I am farming in the real world

#24 - loyalty!

Chapter 24: Loyalty! Allegiance!

Zhongbo Machinery, Chairman's Office.

After seeing off the ICBC client managers, who walked with a certain stiffness, Chen Jue offered Zheng Long two bayberries before getting straight to the point: "Uncle Zheng, I'd like to get some scrap metal from your factory. Not too much, can you give me the market price?"

Zheng Long was surprised: "Little Jue, wasn't your factory shut down? Are you planning to start anew and continue with machinery?"

Chen Jue shook his head and explained, "No, Uncle Zheng, I just want to use the scrap to try making some small things."

As an expert in machining, Zheng Long chuckled, "Looks like you're planning to DIY, like those foreigners in their garages starting businesses."

Then, Zheng Long, in the tone of an elder, earnestly encouraged Chen Jue, telling him not to be afraid of failure.

He said that on the road to entrepreneurship, 99% of people fall by the wayside, and the remaining 1% who stand out are battle-tested heroes.

Fall down once, get up again; as long as you don't give up, success will come one day.

In the past, so many bosses from Wen City went out to do business, some with glory, some with decline, but which one hadn't experienced great storms?

Even Zheng Long himself had overcome countless difficulties, gritting his teeth to manage Zhongbo Machinery to what it is today.

"Alright, Dad, stop lecturing with those old-fashioned principles."

"Just say yes or no?"

"If you agree, I'll take Chen Jue to the warehouse to choose materials," Zheng Bocheng said, picking his nose with a nonchalant air.

Zheng Long sighed and shook his head, pointing to the office door with a smile and scolding, "You little rascal! You've been spoiled by your mother since you were a kid! You don't listen to your old man at all."

"Get out! Take the scrap yourself, remember to record it, the factory's rules can't be broken."

If it weren't for Chen Jue being there, he probably would have pulled out the 'Seven Wolves' belt.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Zheng Bocheng grinned, winking, and pulled Chen Jue towards the warehouse.

On the way, Chen Jue asked him curiously, "Such filial piety! Bocheng, aren't you afraid your dad will ruin his account and start a new one?"

Zheng Bocheng didn't care: "Heh~ Chen Jue, don't forget, we were born in the same year!"

His meaning was simple: Zheng Long was already old, and he even had a grandson a couple of years ago, so he had long given up those messy thoughts.

Right now, Zhongbo Machinery is doing well, and sooner or later, it will be inherited by Zheng Bocheng, the only son.

However, despite the young master's usual carefree appearance, he was very methodical when he got down to business.

Once they arrived at the warehouse, after greeting the manager, Zheng Bocheng got on an orange forklift and skillfully loaded a pile of iron scrap, packed in white industrial ton bags, onto Chen Jue's truck.

As soon as the ton bag was loaded, the astonishing weight immediately caused the 4.2-meter truck bed to sink down a bit.

"Is one bag enough?" Zheng Bocheng asked.

"Load another bag, I'm afraid it won't be enough," Chen Jue quickly said.

Without asking any further questions, Zheng Bocheng went back to the warehouse and re-forked another bag onto the truck.

Afterward, Chen Jue drove to the factory to weigh the truck; after deducting the empty truck's weight, it was about 4 tons.

Zheng Bocheng took out his phone and tapped on the calculator: "Today's scrap iron market price, I'll give you 1995 per ton, 4 tons is 7980 yuan in total. This has to go through the company's books, can't just give it to you for free."

Chen Jue nodded and took out cash from his backpack: "Bocheng, I've been running business outside recently, and I don't have enough savings. I'll pay you back that 120,000 yuan when I earn enough."

Zheng Bocheng waved his hand dismissively: "Small money! It's not too late to pay me back when you've saved enough."

Having such a close friend, Chen Jue was deeply moved.

After loading the truck, he accompanied Zheng Bocheng around the machinery workshop for a while, visiting several fully automated casting production lines that had been updated in the past year, which opened his eyes.

Before leaving, Zheng Bocheng kept asking Chen Jue where he was going to set up his stall tonight.

A well-behaved young master like him, who neither gambled nor frequented bars, didn't have many sources of fun besides playing games at internet cafes.

Yesterday, he heard Chen Jue mention setting up a stall and seemed to be planning to go and experience the 'hardships of the common people'.

"I'm going to set up on the Binjiang side of Wen City after 6 o'clock, are you sure you can come?"

"Aren't you afraid of being…" Chen Jue gestured a neck-slicing motion, indicating that he should be careful.

Zheng Bocheng was surprised to hear that he wasn't setting up at the snack street of Tea Mountain University Town.

