Liu Ben talked about wanting to farm Quan Youbo's land, but in fact he had no money at all and didn't know whether to rent the land or not.

Quan Youbo waved his hand: "I won't rent it anymore."

Liu Bengang was a little disappointed, but Quan Youbo continued, "I'll just plant it for you."

Liu Ben was surprised. Isn't this just taking advantage of others for nothing?

Then after Quan Youbo harvested the rice, he took him to his grandfather's house. Everyone gathered around Liu Ben and talked about it. Liu Ben then realized that because there are no young people willing to farm now, some fields far away from the village have been abandoned. Now there are many people who want to rent land to others for farming.

But no one rents it!

Even if you really rent the land, it won’t cost much.

"200 yuan per mu per year," Liu Yibiao said with a curled lip, "even at this price, few people are willing to rent it to grow crops."

"For a job like harvesting at my house," Quan Youbo said with a smile, "your one-day labor cost is more than the rent for the past six months."

Hiring someone to harvest is already expensive, and Liu Ben is so efficient that he is almost like a harvester.

"Then... I'll help you turn and dry the millet during the next period of time." Liu Ben said, scratching his head.

"No need, I can still do this," Quan Youbo waved his hand. "You should hurry up and prepare the seedlings to plant. Don't miss the sowing time."

His family was the last to harvest, and other families' seedlings were almost finished.

Liu Ben nodded. There was no need to rush. The seedlings he needed in his field were still seeds that had been confiscated from the system fields.

Quan Youbo wrote him a note, which roughly stated that the land would be given to Liu Ben for farming in the second half of this year, and the rent would be offset by the cost of Liu Ben's help in harvesting rice. He signed his name and put his fingerprints on it, and Quan Youbo's land was temporarily leased to Liu Ben.

"You haven't been helping people farm these days just to look for land to rent, have you?" Liu Shuanghu asked Liu Ben with a wicked smile.

Liu Ben squinted his eyes and said, "Uncle San, do you think I'm so powerful?"

"Who knows? If you inherited that... Ouch!" Before Liu Shuanghu could finish his words, he was hit on the head by Liu Yibiao.

"You're the only one with evil intentions!" Liu Yibiao scolded, "Hurry up and turn the grain for me."

"Oh..." Liu Shuanghu touched his head and went out dejectedly.

"Don't listen to your third uncle. He just doesn't know what he says." Wang Fengjing explained, fearing that Liu Ben might have some thoughts.

Liu Ben nodded: "I know." Uncle San is that talkative person, but he has no bad intentions.

"Good, good boy." Wang Fengjing said with relief.

After dinner, Liu Ben returned to his room early, closed the door carefully, and quickly entered the system space.

When he came in, Liu Ben was stunned.

The acre of field in front of Liu Ben was densely packed with tall mature plants. The nearby rice ears were heavy with countless grains, which were golden and complete, and looked pleasing.

But what shocked Liu Ben was not the rice.

"System." Liu Ben shouted seriously.

[Here I am! What can I do for you, host?]

"What's going on in my field?!"

Liu Ben didn't even need to look carefully to know that there was more than one kind of plant in the field.

One of them is green and yellow rice with ears of rice that have curved into beautiful shapes, and the other one... is an unknown grass that is green and lush and has ears of rice.

[What’s going on, meow?] The system asked knowingly.

"I said, what is the other plant besides rice in this field?"

[Host, this is what I'm talking about! This is weeds, weeds meow!]

"No, there are weed seeds mixed in your rice?" Liu Ben couldn't believe it.

[No, this is a side effect of growing Universe Unparalleled Rice. A kind of accompanying weed will appear. There will be a little more in the space, but there won't be so many if you grow it outside, meow!]

"You call this 'a little extra'? This is more than all the rice I planted!"

