Farming Together Chapter 272: [Extra 1] New cooperation with “Tasty Foods.”

Chapter 272: [Extra 1] New cooperation with “Tasty Foods.”

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

Bai Li and Wen XingYao watched the fireworks on the rooftop of their house, but they were accidentally photographed and uploaded to the game forum by a player who was watching the fireworks from the nearby hilltop and frantically taking pictures.

At first, since the forum was full of similar photos, this photo of a pair of figures snuggling together in a corner blurred by smoke didn’t attract much attention.

After the night had passed, both players and fellow netizens had calmed down gradually, and began to look at the famous scenes of the Harvest Festival event with clear minds. That was when the photo was dug up by eagle-eyed fellow netizens.

[I think the owner said he was from Mushroom Village, if I remember correctly. The style of the house in the lower left corner also looks familiar. It seems to be LiLi and Admiral’s house! So, it should be obvious who the two figures on the roof are!” 

[This is kissing right? This is kissing right? This is kissing right? Right?! Is this the magic of the legendary piggy? Look at the situation. Admiral Wen’s marriage proposal was a success! Hehehehe! I do not know how the follow-up went. What our honorable game player could not see ~]

[Speaking of piggy magic, family members I want to burst out laughing again! Who would have thought just how much effort a pig would make in order for his master to be able to achieve his heart’s desire! Dry rice on the spot! This is really a sparrow pecking at a cow’s ass, a sparrow eating a cow, wow!]

[Fortunately, it was not LiLi’s piggy who made the effort. Otherwise I’m afraid the whole award ceremony would have had a strange taste. [Dog head.jpg]]

“…”

In any case, all the players were happy to see the Harvest Festival event end with such a perfect result. They discussed it for a while in the game forum, and even started a post to describe the most representative reversal scenes in detailed language, as a way to value and record the event.

When Bai Li woke up in Wen XingYao’s arms, the daylight had long since dawned and the outside world had pretty much finished discussing it.

As his brother, Zhu MoLing sent several messages in a row to Bai Li after he knew the cause and effect of the whole incident.

[Brother, Wen XingYao is cheating you to get married! Brother, let me tell you, you are still young. You can completely play for a few more years. Don’t be coaxed by him!]

[Brother, what are you doing now? Is it convenient to take a video?]

[…I’m fine for now. Just get up in the morning and give me a message.]

Bai Li, who only saw his brother’s messages the next day, “…”

He seemed to feel the desperation and resignation in the words of the messages sent by his brother. From emotional rage to giving up and lying flat, it only took a short ten minutes, right?

Bai Li grabbed Wen XingYao’s hand and asked him to rub his own faintly painful temples, while he tried to be ready to explain properly to both parents later.

“…”

The players had a good time, and then went to work on redeeming the event points.

For this year’s Harvest Festival, Bai Li separated out the number of game slots that should be given to the people around him and stuffed the rest into treasure chests for all the players to find. In addition to that “out-of-print” item, he also added a lot of new content to the redeemable items on top of the original ones. It was enough to dazzle the old players and the new ones, but not enough points for them to sigh.

On May 20th, Tasty Foods released that month’s new nutrition liquid flavors, which were similar to the last month, there were two flavors, respectively, rib soup flavor and Buddha’s handmade lemon tea flavor.

The former was a relatively homely dish in Carefree Farmstead, and after a player had eaten it several times from the Food Basket, they often thought of replicating themselves. The latter was a drink that Bai Li had by chance when he went to other mortal realms, with a sour and slightly bitter taste, plus a strong tea flavor and it was relatively pleasant.

These two flavors of nutrient solution were snapped up as soon as they were launched, and Interstellar people took the words “change your mind” and “forget your old love” to the extreme. Tasty Foods went from its original title of “dark cuisine manufacturing company” to “saving the taste buds of all Interstellar people.”

As for Bai Li, the person who brought about that change, the Interstellar people said they were tired of praising how there was such a good, kind and generous person like LiLi in this world!

They wished that Li Li and Tasty Foods could keep on working together!

However, what the fellow netizens who made this wish didn’t know was that Bai Li and Tasty Foods were facing a big test, or rather, a big transition.

Bai Li, after he gave the next month’s nutritional liquid flavor data, specifically asked Lei Bao if he wanted to cooperate in reality to do something.

Lei Bao wasn’t too old, plus after being in the game to heal his body and mind for a period of time, his temper became better at the same time, but was forced to suppress his spirit of adventure, and had also begun to probe out. He didn’t even ask Bai Li what he wanted to do, just took an airship to Hope Star in the night. Then he was escorted by Bai Li and Wen XingYao to visit the first farming base on Hope Star.

