Afterwards, Zhang Hu and his wife, as well as five people from Duan Linzhou's side, all sent messages to inform him that they had followed his shop and wished him a successful opening.
When I first saw the Fox Department Store, I wasn't sure, but I was sure it was him when I saw the Bomb Cherry.
While the group was exploring for supplies on the island, Lin Hu distributed some fruit to each of them.
Lin Hu gave everyone an orange smoke and 66 level-one crystal cores as a thank-you gift. This ceremony had to be done, and everyone returned the favor with appropriate supplies.
Jiang Qiaomei called Lin Hu directly via video. Lin Hu fixed the screen next to the stove so that it could record his position and the casserole pot before answering the call.
"Good afternoon, Aunt Jiang. Have you had lunch yet?" Lin Hu asked.
"Not yet, I'm working on it here too." Jiang Qiaomei said, finding a similar angle to Lin Hu to fix the light screen.
This way, Lin Hu could also see into her pot, a steaming oil pan, where something was still frying.
"Is it crispy pork?" Lin Hu looked at the bubbling oil in the pan, but couldn't see the inside of the pan completely from the angle, so he guessed it was crispy pork.
"Yes. I'll fry some extra and make one for you too."
"Okay, then I'll cook some extra vegetables for you and Uncle Duan." Lin Hu said, telling Duan Linzhou to take a basin and go outside to tear cabbage. While the soup was still cooking, he also chopped some meat and green peppers.
Once everything was ready, Lin Hu received the crispy pork that Jiang Qiaomei sent, and Lin Hu also sent the stir-fried pork with green peppers and pork rib soup to the other party and Duan Bohai. Wen Mofei and the other two only had rice, dry pot cabbage and shredded pork with green peppers.
After dinner, Duan Linzhou cleaned up the mess, while Lin Hu went back to his room to lie down, pet his dog, and watch TV.
Of course, he wasn't just watching TV. He was currently working hard to manage his shop and earning materials to upgrade his raft to level three. His raft's experience points could directly upgrade it to level four, but level four materials required a large amount of wood.
After the survival system was upgraded, the planks that originally required 4 pieces of wood to craft were now graded.
Four pieces of wood can be combined to make a regular plank. Four regular planks can be combined again to upgrade to a high-grade plank, which the system says can withstand strong winds and waves and attacks from marine life.
Lin Hu has never encountered any marine life so far, and it seems that no one else has either. He has a gut feeling that this might be a warning sign.
He planned to collect more timber and replace all the planks on the raft with higher-grade ones. There were trees on the small island next to him that he could cut down, but it was too time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Now that the secluded farmland is protected, all the seeds sold to outsiders are invalid, just like the ginger and chili peppers he bought from others back then.
Lin Hu put 100 portions of 250g Chinese cabbage, each containing 5 first-grade crystal cores, on the shelves of Boss Zhou's shop. Also, 100 portions of 500g pork, each containing 25 first-grade crystal cores, 100 portions of 500g crayfish, each containing 30 first-grade crystal cores, 100 live river shrimp, each containing 17 first-grade crystal cores… and 200 portions each of chili peppers, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, and cucumbers, each containing 300g, all priced at 40 pieces of wood per portion.
The shop allows customers to leave messages. Lin Hu left a message saying, "The food has special effects and is of good quality and low price."
[?: Mr. Zhou's shop has restocked! I've already bought some. Everyone hurry up and go check it out. The shop owner only has 100 of each item available.]
【？？？：I saw it, but didn't buy it; it seemed too expensive.】
[Xie X: I think so too. I only killed a little over a hundred zombies this time I came to the island, and I only have a little over two hundred crystal cores left.]
[Wu X: I have over six hundred crystal cores, but I won't buy them.]
【? ? : I won't buy it for 800】
[Zhao xx: I wouldn't buy it even for 1500]
【? ? ? : I wouldn't buy it even for 3000】
【? : I really don't understand what those people upstairs who are talking about whether or not to buy the building are stirring up. They have products that don't accept crystal cores, and the shop owner even said they have special effects. Have you forgotten the ginger soup with special effects during the extreme cold disaster? Don't you guys recognize this Boss Zhou?】
[Chen XX: I, Chen XX, am verified. It really works! I bought a cucumber and ate it raw, and it actually gave me 15 points of heat relief, lasting for 10 hours.]
【? ?: Oh my god, @Chenxx, why did you say that? Now I went in and there's nothing left.】
[Zhang X: Damn, it's impossible to get one]
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Lin Hu combined the acquired wood into ordinary planks, and then combined them a second time to obtain 1500 high-grade planks. He planned to upgrade the raft directly to level 4, expand it to 40x50, and then choose a two-story building with a terrace.
They were still short 500 high-grade planks, so Lin Hu replaced the raft's original ordinary planks with the 1500 high-grade planks. He then combined the ordinary planks again and put grapes on the shelves of Boss Zhou's shop in exchange for some more wood.
The raft was upgraded two levels and expanded rapidly. He also replaced the railings on the edge of the raft with high-grade wooden railings.
Since we had six days before we could choose a new house to expand, we weren't in a hurry to look at house types.
He called Duan Linzhou out of the wooden house and had him stand beside him.
Lin Hu arranged the raft in the system interface, placing the house in the lower right corner of the raft's center, and then placing all the land behind the house. The hot spring pool was placed in the upper right corner, with a wooden partition wall, and wisteria was planted beside the hot spring.
He also set up four breeding sheds and two fish ponds in the upper left corner of the raft. Although he didn't use the breeding sheds, he still had to build them, otherwise it would be difficult to explain where his meat came from if he met other people in the future.
He did raise fish in the fishponds, but only as ornamental fish. If lotus flowers appeared, he would plant some in the two fishponds, so they would be both beautiful and edible.
Lin Hu didn't plan to put anything in the empty space in the lower left corner; he would need it later.
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