More than ten days have passed, and the temperature has been fluctuating, but the weather has gradually become cooler. Today, Liu Ben is busy in the space again.
Since more and more varieties of crops can be grown in the space, and it is already late autumn when there is nothing to do outside, Liu Ben spends more time in the space.
The plants in the space grew very fast. On the edge of the circular cliff, the sapling that Liu Ben had planted not long ago had already grown as thick as a telephone pole. When Liu Ben went down the cliff to plant vegetables, he didn't have to worry about the tree being easily broken by him.
After a few days of planting, Liu Ben regained his confidence.
"It's just a cliff. I've never failed in free-hand rock climbing," Liu Ben boasted to the system as he dug. "I didn't fail then either. I had already successfully climbed to the top. But it's not my fault that something suddenly appeared on the clifftop, right?"
The big cat of the system lay on its flying carpet, hovering next to Liu Ben and watching him harvest with its head tilted.
"Then if you have the guts, take the rope, meow."
"I'm not wearing a rope because I'm afraid of falling. How should I put it? It's a form of insurance, a way of showing my responsibility to my friends and family who care about me..."
【Then I’m still afraid, meow.】
Liu Ben stopped talking and ignored Da Maozi, continuing to plant his own crops.
What Liu Ben is harvesting is mature Yuanyuancai. The full name of the variety is "Cosmic Alpine Yuanyuancai". Liu Ben thinks it should not be called "Alpine", but "Big Pit" to suit the current planting environment.
The newly planted round vegetables are still seedlings and their shapes cannot be seen, but now the mature round vegetables have grown all over the cliff. At first glance, the vertical cliff wall is covered with round lumps as big as footballs, which is very magical.
When Liu Ben was collecting the yams, he had to carefully dig up the soil with his hands to avoid damaging the roots. So why should he be so careful with the roots of the yams, whose leaves are eaten? Under the dug-up soil, he saw that the roots of the yams were also round, crammed together, and even larger than the yams outside the soil. Isn't this the yams?
Liu Ben dug up the soil, picked up the round vegetables and round potatoes completely, shook off the excess soil, and put them into the backpack.
It stands to reason that the soil on such a vertical cliff will fall down after being dug up, but Liu Ben discovered after planting for a few days that the soil on the cliff could actually stick firmly to the cliff. Even if Liu Ben picked it up and let go, it would still fall vertically onto the cliff in violation of gravity. It was very magical. There must be some strange systematic setting.
Liu Ben's backpack couldn't hold much at a time, so he had to go back and forth several times for each round of harvest. It was tiring, but after such a round, minus the half that he gave to Da Maozi, Liu Ben could still get about 1,500 kilograms of round vegetables and round potatoes.
Even though it is troublesome to climb up and down to grow round vegetables, Liu Ben does not have to harvest them every day. Harvesting them every few days is enough for a long time.
Moreover, having eliminated the psychological shadow of the cliff, Liu Ben actually enjoyed the hard process of farming.
The harder you work when planting, the happier you will be when you harvest.
It was another fulfilling day. Liu Ben came out of his space and casually opened WeChat to see if there was any news.
There were quite a few messages with red dots, but most of them were not very important. However, there was one from You Ying, and of course Liu Ben was the first to open the chat box.
You Ying: "Have you finished your perfume?"
Liu Ben: “…”
Liu Ben: "Well, I don't know if it can be considered completed."
You Ying: “…?”
Liu Ben scratched his hair and clicked on the input box to type.
Liu Ben took an elective course on perfume making in college. Sitting at the back, listening to the teacher on the podium explain the process and methods, it seemed very simple. Liu Ben also felt that the process in his memory was complete and detailed, and he could completely do it himself.
However, as he worked on it, something seemed to go wrong. He didn't know which step he had mixed up, and the final product didn't look like perfume at all, but more like...
Liu Ben: “I made it into essential oil.”
You Ying: "That's quite a difference... Can you really make perfume?"
