Chapter 170 Exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City: Price Adjustments and Home Buying Plans (Small...)
What happened to the streamer?
[His expression seems off; could it be that the ginseng and lingzhi mushroom's growth isn't progressing smoothly?]
But she looks quite good-looking.
Lu Xuan said, "It wasn't exactly unsuccessful, but the energy expenditure was greater than expected."
Previously, he mainly used his time-manipulation ability to catalyze salted eggs, pickled cabbage, spicy cabbage, or fruit wine; this was the first time he had used it on ginseng and lingzhi.
The time-manipulation ability already consumes more energy than other abilities, little did he know that ginseng and lingzhi mushrooms could consume even more 'abilities'.
Lu Xuan analyzed it carefully. Perhaps it was because the others did not require him to provide extra energy to the raw materials, but only needed to be catalyzed. However, the medicinal value of ginseng and lingzhi was extremely high, and they required more nutrients.
Based on this consumption rate, if he were to plant a hundred plants and accelerate their growth every day for a year, it would mean he would need to provide a hundred years' worth of nutrients in a single day…
This is going to drain him dry.
Lu Xuan: "..."
I was careless; aged ginseng really can't be mass-produced.
Reducing the amount of planting is possible, but the cost-effectiveness is not that high. It's better to recycle more blind boxes and resell them to make money faster.
Lu Xuan silently put back his plan to earn 100 million yuan a year by growing ginseng.
There are many ways to make money; there's no need to choose such a self-destructive method.
He looked down at the batch that had already grown and decided to give up planting ginseng, keeping only Ganoderma lucidum and Polygonum multiflorum.
These two types of consumption are not as exaggerated as ginseng, so you can still make a small profit by planting some.
After giving the medicinal herbs a final boost of energy, Lu Xuan turned and went to the Li family.
...
"You mean the prices of goods in the general store and the share of land profits need to be adjusted in the future?" Li Tie was surprised when he learned of Lu Xuan's purpose.
"Why the sudden adjustment? What exactly will the adjustment involve?"
Should we raise the price or lower it?
Lu Xuan blurted out, "Because our performance has always satisfied the immortal, the immortal has lowered the prices of some items. After the price reduction, I would have taken a huge advantage based on the previous profit-sharing ratio."
Upon hearing this, Li Tie knew that the adjustment was not a bad thing and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he smiled and said, "You can't say that. If it weren't for the favor of the immortals, we wouldn't have the good life we have now."
Even the disaster victims protected by the renowned Huo family army are living such a hard life; they are already living in a paradise.
He knew, of course, that the things Lu Xuan had given them weren't for nothing, but they had still benefited from it, so it was only right that Lu Xuan get a share of the profits.
Lu Xuan said, "One thing at a time. The price of some things has dropped several times over. If I take too much, it will inevitably get hot."
Li Tie was startled, "Such a big drop?"
Now he couldn't bring himself to refuse, and humbly asked, "Then tell me, how exactly should the profit sharing be changed?"
Lu Xuan said, "Let's talk about the land distribution first. The cost of the greenhouse is relatively high. My original plan was to take a share for three years, after which the greenhouse, air conditioner, and plant protection machine would belong to the village." He would only provide the subsequent energy.
"But now, the cost of greenhouses has dropped significantly. In addition to taking half of the first harvest as previously agreed, the subsequent share will be adjusted to 20%, with a one-year time limit. After that, everything in the greenhouses will belong to the village."
Li Tie gasped, "Shouldn't you cut that much? Aren't you sure you won't lose money?"
Lu Xuan shook his head, "I will continue to optimize the seeds of mutated crops, mainly improving them in terms of growth. In the next round, when everyone comes to me to exchange for new seeds, the total yield should be able to increase by another third or even half."
Even though the share is smaller, the total output is higher, so he won't lose too much. Not to mention losing money, he can easily break even with a surplus after just one harvest, and the remaining 11 rounds of X are pure profit.
Lu Xuan: "The village's subsequent debts for purchasing the No. 2 ship will also be directly waived; the previous debts are already sufficient."
Li Tie: "!!!" Tens of thousands of kilograms of supplies were all waived?
This is a really big price reduction!
Lu Xuan continued, "The immortal medicine is too precious, so the price will remain unchanged. The price of the hoverbus will be adjusted to 5,000 catties of mutated grain for a single carriage and 10,000 catties for a double carriage."
Li Tie exclaimed excitedly, "So cheap!?"
Lu Xuan nodded: "In addition, the immortals do not intend to open up bulk purchases of large vehicles, so I do not plan to sell to individuals in the village. If the village chief is interested, he can buy them in the name of the village."
Li Tie immediately said, "Buy, buy, buy! The debt of Ship No. 2 is gone, and the extra funds can buy two hoverbuses!"
