Reality can be a beautiful soft girl who allows you to experience all the good things, or it can be a fat shrew who makes you breathless, depending on the size of your savings.
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The scorching sun in August makes people feel restless.
Youcheng County.
A fucking place where the average salary is 3,000 or 4,000 and the average house price is 12,000.
In a small fruit and vegetable store, Qin Lin handed the vegetables in his hand to a middle-aged woman with a smile on his face: "Auntie, your dishes are welcome to come next time."
After seeing off the guests, I saw a few annoying flies and had to pick up a fly swatter to drive them away.
After a chaotic fight, several corpses were cut off.
Qin Lin sat at the checkout counter, picked up his mobile phone and opened a new nostalgic game "Harvest Story".
This is a game developed through farming. It is very open and does not require too much technology. It can kill time for those who visit the store.
One year after graduation, I still have accomplished nothing. The tourism management major is selling fruits and vegetables, but the reality always leaves me with no choice.
His family has been poor for three generations. His grandfather got sick a few years ago. Before his death, his father relied on this fruit and vegetable store to support his medical expenses and family expenses.
God was playing a joke on their family. After my grandfather passed away, my father was also diagnosed with cancer a year ago due to long-term fatigue.
It was almost impossible for my mother to survive on this small fruit and vegetable store. Even though she sold her house and borrowed hundreds of thousands of dollars from various places, she still could not save her father.
Mom herself also suffered from physical problems due to overwork, and the test data were not very good, so she needed someone to take care of her.
Therefore, even if he had the chance to stay in a big company after graduation, he would have to come back to take care of his mother and inherit this small fruit and vegetable store, including the family's foreign debt.
If most people's starting point is 0, his starting point is hundreds of thousands.
There is nothing fair in life.
It's not like he hasn't thought about looking for opportunities while looking at stores, but for a graduate, he not only lacks social experience, but also lacks funds.
Relying on the income from this store, maintenance expenses and mother's nutrition expenses, plus paying off a little foreign debt every month is enough. Now he doesn't even have the right to go to the hospital for a cold.
After all, he can't earn 100,000 or one million yuan a month from a 30-square-meter fruit shop on a certain music platform. That's a magical place with an average per capita of 100 million.
Until his mother's health improves and no one needs to take care of her, he can only survive in this small shop.
He sighed and controlled the game character to walk out of the room. In front of him was a 6-square field planted with watermelons. Not long after he started the game, he only opened these 6 squares.
Weed and water!
After waiting for a while, the watermelons on the 6-block ground also showed maturity prompts one after another. The flow of time in the game is always different. Watermelons that take several months to mature in reality can mature in more than ten hours in the game.
The number of watermelons that each piece of land can produce ranges from 15 to 20.
Qin Lin was about to control the game character to pick watermelons when a stream of electricity suddenly shot out from his phone, instantly paralyzing him.
Leakage?
Qin Lin subconsciously wanted to scold his mother.
This is not a Samsung phone. How can it be so powerful if it leaks electricity?
"Ding! The special game channel has been activated, locked in the game "Harvest Story", please wait..."
"???" Qin Lin patted his head.
Can you still hallucinate after being electrocuted?
"Ding! The special game channel link is successful and the game "Harvest Story" has been linked. Is the host entering the game for the first time?"
A very psychedelic picture appeared in Qin Lin's mind at the same time. It was a pasture with ripe watermelons lying on the ground.
Is this a game screen from "Harvest Moon"?
The game character is still standing in front of the watermelon field, and he just controlled the character to pick watermelons.
What's even more incredible is that as soon as he thought about it, the game character stepped forward and picked a watermelon.
Is it possible to play games in your mind with your thoughts?
Then, Qin Lin found a special prompt option at the top of the screen: Do you want to enter?
"yes!"
Qin Lin thought of the previous reminder and felt incredible, so he tried to make a choice.
A strange suction appeared, and almost instantly, the scene in front of him changed.
In front of me is a green watermelon field.
There is also a special fragrance of watermelon floating in the air, and he is holding a watermelon in his hand, which seems to have replaced the game character.
"Isn't this an illusion?" Qin Lin was in disbelief. The touch of the watermelon in his hand was extremely real, and there was also a message:
[Seedless Watermelon: Quality 1].
[Note: Although it is not a special type of watermelon, it is produced in the game and is the best tasting among ordinary watermelons. 】.
The fruits grown in this version of Harvest Story are of different quality. The higher the quality, the more delicious it will naturally be, and the higher the selling price will be.
Qin Lin put down the watermelon in his hand and picked a few more. The same information appeared, each with the same note information.
He looked around again, the building with the windmill, the storage room, the fence...
Everything is the same as the game screen.
The only difference is that the land in front of you is a really wide one, full of watermelons, not a small modular grid in the game, and even the fruits grown are represented by numbers.
Moreover, after looking at the time jump on the phone, after he came in, the flow of game time became normal.
Then, Qin Lin remembered something and hurriedly looked at the picture in his mind.
He's afraid that he won't be able to go back, so isn't his mother anxious to die?
But the picture in my mind changed, and it turned into a scene in a fruit and vegetable store, and the prompt above also changed: Do you want to exit?
This is obviously free access.
Qin Lin silently thought about quitting, and that special sucking feeling appeared again. He also returned to the fruit and vegetable store, holding a watermelon in his hand.
In order to be more sure of the authenticity, he took a knife, put the watermelon on the chopping board and cut it in half. The red flesh of the melon was exposed, but not a single melon seed was visible.
This is a real melon!
Qin Lin took another half and cut it into several segments. He picked up one segment and wanted to taste it, but he was afraid that something would go wrong. After all, this watermelon was so incredible.
When I walked to the door of the store, I saw a dirty black dog wandering in front of a trash can.
