I am farming in the real world

Chapter 39: The Sky-High Price of Shanghai Greens

The emergence of the MC system has opened up infinite possibilities for Chen Jue's future.

Just like the sandbox game MC "Minecraft," it's free, fun, and offers endless ways to play.

As for collaborating with these Wenshi local catering brands, Chen Jue currently has no plans.

The reason why the chairman of the Extraordinary Group took a fancy to MC Roasted Chicken was also because of its amazing and novel taste.

After all, the old brands under Lin Youlong, such as Tengqiao Smoked Chicken and Salami, although very profitable in Wenshi, are almost every Wenshi local's childhood memories.

However, the influence of these local brands is extremely limited nationwide, even less famous than a Weilong Spicy Stick.

To put it bluntly, it's a local leading enterprise, clinging to an old track that is nearing decline and not favored by capital and the market.

The other party is eager to contact Chen Jue to discuss cooperation, the purpose is to find a brand new track for themselves, and make a big deal around Chen Ji's secret roasted chicken.

According to Chen Jue's estimate, this President Lin probably won't give up easily afterward.

It is even very likely that he will send out commercial spies to find out the secret recipe of MC Roasted Chicken or the origin of the chicken source.

These are the most basic business tactics, Chen Jue doesn't believe that Lin Youlong wouldn't try it.

Maybe before the other party came to visit, they had already thoroughly investigated his identity information.

"A tree that stands tall in the forest will be felled by the wind."

"Being too outstanding is sometimes a problem!" Chen Jue sighed in his heart.

Next, he not only needs to find a reasonable cover for MC Roasted Chicken, but also needs to hurry up and build a breeding base and food processing plant in the real world, to avoid being investigated by those who are interested in the source of the chicken.

In this impetuous 'money-oriented' era, sometimes it is not easy to do business in a down-to-earth manner.

… …

After seeing off the catering tycoon Lin Youlong, Chen Jue returned to the stall and continued to lead several students to do taste promotion.

Only 80 roasted chickens were brought this evening, plus two additional staff members to help, the tasting event progressed very quickly.

In less than 40 minutes, the half-price roasted chickens and tasting samples on the stall were snapped up by those potential customers who passed by.

Seeing the number of people joining the WeChat fan group gradually increase, reaching more than 400 people before closing the stall tonight, Chen Jue was in a great mood.

Earning 8,000 yuan in cash is secondary, the most important thing is market cultivation.

After these few days of setting up a stall, the name of Chen Ji's Secret Roasted Chicken has fermented in several high-end residential areas along Binjiang Road.

When the time comes, as long as a store is opened nearby, it will definitely be a hit.

"Xiaoguang, you did a great job!"

"I'll take you guys for another day tomorrow, and after the new stall car is delivered, I won't be setting up a stall with you anymore." Chen Jue distributed the part-time fees for today with a smile on his face.

"Thank you, Brother Jue! We will continue to work hard and ensure that we do a good job in the tasting!" Zhao Xiaoguang and his two classmates were also full of joy after receiving the money.

Chen Ji's on-the-ground promotion part-time job doesn't require running around in the sun, and the speed of setting up and closing the stall is very fast, it's over in the time it takes to play a few games.

The most important thing is that people are trained, and they still earn a lot of money.

Such a good part-time job, anyone would be as happy as if they had encountered a pie in the sky.

"What a group of energetic young people!" Chen Jue smiled slightly when he saw them so active, and felt more and more that these temporary part-time employees were pleasing to the eye.

… …

After finishing the on-the-ground promotion and watching Zhao Xiaoguang and the others get on the bus.

Chen Jue plans to have this kid pull a part-time parent group later to report the return of everyone in real time.

Otherwise, if there are more student part-time jobs in the future, safety problems will be a big trouble.

After all, the students just think of it as an experience of life, earning some part-time money to make themselves happy, but he, as a boss, has to consider more issues.

"Five insurances and one housing fund, employee benefits, and commission rewards must be designed in advance."

"I have to recruit a few suitable personnel and financial accountants as soon as possible, otherwise, I will be too busy to handle it alone." Chen Jue rubbed his nose, and Huang Ruomeng's figure suddenly flashed in his mind.

This elementary school classmate seems to be looking for a job, but I don't know what her major is.

Just thinking of his stiff and awkward feeling in front of her, Chen Jue couldn't help but complain to himself: "How can someone who is almost 30 years old be so unsteady?"

"Isn't she just a girl? My Bilibili favorites, Xunlei, and Quark network drive are full of them."

"If I have more contact with her, it's no big deal."

Chen Jue's mind was full of wild thoughts on the way back by car.

A young man with hemorrhoids who is full of vigor and blood will find a dog pleasing to the eye if he has been single and lonely for a long time.

