After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 81

"Mom! New dishes are on the mini-program!!!"

Huang Mao, who had just started a new game, heard a special notification sound on his phone. He quickly opened it and found that, as expected, it was a group announcement from the "vegetable seller administrator" who had disappeared for several days. The announcement stated that 300 portions of toon sprouts had been put on the shelves and would be delivered at 9 a.m. the next morning!

Just then, his game started, and he quickly shouted out the door.

"Really? Then you'd better hurry up and buy it! It'll be sold out again!"

Aunt Wang, who was applying a face mask, hurriedly opened her phone, clicked ten times without even looking, placed the order, and paid!

All in one go!
They were afraid that hesitation would lead to defeat.

"I'm live streaming! Hurry up and buy!" The blond-haired guy frantically typed on his mouse and keyboard: "I need to earn money to buy groceries! Otherwise, how can I afford to eat vegetables that cost thirty yuan a pound every day!"

Aunt Wang: "I bought it! I'm so glad you reminded me!"

After buying the groceries, Aunt Wang became even more amiable towards the blond-haired guy who was playing video games.

Huang Mao is a streamer with over three million followers. At this moment, there are over nine thousand viewers watching his live stream. Everyone in the chat heard what Huang Mao said and left comments in the live stream chat.

[The streamer seems to be enjoying the food! I can't even imagine what vegetables that cost 30 yuan per pound taste like!]

Forget thirty yuan, if I could afford it, I'd even wait for a 60% discount at the supermarket before buying vegetables that cost three yuan!

[The person upstairs doesn't need to post their meager lifestyle online!]

[The streamer's wonderful life wouldn't be possible without the generous donations from everyone present! Let's get our hands moving, click the heart, and send some yachts and rockets!]

An ID named "[I am ETC]" randomly appeared. The blond guy glanced at it and realized that this was an old fan who often helped him liven up the atmosphere in the live stream. Although he didn't know the person, he was one of his top supporters!

He replied, following up on his words, "I don't need to send yachts or rockets, but please click on the free little red hearts! Newcomers can follow me, and those who can should add a fan light board!"

[Adding a fan sign comes with conditions? Who do they think they are?! I'll pay this penny! Not for anything else, just to see what vegetables that cost thirty yuan a pound look like! Are they greener?]

Vegetable prices are outrageous these days. Last time I went to the supermarket, there were two stalls selling cucumbers. They were all cucumbers, looked almost the same, but one stall was selling them for 3.99 and the other for 19.9! Doesn't anyone regulate these prices? I can't even afford vegetables anymore! I'm even taking vitamin supplements!

【…】

"Son!"

Aunt Wang suddenly burst into the live stream wearing a face mask: "Take a look at this weight, am I seeing things, or did Xiao Chen and the others set it wrong!"

"Let me see—" The blond-haired man glanced at the computer screen, then looked back at it: "That's right, fifty grams per serving!"

Aunt Wang patted him on the shoulder: "Your 50 grams is a pound?"

[Fifty grams is one tael, host!]

"Now I'm curious, what kind of vegetables are they? Are they sold by weight?"

"Toona sinensis," Huang Mao blurted out.

【That's definitely sold by weight. Our toon leaves are already selling for over 100 yuan per jin (500g), but the streamer's are only 30 yuan per jin. Streamer, do you do personal shopping? I'll pay 50 yuan per jin, I'll buy five jin, can you cover the shipping?】

[If you need a large quantity, supply me with the goods during the live stream, and we can split the price difference! It's a difference of over 100 yuan! We're going to be rich, streamer!]

Huang Mao hung up the phone the moment his mother said "fifty grams," then turned on his own phone and found that it was indeed true. When he checked the grocery shopping group, it was full of wailing voices saying that their pensions couldn't even buy two pounds of vegetables!
That's right, two catties of toon leaves cost six hundred!

He replied to the family member who wanted him to buy vegetables, his lips twitching: "Sorry, baby, I can't buy any. If I buy you a pound, I'll have to pay 250 yuan out of my own pocket, and I might not even be able to get it. Luckily, my mom was quick and managed to grab ten portions. I checked and they're already sold out."

These people buying groceries, despite their enthusiastic chatter in the group, are actually quite fast!
They're yelling in the group, but no one's actually asking for a refund. They're just making a fuss for no reason, probably to drive the price down!

But based on his understanding of the vegetable vendors, he knew that lowering prices was out of the question!
If you don't buy it, plenty of other people will!
What? I have to pay them out of pocket?

Brother, look at me, I'm willing!

The blond-haired guy also has fans who admire his looks; the comments section was flooded with playful teasing, with only a few people still arguing about the price of the dishes.

[Oh my god! It's not thirty yuan per jin, it's thirty yuan per liang! My apologies! Goodbye!]

