Su Yining didn't know what had come over her. During the lunch break, there was this urge to check the farming game on her phone.
Right, her four plots of rice should be ready for harvest already!
She logged in to the game with some anticipation. Eh? The first thing she saw wasn't a few plots of land filled with golden paddy rice, but green grains, signalling they were still developing.
Her finger touched one plot. Remaining time: 57 minutes and 36 seconds.
She blinked rapidly in confusion, once again blaming the game developer in her heart. She clicked on the warehouse. There were a few additional portions of paddy rice. Double from the ones she harvested last night.
A total of twenty four portions.
Someone must have harvested the paddy rice... it must have been Yuanyuan.
Her finger touched it. There was also an option to sell. One portion was worth 2 gold coins.
She hesitated. Her Yuanyuan went to hunt yesterday because he had nothing to eat, right? During dinner time, the rice plants were still growing.
If she sold them, what would he eat then? She considered it for a bit before deciding to sell eighteen portions. There were still six remaining, and it should be enough for a while.
[Do you want to sell eighteen portions of paddy rice for thirty six gold coins? Yes/No]
She immediately agreed; the gold coins were instantly added to her screen. Now, she has 102 gold coins!
She exited the farming dimension, curious about what Yuanyuan was doing. Last night, he was so stubborn. She pestered him for a few hours before eventually she had to give up; she needed to take a rest because she had to go to work the next day.
Once the screen showed Xie Ziyuan's figure, she was slapped by a sudden notification.
[Congratulations for recruiting two residents! Reward: 50 gold coins]
Su Yining rubbed her eyes. She made sure she wasn't seeing things. Indeed, she wasn't! Her surprise morphed into puzzlement. Where did the two residents come from?
Her finger shifted the screen. She just realized there were two figures near Xie Ziyuan. A pair of a brother and a sister with cat ears and tails!
The cat boy was the one she had insisted her Yuanyuan to recruit! She let out a satisfied hum. In the end, she won, right?
"Why are you smiling on the phone like that, Yining?" Someone tried to squeeze himself beside her, wanting to take a look at her screen.
Han Zhicong snorted unhappily. Su Yining was fast enough to move the screen and he didn't get to see what she was smiling so happily about.
He protested, "Why don't you allow me to take a look? Afraid I will tattle to him?"
Su Yining took a deep breath. Besides her troublesome stepmother and stepsister, there was another person who pestered her like glue. Her fiance, Chen Kaixuan. And this person, Han Zhicong, was his rather close friend.
Chen Kaixuan was a sly, opportunistic man. When he saw she wasn't favored in the Su family, he moved his attention to her stepsister. He even helped her stepmother to scheme against her.
He would land a subtle complaint about her to her dad, which changed his impression of her.
They both had agreed to separate. However, since her grandparents' inheritance fell on her, he kept on delaying it. He no longer wanted to bring the two families to meet to discuss the annulment of the engagement.
The audacious man even told others he was taking pity on her!
"You can tattle on him." Su Yining's smile grew wide. "Go on. I will watch."
Han Zhicong's expression faltered. He glanced at his phone in hesitation. Originally, he thought that she would beg him not to tell Chen Kaixuan. Maybe he understood it wrong…
"Well, you shouldn't keep secrets from Brother Xuan." He began to lecture her instead. "After all, you are his fiancee. You should behave too, lest you embarrass him! He takes pity on you, so you should treasure this chance…"
Su Yining rolled her eyes. Boring. He didn't do what he had threatened to do and began to spit useless sentences. She wasn't in the mood to listen.
Her previous good mood from winning against Yuanyuan was gone. Coincidentally, the lunch break was over. She exited the break room and went back to her table.
Before she focused on her current work, she stole a minute to purchase something from the game shop. A rice mill. She just remembered all the rice still had their hulls intact.
It was no wonder that Yuanyuan hadn't eaten the rice! It was not edible yet. The mini rice mill cost her 50 gold coins. She didn't feel too sad because it was the coins earned from Yuanyuan recruiting the two new residents.
He even harvested and planted the rice himself. What an obedient main character!
The moment Su Yining logged in to the game, Xie Ziyuan could feel it, but only briefly. He had just coincidentally checked on his inner space.
"Master Xie?" Lin Yuyao asked carefully. He had been spacing out for a while.
"Wait here." Xie Ziyuan disappeared from the spot.
The pair of siblings exchanged glances. They could determine that he had space power. Most beastmen only had one type of power, but there were also powerful ones who possessed multiple.
The power wasn't limited to elemental types. There was also healing power, poison, and even the ability to see the future.
Xie Ziyuan could sense that the person's presence was gone now. He carefully studied the surroundings. The paddy rice wasn't ready for harvest yet.
He moved to another place. The moment he entered the warehouse, he closed his eyes and opened them again. The paddy rice was still… gone.
There were only six portions left, and a weird machine.
He approached the machine, trying to figure out its function. His hand picked up a paper beside it. He immediately understood: this thing is a machine for rice milling.
As such, he tried it according to the manual. He put the dried paddy rice into the hopper and clicked the ON button.
A rattling and grinding sound resonated in the quiet warehouse. In the collection container, he spotted some white rice, plump and clean. He calculated the time; a portion needed approximately twenty seconds.
The mini rice mill could only do one portion at once. He quickly finished the rest.
Xie Ziyuan exited the inner space. The castle didn't exactly consist of empty rooms. In fact, there was already a lot of utensils and furniture.
Lin Yuyao had picked the cooking utensils from the kitchen.
"We don't need to hunt today." He brought out the rice from inside his inner space. The river in his inner space still had moderate levels of contamination, so he just dripped some water and the contamination level on the rice became a little higher.
Lin Yuyao took the rice and began cooking it. Lin Yu'an handed her a few bird eggs, so they cooked them to accompany the rice for lunch.
After they were finished, the three went back discussing how to save the other beastmen from the traffickers.
Before long, they packed some food and went out of the castle.