Liu Ben squatted down, picked up a wild grass leaf, and broke it with a light pinch. Compared with ordinary weeds, this grass was obviously thicker. Although it was not juicy, it was not very dry either. The ears on it were in the shape of round balls, about the same size as rice. If it was threshed together with rice, it would inevitably be mixed with the rice.

And... Liu Ben put the fingers that pinched the leaves in front of his eyes and saw that his fingers had been dyed green.

I rubbed it but it didn't come off. It was definitely stained.

Good boy, I knew this system was a trap!

These weeds were mixed in with the rice, but they weren't suitable for harvesting with it. According to the system's infuriating settings, if the roots were left in, the next wave of weeds might be even more exaggerated. And this weed was dyed, he didn't want the pounded rice to be all green!

It seems that we can only pull out the weeds before harvesting.

The system said that the mature annual plants here will stop growing at a certain time, and the weeds should be the same.

Liu Ben thought about it, rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs, went to the field and started pulling weeds. Although the weeds were mixed among the rice, as long as he was careful, worked hard, and speeded up to pull out the weeds first, new weeds would not grow immediately, right?

Liu Ben calmed down and calmly distinguished the weeds mixed in the green and yellow rice fields, pulling them out one by one and throwing them into the basket on his back.

Although there were many weeds, they were easy to pull out. However, Liu Ben had to change the basket several times to pull out the weeds, and the ridges of the field were filled with the weeds he had poured out.

After pulling out the weeds, it was time to harvest the rice. Liu Ben was very skilled. He picked up the sickle, did some tricks, and started harvesting quickly.

Soon, only stubble was left in the rice fields.

After harvesting the rice, it was time to thresh it. Liu Ben turned to look at the old treadle thresher and was speechless for a moment.

But he didn't say much, he just stepped on the thresher and started threshing the rice.

Liu Ben, holding the rice stalks in his hands and pedaling, asked the system, "Do you have an electric machine?"

[No, there's no electricity in the system. I can only use this thresher to thresh the grain here.]

Liu Ben thought that it would be a bit noisy to take all this out and ask someone to thresh it. After all, there wasn't so much rice when he came here before. But he could store it first, and when the rice planted outside was ripe, he could buy a small thresher and sheller and do it himself at home. Then no one would suspect that he suddenly had more rice at home.

Just harvest the rice now.

It takes a lot of time to thresh the rice, but Liu Ben has good physical strength and doesn't feel tired at all. Even the system is surprised by this.

[Host, your body seems to be much better than what I saw when I first scanned it. Something is wrong, meow!]

"Who knows, maybe there's something wrong with your system."

【impossible! 】

Liu Ben threshed all the rice, collected it, and asked the system to help count it.

"600 kilograms, tsk." Liu Ben frowned.

Of course the system knew what he meant and was very disdainful.

This rice is the best! Although the yield is low, the recommended price is 40 yuan per pound!

Liu Ben was surprised. He remembered his grandfather saying that the rice they planted and threshed was sold at a market price of only 1 or 2 yuan per catty. However, the rice he threshed would weigh at least 550 catties after drying and husking.

At 40 yuan per catty, 550 catties is 22,000 yuan. 22,000 yuan for one crop is quite a lot.

[Host, you have to give 40% of your harvest to the system, meow!]

"Tsk, take it." Liu Ben shook his hand in disgust, and in an instant half of the rice in front of him disappeared.

It sold for 13,200 yuan, which is not bad.

But... I don't know if it's worth buying yet, so I'd better plant it first.

Liu Ben took out a wooden plow, plowed the land, and immediately planted new seeds.

Liu Ben thought about it, packed some rice, and prepared to take it out to grow seedlings and plant it in the fields tomorrow morning.

Although this rice seed does not need to be grown into seedlings, others may not believe it, so it is better to just put it on display for people to see.

Liu Ben turned to look at the remaining several hundred kilograms of rice and asked the system, "Is this all just going to be piled up here? Can you find a place for me to store it?"

