He turned over the glaring problems of the territory, laid out in plain sight.

By the time Su Mo suddenly came back to himself, Oreo’s figure had already appeared in the darkness of the street.

But unfortunately, just one look at Oreo’s expression made Su Mo shake his head.

“Woof...”

“It’s fine, there will be plenty of chances later!”

After being confined in Yuanbao’s body and losing the power of divinity, Oreo’s range of exploration had been greatly restricted.

In the daytime, Su Mo had wanted Oreo to sneak into the city by another route and see whether he could make contact with Moore or Su Chan.

However.

Oreo had searched for a full day and had not found any trace.

“Is it the game’s doing, or are Su Chan and the others simply not in Hope City?”

He had not managed to catch this bug, but Su Mo did not lose heart.

He simply kept the information in mind, then took Oreo back to the room and went to rest.

The sun rose and the moon set.

The night passed without incident.

As the sun of June 1st slowly rose from the horizon, the town that had been quiet all night began to boil again.

The closer it got to June 20th, when the Summer Harvest began, the more outsiders poured into town.

The unique temporary identity gave these people a chance to make a lot of money.

And what they spent after entering the city indirectly drove up consumption in the territory and injected new vitality into a pool of stagnant water.

Mixed in with this crowd, Su Mo took Huang Xiaojuan, two people and a dog, finished breakfast in a hurry, and boarded a medium-to-large energy car headed for Mulberry Field Town.

“Hiss, this ticket is so expensive!”

“From Luna Town to Mulberry Field Town, it’s one trade point per person, and Yuanbao counts as one too...”

“No wonder the roads in the Tian Yuan Territory are maintained so well. At such an expensive price, who could ride back and forth every day!”

She had just sat down and received her ticket when Huang Xiaojuan complained aloud, pained at the cost.

However, her look was apparently a common sight on this car.

The words had barely fallen when an old uncle beside her cheerfully chimed in: “Girl, are you and your husband also going to Mulberry Field Town to work the Summer Harvest?”

“Husband and wife? No, no, no, we are brother and sister!”

Huang Xiaojuan picked up on something different from what others would have, and hearing her awkward explanation, kindly laughter immediately rose on the car.

As for Su Mo, who had been silent all along, he turned his head and asked with some curiosity:

“Uncle, it looks like there are a lot of people for this Summer Harvest. Does the Tian Yuan Territory have enough land?”

“Enough?”

Hearing this question, the uncle, who was in his fifties, was stunned, and after looking Su Mo up and down with a strange expression, he said slowly:

“Young man, you are looking down on the Tian Yuan Territory. You have to know that Tian Yuan is one of the big territories whose planting area ranks in the top five on the new continent.”

“I won’t go too far back. Just at last year’s Summer Harvest, it took a full one hundred and fifty thousand people over half a month to barely finish harvesting the reserve grain.”

“When we did the winter planting this year, the reserve grain area was expanded by another third compared with last year. You do the math. How many people will it take to finish harvesting that much land this time?”

“There’s that many?”

Seeing the uncle’s smug look, as if the land belonged to him, Su Mo clicked his tongue in amazement.

One hundred and fifty thousand people, half a month. Even if manual harvesting was not very efficient, the area that worked out to was still astonishing.

And this year’s winter planting had expanded the area by another third, which would inevitably draw in even more laborers.

“That’s a solid number. Somewhere between one hundred and two hundred thousand people, what a market that is!”

“It may be hard for my skills to break into the city, but as long as I take on these people, even if each of them gives me just a little, with so many people the profit would be frightening!”

With some ideas forming in his mind, Su Mo was not stingy. He immediately fished a dry pipe cigarette out of the bag under his legs.

They say that wherever there are people, there is a market.

And where there is demand, there are all kinds of products to match.

From the first day he discovered that the territory actually sold this stuff, Su Mo had spent eight points to buy two whole packs.

Over these two days, whenever he wanted to ask for information, pulling this out had worked flawlessly.

“Oh ho, a rolled cigarette. You’re quite polite, young fellow.”

Taking the cigarette, even the wrinkles on the uncle’s face seemed to radiate happiness.

Especially when Su Mo took out a lighter and lit it for him, his satisfaction seemed ready to overflow.

Right away, he started nattering on about the situation in Mulberry Field Town.

“The first time our Tian Yuan Territory opened up contracting of fields to outsiders was in Year Four of the Doomsday Calendar.”

“Back then there weren’t this many people in the territory, and Mulberry Field Town was only a tenth of its current size. But our Tian Yuan lord back then was so afraid the disaster would deal a devastating blow to grain that when he did the winter planting inside the territory, the planting area he allotted was enormous, almost a frightening ratio of ten mu per person.”

“But nobody expected that the disaster that year had nothing to do with grain at all. That made the territory’s warehouses burst, and they had no choice but to start this mode of outside people assisting with the harvest.”

In a few sentences he explained the origin of this present spectacle. Then the uncle shifted his tone and began to reminisce, half bragging and half narrating.

“I was there at the first harvest. Back then Mulberry Field Town had only two grain stores on the contracting system, nowhere near the scale it is now, and we loose individuals could even pledge something to get the contracting rights to a few mu of land and make a big profit.”

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