[Holy crap! Will eating 300 yuan worth of food make me an immortal?]

[Very well, the world has gone mad to a point where I don't recognize it anymore!]

[Wait, this isn't a game stream, why is everyone talking about selling vegetables?]

Is it true that food is more appealing than games?

[Host, I'd like to see some toon sprouts that cost 300 yuan per kilogram. Can you add them to your shared bike cart on the mini-program?]

Huang Mao quickly covered his phone: "Everyone, please focus on my game. Forget about the mini-program! This is a local group in Yangcheng. The merchants don't offer delivery services, so don't even think about it."

It's hilarious! There are only seventy-odd people in the group, and they almost start a war of words every time they try to grab vegetables. If the mini-program were promoted and attracted the rich people, he and his mother wouldn't be able to get a single vegetable!

No, absolutely not!
"Ouch!" Aunt Wang clutched her chest. "Xiao Chen and Xiao Lu have really given me a hard time this time. I tolerated the bamboo shoots that cost 100 yuan each last time, but now the toon leaves are selling for 300 yuan a pound. What am I going to do if their stuff keeps getting more and more expensive? I only have 4,000 yuan in retirement pension, it's not enough!"

As she spoke, she turned her anger on the blond-haired man: "It's all your fault for not doing well, now I have to be stingy with spending three hundred yuan! Was this how I treated you when you were in school? Did I ever stingy with your meals!"

Huang Mao: "..."

The live stream chat was filled with continuous "hahahahaha".

[Auntie is so cute!]

[The streamer isn't doing too well; he doesn't even have ten million followers yet!]

Come on, let's give this a shout-out! If the streamer does well, we and the streamer's mom will be so happy!

[Am I the only one who noticed? The anchor mom said bamboo shoots cost 100 yuan each! What, are these super tender bamboo shoots growing under thousand-year-old bamboo?]

[I heard that eating bamboo shoots can cure constipation, so is this constipation-curing bamboo shoot? It's actually not ordinary bamboo shoot, it's medicinal?] [Medicinal bamboo shoot! Hahaha!!!]

[What the hell is this medicine?! It's hilarious!]

Aunt Wang grumbled, "Next time, I don't care if you're playing games or masturbating, if you see vegetables, you have to buy them for me!"

"Mom! Don't say prohibited words in my live stream!" the blond-haired guy yelled.

"Hmph!" Aunt Wang muttered as she walked away, phone in hand.

As loyal fans of wild vegetables, Bai Chen and Bai Lu were very familiar with Aunt Wang, but as familiar as they were, asking them to set aside vegetables for her separately was simply out of the question!

Bai Chen didn't break any precedents for dealing with this kind of troublesome matter.

So she always has to personally grab the vegetables!

I just grabbed ten portions, but after paying, I realized that ten portions didn't mean ten jin (5 kg), but only one jin (500g)!

Should she return it?

I can't bear to part with it! I absolutely can't bear to part with it!
……

After dinner, the family turned on the bright lights and processed the toon sprouts in the yard. Bai Chen bought a large box of transparent plastic containers. The freshly picked toon sprouts didn't need much processing; they just needed to be weighed and then lined with absorbent paper at the bottom of the plastic containers.

However, fifty grams is really a bit too little.

Some even use just one large toon sprout, which weighs over 50 grams. If the amount exceeds 10 grams, the stingy Bai Chen insists on breaking off some, even though it doesn't look very appealing. But what does it matter if it's just for his own family to eat?

Once packed, three hundred portions were quite a sight. The main problem was that the transparent plastic boxes took up a lot of space, so packing one portion for each person made the pickup truck come in handy.

To keep it fresh, Bailu even set up a small spirit-locking array. Actually, drawing spirit-locking talismans would be the most convenient and useful method, but Bailu always feels strange having yellow talisman paper pasted in the house, and she still hasn't gotten used to it.

They kept more than three kilograms of toon leaves at home, kept more than one kilogram in the storage room to keep them fresh, and blanched the remaining two kilograms, divided them into small portions and put them in the freezer to freeze.

The bracken fern was also prepared: blanched and then made into a cold dish. Qin Xiu even brought out a transparent glass jar to put the cold bracken fern in and put it in the refrigerator so that it could be stored for a long time. When you want to eat it, you can just take it out and eat it directly. It's a good side dish for porridge or noodles.

After the toon sprouts were prepared, Grandpa Bai, Grandma Bai, and Uncle Bai's family went back home. Qin Xiu went upstairs to the bathroom to take a shower and also found a quilt for Lin Rui.

Every time Lin Rui came to Qinxiu, she would let Bai Chen sleep on the sofa and Lin Rui would sleep in Bai Chen's bed.