[Beep~ The warehouse has been opened for the host. All the host's harvested crops can be stored in the warehouse. The host can directly view the total weight of the harvest through the warehouse, and the time is absolutely fixed! Isn't the system very considerate~]

Liu Ben nodded. Although this system was a bit unreliable and its functions were not as good as the "Golden Thigh System" in the novels he had read before, where one could plant and harvest with a wave of the hand, Liu Ben was not greedy and this was fine.

Liu Ben followed the system's instructions, silently chanted "store the rice in the warehouse", and collected the hundreds of kilograms of rice.

"Can I bring something in?" Liu Ben asked. He thought this should be no problem.

[Of course not! You can't take shortcuts when it comes to space farming! If you found a diesel generator, a harvester, a tiller, or something like that... then you'd have it too easy!]

Liu Ben: “…” Actually, I can’t afford these either.

I'm so poor that I can't even make a jingle.

Liu Ben: "Anyway, apart from the farm tools you have here, other farm tools cannot be brought in, right? What if I don't bring any farm tools?"

[This system's fields are for farming! Not for you to use as a portable space!]

Liu Ben: "I don't want to store anything, can't I just take some small things with me?"

【no! 】

"Let's be reasonable," Liu Ben said, appealing to his feelings. "When I want to take rice out, I can't just carry it in handfuls, right? Can I at least bring some boxes, bags, or something like that?"

[…The system reluctantly agrees to let you bring in the container.]

"I usually stand here looking after the fields and feel bored. Can you bring some chairs, books, game consoles, pots and pans, sheets and quilts... ahem, things like that?" Liu Ben made a further application.

[Host, please don't push your luck! ! ]

"Well... then I have to come slower." Liu Ben sighed in a pretentious manner.

[…Okay, okay! You can put a little in, just a little! The total volume cannot exceed one cubic meter!]

"Okay, okay, I will never exceed 100 million cubic meters!"

That's it, the system is satisfied.

Liu Ben was even more satisfied. After he finished tending the rice fields, he turned his attention to the weeds that were more numerous than the rice plants.

"System, what effect does this thing have on my rice? Is it poisonous?"

[No, if you like it, you can eat it. If you don't believe me, I can eat it and show you, meow!]

Liu Ben was curious: "Do you have a physical body?" System AI should be immune to poisons, right?

[Ding~ Host, please select the system display image!] The system suddenly popped up a prompt, and then a transparent panel unfolded in front of Liu Ben, displaying various system images for the host to choose from.

Liu Ben looked at the panel in front of him, which looked a bit like a mobile phone screen. He tried to tap and swipe it, and the screen began to scroll.

It seems there are still many options. Liu Ben thought about it, put aside the rice fields for the time being, and started to choose the system image.

"Ragdoll cat, Chinchilla cat... Calico cat, Cow cat..." Liu Ben read: "Why are they all cats?"

【Cats are one of humans’ favorite pets! 】

There are so many cat breeds among the options, and many of them are beyond Liu Ben's understanding and do not seem to exist on this planet.

Like flame cats, crystal cats, ghost cats, jelly cats, etc., what the hell...

Although there were a lot of cat entries, Liu Ben was very curious about what other options there were, so he continued to scroll down patiently.

As he expected, after flipping through hundreds of cat breeds, dogs, hamsters, hedgehogs and other animals appeared, but there were no breeds of these, which was very perfunctory. Continuing to flip through, there were also strange things such as "human high-quality males, human high-quality females, human high-quality lolis" and so on.

Liu Ben flipped all the way to the end, and the images at the end were all weird and strange, not like the options a normal person would click. The last one was a "cool and colorful talking caterpillar". When Liu Ben swiped back again, it bounced back. This time there was really no more.

"Host, dear, you don't want to choose this, do you? Insects are the biggest enemy of plants! If you choose insects, the plants you plant will be in great danger!" The system threatened secretly.

"Um……"

【And the other animals are very noisy! 】

"this……"

[If you're a human, you might accidentally step on the seedlings you planted!]

