After Apocalypse, I Got Rich With Superpower

Chapter 100: Chapter 98 Discussion

Chapter 100: Chapter 98 Discussion

Pei Yuan took Li Pan to the Spirit Plant Area, showing her firsthand what a mature Spirit Plant feels like and the differences it has. He taught her the secrets of nurturing and maintaining medicinal materials of Spirit Plants, all of which were closely guarded secrets.

Each base had its own talent pool, controlled by their own people, and everyone refrained from sharing all their secrets, always keeping some cards close to their chest to trade for resources.

Even among their own, they would assess your capability, strength, character, and potential for the future before teaching you everything, and undoubtedly, everyone trusted Li Pan’s character and strength.

Pei Yuan was mainly responsible for the cultivation and maintenance of the precious Spirit Plants and Chinese herbal medicines, earning a major income for the base, exchanging many Spiritual Medicines and Crystal Core resources in the process.

He carefully identified the Five Elements characteristics of each Spirit Plant with Li Pan and explained how to care for them, emphasizing that it was not enough to just mark them but also to interact emotionally with them. Spirit Plants at this stage could feel happiness, anger, sorrow, and pleasure, even though they couldn’t speak.

Cultivating a Spirit Plant required the immense dedication of high-level superpower users, and High-level Wood Element Superpower Users were particularly scarce and difficult to advance, which was why Spirit Plants were so rare and valuable.

Nurturing Spirit Plants also depended on the talent of the Wood Element superpower users; even high-level users with low talent couldn’t make a significant impact. In short, talent was scarce, and everyone held on to it very tightly.

The rich district was interested not merely in doing business with Li Pan or trading for a bit of food but saw her talent and inferred from various clues that it was exceptional. Now that she was high-level, if they could win her over, the benefits would be immense, far beyond what fruits and vegetables could offer.

This was also why Xue Dong and the base were protective of Li Pan; she was indeed not adept at scheming and poured all her heart into farming. The Base Commander treated her like his own daughter and was determined to shield her, taking such troubles upon himself to protect her.

Pei Yuan had much to share, and she took many notes. She felt increasingly grateful to Uncle Pei for his patient teaching, planning to go back and reflect deeply, learning gradually.

“Uncle, I have several Spirit Plant seeds that were gifts from my elders; I’m afraid I won’t be able to take good care of them. Do you need them? I can give them to you, and just learning the skills from you would suffice.”

“No, I don’t need them, child. You must learn to stand on your own feet—this is the foundation you must establish for yourself. You can’t rely on others for everything. If you are not adept at cunning strategy, then you should make a mark with your abilities. Having your own skills means no one can bully you at will; personal strength is the real power.”

“If there’s anything you don’t understand, don’t rush it, come ask me. I’ll teach you. Or I can come to your farm to help you look, but you have to learn how to care for the Spirit Plants yourself. There are still many Spirit Plants in the forest, and we don’t bring them back because we’re afraid of harming them. Without absolute certainty, we shouldn’t risk it; it’s better for them to stay in the forest.”

“I’ll remember that, I’ll try hard to learn.”

Li Pan nodded earnestly.

Pei Yuan looked at her as if seeing the future and hope for inheritance, his face brimming with smiles.

“That’s the spirit. Don’t fear hardships—we are people who’ve been hungry before. Death by starvation doesn’t scare us, so why should learning skills?”

“Yes, life is much better now than before, there’s something to look forward to.”

Li Pan smiled as well.

“Come on, I’ll take you to see my ginseng and discuss some issues about hastening their growth.”

“Okay.”

Li Pan stayed for the whole morning, spending half a day studying in depth with Pei Yuan the basics of nurturing medicinal materials and Spirit Plants, identifying the Five Elements characteristics of the Spirit Plants and medicinal materials, and giving them targeted energy.

With this knowledge, she felt more confident, and what remained was to go back and practice what she’d learned.

After learning these skills, Xue Dong brought some vegetables, fruits, peanuts, beans, and poultry meat back from the farm to leave a share for their brothers—homegrown and of high quality. They would avoid eating Mutated Meat if they could, as it wasn’t very good for health.

