Chapter 47 (Update 1)
Things were finally settled, but An Rou was still worried about leaving An Younian alone on the farm.
Firstly, he was worried about accidentally revealing his whereabouts after getting rich. Secondly, there were dozens of player corpses soaking in the pickle shed. If one of them escaped, the consequences would be disastrous.
After much thought, she decided to go back to the farm first and bring An Younian back to town.
Paopao finally remembered how An Younian had been startled by the sudden wealth noise before leaving the farm. He quickly activated his mobility skill and rushed An Rou out of town. To avoid attracting too much attention, they deliberately chose to run through less crowded streets.
An Rou grabbed Paopao's arm, suddenly exerted force, and looked back at a rooftop.
Paopao stopped and asked, "What's wrong?"
An Rou frowned: "It's okay, let's go."
The rooftop was empty, no one was in sight. But just then, she suddenly felt like someone was watching her.
Is it an illusion?
The two quickly vanished at the end of the alley, and a vague white figure slowly appeared on the roof. It was like a figure reflected in water, a stone dropped into it, and ripples spread across every part of it.
The smile on his lips became erratic.
His smile suddenly faded. He looked up at the blue-gray sky and whispered to himself, "Since you gave birth to me, since you gave birth to me..."
Three words, repeated countless times.
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The farm gate was open, and An Rou frowned as she looked back. Paopao saw her expression and said, "I forgot to close the gate. I was so busy chasing my fortune that I forgot."
"Chasing sudden wealth?"
Paopao then remembered that he had forgotten to mention this, and hurriedly described Baofu's frantic rush to Zhongsu Town. Of course, he also included the fact that Baofu had stopped halfway for some unknown reason.
An Rou was very surprised.
Could it be that the rich can sense that they are in danger?
As for turning back halfway, that wasn't hard to understand. An Rou had indeed instructed it to protect An Younian and not to harm him.
She asked Paopao to lead her and headed straight for the bungalow. The door to the bungalow was also open. An Rou called out a few times, but no one answered, and she didn't see An Younian either.
She was about to go back to look for it when An Younian ran in excitedly from outside.
"Meat, meat! It's growing, it's growing!"
He was so excited that his slightly dark fat face turned red. He carefully held the thing in his hand to An Rou.
It was a small green sprout, no longer than a fingernail. It was topped by two tender green leaves, each with a slightly indented edge, like two intertwined hearts. At the end was a small handful of dark brown soil.
Paopao widened his eyes: "This is..."
"Mustard seed." An Rou said calmly, but couldn't suppress the smile in her eyes, "It sprouted."
"Yes, yes, it's sprouted. A huge area has sprouted!" An Younian was so excited that tears filled his eyes. "It turns out that you can really grow something. Rourou, you really grew something in this piece of land!"
An Rou opened her mouth, then closed it again, holding back the words she subconsciously wanted to say.
In the game, it wasn't too difficult for her to control an NPC to a certain extent, but the prerequisite was that she had to be able to see the person.
For example, this time, An Younian was alone in the town, lost his bun shop, begged Sister Hong, became a mobile vendor, was troubled by the security guards, and secretly made a land deal with Li Xiang...
An Rou knew nothing about it until yesterday afternoon.
Every failure makes one wiser. After living alone for so many years, An Rou has become much smarter.
After blinking a few times, An Rou's eyes turned red: "I told you a long time ago that I have a way, but Dad just doesn't believe me."
The other two were stunned at the same time.
Paopao glanced at Anrou carefully a few times, then couldn't help rubbing his eyes. Was he seeing right? The boss was actually crying? Her expression was aggrieved, like a little girl who accidentally broke her lollipop on the way home from school.
He looked at An Younian again.
It seems the boss has real feelings for this NPC. Perhaps she plays this game primarily to remember her real-life father?
An Younian's excitement was quickly extinguished by his daughter's tears. He held the mud in his hands, wanting to wipe away the tears but unable to do so, feeling completely lost.
"How could I not believe Rourou? Daddy has always believed in Rourou. Rourou, don't cry, don't cry..."
An Rou blinked, and the tears slid down her fair chin without paying any attention.
"You just don't believe me. You'd rather believe someone else, Li Xiang, than me!"
An Younian realized that An Rou was referring to him and Li Xiang buying soil. He quickly explained, "Dad doesn't distrust Rou Rou. I just wanted to help you."
"I know Dad wants to help me," An Rou insisted, "but I've already told you I have a way to grow something. If you believed in me, why would you buy soil from Li Xiang? In the end, you still don't trust me!"
An Younian opened his mouth again and again, but was speechless.
Paopao opened his mouth again and again, wanting to persuade him but not daring to. In his opinion, the boss was being a bit unreasonable.
Believing in you and believing in your abilities are often two completely different things, okay? Besides, if I had explained to Uncle An that there was a way to remove the corpse poison and purify the soil, instead of just saying "you can grow something," how could Uncle An have been fooled by Li Xiang and gone out to buy soil?
An Rou didn't give them any room to maneuver and continued firing, "I don't want to be a sucker and fall out with Sister Hong. I won money playing mahjong to pay for the rent of the bun shop, I rebuilt the farm left by my grandfather, and I can also make friends with the high-ranking destiny person and make so much money...
"I can do so many things that others can't do, why doesn't Dad believe in me? What should I do to make you listen to me?
