Chapter 13

Gao Xuejun stared at the steps beneath his feet with a serious expression.

There were only two steps. For ordinary people, two steps were as easy as taking two or one step. However, for Gao Xuejun, it was very difficult for him to take two steps.

"Comrade Gao, why did you come out?"

Ye Jinxiu inadvertently turned around and saw Gao Xuejun standing on one foot, frowning as he stared at the steps. Why did he come out instead of recuperating at home?

She stood up and walked over. Naturally, she reached out her hand to support him.

"My dear daughter, did you find a wild man?"

Li Xue and Ye Zhao were indeed mother and son. They had the same reaction when they saw Gao Xuejun.

Ye Jinxiu put Gao Xuejun's hand on his shoulder and helped him inch down the steps. "Mom, what are you thinking about?"

Finally, Ye Jinxiu added, "Comrade Gao is injured. I asked him to stay at home to recuperate. He will leave after he recovers."

Li Xue's face flashed with disapproval. So what if Gao Xuejun was injured? A man and a woman living together would inevitably cause gossip.

Old Madam Ye leaned over to Li Xue and whispered, "Miss, Miss Xiuxiu said that when Comrade Gao recovers, he will give us 10,000 yuan."

10,000 yuan!

Li Xue's eyes suddenly lit up. She said lovingly, "Comrade Gao, recuperating is more important. Don't stand on ceremony with us. If you need anything, just ask. Don't be shy."

As she spoke, Li Xue strode over to Ye Jinxiu to help Gao Xuejun.

Li Xue thought, "Of course it's good to earn ten thousand yuan, but that's that. Men and women shouldn't touch each other. In the future, I can't let Jinxiu get too close to this Comrade Gao. It's not good for Jinxiu."

Ye Jinxiu smiled and went back into the house to clear the table.

She placed four bowls of white rice on the table and said, "Mom, Grandma Ye, Comrade Gao, it's time to eat."

They answered and entered the house. Ye Jinxiu served them chopsticks and scooped a bowl of pork bone soup for Gao Xuejun.

Li Xue turned his head and asked, "Comrade Gao, where are you from?"

Gao Xuejun's hand that was holding the chopsticks paused. He glanced at Ye Jinxiu from the corner of his eye. Unfortunately, Ye Jinxiu was eating with his head lowered and did not receive his hint. "He's from Jingdu."

Li Xue quickly asked, "How old are you? Do you have a girlfriend? Do you have a job?"

Asking one's age and job were common questions to ask when inquiring about information. Ye Jinxiu could not help but look up at Li Xue. This cheap mother of his was quite smart. She was not as naive and sweet as she looked.

Li Xue did not even look at Ye Jinxiu. He only talked to Gao Xuejun.

Gao Xuejun had a mouthful of soup in his mouth. After being asked by Li Xue, he did not know whether to swallow or spit it out. After a while, he said in a low voice, "I'm just 17 this year. I don't have a girlfriend yet. I'm currently looking for a job."

His words were 70% true and 30% false. It was hard to tell whether he was telling the truth or not.

In other words, he did not have a job. Li Xue's attitude became colder.

"Are your parents still around? How many siblings do you have? Have you split up? What kind of job do you want to find in the future?"

Ye Jinxiu coughed. Li Xue did not seem to hear him.

Gao Xuejun glanced at Ye Jinxiu. Ye Jinxiu gave him a look that said, "Good luck."

Gao Xuejun knew that Ye Jinxiu would not help him. He said vaguely, "I don't have any sisters. Only a few brothers."

"Auntie, Comrade Ye's pork knuckles are very delicious. Try it."

He picked up a piece of pork knuckles for Li Xue and coldly glanced at Ye Jinxiu.

Ye Jinxiu pretended not to see. She knew nothing about Gao Xuejun. It was dangerous to keep a person like him at home.

Ye Jinxiu had tried to find out more about Gao Xuejun's background. However, Gao Xuejun would beat around the bush every time.

It was rare for Li Xue to take the initiative to ask about his background. Although Ye Jinxiu did not agree, he was genuinely happy.