Liu Ben: "I definitely listened carefully in class! I just might have confused perfume making with oil processing. Anyway, this essential oil is quite fragrant. Do you want it?"
You Ying: ...
You Ying was also convinced. When he heard Liu Ben say that he was studying oil processing, he didn't expect Liu Ben to confuse the two. But then again, if Liu Ben was studying food processing, then the perfume course should be a very simple theoretical elective. It can only be said to be theory talk, and it is indeed unlikely to be successful.
However, Liu Ben was just doing it for fun, and it didn't matter to him whether it was made into perfume or essential oil.
You Ying: "Essential oils are also good, even better than perfume."
Liu Ben: "Yes, yes. Then make essential oils from now on. I'll send you a few bottles."
You Ying: "You have enough flowers to make a few bottles. Why don't you keep them for yourself?"
Liu Ben: “Quite a lot.”
Where else could the pine flowers Liu Ben brought out have come from? Aren't they just fallen from the osmanthus-scented pine trees in the space?
Speaking of which, the osmanthus tree grew very fast in the space. It bloomed again just over ten days later. When it bloomed for the first time, Liu Ben only harvested pine flowers and nothing else. This time, after he harvested the pine flowers, he noticed that there were pine cones on the tree. He just took a look and they were quite big. They should grow out soon. I wonder what the pine nuts will taste like.
The last time the tree bloomed, Liu Ben wasn't paying attention. By the time he noticed, the flowers had already fallen all over the ground, and he had to pick them up one by one. This time, when the tree bloomed, Liu Ben tentatively spread a layer of plastic sheeting on the ground. Just as he was about to recreate the scattering of white jade radish seeds, the pine flowers fell onto the plastic sheeting as normal, and Liu Ben easily collected them.
Liu Ben was a little bit in disbelief at the time, wondering if it was because the system was distracted. He tried to put plastic sheeting on Bai Yuluo again, but... Bai Yuluo fulfilled his wish and sprayed the seeds into fireworks.
Well, Liu Ben got it. Fallen pine flowers: yes, but white jade radish seeds: no. Who knows what the system's little brain is thinking.
Maybe the system doesn’t have that thing, Liu Ben whispered in his heart.
You Ying: "Please keep it for me. I'm out now and will be back soon. I'll get it myself then. I also have a gift for you."
Liu Ben: “[Niuniu surprise.jpg]”
Although Liu Ben didn't know what the gift was yet, he was already happy. You Ying would definitely not give him an ordinary gift. It must be something he liked.
Liu Ben was in a good mood and enjoyed farming even more.
There are always many people who are just as happy.
"Happy birthday, Xiaoman!" In a big restaurant, everyone at a table congratulated Zhu Xiaoman in unison.
"Xiaoman, this is for you." Ye Xiao handed the gift he had prepared to Zhu Xiaoman. This should be a doll. It was wrapped in paper, so Zhu Xiaoman felt soft to the touch, and it could be seen from the prototype that it was a doll.
Zhu Xiaoman pressed the paper bag with a bow on it and said to Ye Xiao, "As soon as I see the shape and feel the texture, I can guess whether it's my favorite..."
"Don't say it, don't say it!" Ye Xiao hurriedly stopped him: "Just pretend that you haven't guessed it. You'll be surprised when you open it!"
"Hahaha, okay!" Zhu Xiaoman covered her mouth and laughed.
"This is mine, happy birthday, Xiaoman!" Liu Rui also prepared a gift for her, but this gift was packed in a pink square gift box, and this time Zhu Xiaoman couldn't guess it.
Zhu Xiaoman shook her head and heard something moving, which seemed to be quite small, but she still couldn't guess what the sound was.
Zhu Xiaoman: "What is it?"
"You'll know when you go back and take it apart!" Liu Rui also laughed.
Other friends also gave gifts. Zhu Xiaoman was very popular and caring, so many friends came to her birthday party. Zhu Xiaoman's parents were very understanding of young people and booked a few tables at the best restaurant in the city for her to have dinner with her friends.
