Chapter 28: Qing Is Amazing! Our Qing Has Made Money!
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“Yip!”
Ansheng, who had been preparing to go to sleep in a half-reclining position, clearly saw a tail suddenly appear behind him.
After pouring all two points of wish power into his body, Ansheng’s physical attribute had reached thirty-one points.
Previously, whenever he used wish power to increase his attributes, he would feel an itch on his backside.
He had already suspected that a tail might be growing there, transforming him into the auspicious creature of legend.
White fur, a fox, multiple tails...
A nine-tailed fox!
In ancient times, a nine-tailed fox would have been an absolute symbol of divine auspiciousness, the kind of omen worthy of being hung on a totem. Emperors would weep upon seeing one, while scholars would stay up all night, eyes reddened with excitement, to write several volumes about it.
“I... have two tails now!”
Ansheng’s face lit up with delight. He raised a little fox paw and gently pinched his second tail.
The instant his paw touched it, the newly grown tail seemed somewhat shy of strangers and slapped Ansheng across the face.
“Yip—”
Ansheng covered his little fox face, which had been struck, and secretly grumbled to himself.
A fox’s tail contained a dense network of nerves, and casual contact could trigger an involuntary reflex.
Ansheng still could not control his new tail very well.
“Fox’s big tail... Russian bread’s big tail...”
Ansheng hugged his new tail and rubbed against it enthusiastically, but then suddenly thought of a crucial question.
It seemed that growing two tails was not particularly useful after all!
Aside from making him cuter and giving him a more legendary air, the tails did not seem to have any significant purpose.
This was the modern age. Astronomical telescopes had already been pointed beneath the skirts of the moon goddess, and the Queen Mother of the West’s Kunlun Mountains had long since become a tourist attraction...
“Retract!”
Ansheng closed his eyes and concentrated, silently commanding the newly grown fluffy tail to retract. Then he reached over, pressed the air-conditioner remote to set the temperature to twenty-three degrees, pulled Rainy Snow晴’s quilt over himself, and promptly fell asleep.
Curse the nine-tailed fox!
If he really grew nine tails, would he not end up having to work at some national-level zoo, eating and sleeping alongside those precious animals whose entire species had been reduced to a few surviving members?
Eating and sleeping together...
Did that not mean sleeping in a communal dormitory and eating from a communal pot?
Heh... Forget caviar every day. After growing nine tails, his living conditions might actually get worse!
No, thank you. This little fox could not listen to such things.
Before going to sleep, Ansheng covered his triangular ears and deliberately slapped himself twice, beating all distracting thoughts out of his head.
He was terrified that, once asleep, he would dream of his former life as a boarding student—breathing in foot odor and slowly shortening his lifespan.
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While Ansheng slept, Rainy Snow晴 first went to the market to buy groceries, then stopped by the courier station to collect the snacks her dorm mate Momo had mailed her.
More precisely, they were snacks that her roommate Mo Yiqing had bought for the little fox.
Looking at the snacks in the box, Rainy Snow晴 could not help clicking her tongue inwardly.
As expected of someone whose family owned a factory—even without having met him, she had bought several hundred yuan’s worth of snacks for the little fox.
The moment the little rich lady Momo made a move, she sent three enormous bags of oyster-flavored beef jerky and two bags of dried prawns from Beihai. At this rate, the little fox’s jaws would probably ache from chewing...
Rainy Snow晴 secretly complained to herself.
When she returned home and saw the living room, which had been rearranged, she took a deep breath, clenched her little fists, and encouraged herself in silence.
Her father had been injured at work and was temporarily recuperating, while also taking responsibility for inspecting the hillside tea plantation.
Her mother sold tea at the shop. For the time being, the live-streaming sales had been handed over to Rainy Snow晴.
“Those commercial brokers are so wicked. Lord Lucky Tanuki, please bless the live-stream sale and make sure those brokers do not come into the stream to cause trouble...”
Facing the bedroom, Rainy Snow晴 made a wish to the foreign deity her family kept at home, then began to busy herself.
Live-streaming sales...
Although she was selling tea from her family’s own shop, to be honest, Rainy Snow晴 had drunk countless cups of tea. But if someone asked her to explain the finer points, she could probably manage nothing more than “tasty” or “not tasty”...
