"Brother, are you asleep?"
Chang Ling lay on her bed, reflecting on Chang Jing's behavior and words that day. She felt as if her brother had become a different person, which made her uneasy.
The Chang family only has two rooms. The larger room is divided into two areas by a wardrobe and a dressing table. Inside is Chang Ling's bed, and outside, near the door, is Chang Jing's bed.
When the two siblings weren't arguing, they would chat for a bit before bed, mostly with Chang Ling nagging Chang Jing not to trust Old Lady Chang too much.
Chang Jing ignored him; he was desperate to make money and get his mother and sister away from the Chang family. So his entire consciousness was immersed in the space.
Today, when Chang's mother wasn't looking, he plucked some of the peppers, scallions, and tomatoes that she had planted on the balcony and put them into the space to grow.
After being watered with the spiritual spring water, the short tomato seedlings had grown and blossomed in just a few hours, while the chili seedlings were laden with fruit, and the scallions had grown into a patch.
Indeed, although it is a basic space, the effects of the spiritual spring water on plants are still incredibly powerful.
Chang Jing was very satisfied with the experiment, and he plans to plant lychee and longan trees in the space next.
It's July now, the tail end of the lychee season in Guangzhou. Chang Ma makes a living by selling this expensive fruit, and occasionally she'll bring back some loose lychees for her children to try.
Chang Jing buried the lychee seeds in the spirit field and watered them with spirit spring water. He also treated the longan seeds that were brought to market early in the same way.
He knew that with the power of the spiritual field and the spiritual spring water, the lychees and longans he planted could grow well without grafting, and could also flower and bear fruit in a very short time regardless of the season.
After finishing his planting work, he also took the opportunity to cultivate the internal energy techniques from his previous life. When he finally got tired and left the space, he heard Chang Ling's steady snoring. He checked his watch and saw that it was already past four in the morning. Chang Ling's mother next door was also making noise.
Every day at this time, she has to get up and wash, and before five o'clock she has to go out to the fruit market to buy fruit wholesale. She has a good eye and always buys high-quality fruit that is better than the best.
Individual farmers usually can't get such good sources of goods, but Chang Ma knows how to get along with people and can talk to big fruit vendors, who are happy to give her goods.
It is this difference that makes Chang Ma's fruit stand so profitable; she can earn in a week what others earn in a month.
Logically speaking, with Chang's mother being so good at making money, Chang Jing's family should be quite well-off. Unfortunately, they have Chang's father, who's always either gambling away money or stealing from the house to support his wife.
The next day, when Chang Jing woke up, his father had already left for work, and Chang Ling was eating noodles and watching TV.
"I left you a bowl of noodles in the pot, go and eat it!"
Normally, Chang Ling wouldn't care whether Chang Jing ate breakfast or not. As the younger sister, she had to take care of her older brother, which made her feel too unbalanced.
"Okay, thank you, Xiaoling. I'll cook lunch today!"
To reciprocate, Chang Jing thought of showing off his cooking skills to his sister for lunch. Having traveled through so many worlds, he now possesses a wide range of skills.
"No, I'm meeting up with a classmate to do homework at the library later, and I won't be back for lunch. You should get some rest! Do you want me to cook some rice for you and steam some vegetables before you go?"
Thinking of Chang Jing's past good-for-nothing behavior, as his younger sister, she couldn't bear to let her now sensible brother go hungry, so she decided to cook for him before going out.
"No need, I can manage on my own. Go ahead and do your homework, but be careful!"
Upon hearing that Chang Ling wasn't eating at home, Chang Jing decided to go to the market to set up a stall and earn some pocket money. The chili peppers and tomatoes in his space were already hanging all over the branches.
After finishing breakfast, Chang Jing rummaged through the toolbox at Chang Ma's stall, took out a plastic bag, a steelyard balance, and a basket, and then went downstairs to get his bicycle.
Chang Jing didn't plan to set up a stall at the market where Chang Ma worked, but instead went to a large residential community nearby.
"Hey handsome, all your tomatoes are so big and round, did you spray them with pesticides?"
An older woman passing by noticed that the person running the stall was a handsome young man. The tomatoes he was selling were all big and red, and they looked very appealing. She wondered if they were grown with chemicals.
"Auntie, these tomatoes are all grown by farmers. They are sweet and sour, and very juicy. You can eat them like fruit. Try one if you don't believe me."
As he spoke, Chang Jing casually picked up a tomato, wiped it clean, and used a knife to cut off a piece for the old lady who had asked the question to try.
"Then I'll try it. If it's good, I'll help you sell a few pounds."
There's a small square at the entrance of their residential complex where vendors usually set up stalls. The older woman comes here specifically to buy groceries.
The moment she put the tomato in her mouth, the sweet and sour taste of the tomato stimulated her taste buds, making the old lady's eyes light up.
"Delicious, really delicious! Young boss, how much are these tomatoes?"
"Natural organic tomatoes are more difficult to grow and therefore more expensive. They usually sell for two yuan per kilogram. Auntie, you are my first customer today, so I'll charge you one yuan and eighty cents per kilogram."
Chang Jing had been helping his mother set up a stall since he was a child, and he had learned about 80% of the small vendors' sales techniques, so he was very good at selling things.
"Okay, I won't haggle anymore, just weigh out five pounds for me!"
With a large family, we stir-fried half of the food with eggs and ate the other half as fruit, which was quite nice.
Where there are buyers, there are inquiries. When the older women bought five jin of tomatoes and Chang Jing was bagging them, several older women gathered around. Seeing that Chang Jing had peeled the tomatoes and put them aside, they picked them up, peeled them themselves, and shared them.
"Boss, how much are these tomatoes per pound? They taste pretty good."
"Two yuan a pound. Ladies, you can come and try them yourselves. They are especially delicious organic tomatoes and very nutritious."
"Young boss, you're not being honest. I just heard you telling this lady that it's 1.8 yuan per jin! If you give us the same price, I'll buy three jin."
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