When you found Lady Flower again, she was giving a task to a male player.
It was obvious that the expression on Lady Flower's face was not very kind, but rather indifferent, with a strong sense of alienation. As the male player bargained with her, her face became even more impatient.
The male player was a boy who looked young. He did not leave immediately after receiving the task. Instead, he asked the Korean Flower Lady with a smile: "Miss, what kind of flower seeds do you want? If I can't find flower seeds, can I use the grass seeds I collected instead? Twenty seeds are too many. Can I only give you ten?"
It was obvious that he was not a very patient person. He needed to use the gathering skill at least five times to obtain one flower seed, and twenty seeds would require a hundred times of gathering. This took too much time and delayed him from going out to play.
Compared with gathering skills, he prefers mining in the mines. In the past, when he was doing the "Village Chief's Residence" task, he mainly submitted the materials obtained from mining. Now that the "NPC Favorability System" has just been released, he wants to brush up the favorability of a few more NPCs to see what the differences are.
But just as he finished speaking, the system prompted him that Lady Flower's favorability had dropped by 2. Lady Flower also spoke: "Dear villager, please don't call me 'little sister'. It's really rude. If you don't have time to help me, you can tell me directly. I can ask other villagers to help me." In short, she never mentioned lowering the task requirements.
The male player wailed on the spot: "No, no, no, I can help! Little, no, flower lady, please don't be angry. I will go find you flower seeds right away. Are twenty seeds enough? If not, I will find you forty seeds!"
After saying that, he ran away without caring about Lady Flower's reaction. How terrible! How could they turn against each other over a disagreement? Couldn't they discuss it before deducting his favorability? Woohoo! It's a pity that he has two points of favorability. He has to do one more task TAT!
"Pfft!" You covered your mouth and laughed out loud. It seems that the poor child's favorability was deducted.
This incident reminded her not to take advantage of the NPC verbally or try to bargain with the NPC. She should complete any task according to the requirements of the task and being lazy is absolutely not acceptable.
Only by completing the tasks assigned by NPC with quality and quantity can you gain their favor.
After the male player left, Lady Flower noticed you and was not affected by what happened before. A smile soon appeared on her face.
"You, you're here. Is the wreath finished?" asked the Flower Lady.
You quickly took out all five wreaths from your backpack and displayed them one by one in front of the flower lady.
The garland is made of soft branches as the base, woven into a ring that is stable enough to be worn on the head. Freshly picked flowers are not randomly used to decorate the garland. Only 2 to 3 colors of flowers are used on each garland, with one color as the main body and the remaining small part as a backdrop.
You have a good sense of color. Each wreath looks very comfortable. Two of them even won praise from the flower lady because of their creative combination.
The flower lady couldn't let go of the wreath and smiled at you: "Thank you, this is the wreath I wanted. Your craftsmanship is amazing! To thank you, I will give you the brewing method of 'Hundred Flowers Wine'. Go back and think about it carefully, and try to make delicious and mellow 'Hundred Flowers Wine' as soon as possible!"
As he said that, he handed you a thin piece of paper. This was the reward for this mission.
At the same time, you also received a system message, reminding her that the flower lady's favorability increased by +10, and the relationship between the two became "passionate". Your eyes lit up, and her guess was right. Every time the NPC's favorability made a qualitative leap, the reward for the task completed by the player would also be good.
Baihua Niang, you know it’s a good thing just by listening to the name!
"Thank you, Madam Flowers! I will work hard!" You took the paper from Madam Flowers with a smile, thanked her sincerely, and went to your residence.
On the way back, she did not forget to call her sisters through her friend list and asked them to gather at her house because she had good news to announce.
Xiao Hudie, Jiaojiao and Meng'er soon arrived at your home. As soon as they greeted each other, they showed you the colors they had just painted on their fingernails.
The nails of the three people were all rose-red, the color was deeper and richer than before, and looked extremely gorgeous. They said that they used freshly planted Impatiens to dye their nails, and their family was the only one in the village that planted Impatiens of this color.
You fell in love with it at first sight, and said that you would go to their house and have it done on your fingers after this.
"Haha, sure." Little Butterfly agreed readily, and then asked, "By the way, what's the matter with you calling us over? You said there was a big happy event. Now that we're here, can we talk about it?"
You smiled mysteriously, took out the recipe for "Hundred Flowers Wine" and showed it to the three of them: "Dangdangdang, look at the mission reward I got! I just went to the Flower Lady to do a mission, and our relationship went from 'acquaintance' to 'passionate', and then she gave me this recipe. It seems to be a recipe for making wine, and I plan to start making it when I have time!"
