After being universally criticized online, he cultivates immortality and farms to lead his motherlan

Chapter 17 You're quite good-looking, you look like a celebrity.

Jian Ning's throat tightened, and she even stopped breathing for a few seconds.

She's no longer the little girl who, whenever someone mentions her biological parents, would loudly proclaim: "I don't have a mom or dad, I'm just a little kid with grandparents."

She was very clever and immediately understood what her grandmother meant.

Her lips had lost their color and were slightly parted; she tried to say something several times, but couldn't utter a word.

After calming down for a moment, she composed herself and asked in a low voice, "Grandma, did they come looking for you?"

The old lady didn't hide anything: "Yes, they want to recognize you back, saying there was some misunderstanding."

Jian Ning scoffed, her tone turning cold: "What misunderstanding? They threw me out of the car themselves, I remember it perfectly clearly. Grandma, you raised me single-handedly. Now that I'm grown up, they want to claim me? What kind of nonsense is this, like a monkey stealing peaches?"

The old lady sighed, "Ningning, Grandma's health is getting worse and worse. I don't know how many more years I have left to live..."

"Pah, pah, pah!" Jian Ning interrupted her, "Grandma, you will definitely live to be a hundred years old, you mustn't say such unlucky things."

"Okay, Grandma won't say anything." The old lady didn't want to upset her granddaughter, so she stopped saying those discouraging things and picked up on what else she wanted to say: "Grandma can see that they sincerely want to acknowledge you. Your uncle is a straightforward person. He has scolded them a few times when he was unhappy, but they have not given up."

Even though Jian Ning didn't want to hear these things, she listened patiently because it was her grandmother talking.

“You are in the north of the city, and so are they. Grandma lives far away from you, and Grandma just hopes that you will have more relatives in this world so that you can take care of each other.”

Jian Ning knew what her grandmother was thinking, but she insisted on her own ideas as well.

"Grandma, from the moment they abandoned me, they were no longer my family."

The old lady said, "They said there was a misunderstanding and they could explain it to you."

Jian Ning didn't want to hear it and firmly replied, "No need."
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the next day.

Jian Ning registered a live streaming account on Fengqi and uploaded the edited pastoral-style video.

After posting the video, she took a taxi to the chicken farm.

The chicken farm is located outside the Fifth Ring Road, almost outside the northern part of the city.

The reason for choosing this chicken farm is that its chickens are also free-range on the mountain, not the kind of fast-growing chickens raised in cages, so the quality of the chicks is definitely better.

Jian Ning made a phone call before she went.

When you arrive, you can smell a faint chicken feather smell in the air as soon as you get out of the car.

Not seeing anyone, she stood at the iron gate and called out twice, "Is anyone home, boss?"

"Eh!"

Jian Ning seemed to hear a distant echo coming from the other side of the mountain.

"I'm here. The door's open. Come in, just wait a moment."

Jian Ning then pushed the door open and came in, closing it behind her.

She looked around and saw a large white shed not far away, which was probably a chicken coop.

Chickens occasionally wander out from inside.

In front of them was a low mountain, or, in Jian Ning's hometown dialect, a low slope.

There are scattered trees on the mountain, and you can see many chickens wandering around in the woods, occasionally scratching with their claws and pecking at the ground with their heads.

A short while later, a girl carrying a large stainless steel basin and a spoon walked towards her.

"Did you call to say you wanted to buy chicken?"

Jian Ning nodded.

She glanced at the boss; he was very young, probably around her age.

Boss: "Hello, my surname is Zhao, what's your name?"

Jian Ning: "Xiao Ning."

"Xiao Ning." Boss Zhao nodded slightly and asked, "What kind of chicken do you want to buy? All the chickens I raise are here. Do you want to stir-fry them, make poached chicken, or stew them in soup?"

Jian Ning said, "I want to buy some chickens to raise at home." "Sure, quite a few people come here specifically to buy a few chickens for their children to raise and eat leftovers and lay eggs." Boss Zhao led her into the woods where they could see things more clearly.