Seeing their daughter receive so many gifts, although the gifts students buy are not very expensive, Zhu Xiaoman's parents are still very happy that she has so many sincere friends. Zhu Xiaoman's parents are very generous and ordered a rich variety of dishes, with a combination of meat and vegetables, and flavors from all over the world, to ensure that their daughter's friends will have a happy meal.
The food was indeed delicious, and everyone was very satisfied. When the meal was almost over, Zhu Xiaoman asked Liu Rui: "Ruirui, did you bring your pickled radish?"
Liu Rui hesitated, looking left and right, then leaned over and whispered, "I did bring it, but the food here is delicious. There's no need to eat pickled radish. I brought you three bottles. Take them back and eat them."
Zhu Xiaoman said okay, okay, and took the pickled radish Liu Rui gave her under the table, but secretly opened it and took out a pickled radish strip to eat.
"Wow, so crispy and delicious." Zhu Xiaoman narrowed her eyes. Even though she had just eaten such a big meal of delicacies, she should be very full, but a pickled radish suddenly made her appetite whetted, as if she could have another go!
"Xiaoman, you brought your own food to my place..." A faint voice came from behind Xiaoman.
Xiaoman shuddered, turned around and gave an awkward but polite smile.
"Uncle Qu, what a coincidence, why are you here?"
The Uncle Qu she was referring to smiled delicately and said slowly, "Unfortunately, I heard from your father that it was your birthday today, so I came here to congratulate you. I didn't expect to see you eating pickled radish here. What's the matter? Is the food in my restaurant so bad that you have to eat pickles?"
"How could that be!" Zhu Xiaoman hurriedly explained, "The food in your restaurant is the best! There's no other place in the city that's as delicious as this!"
"Just the entire city?"
"No! There is nothing as delicious as this in the whole province or the whole country!" Zhu Xiaoman said confidently.
"Okay, stop praising me," Uncle Qu raised his head, tossed a strand of hair behind his ear, and brought the question back to the point: "Then how do you eat pickles?"
"Hey, this is all a misunderstanding!" Zhu Xiaoman said, "I'm just too full and want to eat some pickled radish to help with the food!"
"real?"
"Really! This pickled radish helps with digestion." Zhu Xiaoman further confirmed.
Uncle Qu spread his hands: "Let me try it."
Zhu Xiaoman: ...
Zhu Xiaoman's parents didn't know what they were talking about. They only realized what was going on when they came over and felt curious and amused.
Mother Zhu smiled and shook her head: "Xiao Man ate a lot of food before you came, A Qu, and she is really full now."
Zhu's father and mother are old friends with the owner of this restaurant, Qu Xian. Qu Xian was born thin, and when he was young, he was often taken care of by Zhu's father, a strong young man, so they have a good relationship. After Qu Xian opened the restaurant, Zhu's father would always meet here to discuss business. Firstly, this restaurant's food is indeed the best, and secondly, it is because of their friendship.
Qu Xian nodded: "I think so too. How can pickles be better than the fresh vegetables made at home?"
Father Zhu nodded repeatedly: "That's right, that's right."
Zhu Xiaoman turned her head to look at Liu Rui. Liu Rui covered her face and looked away, pretending to know nothing. It was not her who brought the pickled radish to someone else's restaurant. No, no.
Zhu Xiaoman had no choice. Uncle Qu was still staring at her, so she could only take out the bottle of pickled radish in her hand and hand it to Qu Xian.
Qu Xian casually pinched one, looked at it casually, and smelled it. Hmm, it was quite clean, probably without any messy stuff added.
Qu Xian usually doesn't look down on these pickles and preserved vegetables. He feels that they are just made by farmers reluctantly in order to preserve the food for a long time in winter. They are either not very salty or taste very strange. For the eaters, as long as they can be preserved for a long time, nothing else matters.
But as soon as the pickled radish entered his mouth, Qu Xian was stunned. Spicy and sweet were the first impressions he got from it. Without too much seasoning, the flavor was just right. His next bite was another taste of crunch. The more he chewed, the juicier it became, and the tastier it tasted. He even wanted another bite.
