Chapter 36: Wrong Address, Sent to My Ex-Boyfriend’s Place
Jiang Ning flipped over and quickly sat up from the bed. She opened the StarNet shopping mall and ordered a batch of flower pots and planting soil overnight. For the logistics company, she selected Extreme Wind Company.
It was a good thing she had earned a lot of money these past few days. Plus, Ke Lai had transferred the money for the A-rank mutated root yesterday. Otherwise, she wouldn’t even have enough money to buy flower pots and planting soil now.
Jiang Ning got up, pushed open the door, and walked into the garden. She used her psychic energy to summon sunflower seedlings.
By the time she took down the sunflowers, the backend orders had accumulated to a total of 110. Her garden only had 58 sunflowers, so she still needed to summon 52 more.
What Jiang Ning didn’t lack now was psychic energy. She turned into a workaholic, driving the psychic energy in her body to summon sunflower seedlings.
It wasn’t until around two in the morning that Jiang Ning had finished summoning the remaining 52 sunflowers. In addition, she had also summoned 10 more.
According to the sun production rules she had summarized, if she sold all the sunflowers, the batch of sunflower phantoms in her mind would soon wither, and then she would have no more psychic energy production.
Even if her current psychic energy was powerful, she couldn’t afford to sit back and do nothing.
So she decided to keep the first ten sunflowers. The reason she kept the original ones instead of cultivating new ones was because she was nostalgic.
She had spent more effort cultivating the first dozen or so sunflowers than the others. After raising them for so many years, she naturally had a certain attachment to them.
In the backend of the Extreme Wind Logistics Station, the system received Jiang Ning’s urgent order information and immediately dispatched intelligent auxiliary robots to the M4 space station’s warehouse of these two shops to pick up the goods. Then, they were delivered to the slums of Planet M412 where Jiang Ning was located by an unmanned flying vehicle.
By the time Jiang Ning received the goods, it was already three in the morning.
She pinched the bridge of her nose to wake herself up. There was still a lot to do.
Not only did she have to dig out the original sunflowers in the garden and put them in flower pots, but she also had to process the newly arrived planting soil and then plant those seedlings in the pots.
Of course, the seedlings couldn’t be used directly. After planting them in the flower pots, she still needed to use her psychic energy again to forcibly stimulate them to the flowering stage.
The work of ripening more than sixty sunflowers was not easy at all.
It was difficult for Jiang Ning to accurately release the amount of psychic energy required for one sunflower to mature. A lot of time was wasted in trying bit by bit.
Fortunately, practice makes perfect. By the time the logistics company of the platform sent someone to Jiang Ning’s house, Jiang Ning had just finished ripening the last sunflower.
The courier was the same red-haired lady from before. Jiang Ning helped her move all 110 pots of sunflowers into the flying vehicle.
This batch of sunflowers that were about to leave her gave back one last batch of suns to her before they left. The number of suns harvested was just enough to make up for the deficit from last night’s use.
“Ma’am, you can set the current stock quantity when you list your products. If a large number of orders are backlogged again next time, your personal credit score will also be deducted,” the courier lady kindly reminded.
“Okay, thank you for the reminder,” Jiang Ning said with a bitter smile.
If she had known about this function earlier, she wouldn’t have had to work overtime summoning sunflowers last night.
“Thank you for your trust in our company. I wish you a happy life!” After the courier lady routinely said the last sentence, she drove the flying vehicle and left with her sunflowers.
Jiang Ning returned to the garden and looked at the sea of flowers that was instantly half-empty, blinking her eyes.
Her heart, like this sea of flowers, also felt a sense of emptiness and strangeness.
Jiang Ning yawned and turned back into the house.
She hadn’t slept all night and was now dead tired.
As for the truth behind the surge in orders, it had long been forgotten by her.
In the end, Jiang Ning was woken up by the message notification sound of her Star Brain. More than a dozen message notifications were all from one person.
She groggily opened the chat box with Chang Ming and saw that it was all Chang Ming questioning her why she hadn’t gone to work at the shop today.
Later, when Jiang Ning didn’t reply, he even thought something had happened to her and was about to come to her house to look for her.
“…”
Jiang Ning’s brain slowly reacted. Before she left last night, Chang Ming had said that she should continue to work part-time at the shop today.
Not only had she thrown the truth about the surge in orders to the back of her mind, but she had also completely forgotten that Chang Ming had asked her to work part-time.
Jiang Ning suddenly slapped her head and sat up from the bed.
‘Knock, knock, knock—’
A knock came from the door.
She got up to open the door.
She saw Chang Ming standing outside with an anxious expression, accompanied by a circle of neighbors.
She had told Chang Ming her general address before, but not the specific house number.
So Chang Ming had asked his way here?
He had specially closed the shop for a day for her, just to care about whether something had happened to her?
Knowing to care about the health of his employees, what kind of peerless good boss was this!
Jiang Ning was moved for a while and looked behind him.
It was one thing if it was just Chang Ming alone, but what was with these neighbors?
Just as Jiang Ning was puzzled, one of the neighboring aunties explained, “Jiang Ning, this person says he’s your boss. He was anxiously asking for your address, saying that something might have happened to you. What happened to you? Are you okay?”
They were all attracted by Chang Ming and had come to watch the excitement on their own initiative.
Before Jiang Ning could speak, Chang Ming was the first to carefully scan her appearance and the messy environment in her house up and down. He frowned and asked, “Were you robbed?”
Jiang Ning was speechless. “Why would you think that?”
