Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 140 Business
The speaker was a familiar-looking veteran player.

There aren't many veteran players who are online regularly. Even if they haven't added each other as friends, they've become familiar with each other through repeated interactions. Not to mention, Bai Chenxue's ID, "Chai Gou Cai Cai," is quite well-known among players.

Although the story of adopting cabbage inspired many players, resulting in the deaths of many "juvenile" animals within a radius of dozens of miles, and one very creative player even took snakes encountered in the wild, very few actually succeeded in raising pets.

However, most of the animals that players treat like precious treasures are still quite wild. Don't be fooled by the cute, chubby tigers of today or the Mongolian wolves that have been tamed by egg yolk pies and learned to wag their tails. Those are the result of years of domestication. In reality, those wild and untamed animals taught most players a harsh lesson in the first few days after they were captured. They either attacked players frantically or tried to escape by leaping and bounding around. There was even a tiger that was barely an adult that killed its player "owner" because it was unhappy with it!
The remaining animals, on the other hand, gave players a real eye-opening experience, allowing them to witness all sorts of creative prison breaks and deaths.

Escape methods were varied, including flying, drilling, and swimming. Apart from a few players who actually owned cats, dogs, or other pets in real life and successfully protected their so-called "in-game pets," almost no one else could keep them—in which game do pets automatically follow the player?
The most tragic deaths are among small animals that die from stress, especially birds. In such cases, players will lose points in the game and become red-named!

This resulted in a group of players losing more than they gained by trying to steal a chicken, with many people taking to the forums to insult the game's creators and declare it "trash game, even dogs wouldn't play it."

However, despite the criticism, the account was not deleted.

The game "Ten Continents Chronicles" is practically a money-making machine now. As long as you have a game account, even if you just start a live stream, or even just stream yourself chopping down trees in the game, there will be a bunch of bored netizens watching with great interest and giving you a lot of tips! You can achieve financial freedom in no time!

In this situation, whoever deletes the account is a fool!
Ahem... I've digressed. Let's get back to the point.

Since most players fail at raising pets, and even if they do manage to raise one, it's just an ordinary animal that's no different from one in real life, there's only one like Cabbage in the entire server—a smart and protective pet that can understand any complex words and even respond to communication!
Therefore, Bai Chenxue's ID, as the owner of the cabbage and the famous lucky player in the second beta test, has become widely known!

After recognizing the familiar veteran player, Bai Chenxue greeted him, saying, "Hey! What a coincidence! I left Baicai at home to take care of Jincai! How come you're eating in the game?"

"Hey, I'm just craving it! Let me tell you, this lady's grilled meatballs are absolutely amazing!"

The vendor was a neat-looking middle-aged woman. Hearing the praise, she squinted her eyes with delight, but said modestly, "Oh, I'm flattered! Would you like a skewer, young lady?"

The player enthusiastically recommended, "Buy some and try it, it's delicious!"

"Oh, there's no need to buy it, just take it and eat it!"

As the vendor spoke, he skillfully used an oiled paper as a liner to pinch a meatball out of the wooden bucket, then pulled out a bamboo skewer from somewhere, threaded the meatball through it, and handed it to Bai Chenxue.

"Oh, I can't accept this!"

Bai Chenxue quickly waved her hand in refusal.

The meatballs were a light golden color from being fried, and their outer shells were slightly blackened from being roasted, but the strange aroma of the unknown spices was so strong that it went straight into Bai Chenxue's nose.

The vendor shoved the oiled paper into Bai Chenxue's hands with a smile, saying, "What's so special about this! Our village is where it is today thanks to the immortals of the Taiyin Sect! Let alone a single meatball, even a whole bowl of meatballs is nothing!"

"But this..."

"Hey! It's worthless! A meatball is only a dozen or so coins!"

Since the NPC had said so, Bai Chenxue cautiously picked up the meatball skewer and, under the expectant gazes of the two, put it into her mouth.