Qu Xian lowered his head and cast his burning gaze at the bottle of pickled radish in Zhu Xiaoman's hand.
Zhu Xiaoman subconsciously pulled the pickled radish down.
Qu Xian: "Where did you buy this?"
Zhu Xiaoman quickly pointed to Liu Rui, who was pretending to be deaf, and said, "She gave it to me."
Liu Rui: …
A few days later, round vegetables and round potatoes were also available at Aben’s agricultural product store!
Yuanyuancai costs 100 yuan per catty, and Yuanyuan potatoes cost 80 yuan per catty. Liu Ben still calculated the price based on the system's suggested price. The price is higher than the vegetables outside, but considering the difficulty of growing them, it is very cost-effective.
The guests were all looking at the pile of balls that had just been put on the shelves and watching.
Liu Ben: "Eating our round vegetables can reduce the burden on the body, making it lighter and developing an S-shaped curve; and eating our round potatoes will make your physique stronger and more powerful."
Liu Ben: "And you know, our dishes are all very delicious."
The guests were confused. A male guest asked the female guest next to him: "What do you mean?"
Female customer: "Isn't that simple? Yuanyuan vegetables are for weight loss, and Yuanyuan potatoes are for gaining weight."
Liu Ben: "It's muscle building!"
"That's about the same," the female customer said, waving her hand. "Just buy it!"
“Yes, yes, yes!”
Wang Caiqing pulled the stunned Liu Ben over and said with a smile: "We can introduce it to the store, you can just tell me directly."
"Yes, we are already very familiar with each other. Just wait at home to collect the money!" Liu Shuangying rarely made a joke on Liu Ben.
"Okay then." Liu Ben touched his head and looked inside as he walked out of the store.
I heard Second Aunt introducing the dish to the guests: "This round vegetable contains many ingredients that absorb oil and fat. Once it enters the human body, it will consume stubborn fat and repair the skin that has been stretched by fat. The process may be slow, but compared to other weight loss methods, this food-based weight loss method is the healthiest and most effective..."
Liu Ben had to admit that his second aunt was better at speaking than him, and she must have looked up a lot of words on the Internet, otherwise she wouldn't be able to say such organized and meaningful words.
Liu Ben was driving on the road and remembered some questions that he had been confused about before. He decided to ask the system.
"System...I told you about the round vegetables, uh, seeds last time. They look familiar to me, right?"
【It’s definitely not your seed, meow! 】
"I know, it doesn't look alike, but after eating the mature vegetables, I thought the taste was somewhat similar to something I've grown myself. Where did you get these seeds?"
[Emmm, okay, this system will tell you how such a good seed came from, since you can't do it anyway.]
This system collects all kinds of seeds from all worlds, extracts the best parts, blends them together, and then concentrates them a hundredfold. In the end, they become the small seeds you see, meow~ But they are definitely not your seeds! All seeds are personally picked by this system!
Liu Ben: "Okay... but where did you pick it up? I feel like at least a small part of it is from my world."
[Let me see, um... there is indeed a little bit, but it's not yours. I found it on the windowsill of a small house.]
"...Can picking up something on the windowsill be considered picking it up?" Liu Ben was speechless: "Are you stealing it?!"
[zzzZZZ] The system pretended to be asleep again, and no one could wake up a system pretending to be asleep.
Liu Ben could only roll his eyes and think, forget it, it’s not an important matter, so he won’t ask.
Liu Ben went to Xingyue Tower. The delivery task had been handed over to Brother Chengzi. Now he just came here to have breakfast and pay tribute to the system big cat.
After Liu Ben had eaten and drunk his fill, he placed the packed meal on the passenger seat, preparing to find a deserted place to put it into the space. Before he could start the car, he watched helplessly as the meal on the passenger seat disappeared.
Liu Ben: "? Big Cat, did you take it?"
【Isn’t this bought for this cat, meow!? 】
"That's true, but..." Liu Ben hesitated: "Can you still take things from outside?"
