I am farming in the real world

Chen Jue spent over 200 yuan on seeds and seedlings.

With these as a starting point, subsequent planting and cultivation in conjunction with the MC system would continuously produce corresponding seedlings, which would greatly save Chen Jue's costs.

However, what excited Chen Jue the most was the optimized combination of seedlings summarized from the tests.

As long as the system provided textual prompts, even if he was a novice who wasn't good at farming, he could select and cultivate the most excellent seedlings.

The only slight pity was that the number of seed packets at the stall was limited, and Chen Jue couldn't find vegetable seeds with [Vigorous] + [Excellent] after looking around.

In the end, he had to settle for the next best thing and chose five common vegetables with [Healthy] + [Good]: Shanghai greens, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, and rapeseed.

Of course, in the Wen City area, besides the above-mentioned fruits and vegetables, the roadside stalls didn't sell watermelons, loofahs, sweet potatoes, and other fruits and vegetables that Grandpa used to grow.

Chen Jue had to record them on his phone and wait for a chance to check them out in towns or counties further away.

Originally, it would have been most convenient for a young man like him to buy these seeds online from Taobao.

However, online payment accounts such as Alipay and WeChat were forcibly frozen, so he could only rely on this primitive street shopping method to purchase the necessary supplies.

"If I can't get all the seeds together, I'll have to trouble Zheng Bocheng and the others to buy them for me later," Chen Jue muttered to himself.

He had been staying in the countryside for the past two years, and occasionally needed to ask his close friends to help him buy things online.

But doing it too often would bother people, after all, even the best friendships can't withstand the accumulation of time.

… …

After settling the seeds and seedlings, Chen Jue went to the vegetable market and bought five pounds of pork bones to treat himself.

Of course, the main purpose was to use the leftover bones to try to synthesize [Bone Meal], this heaven-defying ripening artifact.

Without the assistance of [Bone Meal], Chen Jue wasn't confident in accelerating the cultivation of these fruits and vegetables, so he treated it as an experiment with the system.

When he was leaving the vegetable market and riding past a small stall, he saw fluffy yellow chicks for sale. A pile of them were crammed into a plastic box, chirping non-stop. Chen Jue was immediately delighted.

This scene reminded him of when he was in elementary school in the countryside, he often saw these vendors selling chicks in front of the school gate.

After all, innocent and naive children couldn't escape the attraction of these furry little animals, and they would be coaxed into contributing the pocket money in their pockets.

"How much are the chicks?"

Chen Jue asked, pushing his bike, and reached out to grab a chick and stroke it.

Furry animal cubs have a very strong appeal to humans.

However, what Chen Jue cared about most was not the feel of touching it, but the textual prompt given by the system: [Chick: Healthy, a chick from a free-range chicken, which can produce excellent quality chicken meat after adulthood.]

"These in the box are 4 yuan each. These are the chicks hatched by my own family."

"The other side is egg-laying chicks, which are more expensive, selling for 6 yuan each." The chick vendor, a middle-aged uncle, gestured with a local accent.

He was wearing liberation shoes and a camouflage suit that was resistant to dirt, and a straw hat. A motorcycle was parked beside him. He looked like a vendor from a nearby farm, specializing in peddling these chicks.

"A bit expensive!"

"Can you lower the price a bit?" Chen Jue asked for a small cardboard box, picking and bargaining at the same time.

He had limited start-up capital on hand, so he wanted to save as much as possible.

"If you buy more, I'll give you a discount of 50 cents, I can't lower it any further." The uncle chuckled.

However, when Chen Jue selected a dozen of the chicks with the best spirits from the box, a few surprised expressions immediately appeared in the uncle's eyes. He quickly asked: "Young man, do you often raise chickens at home? You're very experienced!"

Chen Jue brushed him off, found an excuse, and only said that he used to work in a forest farm and knew how to tell the quality of chicks.

In the end, he selected a dozen chicks with a [Vigorous] + [Excellent] rating, and also bought a few chicks with a [Healthy] + [Good] rating mixed in.

Seeing that his movements were neat and his vision was very unique, picking only the most vigorous good chicks, the uncle also sighed in admiration: "You've picked all my best seedlings, the rest are not easy to sell, I can't give you a discount of 50 cents!"

Chen Jue nodded embarrassedly when he heard this, knowing that these vendors were not easy to deal with, all of them were out to support their families, so he stopped thinking about bargaining.

… …

Chen Jue spent more than 400 yuan on this trip, and a small half of the remaining cash in his pocket was gone.

The invisible pressure of being stuck in the throat by money made him stand up and pedal faster when riding home.

At this time, it was just past 7 o'clock, and the old men and women of Chen Village had already gotten up early to move around, because in a while, when the sun was big, it would become very hot.

Especially at the entrance of the village store, several old people were already sitting there enjoying the cool.

Seeing Chen Jue coming back with a lot of things, several gossipy old people pointed and whispered behind his back: "This child is really spoiled!"

"He bought so much meat by himself, can he finish it in the hot weather?"

"He's already in debt and doesn't know how to save a little."

Chen Jue ignored these criticisms, living in the village for a long time, he just treated it as wind in his ears.

Riding home all the way, he locked the door and took the big bones into the kitchen and blanched them in water.

He shaved off the pork on top and knocked out the marrow inside to keep for his own lunch.

The remaining bones were collected by Chen Jue into his backpack and dragged them together into the synthesis column that came with the backpack.

The next second, the synthesis column showed the scene of [Pork Bones] × 5 → [Bone Meal] × 15.

He clicked on the synthesis and stared at the text description on the newly synthesized mosaic [Bone Meal]: [Bone Meal: A fertilizer item that can accelerate plant growth.]

"It can really synthesize the bone meal in the game!"

"Great!"

Chen Jue's hanging heart finally let go.

After all, there were no skeleton archers to farm in this real world, and if he wanted to collect [Bone Meal], he could only use real-world materials to replace it.

If it couldn't be synthesized, then his farming plan would be mostly ruined.

It's just that the amount of bone meal is a bit small, 15 is only enough to ripen plants within 1 square meter 15 times.

Moreover, pork bones are not cheap, and it is definitely not cost-effective to use them for synthesizing [Bone Meal] in the long run.

Fortunately, Chen Jue already had corresponding substitutes in mind.

He put away the newly bought pile of supplies, and holding the small cardboard box containing the chicks, he dug open the floor of the utility room.

He quickly climbed down along the vertical shaft passage all the way, and when he arrived at the underground space, the scene in front of him, as bright as daylight, made Chen Jue cheer.

Because none of those mosaic torches that had been lit all night had gone out!

"They are really the torches in the game that are said to be nuclear-powered!"

"As long as I don't actively destroy them, they will probably keep shining."

"In this way, the lighting problem underground is completely solved." Chen Jue grinned, feeling that these unscientific torches were hundreds of times more outrageous than the previous Void Standing Wood.

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