Chapter 34: Shop Sales Plus One
Chang Ming didn’t react for a moment, thinking she was talking about settling her wages. So he said, “Your wages for today are, fifty times six and a half hours…”
Before he could finish calculating, Jiang Ning walked to the D-rank area and poured out all the mutated beasts from her nano-ring.
Chang Ming: “…”
He had almost treated her as an ordinary temporary worker.
Chang Ming walked over and looked at the pile of mutated beasts on the ground, which was so large that even he couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow. “Not bad! You’ve caught quite a few!”
“Let me calculate it for you,” Chang Ming said.
Jiang Ning waited quietly on the side. Fifteen minutes later, Chang Ming finally settled the bill for the pile of mutated beasts on the ground.
“A total of 212 Golden Orb Weavers. Their price today is…”
Jiang Ning quickly answered, “13 star coins each, for a total of 2756 star coins.”
“You’ve calculated it quite clearly,” Chang Ming glanced at her. “Alright, including today’s wages, I’ll transfer a total of 3081 star coins to you.”
Jiang Ning received the money, in a good mood. She said to Chang Ming, “We’ll cooperate again if there’s a chance, Boss Chang Ming.”
“Add me as a friend. The shop should be very busy during this period. I hope you can reconsider and help out. The wage will continue to be fifty star coins an hour,” Chang Ming said, opening his optical computer.
“Okay!” Jiang Ning scanned the code. After Chang Ming approved, Jiang Ning added a note for him: ‘Chang Ming (lots of money, few things to do)’.
“Little Jiang Loves Farming?” Chang Ming frowned at her ID name. He opened her homepage and saw that the background picture was a photo of a sea of sunflowers she had taken casually. Chang Ming pointed to the picture on the Star Brain and asked her, “Did you grow all these?”
“Yes,” Jiang Ning nodded.
Judging by their appearance, these sunflowers were growing very well.
Chang Ming remembered that his sister had mentioned wanting to buy some flowers to plant a while ago. He thought these looked good, so Chang Ming asked, “Do you sell these flowers?”
“Yes!” Jiang Ning said without hesitation. She hadn’t expected to have an unexpected gain from Chang Ming.
Jiang Ning shared the link to her shop on the StarNet shopping mall with him. “You can just place an order on it directly. If you think it’s good after it arrives, don’t forget to give me a good review.”
Chang Ming opened the ‘Sunflower Sea’ shop that Jiang Ning had recommended and took a look. There was only one product in the shop, selling at 500 star coins a plant.
The price was quite cheap.
“Okay,” Chang Ming nodded.
“Go on back,” Chang Ming waved at her. “If there are still this many people tomorrow, I’ll contact you again.”
By the time Jiang Ning bid farewell to Chang Ming and returned home, it was already nine in the evening.
She lay back on her bed, closed her eyes, and went to look at the phantom image of the sunflower in her mind.
The sunflower plants she had given to Auntie Li and Ke Lai had withered terribly. Auntie Li’s Plant No. 50 had barely produced a sun this morning, but its sun was much dimmer compared to the others.
As for Ke Lai’s Plant No. 10, it had completely stopped producing suns.
Jiang Ning seemed to have grasped a bit of the rule. It seemed that suns were not produced indefinitely. When a sunflower plant withered, the production of suns would also stop.
Jiang Ning got up, fertilized the sunflowers in the yard, and added water to the irrigation device.
It wasn’t until eleven o’clock that she lay back on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
While she was asleep, she was completely unaware that the sales of the product she had listed on the StarNet had silently changed from 0 to 1.
This matter had to start with a phone call from Chang Ming.
When Chang Ming returned home, he forwarded the shop Jiang Ning had recommended to him to his sister. The chat box showed that it was read instantly, but Chang Ming waited until ten o’clock, and there was still no message.
Chang Ming had no choice but to make a phone call.
The other side answered instantly again.
When the call connected, Chang Ming asked with a fawning smile, “Are you asleep, Sis?”
“Spit it out if you have something to say!” an impatient voice came from the other side.
“Seeing that you’ve read my message but haven’t replied, I was wondering if you have any concerns?” Chang Ming continued to ask with a fawning face.
Didn’t she just ask him for good plant recommendations a while ago?
“Are you looking for a beating! It’s one thing for you to run off to a garbage planet to start a business, but now you’re even recommending plants from a garbage planet to me. What if I buy it and get contaminated?”
Chang Ming and Chang Rong’s family was well-off. They were bona fide rich second-generation kids, living on the capital planet and receiving a quality education since childhood.
Chang Rong didn’t know what was wrong with her younger brother. After growing up, he insisted on going to some numbered planet to do mutated beast recycling. In her perception, numbered planets were poor, backward, and full of sources of pollution.
Originally, when she opened the product link Chang Ming had sent her, she had felt a desire to buy. But when she saw that the shop address was Planet M412, she immediately dismissed the idea and didn’t even want to reply to her brother.
“Sis, numbered planets are really not as bad as you imagine. Look, I’m doing quite well here,” Chang Ming said.
“As good as the capital planet?” Chang Rong rolled her eyes at him.
“You’re tired of the plants on the major planets anyway. It’s okay to switch things up once in a while,” Chang Ming continued to persuade.