Liu Ben always thought that the so-called system existed in his head. Even if there was a system space, it was a special space created by technology. The virtual body could be displayed in the space because there were special structural facilities in the space.
Even if the system has the means to monitor Gou Qi outside, that doesn't mean the cat in the system space can do anything in the outside world, right? What if it only has some technological means to hack into surveillance satellites and the like?
However, at this moment, the space in front of Liu Ben suddenly cracked, and a cat's face appeared on the other side of the crack. It chewed the food in the takeaway box emotionlessly, while silently staring at Liu Ben, with contempt in its devilish eyes.
Then, the big cat stretched out a furry paw from the crack.
[Hey, look, I'm coming out, meow. Hey, look, I'm going in again, meow~]
The big cat's paws jumped back and forth in the space on both sides.
[Hey, stupid host, do you think this cat can only live in your stupid little head and can't do anything without the host? ]
Liu Ben: "...I didn't think so, but I think, the system, isn't it all AI, virtual data or something like that?"
[Hey, this is a matter of the higher dimension. An ordinary human like the host wouldn't understand it, meow!]
Liu Ben couldn't help but reach out and pinch the big cat's paw in the system. He had never done this before. He originally thought it was just a virtual image, but the cat's paw in his hand was real, fluffy, and when he pinched it, the pads were soft and elastic. He had clearly just used the paw to scoop up food, but there was no oil on it.
The system cat retracted its claws in disgust and continued to enjoy its food seriously, no longer paying attention to Liu Ben. After a while, the crack closed as if it had never appeared.
It's indeed a bit magical, Liu Ben thought. Fortunately, this system doesn't seem to be very smart, so there is no need to worry too much that they will disrupt the order of Blue Star.
But speaking of it, the personality of System Big Cat is really a bit like a cat, arrogant, black-bellied, likes pranks, and likes to watch itself suffer, but System Big Cat is not really bad. It just keeps telling itself to bully scum, to be a big shot in black technology, to be a star, etc., but never forces itself. It is completely different from the system in the novel that "you will die if you don't complete the task."
Instead, he obtained from the system many magical plants that did not exist in this world, as well as fields with perfect soil and infinite area that could double the growth rate of plants. These were things he had never dared to dream of in his previous life!
Thinking about it this way, Liu Ben felt that pulling weeds, crossing ponds, digging radishes, and climbing cliffs were no problem at all. Not to mention splitting the work with Big Cat 50-50, 91-... cough, that still wouldn't work, but he could accept 73.
What's more... the big cat's claws feel so soft, hey!
The kittens at home all have soft fur, and Liu Ben has touched them before, but none of them feels as good as the big cat in the system.
But Liu Ben couldn't help asking, "Big Cat, since you can come out, why do you still need me to offer sacrifices? Can't you just come and eat by yourself?"
The big cat didn't even bother to show its head this time. A disdainful voice echoed in Liu Ben's mind: "Can cats come in and order food at your restaurant?"
That's definitely not possible. Liu Ben thought, since his family specializes in selling agricultural products and some simple food, it's not appropriate to allow furry animals in. And a big restaurant like Xingyue Tower would be even more taboo.
On the way back, Liu Ben received a call from You Ying, saying that the gift had arrived and asked him where it was.
Liu Ben hurriedly said, "I'm on my way. I'll be there in five minutes."
You Ying: "Yeah, I'm on my way too."
Three and a half minutes later, Liu Ben and You Ying met at his home and received his own gifts.
"Hey, what is this?" Liu Ben circled around his gift.
The gift turned out to be a baby cow!
And it’s not the common local yellow cattle, buffalo, or dairy cow, but a beige calf with fluffy hair all over its body!
Liu Ben couldn't let go of the fluffy calf. How could there be a calf with fur so thick and soft? Liu Ben had never seen one before.
You Ying: "This is a Highland cattle. It lives in a relatively cold area, so it has very thick fur."