The chickens weren't afraid of people and just went about their own business, looking for food.

Fearing that she might misunderstand and think she was buying chickens, Jian Ning explained, "I wanted to buy some chicks to raise at home."

Mr. Zhao looked somewhat surprised and asked, "How many do you want to raise?"

Jian Ning: "Let's raise fifty or sixty of them first."

Mr. Zhao looked even more surprised. After all, to raise fifty or sixty chickens in Beicheng, you first need a place to live, and land in Beicheng is not cheap.

She's a local, which is why she has a place like this to raise chickens.

Do you have a place to keep them?

"Hmm," Jian Ning responded, her brows furrowing slightly.

Mr. Zhao's question was not malicious; he was genuinely curious. Realizing he had asked too many questions, he replied, "What breed do you want to raise? I mainly raise Sanhuang chickens, as well as Muscovy chickens, white-feathered Silkie chickens, and green-shelled black chickens."

Jian Ning didn't like making choices, so she said, "Let's raise some of them."

"Okay, then I'll provide you with a mix, mainly hens. Do you want capons? Or would you like to use roosters for breeding and raise them yourself?"

Jian Ning hasn't thought about breeding yet, just in case.

Raising chickens was a first for her, like a young woman getting married. But as she kept raising them, she gained experience.

"I'll take a male one too, I'll keep one and see how it goes."

From her words, "Let's see how it goes," Boss Zhao could tell that she had never raised chickens before.

“Okay, you can rest assured about the quality of the chicks I have here. They’re not man-made, and I’ll compensate you if they die.” Boss Zhao led her to see the chicks, explaining as he went: “Newly hatched chicks are cheap, 5 yuan each, but they’re not easy to raise. They’re sensitive to cold and need to be exposed to a light. You can take chicks that are a month old. Even if you pay 15 yuan each, I won’t charge you more than 60 chicks. 900 yuan will do. Delivery to your door will incur additional gas costs.”

Jian Ning could tell that this boss was an honest person.

Young people in business understand the importance of repeat customers, and they are easy to communicate with.

"Okay, then please deliver it for me, boss."

Boss Zhao asked, "Where do you live?"

Jian Ning: "Huayue Villa".

Mr. Zhao frowned and asked, "When did that abandoned project resume construction? People are already moving in? Can they still raise chickens?"

Jian Ning smiled slightly but did not answer.

Boss Zhao realized he had spoken too much.

"Okay, I'll deliver it to you. The fare will be 80. If you'd like, you can come with me; there's enough room in the passenger seat."

Jian Ning didn't stand on ceremony, "Okay, thank you, boss."

Boss Zhao worked efficiently, taking the cage and putting different breeds of chicks inside.

The four-wheeled pickup truck had the chicken coop secured at the back with elastic bands.

After getting into the car and starting the engine, Boss Zhao gave Jian Ning a deep look and smiled, "You're quite good-looking, you look like a celebrity."

Jian Ning replied gently, "Yes, many people say that."

The implication is that it resembles something, but it is not.

The car drove forward.

In the car, neither of them spoke, and the quiet atmosphere made it feel awkward.

Mr. Zhao started to bring up the topic again, "Your location is quite good for raising chickens, as it's close to the city center and the financial center. Many wealthy people in the northern part of the city have a demand for free-range chickens, and people order chickens and eggs from me every day. You can also pay attention to these things when raising chickens: don't use medicine indiscriminately, try to raise them naturally as much as possible, and pay attention to the temperature, environment, and clean water. Chickens won't get sick as easily then."

“Now that conditions are better, everyone pays more attention to food safety, but there’s nowhere to raise them in the city. These free-range chickens are so popular that people can’t even buy fresh ones.”

"I saw this business opportunity, and since my home is on the north side of the city, near the mountains, I quit my job and went home to raise chickens."

(End of this chapter)