"Wow, you're lucky!" Meng'er looked closer with envy, "But what is 'wine'? It sounds like a drink. Have you ever tried it?"
Ni Jiang and Little Butterfly both shook their heads to indicate that they had never drunk alcohol. However, Jiao Jiao smiled smugly at the three of them and said, "Although I have never drunk alcohol, I have eaten food made with alcohol. Not long ago, I ordered beer duck, red wine stewed beef, and Huadiao chicken from the 'vegetable basket'. I used three different kinds of alcohol. Each dish gave me a different food experience. I still savour them from time to time."
It’s a pity that she has never directly prescribed alcoholic drinks in the “vegetable basket”.
The three delicacies aroused the curiosity of Ni Jiang and the others, and they excitedly discussed the specific taste of the delicacies with Jiao Jiao. Ten minutes later, Meng Er secretly swallowed his saliva and concluded: "It's over, now I am more curious about the taste of the wine!"
Well, who isn’t!
You Jiang thought of the time in the early morning when she saw Adjutant Tang opening a gift bag at his home, and one of the items seemed to be called "Xinghua Fenjiu"? She was about to say that she knew who had the wine, but then she remembered that she had made an agreement with Tang Ying not to tell anyone about this.
After a few seconds of disappointment, you suddenly slapped your forehead hard. How could she have forgotten? She clearly had some wine too.
"I, I, I!" She said excitedly to her sisters, "I think I have some wine. It's 'Peach Blossom Wine'! I got it from the task of being a Flower Lady. I almost forgot about it."
As he spoke, he took out a small jar of wine from his backpack and placed it in the center of the table.
"Well, the jar is a little small, and I don't know how much wine is in it. How about... let's try it?"
Who could resist such a temptation? Moreover, the name sounded like the drink was made from peach petals, which aroused the curiosity of several people, and they all took out their food from their backpacks.
Each person took out a large bowl and placed it on the table.
When you saw this, the corner of your mouth twitched. Such a small jar might not even be able to fill a bowl, right?
After thinking about it, she bought a set of wine utensils from the game store. She had never seen it before, maybe it was just recently put on the shelves. The wine utensils include an exquisite jade-white wine pot and exactly four small wine glasses of the same color. The wine glasses look very small and look very cute when held in the palm of the hand.
The four of them played with it for a while before returning to the main topic. You, the owner of the "Peach Blossom Wine", opened the mud seal on the mouth of the jar.
Perhaps out of some sense of ritual, Little Butterfly and the others urged you to pour the wine into the small wine pot. They wanted to drink the peach blossom wine poured from the wine pot.
You quickly did as you pleased and fiddled with the wine jug for a while before filling it up for all the sisters one by one.
The liquid of peach blossom wine is clear light red, the color of peach petals, and if you smell it up close you can smell a pleasant aroma.
"It smells so good, isn't it?" Jiaojiao narrowed her eyes in satisfaction and commented, "It smells completely different from beer, red wine, and Huadiao wine. It's refreshing. I like this smell."
Meng Er was holding a pocket-sized wine glass in his hand, and he could hardly control himself from taking a sip. Hearing this, he nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, it smells so good. Is this really wine? I feel like it's just a beautifully colored drink!"
"It should be a bar. I heard that drinking too much alcohol can easily make you drunk. We only drank a little, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?" After saying this, Little Butterfly poured the small sip of wine into her mouth.
The stimulation of alcohol made her eyes squeeze together quickly, and her facial features wrinkled into a ball, but before anyone could ask her how she was, she quickly relaxed. The alcohol content of peach blossom wine was not high, and after the initial stimulation, the faint fragrance of peach blossoms filled her entire mouth, giving Little Butterfly an illusion that she could "exhale fragrance" when she opened her mouth.
It smelled really good, and the amount was really little. After finishing a glass of wine, Little Butterfly couldn't help but glance towards the wine jug.
It tastes good, she wants more!
Seeing Little Butterfly's look, the others knew that the peach blossom wine was definitely not bad to drink, so they all followed Little Butterfly's example and drank their own portion in one gulp.
After three identical expressions, the four of them looked at each other with sparkling eyes.
“Delicious!”
“It’s sweet and tastes great!”
"Dear sauce, I still want to drink~"
"Hey, you don't have to use that tone, this matter can still be discussed!"
Not long after, you looked at the empty wine jars and the wine pot without a drop of wine in it, feeling like crying but without tears. The super delicious peach blossom wine was actually drunk up by the four of them, one cup at a time!
