mesbooks Chapter 180
Chapter 180
When tea is abundant and trade flourishes, the rivers are full of boats and the roads are teeming with carriages and horses. After obtaining this rare item, many players will choose to relax and come here to enjoy the scenery and experience the beautiful world of this gentle water town.
Each courtyard is filled with lilacs, orchids, peonies, and roses, which climb up the small courtyard wall and reveal a corner of the garden.
Walking down the street, listening to the clatter of footsteps on the cobblestone path, one feels light and carefree.
Living here and lying down here, just thinking about it makes me feel wonderful.
After carefully studying the announcement, Deng Yijun decided to assign tasks to his teammates. The six of them were divided as follows: Xi Meng and the Bird Alliance Leader were responsible for finding the treasure chests. The Bird Alliance Leader had a lucky goldfish, so he was lucky in finding the treasure chests.
The Marshal and his wife were assigned to act as low-level tea merchants, collecting tea. This was something they both suggested voluntarily. The Marshal listened to his wife in everything; if she wanted to travel, he would accompany her. Also, with his vacation over, he didn't have much time to play games, and his wife also worked, so they could only manage to find time for one of them at most.
This was a decision made after careful consideration; after all, reality is life, not games.
The Slaughter Ancestor is in charge of managing a tea forest as a tea farmer. He has a lot of free time because he is a member of Qingfengyi who came to learn ancient martial arts. As long as he ensures his offline training, he is very free in his spare time.
If the Grand Marshal and his wife had too much cargo, they would store it directly with the Slaughter Ancestor, who would then help with transportation. In this way, one of them could both occupy the identity of a tea farmer and flexibly handle transportation. If the efficiency of tea collection couldn't keep up, he could also help with the collection.
Although tea farmers' tasks involve picking and planting tea, there's no rule against harvesting tea leaves. Harvesting tea leaves doesn't count towards the task progress bar, but it's still a good way to earn gold ingots; with good management, you can earn a considerable amount. Even though you can only take one-tenth of the silver here, the sheer quantity makes up for it.
Currently, players haven't seen any large-scale businesses yet; the first to become popular are tea picking and low-level tea merchants. Their short videos have gone viral across the interstellar space, making many interstellar players somewhat envious.
In the video, lush green tea plantations and dense forests are visible, with wild fruits occasionally found among the tea bushes. Wild fruits truly provide a welcome treat and refreshment during tea picking. These wild fruits include yellow raspberries, raspberries, strawberries, snakeberries, red ginseng fruits, ground figs, and red raspberries, among others. These wild fruits have many names, and the names vary slightly from region to region.
Lin Shuying used the names from her hometown, all of which were cherished childhood memories.
Of course, the season might not be concentrated in the spring tea-picking period, and things like bayberries might only be available in early summer. But that's not important; what matters is the fun.
The players weaved through the thorny vines, their tea baskets filled with wild berries instead of tea. They ate non-stop as they walked, only to realize later that they hadn't picked many tea leaves, but their bellies were already full.
Many players complained in the chat channel, "The designers definitely did this on purpose. There are traps everywhere. I can't possibly win. I have no interest in picking tea anymore."
"Ahhh, I missed out on so many wild fruits during the last 'Plucking laurels and traveling thousands of miles' event, I didn't expect it to be available again in this event, I love it!"
"I've decided, I'll pick a whole bag of them and eat them for years!"
"I want some too! The wild berries inside taste amazing! Family members, please share your picking experiences! The bigger, juicier, and sweeter the yellow berries are!"
"Sharing this: the darker the bayberry, the tastier it is; the smaller ones are even better."
"Ahhh, I absolutely love the red-skinned melon! It has a smooth, sweet texture and smells so good."
"My favorite fruit is red ginseng fruit, but it changes the color of your lips after eating it."
"Upstairs, don't you think the color-changing makeup looks really cool?"
"Ahhh, the lady upstairs, I think it's so cool too, especially with an all-black outfit. Pictures, pictures."
The image shows a woman dressed in a black night-clothes reminiscent of the martial arts world of China. Her inner garment, outer garment, and undergarment are all black, made of black cotton with fuchsia trim, devoid of any decorative embroidery—simple and plain. Wearing this outfit exudes an unparalleled aura of power, paired with a deep purple-black lipstick, making her resemble a demon descended from hell.
"Wow, that's absolutely amazing."
Everyone was curious about this wild fruit and searched everywhere. For a while, the dungeon was full of people who weren't doing anything productive.
This is convenient for career-oriented people, like Deng Yijun's team.
However, he values these wild fruits. The value of wild fruits was not very evident in previous activities because the amount distributed was very small, and people didn't pay much attention to them.
This time, Deng Yijun took it seriously. Many members in his player instance had vacant territories, so he let them cultivate there. Then they could sell them in bulk and make a fortune.
You can also have tourists collect resources; it costs five gold ingots to enter and collect once. The instances are very well isolated from each other; those who enter without permission won't discover the core area's spiritual herbs. However, it feels a little different; you need to prepare a bit.
However, there's no rush. If Qingfengyi has already unlocked that ability by then, he won't need to hide it anymore.
With that in mind, he posted a quest on the Golden Jade Hall quest board to collect wild fruit seedlings. He could either grow them himself or sell them to the pavilion. Anyway, the money earned from the dungeon would be split equally, so everyone just needed to work together towards the same goal.
