They first went back to their respective homes to freshen up, dust themselves off, and get books. After dinner, they listened to the news and read in Yunling's room. This seemed to be a regular evening activity for the three of them.
Yunling entered the space and took out a chicken and two kilograms of pork that the system robot had slaughtered in advance. She looked at the remaining duck and goose meat and decided not to take it out yet. There was too much meat and it was hard to explain.
Currently, her system space already has one hundred and sixty acres of fields and more than two hundred livestock - if it were not for the purpose of upgrading to expand capacity, she would not buy new land and poultry every day. After all, the daily tasks only talk about planting and breeding, but it does not say that the newly purchased land and poultry and livestock must be planted and raised.
The upgrade index is still growing steadily as she saves and spends it, and now it has reached about 25,000 points.
After all, most of what she bought were books and manuals at mid-to-low price range in the mall, so she spent very little. If she wanted to buy an ordinary facial phototherapy device from the future world, it would probably cost her more than twice her current savings.
The system also finds this strange. These books that the host regards as treasures are at most ordinary popular science books in its world. Children will find them boring and boring, while adults will find them ancient and simple.
But it also understands that this is just a personal preference.
For example, its last host was a beauty blogger from a modern novel. She wanted to become a big blogger with peak traffic, so she exchanged expensive skin care products and cosmetics.
It had also brought a time-traveling girl from a novel in the 1980s, who preferred modern electrical appliances just to make money and make her quality of life meet future standards.
In fact, the system has a hidden setting that even the system does not know:
The upgrade index is linked to social contribution. If you want to truly complete the mission of the "character development system", you need to evaluate the host's contribution to society.
The greater the contribution to society, the more upgrade indexes will be obtained.
The Zero Zero Zero System has not gained much in the previous novel world. Because of this, most of its hosts almost only pursue personal goals and meet personal needs, and have little impact on social contributions.
For example, the time-traveling woman could have used the system to put some documents on the leader's desktop...
But the most she can do is to know the future history and then use the reform trend to become a millionaire. After all, once she participates in the change, the historical process she knew before will not count.
This consideration is also very realistic. Changing history means losing the golden finger of "prophecy", and everyone will hesitate.
So the choice is entirely up to the host himself.
But since the main brain has acquiesced in this behavior, it means that her actions are reasonable. After all, doing good deeds cannot be limited by heart standards. Otherwise, what is the difference between it and moral kidnapping?
Therefore, the system has not figured out this implicit rule until now, and even it does not know why the upgrade index of the previous host who completed a task doubled when it came to this person?
The price of a book purchased by the host is one-third of the price of an electric shock rod in the mall. Even Ling Ling Ling can see that Yunling is a person with extremely low desires. Apart from books, she has almost no other consumption behaviors. .
The biggest purchase was to spend 3,000 upgrade points to buy an attack rebound device and put it on myself.
As for the "Antique Appraisal Mirror", "Disposable Teleport Talisman" and other items that seemed extremely precious in the eyes of ordinary people, Yunling slid over without even looking at them...
However, Ling Ling Ling took a look at the steadily increasing upgrade index, and began to look forward to how great it would be if from now on it would really be for herself to exchange for physical entities!
The host only likes to read, which is a great advantage and saves money!
Therefore, Ling Ling Ling also did a lot of private actions to obtain those upgrade indexes, such as actively helping Yunling set up programs to automatically harvest farmland and slaughter livestock, and sort them into the system warehouse.
Time in the warehouse stands still for dead objects, which ensures that each item can be taken out as it is put in and kept fresh forever.
Yunling naturally noticed the system's kind actions and understood its little intentions.
So except for exchanging books, she no longer makes any purchases. He also agreed with the system that from now on, 90% of the agricultural products produced in the space will be directly converted into upgrade indexes, leaving only what he can eat.
This surprises the system so much that it jumps up and down in the space.
It knows what the host means, and the exchanged index host will definitely not be used up, so the rest will be its! ! !
Now that Ling Ling Ling saw the endless land in the space, he was as excited as when he saw Bai Huahua's upgrade index, and he became more and more blatant and unscrupulous in working for the host.
