The Little Life of a Big Landlord

Chapter 1: Opportunities for a Down-on-their-Luck Person

Yang Ming is a college graduate from a second-rate university. In the bustling city of S, he is inconspicuous. These days, college graduates are no longer in demand; in fact, they are too common!

He's had over a dozen jobs, but none of them lasted long. Either he was fired, or he fired someone else. He's 25 or 26, still living in a 10-square-meter rented room, and doesn't even have a girlfriend.

After graduating from university, Yang Ming's old friends all went their separate ways to live their own lives. Only Yang Ming, because he came from a rural background, was kept in S City by his family, who hoped he could obtain a city residency permit and live the life of a city dweller. Of course, his family was unaware of Yang Ming's predicament; they were too ashamed to mention it. If the villagers found out, the Yang family would lose all face in the village. You see, when Yang Ming was admitted to university and received his acceptance letter, his parents had shown off quite a bit in the village, hosting a banquet with over a dozen tables, inviting all the prominent figures in the village.

"Ugh!"

Lying on his dilapidated single bed, Yang Ming sighed. He had just lost his job yesterday. The reason was simple: the new manager didn't like him and thought he was unsophisticated and would affect the company's image. The manager was always looking for trouble with him. As a result, the stubborn Yang Ming threw the documents in the manager's face. As a result, he went to the finance department to collect his salary and left.

His hair was disheveled, he was lying on a greasy pillow, and he was wearing a baggy short-sleeved vest and shorts, looking extremely slovenly. Suddenly, Yang Ming sat up abruptly in bed, patting his worried face with his hands. "No, Yang Ming, you can't go on like this. I only have 1000 yuan left in my pocket, and the rent is due tomorrow, which will leave me with only 200 yuan. If I don't find a job to earn money, I won't be able to survive..."

Cheer up and take out a stack of documents from a small drawer on his computer desk. These were copies of his resume. Back then, because he couldn't find a job, he went through a lot of resumes, having to make copies every few days, which was quite troublesome. So Yang Ming simply went to a printing shop and made hundreds of copies for future use.

"I refuse to believe it. I'm going to establish myself firmly in S City, buy a big house, buy a car, and then bring my parents here..." Muttering to himself, Yang Ming took out a few resumes and went to the job market.

The job market was bustling with people. The key point was that another group of college students had stepped out of the ivory tower and officially entered society, and were busy looking for jobs. Yang Ming tried to squeeze in for a long time, but couldn't, and couldn't help but feel a little dejected.

As the saying goes, "One should press on with one's might, but one's spirit will wane with each attempt, and exhaust it with each attempt." Yang Ming's initial enthusiasm was completely worn away in the crowd.

Walking home, Yang Ming was dejected. Thinking of the recent graduates who had excitedly submitted their resumes, he couldn't help but sigh, "Ah! It's so good to be young! When I first submitted my resume, I was so excited, wasn't I? Who would have thought... life is like a giant millstone, grinding you into powder bit by bit. What pride, what ambition, what impulsiveness... haha... in the end, I didn't even have enough money for a taxi home..." He shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Yang Ming walked on the curb, watching the cars and people hurrying by on the street. Suddenly, a sense of alienation arose in his heart. "Maybe I shouldn't stay here? This place doesn't belong to me. If I were in the countryside, I'd probably already have kids by now."

"Hmm? What's this?" Yang Ming sighed and looked down, only to find a small ring at his feet. The ring was dark and dull, and it didn't reflect any light in the sun. In fact, its dark color seemed to be absorbing light at all times.

Yang Ming curiously picked up the ring, brought it close to his eyes, and looked at it from left to right. "Not bad..." Yang Ming muttered to himself, and put the ring directly on the middle finger of his left hand.

"hiss……"

As soon as the ring was slipped onto his finger, it felt as if there was a thorn in the inner band of the ring, causing Yang Ming's finger to ache painfully, and he couldn't help but gasp.

"Beep... DNA test passed, belongs to carbon-based intelligent life, intelligence level, low... Owner recognition process initiated... Countdown, 5-4-3-2-1... Beep... Owner recognition process completed..."

"Beep... Space activated. Welcome to the Landlord Farm Space. This product is the first-generation product manufactured by the LuoLuo Universe Landlord Farm R&D Company. It features fully automatic planting and harvesting functions, making it an essential product for your home and travel... This product incorporates technologies such as time compression, space compression, expansion, and folding. All rights reserved. Piracy will be prosecuted. Our slogan is: Sow and harvest instantly. Wait five minutes, and anything is possible..."

"A large landowner's farm space?" At this moment, Yang Ming's eyes were no longer focused, because he saw a peculiar scene.

