The next day.
When Qin Lin got up, Wangcai was crouching outside his bedroom as usual, sticking its head out and eagerly waiting to be petted.
Lin Fen had already prepared breakfast for him. "Xiao Lin, why have you been so mysterious lately? I went to the shop yesterday, and it was closed too."
"Mom, I made a little money from the wholesale business before. Recently, I started working on a manor, and I'm handling the paperwork. Starting tomorrow, I'll be even busier." Qin Lin didn't hide it from her. His mother would find out sooner or later.
"Xiao Lin, I'll support whatever you want to do. If the manor doesn't work out, you can reopen the shop. If it really comes to it, I can still look after the shop." Lin Fen knew her son was ambitious. The family had already held him back, so all she could do was support whatever he wanted to pursue.
She figured the manor her son mentioned was probably a farmhouse restaurant set up after renting a place for thirty or forty thousand yuan and doing some basic renovations.
After all, her son didn't have much capital.
That was what worried her. Plenty of people in Youcheng ran farmhouse restaurants like that, and they rarely lasted long.
"Mom, just focus on recovering. Don't worry about me." Qin Lin was confident now. He believed he could make the manor a huge success.
After breakfast, he headed out. The moment Wangcai spotted its chance, the dog followed him.
Qin Lin harvested the okra that had ripened that morning and delivered it to RT-Mart. Then he waited until the afternoon, when the game interface in his mind finally indicated that the bougainvillea on the six plots of Level 2 land had matured.
Qin Lin immediately moved his in-game character to those six plots. Sure enough, they were ready to harvest.
He had chosen a different color for each plot, so each one had bougainvillea of a different color. There were about twenty-five mature plants per plot.
He controlled his character to harvest them, obtaining a total of 153 ordinary ornamental bougainvillea plants.
Then Qin Lin once again sent his in-game character to the seed shop in Mineral Town to buy new ordinary ornamental bougainvillea seedlings (bundles), which he replanted.
Only after that did he head to the warehouse again.
When Qin Lin arrived, he told Wangcai, who had jumped out of the car after him, "Wangcai, keep watch outside."
"Woof!" Wangcai answered with a couple of barks, then started pacing back and forth by the entrance as if on patrol.
Only then did Qin Lin close the warehouse door. With a thought, he entered the game.
When he entered the courtyard where he stored the bougainvillea, he saw that, besides the twenty-five mature ornamental bougainvillea plants with seven colors growing together, the courtyard now held another 153 ordinary ornamental bougainvillea plants.
Placed together, they looked like a whole sea of flowers, vibrant and fragrant, dazzling to behold.
Qin Lin stepped forward and touched an ordinary bougainvillea plant. The notes appeared before him:
[Yellow, floriferous ornamental bougainvillea plant: Quality 1] [This is a special variety of ornamental bougainvillea. It grows to a height of 60 centimeters, with a crown spread of 70 centimeters and a 4-centimeter top. Produced by the game, it is exceptionally vibrant and more ornamental than ordinary plants of the same type. It is also easy to transplant and flowers year-round!] [Produced by the game: Vibrancy +1, Ornamental Appeal +1, Attractiveness +1, Improved Mood +1, Photogenic +1, Transplant Survival Rate +1!]
He checked a few of the other varieties. Aside from their colors, the notes were identical.
These ordinary ornamental bougainvillea were clearly inferior to the seven-color variety, not only in appearance but also because they were only Quality 1.
Still, being produced by the game made them more ornamental than other plants of the same type, and those repeated +1 bonuses were no joke.
They were also easy to transplant and flowered year-round, just like the seven-color ornamental bougainvillea.
Qin Lin then touched the plants. With a thought, one bougainvillea plant followed him into the real world.
He went in and out of the game repeatedly, taking some time to move all the plants out.
But now that he'd taken them out of the game, how was he supposed to transport them to the manor?
His beat-up car couldn't carry them, and he couldn't even lift one of the Quality 2, seven-color ornamental bougainvillea plants by himself.
Qin Lin had no choice but to take out his phone and contact a professional transport team. There were dedicated transport companies at the logistics park.
He had saved their number before.
This was a short-distance job, but moving all 178 bougainvillea plants required a specialized transport team. Each truck had a starting fee of 85 yuan, plus five yuan per kilometer.
After getting in touch, Qin Lin added the supervisor on WeChat, sent the deposit and location, and soon a fleet arrived.
The area in front of the warehouse wasn't large, and with all the equipment for loading, the trucks had to pull in one at a time.
"Mr. Qin, are these the bougainvillea you want transported?" The supervisor leading the team was Zhao Liyuan.
When he saw the bougainvillea in the warehouse, he looked astonished.
The plants were incredibly beautiful.
He'd seen bougainvillea before and had even visited the Bougainvillea Sea in Xiamen. But compared with the plants here, even those in Xiamen seemed far inferior.
He'd been captivated as soon as he stepped inside. What's more, the plants seemed to give off a wonderfully soothing feeling.
That was naturally the effect of the game's attributes.
"Mr. Qin, are you planning to make a Bougainvillea Sea at your manor?" Zhao Liyuan asked. Without thinking, he took out his phone to snap a photo, only to discover that the bougainvillea looked astonishingly beautiful even through the lens. The photos had a special quality to them.
That was the effect of the Photogenic attribute!
"That's right. I'm going to create a Bougainvillea Sea!" Qin Lin nodded.
"Then I'll definitely bring my wife to see it when it's ready!" Zhao Liyuan immediately made up his mind. The plants already made him feel this way on their own. Just imagine how beautiful they'd be as a whole sea of flowers. It was easy to picture what a delightful sight that would be.
His wife would surely love it too.
The transport team got to work. They had specialized equipment to move the bougainvillea onto the trucks.
Zhao Liyuan put away his phone, lit another cigarette, and asked, "Mr. Qin, these bougainvillea are beautiful, especially the large, multi-colored ones. They must be expensive, right?"
Qin Lin nodded. "Yeah. It depends on the colors. A three-color plant costs a little over 3,000 yuan, and a five-color one costs more than 5,000. Mine are seven-color, and they're very rare, so it's hard to put a price on them!"
"Cough... cough!" Zhao Liyuan had just taken a drag when the price made him choke. He quickly called to the workers, "Be careful! Handle them gently, and don't bump into the bougainvillea!"
You've got to be kidding. A five-color plant costs more than 5,000 yuan. How much would a seven-color one cost?
Those twenty-five plants alone were worth a fortune. The shorter ones probably weren't cheap either.
How much were they even charging for the transport?
If some careless worker damaged even one, the transport fee wouldn't come close to covering the cost.
After spending some time loading all the bougainvillea, the fleet set off for the manor.
Qin Lin went along with the trucks, in high spirits and already looking forward to creating his Bougainvillea Sea.
There was one thing he still needed to take care of, though.
His family still owed a lot of money. He'd only paid the deposit for the online contract to order ten thousand ordinary bougainvillea plants, but there was still enough money in his account to pay off the debt!
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