I am farming in the real world

Chapter 5: Selecting Seedlings

After excavating the underground space, Chen Jue used [Rock] material to synthesize some stone steps, paving the passage leading to his storage room with decent steps.

Without these steps, Chen Jue would have to climb more than a meter at a time, which would be very strenuous.

As for digging straight down like in the MC game, and installing [Wooden Ladders] on the tunnel walls, Chen Jue also tried it.

He found that as long as he switched to the MC system, his body would become like "Steve" in a super state, climbing up and down the wooden ladders vertically at a rapid speed, and without any fear of heights.

This surprised Chen Jue!

Because if it were an ordinary person, standing on the edge of a 10-story building without a railing and looking down, even with the best psychological quality, they would still feel some fear of falling.

"Directly immune to fear of heights?"

"Then, if I add a buffer pool from the game at the bottom, wouldn't that be like playing Leap of Faith at will?" Chen Jue's thoughts jumped.

Using [Rock] blocks to slightly fill the passage leading to the underground, a 30-meter-high vertical shaft + bottom steps passage was quickly modified by him.

After spending some time familiarizing himself with the convenience of climbing ladders, Chen Jue used the newly synthesized wooden [Pressure Plate Door] to cover the vertical shaft exit, and then filled the dug-out [Foundation] block back into the space above it.

This is a very basic monster-proofing technique in MC, almost every MC player knows this trick.

However, the real world does not spawn zombies, creepers, skeletons, endermen, and other monsters from the game.

This hidden design is mainly used to guard against people.

Even if an outsider breaks into his house, they will not be able to see the abnormality of the storage room through the ground.

The only trouble is that Chen Jue would have to actively dig open the [Foundation] to go to the underground space afterwards.

"It's just a few pickaxe swings anyway, in order to ensure that the MC system is not exposed to the outside, this hiding technique is still very necessary." Chen Jue pondered in his heart.

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

Instead of rushing to lie down and rest, he took out a notebook and scribbled, outlining several ideas for making money using the MC system with very scribbled handwriting + simple drawings.

The first point, and also the fastest way to make money, is to use the MC pickaxe for rapid excavation, trying to dig out precious metal resources such as gold and silver from the ground.

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

However, due to the very mysterious distribution of mineral resources in the real world, which is more uncertain than the map in MC, Chen Jue put a big question mark on this first money-making path.

"The locations of domestic gold mines are basically distributed in Dongshan Province, Nanyun Province and other places. I haven't heard of gold being produced in Wenshi."

"The former Soviet Union spent ten years digging a 12262-meter hole, only to discover highly concentrated diamond and gold mines at a depth of 9500 meters in the geological layer."

"I don't have the knowledge of mineral exploration. Blindly digging into the ground along this line of thinking will probably take a long time. If I accidentally dig into underground magma or natural gas, causing a volcanic eruption or explosion would be a big trouble."

Chen Jue analyzed the online information and temporarily shelved this first way of making money.

As for the second idea for making money, it is to use the MC system's rapid cultivation function to produce some agricultural and sideline products.

Whether it is raising chickens, ducks, pigs, or growing vegetables and rice, these are all things that Chen Jue can get started with the fastest at present.

"I am currently in debt of millions and have no capital in hand, so I can only try this small-scale agricultural economy to make money first."

"Although making money by reselling construction materials commonly used on construction sites, such as earth and stone, is also quite fast, selling a truckload can earn several thousand, but the risk of exposure is too great and not worth the loss." After analyzing, Chen Jue finally finalized a preliminary plan to rely on agriculture to turn around.

After all, his ancestors for three generations were farmers. Although he went out to university and saw some of the world, and tried to start a business and struggle.

But after going around, he finally returned to this deserted small village.

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

Because he had just obtained the MC system and saw the system to turn his life around, he didn't sleep very soundly that night.

Just like an elementary school student knowing that they are going on a spring outing the next day, that kind of expectation and longing for tomorrow can make people toss and turn all night.

When it was just six o'clock in the morning the next day, the illegal forging factory in the village started banging on time.

If it were normal, Chen Jue would spew out a few curses and greet those factory owners who would rather disturb the people than spend money to rent a park after being awakened by these industrial noises.

