Chapter 21: Upgraded Space Cabin
After dinner and a bath that evening, Lan Mo was invited into their room by her sister-in-law, Ye Zhen.
“Momo, come here. Let me take your measurements. Mother-in-law brought over those pieces of fabric. This time, I’ll make clothes for you, and you can learn alongside me.”
How was she supposed to learn this? Even if she knew how to use a sewing machine, she didn’t know how to cut fabric.
“Sister-in-law, do I really have to learn? Is cutting fabric difficult?”
“It’s not exactly difficult, but it’s not exactly easy either. The most important thing is whether you want to learn. If you do, I have two books here you can take to read. You’re so smart—this is much easier than studying medicine.”
While taking Lan Mo’s measurements, Ye Zhen taught her how to distinguish fabrics, explaining which ones would shrink after washing and needed to be cut a little larger.
She introduced over a dozen types of collars alone, then personally guided Lan Mo in drawing patterns and cutting the fabric.
“The fabric for both outfits is cut. Tomorrow evening, I’ll teach you how to use the sewing machine. Take those two books and study them carefully.”
“Thank you, sister-in-law. You’ve worked hard! I’ll head back to my room now.”
Before leaving, Lan Mo noticed Xiao Li’er, who was sitting on the bed, still eating candy before bed. She walked over to him and said, “Xiao Li’er, you shouldn’t eat candy before sleeping, or you’ll get cavities. I’ve saved all the candy your second uncle sent for you, but you have to promise me not to eat it before bed, okay?”
Xiao Li’er quickly finished chewing the candy, drool still at the corner of his mouth. He tilted his head back and asked, “Little Aunt, what kind of bug is a cavity bug? Will it crawl out and bite my mouth? If it bites my mouth, won’t I be able to eat anymore?”
Lan Mo was amused by her innocent and adorable little nephew. “The cavity bug won’t bite your mouth, but it will rot your teeth, and then you won’t be able to chew meat.”
Xiao Li’er immediately opened his mouth wide. “Little Aunt, hurry up and catch the cavity bug for me.”
“Xiao Li’er, go drink a few sips of water first. Swish it around in your mouth a few times, then spit it out. That will chase the cavity bug away.”
After all, he wasn’t even two years old yet and didn’t know how to use a toothbrush, so she could only teach him to rinse his mouth with water.
“Okay, I’ll listen to Little Aunt. I want to chase the cavity bug away.”
Lan Mo returned to her room and immediately entered the space, first harvesting the chili peppers she had planted during the day.
She wanted to make chopped chili peppers, but the Small Wooden House hadn’t been upgraded yet and didn’t even have a kitchen. To upgrade the Small Wooden House, she had to wait until the farm reached level ten and also needed five million Gold Coins.
She was already at level four. It shouldn’t take more than a month to reach level ten, right? After all, the first ten levels were easy to achieve.
But everything required spending Gold Coins. The basic crops she planted herself hardly sold for any Gold Coins. She’d have to steal some precious medicinal herbs from those big shots.
Lan Mo planted another batch of chili peppers and then checked her friends list.
First, she stole ten century-old snow lotuses from “Miss of the Sect,” then fifty pounds of premium polygonatum from “The Little Medicine Boy of Taishang Laojun.”
The patch of Forgetfulness Flowers planted by “Flower Fairy” had also matured. Judging by the name, it was clearly something good—this flower probably had the effect of making people lose their memories.
Calculating the time, the century-old ginseng planted by “Little Useless in the Cultivation World” wouldn’t mature until the morning after tomorrow at 5:30. It seemed she’d have to set an alarm for tomorrow night.
But why was the paddy rice planted in her golden field different from the paddy rice she had seen before?
This field is golden and shimmering with a golden light, and even the paddy rice is sparkling with a golden glow. Could this be the legendary Spirit Rice?
She didn’t know if the Spirit Rice extracted from it was something a mortal like her could eat.
Would eating it cause her body to explode?
Never mind, since the Spirit Rice is already ripe, stealing it first is the priority. Even if she can’t eat it, selling it should be worth quite a few Gold Coins, right?
In a daze, Lan Mo felt as if countless Gold Coins were rushing toward her…
A strange light flickered in Lan Mo’s eyes as she tapped the screen twice in quick succession.
Watching the Spirit Rice enter the Warehouse, Lan Mo exclaimed, “Stolen! I’ve struck it rich! I’ve struck it rich!”
After stealing from one field, Lan Mo moved on to the second. Oh no—she accidentally got caught by that space guardian, the Little Monster.
Darn, she lost Gold Coins again. This time, she actually lost a hundred thousand Gold Coins at once.
What the heck? Getting caught stealing Spirit Rice from this field actually costs a hundred thousand Gold Coins.
Hmph! She couldn’t let these hundred thousand Gold Coins be deducted for nothing. Seeing the Little Monster on the screen heading toward the purple ginseng field, Lan Mo acted swiftly and stole the remaining spirit field as well.