He'd been wanting to buy the hoverbus for a while, but he hadn't mentioned it because of the debt from the No. 2 ship. Now that the price has dropped so much, he should hurry up and get his hands on it.
Lu Xuan then talked about the latest pricing of other daily necessities.
Nutritional supplements, bio-clothes, cooling and heating patches, toilet paper, and basic medicines are all daily consumables. Lu Xuan never intended to make a profit, so there wasn't much room for price reductions, and the prices remained unchanged.
The upgraded biosuit, which was originally priced three times that of the basic version, has been adjusted to have the same amount of resources, but it must be obtained by exchanging mutated food.
Because of its special nature, the spatial ring adheres to the principle of scarcity and has been reduced in price, but not by much, only to half of its original price.
Li Tie: "!!!"
Lu Xuan specifically reminded: "The price difference will not be refunded for space rings purchased before the price reduction."
Li Tie nodded understandingly, "Of course."
The previous spatial ring was purchased at the original price. Asking Lu Xuan to make up the price difference for the villagers would be like making him lose money, so that's definitely not an option.
Li Tie suddenly remembered the flying vehicle Lu Xuan had used on his last trip and asked, "Are flying vehicles allowed to be sold by immortals?"
Lu Xuan said, "We're not considering selling it for now, but we might consider renting it to the village later."
He needs to go back and think carefully about how to earn the money needed for the subsequent warships before making a decision.
Li Tie was clearly disappointed.
Lu Xuan said, "Although we don't sell aircraft, wouldn't you like to inquire about the price of safe houses?"
Li Tie immediately straightened up, "Of course I need to know!"
Aircraft are not a necessity for the villagers, but safe houses are.
It can be shrunk down and carried around, has an internal outhouse, and allows you to take a hot shower or even a bath anytime. If such a convenient house could be privately owned, I'd be laughing in my sleep.
Lu Xuan listed the prices for safe houses of different sizes one by one.
Li Tie took a breath and exclaimed excitedly, "So cheap!?"
[Pfft, has the village chief become a broken record? He only knows how to say this one sentence.]
The fact is, it's very cheap, at least much cheaper than before.
But if you convert that to the Star Alliance price, wow... the streamer's really ripping you off.
[In the past, the streamer sold many things at almost cost price to help the villagers live better; it's time for the streamer to make some money.]
Prices in different dimensions are inherently incomparable. In ancient times, everyone ate natural foods; how can we compare ourselves to them?
That hurts.
Lu Xuan ignored the audience's reaction and jokingly asked the village chief, "Since it's so cheap, why don't you just buy the villa you're living in now?"
In a moment of impulsiveness, Li Tie almost blurted out "buy it," but he quickly calmed down before the words left his mouth.
Impulsive spending should be avoided.
The village's public debt is gone, but their family still has a lot of debt related to the evolution fluid.
Li Tie took a deep breath and said reluctantly, "There's no rush to buy a house."
It's not just a matter of not having enough food to buy more; the specifics of whether to buy the villa we're currently living in, a safe house, or to move to a smaller one, and how to do so, all need to be discussed with the family later.
Lu Xuan nodded and said, "Buying a house really can't be rushed. This price won't be adjusted in the future. You can come to me anytime you want to buy one."
He gave a general overview of the prices of items that the villagers could use and were interested in.
"If anything is missing, the villagers can find out by checking the general store themselves."
Li Tie nodded: "Okay, I'll use the communicator to notify each household about the price adjustment later."
Finally, just when Li Tie thought that was all there was to be discussed that day, Lu Xuan brought up another matter.
Li Tie's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when he heard this.
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After Lu Xuan left, Li Tie quickly informed every household in the village about the changes in land distribution and the price adjustments for other goods in Lu's general store.
The villagers were in an uproar when they found out.
The dividend of 50% has been reduced to 20%, which is not a small change. It is equivalent to each family receiving an extra 1,800 catties of grain during the second harvest after winter!
If production can be increased further, it will be over a thousand kilograms!
Moreover, it's only allocated for one year. By this time next year, apart from the 20% allocated to public goods, the remaining 80% will be taken by them themselves.
What's the difference between this and giving them money for free?
As soon as the news spread, the communicators of the three members of the Lu family, excluding Lu Chen, were bombarded with calls.
Most people came to them to confirm whether the change was real, while those close to them were worried that Lu Xuan might lose money, and whether the price was really adjusted by the immortals.
Could it be that he's losing money himself while letting them profit?
Lu Xuan: Does he look like a sucker who likes to throw money at people?
The price reduction was indeed significant, but in reality, his profit margin was much higher than before.
Unfortunately, no one in the village believed him when he said that.
Lu Xuan simply told everyone that the price adjustment was real, and that he wouldn't lose out. He suggested they come to him to confirm if they had time, or go to the general store to see if there was anything they wanted to buy.
