I am farming in the real world

Chapter 8: First Round - A Great Harvest

Waxberries, primarily grown in the south and only fruiting in June and July, are a relatively niche fruit in terms of popularity.

However, anyone who has tasted top-quality waxberries, especially the Dongkui variety, knows how amazing they are, even surpassing the renowned "A Courier Arrives with a Smile" lychee.

The Song Dynasty poet Yu Eshu once praised waxberries with the line, "If Consort Yang knew this taste, lychees would never reach Chang'an."

Comparing market prices also reveals the scarcity of top-quality waxberries.

Even at their peak, the most expensive Fei Zi Xiao lychees only cost around 80 yuan per kilogram.

But Dongkui waxberries are different. They are very difficult to preserve, and their production is extremely limited, only grown in the Xianju area. Those that grow to the size of a ping-pong ball and are graded as Special A are sold individually.

On Taobao, even the lowest-quality Dongkui waxberries cost around 2 yuan per piece.

Those exported to oil-rich Middle Eastern countries are mainly air-freighted and sold for about $10 per piece, making them absolute luxury fruits!

After tasting the waxberries grown by the MC system, Chen Jue immediately realized that these waxberries he had picked were even more valuable than Dongkui waxberries.

Because they are not only larger and look better, but most importantly, their taste is richer and more delicious.

If Dongkui waxberries are touted as the "King of Waxberries," then these MC-produced waxberries should be the "Waxberry Emperor."

They're like its father's father!

"How much should each of these waxberries be sold for?" Chen Jue couldn't help but ask himself.

He felt that he should at least double the price of Dongkui waxberries to sell them.

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After eating several of these top-quality waxberries, Chen Jue exclaimed with satisfaction. Switching to "Steve" mode, he began frantically harvesting the waxberry tree in front of him.

The tree was laden with waxberries, which neatly flew into his backpack one by one, with each slot in the backpack stacking up to x64 waxberries.

Before he could finish picking all the waxberries, his 34-slot backpack was full.

Such an incredible yield from a single tree could not be described as simply being covered in fruit.

"No wonder the system gave a 'vigorous' rating when selecting seedlings earlier."

"This is too vigorous!"

Chen Jue couldn't help but exclaim. He then used the crafting table to synthesize several small [Boxes].

Placing two [Boxes] side by side, they automatically merged into a large storage box, just like in the game, with a total of 54 slots that could hold a lot of things.

Even more amazing was that after Chen Jue put the waxberries into his backpack and these storage boxes, taking them out after a period of time showed no signs of spoilage or decay.

This made Chen Jue pleasantly surprised.

"This isn't a refrigerator, it's a time-freezing box!"

"No matter how long they're stored, the food inside won't spoil. It's perfect for me to be in the farming business," Chen Jue muttered to himself.

Anyone who has run a fruit store knows that the fear isn't about not having buyers, but about spoilage.

Once the shelf life is over, fruits easily rot.

Seeing the fruits they paid for going bad is heartbreaking for any fruit store owner.

But Chen Jue is different!

With this backpack and the boxes produced by the MC system, he doesn't have to worry about spoilage no matter how much he harvests. This cost control alone is enough to beat all the fruit chain stores on the market.

So, after synthesizing a stone axe, Chen Jue chopped at the waxberry tree in front of him.

In addition to dropping more than two thousand perfectly shaped waxberry fruits, he also obtained a dozen [Waxberry Tree Logs] and a brand-new waxberry sapling.

"I remember that in the game, there's only a 45% chance of saplings dropping when chopping trees."

"Did the drop rate change when transferred to the real world?" Chen Jue wondered.

Picking up the mosaic sapling and taking a look, it also had a [Vigorous] + [Excellent] rating.

This made Chen Jue realize that this method of quickly fattening and maturing fruit trees could be endlessly replicated like planting trees in the MC game!

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With the experience of the first bountiful waxberry tree, subsequent replication and intercropping became incredibly simple.

Plant the tree on the spot, sprinkle Bone Meal X3.

As soon as the green light flashed, a waxberry tree of about the same size rose from the ground once again.

Using the newly harvested [Waxberry Tree Logs], Chen Jue synthesized a row of storage boxes in advance.

Constantly repeating similar operations, he repeatedly harvested the waxberry trees grown by the MC system like A-share leeks.

The only limitation was the limited number of [Bone Meal] he had on hand.

This time, the 15 portions of bone meal synthesized a total of 5 waxberry trees, accumulating more than 10,000 fruits.

Most importantly, the time spent during this period was not long, at most ten minutes before and after.

"Great harvest! Great harvest!"

Chen Jue happily took a bite of a large waxberry to replenish his depleted hunger.

After the bone meal was used up, he didn't idle around. He first planted all the saplings he had on hand.

Without bone meal to accelerate maturation, he could let them grow naturally.

After finishing these seedlings, Chen Jue went to the corner and dug out a piece of land again, using the newly synthesized [Wooden Fence] to enclose a chicken farm covering more than 200 square meters.

He released the 20 chicks he had bought from the market into it.

Watching the fluffy little chicks running around happily inside the fence, sometimes bumping their heads against the invisible wall when they encountered gaps under the fence.

This scene really stunned Chen Jue!

"Okay, another physical engine performance that violates the laws of the universe," Chen Jue couldn't help but exclaim.

This MC system largely copied the settings in the game, just like this circle of one-meter-high fences.

Not only could he not jump over it in place, but even the chicks enclosed inside couldn't get out.

It's like a rule with "100% interception," which is very unscientific.

But this is also good. As long as these chicks can't escape, Chen Jue will save himself the trouble of chasing after the stragglers later.

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After building the first simple chicken coop, Chen Jue ate waxberries while staring at the vegetables he had sown, and incidentally looked at the chicks running around in the field.

Because according to the settings in the MC game, the growth rate of these plants and animals is very fast.

A chick can grow from a juvenile state to adulthood after two stages, which only takes two sunrises and sunsets in the game.

Converted into the real world, one sunrise and sunset in MC only takes about 20 minutes.

Calculated this way, a chick can grow up in 40 minutes and be slaughtered for meat, which is more effective than any growth hormone.

Even feeding them vegetables, seeds, and other foods during the rearing period can shorten the development time of each stage by 10%.

What is the concept of a mature chicken being ready for slaughter in less than 40 minutes?

You should know that the "white-feather broiler," which is currently claimed to be the fastest to market, takes 42 days from hatching to slaughter and sale.

If it can really be achieved in 40 minutes, Chen Jue doesn't have to do anything else. Just raising and selling chickens is enough for him to become rich!

Similarly, including those plants, wheat in the MC game only needs 5 game days from sowing to maturity, and there is no need to spread any fertilizer during the period. They can be harvested by letting them grow naturally.

This is also why Chen Jue is so patiently squatting in this underground space for close observation.

He wants to see if these plants and animals in the real world will grow against the sky like in the game after encountering this MC system.

However, after guarding for an hour or so, Chen Jue was a little disappointed.

He found that these chicks and vegetables were indeed growing wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye, but the growth rate was like time-lapse photography in a documentary.

It's fast, but it doesn't reach the heaven-defying level of developing a stage in a few minutes in the game.

"It seems that it will still take a few days to cultivate them to maturity," Chen Jue muttered to himself.

After recording this new discovery, he climbed out of the underground space with a backpack full of waxberries.

Because next, he has to find a chance to sell these waxberries and turn them into cash.

Today's first update ~ Continue to ask for recommendation tickets and investment, it would be even better to have rewards ~ Not much, just 100 coins, steel wires are motivated to continue writing.