"If it weren't for Miss Heng this time, what would have happened to you by the security guards? Would I have been able to see you again? Dad, do you know how scared I was that I almost lost my dad and became an orphan?"
"Boss..." Paopao blurted out, then suddenly shut up.
No, he seemed to smell something burning.
As expected, An Younian also cried, his face full of regret and heartache.
"Okay, okay, it's Daddy's fault. It's all Daddy's fault. Rourou, don't cry. Daddy will listen to Rourou in everything from now on. Whatever Rourou says is what it's all about, okay?"
An Rou sniffed: "No matter what difficulties you encounter, you must tell me."
"Okay, Daddy will tell Rourou everything."
Paopao looked at An Younian speculatively, then looked at An Rou suspiciously.
An Rou burst into laughter.
Hiss—Paopao took a deep breath.
It’s burnt, burnt. The old CPU... no, it’s the program code, it’s all burnt!
An Rou hugged An Younian's arm affectionately and walked out the door: "Then Dad, come with me to the vegetable garden."
"Oh, okay!" When he thought of the green sprouts in the vegetable garden, An Younian smiled again.
From a distance, you can see a neat green area in the vegetable field, as if it has changed from a bald head to a short flat head.
Only half the beds sprouted—the half where no fertilizer was applied, relying on the plasticity of living tools to adjust the soil. In the other half, where fertilizer and water were applied normally, not a single sprout emerged.
An Rou was filled with joy and couldn't help but high-five Paopao to celebrate.
But Paopao couldn't help but retract his hand.
"What's wrong?" An Rou looked at him puzzledly.
"...No, it's okay." Paopao quickly adjusted his mentality, grinned exaggeratedly, and cheered loudly, "It's sprouted, it's sprouted, the seeds have sprouted!"
In return, An Rou looked at him with disdain.
This child's IQ seems to be a mystery, especially his reaction time. Wasn't it a little too long today?
There was some movement in the distance.
An Rou turned her head and saw Li Xiang standing outside the fence, craning his neck to look at her.
She considerately moved aside a few steps to make room for him to have a better look.
Li Xiang's eyes suddenly widened and his chin almost hung on the fence.
"How is it possible? How can anything be grown on this land?!"
The words blurted out involuntarily were not suppressed in volume and vaguely reached An Rou's ears.
An Rou smiled slightly, stood behind An Younian, covered his ears tightly, and shouted to Li Xiang: "Don't worry about this, don't come here again, and remember to take your precious soil away!"
It turned out that there were a lot of earth mounds piled up outside the fence, bulging together, like the flood prevention bags in the subway station.
This old guy is sure that An Rou will buy it sooner or later.
Until I saw with my own eyes the little green flat heads growing in the vegetable garden.
After being stunned, Li Xiang snorted heavily, and without paying any attention to the mud bags piled up at his feet, he pushed the wheelbarrow away.
It's just a piece of tacky stuff that can be found everywhere, so it's not worth much.
"Rou Rou, what are you doing?" An Younian didn't hear An Rou's call clearly. He looked around in confusion and saw a figure in the distance. "Brother Li?"
He wanted to chase after her, but was stopped by An Rou.
An Younian looked embarrassed. "Rou Rou, after all, I was the one who agreed to buy the soil. Now that I'm not buying it, I have to apologize to Brother Li."
An Rou shook her head. "He's a tenant farmer, renting the mayor's land. He's also digging up mud from the land and reselling it privately. Dad, if the mayor finds out, will he let him go? Will he let us go?"
"Mayor?!"
An Younian had no idea about this. After getting An Rou's affirmative answer, he was still frightened and didn't chase after her.
It’s okay for him, An Rou has worked so hard to rebuild the farm. If his daughter gets implicated, he... doesn’t dare to think about it anymore.
"Rou Rou, is there any unused hay here? It's getting cold at night, and we need to cover the vegetable patch a little to prevent the sprouts from freezing."
An Younian was a person who couldn't sit still, and now he felt that he owed his daughter something, so his little eyes looked around, looking for work to do.
"dad……"
An Rou originally wanted to let him stay on the farm for two days. She persuaded him several times, but seeing that he was restless, she simply told him the follow-up arrangements: the bun shop had been bought, and he would no longer have to look at Sister Hong's face in the future.
"We can go back to town, clean up and reopen. But—"
An Rou changed the subject, "Dad, the store is too simple. Now that we have money, we should decorate it properly. Haven't you always felt that the store is too small and that we can't fit many tables if we put the tables and chairs outside? Why don't we just clear out the room on the second floor and put tables and chairs in it?"
"But...the second floor is where we live."
An Rou smiled and said, "I bought Sister Hong's small Western-style house. Dad, we're moving."
Paopao wanted to interrupt, but after getting Anrou's consent, he added proudly, "Not only does the boss own the bun shop, he also bought Sister Hong's hair salon and bathhouse. Oh, and even bought a restaurant from the mayor. A big restaurant! Uncle An, just relax and enjoy your life!"
An Younian was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.
He has been running a bun shop for more than ten years and is deeply attached to the small shop which is less than 30 square meters on one floor. He often fantasizes that if he can buy the shop one day and live a stable life with his daughter, his life will be worth it.
The reason it was a fantasy was that he couldn't save much money in his pocket because he had to take care of his daughter.
But overnight, not only did his daughter buy the bun shop, she also bought so many properties in succession?!
He has grown up, his flesh has really grown up...
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