Chapter 9
"Okay, I understand. Thank you, Village Chief." Bei Qiao stood up and prepared to say goodbye and leave.
"You're welcome. Just don't look for me if you have nothing to do. If you don't understand something, you can search the system or ask on the forum, but the authenticity may not be guaranteed. Oh, by the way, if an outsider asks you how you got here, just say that you are a distant relative of the previous escort agency, and the previous escort leader came to look after the house, not a family member." He has never delivered a single escort, so it is completely fine to say that he is looking after the house.
As for distant relatives, in order to enrich their family tree, players who need to travel far away will often find a distant relative as an excuse to inherit the family property. Distant relatives are just an excuse for players. If someone suddenly appears claiming to be a distant relative, they are definitely a scammer.
"The shops in the village are all open, and they have a wide range of goods. You can go shopping when you have nothing to do. Even if you don't have money to spend, you can still get familiar with the people and things inside. I don't need to tell you what the government office does, right? Don't go to the mountain alone if you have nothing to do. If you must go, remember to go with a companion. The outer part of the mountain is okay, but it is quite dangerous inside. Some places have not been explored yet..." The village chief stuffed a resident book into Bei Qiao's hand and told her to go back and burn it after reading it. Then he sent Bei Qiao out the door while chattering all the way, and then welcomed another villager in, without any time to rest.
The village chief has worked so hard... Bei Qiao untied Huihui who was tied at the door, led it towards the horse farm opposite: Since we are here, let's finalize the matter of the bronze medal.
The horse farm's wall was tall and long, as tall as a city wall, and the end was almost invisible at a glance. Fortunately, the wall had many gates, and the nearest gate to the village chief's house was not far away, so Bei Qiao arrived in a few steps.
"Good afternoon, I'm a guy from the horse farm, just call me Lao Ma. Girl, what are you doing here? Are you here to see a doctor for the donkey, or to buy feed?" The gatekeeper stood up professionally: no one came all afternoon after the shift was handed over, and his body was almost stiff from sitting.
"Hello, I'm here to ask about the bronze medal. I bought a donkey here this morning. Do you need to record it on the bronze medal?" Bei Qiao touched Huihui's head. "Also, I want some feed. How much is it?"
"Oh, you're the one who bought the donkey this morning, Shao Biaotou, right? The bronze medal doesn't need to be modified; we already have it on paper." The staff member stood up, walked over to Huihui, and checked on the donkey's mental state. "As for feed, donkeys aren't particularly picky about their food. They can get some of the straw used for burning in the woodshed, as well as bean flour cakes and other such things. Buying feed isn't a must."
"Of course, if you don't have the energy to worry about feed, you can order feed. Feed is divided into different grades, with a minimum order of one month. It is usually delivered once every ten days, or three times a month. Of course, the time can be changed. Just come to the stable in advance and tell us. The stable recognizes both the badge and the person." Villagers usually feed their donkeys themselves, but players may not have the energy, so money can still be earned from feed.
"Can this bronze medal be used elsewhere? If I go on a long journey, can I use this bronze medal to buy feed elsewhere?" Bei Qiao needs to confirm this question. After all, the capacity of the carriage is limited. If he needs to carry feed on the road, he will have to re-plan the carriage.
"Oh, so that's what you're talking about." The staff member smiled. "If you're staying away from home, the inn will usually help you feed your mount. If you're out in the wild, you can let your mount forage for itself. Their foraging ability is better than that of ordinary people."
"Does the inn accept copper coins or..." If they want to accept money from this world, Bei Qiao will have to take more jobs. Without money, it will be difficult to move around.
"Of course it's copper coins and silver, but you can also accept this in your own shops!" The staff member gestured with a mobile phone and winked at Bei Qiao. "I recommend using the official payment channel. There's a handling fee, but the transaction is guaranteed to be safe." No krypton gold is allowed here, and you can't directly exchange silver and copper coins with cash. But without money, everything is difficult, so cash transactions between players are not prohibited. Spending cash to buy silver is not allowed. Players can only use cash to purchase physical goods or services.
Bei Qiao nodded: No wonder some people can make money playing "Another World of Martial Arts" like working. If you open a store here and do business, you can always make some money.
"If you want to go on a long journey, remember to go to the village chief to get a travel permit first. The village chief will then tell you some things to pay attention to, such as how to distinguish the innkeepers. After all, the money collected is different, and the rooms are also different. Do you understand?"
Bei Qiao continued to nod: "Yeah!" Only inns opened by players accept cash, and probably only inns opened by players have air conditioners and washing machines!
After resolving the fodder issue, Bei Qiao mounted Hui Hui, said goodbye to the staff, and turned his donkey toward the escort agency. Returning to the training grounds through the side door, Bei Qiao locked the door, locked Hui Hui back in the shed, and poured some feed into the trough. Hui Hui, the little donkey, barked twice and pulled out a carrot from the trough, as if wanting Bei Qiao to eat first.
Bei Qiao: "..."