In a month’s time, with the joint efforts of the military and the Imperial Research Institute, the germination rate of the seeds reached more than 80%, and at that time, the planting base was lush and green as far as the eye could see, and all of them were bright with color.

“These are…” Lei Bao asked, briefly lost in thought.

“As you can see,” Bai Li answered with a smile. “Pure natural, pollution-free, hand-grown green vegetables.”

After he got the answer, Lei Bao was confused. He did know that the new trend of “hand grown” had recently emerged, and the results were very impressive. However, he never thought that someone would expand the scale of that trend, and that the person would also be the one who single-handedly produced the holographic farming game Carefree Farmstead, Bai Li.

“Why do you want to…” To grow them in reality…

His words hadn’t yet finished, when Lei Bao watched Bai Li walk casually into the vegetable field, then carefully looked around in a circle, pinched three small tender cabbage leaves and brought them back to his original location. Then he went to the nearby faucet and rinsed them off.

One piece was handed to Wen XingYao, one to Lei Bao, and one went directly into his mouth.

“You have to taste it to understand the taste.” This was specifically said to Lei Bao. Bai Li, as he spoke, the fragrance from the remnants of the cabbage leaf in his mouth inevitably wafted out. Lei Bao sniffed hard. That was indeed the aroma that cabbage leaves should have.

Why say that? It wasn’t that he hadn’t come into contact with natural ingredients in reality before, but no matter which ones they were, they didn’t have a taste in themselves. In addition to their appearance, the texture and taste was completely absent.

However, today on Hope Star, Bai Li’s so-called farming base, he ate a cabbage leaf that tasted similar to the game’s cabbage. Whatever it was, it would only be more real and believable after someone experienced it first hand. By the time Lei Bao came back to his senses, he had already chewed and swallowed the cabbage leaf that was given to him.

Then turned his head to look at Bai Li, and posed a serious question, “Bai Li, I seem to have not asked you. You came to me to cooperate. What is your purpose?”

Bai Li gave him a mysterious smile and took him to a quiet corner to discuss it carefully.

“Lei Bao, have you ever considered adding new product categories to Tasty Foods? Wouldn’t it be a little too monotonous to only drink nutritional fluids every day? You have read the ancient books of the Ancient Blue Star period, right? At that time, convenient and fast pre-prepared food was everywhere. In the past, it was natural food with taste, but we don’t have those conditions anymore. However, as you can see, now we are able to grow food with flavor. In the future, delicious vegetables and fruits will certainly be more and more available. Do you have any interest in making them into pre-prepared food? How about it? Do you want to cooperate and jointly develop convenient food with Imperial characteristics?”

Lei Bao was compelled and in a trance. It was as if he had witnessed everything Bai Li had depicted. His breathing became rapid, his eyes grew brighter and brighter, and almost without thinking, he agreed to cooperate with Bai Li.

For a long time after that, a few employees of Tasty Foods would occasionally complain happily and sweetly on the starblog.

[Today, the headquarters sent out new research products for the entire staff to try and score for the fourth time this week! I don’t know where the researchers get such enthusiasm for research! Hiccup~]

[Hehe! I can’t tell you exactly what it is for now, but every single one of them tastes superb, and I’m having a hard time choosing. Unfortunately so many were voted out of the new products, the president only intends to mass produce three first, the others later, hey ~]

[Good guys, today in my family video chat they asked me if I was too stressed recently because I’ve gained weight. I do not believe it was stress that led to weight. The results are almost ten pounds. If they did not mention it I would not find it. After all, the entire company is getting fat together…]

“…”

On the Starnet, the rumors were becoming more and more mysterious. The vast majority of the people consumed nutrient solutions a day, and the number of fat people in a residential area could be counted on two hands. If in a short period of time there were people who became fat, few people could imagine that scene.

Who would believe it if they said they were fat? They guessed that they were really under too much pressure and their weight had increased dramatically as a result, right?

Their fellow netizens had thought that the source of the problem for the employees was Tasty Foods. It must be caused by those new products. How difficult it was to eat the new products, ah? They actually let all the staff go and consciously say delicious words. That was not in good conscience. They are all eating and getting fat…

However, as long as the gun wasn’t aimed at the poor innocent consumers, the dark cuisine wouldn’t come back on their heads, so it was all good. They would rather that Tasty Foods only make many good tasting nutrient liquid flavors. They don’t want to go back to the old days.

It wasn’t until much later that the entire Hope Star crop harvested a bumper crop and Tasty Foods launched five convenient instant foods, which spread throughout the Empire in just a few days. It was only when the Interstellar people were fighting in the supermarket to get the last packet of fruit and vegetable soup mix that someone snapped back to the days when the Tasty Foods employees were poking around on Starnet.

Hello, are you there? So this is the new product you eat every day? Damn it, give us back our sympathy!