Reborn through an arranged marriage, I awakened the Shennong farming system.

The feedback from the first pre-event was very positive, and Su Bai and Wang Ming's confidence soared, prompting them to quickly arrange a second pre-event.

After two busy days, the arrangements for the second pre-event were basically complete. Only then did Su Bai realize that he hadn't even seen Hua Gengchen in the past two days. Every morning when Su Bai woke up, he would subconsciously look at the seat next to him, but the seat next to him was exactly the same as it was before he went to sleep.

Su Bai asked Hua Jueming and learned that Hua Gengchen had been leaving in the mornings and returning home only after a short rest, which was why they hadn't been able to meet.

"Is the company really that busy?" Su Bai was a little suspicious, because Hua Gengchen had used the excuse of having company business to avoid him for several days before. It was hard to say whether this time it was a childish move by Hua Gengchen to avoid reality.

Hua Jueming sensed Su Bai's suspicion and quickly defended his master, saying, "The company has run into some issues, which is why you've been so busy lately." He was absolutely certain it wasn't to avoid his wife. Hua Jueming could guarantee that.

Because there are simply too many humans parasitized by the black crystals, and Hua Gengchen is only one person, he will likely be too busy until Bai Ze develops a way to prevent humans from being parasitized by the black crystals again.

Upon hearing this, Su Bai frowned slightly. Come to think of it, he didn't even know what kind of business the Hua family was in. He didn't even know where the company was located or what its name was.

"Is the company's business important? Is there anything I can do to help?" After all, he and Hua Gengchen were on the same household registration, and he couldn't stand idly by if Hua Gengchen was in trouble.

"Don't worry, Madam! Mr. Bai Ze has already gone to the company to help oversee things. Master will handle it well." As long as Su Bai grows the vegetables well, that will be the greatest help to his master and the demon realm. But Hua Jueming couldn't say this outright.

Hua Jueming had taken the vegetables that Su Bai had grown to the demon realm before, and they were enthusiastically sought after and welcomed by the people of the demon realm. Many people were secretly urging Hua Jueming to take more over, but at that time Su Bai's vegetables had not yet been grown, so Hua Jueming could not help even if he wanted to. Fortunately, after a while, the vegetables that Su Bai had grown were finally able to be harvested one after another.

Upon hearing Hua Jueming's words, Su Bai realized that he hadn't seen Bai Ze for two days. Previously, Bai Ze was always lounging on the sofa in the living room, surrounded by various snacks and fruits, but he hadn't seen him when he came home for the past two days.

"Alright, please tell Hua Gengchen that he should let me know if he needs anything." Knowing that Hua Gengchen wasn't deliberately avoiding him, Su Bai's mood improved considerably.

“Yes, Madam.” Hua Jueming looked at Su Bai with great emotion. Only such a good wife could be worthy of his master.

Since Hua Gengchen is busy with his own affairs, he should also focus on his career!

Su Bai thought to himself.

For the second pre-sale event, Su Bai planned to add lettuce as well, which would increase the total quantity from seventy or eighty jin to more than one hundred and sixty jin. If they picked and packaged the lettuce after the customers placed their orders, it would be very urgent to ship it before 1 p.m. So Su Bai and Wang Ming discussed it briefly and divided the work.

Wang Ming was in charge of the online store's operations during the pre-sale period. He would first go to the greenhouse to pick the fruit, and after the orders were placed, he would come back to help with the picking, sorting, and packaging.

On the day of the second pre-event, Su Bai got up early, which was unusual for him. After breakfast, he went to the villa, picked up a knife and a vegetable basket, and plunged into the vegetable garden.

Su Bai has done more of the harvesting of bok choy and is more familiar with it, so she started by harvesting the bok choy. Most of the bok choy in the field now have six or seven true leaves, each one as long as an adult's forearm. The tender white stems are so juicy that you can squeeze water out of them when you pinch them. The leaves are also large and, most importantly, uniform. Almost every one of them is like this, so about ten bok choy can make a pound, and they look very appealing.

The photos Wang Ming posted on the online store page and the pre-sale event page were just casually taken and not heavily edited, but they already looked incredibly tempting.

After picking the bok choy, it's time for lettuce.

Lettuce is much larger than bok choy; one head can weigh about a pound. Because each head of lettuce weighs one pound, the system screen will flash an update indicating the progress of the task completion.

As Su Bai watched the progress bar getting closer and closer to completing the mission, he was overjoyed.

Although the bloodline reward has been used, the points are still there!

September is the time for Chinese cabbage seedlings to be grown. Su Bai had been eyeing the Divine Jade Cabbage in the system shop for a long time. He wanted to use his points to exchange for some seeds to try it out and see what was different about this Divine Jade Cabbage compared to ordinary cabbage.

Su Bai had already researched it. The reward for completing one initial task is ten points, two initial tasks are twenty points, and a seed of Divine Jade Cabbage requires fifteen points to exchange. He could also keep five points as a reserve.

Thinking of the seeds of the Divine Jade Cabbage, Su Bai's hands moved even faster, and the progress bar of the task on the system screen advanced faster and faster.