Leaving aside their private life, since Qin Xiu had done this, they slept separately at home. But today, Bai Chen was going to take Lin Rui to Sanqing Mountain to cultivate, or more accurately, to let Lin Rui see how he cultivated!
In the past, Bai Lu would always take Bai Wei and Bai Chen to "fly" up Sanqing Mountain. Today, Bai Lu wasn't going, so Bai Chen could only take Lin Rui up the mountain with his not-so-skilled teleportation technique after Bai Jiang and Qin Xiu fell asleep. They walked and stopped, and chatted for a while. It took more than an hour, and they finally arrived at Sanqing Mountain at eleven o'clock.

He called out to Little Ginkgo, wanting Lin Rui to witness the "spirit" that was forbidden to become a spirit after the founding of the People's Republic of China!
But Little Ginkgo refused to speak no matter what she said.

After all, it had already made a mistake once—revealing its identity before Bai Chen and Bai Wei had successfully guided their Qi into their bodies. Although Xiao Qingxu didn't say anything to it, it felt a little guilty. So, it would absolutely not say a word until Lin Rui, this little girl, successfully guided her Qi into her body.

But what a pitiful little girl! Her spiritual roots are so mixed. I wonder if she'll ever be able to draw qi into her body in this lifetime!
Lin Rui was unaware of her "tragic" fate in Xiao Yinxing's heart. She was enthusiastically greeting Xiao Yinxing, but she didn't get annoyed when she didn't receive a response.

Bai Chen was a little embarrassed, but Xiao Yinxing wouldn't cooperate, so he had no choice but to take Lin Rui to see the night view of Sanqing Mountain. This night view was really dark!

It's so dark that you can't even see your fingers.

The two rented a tent by the Jade Terrace, planning to get up at three in the morning to cultivate, absorb the essence of the sun and moon, and let Lin Rui see the magnificent sunrise of Sanqing Mountain to broaden her mind.

His sister said that Lin Rui's cultivation path would be very difficult and that they should not rush it. They had already made full mental preparations.

Lin Rui was still excited when Bai Chen woke her up, but for two whole hours, watching Bai Chen sit there cross-legged with his eyes closed, looking completely bewildered, her eyelids kept closing and closing, dozing off like a chick pecking at rice, but she didn't dare to sleep too soundly, for fear of missing Bai Chen's highlight.

To her disappointment, Bai Chen didn't change his posture at all in two hours!

At this moment, Lin Rui felt that cultivation was really difficult. It was already difficult enough not to fall asleep after keeping her eyes closed for so long!
……

Climb to a high place and look into the distance.

The sunrises from the mountaintop and the seaside offer different kinds of grandeur and awe.

In that instant, Lin Rui felt that life was truly worthwhile.

My older sister is right. We should climb mountains more often and get closer to nature!

In just a short while, the fatigue she felt from waking up at three in the morning vanished.

After watching the sunrise, the two descended the mountain and strolled hand in hand along the country lanes back to Dongshi Village from Sanqing Mountain. It was still early, and they didn't encounter anyone along the way. When they were almost home, Bai Chen took out two invisibility talismans, activated them with spiritual energy, and instantly disappeared from Lin Rui's sight. Lin Rui's eyes widened suddenly, and she tentatively reached out to touch them—

Hmm? I touched it!
"This invisibility talisman is just a trick to deceive the eye; what exists still exists."

As Bai Chen spoke, he also stuck a sticker on Lin Rui's head. When he entered the house, he bumped into Qin Xiu carrying a bucket of something out of the house. Bai Chen didn't even look at her and swaggered past her, even making a face at her.

Lin Rui was a little hesitant, so she tiptoed past her, running all the way. Because she was running too fast, she bumped into something and her nose started to sting.

"Thing" let out a wail: "Xiao Rui, you slammed me against the wall!"

Bai Chen tore off the invisibility talisman and pressed himself against the wall, his nose and forehead red—he was completely unprepared when Lin Rui suddenly bumped into him!

"sorry Sorry."

Lin Rui also tore off the invisibility talisman: "That's why I can't see you!"

She smiled and went over to rub his back, then pushed him upstairs to the living room, where she found Bai Chen lying on the sofa.

Bai Chen rummaged around under "Bai Chen's" back and pulled out a yellow talisman. This was a substitute talisman that Bai Lu brought back from the cultivation world. As long as a person's blood was dripped on it, the talisman could transform into the appearance of a person.

Just like Bai Chen, he stuck the talisman on a pillow, then placed the pillow on the sofa and covered it with a blanket. In the eyes of ordinary people, Bai Chen was lying on the sofa sleeping, but they just couldn't wake him up.

Sleeping on the sofa—such an obvious place, how could Bai Chen dare to run out without any preparation!
That's why I say Bai Chen uses all his cleverness to lie to his mother.

The talisman is torn off, but the pillow is still a pillow.

(End of this chapter)