But today is different, Chen Jue even felt that these noises became pleasant.

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

First, he went to the bathroom to wash the yellow gunk from the corners of his eyes, and then touched the acne that had popped up on his chin from staying up late.

Chen Jue stared at himself in the mirror, and in his eyes, in addition to hope for the future, there was also a bit more gentleness towards himself that he had rarely had in the past.

"From today onwards, learn to love yourself!"

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

After washing up, he took the only one thousand yuan in cash left at home, and rode an old bicycle left over from his school days all the way from Chen Village to the neighboring Huang Village.

Compared to the sparsely populated Chen Village, Huang Village can be said to be much more lively.

The whole village has more than 700 households, and the permanent resident population of migrant workers is more than 1,000, which is almost like a small town.

There are supermarkets and vegetable markets in the village. Every morning, it is full of life. There is an endless stream of villagers who set up stalls, sell vegetables, and come out to have breakfast before going to work.

Chen Jue rode his bicycle through the crowd, stopped at the entrance of a breakfast shop, ordered a bowl of glutinous rice with meat sauce and seaweed soup to try.

This is the most common breakfast in Wenshi, also called 'Eat Tianguang', a bowl down is very filling.

"It's still the old taste, much better than the clear soup and watery hanging-noodle." After spending ten minutes, Chen Jue slowly chewed the last grain of rice in the bowl, the feeling of fullness made him feel energetic all day.

It's just that a breakfast cost 5 yuan, which is still relatively cheap in the countryside. If you change it to the city, it won't come down without 10 yuan.

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After finishing breakfast, Chen Jue pushed his bicycle to a small stall market outside the Huang Village vegetable market, found a stall selling seedlings and seeds and squatted down.

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

Only in his childhood and during school summer vacations did he follow his grandparents, watching the older generation go into the mountains to reclaim those mountain fields.

So, facing this stall full of seeds and seedlings, Chen Jue was also at a loss.

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

"So it's Shanghai Green, an essential vegetable for cooking hanging-noodle." Chen Jue muttered in his heart, and picked up another seedling wrapped in a plastic bag to look at it.

[Waxberry Sapling: Critically ill, only has a very low survival probability after planting, can grow waxberry fruit with poor quality.]

"Huh?"

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

He guessed that it may have been added with a realistic plug-in such as Earth MOD, and the MC system forcibly adapted to some rules of the real world.

So he repeatedly picked up different types of seedlings on the stall, testing the corresponding text descriptions.

After trying a circle, he temporarily came to the following conclusions with a small number of test subjects:

"The vitality of seedlings and seeds is divided into: Critically ill, Healthy, Vigorous, these three types."

"The quality of the products after planting is: Ordinary, Excellent, Excellent."

"A total of nine permutations and combinations, as long as you choose the combination of Vigorous and Excellent, you can definitely grow good things!" Chen Jue became more and more excited as he picked.

He felt that things were already half done before he even started planting.

At this time, the old farmer who set up the stall smiled and joked: "Young man, I see you are very good at picking, are you planning to buy it back and plant it yourself?"

He was a little surprised to see Chen Jue putting down those few wilting waxberry seedlings and turning to choose a few better loquat seedlings.

After all, young people now are holding a mobile phone all day long, only knowing how to bury their heads in swiping their phones and going to work.

Unless they are from an agricultural major, few people know how to pick good quality seedlings.

Even those who are interested in farming mostly buy seeds online, buy them back and plant them in flower pots in a muddle-headed way, and it would be a blessing if they can survive.

Seeing that the old farmer was more talkative, Chen Jue started chatting with him, talking about some related skills of planting trees and vegetables, and also asked him to help choose a few loquat and waxberry seedlings with [Vigorous] + [Excellent] combination attributes.

Loquat and waxberry are specialties of Wenshi.

Since the soil in the mountainous area of Wenshi is mostly acidic yellow soil and red soil, unlike the fertile black soil in the northeast, not many fruit trees can adapt to this soil.

Even the most common fruits, oranges and tangerines, will grow bitter-tasting tangerines when planted in Wenshi.

Haven't eaten bitter tangerines?

The story of the South Orange North Trifoliate Orange in the textbook comes from this.

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