“…”

You just want me to choose the cat, right? You're being too obvious!

"Then I'll choose..." Liu Ben deliberately teased the system, and then said slowly: "Dark Night Kitten!"

Dark Night Kitten is the last cat option. After he finished brushing the bar, he had almost forgotten all the fancy cat breeds before, and only remembered this one.

[Ding! Selection successful!] The system's voice was cheerful.

The next moment, a fluffy cat appeared in front of Liu Ben.

The Dark Night Kitten, as the name suggests, is completely black and does not even reflect light. It only has two golden eyes and a few five-pointed golden star patterns on its head and back. It looks quite mysterious and cute.

As soon as the system appeared in the form of a cat, it walked gracefully to the ridge beside the rice field, plucked a handful of weeds, opened its small red mouth and started biting.

Slurp, slurp, it tastes delicious.

Liu Ben watched the system eat, so he tore off a piece to try. Hmm, it was chewable and swallowable, and there wasn't any particular sweetness, just a light fragrance. The more he chewed, the more fragrant it became.

Liu Ben didn't feel anything when he first ate it, but after two bites, he felt it. It was indeed delicious. The fresh and tender grass leaves were moderately dry and wet, with a crisp and thick texture, and felt like good forage grass.

So much grass, enough to feed a few cows, right?

Liu Ben thought about it and asked the system: "Can these grasses be stored in the warehouse?"

[It's up to the host, it's all fine. The system won't deduct points for these grass, meow. The host has never seen this system be so generous, meow?]

Liu Ben: "... then you are very generous."

The system had had enough of the flavor, licked its lips, jumped to the side, dug out a small nest from somewhere, and lay in it to bask in the sun.

While they were chatting for a while, the seedlings in the rice field started to grow again. Liu Ben took a closer look and found that there were indeed some rice seedlings mixed in with the rice seedlings, no, there were some weed seedlings mixed in with the rice seedlings, and they were growing rapidly.

Liu Ben wondered if the rice would grow better if he kept pulling out the weeds.

Looking at the time, it’s still early and there’s not much work outside. Liu Ben can devote the rest of the day to this rice field that belongs entirely to him.

Liu Ben walked towards the rice field and quickly pulled up the growing grass.

The system cat lay in its nest, licking its fur, and from time to time it squinted its eyes to glance at Liu Ben who was busy in the field next to it.

During the Wushuang rice's growth period, the weeds kept growing back, and ...

It felt like a long time had passed. Liu Ben looked up from weeding and saw that the plump rice ears in the rice stalks in front of him had already bent.

Liu Ben wiped the sweat from his face. Needless to say, he was a little tired from pulling weeds all the time, but it was just a little bit. Liu Ben was still very energetic.

So the system watched Liu Ben plant and weed, harvest after weeding, thresh after harvesting, and then continue planting...

He harvested so much grain that he even opened up another acre of land!

The system is a little impressed by Liu Ben. How can this man be so patient?

However, the system cat also fell into deep thought. It clearly remembered that the scanning data at that time showed that the host was very weak and his character was cowardly and unsteady. Why was the host so tough now?

The system had planned very well before. The host had to plant 10,000 acres to be exempt from profit sharing and obtain stable seeds outside.

With the host's previous physical strength, a day might not be enough to do the work of one acre of land. Farming is not just about planting. It also involves plowing, transplanting, harvesting, threshing... If you add all these together, it will take at least a week to complete a round of planting, right?

Although the time in the system is slower than outside, people's fatigue will not disappear quickly because of the time in the system. It still follows the time of the outside world!

But look at this host who just experienced "weakness and near death," raking the ground so hard that he's almost leaving an afterimage. Is this an ordinary person?!

Is this the physical strength that an ordinary person should have?

It's simply superman!!

The author has something to say:

Liu Ben: It's just weeding! A piece of cake!

System: This is just the beginning. Hehehe. Meow~~

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