Because it's fried first and then baked, the outer shell is baked until crispy and fragrant. Biting into it reveals a cabbage ball mixed with the aroma of scallions and flour, making a crunchy sound. The whole cabbage ball, along with the savory aroma of lard and an unknown, rich spice, explodes on the tongue, the intense flavors relentlessly conquering Bai Chenxue's mouth.

"good to eat!"

Bai Chenxue's eyes lit up, and she praised it sincerely, then decisively placed a temporary order: "I want some too, how much are they?"

"Pork is fifty coins per tael, and cabbage is fifteen coins per tael!"

Bai Chenxue scratched her head: "One tael is..."

A seasoned player nearby quickly explained, "Two meatballs make one tael (50 grams), the weight is the same!"

Bai Chenxue hurriedly said, "Then I want twenty taels of pork and twenty taels of cabbage!"

"Pfft—" Not to mention the player, even the vendor lady couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Cai Cai, you're so silly! You called that two jin! Twenty liang? That's hilarious!"

Bai Chenxue blushed: "Ahem! I'm a little unfamiliar with ancient units of measurement, hehe..."

"I can tell you don't usually buy groceries and cook, haha," the player teased good-naturedly, then asked, "But you bought so much, can you finish it all? Besides the old lady's stall, there are several other NPCs in Blessed Village who sell pretty good snacks! Don't you want to try some?"

"Huh? A lot of NPCs are selling snacks? Are there that many customers? Even including the new players from the last two days, we only have a few thousand people, right?"

"Hey, there are other cultivators too! And almost all the 73rd generation disciples of the Guangcheng Sect next door have moved here! Didn't you hear that their sect leader went to be a professor at our Zhongzhou University? Even from Chiyuan Cave, demon cultivators come here every few days! But it seems they came because a new roast chicken shop opened near the city gate and they forcibly took control of those little foxes! Not to mention the merchant alliances and chambers of commerce, in short, there are thousands of people coming and going in Chang'an City every day now!"

While the two were chatting, the vendor deftly counted out eighty meatballs and wrapped them in several oil paper packages.

"Here you go, young lady, two pounds of pork meatballs and two pounds of cabbage meatballs!"

"Thank you, ma'am! This is one tael and three hundred coins!"

The player next to him was laughing so hard he had tears in his eyes: "Hahaha, Cai Cai, you're so funny! That's called three coins!"

Bai Chenxue said embarrassedly, "I... I really don't know much about these things..."

"Haha, it's nothing, it's nothing. I just thought it was kind of cute! By the way, how about I take you to check out some other food stalls nearby? There are quite a few that taste really good!"

Bai Chenxue exclaimed admiringly, "Wow! Wow, wow! You're so amazing, boss! You know so much!"

"Hey, no, no! No! I have a roommate who runs a barbecue business with Big Intestine Bro. He pays a lot of attention to the catering industry in Chang'an City. I only found out because I often hear him talking about it!"

"So this is ah!"

"Yes! And you know what? Those NPCs are amazing! They've already opened chicken farms and duck farms!"

As the player spoke, he naturally reached out and took several oil paper packages from Bai Chenxue's hands: "Here, let me carry these for you!"

"Oh? This is so embarrassing!"

"It's okay, it's okay! Girls are like that, I always carry the bags when my sister and I go out!"

"Thanks, boss!"

"Don't call me that, you're the boss! Hey, where were we? Oh right! Chicken farm and duck farm! Besides those two, I heard a player invested in a pig farm, breeding multiparous pigs, and even taught NPCs how to castrate pigs. They even copied down 'Postpartum Care for Sows' through the system's translation into Middle-earth language!"

"Castrate a pig?"

"That's it!"

Wow...this guy is awesome!

"You didn't know this, did you? The investor who built the pig farm is a girl!"

"Girl... what's wrong?"

"Hehe, that girl is amazing! Even her ID is 'Neutering Meows,' she might be a veterinarian in real life!"

(End of this chapter)