I am farming in the real world.

Chapter 5 Selecting Seedlings

After digging the underground space, Chen Jue used [rock] materials to synthesize some stone steps and paved the passage leading to his own utility room with decent steps.

If it weren't for the help of these steps, Chen Jue would have to climb up one meter at a time, which would be very difficult.

As for digging vertically downwards like in the MC game, Chen Jue also tried laying [wooden ladders] on the walls of the passage.

He found that as long as he entered the MC system, his body would turn into a super state similar to "Steve", climbing up and down the wooden ladder vertically at a very fast speed without feeling any fear of heights at all.

This made Chen Jue a little overjoyed!
Because if an ordinary person stood on the edge of a 10-story roof without a guardrail and looked down, even if he had a good mental state, he would still have some fear of falling.

"Immune to fear of heights?"

"Then if we add a buffer pool from the game underneath, wouldn't that be like making a leap of faith casually?" Chen Jue's thoughts wandered a little.

He used the [Rock] blocks to fill the passage leading to the underground a little bit, and soon he transformed a 30-meter-high vertical shaft + bottom stairs.

After spending some time getting familiar with the speed and convenience of the ladder, Chen Jue took the newly synthesized wooden [pressure door] and laid it at the exit of the shaft, and then refilled the excavated [foundation] block at the upper position.

This is a very basic method of defending against wild monsters in MC, and almost every MC player knows it.

However, monsters in games such as zombies, creepers, skeletons, and black monsters cannot be found in the real world.

Such a concealed design is mainly used to prevent people.

Even if an outsider broke into his house, he would not be able to see anything unusual in the utility room through the ground.

The only trouble is that if Chen Jue wants to go to the underground space later, he will have to take the initiative to dig the foundation.

“It’s just a matter of a few pickaxes. In order to ensure that the MC system is not exposed to the outside world, this hiding method is still very necessary.” Chen Jue began to think in his mind.

……

After leaving the underground space, he went back to his bedroom on the second floor to rest.

Instead of lying down to rest, he took out a notebook and wrote and drew. He used very sloppy handwriting and simple sketches to outline several ideas on how to make money using the MC system.

The first and fastest way to make money is to quickly dig with an MC pickaxe and try to dig out precious metal resources such as gold and silver from the ground.

Then use the [furnace] to smelt it into high-purity gold and silver and sell it on the market.

However, since the distribution of minerals in the real world is very metaphysical and more uncertain than the map in MC, Chen Jue put a big question mark on this first way to make money.

“The gold mines in China are mostly distributed in Dongshan Province and Nanyun Province. I have never heard of any gold mines in Wen City.

"The former Soviet Union spent ten years digging a 12262-meter hole in the last century before discovering high-content diamond and gold mines at a depth of 9500 meters in the geological layer."

"I don't have the knowledge of prospecting. It will probably take a long time to dig underground blindly according to this idea. If I accidentally dig up magma or natural gas underground, it will be a big trouble if there is a volcanic eruption or explosion."

Chen Jue analyzed the information on the Internet and temporarily put this first way of making money on hold.

As for the second way to make money, it is to use the rapid cultivation function of the MC system to produce some agricultural and sideline products.

Whether it's raising chickens, ducks, pigs, or growing vegetables and rice, these are the things Chen Juexian can get started with the fastest.

"I am now in debt of one million yuan and have no capital, so I can only try this small-scale peasant economy method of making money."

"Although it's also possible to make money quickly from building materials commonly used on construction sites, such as earth and stone, and a truckload can be sold for several thousand yuan, the risk of exposure is too great and the gains do not outweigh the losses." After a thorough analysis, Chen Jue finally decided on a preliminary plan to turn things around by relying on agriculture.

After all, his ancestors for three generations were farmers. Although he went to college and saw some of the world, he also struggled when trying to start a business.

But after going around in circles, I finally returned to this deserted little village.

……

After deciding on the money-making plan, Chen Jue lay back on the bed and began to rest.

Since he had just obtained the MC system and saw the system turn his life around, he slept a little uneasy that night.

Just like elementary school students knowing that they will go on a spring outing the next day, the anticipation and yearning for tomorrow can make people toss and turn all night long.

At just after six o'clock the next morning, the illegal forging factory in the village began to make clanging sounds on time.

Under normal circumstances, after being woken up by these industrial noises, Chen Jue would spit out some foul language and greet these factory owners who would rather disturb others than pay to rent the industrial park.

But today is different. Chen Jue even feels that the noises have become pleasant to the ears.

"This is the voice of labor! Long live the working people!" Chen Jue was a little excited and got out of bed with dark circles under his eyes.

