Chapter 28 As soon as he got the grass, Chen Yuan knew he had found the right one. Even though he hadn't eaten it yet, Chen...
As soon as he got the grass, Chen Yuan knew he had made the right choice.
Even though he hadn't eaten yet, Chen Yuan could sense the pure strange energy wafting out. Just in case, Chen Yuan carefully picked up some grass and put it into his mouth.
In order to replenish his wife's strange energy over the years, Chen Yuan even treated himself as a strange energy purification machine, eating strange food with many impurities to extract purer strange energy.
His wife was in critical condition, and Chen Yuan wasn't much better. The worse his health was, the more he could feel the benefits of the grass, just like a plant growing in dry soil, a drop of water could moisten it.
Chen Yuan couldn't remember how long it had been since he had absorbed such pure strange energy. He subconsciously wanted to taste some more, but before he took a sip, his concern for his wife made him sober up. He controlled his desire to eat, his eyes filled with ecstasy.
Ying Yuanxing was watching Chen Yuan eating grass, and suddenly remembered a former colleague who had a cat. Every time he bought cat food, he would taste it himself to see how it tasted.
No, you people who have pets are too doting!
However, he seemed to be the same. Ying Yuanxing's eyes drifted away for a moment. He cooked fish every day these days, and he also cooked cat food for the little black cat. Sometimes he would taste it to see how it tasted.
Chen Yuan clenched the bottle tightly, took out 500 yuan and gave it to Ying Yuanxing. He turned around and was about to leave, but Ying Yuanxing's voice stopped him from behind: "Wait a minute."
Chen Yuan's body was tense and he wanted to just run away, but when he thought about the effect of the grass and his wife's health, he could only turn around.
Ying Yuanxing watched Chen Yuan turn around and inexplicably felt that this customer was a bit pretentious, but it didn't matter.
"Mr. Chen, we have an event here. If you can attract five new customers to come here to buy premium fish food, we can give you a portion of premium fish food for free." Ying Yuanxing said seriously, and you couldn't tell that he had just come up with this idea.
"Five new guests..." Chen Yuan murmured. He knew that things were not that simple.
Chen Yuan nodded solemnly before turning and leaving.
Ying Yuanxing blinked his eyes. He suspected that this guest was an actor before, or had worked in this field before, otherwise how could every expression and movement seem to have a sense of story?
Ying Yuanxing was worried that there might be more guests introduced by Boss Yu, so he waited at the entrance of the village for a while, but no one came.
Ying Yuanxing realized that he was overwhelmed by the idea of making money. If it were him, when his friends recommended good products to him, he would ask for the store name and address if he bought them offline, and ask for the link if he bought them online.
But he had no store address and his business hours were not fixed. When Chen Yuan came to find him, he just happened to meet him. Even if he was lucky and wanted to wait for other customers, wasn't that just waiting for something to happen?
So, if he wants to make money, he must first have a shop.
"Do you want to rent a shop in the village?" The village chief didn't expect that after just not seeing Ying Yuanxing for a few days, Ying Yuanxing gave him another big surprise.
Ying Yuanxing nodded: "I want to rent a shop to sell some agricultural products, otherwise customers won't know where to go when they come to the door."
"Which shop do you want to rent?" Although the village chief asked this, he was mentally prepared for Ying Yuanxing to want to rent a grocery store, so he heard Ying Yuanxing say: "I want to rent a fishing tackle shop."
Ying Yuanxing originally wanted to rent a grocery store, but the grocery store was quite large, so the rent should not be cheap. Moreover, no one knew where the owner of the grocery store had gone, so it would be troublesome to find him to rent the store. However, it was different for the fishing tackle store. Now that the fisherman was gone, it would be easier to rent a store.
The most important thing is that he sells the grass as fine fish food, and he can also sell some fish at the same time.
"What kind of agricultural products are you selling? It's not convenient to sell them in a fishing tackle store, right?" The village chief forced a smile.
"Village chief, I've been fishing, raising fish and selling fish recently, and I've developed a kind of fine fish food. Everyone who has eaten it says it's good. Several customers have come to the village entrance to buy from me, so I thought of opening a store." Ying Yuanxing said.
The village chief regretted it. If he had known earlier, he would not have taken Ying Yuanxing to Li An's house. If he had not gone, the other party would not have started fishing, nor would he have sold fish, and naturally would not have thought about opening a shop.