The calf is very cute, blinking its big black grape-like eyes and with its slightly upturned mouth corners, it looks well-behaved and honest. Highland cattle also have thick and soft fur that other cattle don't have. At first glance, you might mistake it for a little sheep, but sheep's fur is curly, while its fur is frizzy, making it look rounder, just like a little angel.
The calf was touched and started to moan and act coquettishly. Its head moved with the movement of the hand, and its two equally furry ears fluttered. The pink tip of its tongue stuck out of its mouth and licked its nose from time to time. It looked a little silly.
Liu Ben hugged the calf and said, "This is so cute!"
The weather had cooled off, and You Ying was wearing a turtleneck sweater, a cashmere coat, and a long scarf. He put his hands in his pockets and smiled, "I knew you'd like it."
"I love it so much!" Liu Ben held the little calf's head and looked at it. "What should I name you?"
"First, you have to take my surname Liu," Liu Ben thought, looking at You Ying seriously. "Then you were given to me by You Ying. Remember this."
"Liu You... then you can be called Avocado!" Liu Ben casually decided, patting Xiao Niu's head and shouting, "Avocado!"
You Ying: ...This name seems to have something to do with the two of them, but it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with them. But when you say it has nothing to do with them, it sounds like they have some connection.
Liu Ben asked You Ying, "Is this a good name? It's so cute!"
You Ying kept smiling: "Nice name."
Liu Ben felt that Avocado was hungry, so he took it to the dairy farm to get milk.
The cows in the dairy farm are very hardy. They produce a lot of milk after eating enough grass. When Liu Ben goes there now, he is not worried at all about the farm running out of milk.
Zhao Weiguang's eyes lit up when he saw the cow. He walked over and asked Liu Ben, "Is this a Highland cattle?"
Liu Ben nodded: "Yes, its name is Avocado, and it will be my family's pet from now on."
"Wow, why is this cow so furry?" Liu Zhiwen, who was carrying hay, half poked his head out from the grass and asked curiously, "Do you want some grass?"
Zhao Weiguang squatted down and took a look, then said with a smile: "It's still a baby. Even if it can eat grass, it can only eat a little bit. It's better to give it some milk." After that, he walked towards the cowshed.
It didn't take long before Zhao Weiguang brought out a bucket of still warm milk and placed it in front of the avocado.
Avocado smelled a familiar smell and was also hungry, so he immediately buried his head in the bucket and started drinking it up loudly, until the hair on his face was covered with milk.
"I watched videos online and saw that many people keep this kind of cow as a pet and usually feed it with a bottle," You Ying said to Liu Ben while watching.
"Maybe it's just afraid of getting its fur dirty." Liu Ben waited for the avocado to finish drinking the milk, then took some paper to help it dry.
After feeding the avocado, Liu Ben took You Ying back home.
"Look, this is the essential oil I made. It's pretty good, right?" Liu Ben took out a few small transparent glass bottles and handed them to You Ying.
The liquid in the small bottle was pure golden color and looked like ordinary oil, but when You Ying unscrewed one bottle, he immediately smelled a refreshing fragrance. All the muscles in his body relaxed and his breathing became smoother. He felt like he was sitting on a sofa covered with a blanket in a warm room with a fireplace. When he was drowsy, he found that the door was opened from the outside, and what blew in was not the cold wind, but the fragrance of flowers, symbolizing the arrival of spring.
"It smells good." You Ying said honestly. Although he was not a big fan of essential oils, he had to admit that the scent was quite addictive.
"But you extracted so many essential oils, so you must have used a lot of flowers, right?" You Ying asked.
"No," Liu Ben was also surprised by this. "You would never imagine that this bottle of 20 grams only uses 1 kilogram of flowers!"
"The oil content is so high?" You Yinghe was surprised. It has much more oil than other varieties of flowers.
"Yes, I have a lot of flowers here, so I extracted a lot of essential oils." Liu Ben opened the drawer of his bedroom table to show You Ying. There were more than a dozen bottles inside.