During the meal, Li Xue asked Gao Xuejun a lot of questions. After the meal, Ye Jinxiu cleaned up the dishes and took them to the kitchen. Li Xue followed closely behind.

When they entered the kitchen, Li Xue whispered, "Daughter, Comrade Gao doesn't seem like a bad person. He's doing well in his business."

Ye Jinxiu smiled and said, "Mom, I'll give you some money when he gives me the money."

Li Xue laughed until her face turned red. After laughing, she said with a serious face, "Don't give it to your dad. Your dad doesn't have any other skills. His biggest skill is spending the family's money to play with cats and dogs. Mom is really unlucky to have married him."

Li Xue would never stop scolding her cheap dad. Ye Jinxiu was afraid of her and hurriedly coaxed her to leave.

… …

The weather was good for a few days. Ye Jinxiu grabbed a handful of rice and threw a few grains into his mouth to chew.

With a few crunching sounds, it was obvious that the rice had dried up.

Ye Jinxiu looked at the golden rice on the ground and pondered. They had harvested a lot of rice during the autumn harvest. After deducting what they ate, there was still a lot left.

The price of rice was not very high these days. It would be a pity to sell such good rice at a low price.

Rather than selling such good rice at a low price, it would be better to think of a way to reprocess the rice and sell it at a high price.

Ye Jinxiu dared to do what she thought. She carried a pocket full of rice and slowly walked back home. While walking, she was thinking about something.

On the way, Ye Jinxiu heard people shouting, "Popcorn, popcorn!" from time to time.

It was not that rice could not be processed into popcorn, but the price of popcorn was not that high. There was no way to make a huge profit.

Ye Jinxiu rejected one idea after another in his mind. When he was near the door, he saw his neighbor, Old Lady Huang, feeding her grandson rice paste.

"Grandma Huang, is Goudan eating rice paste?"

Old Lady Huang fed her grandson a mouthful of rice paste and smiled, "It's not rice paste. His mother is useless. I don't even give him milk."

"Goudan can't only eat rice paste. Did you buy milk powder?"

Goudan was only three to four months old, and eating only rice paste was obviously not enough nourishment.

Old Madam Huang waved her hand: "How can I have the money to buy milk powder? My family's Goudan can only drink milk from a hundred families. When he grows up, he can eat meat paste."

Ye Jinxiu's eyes lit up. Rice paste, rice porridge, rice porridge. The rice porridge sold online was so expensive. She could process the rice porridge and sell it at a high price.

After coming up with this idea, Ye Jinxiu walked like a gust of wind.

She walked home quickly and hurried into the kitchen to study how to make rice.

After researching for two days without sleep or food, she figured out the simplest way to make rice.

Taking advantage of the fact that Li Xue and the others were not around, she secretly made 50 catties of rice porridge. She named it Sifang Rice Porridge and uploaded it to Sifang Delicacies.

… ….

Modern

Chen Liang was a senior programmer. When he worked, his meals were irregular, and his day and night were reversed. He was only 28 years old this year, but he looked especially old. People who didn't know him would think that he was above 40 years old.

He thought that if he worked overtime every month to complete his tasks, he would be one step closer to buying a house, a car, and a wife. Although he would occasionally complain about his work, he was more down-to-earth.

It was just that the weather was unpredictable. In order to complete a certain project, he continuously worked overtime for a week. He worked more than 20 hours a day and slept less than 3 hours a day.

When the project was completed, he suddenly fainted. When he woke up again, he was already sent to the hospital.

The doctor said that he had signs of gastric bleeding. His gastric mucosa was thinner than ordinary people. If he didn't take good care of his stomach, there was a possibility of gastric ulceration and gastric bleeding at any time.

Chen Liang suddenly panicked. He originally thought that if he worked hard, he would be able to buy a car, a house, and a wife. But if he lost his life, how could he buy a house and marry a wife?

Wasn't this just like the saying, "When a person dies, the money hasn't been spent yet."

No, he couldn't continue like this.

It just so happened that he still had 3 years of annual leave that he hadn't finished, which added up to 2 months.

