I am farming in the real world.

Chapter 41 The Most Primitive Happiness

After completing the transaction, Chen Jue still felt a little dazed when looking at the 186 million in Tieyi's account.

After being entangled in huge debts for nearly two years and living in seclusion in the village for nearly two years, Chen Jue felt that his whole body and mind were released at this moment when he was only one step away from reaching the shore.

He previously thought that growing too many varieties of vegetables would be troublesome, so he picked Shanghai green as a single product for large-scale planting, planning to ship it slowly over a long period of time. He did not anticipate this wave of skyrocketing prices at all.

It can only be said that it was a coincidence that I didn't hit the wall, but instead, by chance, I stumbled into a treasure pot.

It was as if God was rushing to feed him and send Chen Jue ashore!
He sat in the passenger seat of the truck in a daze for a long time, until a few idiots surrounded him and stared at him with eyes as if waiting for him to give an order, only then did Chen Jue wake up from his daze.

“This is not a dream!”

“I really did catch that mosaic wooden axe in the reservoir.”

“Everything is true!”

Chen Jue looked around at Tie Yi, Tie Laoliu and the others, raised his hand and slapped his face hard to remind himself that the matter of going ashore had not been completed yet.

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After briefly cleaning up the two logistics warehouses, Chen Jue hid in the carriage before dawn, took out the "bed" from his backpack, and lay down on the truck for a nap.

When the sun rose in the early morning, Chen Jue, who had caught up on his sleep, felt full of energy again, sweeping away the fatigue left from moving vegetables in the early hours of the morning.

Leaving Tie Laoliu and the others to guard the warehouse, he took Tie and rushed to Panlong Town.

The town is full of the bustling atmosphere in the early morning. The breakfast stalls along the street are bustling with migrant workers who get up early to go to work in the factories.

Chen Jue found an empty seat with Tie Yi and sat down. He asked the boss to bring two servings of glutinous rice flour and egg soup. They ate while waiting for the Rural Commercial Bank in the distance to open for business.

Looking at the migrant workers around him who were chatting and laughing in groups, looking forward to a pay raise, and talking about family matters, Chen Jue felt that there was a bit of color in his eyes that was not there before.

In the past, he had been running back and forth to make money and pay off debts, and he found that he had not slowed down and looked at the world seriously for a long time.

"Sometimes, when you are alive, you don't have to make yourself so tired."

"Eat and drink, work a little, or just lie down and do nothing."

"As long as you don't compare yourself with others, don't get married, don't buy a house, don't have children, play games three times a day, lie down and read novels on your phone, and you can say goodbye to all the pressure and worries."

Chen Jue took two bites of breakfast, and his mind flashed through a few B station UP hosts that he had been following for a long time.

There is Xiao Niu, who imitates Mr. Tree and lives in a vacant unfinished villa for a long time; there is Xiao A, an internet-addicted teenager who hangs out in internet cafes all night; there is also Xu Yun, the cyclist whose house has collapsed.

The free and easy lifestyle shown in their videos is in stark contrast to this fast-paced era where everything is about money.

Regardless of whether those healing videos have scripts or not, before obtaining the MC system, the once jaded Chen Jue even wanted to try to experience that kind of comfortable life of lying down and doing nothing.

Unfortunately, he has too many debts of favor to pay. Even if he gets the system, he can only force himself to make money continuously to repay the responsibilities and obligations that he should bear.

Now that he was about to reach shore, he began to have some thoughts of letting himself go.

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After breakfast, when the rural commercial bank officially opened at 9 o'clock, Chen Jue and Tie Yi went in and completed the large transfer while being questioned by the bank teller.

After transferring all 186 million to his bank account, Chen Jue flipped through his cell phone address book and contacted Zhou, an executive officer from the court who he hadn't contacted for a long time, and asked him to arrange for a deduction of the repayment.

It happened to be work time, so when he told Executive Zhou about his situation, he was a little surprised: "Chen Jue, have you collected all the money? Is the source of funds okay?"

Chen Jue answered on the phone: "Don't worry about the source of the funds. They are all earned from 'hard work in farming' and selling vegetables. I also borrowed a little from a 'good friend' of mine."

Executive Zhou on the other end of the phone was also overjoyed when he heard this.

"The unblocking of Alipay and WeChat electronic accounts is reported uniformly, and we can help you unblock it within 2 working days at the fastest."

"Since you are willing to repay the loan, I will first help you get removed from the list of deadbeats who are subject to compulsory execution, and then ask the bank to help you unfreeze your account to avoid affecting your work and life." The court executor was very enthusiastic.

Because deadbeats like Chen Jue refuse to repay their debts, it puts pressure on them to meet their work targets.

The economic environment has been bad in recent years, and the most common news among Vancouver residents is who has gone bankrupt and become a debtor.

"Thank you, and thank you for bothering you."