"Did you feel your breathing became smoother when you smelled it just now?" Liu Ben looked at You Ying and nodded, feeling even more proud. "My grandfather suddenly caught a cold a while ago, and his nose was blocked. When I made the essential oil, I let everyone smell it. After smelling it, my grandfather's nose felt better and he didn't feel blocked again for the whole day."
"That's great." Originally, You Ying only had the concept that essential oils were fragrant, but he became interested after listening to Liu Ben's words. As people get older, they always have some minor respiratory problems that lead to nasal congestion, and the elderly at home can use it.
Liu Ben and You Ying walked around the area together and visited the pickled radish factory. However, there was nothing special about it. After looking around and chatting for a while, You Ying said he wanted to go back. He also asked Liu Ben to play games with them next time and to contact him anytime if he had any questions.
Of course Liu Ben agreed. Daily life is not full of ups and downs, so it’s nice to occasionally invite friends to play together.
After You Ying left, Liu Ben was about to take Avocado out for a walk when he received an unexpected call.
"It's too far..." I don't know what we said on the phone that day, and Liu Ben replied: "It won't be fresh if you send it there."
The other party said something else, Liu Ben replied a few words, and then hung up the phone.
Liu Ben was thinking while touching Avocado, who was lying on the carpet with his hands in his pockets after eating and drinking.
The caller, who had just called, introduced himself as Qu Xian. He wanted to come and look at his produce and, if it was good, buy some. Qu Xian also owned a restaurant, and Liu Ben's first reaction was to inform the owner of another restaurant, Mr. Xue, who had placed an order with him earlier. Unexpectedly, after he mentioned "Mr. Xue," Qu Xian seemed to recognize him and asked if it was from Xingyue Restaurant. After he admitted, he seemed even more interested in his dishes.
Qu Xian understood Liu Ben's idea and said that he would contact Boss Xue first and then come to him. Liu Ben also learned from Qu Xian that Qu Xian knew about his store from Liu Rui.
Liu Rui was a bit nervous when questioned, but she naturally raved about Liu Ben's vegetables. Qu Xian, who had only tasted pickled radish at the time, naturally didn't believe her. Liu Rui became anxious when he didn't believe her, but she had no evidence. Then she suddenly remembered that she hadn't eaten the Wushuang rice in the dormitory yet, so she immediately asked Qu Xian to try her rice.
Although Qu Xian didn't believe it, he readily agreed. After Zhu Xiaoman's birthday party, he sent someone to send Liu Rui to retrieve the rice in the dormitory. Liu Rui thought Zhu Xiaoman and the others had gone to participate in other activities, but she didn't expect Zhu Xiaoman and the others to still be waiting for her, saying they were curious.
Since Liu Rui brought rice, it could be cooked quickly in an electric rice cooker. With a ding sound, everyone's eyes were focused on the rice cooker.
The waiter turned on the rice cooker, and instantly the unique aroma of Wushuang rice wafted out, impacting the olfactory senses of everyone present.
Qu Xian was the first to stand up and asked the waiter to give him a bowl of rice. The others who had just had lunch seemed to have lost their memory and all suggested having a bowl. One bowl for each of them, and the whole rice cooker full of Wushuang rice was eaten up!
Among them, Zhu Xiaoman's father and Qu Xian ate the most. Although the others also wanted to eat, they had just finished lunch and could not eat anything more after barely eating half a bowl of Wushuang rice.
Several chefs under Qu Xian came running after hearing the news. Each of them ate a big bowl and praised the dish highly while eating.
"What kind is this? It's so delicious!"
"Unparalleled rice? I've never heard of it. It must be a rare variety newly cultivated somewhere. It would be great if we had it in our store."
"Then you can eat secretly? Hehe!"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't slander me in front of the boss!"
Qu Xian admitted that this rice was indeed the best he had ever tasted, and Liu Rui was satisfied. After hearing Qu Xian's request to purchase more rice, she thought for a moment and gave him her brother's contact information. Qu Xian knew Zhu Xiaoman's family and wasn't a bad person. If Brother Ben and him could work together, it wouldn't be a bad idea. If not, Qu Xian wouldn't be the type to pursue him relentlessly.