After thinking deeply, he decided to take the 2 years of annual leave together. He would rest for 2 months and take care of his stomach before going back to work.

He reported to his leader about his rest and also paid attention to a few health maintenance forums.

From time to time, there would be people sharing health maintenance tips on the forums. Once, he saw that someone opened a post about how rice porridge could nourish the stomach. After reading the post, he was tempted by the rice porridge.

After he was discharged from the hospital, he couldn't wait to enter the Taobao shop and search for the two words rice porridge.

In a flash, several brands of rice porridge appeared on his phone page. He scrolled down and saw that the cheap rice porridge was sold for nearly 100 RMB. The expensive rice porridge was sold for 500 RMB per bag, and each bag only contained about 250 RMB.

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. He clenched his teeth and ordered a bag.

After waiting for 2 days, the express delivery arrived.

After receiving the express delivery, he couldn't wait to open the package and take out the things inside.

250 RMB of rice porridge was very little. When he put it all together, it was only a little bit.

He boiled a pot of hot water and took out a cup, preparing to brew a cup of rice porridge to taste.

The rice porridge that he bought was called Square Rice Porridge. The packaging was slightly simple and crude. On the packaging, it was written that the shelf life of Square Rice Porridge was only 1 month. It was made from 12 kinds of raw materials, and could be said to be good for the stomach and good for health.

Not long after, the water boiled. He used a pair of scissors to cut open the bag, poured half a cup of rice porridge, and then poured in the plain water.

The moment he cut open the bag, he smelled a faint rice fragrance. As the plain water was poured into the cup bit by bit, the rice fragrance became stronger and stronger. A few seconds later, the whole house was filled with the rice fragrance.

"Gugugugugu …"

He swallowed his saliva and rubbed his stomach.

After stirring the rice porridge a few times, he couldn't wait to drink a mouthful. The moment the rice porridge entered his mouth, it was like silk sliding into the tip of his tongue, smooth, fragrant, and sweet. It was as if he was on a golden beach, and the golden life factor along with the sea breeze went straight to his face.

He didn't care that it was scalding his mouth, and while blowing on the rice porridge, he drank the whole cup of rice porridge.

No wonder Square Rice Porridge was sold for 500 RMB per bag, it was simply too delicious.

Licking the corner of his mouth, Chen Liang thought of the group of brothers in the company. After thinking for a bit, he sent the link of Square Rice Porridge to the group.

[Chen Liang Liang: Square Rice Porridge Link – Brothers, I would like to recommend a kind of stomach nourishing delicacy to everyone. If you have a bad stomach and want to live, quickly go and have a look.]

[Mr. Gao: Liang Zi, I haven't seen you for half a month, you couldn't have been tricked into a pyramid scheme, right?]

[Lin Hehe: Nonsense, I think Liang Zi is involved in WeChat business.]

[Du He: Liang Zi, what's the matter?]

[Chen Liang Liang: Get lost, I am not involved in a pyramid scheme, I am not involved in WeChat business, and I am not crazy.

The link is real, and the stomach nourishing delicacy is also real.

Didn't I almost have gastric bleeding some time ago? I heard that drinking rice porridge nourishes the stomach, so I bought some to try, and it is indeed not bad.

Everyone here has gastric problems, if you believe me, you can try placing an order.]

The chat page was quiet for a few minutes, and after a few minutes, it lit up again.

[Lin Hehe: Liang Zi, are you sure you are not messing with us? The link you gave us can't buy anything at all!]

[Du He: Liang Zi, what does the word 'sold out' mean?]

[Mr. Gao: Brothers, it's getting cold, let's hack the background of Sifang Delicacies together, shall we?]

[Chen Liang Liang: Get lost.]

After typing the last two words, Chen Liang logged into the Sifang Delicacies page and scrolled down from top to bottom. Sure enough, he saw several bright red words' sold out '.

Seeing the words' sold out ', Chen Liang was even more convinced that Sifang Delicacies sold good stuff. After thinking for a while, he followed Sifang Delicacies.