"Village chief, is there any problem?" Ying Yuanxing asked in confusion when he saw that the village chief did not respond for a long time.
The village chief looked at Ying Yuanxing's smiling face and suddenly became alert. No, did Ying Yuanxing really just want to open a store?
Ying Yuanxing's disguise was so good, he always made some strange moves, which caused him to forget that Ying Yuanxing came to Taoxi Village for another purpose. Then the other party's purpose of renting the fishing tackle shop was very unusual.
"No big deal. If you want to rent it, I'll ask for you." The village chief simply gave up. He couldn't afford to offend Ying Yuanxing or Li An anyway, so he just let them contact each other directly.
"Okay, then I'll trouble the village chief." Ying Yuanxing thanked him and stuffed a wild fruit into the village chief's hand.
The village chief looked at the red fruit in his hand and his hands trembled. He had never seen Ying Yuanxing be so shameless and weird. He was obviously a big weirdo, but as a gift, he only gave some wild fruits.
It was okay before, he helped Ying Yuanxing to find Li An, so he was considered a favor, so he just gave him a fruit to fool him.
In fact, the village chief was wrongly accusing Ying Yuanxing, because this fruit was the most commonly seen item in Ying Yuanxing's backpack.
Recently, Ying Yuanxing not only gave him this gift, but Yuan Xiu, Yuan Qing, Xuan Ying and others also received this gift. Xuan Ying was upset before because Ying Yuanxing gave Yuan Xiu a gift, but now he has become desensitized to it.
Of course, it is limited to wild fruits.
At night, the village chief stood by the river anxiously, fearing that Li An would not come out to fish today. Fortunately, after waiting for a while, a pale figure emerged from the water.
When the village chief saw the familiar fishing rod in Li An's hand, his whole body froze. He was a little stressed out by Ying Yuanxing, and the fishing rod was a kind of symbol of Ying Yuanxing, especially this fishing rod. Why did even the curse on it look the same? Could it be that this really was Ying Yuanxing's fishing rod?
If there is no fishing rod, will Ying Yuanxing still rent a fishing tackle shop? Even though he thought it was just an excuse made up by Ying Yuanxing, the village chief still wanted to retreat.
But before leaving, the village chief took another look at the fishing rod in Li An's hand and found the difference. This fishing rod was too new and was not the old fishing rod used by Ying Yuanxing.
Li An didn't even look at the village chief, and walked straight to the door of the store. He looked down and saw that the two numbers on the ground were a little blurred by the wind, but they did not change. Obviously, the fish caught by Ying Yuanxing today did not break the previous record.
Although the village chief wanted to leave, he still stepped forward and told Ying Yuanxing that he wanted to rent a fishing tackle shop.
After the village chief finished speaking, Li An did not reply immediately. The village chief did not dare to urge him, so he could only lower his head and look at the ground, and two numbers came into his eyes.
The village chief didn't even need to guess, he knew that these two numbers must have been written by Ying Yuanxing.
Apart from him, no one in the village would come to the fishing tackle shop, let alone write on the doorstep. After all, the weirdos in the village knew that Li An was not easy to mess with. It was not surprising that Ying Yuanxing had taken the other party's fishing rod and occupied Li An's usual fishing spot, so he wrote a few numbers on the doorstep.
What does this number mean?
The village chief unconsciously tried to figure out the meaning of these two numbers. If he didn't distract himself like this, he would just want to run away. The pressure from Li An was too great.
"It's the length and weight." Li An spoke, and the village chief realized that he was muttering because he was too nervous.
If he was a fisherman, he should be able to understand what Li An meant. Unfortunately, the village chief had never fished before, so he naturally didn't think about this aspect. He just didn't understand, so he didn't dare to continue asking.
"Ying Yuanxing wants a fishing tackle shop?" Li An continued.
"Yes." The village chief nodded.
If Ying Yuanxing were here, he would definitely say that the village chief was spreading misinformation. He didn't want a fishing tackle shop at all. He just rented the shop. Although he might want to buy it later, he definitely didn't have that idea now. It's just that he's not here, and he can't stop the village chief from saying that.
Li An smiled lightly, took the fishing rod and walked to the place where Bai Riying Yuanxing had stood, swung the rod and said, "Tell him to come here at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, and I will talk to him in person."