Not to mention reuniting with a childhood sweetheart in his childhood memories.

That kind of complex and youthful feeling is like first love, making people unable to extricate themselves and reminiscing about it from time to time.

Of course, the reason why Chen Jue has this feeling is also because Huang Ruomeng is indeed beautiful, and her figure and appearance are both on his aesthetic line.

… …

Taking the truck, he brought the two iron-headed guys, Tie Yi and Tie Lao Liu, back to Chen Village.

He bought two packs of instant noodles at the small shop at the entrance of the village, planning to take them back and cook them for a midnight snack.

At this time, several middle-aged villagers who had just finished playing cards came out of the smoky 'VIP box' in the small shop.

They were full of alcohol and their faces were like pig livers, staggering. They ran into Chen Jue leading two strangers to buy things, so they joked: "Oh my! Isn't this the son of the Amin family? I heard that you bought a truck? What kind of business are you doing recently! Started being a boss again, and even hired people?"

"But now that you're a boss, why are you still eating instant noodles!"

"If you want to eat, you have to eat something good. Uncle will treat you to a bag of lard residue and two ham sausages to replenish your oil and water."

"When you become a boss, you can't be too poor, so as not to lose the face of our Chen Village in front of outsiders! Hahaha!"

These are all old gamblers in the village, earning money by renting out the illegal factories they built to outsiders. They are idle all year round, and all the rent they earn is given to the gambling table.

Occasionally, when they encounter a down-and-out household like Chen Jue in the village, they will also make a few sarcastic jokes.

After all, the chain of contempt is most naked in rural areas.

"Sandbags~ Keep gambling! It's best to gamble until your wives and children are separated." Chen Jue rolled his eyes when he heard these taunts, didn't bother to be polite with them, opened his bill, picked up the instant noodles, and turned around to leave.

"What did you say?"

"You little brat, you just earned a few bucks and started showing off?"

"Damn it, you're still pretending here when you owe a lot of debt!"

"I'll go… …"

These middle-aged villagers exploded, cursing and swearing, originally intending to surround Chen Jue, this junior in the village, and teach him a lesson.

Unexpectedly, Tie Yi and Tie Lao Liu blocked the road like two iron towers. They didn't even move, and directly knocked the guys who rushed up to the ground, making them dizzy and falling on their backs.

"Be polite to our boss!"

"You… … deserve to be taught a lesson."

The two strong local youths, as strong as cows, showed their muscles, immediately waking up most of these drunks.

"Don't fight! We're all from the same village, there's no need to make it so ugly!" At this time, the middle-aged boss of the small shop saw that the situation was not good and ran out to be a peacemaker.

His village small shop relies on these regular gamblers to maintain business. If a fight breaks out and the police are called to arrest gamblers and sweep the place, he won't be able to do business.

"Tie Yi, Lao Liu, let's go." Chen Jue often came to this small shop to buy some daily necessities before, and he and the boss were relatives of the same clan who were out of the fifth generation. Knowing his difficulties, it's not easy to do a little business in the village to support his family, so he called the two iron-headed guys back, and walked towards the old house without looking back.

After all, if a real fight breaks out, with the bodies of those middle-aged people hollowed out by cigarettes and alcohol, it wouldn't take two punches from the iron puppets to lie in a coffin and see the King of Hell.

The old gamblers who got up from the ground were already much more sober at this time.

Knowing that Chen Jue, this kid, has hardened his wings and is not easy to mess with, so they cursed a few words in place, and then re-entered the 'VIP room' under the persuasion of the small shop owner to gamble and escape reality.

… …

Back at the old house, Chen Jue started a fire to make a midnight snack and planned to reward himself.

He soaked a bowl of braised beef noodles, fried an MC scallion egg, and scalded a few fresh Shanghai greens and placed them on the noodles, and casually tore half of an MC roasted chicken and mixed it in the instant noodles.

Just smelling the strong spicy aroma mixed with the instant noodles, Chen Jue was almost driven crazy.

Not to mention mixing in so many crops produced by MC as ingredients.

"Who said instant noodles aren't high-end?"

"This bowl would sell for 300 in the airport and people would be willing to pay!" Chen Jue slurped a mouthful and felt that his taste buds were about to sublimate.

He deliberately turned on his phone and flipped out a new anime episode, eating and watching.

After finishing a bowl of instant noodles, he locked the door of the house, turned off the lights, and went down to the underground space.

Using the characteristics of 'infinite water', he specially built an open-air hot spring bath in Pit No. 1 and filled it with warm water of a suitable temperature.

Then, he took off his clothes and jumped into the bath.

"Wuhu~"

"Awesome!"

Chen Jue swam back and forth in the square pool a few times.