Tea culture was deeply counterintuitive. Someone who knew nothing about tea might imagine that tea leaves were gathered by sweeping beneath a tree with a broom, tossed into a pan for a quick stir-fry, given a pleasant name, and then sold to fleece the public.
Tea culture was one of the most famous calling cards of Xia and one of its earliest luxury industries.
The universities of Xia had corresponding departments for it, along with national standards and formal criteria for judging flavor. It was certainly not an industry built solely on mysticism, deception, and empty tricks.
Therefore, when Rain Zhenghong handed the live-streaming equipment to his daughter, he also gave Rainy Snow晴 a stack of materials, including introductions to several signature teas and the stories behind them.
Rainy Snow晴 worked hard to memorize everything. Fortunately, she found the contents of the books easy to understand.
The university she attended was an agricultural college. Her major was essentially about growing crops—and about burying seniors from the neighboring animal sciences department in the soil.
Rainy Snow晴 did not know much about finished tea, but the moment the material turned to farming, she understood everything at once.
She worked hard all afternoon. As evening approached, she went to the fast-food restaurant next door, bought herself a meal, and prepared to begin her first live-stream sales session.
At the same time, afraid that the stream would be completely deserted, she sent a message to her university group, hoping her classmates would come over and help boost the audience.
After sending the message, Rainy Snow晴 specifically reminded her classmates not to buy anything. Though the tea was not expensive, it might not suit everyone’s taste.
If anyone wanted to try it, she would bring some for them when she returned next semester.
Rainy Snow晴’s message stirred up a storm in the group.
Several of the girls she was close to responded enthusiastically.
Meanwhile, her private messages on QQ exploded.
The boys sent her messages at lightning speed, like livestock that had never seen a girl before.
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Most of the messages said things like:
[Qingqing... believe me, I absolutely love tea. I really only want to buy some tea, but after I do... could you secretly tell me a little about Yiqing?]
[She says she has a boyfriend, but I do not believe it. We have been classmates for three years, and none of us has ever seen this so-called boyfriend of hers!]
Rainy Snow晴 was cute and had a warm, smiling manner that made her easy to approach. But cuteness could not put food on the table!
Mo Yiqing was different. First, she was extraordinarily sexy. Second, she was explosively sexy. And finally, Mo Yiqing’s family was extremely wealthy...
“Huh?”
Rainy Snow晴 stared at the messages on QQ, utterly dumbfounded.
She had not even started streaming, yet seniors from neighboring departments, as well as seniors, juniors, and underclassmen from her own department, were already declaring that they would buy everything.
But after thinking it over carefully, Rainy Snow晴 realized that they did not actually want to buy her family’s tea.
They wanted to bribe her!
Fuming, Rainy Snow晴 took screenshots and sent them to Mo Yiqing.
Momo: [...]
Momo: [It is hopeless. Every last one of them is hopeless. They want to court a girl, yet they do not even dare ask me directly. Instead, they are trying to save the country by taking a circuitous route. What is this, a performance of the Thirty-Six Stratagems?]
[Qingqing, lend me your QQ account. I am going over there to give them a proper scolding!]
[They know perfectly well that I have a boyfriend, yet they still want to come and steal him away from me! I will curse their ancestors until the family tablets stink!]
Reading the messages on WeChat, Rainy Snow晴 could already imagine her best friend furiously bristling like an angry cat. She hurriedly tried to persuade Mo Yiqing to calm down. They were all classmates, after all.
After soothing her enraged friend, Rainy Snow晴 shook her head and began her first live stream.
...
Once the stream began, aside from a few classmates showing their support and chatting in the comments, nothing particularly interesting happened.
Before long, the host, Rainy Snow晴, and her classmates were discussing their coursework and farming instead.
Then a single comment appeared, and both Rainy Snow晴 and the students watching the stream exploded.
[Host, you are wrapped up like a rice dumpling. Even shucking corn is not as much trouble as stripping you down. One-star review!]
“Ah!”
Rainy Snow晴’s eyes widened. As if she could not believe what she was seeing, she instinctively rubbed them.
Her classmates immediately began flooding the chat with question marks.
Good heavens... what filthy language.
Rainy Snow晴 finally came back to herself and drew in a sharp breath.
Slowly, she typed a single question mark.
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