He also left some alcoholic drinks that the elders prefer at the base, and then the three of them left.

Back at the farm, Li Pan happily informed everyone of the good news.

“I bought a house and a courtyard, in the same district as Brother Hu Zi, just in the neighboring building, and I’ve also purchased a yard. In a few days, I’ll go sign the contract and pay for it.”

“That fast?”

“If you like it, just buy it. What’s left is to buy some furniture and do a simple renovation. What kind of style do you like? Give me a plan. It’s for small units where girls will live; we have two of those. They could also live in the yard, but it needs some renovation too. The larger units are for the guys to live in; you can decide how you want to do it up. Once the property is transferred, we’ll get started on the renovations.”

“Okay, we’ll discuss what kind of furniture we want, whether we should make it ourselves or buy ready-made, and whether we need any for the yard too. Which option would be more cost-effective?”

Liu Qian was excited as she chattered away with Xie Ling and a few others, planning when they would take turns to go to the base to check out the houses.

“For the yard, I’d like to have solid wood furniture. We could hire someone to make it. As for the building, it’s up to you whether to buy furniture or have it made. Soft furnishings and such—like curtains—we could buy some nice fabric and make them ourselves. The bathroom and kitchen need to be renovated, they only have tiles now, nothing else; it’s empty.”

“Alright, we’ll pick it out together later.”

Shopping, something the girls are most interested in.

“Then you guys take care of our men’s furniture and decoration too. We have simple requirements; as long as it suits us men, it’s fine. No pink or red, grey, blue, green, dark or light colors are all fine. If it’s cheaper to have the furniture made, then let’s hire someone. I’m worried about buying it and not being able to use it for many years because the board materials aren’t the same.”

“Okay, let’s hire someone to make the furniture. It’s cost-effective to have someone come over and make it when there are many houses, and having a unified style looks good and is durable.”

Everyone participated in the discussion with great enthusiasm.

Li Pan took photos of each type of room with her phone for everyone to refer to.

“On the way back, I discussed with Xue Dong. In the future, everyone will take turns to rest. The leave can be accumulated as long as you don’t miss the busy farming season. On idle days, you can take a break, with six rest days each month. If that’s not enough, we can talk about it later. Rest days won’t dock pay; it’s paid leave.”

“Six days is too much.”

“It’s not too much. You never know when someone might have something important to deal with, or they could accumulate days to take a rest during the winter downtime. It’s up to you all to decide.”

“Agreed, but we can’t all take leave at once. We need to stagger the times off so that it doesn’t affect the normal operations of the farm. Everyone agrees with that, right?”

Liu Qian immediately spoke up to fill in the gaps.

“Agreed. I’ll add one thing: only one high-level superpower user can take leave at a time. We need to take turns for rest and can’t have all the high-levels gone at once in case the farm needs immediate attention.”

“Agreed.”

“Also, accumulated leave days can’t exceed twelve days. Taking a month off in one go, not working at all, isn’t right. The maximum allowed is to accumulate two periods of leave, that is twelve days, and this must be for something important, like getting married. Normally, taking one period of leave is enough.”

Jiao Ming also added a point.

Li Pan’s less-than-thorough considerations were addressed as everyone discussed and set the rules in advance.

Xue Dong isn’t going to make everything perfect, which subtly motivates everyone’s enthusiasm and the farm’s cohesiveness, giving everyone a sense of involvement. I am also a part of the farm, and I should do my part; we can’t rely solely on Li Pan.

“Okay, you all have thought things through more thoroughly than I did. Let’s settle on this for now, and if there are any problems later, we can discuss them then.”

“Who will be in charge of the renovation? I suggest a man and a woman discuss it together.”

“I will.”

“Then, Liu Qian and I will do it together. I’m just about to deliver some goods, so we can team up and get it all sorted.”

Qin Jianzhong volunteered without hesitation.

“Alright, you two handle it then.”