There was no disinfectant smell of a public swimming pool, and no one secretly peed in it. The clean and almost transparent water quality allowed Chen Jue to open his eyes and frolic at the bottom of the water.

Finally, when he couldn't swim anymore, he floated on his back on the surface of the water, letting the buoyancy of the water lift him up, comfortably soaking in his own pool for half an hour, and the skin on his fingers was soaking and he didn't want to get up.

"It would be great if I could pull the network cable down later."

“Projecting a huge screen onto the wall and watching new anime or movies while soaking in the tub—that's what I call enjoyment.” Chen Jue grabbed a MC bayberry and tossed it into his mouth.

The sweet and sour, high-class flavor exploded in his mouth.

The hardship and exhaustion from running around were seemingly released entirely in the pool.

…

After lazing in the bath for nearly an hour, releasing the day's fatigue, Chen Jue went down to his own MC vegetable plot like a landlord to check on the situation.

Including the newly opened 100 planting pits, Chen Village's base was now welcoming its fourth round of super harvest.

Walking down along the shaft, all that met the eye was a large expanse of lush, green Shanghai bok choy.

He instructed Tie Yi and the others to hurry and harvest, and based on the total yield of nearly two thousand catties per pit, this round yielded a total of more than 200,000 catties of Shanghai bok choy.

“The power of large-scale mass production has arrived!”

“I just don't know how many days it will take for Old Wu San alone to distribute so much stock.”

Looking at the neatly arranged ×64 [Shanghai Bok Choy] in those storage boxes, Chen Jue realized that things were about to take off immediately.

One-click bagging eased the pressure on the storage boxes a little.

Afterward, Chen Jue went down to ten thousand meters underground to take a look at the subway tunnel construction site.

Dozens of iron golems were digging day and night, and the end of the tunnel could no longer be seen.

According to Tie Er Leng, who was stationed at the base, the foremost part had already been dug for more than 30 kilometers, and it would take at most two more days to open up the passage to Wentcheng Pingtou Village.

If Chen Jue hadn't requested that the tunnel be dug wider, the progress would probably have been even faster.

“Those iron dummies are really awesome!”

“I remember that the S1 line in Wenzhou took a full 6 years to build only 53.5 kilometers. Even if you had a hundred tunnel boring machines, you couldn't keep up with this digging speed.” Chen Jue also revealed a bit of smugness after learning this news.

With the MC [Stone Pickaxe] tool in hand, each of these newly recruited iron dummies was like a natural-born civil engineering saint.

The only shortcoming was that the progress of another mining team was relatively slow. After more than 20,000 pieces of the newly discovered [Ultra-Poor Iron Ore] were mined, a serious fault phenomenon occurred.

Without iron ore as a smelting raw material, [Iron Ingots] could not be continuously output, so the production of [Rails] was temporarily a bit unable to keep up.

“Just keep exploring downwards!”

“The Earth's crust is so big, 33 kilometers deep. I don't believe we can't find new iron ore.”

After Chen Jue finished giving the new instructions, he felt that it was getting late and climbed up to the old house.

He planned to take some textbooks left over from his school days and go down to synthesize some [Bookshelves] in MC.

Because he hadn't seen any [Villagers] refresh yet, Chen Jue felt that the restoration of the village was not enough, and that there were still basic facilities such as libraries and clocks missing.

Of course, this [Bookshelf] thing will also be very necessary in the future to cooperate with the [Enchanting Table] to improve the enchanting level, so synthesizing it in advance is like making prop reserves.

He just didn't expect that as soon as he drilled out of the underground base, the phone that was plugged in to charge rang.

Seeing several missed calls and messages displayed on the screen, Chen Jue immediately pressed to answer: “Third Brother, what's the hurry so late at night? I just took a shower and was planning to go to bed.”

Wu Lao San shouted excitedly on the other end: “I say, Brother Chen! It's already this late, and you're still sleeping? Hurry up and go to the wholesale website to check the price of Shanghai bok choy. It's gone crazy!”

“This is a huge opportunity! The vegetable basket side has received news that even big trucks from other places have been sent to start抢货! How much stock do you have in your field? Quickly contact people to pick it, even the tender buds have to be pulled out and sold!”

As soon as Chen Jue heard this, he immediately woke up completely, and asked with some excitement: “Didn't it just rise to more than 3 yuan? Is it still rising? How much has it risen to?”

Wu Lao San reported almost hysterically on the other end of the phone: “The wholesale price is now 7 yuan 4 mao 9 a catty! If you miss this village, there will be no such shop!”

“How much did you say a catty was???”

“7 yuan 4 mao 9!!!”

“Holy crap!!!”

The second and third chapters are put together~ Continue to ask for votes~

PS: This Shanghai bok choy wholesale price is from July 18th, online data can be checked.