Checking the Warehouse, she found that the two spirit fields had yielded a total of two hundred catties of Spirit Rice. But how could she process this Spirit Rice into Spirit Rice?
Beep, beep, beep—the system prompted: [To process Spirit Rice into Spirit Rice, the host must sell half of the Spirit Rice. Please choose!]
This darn system is trying to trick her into selling Spirit Rice, isn’t it? But if she doesn’t sell, she can’t process the Spirit Rice either.
Lan Mo checked again: unprocessed Spirit Rice sells for ten thousand Gold Coins per catty, while processed Spirit Rice sells for a hundred thousand Gold Coins per catty. Spirit Rice Bran sells for a thousand Gold Coins per catty.
Lan Mo quickly chose to process it. Soon, the Warehouse contained eighty catties of Spirit Rice Bran and a hundred and twenty catties of Spirit Rice.
Sixty catties of Spirit Rice were automatically sold by the system, earning a total of six hundred thousand Gold Coins.
Right after selling the Spirit Rice, a friendly reminder appeared on the screen: [Mortals drinking Spirit Rice Porridge once a month can cure illnesses and strengthen their bodies. Eating Spirit Rice can prolong life. The harvest time for Spirit Rice is ten years. Spirit Rice seeds can be obtained when the farm reaches level two hundred.]
Reaching farm level one hundred rewards gold, but she probably won’t even reach level one hundred in her lifetime, let alone level two hundred. Does she have to become an immortal for that?
Sigh, growing it herself seems hopeless!
The space of “Little Useless in the Cultivation World” is enormous, with over three hundred fields opened. Each field grows different Spiritual Medicines and Spirit Fruits, and their maturation times vary.
The century-old ginseng in the purple fields takes five years to mature, but who would have thought that Spirit Rice requires ten years to harvest?
It seems Spirit Rice is even more precious than century-old ginseng!
If she were to plant a batch of Spirit Rice herself, she’d have to wait at least ten years for the harvest. Who knows if “Little Useless in the Cultivation World” will even plant Spirit Rice again?
Darn it, if she had known this would happen, she wouldn’t have sold a single catty. Since Spirit Rice has such powerful effects, does Spirit Rice Bran have similar benefits?
When the farm reaches level twenty and the Ranch is unlocked, she can feed this Spirit Rice Bran to pigs and chickens. Eating their meat should have the same effect, right?
Never mind, there are plenty of big shots from the Cultivation World in her friends list. However, most of their Spiritual Medicines and Spirit Fruits in their spaces take at least several months to mature, so they are automatically ranked at the bottom of the friends list by the system.
The reason she kept relentlessly targeting “Little Useless in the Cultivation World” was because their name appeared on the first page of the list.
After stealing valuable Spiritual Medicine, Lan Mo went on to pilfer fruits, flowers, grains, and ordinary medicinal herbs from other mortal realms.
Now, to upgrade the Small Wooden House, she had to sell all these items. After all, she couldn’t possibly eat all the fruits by herself while sneaking around in the space.
Besides, on her birthday, a store called “Guoguo’s Chain Department Store” had sent her plenty of snacks.
Once she reached level ten, she could start growing fruits herself, so it was better to sell everything now.
The Spirit Rice sold for 600,000 Gold Coins, while the other ordinary medicinal herbs and common fruits… all combined only fetched 20,000 Gold Coins.
After deducting the 100,000 Gold Coins she lost today when caught by the Little Monster, and adding the original 1,023,100 Gold Coins left in the space, she now had a total of 1,543,100 Gold Coins.
Upgrading the Small Wooden House required 5 million Gold Coins. It seemed she’d have to sell half of the premium Polygonatum, century-old snow lotus, and Forgetfulness Flowers.
Lan Mo checked their selling prices: century-old snow lotus sold for 50,000 Gold Coins per flower, premium Polygonatum for 100,000 Gold Coins per jin, and Forgetfulness Flowers for 10,000 Gold Coins each.
Oh damn, she thought those little white flowers would be sold by weight, but they were priced per flower instead. “Flower Fairy” seemed to have planted six plots of Forgetfulness Flowers, and Lan Mo had harvested at least a hundred flowers from each plot. If she sold all the Forgetfulness Flowers, could she upgrade the Small Wooden House?
Out of the 600 Forgetfulness Flowers, Lan Mo sold 400, deciding not to sell the century-old snow lotus or premium Polygonatum.
With over 5.5 million Gold Coins now in the space, Lan Mo immediately clicked to upgrade the Small Wooden House. As soon as she did, she was ejected from the space.
She had no idea how many days it would take for the Small Wooden House to finish upgrading or whether it would affect her plans to steal the century-old ginseng from “Little Useless in the Cultivation World.”
Ah, thinking about it was truly distressing. It seemed she was in for a completely sleepless night tonight.