Chen Juechong thanked the other party, and soon several deduction messages were sent to his mobile phone.

After deducting more than 186 million in loan principal and penalty interest from the 117 million in cash, the remaining amount was just over 69.

Seeing that the bank transfer function had returned to normal, Chen Jue immediately drove to Rui County and found an ICBC bank to withdraw some cash, which he combined with the remaining tens of thousands in his bag to make a total of 400,000 yuan.

He first rushed all the way to Zhongbo Machinery Factory, and in front of Zheng Bocheng's surprised eyes, he slapped a dozen stacks of red banknotes on the workstation where he was playing the game: "Bocheng, I'm here to return your money! Click."

When Zheng Bocheng saw the bundles of cash, he immediately jumped up: "Damn it! Chen Jue, are you sure you didn't secretly sell your ass behind our backs?"

Chen Jue showed a mysterious smile: "It's hard to sell your butt and be a duck! I choose to be a chicken."

"Is it the roast chicken?"

Zheng Bocheng's eyes lit up, realizing that Chen Jue, who had been elusive in the past few days, had most likely landed successfully. So he took the money, went downstairs with him, and drove out his very ostentatious white Mercedes-Benz G.

Chen Jue asked suspiciously, "What are you doing?"

Zheng Bocheng chuckled: "I'm here to help you show off to your relatives! How can I be left out of such a fun thing?"

"Fuck! You're too idle!"

Chen Jue was completely convinced by this cynical rich second-generation best friend, who could find such a high-sounding excuse to skip work.

So after laughing and joking with Zheng Bocheng in the parking lot for a while, Chen Jue took a G-Class and went to visit some close friends and relatives.

These creditors are ordinary people. It is not easy for them to squeeze out some savings to help Chen Jue in the current environment.

He quickly paid off the tens of thousands of yuan in debts of gratitude one by one, and finally arrived at the gate of a high-end residential area in Rui County. He asked Zheng Bocheng to carry the remaining 15 yuan into the residential area to repay the last debt of gratitude to one person.

"You really don't want to go in and see Wu Yajing?"

"After all, we've been together for so many years, why don't you give her a slap in the face and make her regret it?" Zheng Bocheng joked with a grin before getting out of the car.

"piss off!"

"I don't want to be chopped with a kitchen knife by her husband!"

Chen Jue rolled his eyes, wishing he could kick this nagging friend with a head full of dirty ideas out of the car. …………

After waiting outside the community for a few minutes, Zheng Bocheng ran out of the community after delivering the money. He approached the passenger seat and teased, "I delivered the money for you. Guess what they said?"

Chen Jue frowned: "What do you mean?"

Zheng Bocheng pinched his nose and said, "What else can I say? I wish you a smooth journey for the rest of your life!"

Chen Jue's brows relaxed: "That's all right, let's find a place to have lunch."

Seeing his nonchalant look, Zheng Bocheng said in a mean way, "Forget about it as soon as possible. You're already showing your pregnancy!"

Chen Jue: "...Fuck, it's none of my business! I'm just here to pay you back!"

He had no reason to miss his ex-girlfriend. He had deleted her WeChat friends and phone number long ago. The last time he accidentally saw her on WeChat Moments was because Chen Jue accidentally saw the nine-square grid of a female high school classmate who was a mutual friend.

Now that I have repaid this last debt of favor, we will just be strangers when we meet again in the future.

Just thinking of Zheng Bocheng's shameless and annoying look, Chen Jue found a roadside restaurant frequented by his buddies, and dragged them to have a feast together, and drank 2 bottles of Jiang Xiaobai and N bottles of cold beer.

While celebrating his success in getting out of debt, he also got this frivolous rich second-generation buddy drunk so hard that he burped, thus getting back a small favor.

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In the evening, Chen Jue, who was drunk, got on Tie Yi's truck to pick up Tie Laoliu and others and returned to Chen Village.

After paying off all his debts, he felt relieved and collapsed without even going home.

Instead, he carried a broom, looked back at the sunset in the sky from time to time, and walked up to the reservoir on the back mountain.

I first went to pay my respects at the graves of my parents and elders, cleared away the wildly growing thorns and weeds, and shared my joy of coming ashore with these relatives who are no longer alive.

Afterwards, Chen Jue took a walk beside the Chencun Reservoir for a while, admiring the beautiful countryside scenery with green mountains surrounding him, blue water and blue sky blending into one, and egrets playing in the shallows.

As he was playing with the broomstick in his hand and walking to the pavilion beside the reservoir where tourists could sit and escape the summer heat, an unexpected figure appeared in Chen Jue's sight.

Huang Ruoming was wearing a light green long dress, with a black ponytail hanging on her shoulders, a pair of rattan sandals on her feet, and a dogtail grass in her hand. She was making a "slurping" sound with her mouth, teasing a yellow pastoral dog commonly seen in rural areas that was circling around her feet.