Although her clothes were stained with a lot of mud from working last night, and the mess on the floor had not been cleaned up because she was too tired, it couldn’t be said that her house had been robbed just because of that.
Chang Ming, your words are really dirty.
“I sent you messages and you didn’t reply, and you didn’t answer my calls,” Chang Ming said.
Oh~
The neighbors who had come to watch the excitement heard this, and instantly imagined the care and grievance in Chang Ming’s tone as he spoke.
The way they looked at the two of them instantly became full of gossip.
They had thought they were watching some crime scene, but it turned out to be a young couple’s quarrel.
Jiang Ning also noticed the change in the neighbors’ gazes as they looked at the two of them, but she had always been clueless about matters of the heart, so she only felt that the neighbors’ gazes were a bit strange today, but she couldn’t say what was strange about them.
She grabbed a handful of her messy hair and explained to Chang Ming the reason why she hadn’t replied to his messages, “That’s because I was sleeping and didn’t look at my phone.”
“It’s three in the afternoon. What are you sleeping for?” Chang Ming didn’t believe her.
Jiang Ning opened her mouth, and just as she was about to continue explaining to her, she noticed that the surrounding gazes, which could not be ignored, were getting stronger.
She had no choice but to turn to those neighbors and say, “Thank you for your concern, uncles and aunties. Nothing happened to me. I’m sorry to have worried you for nothing. Why don’t you go back first?”
The neighbors were ten thousand times unwilling in their hearts. They still wanted to continue watching the drama, but Jiang Ning had tactfully asked them to leave, and they had no reason to stay on the surface.
They could only sigh and go back to their respective homes.
After everyone else had left, Jiang Ning invited Chang Ming into her home and explained to him that she had been delayed from going to his shop to work because of a sudden surge in orders at her own shop.
Jiang Ning also showed him the dark circles under her eyes, which had turned into panda eyes.
“Holy crap!” Chang Ming exclaimed. “Just one night without sleep, and your dark circles are so serious!”
Jiang Ning twitched the corners of her mouth. She had been like this since she was a child.
“How is it? Is the sunflower you bought from me before okay?” Jiang Ning changed the subject and asked.
She believed that the order from the capital planet must have been placed by Chang Ming.
But she only heard Chang Ming say, “It wasn’t me who bought it, it was my sister…”
“Then how is the sunflower your sister bought?” Jiang Ning smoothly changed the subject of her inquiry.
Netizens said that her sunflowers could increase psychic energy. She naturally had to ask the customers who bought them about the effect.
Chang Ming looked puzzled. “Why are you asking this?”
“Of course, it’s to understand customer feedback and to better improve my cultivation methods!” Jiang Ning’s reply was a matter of course.
“I haven’t heard her say anything,” Chang Ming opened the Star Brain chat box. “Let me ask her for you!”
【AAA Mutated Beast Wholesaler: Sis, how is the sunflower you bought from the numbered planet a few days ago?】
【Rich and Beautiful: What a crappy name】
【AAA Mutated Beast Wholesaler: This is called following the fashion trend. Don’t mind it. Just answer my question first.】
【Rich and Beautiful: Don’t mention it. I filled in the wrong address. It was sent to my ex-boyfriend’s place.】
【AAA Mutated Beast Wholesaler: That commentary streamer A Jin?】
【Rich and Beautiful: Yes.】
【AAA Mutated Beast Wholesaler: 6】
“My sister said she didn’t receive it. The package was sent to her ex-boyfriend’s place,” Chang Ming put away his Star Brain and said to Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning thought for a moment in her mind and tentatively asked, “Jin Jiu?”
Chang Ming looked up and thought for a while. “I think that’s his name.”
He came to his senses and asked, “Wait, how did you know?”
His sister couldn’t possibly know Jiang Ning from a numbered planet. Could it be that his cheap ex-brother-in-law had told Jiang Ning?
Chang Ming couldn’t help but brainstorm in his mind, thinking about the relationship between Jiang Ning and Jin Jiu.
Chang Ming looked at her with a dangerous gaze. Jiang Ning had no choice but to explain the whole story to Chang Ming.
“So you’re saying that the reason you were absent from your part-time job today was because my sister sent the package to Jin Jiu’s place, and then Jin Jiu guided his fans to place orders at your shop, which caused your shop to have a surge in orders, and thus you had to work overtime in the middle of the night to restock?” Chang Ming summarized.
So if you really think about it, he was the culprit who had triggered this series of chain events?
Good heavens!
Feeling Jiang Ning’s resentful gaze on him, he immediately sat up straight and coughed lightly.
“Cough cough, you also made money, didn’t you?” Chang Ming’s words became more and more guilty as he spoke.
He knew very well in his heart that with the selling price of Jiang Ning’s sunflowers, let alone making money, she had probably lost so much that she didn’t even have her underwear left.
“It’s all Jin Jiu’s fault. Let me see what he said after receiving the package my sister sent by mistake!” Chang Ming said with a look of righteous indignation.
Chang Ming searched for Jin Jiu’s name on the internet.
Fortunately, the current StarNet was well-developed, and Jin Jiu was a famous figure on the internet. He found his homepage on a certain social media platform with just a search.
Chang Ming opened the permission of his Star Brain so that Jiang Ning could also view it.
The latest video updated on Jin Jiu’s personal homepage was exactly five days ago, which was the day he received the package his sister had sent by mistake.
Chang Ming clicked on the video. The screen showed him playing a game while commentating, as usual.
However, in the small screen, in the background behind Jin Jiu, a pot of sunflowers looked extremely out of place.