"Host, the newly picked fruits and grains from the orchard have been put into the warehouse, and the big fish grown in the newly dug fish ponds have been exchanged for them."
Yunling saw Ling Ling Ling's two antenna tentacles bending, and replied with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, I will leave everything in the space to you from now on. Every time there is a new book on the mall, buy me a copy. I won’t touch the other upgrade indexes.”
"OK!"
The system light group jumped excitedly. This host might actually exchange it for an entity in his lifetime, and maybe even get a few more sets of skins.
Yunling's cooking skills have improved a lot these days. She wasn't very good at cooking when she came here. Later, after learning from Chu Silan for a while, she was able to cook the food well enough that she wouldn't go hungry.
Up to now, she can still make the dishes somewhat delicious and has made rapid progress.
However, after Chu Silan saw that she had taken a bunch of good ingredients, she still frowned and took them away without politeness. Seeing her cooking skills, it seemed like she wasted her resources.
"It's such a waste to cook so much meat for you!" Then he rushed her to the vegetable selection area to prepare vegetables.
Qian Li also went directly to the grain storage area next to the stove, dug out a big ladle of white flour, put it into a porcelain basin and started kneading it, muttering in a low voice: "We are not polite to you!"
Seeing her acting like a child, Yunling smiled helplessly: "Since you are inviting me to dinner, of course you have to eat openly. I will go get you something rare to eat later."
After saying that, Yunling pretended to enter the small warehouse in the backyard - it was actually a newly opened doorless single room used to store firewood and briquettes. In the warehouse, she took out a bunch of fruits from the space, including cherries, grapes, lychees, and autumn pears. She also put them into sacks to hide them, and then handed them to Qian Li to see.
"Wow - where did you come from!"
Qian Li has never eaten this kind of fresh fruit since she left the capital. The ones sold by the supply and marketing agency have always been stored for several days, and the apples don't have much moisture.
Ning Province, which is near cherries, does produce some, and grape-autumn pears are also in season, but these lychees are too rare!
Even Chu Silan was curious: "Is this lychee from Guangzhou Province? How did you come all the way here?"
Yunling pretended to be profound and explained: "There is a convoy that transports fresh fruits from all over the country. Several large boxes of ice cubes are placed in each van to keep them fresh, ready to be transported to Maozi, a neighboring country, in exchange for foreign exchange. The people in the convoy purchased a lot more privately. , sell it and earn some extra money along the way.”
Many goods in the black market are purchased and sold privately by the public, which is actually speculation that is not allowed.
But the market demand is huge, as Marx once quoted in Capital: When the profit reaches 10%, some people are ready to take action; when the profit reaches 50%, some people dare to take risks; when the profit reaches 100%, they dare to trample All laws in the world; but when the profit reaches 300%, they are not even afraid of going to the gallows.
But Yunling didn't go to the black market, she just borrowed a name.
Chu Songlan has been there a few times to exchange money for some bills. The bicycle she just bought last week was bought with the bicycle tickets exchanged there. Now that the three of them have their own bicycles, it is much more convenient for them to go to the county town to mail things.
But Qian Li didn't know the details of the black market. She had only heard about it, not seen it.
Seeing her confused look, Chu Songlan explained in a low voice. After hearing this, her eyes widened and she sighed: "You are so brave!"
But after looking at the fruit, he hesitated and said, "Take me with you next time. I also want to eat some fresh fruit."
Yunling naturally agreed, but still said: "I won't go there again in the near future. After all, you can only encounter this kind of fruit once if you are lucky. Usually, farmers go to the mountains to pick wild fruits and sell them. If you like it, I will come across it next time I can go up the mountain to collect herbs and bring you some."
"Now is the season when the Shaguo trees bear a lot of fruit. If you are interested, Yunling and I will take you to play while we are collecting herbs." Chu Silan also said.
Qian Li didn't dare to go up the mountain alone. After all, she grew up in a small western-style house in the city and had never been to the mountains. She would only hang around when her aunts and aunts gathered together to collect firewood.
As for Yunling and the others, collecting herbs was their business. They basically followed the route with a purpose and did not just wander around, so Qian Li followed them once and became too lazy to move.
So this time, she only thought about it for a moment before agreeing: "Okay, I haven't been up the mountain for a long time, so I need to collect more firewood."
