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Chapter 4
Li Heng was somewhat disappointed but not surprised. “Thank you, Shopkeeper. How long before I can come to collect the seeds you mentioned?”
Shen You: “I only need three days. It depends on when you can prepare the items.”
“Good, three days from now then.” Li Heng nodded. “Thank you for your trouble.”
[You have a new order. Received deposit from the Crown Prince of Great Qi: two hundred taels of gold and one jade pendant.]
Li Heng, who had just reached the door, suddenly heard a strange voice and turned around bewildered.
“Is there someone else here?”
Shen You looked up from behind the counter, “No, it’s the shop talking.”
The shop could talk?
Li Heng looked at Liu Zheng, who was equally confused, shaking his head with a burnt-CPU expression, still peering back as they left.
Zhong Jing, waiting outside the doorway, stomped his feet and sighed several times. Then seeing the two come out and hearing about the wonders of the shop, he also wanted to go in and experience it.
But why couldn’t he get in!
After shuttling back and forth several times, it was still the same dilapidated courtyard.
If not for His Highness personally saying that there was indeed a shop and that he had met the shopkeeper, he would have suspected that he was hallucinating.
Rumble—
The thunder rolling across the sky startled Zhong Jing. And thinking that the shopkeeper was driving people away, he quickly bowed in apology and retreated.
——
Today’s customer quota for the [Great Qi] dimension had been filled.
With the sky overcast and rain falling outside, Shen You simply set the shop to close and did inventory preparation while eating breakfast.
The shop management system had already updated the task.
[Contract signed. Complete the transaction on time for a reward of 50 points, one storage space, and 10 business value.
Failure to complete the transaction will result in -20 business value and -1 customer reception capacity.]
There was also a prominent reminder,
[If transactions are repeatedly unfulfilled or counterfeit goods are sold, shop privileges will be suspended.]
Which privileges wasn’t specified.
However Shen You had already planned to complete this transaction well. Delivering what was paid for was her bottom line.
After two busy hours, she finally figured everything out.
Planting rice required 2-4 jin of seeds per mu. High-yield varieties cost about 65 yuan per jin and could be purchased online from local vendors with selling qualifications.
Potato seeds cost about 2 yuan per jin.
She had already selected vendors, but buying in large quantities without explanation wouldn’t be easy.
The shop system could procure resources from this world, but with the shop’s low level, she could only buy either potatoes or rice, with quantity limitations.
And it would only cover 200 mu of land.
According to the system’s purchasing power conversion, one tael of Great Qi gold equaled 10 taels of silver, equivalent to 15,000 in the real world.
Shen You decided to exchange 100 taels and keep the other two for now.
It wouldn’t be good to cash out more in a short time. Silver ingots, gold ingots, all with the same reign year. If it were a commonly circulated year, that would be one thing, but such “niche” items would definitely attract attention.
And she needed funds for purchases.
1.5 million minus 20% handling fee left 1.2 million.
The shop system had taken its cut.
Shen You found several vendors online and called to confirm delivery times.
She explained that a friend was returning to his hometown to contract land for agriculture and was temporarily renting her place as a warehouse.
In one day, she spent 600,000 yuan.
Previously, she would hesitate over 600 yuan, but now she was doing business in tens of millions.
After clearing everything up, Shen You counted the balance in her mobile banking app twice to reassure herself. She was really rich now!
In a few days, she could properly upgrade the interior and exterior.
Central air conditioning and a coffee machine would be installed.
While the rain stopped, Shen You took out several snake-skin bags of garbage from yesterday, running the whole time.
There were two gold ingots and a jade pendant in the room, and she wasn’t entirely at ease.
The basic protection function only applied to [Great Qi], which meant that they could still be stolen in this dimension.
In the evening, she ordered crab roe noodles for delivery.
Listening to the rain, facing the swaying kaleidoscope hydrangea in the courtyard, she ate dinner while reading electronic novels.
The other end of [Great Qi] was not so peaceful.
In the thick darkness, the cold gleam reflected off blade edges was particularly striking, with a murderous aura sweeping through the entire alley.
A group of black-clad men turned the place upside down but found nothing.
“Impossible. He wouldn’t come to a place like this without reason.”
The leader stood in the rain, frowning deeply in thought.
When the Crown Prince came to Yunzhou, those in the capital intended for him to have no return.
With so many eyes watching in the shadows, yesterday Liu Zheng returned to the inn carrying something, and the next day they came to this abandoned house, and someone even purchased it.
Then the Crown Prince intercepted a batch of tribute goods.
How could there not be an issue?
“Did he meet someone here? Is this just a meeting point?” A subordinate speculated.
“Possibly. Find a way to discover what Liu Zheng brought back yesterday.” The man rubbed his knife handle.
“Yes.”
The men who received the order moved into action.
After a day and night of intense mental combat and extreme pushing and pulling, they finally saw a glass bottle.
“This is Yunzhou territory. I heard Liu’s ancestors met an immortal here and obtained immortal medicine. Could it be true?” Someone asked uncertainly.
The leader snorted coldly,
“You believe such nonsense? The Liu family is just making up stories. Keep a close watch on this abandoned house.”
If they could find fault with that person, they would earn great merit.
——
For two consecutive days, Shen You was receiving goods. As a major customer, several seed distributors were very enthusiastic.
“Young lady, you and your friends are really enterprising. Which area is your friend contracting land in?”
The distributor who personally delivered the goods mentioned casually.
“The south city area.” Shen You only mentioned a major agricultural city, not a specific address.
For a struggling antique shop to earn some money by renting space as a warehouse for a couple of days seemed plausible.
“Next time I can arrange direct delivery there for you, with guaranteed low transport costs.”
Contracting such a large piece of land—if they could cooperate long-term, he would make a stable profit every year, the distributor owner calculated.
“That area is just being tested for a year. If it doesn’t work out, they won’t continue.” Shen You replied.
The distributor thought that made sense. Private agricultural contracting carried significant risk of loss.
“If you need anything in the future, feel free to call me anytime. I’ll give you the best price.”
“Sure.” Shen You nodded with a smile.
People helped move the goods into the warehouse; she only needed to count and confirm.
But this work wasn’t easy at all. , because different varieties of seeds had different prices, and she had to carefully check production dates and other details.
On the third afternoon, the final batch arrived, and payment was settled on the spot after signing for receipt.
Finally, she could catch her breath.
Shen You lay on the bamboo rocking chair at the door, drinking milk tea, browsing home blogger accounts for a while to reference decoration examples.
The shop on the [Great Qi] side hadn’t opened these three days, as she wanted to focus on preparing the goods for this big order.
The appointed time was ten in the morning, which was the Hour of the Snake in ancient times.
Too early for her to get up.
On the day of the transaction, Shen You opened the door right on time, and almost in the next second, the Great Qi’s Li Heng arrived with his people.
This time, instead of Liu Zheng, he brought a retainer familiar with agriculture.
It seemed they had been waiting outside for a while.