This is a piece of land about two acres in size. The soil is purple and extremely viscous, like paste. The sky is 10 zhang high, and the entire sky is shrouded in a thick white fog. There is nothing else there.

"Beep beep beep..." A piercing sound rang out, and Yang Ming came back to his senses. He saw a huge blue screen suddenly appear in the space. On the blue screen, there were six options: Plant, Harvest, Sell, Exchange, Link, and Query.

Among them, the five options—harvest, sell, exchange, link, and query—are grayed out, indicating that they are obviously unavailable.

Below these six options is a personal information form:

Name: Yang Ming

Sex: Male

Age: 25 years old (26 years old in the traditional Chinese age system)

Identity: Landlord (Owner of the Landlord's Farm Space)

Level: 0 (New features will be available after this product is upgraded. You are 100 gold coins away from the next upgrade.)

Account balance: 0 gold coins

Crops grown: None

Spiritual energy level: Low

Time compression limit: 10

Space area: 2 mu

Warehouse storage: 0

Please add crops to this space as soon as possible. The period is 30 days. If the user does not use this product within 30 days, it will be considered as an automatic waiver of the right, and this product reserves the right to choose another owner.

This product is operated by thought. To use this product, please enter it with your mind; to exit it, please exit it with your mind. (Note: This product does not allow the owner's physical body to enter; otherwise, it will be treated as a breeding product.)

Additionally, please recharge this product as soon as possible to ensure its normal operation (Note: It can absorb electrical energy, nuclear energy, solar energy, etc.)...

"What... what's going on?" Yang Ming came to his senses and found himself still on the street, the place where he found the ring. The street was still bustling with cars and pedestrians, and no one noticed him at all.

"My God, this is too fantastical, I'm going to be rich..." Yang Ming didn't know anything about the little ring, but he knew he had a stroke of luck. In novels, which protagonist didn't become rich after having a stroke of luck? Now, all he had to do was find seeds and plant crops in this space within 30 days, so that this opportunity to become rich wouldn't slip through his fingers.

Yang Ming decided not to go back to his rented room. Instead, he boarded a bus and headed to the nearest vegetable market. In big cities, there aren't many seed companies, and seeds aren't cheap. He decided to go to the vegetable market first and get some vegetables that could be grown to plant in his space. Once he had agricultural products in his space, the ring wouldn't be able to fly away, and he could finally feel at ease.

The market was extremely noisy, divided into several sections, some selling vegetables, some selling seafood, some selling meat, and some selling fruit. Yang Ming first went to the vegetable section.

As soon as you enter the vegetable selling area, you hear shouts of vendors, bargaining, and occasionally the crying of children.

"Auntie, how much is this tomato?" Yang Ming squatted in front of a tomato stall, weighing a bright red tomato in his hand, and asked.

The woman selling vegetables was a country bumpkin with gray hair, possessing the shrewdness and simplicity of a small farmer. She simply smiled and said, "Five cents a pound."

"Weigh them for one yuan!" Yang Ming picked up two large tomatoes.

After buying tomatoes, Yang Ming also bought sweet potatoes, potatoes, and green beans. He then went to the grain and oil store next to the vegetable market and bought some soybeans, mung beans, red beans, peanuts, and other things. He then went straight back to his rented room. This whole thing cost him 100 yuan. After paying the rent tomorrow, he would only have 100 yuan left. If this space was a scam, then Yang Ming would have a hard time next month.

Back in his rented room, Yang Ming sat directly on the bed and, with a mix of trepidation and excitement, entered the farm space. It was still that purple land, and that blue display screen.

"Plant..." Yang Ming clicked the planting option with his mind, and a dialog box immediately appeared on the screen: Complete seeds have been scanned, including red beans, mung beans, soybeans, peanuts, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and green beans. Please select the planting type. Do you want to consume them?

In the dialog box, each seed name scanned by the ring has a small square box with a green checkmark inside.

"Yes!" Yang Ming immediately nodded.

With a whoosh, most of the bags of seeds vanished instantly, deflated, clearly indicating that the intact seeds had been removed. What remained were the damaged seeds. A new dialog box appeared in front of Yang Ming: Except for the immature bean seeds, which are unsuitable for planting, all other seeds have passed inspection. Do you wish to plant them? Below are two buttons: "Yes" and "No".

"Yes!" Yang Ming nodded without hesitation.

"Beep beep beep... The crops have been planted, please wait patiently, master..." A sharp sound rang out, and a crop growth progress chart immediately appeared on the blue display screen, which was counting down.

"The tomatoes will be ripe in three days. Don't lie to me, or I'll be eating instant noodles next month..." Yang Ming looked like he'd been sitting through the night, drenched in sweat.

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