After receiving an accurate reply, the village chief breathed a sigh of relief and left.
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Chen Yuan followed Boss Yu out of Taoxi Village. He was a little worried that someone would follow him like he did, but when he thought about how critical the condition of his wife at home was, Chen Yuan did not dare to take a detour, but went straight back.
His guess was correct, someone really was targeting him, but because Chen Yuan just went back like that, it seemed like he got nothing and didn't get any attention.
"Ayue." As soon as Chen Yuan entered the room, he could not hear any movement inside. He panicked and called out nervously.
After a while, there was a little noise in the bedroom. Chen Yuan walked quickly into the bedroom and saw his wife Liang Yue lying on the bed, struggling to get up. He hurried forward to support her.
"Brother Yuan, you're back." Liang Yue smiled softly at Chen Yuan, without any of the hostility in her eyes.
"Ayue, try this. It's absolutely effective." Chen Yuan helped Liang Yue sit down. He took out the bottle of grass, opened the cap, and urged Liang Yue to eat it.
Liang Yue looked at the grass in the bottle and the miserable marks on Chen Yuan's body. She knew that this bottle of strange food was probably brought back by Chen Yuan with great difficulty. For her, Chen Yuan had worked hard many times. Chen Yuan didn't feel tired, but she felt that it was enough.
"Ayue, you try it this time. I've tasted this one and it's better than the ones I found before." Seeing that Liang Yue didn't move, Chen Yuan became anxious and could not maintain his normal appearance, revealing a hideous and weird face.
Liang Yue hugged him nonchalantly and whispered, "Brother Yuan, listen to me. Just try this time, just this time, and don't look for it again."
Liang Yue knew that Chen Yuan had paid too much for her, and it had come to this point. She just wanted to see Chen Yuan more every day. Even after so many years, she still hadn't seen enough. Before she died, she wanted to see him more.
After all, a person may become a weird thing after death, but I have never heard anyone say that a weird thing will become something else after death.
Chen Yuan didn't say anything, but nodded with difficulty at Liang Yue's determined eyes.
But Chen Yuan did not give up, he just firmly believed that if Liang Yue died, he would devour other weird things and devour the flesh and blood of living people. He would try his best to survive.
In the past, after he became a weird being, he could make Liang Yue become a weird being as well. Then as long as he was still alive, Liang Yue could be resurrected even if she died.
Liang Yue didn't know what Chen Yuan was thinking, she just thought he had heard it. She took the bottle, bent down and sniffed it. The sour aroma of the grass reminded her of the food she had eaten when she was alive. There were few fresh smells in this strange world.
Liang Yue took a bite of the grass, and the sour aroma spread in her mouth, as if she smelled the warm scent of autumn sunshine.
Even though there seems to be a sun in the weird world, it is still different from the sun that living people come into contact with. It feels a little cold, and the warm feeling brought by the grass is obviously different. This kind of warmth is something that the weird world cannot touch.
Although it won't hurt if touched, it will still make people feel uncomfortable.
It’s okay if you don’t have the weird memories of the time when you were alive. You won’t miss it because you haven’t come into contact with it. But if you have memories of the time when you were alive, it will be very painful.
"No effect?" Seeing Liang Yue taking a bite of grass and not saying anything, Chen Yuan asked worriedly, feeling a little flustered in his heart.
This is the only pure and strange food he has found after searching for so long. If it still doesn't work, he doesn't know what method he can use to save Liang Yue.
"Brother Yuan, have a sip." Liang Yue said, bringing the bottle mouth to Chen Yuan's mouth and forcing him to take a sip.
"Did you feel it?" Liang Yue looked at Chen Yuan expectantly, her eyes unable to hide her excitement.
In fact, Chen Yuan was reluctant to eat too much and only ate a little, but he still ate more than when he tasted it. The fresh smell of grass under the warm autumn sun filled his nose. He closed his eyes and felt as if he was lying in the warm sun.
Chen Yuan shuddered and didn't dare to open his eyes. Even though he held the grass in his mouth, it was gradually absorbed by his body. The warm sun was gradually obscured by dark clouds, and the familiar coldness returned.
If you have never felt the warm sun, you naturally won’t care about the cold, but once you have felt it, it will be difficult to accept the cold air again.