Thinking about the more than 2-hour round trip from Rui County to Binjiang in Wen City, his face immediately showed some timidity: "Damn! A married man can't afford to get hurt!"

"I still envy you single dogs, at least you have freedom!"

Chen Jue: "…"

…

After joking around with Zheng Bocheng at Zhongbo Machinery for an hour, Chen Jue drove the truck back to his hometown, Chen Village.

Seeing that there was still time in the afternoon, he dug up the floor of the storage room as soon as he got home.

He came to Pit No. 1 through the vertical shaft and combined all the gift boxes of [Baby Pumpkins] into ×4 [Pumpkin Seeds].

Then, he found a few empty plots of land, took out the [Stone Hoe], and cultivated and sowed the seeds.

Pumpkins need to be planted with a water source every other grid, and there can't be any obstructions around them.

He poured the few [Bone Meal] he had on his body, and green light burst out to ripen them. First, the pumpkin vines grew. Then, after waiting for a while, a row of square mosaic pumpkins with Halloween ghost faces randomly grew one grid horizontally around the sown seeds.

He harvested all these ripened cubic [Baby Pumpkins].

Then Chen Jue turned and ran to the furnace, switched to the operation interface, and threw the two bags of scrap metal, labeled [Scrap Iron: Item, leftover material from mechanical processing.], in batches under the top square.

Soon, under Chen Jue's gaze, the charcoal placed in the bottom square began to burn, and the two bags of scrap iron were all converted into [Iron Nuggets] from the MC game.

"Nice!"

"Even if I can't dig up underground iron ore, I can synthesize iron tools in advance," Chen Jue rubbed his hands excitedly like a fly.

He waited in front of the furnace for a few minutes and burned out a total of ×2048 [Iron Nuggets].

He took out these [Iron Nuggets] and brought them to the workbench. Using the 9-grid filled layout, he synthesized the [Iron Nuggets] into larger [Iron Ingots], which looked like silver bricks displayed to customers in banks.

Further synthesizing downwards, [Iron Ingot] × 9 → [Iron Block].

A set of smooth operations made Chen Jue addicted and unable to extricate himself.

However, he did not synthesize all the [Iron Ingots] into iron blocks, but left half of the [Iron Ingots] and used the workbench to first get himself a set of iron armor, essential for MC players in the early game!

⌒-shaped layout → [Iron Helmet: Armor, provides 1 armor point, durability 165 / 165.]

凹-shaped layout → [Iron Chestplate: Armor, provides 3 armor points, durability 240 / 240.]

∏-shaped layout → [Iron Leggings: Armor, provides 2.5 armor points, durability 225 / 225.]

| |-shaped layout → [Iron Boots: Armor, provides 1 armor point, durability 195 / 195.]

| layout, [Wooden Stick] × 1 + [Iron Ingot] × 2 → [Iron Sword: Weapon, +6 attack damage, durability 251 / 251.]

"Perfect! Handsome!"

Wearing this series of iron armor, Chen Jue in Steve mode felt his whole body become hard.

He scanned the 10 red hearts above the item bar again, followed by a string of iron armor icons, a total of 7 and a half bars, showing the total armor value provided by this iron equipment.

"It's a pity that becoming a spirit is not allowed after the founding of the country, and there are no monsters to farm in the real world."

"Otherwise, with this iron armor and a bow and arrow, I would dare to challenge the Ender Dragon alone," Chen Jue waved the mosaic greatsword in his hand, slashing wildly in the air in Pit No. 1.

After he was tired of playing, he stacked the 4 newly synthesized [Iron Blocks] in a T-shape on an open space.

Finally, he took out the [Pumpkin] and placed it on the T-shaped neck. A magical scene appeared!

These few MC materials, which were originally inanimate objects, seemed to have triggered some wonderful easter egg after being stacked together.

In the blink of an eye, they turned into a tall and sturdy mosaic golem!

The golem stood up from the ground, arms hanging down, eyes glowing red, and besides the iron-gray color all over its body, there were also green vines wrapped around it.

"Here it comes! Here it comes! The first MC synthesized creature!"

Chen Jue's face lit up when he saw the easter egg take effect, and he quickly stared at it, examining it carefully.

Unexpectedly, a series of system introductions that were not in the original MC game appeared:

[Iron Golem: Iron One]

[Health: Red Heart × 50]

[Attack Power: 7.5 ~ 21.5]

[Recruitment Limit: 1 / 100]

[Skin: Not Activated]

[Self-Introduction: Utility-type creature, excellent bodyguard in the village. 100% Loyalty! Smecta!]

"What is this thing?"

"Which mischievous kid made this advanced golem Mod?"

Chen Jue was so startled by the subtitles that appeared in front of him that he leaned back tactically.