she thought for a moment and took a white radish and a sweet potato.

*

During afternoon tea time, Chen Qiuxin went to the tea room, washed the sweet potatoes, wrapped them in several layers of damp kitchen paper, and put them in the microwave to bake. She also peeled the white radish slightly and prepared to eat it raw.

Just as she was about to take her first bite of the white radish, a colleague walked in with a coffee cup.

"Qiu Xin, what are you eating? Radish?"

Chen Qiuxin smiled and said, "Yes."

My colleague asked curiously, "What's so good about radishes? I brought some apples, how about we eat some together later?"

Chen Qiuxin quickly shook her head and said, "No, no, I'll just eat my radish."

She didn't really like apples; in her memory, they were just a boring fruit.

It doesn't taste as good as the white radish in her hand.

My colleague chuckled: "Apples may not taste very good, but they are nutritious."

"But this is the first time I've seen someone eat radishes for afternoon tea. Aren't radishes usually a bit spicy this time of year?"

My colleague took some coffee beans and put them on the coffee machine, and the sound of the coffee machine running immediately filled the break room.

"It's not spicy, my radish is sweet," Chen Qiuxin explained instinctively. "It's very crunchy."

After she finished speaking, she immediately broke off a small piece, put it in her mouth, and chewed it.

Even though the coffee machine was quite loud, my colleague seemed to hear a very crisp "click" sound.

My colleague glanced at the radish in her hand; the part that had been broken off seemed to reflect light, and you could easily imagine how fresh and juicy it was.

She inexplicably felt a urge to eat it, even though she disliked the pungent smell of radishes the most, which was as strong as onions when eaten raw.

Therefore, she doesn't even like pickled radishes; she only eats boiled ones.

Seeing the hesitation on her colleague's face, Chen Qiuxin smiled and said, "I'll share a piece with you, why don't you try it?"

"Well..." my colleague said a little embarrassedly, "Thank you then?"

"You're welcome." Chen Qiuxin laughed heartily, took a fruit knife, cut a piece, and handed it to her colleague.

After thanking him again, his colleague tentatively took a bite.

The next second, she stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

The part of the white radish near the root should be spicier, but the piece that Chen Qiuxin gave her burst with juice when she bit into it. It was very crisp and tender, and very sweet, without any pungent spiciness!

"Is it delicious?" Chen Qiuxin asked, raising an eyebrow.

My colleague nodded eagerly, "Delicious, delicious! Qiuxin, where did you buy it? I want to buy some after get off work too."

Just as Chen Qiuxin was about to speak, she smelled an even more fragrant aroma.

The aroma was sweet and rich, even overpowering the taste of the coffee my colleague had ground.

That smelled from the microwave in the break room; it was from the sweet potato she roasted!

Chen Qiuxin was startled and went to check. The time she had set hadn't ended yet; it wasn't time to flip the sweet potatoes.

Even so, the sweet potato still exudes an amazing aroma.

Chen Qiuxin was initially pleasantly surprised, but then she remembered something. She turned her head and, sure enough, her colleagues nearby smelled the aroma and came over curiously.

"Wow, is anyone here baking sweet potatoes in the microwave? They smell so good!"

"Oh my god, I just ate a small cake, but the smell of this roasted sweet potato makes me crave it again."

"It smells so good, it instantly brings a feeling of winter to my heart. Who baked this? Your skills are amazing."

Upon hearing this, the colleague pointed at Chen Qiuxin.

Chen Qiuxin quickly replied, "I learned it from a video. It's very simple and doesn't require any special skills. The reason it smells so good is because of the high-quality raw materials."

A colleague joked, "You're being modest."

Another colleague, standing by the door, saw the radish in Chen Qiuxin's hand: "Hey, Qiuxin, the radish in your hand looks delicious too."

As soon as she finished speaking, the other four colleagues also noticed the white radish in Chen Qiuxin's hand.

Chen Qiuxin knew she couldn't avoid it.

She cut the remaining radish into pieces and gave one piece to each of her six colleagues present to try.

As a result, I only got a few pieces to eat.

Chen Qiuxin felt a pang of regret, but seeing the undisguised amazement on her colleagues' faces, the regret was replaced by joy.

Sharing good things you buy and receiving recognition from others can be very satisfying.

A colleague, having finished her piece of radish, looked at Chen Qiuxin with lingering interest and asked, "Qiuxin, where did you buy this radish?"

As soon as she finished speaking, her colleagues around her looked over curiously.

Chen Qiuxin smiled and said, "I'll post the website for Li Chang'an's Xianshan Farm in the work group later. However, this batch of vegetables has already sold out, and the next batch will have to wait for a month. In the meantime, some other vegetables may be available. You can follow his WeChat account."

"Oh! I've heard of him, but I didn't expect him to start selling vegetables online! Thank you, Qiuxin!"

"Thank you so much, Qiuxin. I heard that the vegetables at Xianshan Farm are quite expensive. Next time I buy some, I'll bring them back to share with you."

His colleagues thanked him repeatedly.

Looking at her colleagues' joyful and excited faces, Chen Qiuxin felt satisfied, but also a little amused and exasperated.

She had a feeling that it would be even harder to buy vegetables from Xianshan Farm next time.

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