From the Start, a Little Food Stall with Ingredients from a Game

My Farm shut down. Looking at the vast fields, the warehouse full of food, and the pets with maxed-out affection, Pei Yi felt a deep sense of loss. He had built all of this himself!

But on his way home from work, an electronic voice calling itself the System suddenly boomed in his ear: [Congratulations on logging into My Farm 2.0! A brand-new version for a brand-new experience!]

[Login bonus: 5,000 coins, 10 fields, 5 kinds of plants.]

Pei Yi: "?!"

System: [Initial quest: Sell ingredients or food made from them and earn 2,000 (0/1). Success reward: 10,000 yuan. No penalty for failure.]

Pei Yi: "!"

Sorry, he couldn't resist the money. He accepted the quest.

The plants the System gave him were only rice, soybeans, tomatoes, youmai greens, and Chinese cabbage...

But there was no way to make popular night-market snacks with these. At best, he could serve homestyle dishes over rice, like tomato and egg stir-fry or cabbage with fried pork cracklings.

Pei Yi gritted his teeth. "...There's no penalty anyway. I'll give it a try!"

A few days later, residents of the neighborhood noticed a new little stall on the corner by the south gate. The owner looked very young, and he was selling boxed meals. Wait, who buys boxed meals from a street stall these days?!

The neighborhood aunties and uncles gathered to say the young guy didn't know how to do business and was wasting his money. They figured he'd be gone in a month.

But a week later...

"Boss, the usual! Three portions!"

"Xiao Pei, can you get more tomatoes? I took a few from you last time and tossed them with sugar at home. They were incredible!"

"Your rice is great, too. It tastes like rice, and it's so fragrant!"

Passersby thought the customers were paid shills. But when they came closer, they saw the young boss's vegetables right there in a basket. They looked so fresh and sweet that just seeing them made your mouth water!

A regular nearby asked, "Hey, when are you adding new dishes?"

Pei Yi smiled and replied, "Tomorrow. I'll have fish-fragrant tofu, sweet-and-sour pork, and tiger-skin pork!"

"Amazing, there's nothing here I don't like!"

A passerby heard that and caught a whiff of the food. He gritted his teeth and decided to buy a portion. It probably wouldn't be cheap, but if it didn't taste good, he'd just treat it as a lesson learned. "Give me a portion of cabbage with pork cracklings and tomato and egg stir-fry, Boss. How much?"

"Sure, 8 yuan. Cash or scan to pay?"

The passerby looked up at the sky. "...?"

The sun hadn't risen in the west, had it? Were these prices really in Haining District? A bowl of noodles with greens at the shop next door cost 12 yuan!

"Then give me two portions!"

Little by little, Pei Yi's stall became a local foodie destination. Even food bloggers found out about it, and Pei Yi had more and more work to do, hardly stopping for a moment.

System: [Would you like to summon a pet to help you?]

Pei Yi: "A pet?"

He remembered a silver fox that had wandered into his fields, didn't he? He'd fed it every day, played with it, and raised its affection to the max. He kind of missed it.

He had no idea how a pet could help him, but Pei Yi chose to summon it anyway.

In the middle of the night, the silver fox arrived and knocked on Pei Yi's door. He opened it with a yawn. "Xiao Hei, it's been so long..."

His sleepiness vanished. A tall, handsome man stood outside the door, smiling at him with narrow, upturned eyes.

Pei Yi: ...Who the heck are you?!

[Content warnings:

1. The protagonist is not a professional chef.

2. The farming game in this story is based on the structure of games currently on the market.

3. This work is fiction. All information comes from the internet.

Thanks for reading!]

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