Sure enough, quite a few people flocked to the general store to check out the new price list that Old Man Wei had put out.
Led by Miao Jinfeng, the women had learned a lot of characters from their younger relatives during this period, and they easily understood the content, which left them all speechless with amazement.
Wow! Prices have actually gone down!
"Such a wonderful treasure as a spatial ring is only half the price of before!?"
"The upgraded bio-suits are so cheap! And with the weather getting colder lately, I need to hurry and buy enough for my family!"
Many of the women nodded quickly, "It's time to change, that's the most important thing."
More than half a month into the extreme cold season, the outside temperature has already dropped to minus thirty degrees Celsius.
The basic biosuit can only be adjusted up and down by 20 degrees Celsius, so it's quite cold at minus 10 degrees Celsius.
They're used to going out in just a single layer of clothing, so making them wear thick clothes makes it inconvenient for them to work.
Besides, the temperature will drop another ten degrees in less than half a month, making the basic model even less suitable, and we must upgrade!
Previously, because the upgraded version was quite expensive, just like during the hottest season, only a small number of wealthy families were willing to buy it.
The price has been reduced in advance, so what are you waiting for? Of course, buy it early and enjoy it sooner!
Not only bio-clothing, but also various small household appliances are now one-third to one-half cheaper than before.
Kettle, rice cooker, pressure cooker, microwave, juicer, meat grinder, water purifier, dishwasher, yogurt maker...
The women who used to be reluctant to buy these appliances are now green with envy at the sight of these practical little appliances.
Buy it!!!
There are also some slightly more specialized ones, such as household dryers, vacuum packaging machines, and even air conditioners!
An air conditioner costs only 100 kilograms of mutated grain, which is so cheap that it's unbelievable.
Old Man Wei specifically told them what Lu Xuan had said: "This is only the price during the cataclysmic period. Once the situation stabilizes and everyone returns to their previous lives, the price will definitely change."
Otherwise, even if a hundred catties of grain were mutated grain, it would only sell for 100 wen per catty in peacetime, which is only 10 taels of silver.
You think you can buy an air conditioner that's warm in winter and cool in summer with this little money? Dream on.
Ten taels of gold would be more like it.
The women were very understanding about this.
Prices are definitely different in times of chaos and times of prosperity.
However, it didn't affect them much.
What a joke! There's no way I'd wait until the catastrophe is over to buy something this cheap.
They're going to take it down today!
Because of the clearance sale prices at the grocery store, the women's latent shopping desires were thoroughly aroused that day.
Mingming usually only buys daily necessities like salt, sugar, and toilet paper, except for the space ring. But today, she unusually consumed several hundred kilograms of food in one go, without feeling any remorse. On the contrary, she was quite happy.
Old Man Wei and two other villagers were busy delivering goods and doing accounting.
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Women could easily buy small items at the general store, but when it came to big items, such as houses, it wasn't so easy for each family to just buy them.
Renting and buying a house involve completely different considerations.
Families like Chen Rong's, Grandma Lin's, and Aunt Sun's are all mother-son or grandmother-grandson combinations, so for now, a single room is sufficient.
But will Chen Rong, Lin Man, and Li Miao not get married in the future?
Even if you have a wife, you still have to have children.
In ancient times, families rarely had only one child, and a single room with only one bedroom and one study was definitely not enough.
Therefore, even though a single-person safe house could be bought for just 3,000 catties of mutated food, it was still excluded from the purchase options by everyone from the very beginning.
Two-person households typically require a two-person safe house.
That is, the price of 5,000 jin of mutated grain.
This price can be easily raised by collecting grain twice more, so it's not expensive.
However, most people haven't finished paying off their debts for evolution fluids yet. Whether to pay them off first before buying a house, or to buy the house in installments and increase the debt burden, is something that needs careful consideration.
If the population is larger, even a two-person safe house won't be enough, so you'll have to buy a two-story villa, which costs 10,000 jin of mutated grain.
For a large family like the Li family, even a two-story house is too cramped, so they need to consider buying the three-story villa they currently live in.
The price doubled immediately, with 20,000 jin of mutated grain.
The family of seven already had a debt of 34,000 jin of evolution fluid, and adding a villa would bring the total to 54,000 jin.
Just hearing about it makes one's vision go black.
However, Li Tie had some other thoughts on this.
Li Tie said to his two brothers, "After Li Tuo gets married and has children, your mother and I will definitely have to separate from the family and live separately when we get old."
Li Jing disagreed, saying, "Father, what are you saying? What do you mean by dividing the family?"
Li Tuo hurriedly replied, "Dad, I have no intention of separating the family. It's more lively when our whole family lives together."
Miao Jinfeng looked at her husband, puzzled.