She originally wanted to secretly save some for herself...
Even though the peach blossom wine was small in quantity, it still had the word "wine" in it. It was the first time for the four of them to drink, and they couldn't help but get drunk. At this moment, their faces were all red, their eyes were full of water, and they looked...
"Hahaha, you look so charming. Come on, little beauty, smile for me!" Little Butterfly lifted up the chin of Jiaojiao beside her and revealed a smile that belonged to a pervert.
Jiaojiao cooperated very well. She leaned limply in Xiaodie's arms, smiling sweetly with a drunken look on her face.
This state of being half-drunk and half-intoxicated made the four people who were experiencing it for the first time very addicted. But it couldn't go on like this forever, so you took away the empty wine jars, empty wine pots, and empty wine glasses on the table, opened the door, and took the three drunk people out, sitting under the vine trellis in the yard, enjoying the breeze while sobering up.
After another half an hour, they finally came out of that state, looked at each other, and laughed out loud together.
"Hahaha, is this the feeling of being drunk? It gives me the illusion that my mind is wandering between reality and illusion. My mind is completely empty. It feels quite comfortable to not think about anything and to not do anything."
"Peach Blossom Wine is really delicious. I will go to Lady Flower to accept the mission and try to get Peach Blossom Wine from her. I will treat you guys to some of it then!"
"Well, after drinking peach blossom wine, I started to wonder if other flowers could be made into wine. You, you got the recipe for 'Hundred Flowers Wine', let's see how to make it."
After showing it to my little sister, you learned the recipe. It is called "Hundred Flowers Wine", but it does not require a hundred kinds of flowers to make it. The name means "all flowers can be used to make wine". If you want to drink wine made from a certain flower, just collect the corresponding materials and start making it.
After explaining the recipe for Baihua Niang, Little Butterfly couldn't help but applaud: "Wow, this way, the recipe for Baihua Niang is even more precious. You can not only make peach blossom wine, but also apricot blossom wine, osmanthus wine, and rose wine. Hehe, I don't know what these wines will taste like."
"Ah! You gave me the recipe for 'flower cake' before, but I only knew that rose petals could be used, but I didn't think of the possibility of other petals. I'll try it when I get back. If I succeed, I'll treat you guys to it!" Meng'er said happily.
Jiaojiao was even more direct. She took out a purse from the clothing surprise box. There was the sound of coins jingling inside. She said anxiously, "Sister! Do you think this money is enough? I want to order a few jars of peach blossom wine from you. When the time comes, you can set a price and the money will be deducted from this purse. If it's not enough, tell me and I'll make it up to you!"
When Little Butterfly and Meng'er heard this, they also reacted. They hurriedly glared at Jiaojiao and quickly went to find you to make a reservation.
After the wine tasting just now, they easily liked the taste of wine, but unfortunately the wine jar was small to begin with, and even less for four people, so they didn't drink enough! Now that there is a chance to drink a lot of wine in front of them, who would be willing to miss it?
So, you got three bulging purses and an order for five large jars of peach blossom wine each, all in a daze.
At this time, she didn't even have any materials in her hands.
"You guys... are too impatient, aren't you? The recipe says that in order to brew a jar of wine, in addition to the time required to collect the necessary ingredients, you still have to wait a full week before brewing it..."
This one week is the time in the game. If it were put into reality, it would probably take even longer to get a jar of fine wine.
"Oh, it doesn't matter. We are willing to wait in order to drink delicious wine! It's not like we can only make one jar at a time. Jiangjiang, you can make more at once. In addition to peach blossom wine, other flavors can also be arranged. When the wine is ready, we can come and choose it on the spot~"
"Yes, yes, yes. I don't think that just one peach blossom wine will satisfy me. After the three of us have picked out the ones, I will go with you to set up a stall at the night market. I have a feeling that these wines will definitely set off a new trend in our village!" Meng'er suggested.
You were really tempted by what he said, and you reluctantly accepted the so-called deposit, and also carefully wrote down the amount of peach blossom wine requested by the three people.
After finishing the drinks and placing the orders, everyone had their own things to do, so they said goodbye to each other and left. Before leaving, Jiaojiao asked Nijiang if she could share this matter on the game forum. After getting Nijiang's consent, she left happily.
As for Little Butterfly and Cute Ear, they went to find Flower Lady to do tasks. According to you, as long as you complete more than ten or twenty tasks at Flower Lady's place, the friendship level can be raised to "Enthusiastic", and they are also full of motivation.
It is not necessary to raise the friendship level to the "enthusiastic" stage. As long as Lady Flower is willing to give out a few more jars of wine in the mission rewards, they are willing to do so.