Chen Yuan took a deep breath, and his impression of Ying Yuanxing changed 180 degrees. If he thought Ying Yuanxing was plotting something before, he had to get involved in it in order to keep his wife alive.
Now, he felt that no matter what Ying Yuanxing was thinking, the other party must be a unique and kind-hearted monster who could make such strange food. Such pure strange energy, even if it had some side effects, five hundred was a low price, not to mention the warm sunshine. Even if it was sold for five thousand or fifty thousand strange coins, there would be plenty of strange people to buy it, but the other party only sold it for five hundred strange coins.
Chen Yuan suddenly remembered the addictive weird food he had heard of before. How that weird food became addictive was not clear to Chen Yuan, but he was sure that once Ying Yuanxing’s weird food was launched, people who had tasted it would become addicted to it. But what made people addicted was the warmth in it.
"Eat quickly." Chen Yuan looked away with difficulty and urged Liang Yue to eat quickly, otherwise he would want to try it again.
Liang Yue took another sip and closed her eyes. The familiar feeling of warm sunshine swept over her, and the cold wind was neutralized by the warmth, reminding her of the scene of an autumn outing.
After taking a few sips, there was still one third left. Liang Yue didn't drink any more. Chen Yuan was about to say something when he was interrupted by Liang Yue.
"Brother Yuan, that's enough. I feel much better than before." Liang Yue got up from the bed. She didn't have any illness, but the strange energy had dissipated greatly, and she lost the ability to move. Now that the strange energy has been replenished, all problems are gone.
Even though this strange energy can only be replenished for a while, she can move freely during this time.
"Brother Yuan, it's not easy for you to get this thing, right? Does the other party have other requirements?" Although Liang Yue asked Chen Yuan, her tone was somewhat certain, "No matter what it is, if you take this, it should be able to play a role."
Chen Yuan hesitated for a moment, but still accepted it. He still remembered what he had promised Ying Yuanxing, which was to attract customers for Ying Yuanxing. Since the other party offered a low price for such precious fish food, it would definitely be difficult to buy, so he had to get the bottle of premium fish food as a gift.
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In order to write a store plan, Ying Yuanxing stayed up late at night, but the plan was still not finished. After all, he had only worked for others and this was the first time he opened a store of his own. He wrote a lot of things here and there. Ying Yuanxing looked at the pile of waste he made, sighed, turned off the lights and went to sleep.
Forget it, at worst I can go find a professional to ask, but I don’t know how much it will cost.
He slept until dawn and woke up on time at six o'clock. He was very awake. He saw the plan on the table and flipped through it for a while. He felt that he had written it well. Besides, he had just opened the store, so there was no need to be so formal. He only needed to stock the goods and sell them. Anyway, the unsold things would not go bad if they were kept in the boxes, and the cost of the accumulated goods was zero.
When he thought of this, Ying Yuanxing felt relaxed. He watched some TV, learned a recipe, went to the kitchen, and had an idea. He successfully came up with several unpalatable and mediocre recipes.
But there was nothing he could do about it, as he didn't have enough food. He could only make adjustments on his own and try his luck.
Ying Yuanxing put the vegetables into his backpack, picked up his kettle and went to water the crops. Now watering has become the most physically demanding farm work for Ying Yuanxing besides fishing.
Xuanying can help with chopping wood and chiseling stones. Ying Yuanxing also learned from Xuanying. Although his results are not as good as Xuanying's, he can still help.
The only thing Ying Yuanxing found difficult was watering, because the amount of water needed was different every day. Even for the same crop, the amount of water needed was different depending on the planting time. After discovering this situation, Ying Yuanxing decisively put the difficulty of learning watering before fishing.
But the benefits of watering in this way also emerged. The crops in the fields grew very well. Among them, one crop grew extremely fast. Ying Yuan Xinghai did not recognize it at first, but as the fruits grew, he recognized that this crop was strawberry.
Although Ying Yuanxing wanted to eat vegetables, he was still extremely surprised when strawberries grew from seeds, because strawberries can continue to grow and can be harvested again and again, which is much better than crops that can only be harvested once.
Moreover, he is short of seeds now, but a strawberry contains a lot of seeds. As long as he receives enough strawberry seeds, he may be able to sell agricultural products through strawberries. However, he does not know whether the strawberries collected in this way can still grow so fast.