… …

Ye Jinxiu had checked the price of the rice porridge. A box of mushroom brand rice porridge was sold for nearly 200 RMB, and there were only 12 bottles of rice porridge in each box. 12 bottles of rice porridge added up to no more than half a catty or half a catty.

After careful consideration, she set the price of the rice porridge at 500 RMB per bag, and put half a catty in each bag.

After uploading all the rice porridge, she played with her virtual phone in boredom.

"Host, currently, your mission progress is still zero, please continue to work hard."

Suddenly, the system spoke.

"I also want to work hard, but rice should be eaten one bite at a time, and the road should be taken one step at a time."

The business of Sifang Delicacies was very good. She had thought of increasing the inventory, but increasing the inventory meant that she had to find people to process the secondary products and increase the supply.

No one was a fool, if she made all the food in the house disappear overnight, it would definitely arouse suspicion.

She did not want to be caught and burned as a demon at all.

Therefore, the road had to be taken one step at a time. Before she thought of a way to solve the problem, she could not let loose and do anything.

"Host, your Taobao shop is sold out every day, you can increase the supply and complete the mission earlier."

"System, I also want to increase the supply, but I am afraid that someone will find out that something is wrong."

"Host, the system provides a virtual buyer service, you only need to pay 100,000 RMB per month to obtain a virtual buyer."

"Virtual buyer?"

"Yes, the virtual buyer is a new type of artificial intelligence virtual robot developed in the 30th century. It has complete functions and can complete simple transaction tasks."

Just as the system said, the virtual buyer was a robot. Simply put, after buying the virtual buyer, she would have a buyer that she could see and touch, and she could 'sell' her things openly.

Ye Jinxiu did not hesitate to buy such a useful robot.

Ye Jinxiu had high hopes for the virtual buyer. Two days after buying the virtual buyer, she saw the so-called virtual buyer.

The virtual buyer was a realistic robot that looked exactly like a human, and there were no flaws at all.

The virtual buyer that Ye Jinxiu bought was a forty-year-old robot with a beer belly, and when he smiled, he looked like the Maitreya Buddha.

Ye Jinxiu named the robot Wu An, and downloaded a chat system and history package for him.

"Daniu, do you want to make a lot of money?"

Ye Jinxiu looked at Daniu with a smile. With a virtual buyer, she could finally go all out.

Other than Hong Feng, she was basically a general without an army. She did not have a single soldier that she could use.

Although Daniu had just graduated from primary school, Ye Jinxiu could tell that he was a smart person. She needed someone like that.

Daniu had made a lot of money ever since he agreed to help Ye Jinxiu pick grapefruits. When he heard Ye Jinxiu's words, he was stunned for a moment, but his expression soon became firm and he said seriously, "Yes!"

He was not young anymore, and of course he wanted to make money.

Ye Jinxiu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I have three jobs. One is to dry dried sweet potatoes and peanuts, one is to pick grapefruits, and one is to grind rice noodles. Which one do you want to do?"

Daniu asked without thinking, "Which one is the most profitable?"

"Grinding rice noodles is the most profitable, but it's also the most difficult."

Daniu's eyes darkened, then he looked up and said, "I want to grind rice noodles."

Ye Jinxiu stared at him for a while. Seeing his determined expression, he said, "Okay, you'll be in charge of grinding rice noodles in the future. I want 50 kilograms of rice noodles every day. Can you do it well?"

Daniu patted his chest and said, "Of course!"

"Miss Xiuxiu, I can also do drying dried sweet potatoes and picking grapefruits. I have a few brothers under me. If you trust me, I can help you."

Ye Jinxiu had this idea. As the leader of the children, Daniu had a lot of underlings.

However, Ye Jinxiu could not agree too quickly. He had to slowly wear down Daniu's temper. "Let's talk about other things after you finish grinding rice noodles."

Daniu was a smart person. Although Ye Jinxiu did not agree to let him do the work, he still asked his underlings to help Ye Jinxiu.

Erniu was Daniu's younger brother. He listened to Daniu and came to the Yeh family to help Ye Jinxiu dry sweet potatoes.