Seeing Chen Jue coming over with a broom, Huang Ruoming also turned her head.

The two people, whose bodies were burning from the afterglow of the setting sun, looked at each other and froze for a moment.

In the awkward situation, Chen Jue finally spoke first: "What a coincidence! Are you here to visit the reservoir too?"

Huang Ruoming nodded: "Yes! Bring Da Huang up for a run. He can't sit still at home and keeps making trouble everywhere. If you don't take him out for a walk, it will use up all its energy."

Chen Jue looked at the big yellow dog that came over to sniff his ankle, put the broom aside, found a stone bench in the pavilion to sit down, and reached out to touch the head of the dog that was not afraid of people.

"Have you found a job?" Chen Jue asked while petting the dog.

"No, I've interviewed several companies but received no response. I don't plan to look for one anymore! It's actually pretty good to just farm and grow flowers in the countryside and walk the dog. I'll take some landscape videos and post them online. Maybe I can become famous and make some money from traffic." Huang Ruoming held her cheeks with her hands, staring at the reservoir that was sparkling like a mirror, and said indifferently.

In her nonchalant yet unwilling tone, Chen Jue seemed to see his past self.

He left the countryside to study in the city, encountered setbacks everywhere after graduation and finally fled back to the countryside with injuries all over his body and in disgrace.

The life of ordinary rural people, regardless of gender, mostly follows a similar script.

"Chen Jue, if only we could go back to our childhood!"

"Every village has friends they know. During the summer vacation, everyone goes to the reservoir to play together. Girls wear swimming rings to swim, and boys have picnics and barbecues on the shore, catch cicadas and fish."

"At that time, I didn't have to think about money every day, I didn't have to think about the unaffordable housing prices in the county town, I didn't have to think about going to work, and I didn't have to be urged to get married and have children as soon as possible."

"Carefree and free. The first thing I do when I wake up every day is to do what I like and make myself happy."

Probably because her elementary school deskmate was around, Huang Ruoming suddenly became emotional and started talking to herself.

Tears of memories welled up in her eyes. She treated Chen Jue as a listener and expressed the emotions that she couldn't express.

Upon hearing this, Chen Jue paused stroking the dog, and the happy childhood time described by Huang Ruoming emerged in his mind.

Before, he held his breath and worked hard from dawn to dusk to use the MC system to make quick money. In essence, it was his past mentality of being strong and having low self-esteem that was at work.

After listening to Huang Ruoming's inner voice, Chen Jue realized that he had been running around for a few taels of silver and had almost forgotten that the most important thing in life is to make himself happy.

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After a while, Huang Ruoming, who had realized that she was a little incoherent, wiped the tears from her eyes and said, "I'm sorry, Chen Jue! I've been staying up late lately and my nerves are a little weak. My emotions tend to get out of control."

Huang Ruoming felt embarrassed in front of outsiders, so she took Da Huang, who was circling around her, and wanted to leave.

It was rare to see this elementary school classmate in such an embarrassing state, so Chen Jue laughed and stopped him, took out his phone and said, "It's okay, it's good to be sentimental! Add WeChat so that we can contact each other in the future."

Huang Ruoming hesitated for a moment, and finally scanned the QR code to add Chen Jue on WeChat. Then, perhaps because her face was red from the setting sun or because it was already red, she fled down the mountain in panic.

Glancing at his elementary school deskmate walking away with his yellow dog, Chen Jue thought of the few invincible old books his grandfather had given him, and muttered to himself, "To do what I like?"

His eyes, which were originally slightly drunk and a little confused about the future after getting ashore, suddenly began to brighten.

In Chen Jue's opinion, the unexpected appearance of the mosaic wooden axe was probably not to encourage him to make money quickly and prove to his relatives and friends how capable and successful he was in his career.

It is the same as the original design intention of the game "Minecraft MC". It was developed to allow more people like Chen Jue who are simple, unsociable, and a little inferior in their bones to gain the most primitive freedom and happiness from the open sandbox game.

After figuring this out, Chen Jue called out to Tie Yi and the others who were wandering back and forth on the reservoir dam in the distance, and asked these few idiots to go down the mountain and return to the old house together.

Lock the door and dig up the floor of the utility room.

We went down the vertical shaft all the way to the underground base.

This place is his happy world.

But I didn’t expect that as soon as I arrived at the underground pit No. 1, a strange big-nosed figure uttered a "hmm~" sound.

It was wearing a long robe, its eyes glowing green, and it sneaked up to Chen Jue with its arms folded and its head tilted, just like the street vendors selling CDs in the past. It said, "Boss, I have a lot of treasures to trade!"

"Excuse me, do you have any Emerald?"

The second and third updates are merged~ Keep asking for votes~
In fact, this chapter feels more healing when paired with Lin Shengxiang’s “Noodles and Vegetables” as the background music.

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