He first went to the bathroom to wash the yellow dirt from the corners of his eyes, and then touched the acne on his chin caused by staying up late. Chen Jue stared at himself in the mirror. In addition to hope for the future, his eyes also showed a little more tenderness towards himself that was rare in the past.

"Start learning to love yourself today!"

"I won't be Yu Yu anymore." Chen Jue smiled at himself in the mirror.

After washing up, he took the only 1,000 yuan in cash left in the family, rode an old bicycle left over from school, and rode all the way from Chencun to the neighboring Huangcun.

Compared with the sparsely populated Chencun, Huangcun can be said to be much more lively.

There are more than 700 households in the village, with a permanent population of more than 1,000 migrant workers, almost as large as a small town.

There are supermarkets and vegetable markets in the village. Every morning, the village is bustling with people setting up stalls, selling vegetables, and a bunch of villagers coming out to eat breakfast before work.

Chen Jue rode his bicycle through the crowd and stopped at the door of a breakfast shop. He ordered a bowl of glutinous rice with meat broth and seaweed soup to taste.

This is the most common breakfast in Vancouver, also known as "eating before dawn". One bowl of it is very filling.

"It still has the same old flavor, much better than the bland noodles with clear soup." It took Chen Jue more than ten minutes to chew the last grain of rice in the bowl slowly. The satisfying feeling of fullness could make him full of energy for the whole day.

Just a breakfast cost 5 yuan, and the prices in the countryside are relatively cheap. If it were in the city, it would cost at least 10 yuan.

……

After finishing breakfast, Chen Jue pushed his bicycle to the small bazaar outside the Huangcun Vegetable Market, found a stall selling seedlings and seeds and squatted down.

As a young man born in the 90s, Chen Jue has never farmed in his life.

I only followed my grandparents during my childhood and summer vacations at school, watching the older generation go into the mountains to reclaim the fields.

So when faced with the stall full of seeds and seedlings, Chen Jue was at a loss.

Fortunately, with the help of the MC system, after Chen Jue grabbed a small bag of seeds, the system gave a corresponding text description: [Shanghai Green Seeds: Healthy, after planting, it can produce Shanghai Green vegetables of ordinary appearance. ]

"It turns out to be Shanghai green, a must-have vegetable for cooking Gua Bi Noodles." Chen Jue muttered in his heart, and picked up the seedlings wrapped in a plastic bag on the other side to take a look.

[Yellowberry saplings: Critically ill, with a very low chance of survival after planting, and can only produce low-quality bayberry fruits. ]

"Ok?"

"It can actually show the quality of saplings and seeds?" Chen Jue was a little surprised. This function did not exist in the original MC game.

He guessed that it might be because of the addition of real-world plug-ins such as the Earth MOD, and the MC system was forcibly adapted to some of the rules of the real world.

So I repeatedly picked up different types of seedlings on the stall and tested the corresponding text descriptions.

After a round of trials, we have tentatively come to the following conclusions with a small number of test subjects:
"The vitality of seedlings is divided into three types: critically ill, healthy, and vigorous."

“The yields after planting are of average, excellent and very good quality.”

"There are nine combinations in total. As long as you choose the vigorous and excellent combinations, you will definitely grow something good!" The more Chen Jue picked, the more excited he became.

He felt that most of the work was already done even before the planting began.

At this time, the old farmer at the stall smiled and joked, "Young man, I see you are quite good at choosing. Are you planning to buy some and grow them yourself?"

He was a little surprised to see Chen Jue put down those wilted bayberry saplings and turned around to pick out a few better loquat saplings.

After all, young people nowadays hold their mobile phones all day long, and they only know how to browse their phones and work.

Unless you are a graduate of agronomy, few people know how to pick good quality seedlings.

Even those who are interested in farming mostly buy seeds online, plant them in pots without thinking, and be thankful if the seeds survive.

Seeing that the old farmer was quite talkative, Chen Jue started a conversation with him, discussing some techniques related to planting trees and vegetables. He also asked him to help select a few loquat and bayberry saplings with the combination of [vigorous] + [excellent] attributes.

Loquat and bayberry are considered to be specialty fruits in Vancouver.

Since the soil in the mountainous areas of Wenzhou is mostly acidic yellow soil and red soil, unlike the fertile black soil in the northeast, there are not many fruit trees that can adapt to this kind of soil.

Even the most common fruits, oranges and tangerines, will grow into bitter-tasting tangerines when grown in Vancouver.

Have you ever tasted bitter tangerines?
This is how the story of the orange tree growing in the south and the tangerine tree growing in the north in the textbook came about.

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