So Qu Xian contacted Liu Ben.
Liu Ben actually didn’t have much idea about this matter. It’s not that he couldn’t provide it. On the contrary, he could definitely provide more dishes, but there were also a few problems.
First, Quxian was too far away for them to deliver the goods. Using logistics to deliver the goods might also cause damage, and the transportation fee would be too expensive.
Secondly, Liu Ben and Boss Xue had already partnered up. Boss Xue was a good partner. All of his dishes, including the newly added round vegetables and round potatoes, were now supplied to Boss Xue. Boss Xue's demand was increasing, and it was clear that they were selling well. Although the two restaurants were not in the same location, he had no idea whether there was competition between high-end restaurants, so he still had to hear Boss Xue's opinion.
The third is that Liu Ben’s daily income is already considerable. He is not short of money. Even if several times or even dozens of times more Liu family members come, he can support them. It is not necessary to develop another channel.
Liu Ben pinched the avocado's cheek and said to himself, "We don't need so many sales channels..."
However……
[Host, do you think your current sales are sufficient? 】
"Isn't that enough? Guoyan Premium, Xingyue Tower, my shop..."
[Host, don't forget! In less than two months, you'll begin collecting radishes from the villagers. When spring arrives, you'll lead the villagers in planting Wushuang rice. By then, there will be tons of Rice Meows! ]
Liu Ben clapped his hands, which scared the drowsy Avocado so much that his ears stood up!
Liu Ben hurriedly touched Avocado and let it continue sleeping.
"I would have forgotten if you hadn't reminded me, Big Cat!" Liu Ben muttered.
He remembered that tens of thousands of seeds had been distributed, and by then the harvested radishes would have numbered at least 20,000, weighing over 100,000 kilograms. If they were all made into pickled radishes... Wow! That would have to be over 300,000 bottles!
Liu Ben was stunned. The shelf life of pickled radish was only four months, and his store could not sell all of it in four months!
Xingyue Tower only sells the best pickled radishes made from the white jade radish grown in the space, so they definitely won’t want the second-generation white jade radish pickled radishes grown outside.
Hmm... Liu Ben was worried.
"Then it will be useless even if I open another restaurant? It's just a drop in the bucket!" Liu Ben murmured.
[I have ideas, but you won't listen! ]
Liu Ben: "Oh... then I get it. You will definitely let me do a live broadcast or something."
Yes, yes!
Liu Ben lay on the bed, put a pillow behind his back, swung his legs, and said nothing.
[Host, think about it. Now there are only 300,000 bottles of pickled radish. By next year, there will be at least several million kilograms of second-generation Wushuang rice waiting for you to collect! By then, the host will have to spend tens of millions of dollars to purchase that rice...]
"No way!" Liu Ben sat up in shock again: "How can there be so many?!"
[Of course, meow! ]
Even though the big cat rarely makes a sound, it actually sees everything clearly! Liu Ben has already signed hundreds of contracts. Most families have dozens of acres of land to farm, and one acre of land can produce at least 500 kilograms of rice. This, this, that, that...
The system calculated the data for Liu Ben one by one. Liu Ben listened in amazement as the numbers multiplied from one hundred to ten thousand, to one hundred thousand, to one million, to ten million...
Liu Ben picked up his fallen chin and silently calculated how much money he could save by next year's harvest. He was so confused that he could only ask the system.
[If the host doesn't spend a lot of money during this period, then it's enough. 】
Liu Ben breathed a sigh of relief.
[But if the host has no place to store so much rice and can't sell it, it will just be left there to grow mold.]
Liu Ben's heart was lifted again.
If it’s moldy, you can’t eat it. If you can’t eat it, it means it’s a waste, and wasting food is absolutely intolerable!
Liu Ben got up and walked around the room. Avocado, who was lying on the carpet, was already fast asleep and was not disturbed by him at all. He lay in a fluffy lump and looked very soft.
Liu Ben turned around a few times and finally stopped. He took a few deep breaths.
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