Chu Silan used this chicken to make white chicken, because she found that the chicken Yunling bought every time was more delicious than ordinary chicken. It was plump but not greasy, tender and juicy, and the meat was not too bad or too old.
The boiled chicken is one of the dishes that best reflects the advantages of the ingredients.
Rub salt on the chicken body to taste, boil it in a pot of cold water and soak it in cold water immediately after cooking.
The sauce is also very simple: put an appropriate amount of oil in the pot, put a small handful of peppercorns into the pot with cold oil, stir-fry over low heat until the peppercorns turn dark brown, then filter out the peppercorns, and use boiling oil to make a fragrant dipping sauce - it is actually chopped green onions. , mince the ginger and garlic, add two spoons of salt, an appropriate amount of chicken broth and a few spoons of soy sauce to the onion and ginger.
In this way, a dish of white chopped chicken is ready. This is actually not the way to eat it in the north. But Chu Silan is so delicious that I can learn a few dishes when I go to one place. I have tried all the special cuisines from all over the country.
Yunling always ate happily and gave the highest praise without hesitation.
She really admired Chu Silan, a young woman who traveled all over the country, knew martial arts for self-defense, was proficient in Chinese herbal medicine, and was so good at cooking. Compared with others, it's not that big of a deal if you just immerse yourself in studying.
Qian Li was completely buried in her rice bowl. While dipping the sauce to taste the boiled chicken, she kept stuffing another plate of meat and stir-fried pickled vegetables into her mouth. She was too busy, let alone free to speak.
She swallowed the fragrant chicken in her mouth and said to Chu Silan: "Sister Silan, if I weren't afraid of tiring you, I would really want to spend money to have dinner with you."
Chu Songlan actually didn't mind. She was cooking for one person, and it didn't matter for more than one person.
"I'm not short of money."
Yunling heard other possibilities from this sentence. She tapped the table with her finger. Her eyes were as cunning as a fox. She raised her hand and suggested: "Woad, I also want to partner with you. I can serve dishes, fresh vegetables." And I can get all kinds of meat.”
She had wanted to say this for a long time, but she just didn't want to trouble others.
Chu Songlan nodded with satisfaction, and then Qian Li immediately raised her hand and said: "I can provide food for three people, usually fine two-sided steamed buns, and at least one meal of white flour or rice every three days!"
"Okay, it's settled then. We will draw up a menu for the week. You two will prepare the required dishes and food in advance. Then we will come to my house for dinner at that time. We will take turns washing the dishes and we don't need your help in preparing the dishes. , after all, things are quite expensive.”
She is also cheerful and does what she says.
The three of them planned some home-cooked dishes to rotate. If they don't go to the state-owned restaurant for toothpaste on weekends, they will cook a sumptuous meal with Chu Silan, including Sixi meatballs, braised trotters, braised mutton and other big dishes.
"Thank you for your hard work, Comrade Silang!" Qian Li patted Chu Silan on the shoulder pretending to be serious, and spoke with a serious look on her face.
"puff--"
Yunling suddenly laughed, amused by her pretentious performance.
She rarely has such a lively expression. Normally, she is either as calm as the moonlight or as expressionless as an iceberg. Now, with such a hearty smile, she looks like a seventeen-year-old girl!
Chu Silan's mature temperament inevitably caused the corners of her lips to curl up. Qian Li was already lively and even made her smile wider.
"Come on!" Chu Silan didn't use any strength in her hands, so naturally she couldn't break away from Qian Li's clutches and let her pinch her face.
Yunling joined in the fun and scratched Chu Songlan's waist with her small hands, which made her unable to resist and made her laugh out loud.
The three of them fell on Yunling's soft quilt, rolled into a ball, and started playing with each other. The cheers in the room continued and spread to the other side.
Shao Hua was about to write a letter home, and couldn't help but smile when he heard the laughter from the other side.
So he wrote:
"Everything is fine here. There are enough supplies. There is no need for the family to send money. Sister Yunling lives a good life. She has opened a rural clinic here to treat villagers."
The pen tip paused for a moment and continued to write the last sentence:
"Let Ji Qingyun no longer have to come to visit."