The Yeh family's dried sweet potatoes were golden brown on the ground and looked very tempting.

He secretly looked around and saw that Ye Jinxiu and the others were not around. He secretly picked up a piece of dried sweet potato and ate it.

"Quack quack quack quack quack quack!"

After being reared for a while, Big Gray and Xiao Hui had grown up a lot. They were very brave and were responsible for guarding the door and catching thieves all day long.

Xiao Hui saw Erniu eating the dried sweet potato and immediately became angry. He rushed over to Erniu and squawked.

Big Gray was not to be outdone. He squawked and rushed over to peck Erniu's butt.

Erniu was no match for the two geese. He squawked and soon attracted the attention of Ye Jinxiu and the others.

"What's wrong?"

"Quack quack quack!" Someone was eating!

Ye Jinxiu walked over. The two geese retreated to the side and squawked at Erniu.

Erniu was still holding half a piece of dried sweet potato in his hand. Seeing this, Ye Jinxiu understood what the two geese meant. He turned to Erniu and asked, "You ate the dried sweet potato?"

Erniu wailed, "I only took one piece."

Ye Jinxiu waved at the two geese. The two geese flew over to Ye Jinxiu. Ye Jinxiu sprinkled a handful of rice on the ground. "Well done. Do a good job. I'll give you more rice next time."

The two geese raised their tails and gobbled up the rice on the ground.

Erniu covered his butt and sobbed, "Miss Xiuxiu, I'm not a thief. I only took a piece of dried sweet potato."

Ye Jinxiu handed him a piece of paper. He glanced at the door and looked at the other children. "I know you're not a thief, but all the dried sweet potatoes in my house belong to these two geese. If I want to eat some, I have to ask them. If you want to eat some, you have to ask them too. Otherwise, they'll peck your butt."

No matter how intelligent the geese were, they were still geese. At the end of the day, Ye Jinxiu was just stingy. He was afraid that the children in the village would eat all the dried sweet potatoes at home.

The two geese seemed to understand Ye Jinxiu's words and squawked at the children at the door.

The children at the door covered their butts in panic. They did not want to be pecked on the butts like Erniu!

"Why are you here?"

Ye Jinxiu asked Erniu. Erniu wiped his tears and sobbed, "Big Brother asked us to come over and help dry the dried sweet potatoes."

To dry the dried sweet potatoes, they had to be washed and steamed in a pot. Then, they had to be peeled and cut into pieces. Finally, they had to be dried for one to two weeks.

These tasks were not difficult, but they could be given to the children to do.

Ye Jinxiu understood what Daniu meant. He glanced at the children at the door and said with a smile, "Come in."

She brought them to the well to wash their hands. Then she said, "If you want to stay and work for me, that's fine. But you have to do two things well. First, pay attention to hygiene. Wash your hands before you work. Second, be careful. Don't get hurt. Can you do that?"

The children said in unison, "Yes!"

Erniu raised his trembling hand. "Miss Xiuxiu, will we be paid to work for you?"

Of course, she had to pay them. After some thought, Ye Jinxiu said, "One cent per person. How about it?"

"Yes!"

Ye Jinxiu gave each of the children a bamboo slice. Bamboo slices were mainly used to cut sweet potatoes. Compared to a small knife, using bamboo slices to cut sweet potatoes did not have a rusty smell.

With the children's help, Ye Jinxiu harvested 500 kilograms of dried sweet potatoes, 500 kilograms of boiled peanuts, 500 grapefruit, and 700 kilograms of rice porridge in a week's time.

Ye Jinxiu took out his phone and searched for the virtual buyer. He also set the time for the virtual buyer to appear. The next afternoon, Boss Wu Wu An arrived at the Yeh family village. After asking for directions, he went to the Yeh family's entrance.

The Yeh family village was very small. In less than half an hour, the news that a big boss wanted to do business with Ye Jinxiu spread throughout the village.

Ye Jinxiu sold all the dried sweet potatoes, boiled peanuts, grapefruit, and rice porridge to Wu An and made a fortune.