Other families are most reluctant to bring up topics like dividing the family property, as it can easily cause disharmony within the family. Why did Li Tie, as the father, bring it up on his own initiative?
Li Tie waved his hand and said, "I didn't say we should separate now. It's only a matter of time before the children separate when they grow up. As long as you two brothers don't fall out, there's nothing we can't talk about."
Li Jing and Li Tuo looked at each other and remained silent.
Li Tie said, "What I'm trying to say is that it will definitely be many years before our family really splits up. By then, the safe house won't be worth this much, and you'll lose a lot more money if you try to buy one now."
"So I was thinking that, in addition to buying the villa, we should also buy the house that belongs to Li Tuo after the family splits up, that would be the most cost-effective."
The family members suddenly realized, "That makes sense!"
Miao Jinfeng naturally hoped that both brothers would have a good life in the future, but...
She hesitated and said, "Wouldn't this put too much pressure on the family?"
They live in a three-story villa, so they can't just prepare a double room for Li Tuo. It should at least be a two-story villa, right?
The budget needs to be increased by another 10,000 jin.
They readily think of spending tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, something they wouldn't have dared to even consider before.
Li Tie scoffed, "It's not like we're going to buy two houses this year. We can't even buy the house we're living in right now. The disaster will last for more than four years. What's the rush?"
Why don't you calculate how much grain we can get in a year based on our current monthly harvest?
Li Jing, Li Tuo, and even Li Yue all subconsciously began to calculate.
Their family is large, and they own a share of five mu of land. During the rainy season, they harvest more than 4,000 jin each time.
The first harvest during the coldest season will probably be around this amount.
But Lu Xuan received a smaller share the second time, so their family's grain income should have increased to more than five thousand, or even six thousand catties.
If this data is maintained every month, we can get 72,000 catties of mutated grain next year!
Li Yue calculated the data the fastest and then shared it.
Upon hearing this, the Li Jing and Li Tuo brothers, who were still counting on their fingers, simultaneously gasped in shock.
Li Tuo exclaimed in surprise, "So much—!? Doesn't that mean we can cover the costs of the evolution fluid and the house in just one year?"
Li Tie glanced at him and scoffed, "What, don't you need to eat the grain you grow? Don't you need to replace other daily necessities?"
Their food income has indeed increased, but their daily expenses have also increased significantly.
If you eliminate all expenses, you'd be lucky to have half left.
Li Tuo said, "Even half of that would be more than 30,000 jin, wouldn't two years be enough?"
Li Jing reminded him, "We definitely need to keep some food at home just in case. Two years is too tight; it would be better to keep enough for another year."
Li Tie nodded. "That's exactly right."
After learning the latest prices, he did the math himself and planned to finalize the purchase of both houses within three years.
Even if something goes wrong in the middle, there will still be a year's worth of savings.
Li Tie looked at the two brothers and said, "Although we're not in a hurry to buy a house right now, we still need to make things clear beforehand, so that you don't misunderstand the pros and cons and think it's unnecessary, which could lead to unnecessary conflicts later."
Li Jing and Li Tuo nodded understandingly, "Father, don't worry, we understand your intentions and won't overthink it."
The brothers have always had a good relationship, and their abilities have improved a lot since they gained superpowers, so they wouldn't have any dirty dealings over these things.
If all else fails, they are capable of earning a house on their own.
As for Li Yue, whom Li Tie didn't specifically mention, she wants to stay at home, and her family can definitely support her.
If she were to remarry, Li Tie would prepare a sufficient dowry for her, ensuring that his only daughter would not suffer a loss.
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Although both families have a large number of members, the Zhang family's house-buying plans are somewhat different.
Zhang Chengming's generation only has one child, so there's no question of dividing the family property; their family needs to consider the fourth generation.
This isn't something that can be solved by buying one more house; it requires buying several!
The old man and Zhang Wende and his wife, Zhang Chengming and his wife lived in one room, Dafu lived in another room after he came of age, Xiaofu lived in another room, and Xiuxiu also had to bring a room as part of her dowry when she got married.
The total price of four double safe houses is the same as buying a villa, which is 20,000 jin, but it avoids the problem of difficulty in allocating resources if there is only one villa.
The little house is shared by all the children, which is fair.
The Zhang family has one more person than the Li family, but the old man and his three children can enjoy the subsidy price for the evolution fluid, while Zhang Dafu, being a special type, can get it all for free.
The total debt was two thousand jin less than that of the Li family.
However, the difference between 52,000 and 54,000 is not that significant.
The final house-buying plan, like the Li family's, was also a 'three-year plan'.
Although it will take a long time, the Zhang family is very happy at the thought of having a safe house in the future.
At the same time, Lu Xuan, who had just tallied up the day's profits from the general store, was also in a good mood.
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