This is a market street, where it is easy to find food. Stray dogs often appear. The relevant departments caught one, and new ones will come after a while.
This can only be blamed on the many people who keep dogs on a whim despite clearly not having the conditions.
Qin Lin directly threw a piece of watermelon over. The black dog immediately rushed forward and pressed the watermelon with his claws. Then he subconsciously looked around, and when he saw that nothing was wrong, he lowered his head and ate it.
After waiting for some time and finding that there was nothing strange about the black dog, Qin Lin picked up a piece and tasted it himself.
After taking a bite, Qin Lin's eyes lit up.
He understood the meaning of the watermelon note more accurately.
Crisp, sweet, juicy, and extremely sugary.
This watermelon is definitely a lot more delicious than what he buys every day.
Since he is in this industry, he naturally understands that it would be good to have a few watermelons of this quality out of a hundred, and this is true for every one in the game.
After nibbling one segment of watermelon, Qin Lin still enjoyed it and picked up the second segment and started nibbling on it.
In fact, the profit from selling watermelons is not high. Don’t look at the fact that one pound has now risen to 2 yuan. But after excluding the cost of the fruit farmer, labor, freight, and wholesaler’s increase..., in a small fruit and vegetable store like his, the wholesale price per pound is already 1.5 yuan, which is basically 1.5 yuan. Not much profit.
But what if this watermelon has no cost? How much of the sale is pure profit?
Qin Lin's eyes brightened when he thought of the watermelons on the farm.
One watermelon is calculated as 10 pounds, and one pound is 2 yuan, which is 20 yuan. Ten watermelons are 200 yuan in net profit.
As long as he sells 20 melons a day, he earns 12,000 yuan a month, which is more than what he earns from selling fruits and vegetables in a month.
There should be hundreds of watermelons in the game. The land in the key game can be used to plant watermelons repeatedly. Watermelons can mature in more than 10 hours.
"Woof woof!"
Just as Qin Lin was thinking about it, a dog barked in his ears. It was the black dog squatting at the door of the store, staring at the melon pulp in his hand.
This dog is obviously overdoing it?
But he was in a good mood, so he took another watermelon and threw it to Hei Quan, and then pulled down the rolling shutter door of the store.
This way you can't see what's going on in the store from the outside.
He took the basket used for purchasing goods from the store, and with an idea, he entered the pasture again.
What caught his eye were still watermelons all over the ground. Qin Lin was so polite as he picked up the watermelons one by one and put them into the basket.
After filling the basket with more than a dozen watermelons, he grabbed the basket and returned to the store.
Looking at the basket full of watermelons, Qin Lin's face was full of excitement.
Going to get rich.
Looking at the light screen in my mind again, I saw that the number of watermelons on a piece of ground in the game screen was 0, and the watermelon vines were withered. The system prompted that they could be eradicated and replanted.
In the game, you can only pick the fruits once when planting crops. It is not the same as in reality. Once you pick the fruits, they can grow again.
However, Qin Lin looked at the prompt and thought of one thing. He immediately controlled the game character through the game screen in his mind and picked other areas.
In an instant, a few squares of fields were picked.
Qin Lin entered the game again, and there were no watermelons on the ground, leaving only lonely watermelon vines.
He walked towards the storage room next to the house, opened the door and saw hundreds of watermelons stored inside.
Wouldn't it be better to just bring the basket in and put it in? I was just busy working indiscriminately.
There is also an information sign in front of the watermelon pile.
Seedless watermelon: 85 pieces (quality 1).
In other words, there are 85 watermelons in this pile, and the volume is definitely over 10 kilograms, so this pile is worth at least 1,700 yuan.
With the thought, Qin Lin returned to the shop, took the basket into the game again, and filled the basket with watermelons.
He also found that as long as he touched the basket with his hand and quit the game as soon as he thought about it, the basket of watermelons would follow him to the store outside.
He spent some time moving all the watermelons out, filling the corner of the store with them.
After he finished, he looked at his mind again, and it turned into a game screen again. Only watermelon vines were left in several plots of land, indicating that they could be eradicated and replanted.
He immediately uprooted the watermelon vines and planted new watermelon seeds.
After more than 10 hours of this, another bunch of watermelons came out of the oven.
And now we have to sell all these watermelons.
Qin Lin opened the rolling shutter door of the store again. The black dog lay beside the door, looked up at him, and then changed to a comfortable position and licked its paws.
This dog still won’t leave?
But he didn't care about it now. He put the baskets of watermelons he had just brought out on the fruit stall and looked at the price tag of 2 yuan per pound.
This is his normal purchase price, but at this price, his shop only sells a few watermelons every day.
Looking at the watermelons taken out of the game, he changed the wholesale price to 1.5 yuan per catty. Anyway, watermelons without capital will sell better at a lower price.
However, the situation was not what he thought. One afternoon passed, and he only sold a few watermelons in total. It was not that the watermelons were bad, but because the people who patronized his store had a need to buy watermelons.
Thinking about it, Qin Lin thought for a moment and felt that he had found the wrong target. Since the wholesale price was 1.5 yuan per pound, there was no need to sell them one by one in the store.
He immediately took out his mobile phone and logged into a WeChat group.
This is the group of owners of fruit and vegetable stores in Youcheng. At first, I didn’t know who was responsible for it. They said they were simply grouping together in order to understand the market and not let wholesalers take advantage of them.
However, usually, except for a few water lovers, there is little communication with each other.
Opening the group chat, Qin Lin sent a message: The son of my second grandfather's uncle in my hometown has grown a batch of seedless watermelons. The melons are sweet and juicy. They are wholesale at 1.5 yuan/jin and delivered directly to your door. Interested parties are welcome. Come and taste it.
