I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

The Money Tree costs 9999 gold coins. If she can come up with 9999 gold coins, it proves that she is not short of money.

Since she's not short of money, why would she need a money tree?

"Hey! Are you kidding me?!"

Jiang Li angrily closed the gold coin shop.

Go back to the small agricultural products store to find Jiang Yan. There was no one buying rice in the store at the moment, but Jiang Yan was available.

"Sis, who was that just now?" Jiang Yan asked curiously. "I saw Captain Lin leading someone past."

Jiang Li: "Her name is Qiao Wu, and she is a wood-type ability user."

"Just like you?" Jiang Yan's eyes widened. "Then she must be really good at farming too? Does she have the same abilities as you?"

Jiang Li nodded. "I guess so."

"Then why did she come to see you?"

Jiang Li couldn't explain why Qiao Wu would come to her. The system was preventing her from sleeping, so of course she would come to her! To put it bluntly, it was all a coercive measure by the system, forcing her to become its employee.

She wasn't entirely convinced. Once Qiao Wu woke up, she would explain things to her and let her make her own choice. If the other party didn't want to be her employee, she would fire them. That way, Qiao Wu wouldn't be bothered by the system anymore. Besides, she couldn't afford to support Qiao Wu right now; she didn't have any gold coins to buy her nutrient solution.

Opening the panel, she saw the new "Employee" system with Qiao Wu's information. She could directly choose to "Dismiss" Qiao Wu and reclaim the abilities the system had copied for her. "How much rice did you sell today?" Jiang Li asked.

Jiang Yan flipped through the ledger. "8000 points were sold."

In just half a day, 8000 points were sold, which is enough to prove that the rice business in the field is still very good.

She planned to ask Lu Mingjue to see how many people were in the fields according to his statistics, and calculate how much rice the fields consumed per month, based on 20 jin of grain per person per month.

Since the store can only be opened on the farm, and the daily turnover must be met, the main target customers will be the rice fields. As long as her prices are kept in sync with the safe zone, everyone will come to her to buy rice for convenience!

There were also people coming from the dark alley.

Those people who earned points from her would eventually buy rice from her, and they constituted a considerable consumer group.

Jiang Li went to the field, picked a pumpkin, and put it on the scale with great effort.

20.5 pounds.

Oh!

Such a valuable pumpkin.

Jiang Li carried the pumpkin into the agricultural products shop and placed it in the glass display case. One pumpkin took up an entire shelf. She also picked two cabbages and two eggplants and put them in the shop as well.

One Chinese cabbage weighs 5 jin (2.5 catties), and one eggplant weighs 1.5 jin (0.75 catties).

Jiang Yan: "Sister, who can afford such a big pumpkin?"

Since there are no examples to refer to, the price of pumpkins is unknown, but it will definitely not be less than 120 points per kilogram. This pumpkin weighs 20 kilograms, so buying one pumpkin would cost 2400 points, which is almost as much as Jiang Li's previous monthly salary.

Only the super-rich can afford this.

Jiang Li thought for a moment, "These pumpkins probably won't sell outside. I'll ask on the base forum if anyone wants to buy them, and I'll also put one in the shop. If anyone asks, I'll tell them it's 150 points per pound."

Imported Chinese cabbage costs 120 points per pound, and only she can grow pumpkins, so it's reasonable for them to be 30 points more expensive.

After saying that, Jiang Li opened the forum of the Ninth Base, took a picture of a pumpkin, and posted it.

[Jiang Li: One pumpkin, weighing 20.5 jin (approximately 10.25 catties), priced at 150 points per jin (approximately 0.5 kg). Contact me if interested; delivery to your door is available, face-to-face transaction possible.]

Xu Huanjun was eating in the staff canteen, browsing the base forum, when he saw a post in his following list.

Upon clicking in, I saw someone I knew all too well.

Upon seeing Jiang Li's ID, Xu Huanjun's eyes darkened. His thoughts drifted back to when he was still with Jiang Li. In fact, Jiang Li was a very considerate girlfriend. How could he not have feelings for her after being with her for so many years?

Lost in his memories, Xu Huanjun stared at Jiang Li's ID and didn't pay attention to what she had posted. When he saw the pumpkin sales information posted by Jiang Li, he was stunned.

He quickly saved the image and opened the private message box.

【Xu Huan Jun: [Image], where did it come from?】

It took Jiang Li a while to realize that the ID belonged to the original owner's ex-boyfriend.

She thought Xu Huanjun wanted to buy her pumpkins. Xu Huanjun now earns more than 10,000 yuan a month, so he might actually be able to afford her pumpkins.

[These are homegrown, would you like to buy them?]

Xu Huanjun stared intently at the message. Jiang Li planted it herself? She went to farm? When did that happen?

The last time I saw her was at the research institute. I forgot to ask her why she knew Xie Luan and why she came to the research institute.

Now Jiang Li says she's grown a pumpkin.

Are you kidding me?

[Xu Huan Jun: Jiang Li, don't post fake sales information on the forum. The forum requires real-name registration. If you scam money on the forum, you will be arrested.]

She found a fake picture from who-knows-where and claimed it was a pumpkin she grew herself to sell. Doesn't she know that there are no edible pumpkins left in the world?

I don't know if this is a new way to attract his attention.

Xu Huanjun put away his phone, quickly finished his rice and the vegetable dish, and returned to the research institute. On the way, he ran into another intern like himself. The two greeted each other, picked up their notebooks, and headed towards a teaching and research office.

"I have Researcher Xie's class today, so I'd better be on my toes. Whether I can get into her department smoothly depends on her attitude."

The research office was filled with more than twenty newcomers, all of whom were newcomers to brain evolution who needed to undergo a training period.

They joined the research institute only because they had awakened their brain evolution, but before that, none of them had studied botany or agronomy, and they knew nothing about research. So in the early stages, they mainly attended classes to learn about heterochemistry and related content of plant research.

"Today I'm going to talk about the differences between normal plants and heteromorphic plants during their growth process."

Xie Luan opened the PowerPoint presentation, which displayed two videos.

The video shows two dwarf tomato plants, both in the seedling stage.

"This video records the entire growth process of a normal tomato plant and a mutated tomato plant. Please watch patiently. Plant A is a normally growing plant, and plant B is a mutated plant."

After clicking play, the video showed the seedlings starting to grow because the playback speed was increased.

Both seedlings are growing taller and developing leaves, and their progress is basically the same. From the appearance, the two plants are currently indistinguishable, from seedlings to flowering and fruiting, until they grow into mature red tomatoes.

The video was recorded over a period of 12 weeks.

"It takes 12 weeks for a tomato plant to grow from seedling to flowering and fruiting. If it is not harvested in time after 12 weeks, the ripe tomatoes will become overripe, fall off, and eventually rot."