Finally, the task completion notification appeared.

[Initial Task Two has been completed, reward: 5% Shennong Bloodline. Ten task points have been awarded and added to the system shop; please check them promptly.]

Su Bai couldn't wait to open the system shop. After confirming that the points from the task reward had been credited to his account, he found the redemption interface and clicked the "Divine Jade Cabbage" button.

[Confirm using 15 points to redeem one pack of Divine Jade Cabbage Seeds? Yes/No.]

Su Bai clicked 'Yes' without hesitation.

[Fifteen points have been used to redeem one seed of Divine Jade Cabbage. Please check your inventory.]

Su Bai quickly exited the system shop page and checked his inventory. Sure enough, he found the Divine Jade Cabbage seeds there. The seeds were on a shelf; clicking on them brought up two options: [Sow/View Seed Status.]

Su Bai clicked to check the seed status, and an image of the Divine Jade Cabbage seed immediately appeared on the system screen. Su Bai closed the image and selected to plant it. The seed fell to the ground from the system mark on his right wrist a second later. Su Bai hadn't expected to get the seed in this way and was momentarily flustered.

After catching the seed, Su Bai examined it carefully but couldn't see anything different about it.

There was only a small handful of seeds in his hand; Su Bai counted them, and there were exactly one hundred. Thinking of the bok choy seeds he bought online—a small 50-gram packet containing several hundred seeds—Su Bai suddenly felt that the seeds in the system shop were quite expensive, justifying their unique names.

After putting the seeds back into his backpack, Su Bai was about to continue picking lettuce, because although he had completed the system task, he was still 20 to 30 kilograms short of the amount needed for the pre-event activities.

But as soon as I started, the system issued an official task.

[Official Task 1: Plant lettuce and harvest 500 jin (250 kg). Accept Task/Reject Task.]

[Official Task Two: Plant 500 jin of Chinese cabbage and harvest. Accept Task/Reject Task.]

[Official Task 3: Plant 500 jin of white radishes and harvest them. Accept Task/Reject Task.]

[Official Task 4: Plant 500 jin of cabbage and harvest 500 jin. Accept Task/Reject Task.]

[Official Task 5: Plant mustard greens and harvest 500 jin. Accept Task/Reject Task.]

Su Bai did not expect that the system would issue five tasks this time, each requiring a harvest of 500 jin, which was much more difficult than the initial tasks.

But high difficulty means high reward, so Su Bai didn't hesitate much before clicking to accept. Anyway, the tasks had to be done, so doing them one by one or several at once made little difference.

[Official Mission One accepted. Please harvest 500 jin of lettuce using the planting methods provided by the system. Completion time: Within five months. Reward: 1% activation of Shennong bloodline, 20 system points. Penalty: 40 points deducted.]

[Official Mission Two accepted. Please harvest 500 jin of Chinese cabbage using the planting methods provided by the system. Completion time: Within five months. Reward: 1% activation of Shennong bloodline, 20 system points. Penalty: 40 points deducted.]

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After reviewing each of the mission upgrades, Su Bai almost gave up. His eyes were fixed on the reward description that read "Shennong Bloodline Activated by 1%", and he was so angry that he immediately went to confront the system.

'How come it's only one percent? I saw it was ten percent before!' Aside from the points reward being somewhat acceptable, the bloodline reward is simply unbearable. How can this match the difficulty of the mission? Obviously not!

It's always been one percent.

'This is impossible! The task list says it's 10%...' Su Bai couldn't finish the word because he had already scrolled to the task interface and seen the rewards on the task list.

It did indeed say one percent, but the one percent was written very close to the edge, so Su Bai thought there was a 0 after the number '1', but it turned out that the '0' didn't exist at all!

He must have misread it.

Su Bai stared at the system screen in silence for several seconds, feeling as if he had been fooled. What should he do?

Su Bai couldn't accept this reality for a long time. Before, completing an initial mission would give him a 5% bloodline reward, but now the difficulty of the formal missions has increased tenfold, while the bloodline reward has shrunk. He would have to complete five formal missions to reach the bloodline reward of one initial mission. The sense of disparity was too strong.

"Su Bai? Su Bai?" After confirming the online order, Wang Ming came to help at the greenhouse. As soon as he entered, he found Su Bai sitting blankly in the middle of a pile of vegetables, so he called out to him a few times.

Su Bai suddenly snapped back to reality, "It's Wang Ming!"

"What's wrong? Didn't you get enough rest?" Wang Ming squatted down beside Su Bai and asked with concern. Su Bai had just fallen seriously ill, and he couldn't afford for anything else to happen to her.

Su Bai shook his head. "No." He was just a little shocked, but he'll recover soon.

"Are you really alright? Why don't you go rest for a while? I'll take care of the rest." With that, Wang Ming took the knife from Su Bai's hand and helped Su Bai to sit down.

Su Bai obediently went to the side to rest for a while before immediately throwing himself into his work. Now was not the time to sigh and complain!