Chapter 005 Cotton Seeds
Electricity was connected in the machinery factory, and all the dormitories in the factory were also connected to electricity. A dim light was on in Tang Yuan's room. She sat on the bed and took out all the money she had to light the light.
Including the twenty yuan her scumbag father gave her today, she now had a total of twenty-eight yuan and fifty cents in her hand, as well as various miscellaneous grain coupons.
The factory had given her an advance of three yuan in wages and some food coupons. She had not worked a full month this month, so when the wages came, she would get another five or six yuan at most. Even if all the money was added up, the money she had would not exceed thirty-five yuan.
Still poor.
She gathered the bills together, smoothed them out one by one and held them in her hands. After she had them all, she clenched her palms. The scene in front of her changed instantly and she was back in the familiar pink cloakroom.
This pink dressing room is the initial scene. No matter where she "goes offline", as long as she comes back, she will come here.
The only problem was that there wasn't a single piece of clothing in this cloakroom, and she couldn't even find a place to buy clothes. It wasn't at all like the dress-up games she played in her previous life.
No matter how spendthrift other dress-up games are, there are still free clothes when you go online. Not to mention thirty or forty pieces, there are at least a dozen basic clothes.
Not giving up, she searched the empty cupboard again, but still found nothing. She could only open the door and pass through the pink vortex to the wooden house.
The cucumbers planted during the day were not yet ready for harvest, so she pushed open the door of the wooden house, took out the new bag given by her stepmother from the corner, put the twenty yuan that belonged to her into the bag, put the rest of the money aside for the time being, took the towel hanging on the wooden board, and returned to the small house outside.
The real cabin has a bed and a table compared to the one in the game, but it is not very clean. She even dislikes hanging a towel there, so she hangs her towel in her portable game cabin every day, although her towel is not very clean either.
I carried a wooden bucket to the river to fetch some water, washed my face and body, and after I was done I went back into the game.
At this time, all the cucumbers were ripe. Ten seeds produced thirty-five cucumbers. She kept five for herself and sold the remaining thirty. The total sales price was 30 dollars, and she made a net profit of 20 dollars.
The land in the game was still plantable at night, so she bought 20 seeds at once and planned to plant them all. However, when she was planting the fourteenth seed, she was prompted that it could not be planted, so she could only put the seeds away with regret.
After planting this crop, she went straight back to the cabin, lay down on the floor and took a nap.
Although there was no bed in the wooden house, the temperature was suitable. She slept in the corner, which was cleaner and fresher than sleeping in the room outside. She had almost always slept in the wooden house in the past few days.
She went to bed early at night, so she woke up early the next day. The cucumbers were not ready to be harvested yet, so she finished her game, washed up, and went to the cafeteria for breakfast.
"Xiaoyuan, you got the ticket yesterday. Are you going to buy food today?"
"Yes," Tang Yuan bit a coarse grain steamed bun in his mouth and looked at the person who was speaking eagerly, "Aunt Qian..."
"Let's go together. I'm calling you. It's right to go with Aunt Qian," the other party said with a smile, "Do you have money? If you do, wait here for me. I'll go back and get something and then come back."
Tang Yuan nodded repeatedly. Even if Aunt Qian hadn't said anything, she would have gone to buy food anyway. She couldn't always eat in the cafeteria.
Not to mention the cost, even when she has a good harvest in the game, she won’t be able to buy herself an extra meal.
"Then wait for me," Aunt Qian said, and turned away. She came back a few minutes later and stuffed a bag into Tang Yuan's hand. "Don't you have a bag for food? Take it and use it. It's for you."
Before Tang Yuan had time to say thank you, a few more people came and took her out of the machinery factory. They chatted about gossip and told her what they wanted to buy.
You have to buy food, salt, some pickled vegetables, lunch boxes, chopsticks, coal briquettes...
These are all the necessities for starting your own fire. Just buying these things may cost more than ten dollars, and you will also need a lot of receipts.
That is to say, the machinery factory has good profits and various tickets are distributed in sufficient quantities, otherwise many things would not be available for purchase.
Tang Yuan counted the things she needed and was about to buy them one by one, but she was dragged to buy everything, leaving her no room to do anything.
When it was time to go back, she was carrying a lot of things in her hands, big and small, not to mention the things that others helped her carry.
"When you get paid, you will get gas coupons. If you want to buy gas, you should buy it early. If you don't need it, you can exchange it for other coupons."
"Yes, everyone is short of oil and water these days. If you are alone, you can first exchange the oil coupons for grain coupons, and then for cloth coupons. Save more cloth coupons and exchange them for a piece of fine cotton cloth to make yourself some underwear. For girls, clean underwear is very important."
"Industrial tickets can also be exchanged, just take them out to exchange, it won't affect anything."
