Lin Jinyue found farming too hard and thought that her family was working too hard. So she had an idea: didn't the last upgrade increase the number of people who could enter the farm?
She asked the system, and it said she had to sign a contract and that the person had to be trustworthy.
The contract guarantees that the person won't speak recklessly. Trustworthiness doesn't mean they can trust you; it means the system will make a judgment based on a period of time.
Lin Jinyue then told her father and brother about it.
Lin Shucheng, carrying a hoe, planted medicinal herbs with his daughter and asked, "Daughter, what do you think about hiring people to help with the farming when we have more land on the farm?"
Lin Jinyue: "Okay, let's talk about it after we've settled down. Right now, the system says the only person we can trust is Grandpa Lin, but he's already so old... And Dad, look, we still need to build the bamboo house, so there's no rush."
The main reason is that there's too little land on the farm, so it's not worth it.
Even with the system's confidentiality agreement, Lin Jinyue still felt that she had to be extremely cautious when bringing people into the farm.
Lin Jinyue picked up a hoe and started planting. The aroma of cold-cooked rabbit filled her with energy as she worked hard to level up, which would unlock more items in the system shop.
And their villa.
Lin Jinyue's family all love reading. Back then, in order to write a book, she had an entire wall in her study covered with books of all kinds, a very diverse collection. These books were very useful in ancient times.
With that in mind, Lin Jinyue worked with great enthusiasm, diligently farming.
After Jiang Yun finished preparing the cold-cooked rabbit, she joined in.
The entire 1.5 mu of land was planted with medicinal herbs. After reaching level four, the time they could stay in the space was reduced to four hours. It was only when the time was about to run out that they planted medicinal herbs on the entire 2 mu of land.
In other words, you can plant seeds on a farm in the system space without having to worry about anything else, such as temperature, climate, soil, or air humidity. Just scatter the seeds in the ground and bury them.
After planting, the farm can be considered upgraded.
Lin Shucheng saw that the data on the system panel in front of his daughter had changed.
He quickly asked, "Quick, take a look, is it a potato?"
At this moment, Lin Jinyue's mind was filled with the system's mechanical voice.
[System: Congratulations, host, on leveling up to level 5! You are rewarded with two acres of land and will unlock yam beans, chicken, hawthorn, beef (limited quantity), toothbrush, pasture seeds, and silkworms.]
Farm Level: 5 (257/20w)
Wealth: 3825 taels and 132 copper coins
Farm unlock area: 5 mu (land can be unlocked by spending silver, 100 taels of silver per mu)
Unlocked buildings: ...
Lin Jinyue stared at the system and immediately spent five hundred taels of silver to unlock the land.
You can only unlock five acres; to unlock more, you'll need to upgrade your farm.
Otherwise, she would be willing to throw all her money into it.
When Lin Jinyue came to her senses, she saw that the whole family was staring at her expectantly, asking repeatedly, "Is it a potato?"
Lin Jinyue: "Good news and bad news, which do you want to hear first?"
Lin Shucheng thought for a moment: "Good news."
Lin Jinyue then said, "I just spent five hundred taels of silver to unlock five acres of land, which will allow me to set aside a few acres to grow grain. With the passage of time, I'm not worried about not having enough food to eat."
Lin Shucheng was quite happy to hear the news. Having land was good enough. As long as they had land, they wouldn't be afraid of going anywhere. The only problem was how to get the grain through legal and legitimate means.
But that's for the future; we can worry about it later.
Lin Shucheng then asked his daughter, "Honey, what's the bad news?"
Lin Jinyue: "The unlocked crop is not potatoes, but yam beans, which look quite similar to potatoes, just a bit smaller."
Lin Jinyue was furious.
She had been looking forward to it for so long, but what she unlocked wasn't potatoes, but yam beans.
Lin Shucheng also complained: "Isn't this a pure scam, like the kind that scams people do when they go to the moon? They're even copying the potato!"
Jiang Yun comforted her, "Honey, yams were used as medicine in ancient times. We can prepare them and sell them for money. Besides, yams are very nutritious. We can make yam stewed chicken, yam and pork ribs, candied yams..."
This time, however, Lin Jinyue wasn't as greedy.
She sighed, "What's the use of money in this world? Don't be fooled by the fact that Lingnan is doing well now. Just wait and see what it will be like in a few months or a year or two. Sooner or later, war will break out. Even if war doesn't break out, General Gu will be recruiting and training soldiers, which will definitely require a large amount of grain. It's not convenient for our farm's produce to be taken out. If we conjure up so much grain out of thin air, do you think people will be suspicious?"
"Besides, look at yams. You can only grow one kind in this space, and it takes a year to mature. At this critical juncture, nothing can compare to corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes. They mature too slowly and don't keep you full."
Lin Shucheng then pondered, "Daughter, what do you think about us forming a small team to grow rice on an island outside the mainland? Is that feasible?"
Lin Jinyue actually began to consider the possibility of this.
However, Lin Jinyue shook her head: "Don't even think about it, it's impossible. A ship costs tens of thousands of taels of silver. At the same time, we also need to prepare to settle down and buy land. Besides, we only have about seventy people. If we exclude the old, weak, sick and disabled, you can calculate how many trustworthy young and strong people we have. With so few people, how can we possibly expand overseas territory? We definitely can't hold it."
Lin Jinyue continued, "I think that instead of developing overseas, we should save money first, sell our stock, and then buy grain back home. We can spend half of the money to buy cheap brown rice outside, and use the other half of what we have in our space to build a large granary and tell others that we have stockpiled grain."
In this way, the grain from their farm can also be sold openly.
As they were talking, Lin Shucheng and the other two were ejected from the space, and Lin Jinyue followed them out.
Jiang Yun muttered under her breath, "Oh my god, I worked so hard to make this cold-served rabbit, and I haven't even had a bite yet... I'm so..."
But we can't take this cold-served rabbit out to eat; it smells too good. I bet everyone's still awake right now.
Lin Jinyue secretly stuffed a piece into her mouth: "Eat quickly, eat quickly, don't let anyone smell it."
Jiang Yun took a bite of the cold-served rabbit and said, "Go wash your hands quickly."
The family slept comfortably in their dilapidated, drafty thatched hut for one night.
The next morning, they got up early and busied themselves with the task, wishing they could build a bamboo house in just two days.
Their hands were almost blistered and raw.
Several girls around the same age as Lin Jinyue started doing needlework, using the leftover coarse linen to make gloves for them so they wouldn't hurt their hands.
Even Lin Youcai, who is usually very stingy, said this method was good.
After all, if you hurt your hand, not only will it delay the progress, but you'll also have to spend money to buy herbs to treat it, which is too much trouble.
It would be better to take precautions from the beginning.
In just two days, the first small building was completed. Each room was small but exquisite.
Not only that, Lin Jinyue also had many streetlights made.
The bamboo pole served as the lamp post, and the frame of the lampshade was woven from bamboo strips. A thin layer of window paper was placed on the outside as a cover. Lin Xueqing made a small mechanism on the lamp base so that the lampshade would not be blown away unless there was a strong wind.
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