In order to protect these strawberries, mainly to prevent small animals such as birds and insects from stealing them, Ying Yuanxing arranged for a small black cat to live in the farmland, and check for any disturbance to prevent the strawberries and other crops from being damaged.
After watering, Ying Yuanxing found that the strawberries had grown bigger and other crops were also growing well.
It was obvious that he would be able to have a vegetable feast soon.
That is, although this vegetable is not fully ripe yet, can we pick some leaves to eat now?
What Ying Yuanxing was eyeing was nothing else but garlic. Although it was not fully mature yet, the garlic sprouts were edible. Even if there was no meat and they were just stir-fried, the taste would not be too bad.
The main thing is that these past few days, all three meals have been fish, or some biscuits and rice. The only fruit is wild fruit. Ying Yuanxing feels so envious of vegetables that his eyes turn green.
Garlic is growing so well now, is it okay for him to peel some leaves and eat them?
After hesitating for a while, Ying Yuanxing finally reached out and peeled off a few leaves. He hoped that the plants in this game would be stronger after being realized, and peeling off a few leaves would not affect their growth.
Ying Yuanxing took a look around and found that it was almost time for Yuan Xiu and the others to come, so he went into the kitchen and cooked some fish first.
Yuan Qing likes eating fish very much. Ying Yuanxing is tired of it, but Yuan Qing still likes it very much.
After the fish was cooked, Ying Yuanxing cleaned the garlic, cut it into sections, and quickly fried the garlic, and got the recipe: Stir-fried Garlic Sprouts.
As for the taste, Ying Yuanxing almost cried while eating it. He had not eaten vegetables before because he thought that although he wanted to, he could still endure it. But now after tasting it, he realized how much he wanted it.
Ying Yuanxing happily took another bite of garlic sprouts when he suddenly felt someone behind him. He was nervous for a moment, but soon thought of a possibility and turned back unhappily.
Sure enough, Xuanying was standing behind him, looking at him worriedly.
"When did you come in?" Ying Yuanxing was really confused. Even if he was very excited about eating garlic sprouts, he shouldn't have failed to notice Xuanying coming in.
But Xuanying is really something. He obviously doesn't have a good relationship with the little black cat, but when he moves, he acts like a cat. Sometimes, if Xuanying doesn't make a sound, Ying Yuanxing can hardly see him.
"Come, try this." Without waiting for Xuanying to answer, Ying Yuanxing handed the plate to Xuanying and motioned for him to try it.
Xuanying glanced at Ying Yuanxing to make sure that he was not mistaken. Ying Yuanxing did cry a little, but she seldom cried. Once she did, it must be in extreme pain. So was Ying Yuanxing in pain because he ate this?
So did Ying Yuanxing let him taste this because he wanted to share his pain with him?
Realizing this, Xuanying's eyes lit up. Sharing pain was a very private thing for Guiyi. If Ying Yuanxing was willing to share it with him, didn't it mean that he and Ying Yuanxing were closer?
Xuanying took a bite of the garlic sprouts without hesitation. The fresh and spicy taste was a bit stimulating, but that was all. Is this Ying Yuanxing’s pain?
Xuanying didn't understand.
"How is it? Is it delicious?!" Seeing Xuanying stunned, Ying Yuanxing raised his eyebrows proudly and boasted, "Is it so delicious that you want to cry?"
Ying Yuanxing chatted with Xuanying from time to time these days, and found out that the other party had rarely eaten vegetables.
I don’t know what’s going on in this world. Technology is developing well, but agriculture is not developing well. It seems that no one is willing to farm.
However, after Ying Yuanxing learned more about it, he also had a guess. In a society where the strong prey on the weak, farming is hard and takes a lot of time, but it only takes a moment for others to grab the land. Naturally, fewer people are willing to farm. After all, my neighbor stores grain while I store guns. My neighbor is my granary.
Xuanying used to be a thief, so naturally it was difficult for him to eat vegetables. He only ate artificial food and occasionally some meat of unknown origin.
"It's so delicious that it makes me cry?" Xuanying suddenly felt that he was mistaken, "Isn't it painful?"
"How can eating food be painful?" Ying Yuanxing was puzzled. "It would be painful to eat food you don't like, but if it would be painful to eat this food, I wouldn't let you eat it!"
It's not like he has any mental problems and likes to make others suffer.
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