Chapter 85 The Parents Want to Play Too?
Although the mayor of Red Lake City vehently tried to dissuade Ye Ci, she ultimately still chose a ring of houses surrounding the small plaza in the Western District. Unlike the extrely expensive land in the Eastern District, the houses in the Western District were extrely cheap. Even though Ye Ci bought more than ten storefronts in one go, it only cost her around three thousand gold. This amount of money would not have been enough to get a storefront in a sowhat better position.
Ye Ci naturally would not make unprofitable transactions. She did not forget that after the Lunar New Year, Fate had a more substantial update, primarily for the purpose of increasing a player’s convenience in exchanging ga currency and real life currency. Currently, only the largest cities in the four continents had such bank exchanges, which were overcrowded with players everyday and were extrely inconvenient, causing many players to complain. Hence, in the following update, banks would be dispersed to every city.
Red Lake City’s bank exchange would be precisely in this small plaza.
At present, as everyone’s levels gradually rose, Red Lake City also gradually beca bustling with excitent, due to its surroundings having many maps with ore and herbs, as well as many nearby areas suitable for players from level 35 to 75. Although the degree of liveliness was incomparable to Champion City and Oasis City, at the very least it was unlike previously where there were only a small number of people strolling around the city.
When Red Lake City’s mayor saw that Ye Ci was determined to buy the houses in the Western District, he was sowhat disappointed. After he helped Ye Ci handle the procedures for the deeds, he calmly and unhurriedly asked, “Have you investigated the bandit nest northwest of the city that we spoke of before?”
Recently there were truly too many matters, so this matter was unfortunately forgotten by Ye Ci. She vaguely made a sound to answer before taking the deeds and leaving the municipal hall.
Taking a boat to the Western District, Ye Ci quickly reached the small plaza. At present, there was only a crude fountain, with NPC children happily playing around it. The houses surrounding the fountain were all covered with a yellow cloth which wasn’t originally there. Originally, these were a few low private houses. Currently, the yellow cloth symbolized that the place had already been sold, but was yet to open for business. Once the owner decided to start a business here, they could go to the municipal hall’s construction engineers to choose the building’s model, pay a fixed fee and then start their business.
As for the small fountain, soon it would beco the future circular bank exchange. At that ti, the number of players in this area would suddenly increase, inevitably guiding the business of the surrounding storefronts. On the other hand, the Eastern District’s popularity would gradually wither down.
Although she had bought the storefronts, Ye Ci temporarily did not plan to open a business in all of them. First, she did not have that many items to sell. Second, she did not have that many suitable people to manage the store. Therefore, she planned to leave them unoccupied for the ti being. Opening after the bank exchange opened was pretty good as well.
With the Lunar New Year, the mont ca to intensely work on the team compatibility of Upwards Ho!. Bai Mo’s parents went on their own vacation, therefore Bai Mo didn’t return ho for the new year and instead remained in Ye Ci’s house. To Ye Ci, this year’s Lunar New Year had an especially important significance.
This was because she not only had the opportunity to go back in ti and once again care for her parents; She could also and all her forr mistakes. Most importantly, her whole life could start afresh. When the bell chid at midnight, Bai Mo pushed Ye Ci to make a wish.
Ye Ci’s wish was very simple. She hoped that the new year would be as happy as the present.
Not unsurpassed fa and profit, it was fine as long as her parents, relatives and friends were by her side.
As the piping hot dumplings were served, Ye Ci and Bai Mo stuffed their faces with countless dumplings in a bid to eat the one that contained a copper coin.*
Ye Ci could tell that Zuo Xiaolan had sothing to say, so she asked as she burped, “Mum, what do you want to say?”
Zuo Xiaolan was embarrassed, in the end, she nudged Ye Nantian, saying, “Your father will tell you.”
Ye Nantian also appeared to be rather embarrassed. He glared at Zuo Xiaolan before whispering, “This sort of thing, this sort of thing, how could you make say it?”
“Aunt, Uncle, what are you doing, acting as though there’s sothing shaful?” Bai Mo looked at the two of them, smiling provokingly.
Hearing Bai Mo’s sentence, the two of them felt even more embarrassed, evading and again pushing the responsibility to the other. Finally, Ye Ci couldn’t stand it any longer, bluntly asking, “Is it that the two of you want to tell that you’re going to give another sibling?”
“Stupid girl, what nonsense are you talking about?” Ye Ci’s noble suggestion was t with Zuo Xiaolan’s fist coming down on her head. Soon after, she again started to hum and haw. In the end, it was still Ye Nantian that was more brazen. He cleared his throat and said, “Actually it isn’t much. We have retired and always felt bored at ho. Seeing you two playing that ga everyday seed very interesting. Could you teach us how to play too?”
Ye Ci and Bai Mo looked at each other, before they could respond, Zuo Xiaolan already shook her hand, “Aiya aiya, we only said it casually. We know this is sothing played by youngsters like you. We never played gas when were were younger, how would we have no sha in playing with you now?”