Chang Rong said perfunctorily, “Yes, and then I’ll find out that the plants on the major planets are still better?”
Chang Ming: “…”
His sister was notoriously stubborn. Once she made up her mind about something, she would never change it easily.
“Why don’t you take a closer look at the planting soil under the sunflowers in that shop?” Chang Ming sighed.
Chang Rong reluctantly clicked on the link again. This time, she was suddenly stunned. “This soil?”
“That’s right, it’s planting soil from Planet Avitas,” Chang Ming said.
The environment on Planet Avitas was famously good, even surpassing their capital planet at one point, and was ranked as the number one most habitable planet in the interstellar space.
“This shop owner is actually only charging 500 star coins?” Chang Rong didn’t know whether to say the shop owner was ignorant or just plain stupid.
Just the soil alone was worth more than this price.
No wonder she thought the sunflowers in this shop were growing exceptionally well. It turned out they were all nurtured with soil from Planet Avitas.
The soil on Planet Avitas had a characteristic, which was that it was pure black, without a single trace of other substances, and could be distinguished at a glance.
“Just listen to your little brother for once and buy one to try,” Chang Ming said.
Under hesitation, Chang Rong clicked into the order interface and paid.
It wasn’t for her brother’s sake, but for the reputation of Planet Avitas.
Anyway, it was only 500 star coins if it was a bust. A drop in the bucket!
The next morning, before Jiang Ning was fully awake, she heard a knock on the door.
Jiang Ning reluctantly climbed out of bed and opened the door.
She thought it was Auntie Li and the others again. When she opened the door, she saw a strange woman in a blue jumpsuit standing outside.
“Who are you?” Jiang Ning looked him up and down.
“I am an employee of the M4 Nebula Logistics Space Station. Someone placed an order at your StarNet shop last night. I’m here to pick up the package,” the woman outside said, briefly introducing herself.
Jiang Ning remembered that she had recommended the shop link to Chang Ming yesterday. She opened her shop’s backend, and indeed someone had placed an order.
The first person she thought of who had placed the order was Chang Ming, but the delivery address showed the capital planet.
“Ma’am, may I ask where your product is?” the courier asked, seeing that Jiang Ning was not moving.
Jiang Ning came to her senses and said, “Please wait a moment.”
She took the shovel and flower pot from the house and went out.
She dug up the fifty-first sunflower next to the pit in the back row, put it in the pot, and handed it to the courier.
“Okay, I will take it back to the space station, pack it well, and send it to its destination,” the courier said.
The platform Jiang Ning was on was handled by the logistics space station for one-stop packaging and delivery. The merchant only needed to pay a small amount of money and didn’t have to worry about anything.
“If you are satisfied with my service, please give me a good review in the backend~” the courier lady said.
Like the government service robots, the logistics space station had a monthly public rating. Every merchant and user’s evaluation would have a significant impact on her salary.
Jiang Ning clicked on the courier rating column and gave a four-and-a-half-star rating.
The other half was deducted for waking her up.
“Thank you for your trust in our company. I wish you a happy life!” After saying this, the courier left in a flying vehicle.
The star coins paid by the customer were held by the platform until the goods were received. Jiang Ning watched as the amount in the backend decreased by another 40 star coins after the courier took the package.
Although she had successfully sold a pot of sunflowers, Jiang Ning couldn’t be happy at all. She had only earned 460 star coins on this trip. Counting the planting soil and the time and effort, she hadn’t even made back her costs.
Losing money on her first startup, Jiang Ning was very depressed.
She thought she couldn’t set the price so low. It was better not to sell than to lose money.
So she directly adjusted the price of the sunflower to 999.
Jiang Ning closed the StarNet. A message came from Chang Ming’s side.
【Chang Ming (lots of money, few things to do): Are you free today? I need a part-timer.】
【Little Jiang Loves Farming: Coming.】
【Chang Ming (lots of money, few things to do): Bring me a breakfast.】
【Little Jiang Loves Farming: Pay up, boss.】
【Prompt: Chang Ming (lots of money, few things to do) has transferred 100 star coins to you. Please collect.】
Jiang Ning rubbed her eyes and confirmed that she had not misread the transfer amount.
Jiang Ning slowly typed a “?” in the chat box.
【Little Jiang Loves Farming: Did you add an extra 0?】
The other side replied in a second.
【Chang Ming (lots of money, few things to do): No.】
Jiang Ning: “!”
What kind of rich second-generation behavior is this!
Jiang Ning received the money and immediately replied, “Okay.”
Then she took a bus to the city center.
Jiang Ning’s food choices had long been limited to nutrient solutions. She was really at a loss for a moment as to what to buy for Chang Ming for breakfast.
Jiang Ning went to a nearby breakfast shop. Most of the things sold in the shop were some dry bread slices and protein powder. Jiang Ning chose a few things for Chang Ming according to a regular set meal, which cost a total of 50 star coins.
So expensive!
Jiang Ning clicked her tongue in her heart. Just these few things cost so much.
Jiang Ning thought of the breakfast in her world, which was cheap and had many varieties.
Sigh~
It seems that the road to improving the diet of the interstellar people is long and arduous!
As for the remaining 50 star coins, Jiang Ning just treated it as Chang Ming’s errand fee for ordering her around.