Lin Qing walked over and first clicked on the shiny plus sign next to the field. It showed that adding a piece of land would cost 1,000 gold coins, adding a second piece of land would cost 2,000 gold coins, adding a third piece of land would cost 5,000 gold coins, and adding a fourth piece of land would cost gold coins. Lin Qing spent the gold coins in one go and added all four pieces of land.

"The host should not use the fruit tree seedlings obtained from signing in yet."

Just as Lin Qing was about to plant the fruit tree seedlings that Gu Nanxun had gotten from his last sign-in in the field, she received a system notification. After thinking for a moment, Lin Qing decided to give up planting the seedlings and opened the seed shop. The seed shop only had seeds for three kinds of fruit: apple, banana and watermelon. So Lin Qing bought eight portions of watermelon seedlings from the seed shop and planted them in the field.

Lin Qing looked at the eight plots of land in front of her, smiled, and then walked to the orchard next to it. She clicked to build, and the building prompt indicated that building the orchard would require 500,000 gold coins. Lin Qing checked her gold coin balance and decisively clicked to build. That's right, she was that rich. Not to mention the 500,000 gold coins she had just received as a reward for upgrading to level five, she had already earned more than two million gold coins from growing vegetables during this period.

As Lin Qing clicked to build, a vacant lot was quickly enclosed by wooden fences, each over a meter long. At the entrance to the orchard was a tall archway with the words "Orchard" written on it.

"Ding... Congratulations, host, you have successfully built the orchard and unlocked the construction of the processing workshop."

"A processing workshop? I didn't expect building an orchard could unlock a processing workshop. There's a connection between these two things!"

Looking at the wooden sign for the processing workshop next to the orchard, Lin Qing said to Gu Nanxun with a look of surprise, "I wonder what the processing workshop can process now. It's probably related to fruit, since it only appeared after the orchard was built."

Lin Qing ignored the processing workshop and stared intently at the words "orchard" for a moment. The orchard information appeared before Lin Qing's eyes. It showed that it was a level one orchard, which could plant 20 saplings of any variety. Upgrading to a level two orchard required a space level six.

"Ding... Store seeds can only be planted in fields, not in orchards."

Lin Qing and Gu Nanxun entered the orchard. Lin Qing directly opened the store and selected an apple seed, intending to plant it in the orchard. However, she suddenly received a system notification saying that she could not plant it.

"System, why?"

Lin Qing asked in confusion.

"Qingqing, you can try the sapling I signed in for."

Before the system could answer, Gu Nanxun spoke first.

So Lin Qing took another apple sapling that Gu Nanxun had signed for and planted it in the orchard, and it was successfully planted.

"The fruit seeds and saplings in the seed shop can only be planted in the field, and there are a limited number of harvests. For example, the watermelon seeds you just planted can only be harvested three times before you can't harvest them anymore and you have to replant them. However, the saplings that the owner signs in can grow in the orchard indefinitely. Therefore, you can only plant the saplings that you get from signing in or the saplings that you bring in from outside."

The system explained after seeing that Lin Qing had planted the apple tree.

Lin Qing finally understood why the system wouldn't let him plant the saplings he signed in on the field. He also realized why, even though he could grow fruit in the field, the system insisted on opening an orchard.

Lin Qing planted all the saplings that Gu Nanxun had signed for in the orchard. She counted them and found that there were only 15 saplings left. Five more saplings were needed to fill the orchard.

"Brother Nanxun, you still have two more chances to sign in, do you want to try again?"

Thinking that there were still five trees needed to fill the orchard, Lin Qing eagerly suggested to Gu Nanxun.

"You might not be able to sign up for a sapling!"

Fearing that Lin Qing would be disappointed, Gu Nanxun gave Lin Qing a heads-up.

"It's okay. It's better if you can sign in, but it's okay if you can't. We can go up the mountain in a few days and plant a few trees there. It's the same thing."

Lin Qing said to Gu Nanxun nonchalantly that she was not so insistent on planting them all today. She just felt that if there was a chance, she wanted Gu Nanxun to give it a try. If not, it was okay. Lin Qing remembered that there were many chestnut trees, persimmon trees and other trees on the mountain. They could also bring some to the orchard.

"System check-in!"

"Ding... Congratulations, master, you have successfully checked in and received an orange tree. Would you like to claim it?"

"receive!"

Gu Nanxun handed the orange saplings he had received to Lin Qing.

"Brother Nanxun, you're amazing! These are saplings that we didn't have before."

Previously, Gu Nanxun had signed up for a total of 15 seeds, including three apple saplings, one banana sapling, two durian saplings, three peach saplings, three portions of watermelon seeds, and three portions of cantaloupe seeds. He didn't have any orange saplings yet!

Lin Qing was so happy that she rewarded Gu Nanxun with a kiss, and then happily planted the orange tree in the orchard.

"System check-in!"

"Ding... Congratulations, Master, you have successfully checked in and received two orange seeds. Would you like to claim them?"

"receive!"

"That's fantastic, another new fruit tree."

Lin Qing happily accepted the two orange saplings and planted them as well.

"What's wrong, Brother Nanxun?"

After planting the fruit trees, Lin Qing turned around and found Gu Nanxun staring at her without blinking, so she asked in confusion.

Seeing that Lin Qing hadn't noticed his intentions, Gu Nanxun pointed to his cheek and leaned his face in.

Lin Qing chuckled and cupped Gu Nanxun's cheeks in her hands, then stood on tiptoe and kissed him on both cheeks.

Gu Nanxun then patted Lin Qing's head with satisfaction, kissed her cheeks several times, and then released her.

"We've planted 18 seeds so far, but watermelons and cantaloupes aren't immortal plants, so we'll probably have to plant six more seeds in a while. But that's okay, we'll plant the rest slowly."

Lin Qing clapped her hands with a smile, looking at the orchard in front of her with great joy. She admired it carefully for a while before slowly walking out of the orchard and heading towards the processing workshop next door.

Lin Qing walked directly to the workshop and clicked the construction instruction. To Lin Qing's surprise, building the workshop would require 1 million gold coins, which was more than the orchard.

Lin Qing thought for a moment and temporarily gave up building the processing workshop. He wanted to build the ranch first, because he was worried that if he built the processing workshop, he might need a lot of gold coins to build the ranch! Lin Qing was afraid that he wouldn't have enough gold coins.

So Lin Qing went straight to the wooden block that formed the ranch and clicked to build without hesitation. Building a ranch also required 500,000 gold coins, but thankfully it wasn't too much, just like building an orchard.

In the blink of an eye, a small house appeared before Lin Qing, along with a small courtyard.

"Ding... Congratulations, host, the ranch has been successfully built, and the construction of the feed mill has been unlocked."

This suggestion was both expected and unexpected for Lin Qing. It seemed that the feed mill had to be built immediately.

Lin Qing glanced at the wooden sign next to her that read "Feed Factory," then turned her gaze back to the ranch. She saw the word "Ranch" written on the wooden gate of the yard. Lin Qing stared at the word "Ranch" for a moment, and then the ranch's information appeared before her eyes. It read that it was a Level 1 ranch, which could currently raise 10 chickens. A Level 2 ranch required a Level 6 space.