After the people promoting Qiankun Grain Store got off, the medium-sized car soon came to a stop in front of the town gate of Mulberry Field Town.

Compared with Luna Town, there were noticeably more people here, and most of them were migrant workers wearing temporary identity badges.

However, as for the town planning and architectural style, there was no great difference between the two towns. Both were fairly mature commercial towns.

“Get off, get off! Anyone who wants to go to Qiankun Grain Store, come here and take a business card. I can raise your base pay by one percent. If you want to go to another grain store, that’s fine too.”

“Those who aren’t taking a card, get off now, and don’t crowd the door!”

The driver had just finished saying he wanted people to take a card when he saw the surging crowd and stopped talking.

He was clearly aware of how one-sided the competition in town had become now that Qiankun Grain Store had put out its powerful energy stone tools.

Anyone who still went to Zizai Liang Lane now was either out of their mind or throwing money away.

“Brother Zong, should we take one?”

After finally squeezing off the car with her things, and after watching Oreo get off, Huang Xiaojuan wiped the sweat from her palms, quite tempted.

After working in the fields for three days, she knew all too well how much help a good sickle could be.

Take an ordinary sickle and an energy stone sickle for comparison.

When you had just eaten a full meal, or were at your physical peak at work, there was no real difference between the two. The latter simply let you save a bit of strength and do more work.

But when your strength was completely drained and you could no longer lift your arms, the difference in the quality of the sickle showed immediately.

Every swing of an ordinary sickle was a test not only of physical strength but also of willpower.

The energy stone sickle helped even more when one’s stamina was low, lifting one’s spirits and producing a one plus one greater than two effect.

If you really wanted to work, whether for money or for yourself, nobody would be foolish enough to choose an ordinary sickle.

“No rush. Let’s find a place to stay first.”

“There should be quite a few of these cards around town.”

Su Mo glanced at the people crowding the car door, shook his head, and took the lead, picking up his bags and walking into the town.

It was not that he looked down on the rebate.

Huang Xiaojuan was a farmland worker and could not enter these privately owned shops. She did not do ordinary harvesting work herself either, so there was no use in her taking this stuff.

What mattered now was to find a place to settle down as soon as possible, before the flood of migrants fully arrived.

“Su Youzong, hey, I’ve received it!”

“Two months’ deposit and one month’s rent in advance. The deposit is one hundred and eighty points, and the first month’s rent is ninety points, two hundred and seventy points in all.”

Standing in front of a slightly dilapidated courtyard, he watched the two hundred and seventy points vanish from his account.

Zhang Meili, a middle-aged woman, happily tore a page from her notebook, wrote out a simple receipt, and handed it to Su Mo.

Her house was in Mulberry Field Town, but not in the center.

On the contrary, it was rather remote, surrounded by empty houses and abandoned public buildings.

In previous years, although these three bungalows came with a small courtyard, they could be rented out for seventy points at most.

Now, being able to rent them out for ninety points was naturally a huge profit.

“Fine. My request is the same as before: apart from when you come to collect the rent each month, you may come over.”

“At other times I prefer peace and quiet, so please don’t come and disturb me.”

Taking the receipt and wiping the sweat from his brow, Su Mo put it in his pocket.

“Okay, okay, I definitely won’t bother you.”

Overjoyed at having received an extra twenty points, Zhang Meili shook her head vigorously like a rattle-drum.

However, before leaving, she looked at their clothes, thought for a moment, and took another slip of paper out of her notebook.

“Mr. Su, if you’re thinking of working at a grain store, you can take this card to Zizai Liang Lane.”

“That’s a business owned by the Zhang Clan, so we can both get a commission!”

“Okay!”

Nodding, Su Mo watched Zhang Meili leave at three times the speed she had arrived, then stretched his shoulders and pushed open the courtyard gate.

Three brick bungalows sharing one courtyard, with an area of roughly two hundred square meters.

If this size were in the heart of Mulberry Field Town, the rent could reach an astonishing three hundred points a month.

But in this remote place it was a seventy percent discount, which was a great deal.

Furthermore, very few people passed by here.

This fit perfectly with Su Mo’s idea of converting one of the rooms into a studio.

“What a cruel twist of fate!”

“I never imagined that I, a lord, would one day have to rent a house in my own territory!”

Oreo had already gone inside to play, and Huang Xiaojuan looked around here and there with curiosity.

Although Su Mo voiced his feelings aloud, in his heart he was overjoyed.

For the next year, he would most likely have to settle down here and carry out a great deal of research and manufacturing.

In a sense, he might spend more time living here than in the underground Shelter.

“Xiaojuan, could you do some basic cleaning first? I’m going out to check on the job.”

“I’ll bring dinner back then.”

“Okay, Brother Zong!”

With a sweet smile, Huang Xiaojuan had clearly put herself in the role of the lady of the house.

Oreo added a bark that sounded quite convincing.

Su Mo nodded, felt relieved, took the resume out of his bag, and headed toward the town center.

When he arrived, even with only a passing glance, he saw the bustling crowd in front of Qiankun Grain Store.

A rough estimate put the line at no fewer than five hundred people.

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