"Now you have to make a good living. Don't worry about other things. Food and clothing are the most important. When you work for a few more years, you can save more money to buy a good pot... Oh, my brain, I didn't buy you a pot today."
"Use my pot. I have a small one at home that is empty. Xiaoyuan will eat alone, so the small pot is enough for her."
"That's great. Let Xiaoyuan use it for the time being."
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Tang Yuan listened to everyone's chatter and couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat. She didn't know whether it was her own emotions or the original owner's emotions that suddenly surged from the bottom of her heart.
It was not until everyone took handkerchiefs to wipe her face that she realized she was crying.
"Why are you crying? Our lives will definitely get better and better in the future."
"Yes, yes, good days are waiting for you, don't cry, don't cry."
"Your crying almost made me cry. It's so pitiful. You are a well-behaved and sensible child. Why is your father like that?"
"That's right, Xiaoyuan, don't be afraid. We will protect you from now on. Don't be sad."
Tang Yuan didn't know what to say and could only nod.
Because of this sudden emotion, they returned to the machinery factory. Everyone even sent her back to her residence. When they saw that the environment was almost empty, they sighed again.
However, everyone was short of cloth, so no one said much. They just helped her clean up and chatted with the neighbors about her situation. The neighbors all looked at her with sympathy, and soon every family sent a dustpan of shaved wood chips.
Coal briquettes can be used to burn coal, but they require kindling and firewood.
There was a wood factory near the machinery factory, which produced a large amount of wood shavings every day. After negotiating with the machinery factory, all the wood shavings were sold to the machinery factory. The price was not expensive and the shavings were just right for kindling, so almost every household would have some in stock.
Tang Yuan hadn't had any of it when he first arrived, so of course he didn't have any, but now he doesn't have to worry about it.
The aunties who came with her thanked them all at once, and she couldn't help but sigh at the enthusiasm of people at the moment, and followed them in thanking them many times.
I also heard comments about her from everyone: "This child is quite polite, but a little silly."
Tangyuan: ...
Whether she likes it or not, her reputation as "silly" has spread, but this reputation is not a bad thing. At least she doesn't encounter too many problems in her daily life, and most people even care about her when they see her.
Knowing that the bad reputation fell on Tang Jianguo, she was even less anxious to clarify.
"Silly" does not mean that others think she is a fool. Once she learns the local language well, people's views of her will gradually change.
People are inherently complex. As they learn more, their minds become more flexible and they will naturally get out of their dazed state. She changes slowly and does not let people around her suspect that she is pretending to be stupid.
Tang Yuan nibbled on the cucumber in his hand and scrolled through the list of seeds in front of him.
These days she has prepared all kinds of daily necessities. Except for breakfast, she goes to the canteen to eat steamed lunch and dinner, one serving of coarse rice and one serving of pickled vegetables. The food is even worse than before. If she didn't have cucumbers to chew on, she would not be able to survive.
But she couldn't eat in the cafeteria too often now, otherwise all the money she had earned would be wasted.
She scrolled down the seed list and added the items she needed to the shopping cart one by one.
Sweet potatoes can be eaten raw, add one; tomatoes can be eaten raw, add one; radishes can be eaten raw, add one...Soybeans are not easy to eat raw, but they are sold in large quantities outside, so you can steam them and add one.
Then there are peanuts, potatoes, peas...
There are many things that can be grown. If you only consider growing them to sell to the system, you must choose something with high profits. But if you consider growing them for your own consumption, you must choose something more practical.
She now has more than one hundred dollars in her account, and can buy many more seeds than before. If the amount that can be planted in the field is not limited, she will definitely plant some of everything.
In addition to seeds, you can also buy storage slots. Each storage slot can store an unlimited amount of the same type of food, but the price is a bit expensive. One storage slot costs one thousand coins, and the price increases as time goes by. The price doubles for each additional slot.
This means that if she wants to save some food, it is best to choose one crop, otherwise she will not be able to eat it all and will have to sell it all to the system.
Turning the page again, she saw cotton seeds.
This thing is durable and can be stored in a wooden house after it is grown. There is no need to worry about whether it can be preserved.
Maybe the clothes in the cloakroom are related to the crops grown here.
After looking at the cotton harvest season, she decided to plant half cotton and half cucumber. If the cotton and linen crops here are needed to make clothes in the cloakroom, she would adopt this planting model in the future.
After planting cotton and cucumbers, she finished eating the last bite of cucumber in her hand, returned to the wooden house, and lay down on the hard floor to sleep.
The next morning, she kept an eye on the cotton harvest time and harvested it at the first opportunity.
After completing all the harvest, she returned to the pink cloakroom, and indeed found an operating panel specifically for the cloakroom.
Cotton cloth: 10-20 coins/meter
Fabric pattern: 5 coins——? ? coins/piece
Clothing drawings: 10 coins——? ? coins/sheet
Face pinching: 100 coins——? ? coins/time