I am farming in the real world

Chapter 3: The Almighty Backpack

Chen Village, an unremarkable village nestled at the foot of Panlong Mountain.

Over ninety percent of the village's two hundred-plus households have already moved away.

Those who could afford it settled down in the county town, or emigrated decades ago to become overseas Chinese.

The poor ones took root in the resettlement village beside the national highway a few kilometers from the mountains, relying on cheap suburban properties to scrape by with a wife from the countryside.

There was no other way! Who didn't know that Wenzhou's housing prices were notoriously high?

Those remaining in the village were mostly old men and women, along with some migrant workers working in unlicensed, small factories near the village.

Once night fell, the lights were sparse, and it was rare to encounter a single person on the road.

Only the chess and card room at the village entrance's small store could still be found with two tables of gambling villagers playing cards and mahjong.

This is the current state of most mountain villages in the Wenzhou area, and also where Chen Jue currently lives.

"I'm home!"

Chen Jue slowly walked through the village's small road, stood in front of his house, and carefully examined it.

A very typical two-story Jiangzhe farmhouse, covering an area of more than 70 square meters, with a brick and tile exterior, and a core wooden structure, built at least 40 years ago.

It was renovated once 10 years ago, and the light blue paint on the exterior walls had begun to peel due to wind and sun exposure.

Pushing the door open, the interior of the house was surprisingly clean, with granite floor tiles and white walls.

Dining room, kitchen, and bathroom were all complete, and behind the stairs, there was a small living room with an L-shaped fabric sofa, and a 40-inch old TV hanging on the wall, so life was not bad at all.

It's just that the continuous humid and hot weather had caused a lot of snow-white crystals to precipitate on the walls.

Chen Jue reached out and scraped off some of the crystals on the wall, and put them into the item bar for a closer look: [Calcium Carbonate Deposits: Item, formed by efflorescence from the wall.]

"So this thing is called calcium carbonate deposits!"

"I didn't really pay attention to it before."

Chen Jue muttered to himself.

The repeated blows over the years had depressed him for a long time, and he had long lost confidence and love for life, relying on indulging in mobile phone short videos or playing games to numb himself every day.

If he hadn't accidentally obtained this MC system, where would he have the time to study these small details in life!

"Let's cook first."

A wave of hunger surged up, and the 10 chicken drumsticks on the panel had dwindled to only 5.

Chen Jue started busying himself in the kitchen.

Dinner was simple, he cooked a bowl of clear water noodles, fried two sunny-side-up eggs, added a few Shanghai greens, and started slurping the noodles with a plate of stir-fried wood ear and pork from noon.

A scene reminiscent of a stock-trading old-timer turning off the lights to eat noodles unfolded.

It's just that Chen Jue's situation was even worse than those old-timers who invested a little spare money in A-shares and got fleeced!

His credit record showed over a million in debt, and it had long since exploded.

His Alipay, WeChat, and bank cards were all frozen, and the court's summary judgment process had been completed for almost a year.

All he had left were a dozen or so red banknotes for buying groceries and a few dozen yuan in change, which he had found by rummaging through the old house and searching through a pile of his parents' belongings.

......

While slurping noodles, he flipped out his phone and looked at the WeChat, which hadn't been active for days.

Apart from the top few messages from Zheng Bocheng and a few other close friends, the rest were legal collection notices and messages from bank loan managers from a long time ago.

Since Chen Jue no longer had any executable property under his name, these debt collectors had also quit while they were ahead and no longer bothered him every now and then.

They were also afraid of something happening if they kept pushing, because if Chen Jue couldn't think straight and kicked the bucket, who would bear those millions in bad debts in the future?

"Sigh!"

Chen Jue sighed leisurely, and clicked into his Moments while slurping noodles.

He had long set his Moments to be invisible to outsiders, and he usually browsed it in his spare time to pass the time, afraid of being out of touch with the outside world for too long.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he clicked in, he found several engagement banquets that his former high school female classmates had casually taken pictures of.

Chen Jue didn't recognize the groom, who was a handsome young stranger.

But the bride in full dress made Chen Jue's action of picking up noodles freeze in mid-air.

"So you're engaged!"

"Time flies, it's been almost a year and a half."

Chen Jue said to himself, and the noodles entering his mouth had a bit more bitterness.

Because the bride in these photos was his first love girlfriend, Wang Yajing, whom he had been dating for many years!

The two were high school classmates, and they were still together all the way to college graduation and entering society, which was considered a model of campus romance.

Classmates and friends who knew them were very optimistic about them, and even clamored early on to wait for wedding candies and invitations.

Until Chen Jue went bankrupt during the epidemic, this fragile relationship that couldn't withstand material things also vanished with the wind.

"No wonder this kid Zheng Bocheng suddenly ran over to ask me to go fishing today."

"So he was planning to divert my attention!"

Chen Jue felt warm again in his heart, it's really different to have a close friend by his side.

As for the ex-girlfriend who was smiling brightly in the picture, Chen Jue stared at it for a few times, and besides regretting, reminiscing, and owing her, he didn't have any other emotions.

He had been depressed for so long, he had grieved enough for what he needed to grieve.

He casually flipped through these nine-grid photos that were flooding the screen, and the remaining single people still had to move forward towards the future.

......

A bowl of simple noodles brought out a different kind of sorrowful thoughts.

After washing the dishes and taking out the trash, he went to the bathroom and took a hot shower.

With the water from the shower pouring down, Chen Jue, covered in foam, began to close his eyes and meditate.

Broken family, business bankruptcy, girlfriend breakup, assets frozen and seized, the cold ridicule from relatives and friends behind his back, countless complex thoughts began to spin in his mind.

Chen Jue realized that his life, which had already collapsed for others, now had a glimmer of hope for a comeback because of the appearance of this MC-produced wooden axe!

"God, I hope you don't play with me this time!"

Chen Jue muttered to himself in the bathroom, as if questioning and resisting his fate.

After washing up, Chen Jue changed into a clean set of clothes.

Shaking his spirits, he slowly walked to the small utility room below the stairs, took a deep breath, and switched back to the MC page.

The familiar square grid tool bar reappeared, and with a wave of his hand, he transformed a pile of cardboard boxes, discarded old washing machines, and other debris in front of him into mosaic props and flew them into his backpack.

"Universe in the sleeve!"

"If I take this out to shoot videos, it will definitely be a hit, right?"

Chen Jue thought of Zach King, the very famous male wizard on YouTube.

The other party relied on shooting creative magic videos interspersed with special effects and visual errors to attract countless fans, and could earn tens of millions of dollars in net worth just by relying on traffic and popularity.

But now that he has obtained this MC system.

Chen Jue knew that he had a better way to make money and turn things around than shooting videos and becoming an internet celebrity!

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