Bei Qiao: "...No, just eat it yourself." Is Huihui a spirit? Did he think his family was broke just because he only earned ten copper coins? Well, they didn't have much money at home, but with that copper medal, they could still afford to keep a small donkey.
After rubbing Dudu's head and checking the remaining dog food, Beiqiao stretched himself and walked towards the backyard, ready to ask his mother what she planned to plant in the field, and to see what happened to the cloth.
"You're back." Qiao Lin, who was busy working in the fields in the backyard, saw Bei Qiao come in and squatted on the ground and waved at her: "How do you feel? People here."
Bei Qiao recalled and chuckled. "My first impression was pretty good. Although a few of them seemed bad-tempered and took advantage, at least they weren't hypocritical, which was good." Bei Qiao preferred facing true villains to hypocrites, because such people never hid themselves. If he wanted to deal with them, he could just physically eliminate them without having to go through all the trouble of planning...
"Mom, what are you planting?"
"I don't know. These are two packets of seeds I randomly found in a corner of the woodshed. I only know that one packet is grain seeds and the other is vegetable seeds. I don't know the specific varieties. The system doesn't show them, and there are no labels on the outside of the packages." Pulling the towel around his neck to wipe the sweat off his face, Qiao Lin walked out of the field and closed the fence gate. "It's too hot, I need to go back to the house and rest. Luckily, we have some farming experience at home. The farming model here is too real and too tiring."
Regardless of the style, online farming games are incredibly simple to control. Use a high-level shovel to shovel nine plots of land at once, sow nine seeds at once, and water nine crops at once with a high-level watering can. No matter how you do it, it's all a matter of using the arrow keys and one button. But in Otherworldly Martial Arts, none of this exists. You have to dig holes one by one, plant seeds one by one, and water them repeatedly. In short, don't even think about being lazy.
Bei Qiao stepped forward and stretched out his arm: "Is Dad offline?"
"Well, he went to the decoration city and said he wanted to buy a safety rope so that he could play games more easily... He didn't have to help me. It's not like I'm too old to walk."
"Okay." The stubbornness of middle-aged people.
Entering the small building, Qiao Lin sat down in the hall, leaned on the table and exhaled: "I'm tired... Did you gain anything from going out?"
"I've gained something, enough for now." Bei Qiao sat down across from Qiao Lin and spread out the resident register he'd gotten from the village chief on the table. "The village has quite a large population. We're surrounded by players, so we don't have to worry about their identities for now. Most of the outsiders live near the horse farm, very close to the mountains, and a small number have opened shops in the village..."
Bei Qiao twirled his pen, marking his impressions of each shop in the booklet. Song Tie from the blacksmith shop was a good-tempered person, while Xian Yu from the clothing store was like a salted fish, too lazy to turn over...
After reviewing the resident register, Bei Qiao raised an eyebrow: "Those shop owners with bad attitudes are actually more likely to be players. Is it because they have bad tempers, or have they encountered something bad that makes them unable to control their temper?"
"It remains to be seen." Bei Qiao circled several names on the resident list.
After memorizing the list and burning the resident register, Bei Qiao found a bench from the woodshed and put it on the carriage. He called Qiao Lin to log off and take a break together, and also make some lunch.
The food eaten in the game is eaten by Qiao Qiao's body, not by her. Bei Qiao's body outside the game still needs to ensure three meals a day and adequate sleep. No matter which world the body is in, it is necessary to maintain a healthy diet and schedule.
"We still need to go out to eat." Qiao Lin felt hungry as soon as he took off his holographic glasses: "I don't want to cook six meals a day."
"It's not six meals a day. 'Another World Martial Arts' projects our state when we log in to the game. We won't feel hungry if we log in after a meal. And there are compressed biscuits and compressed vegetables in the woodshed, which are both filling and nutritious."
"There were compressed biscuits. How come I didn't find them when I was cleaning the woodshed just now?"
"It's pressed under the firewood!" The compressed biscuits were as hard as bricks. If it weren't for the sweet fragrance, Bei Qiao would have cleaned it up as if it were a brick: "There is also a tunnel in the corner that leads to the outside of the wall. It's quite interesting." The safety factor is really full.
As they sat down to eat, Dad, who had been shopping at the decoration mall, returned. He fixed the safety ropes he had bought to the wall, placing two parallel ropes against the ceiling, like the steel cables used in wire ropes, and then tied the two safety ropes to the previous safety ropes.
"Okay, it's done. Feel free to use it. They said this is a special safety rope for holographic glasses and it meets national standards." There was originally a safety rope from the puppet show series, but the price of this series of safety rope was relatively expensive and it also required drilling holes in the ceiling. Bei Gu felt that it was too troublesome, so he chose the more popular simple safety rope.
The study room is limited in size, so Bei Gu tied the last set of safety ropes in Bei Qiao's bedroom. When not in use, just pull the safety ropes to the wall and tuck them behind the desk.
"One safety rope per person is just right."
"Stop working and come eat."
"immediately."
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