After all, it can relieve the pain of missing you that I've been missing for a week while waiting for you to drink peach blossom wine.
You are so miserable. As soon as the gate of the courtyard is closed, you go out to collect peach petals and other materials needed.
After Jiaojiao returned, she quickly told the story from a bystander's perspective about how her good friend completed a task assigned by the NPC, received an awesome reward, and then they drank and chatted together, and finally placed an order for drinks.
In her description, the taste of peach blossom wine was magnified several times through the power of words, which aroused great curiosity among players and netizens in the forum. They all wanted to know what the highly praised peach blossom wine tasted like.
"Damn it! My tears couldn't help but flow down from the corners of my mouth. It was fine that I was tempted by all kinds of delicious food in the game before, but now I have to add peach blossom wine to it! Damn it, damn it, damn it!!!"
"@悠然田居-Bai Li, dear Li Li, my gene collapse disorder is about to reach the late stage, regressing to the state of childhood. Before the transformation, I want to taste the peach blossom wine. Please have pity on me and sell me a game quota, so that I can play the game and have a good experience. It will not be in vain for me to walk through this world..."
"The person above, you are too cruel, aren't you? You can say such things just for a drink. Aren't you cursing yourself? I am different. I really have a terminal illness, the kind that cannot be cured. So Li Li look at me, look at me! @悠然田居-白黎"
“…”
The topic inexplicably turned to the issue of playing the victim, and one gamer sneered and said that he had never seen so many diseases in his life.
After finally getting back to the main topic, the players discussed the NPC who caused the incident and her mission, as well as the "Hundred Flowers Wine" recipe that you obtained.
"y1s1, this girl is so lucky. I also got the 'enthusiastic' friendship level with the fisherman, but when I reached this level, the task reward he gave me was just an ordinary turbot?? Although this fish tastes good when steamed, it only satisfied my appetite for five minutes and is completely incomparable to the weight of the 'Hundred Flowers Brew'! I'm so envious!"
"Envy +1. I don't know why, but I have never been liked by the five new NPCs. Not only did they speak to me in a bland tone, but even the rewards they gave me after completing the task were very ordinary. Can you believe that the best reward I got was a small windmill given to me by a naughty child? Put it in the yard, and when the wind blows, it can reduce the growth time of crops by 20%. Unfortunately, this thing is time-limited. After 24 hours, this windmill will only be useful for viewing..."
"Well, it seems that the tasks from Lao Wang at the entrance of the village are the most stable. If you help him collect materials for building a house or cut some grass to feed his beloved cows and horses, you can get one or two coins. It is said that these coins can be used to ride ox carts or horse carts to other villages after reaching level 30."
"Although it's stable, there's no motivation to do it. There's an old saying on Ancient Blue Star, 'Take a risk and a bicycle will turn into a motorcycle'. Brother, only by taking risks can you have greater rewards! I would rather help the flower lady collect flower seeds, or watch her and the fisherman show their love every day, or help the fisherman catch a dozen kilograms of big fish from the river or the sea, or play hide-and-seek with naughty children in the whole village. Only in this way can we get good things!"
"It's so funny. I can't get any good props, any tasks, or any rewards. Doesn't it just depend on the mood of the NPCs? I think this is the saying 'If you are not from the same family, you will not enter the same door'. This family of three has a lot of problems. The first thing to look at is their mood! Woof woof crying.jpg"
"Hahaha, I'd like to call them the 'mood trio'!"
“It’s true, so true!”
One after another, players full of resentment came out to share their miserable experiences when doing tasks. You would be shocked if you didn't share it. Many players could only get the most ordinary reward after completing a task with great effort. There were almost no players like you who could get "Flower Cake" and "Hundred Flowers Wine" and even finished wine.
Jiaojiao has been following the updates of the post. Seeing this, she couldn't help but tell Nijiang the news. She suspected that Nijiang must have a very high status in Lady Flower's heart, and told her not to give up on this NPC, and to remember to go to her to get some money whenever she had time.
You agreed readily.
The players who had vented their feelings in Jiaojiao's post were contentedly leaving the post, but were hit by another piece of news.
Just after noon, the official Starblog of the Imperial Research Institute released a message stating that the testing of all holographic games newly launched this year has been completed, and posted rough test data and a website where detailed information can be viewed.
"Leisurely Living in the Countryside" has firmly taken the top spot with a "mental comfort" rating of 90%.
When the players saw the familiar names, they felt their heads buzzing and only had one thought: Awesome, my Li Li!
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