On their way to find the treasure chest, the two leaders of the Bird Alliance collected quite a few wild fruit seedlings, which they will then hand over to the group to plant, hehe.
Deng Yijun was busy preparing to become a high-end tea merchant. The first thing he did was to deposit money. The wealthy man deposited 100 million gold ingots, which became 10 million gold ingots after devaluation.
In other words, if you deposit money and then try to earn it back, it's equivalent to a 100-fold devaluation. Depositing money results in a 10-fold devaluation, and withdrawing it results in a 10-fold devaluation. Deng Yijun was confused by this calculation for two seconds. Shouldn't it be either devaluation upon depositing and appreciation upon withdrawal, or appreciation upon depositing and devaluation upon withdrawal?
How can you try to have your cake and eat it too!
Lin Shuying chuckled at this...
It didn't matter. After preparing the gold, he bought a three-story, extremely luxurious teahouse. It only cost 20,000 taels of silver, very cheap.
The teahouse was ready, and he went to the main city to find NPCs for part-time jobs according to the details in the announcement. He arrived quite late, and many NPCs were surrounded by people, with players scrambling to get them.
At this point, increasing your favorability rating becomes very important.
Deng Yijun specifically sought out NPCs from players who usually engaged in combat. As a player with a blank slate, he could easily get them to follow him after saying just one sentence.
The opposing player was furious, holding a sword to Deng Yijun's neck, shouting, "Brother, you stole my man?"
Deng Yijun summoned his Green Bamboo Fairy, who drew a jade sword from her hand. "What does the young master want to do? Is it a contest of who's faster, you or me?"
The player arrogantly said, "So you're the only one with the Bamboo Fairy, huh?"
This player also summoned fairies, and several at once. Deng Yijun was annoyed. He thought the player would be easy to fool, but he didn't expect the combat player to have such a bad temper and to believe in the life motto of "if it can be solved by force, then there's no point in talking."
At most, they'll spend three hours in the underworld's prison and suffer for a day or two; combat players don't care.
Helpless, Deng Yijun took out his secret scroll, revealing a very domineering willow fairy!
He was a burly man, over six feet tall, with muscles bulging all over his arms. He gave the player opposite him a sinister look, as if asking, "Are you the one who threatened my boss?"
This burly man has two barely visible scars on his forehead, which upon closer inspection correspond to the legend of the dragon transformation.
This is about to become a dragon.
Deng Yijun himself had no fighting ability, so when he sought out the guardian spirit, he had only one purpose: to find a fighter.
A thug capable of sweeping away all obstacles.
It took a whole month to find him, and then we started feeding him upgrade items to max out his potential.
The opposing player was startled by the sudden appearance of his guardian spirit, nervously swallowing hard. His guardian spirit was a weasel spirit that could heal the wounded and tell fortunes, but wasn't much of a fighter...
"You wait! I'm calling in reinforcements. The main city is full of my men. Believe me or not, my brothers will beat you up."
Deng Yijun didn't care. After handing the person over to the henchman Liu Xian to intimidate her, he quickly went forward to win over this NPC. Her name was Peony Lady, and she had drifted south from the north, just to find a place to stay. She had no special skills, but her mother had taught her to play the pipa, which she used to play all the way to this place.
Deng Yijun said he wanted to hire her to play the pipa, but the beauty retreated in fear, saying, "My lord, I will not sell myself, nor will I go to brothels."
Deng Yijun was puzzled, then explained, "I opened a teahouse and would like to invite you to sing."
Upon hearing that it was a teahouse, the beauty gladly went there.
The player behind him cursed and swore. His retainer couldn't break through Deng Yijun's defenses and could only watch as he swaggered away with the NPC. So he shouted at Deng Yijun, "You're not allowed to leave! Otherwise, I'll shout the most powerful line from Qingfengyi!"
Deng Yijun was a little curious about what the most damaging line in Qingfengyi was.
"Say it to me."
The player saw that he wasn't afraid at all and was even quite arrogant.
"I'll teach you a lesson you won't be so arrogant in a minute."
As he spoke, he pulled a homemade megaphone out of his backpack: "Hey, come quick! The slacker Mancang Antiques is here!"
The surrounding players reacted quickly, immediately surrounding the area.
Deng Yijun was taken aback. Was he talking to him?
What are these players doing surrounding us?
"Family members, let's strike down the rich!"
"Strike down the rich!"
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After a series of shouts, many players joined in, punching and kicking Deng Yijun. Deng Yijun released Liu Xian, whose dragon breath sent the attackers flying far away.
Then Black Impermanence appeared and began to capture the person who had just hit him, and White Impermanence's good luck points were credited.
Just as Black Impermanence was about to take away those who had just been beaten, Deng Yijun had a sudden inspiration. He cursed himself for being stupid and quickly squeezed into the crowd, deliberately letting others beat him.
Each hit grants you good luck points!
Some players seemed to understand his intentions and exclaimed that he was shameless for enduring such humiliation.
Deng Yijun stated that using any reasonable means is also a skill for progress, so why can't it be used?
They can't just take a beating for nothing, can they?
The remaining players around him kept their distance, fearing that they would be caught if they got involved.
Deng Yijun brought the NPC pipa player to the teahouse and told her that all she had to do all day was play the pipa on the high platform and occasionally perform with other people.
The pipa player said, "I am a respectable woman and do not face guests directly. I wonder if the master would agree?"