“Why not?” Ye Ci grinned. She was not disagreeing and was instead too astonished. In her previous life, not only did her parents not ask to play the ga with her, they simply loathed the ga deeply. Nevermind that ten years later, Fate was already not rely a type of ga. Rather, it was a way of life. Many people went into the ga to make money to spend in the real world. Also, many people simply earned money to enjoy within the ga.
In short, Fate beca the world’s largest virtual investnt industry. Every important political leader and financial group around the world continuously injected funds. It had already beco a necessary part of life. At that ti, almost everyone was playing Fate.
“There are people even older than you that are currently playing.” Ye Ci looked at Bai Mo. “Ask Bai Mo if you don’t believe .”
“That’s right, there is a guild called Neighbourhood Officials on our continent. The main mbers in their guild are all people of your age, with so of them even older than you. They are equally playing happily.” Bai Mo totally agreed with Ye Ci’s statent, so much so that he was a little envious that Ye Ci’s parents were so open-minded to want to play together with Ye Ci.
“What can we do in the ga?” Zuo Xiaolan and Ye Nantian were considered more outdated than when they were younger. Although they lived from the era of desktop gas to the present with VR gas, they never played any gas, which was considered unusual.
“Fighting monsters, training levels, completing missions, PVP, running a business etc... You can do whatever you want to do.” Bai Mo answered as he still continued stuffing dumplings into his mouth.
“ Fighting... We aren’t fond of that.” Zuo Xiaolan promptly shook her head. In the real world, they tried to never offend anyone and never quarreled, much less fought before. “How about we forget it, I feel we don’t quite fit in...”
Ye Ci smiled as she interrupted Zuo Xiaolan, “Mum, Dad, fighting and leveling are just a small part of the ga. Actually there are still many ways to play. For example, you can develop your interests in the ga. Look, Dad likes to cook and even took the exam for an amateur chef’s permit. You can just open a restaurant in the ga. Doesn’t Mum like sewing, being a tailor is also pretty good.”
“It’s possible that way?” Their eyes brightened.
“It’s definitely possible. If you can create good items, you can even make money. Perhaps you might even earn more than you currently do.” Bai Mo breathed rapidly as he ate, speaking with his mouth full of food. “Uncle, your dumplings are so delicious, if they were put into the ga, many people will definitely co to eat.”
Ye Ci rely grinned as she looked toward her parents that were getting more and more excited. Just at that mont, she suddenly thought of an exquisite idea. That is to gift the best store that she bought to her parents to operate and let the two of them who had slogged their whole life truly find pleasure in life. Furthermore, they would also often see her within the ga. To them, that is also roughly a kind of comfort.
Regarding the matter of Ye Nantian and Zuo Xiaolan joining the ga, Ye Ci could only wait for them to make up their minds. Therefore she rested well that night. However, Ye Nantian and Zuo Xiaolan almost fought.
That was because the two of them disagreed on whether they should open a restaurant or a tailor’s shop. The next morning, Ye Ci saw her parents still continuing to argue over this issue as they prepared the al with dark circles around their eyes. She couldn’t help laughing as she said, “Isn’t it possible for both of you choose a profession each, why do you insist on only picking one?”
“That won’t do. She (He) needs to be my assistant.” Both of them spoke in unison.
Ye Ci shrugged her shoulders, no longer bothering her parents. In any case, they would eventually co to a conclusion in their own way.
On New Year’s Day, it was a rest day for Upwards Ho!, with no guild activities. There was also a distinct decrease in players in every continent. Not knowing when it started, China’s Lunar New Year had beco a significant holiday across the world. Not only the Chinese celebrated the new year, foreigners also celebrated the new year. Thus, there were relatively few players within the ga.
However, at noon the developers had scheduled a new year’s event, therefore, at 11am, many players ca online one after another. Very quickly, Dalayar Continent was again unusually lively.
Since it was China’s Lunar New Year, the event was completely filled with Chinese features.
This year’s activity was a dragon dance competition. The venue for the competition was each continent’s largest city. Thus, the competition for the Eastern Continent was naturally held in Champion City. Before logging off on the eve of the Lunar New Year, the mbers of Upwards Ho! had already agreed to head to Champion City on New Year’s Day to participate in the competition. Therefore, Ye Ci and Bai Mo rushed towards Champion City once they logged in.
Champion City was filled with the sounds of gongs and drums, red flags swayed in the wind and firecrackers popped among a crowd too nurous to count.
Translator’s Note:
Dumplings looked like ingots (currency used in ancient China), hence eating the dumplings during the New Year is a taphor for eating money. When people eat jiao zi during the New Year celebration, they hope that it will bring prosperity and good luck for the forthcoming year.
Rich families in ancient tis added gold, silver, and other precious stones in their dumplings. To get one of these dumplings was considered good luck. Later this transitioned to adding coins in the dumplings. Copper coins, for example, ant that one would never lack money. In contemporary tis, only a few coins are washed and added to the batch of dumplings, and the person who discovers the coin would enjoy good luck and make a lot of money in the coming year.
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