Leveled Up! That's It?

"It's not that I miss being a beast of burden at a big company."

"It's just that I haven't spent my million in savings yet. The thought of who might get to enjoy that million at my expense makes me sick!"

[You may make a wish to add one product to the shop]

[If you forgo the wish, two products will be added at random]

So that was what making a wish meant.

He'd thought he could travel back.

Come to think of it, working like a beast of burden at a big company meant 996, 007, staying up insanely late, and losing his hair.

But it still seemed better than doing hard labor here.

If only he could go back.

The system made it sound so damn impressive: "Please make a wish!"

Anyone who didn't know better would think it was the Dragon Balls and could grant any wish!

And this was it?

What a disappointment!

"Then add a cell phone for me!"

[Cell phones are not among the product categories available in the beginner shop]

Hearing the notification, Liang Xin was stunned again.

That sentence contained a lot of information!

It meant that although he couldn't buy a cell phone from the shop now, he would be able to in the future!

At last, it wasn't just some lame farm-produce app anymore.

It had given him hope after all!

But he needed to keep leveling up!

And the shop probably had different tiers.

The current one was probably just the beginner tier.

So how could he unlock the advanced shop?

He probably just had to keep leveling up!

"Forget it. This so-called beginner shop probably only has farm produce. To me, one kind of farm produce is much the same as another."

"Two categories are better than one, right?"

"Give me two random ones!"

[The shop has added fruit hard candy and sunflower seeds]

Had it added two kinds of snacks for him?

He glanced at the prices.

The fruit hard candy was sold by the piece, not by the jin.

One fen apiece!

To be honest, he didn't think it was very useful.

Because candy might be the only thing at the supply and marketing cooperative that didn't require a coupon!

It was sold by the piece, and the unit was too small. Surely you couldn't use one coupon to buy a single piece of candy.

If you bought a whole bag, wouldn't you need more coupons than the bag could hold?

In a roundabout way, that also showed that the candy was overpriced!

The selling price was clearly higher than its cost, which was why no coupons were needed. They hoped everyone would buy more.

That way, they could draw the spare cash out of people's pockets.

When Liang Xin complained that there was probably only one jin of sugar in every hundred jin of candy, he had been exaggerating.

But there probably really wasn't much sugar in it.

Still, although adding candy wasn't all that useful, it did have some use.

Today, Liang Xin had used seventeen fen's worth of candy to farm a huge amount of experience from the children!

Half of his hundred points of Level-Up Experience had come from that!

Looked at that way, it was far more cost-effective than giving adults cigarettes and food!

From now on, he wouldn't have to buy it at the supply and marketing cooperative. He could pull candy out of his pocket and farm experience anytime, anywhere.

He would definitely accumulate experience faster.

That made things more convenient for him, too.

The second product was sunflower seeds.

And they were roasted.

When he bought them, they were just like seeds fresh out of the roasting pan.

Forty-five fen per jin!

Liang Xin didn't know much about the past, but he had heard a few things.

Apparently, in the early days of reform and opening up,

someone became a millionaire selling something called Fool's Sunflower Seeds or Silly Fool's Sunflower Seeds.

Back then, even ten-thousand-yuan households seemed to be rare enough to make the news.

How startling it must have been for a millionaire to suddenly appear!

So he shouldn't underestimate this stuff.

Still, Liang Xin thought it probably wasn't very useful either, perhaps even less so than the candy.

Things were so dire now that people could hardly afford to eat. Who had spare money to buy sunflower seeds to snack on?

There wasn't enough grain to eat, so anyone with a plot of land would surely grow grain. Who would grow this stuff?

So the state would only plan and grow a small amount of it.

During the New Year and other holidays, they would put out a batch and give everyone coupons for half a jin or eight liang of sunflower seeds to enjoy.

The supply and marketing cooperative also had some at other times, but not much.

And hardly anyone bought them anyway.

Liang Xin himself, though, used to enjoy buying a few to snack on now and then.

And just like that, he raised his hand, and a large handful of sunflower seeds appeared in it.

That was one liang, costing four and a half fen.

Crunch, crunch, crunch.

"These sunflower seeds are good quality! So fragrant!"

"They're big, too. Really satisfying to eat!"

"But in this era, that might be a drawback."

"When they're big, you eat them faster."

"Looks like I'll have to enjoy these myself."

"Right, since these sunflower seeds are good quality, is the candy a bit better than the supply and marketing cooperative's too?"

Liang Xin suddenly remembered that. After one fen was deducted from his balance, a piece of fruit hard candy appeared in his hand.

He peeled off the wrapper and popped it into his mouth.

His eyes lit up at once.

"Not bad, it's sweet! It really is sweeter than the supply and marketing cooperative's!"

"If you say the cooperative's candy has one jin of sugar in every hundred jin, then this kind has at least two or three!"

"Much better!"

"Haha, from now on I'll give my little underlings—no, those kids. I'm not the king of the kids!"

"If I give those little guys this kind of candy from now on, won't every one of them go wild with joy?"

"I can't wait to see their faces!"

"Wait, that's it? All I got was two new products? You're not going to raise my check-in amount even a little? Not even by one fen?!"