I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

Grinding soybeans into soy milk, simple and pure, paired with sweet white sugar, rich and smooth—it's so comforting! Congratulations! Your soy milk has received 100% positive reviews right after it went on sale! Your beverage cart is officially open for business!

[Reward: 1 Gold Coin!]

[The "Beverage Stall" has been included in the farm's operations section and can be viewed separately.]

Jiang Li: "?"

The sudden pop-up message left Jiang Li completely bewildered.

It wasn't until I saw Jiang Tang making soy milk that I realized that Jiang Tang's behavior must have been interpreted by the system as selling soy milk, thus triggering some condition.

A new section for "Beverage Stalls" has been added to the panel.

[Beverage Cart (lv1): Upgrade requires 10000 business points.]

Current turnover: 0

Today's task: Earn 100 points (0/100) by selling vegetable juice, fruit juice, or drinks made from any agricultural products. Completing the task will reward you with 5 coins.

[Friendly Reminder: Upgrading your beverage cart to level 2 unlocks 3 special beverage recipes and one fully automatic beverage maker. These special beverages have health benefits for the world's inhabitants! This is a prerequisite for unlocking the "Full Evolution" main quest, so please upgrade your cart diligently!]

There's a lot of information here.

Jiang Li remembered that there was a main quest before called "Light in the Dark Alley".

I clicked in and took a look.

[Light in the Dark Alley (40%): The new quest has not yet met the trigger conditions. Please wait patiently.]

She remembered that the quest was triggered when she encountered the first customer from the alleyway who bought potatoes.

Two smaller tasks were subsequently released:

1. [Attract more people from the alleyways to buy discounted food (completed).]

2. [Recycling 1000 catties of garbage! (Completed)]

The task suddenly stopped here, with the progress only at 40%. If I'm not mistaken, there will be three more small tasks to be released before the big task is finally completed.

The system has now mentioned a "comprehensive evolution" task, which is closely related to the operation of the farm stalls, but the trigger conditions have not yet been met.

Let's turn our attention back to the [farm stall].

Today's task: Earn 100 points (0/100) by selling vegetable juice, fruit juice, or drinks made from any agricultural products. Completing the task will reward you with 5 coins.

It's not difficult at all; it's just a matter of doing it easily.

She definitely needed to get those 5 gold coins; she had been digging all night without finding any, so she had to earn the gold coins to buy seeds from the system shop.

Remembering that the system had just rewarded him with a gold coin, Jiang Li put down his hoe, went back to his room, rummaged through the chest, and found a [money bag].

Upon opening it, there was indeed a gold coin the size of a copper coin inside.

The obverse of the gold coin features an image of the God of Creation, one of the twelve main gods of Earth, while the reverse features the number 1.

Gold coins: A currency resource used to purchase items in the system shop.

[Money Bag: Can only be used to hold gold coins, has constant mass, and unlimited capacity (no matter how many gold coins it holds, its size remains unchanged and its weight is always only 1g).]

It feels very light in my hand.

This is good; it's portable.

Jiang Li put the money bag in her inner pocket, returned to the field, and began to till the soil.

In the past few days, Jiang Yan has cultivated another acre of land, which is right next to the previous potato field, and they are neatly arranged together.

This new acre of land still needs to be carefully plowed.

Chen Ye was still digging potatoes in the field next to him. Occasionally, he could find one or two potatoes that hadn't mutated, which were the ones he had missed earlier. He rubbed the potatoes clean, picked them up, and put them in another bag, separating them from the mutated potatoes.

Jiang Li selected a 50-square-meter plot of land, carefully prepared it, sowed a bag of Chinese cabbage seeds, watered them, and encouraged them to sprout, grow true leaves, and then encouraged them to grow to a height of 10 centimeters to make them look stronger.

Chen Ye: "?"

He must be so tired that he's hallucinating.

After planting the Chinese cabbage, Jiang Li returned to the vegetable garden and chose two small plots of land, each 10 square meters, one for planting garlic and the other for planting scallions.

Garlic and scallions are everyday seasonings, so you don't need to grow a lot of them. Jiang Li dug 12 holes and put 8-9 scallion seeds in each hole, which is 12 clusters.

The bag of scallion seeds has just been used up.

Next up is garlic.

Upon opening a bag of garlic seeds, I found eight garlic cloves inside, which looked no different from ordinary garlic.

Jiang Li broke them all off, planted them in the ground with the pointed end facing up, and then covered them with a layer of nutrient soil. That was it. Each clove of garlic would grow into a whole clove of garlic. In the future, if she wanted to eat garlic sprouts or garlic scapes, she could come and pick some. She also planted 10 Chinese cabbages in the vegetable garden.

Next came eggplants and pumpkins. Jiang Li planted some in the vegetable garden and some more in the large field she had planted before.

We eat the vegetables from the garden ourselves, and use the ones from the fields to sell.

She threw down her hoe, returned to her stall, sat on a small stool under the parasol, and asked Jiang Tang for a cup of soy milk.

That's enough planting for today; any more and it'll be wasted.

On the other side, Chen Ye stared blankly at the eggplant stalks and pumpkin vines beside him.

?

Jiang Li was also admiring the plants she had just planted. Looking around, the Chinese cabbages were lush and green, the eggplants had grown to 30 centimeters tall, and the pumpkins had blossomed and vines were growing, with tiny mini pumpkins hanging on them.

I just hope it doesn't get eaten by birds.

Jiang Li drank ten cups of soy milk in a row and felt a little better. She got up, wrote a sign, and put it on the stall.

Soy milk - 10 points/cup.

Jiang Tang: "Why are you selling soy milk now?"

Jiang Li couldn't very well say it was to earn gold coins.

"Anyway, there are plenty of beans. They'll probably come here often to sell their trash, so I'll set up a stall here and sell drinks."

Jiang Tang nodded. "It is indeed a way to make money."

Moreover, this soy milk is cheaper than what's sold in the safe zone, only 10 points a cup. If it were the old Jiang Tang, she wouldn't be able to resist buying it to drink.

Liu Qing wasn't asked to come pick up the goods today. The potato field still needs to be cleared, so there won't be much income today. We'll sell whatever we can.

This is exactly when we need money.

Jiang Li thought for a moment and realized that besides selling soy milk, she could also sell rice.

Thinking of this, Jiang Li got up and went to the shop to check on Lin An's situation. In a short time, Lin An had already ground several bags of rice.

Jiang Li bought dozens of rope-tied agricultural grain bags in the system's online store. They came in large, medium, and small sizes. The large ones could hold 50 jin (25 catties), the medium ones could hold 30 jin (15 catties), and the small ones could hold 10 jin (5 catties).

20 of each, totaling 60 points.

The bag had a large "rice" character written on it and looked quite sturdy.

Jiang Li filled two half-bags with rice, one bag of coarse rice and one bag of fine rice, and carried them to the stall cart. She said to Jiang Tang, "If anyone comes, show them this rice and let them come to the shop to pick up their goods."

Jiang Tang nodded.

She understood; this was rice for display.

Just by picking it up, I can see that the rice has a smooth, glossy texture and each grain is plump. This rice looks like it will sell very well!

Jiang Tang was also eager to earn points. These past few days at the farm had been relaxing, and she didn't want to go back to the safe zone. At first, she thought farming was hard work, but now she found it quite interesting and wanted to stay on the farm forever—there was plenty to eat and drink, beautiful scenery, and little pigs to keep her company.

During this time, Jiang Tang and the pig have developed a deep bond. The pig is even more attached to her than Jiang Yan. Right now, it is lying obediently at her feet, fast asleep with its head against her ankle.