Chapter 6

Sitting on the bed, Ye Rongyao entered the "Lazy Person System" lottery interface.

Heavenly deities, especially Confucius, must bless me, let me draw an extremely valuable treasure! A large sum of money is what I need the most!

After a random prayer, Ye Rongyao activated the lottery wheel with a thought.

"Click!"

The lottery began, the needle on the small wheel snapped and rapidly spun clockwise. After a few seconds, the needle gradually slowed down, becoming slower and slower, and finally pointed to the largest category on the wheel, which was the consumable section, and stopped there — it was a consumable!

The lottery was over!

A golden treasure chest appeared in Ye Rongyao's mind, flashing a few times before opening, and a bottle of 100 ml of green liquid flew out.

Soon, the bottle containing 100 ml of green liquid was floating in front of Ye Rongyao in the real world. Ye Rongyao, recovering from his surprise, grabbed the small green bottle.

Immediately, the name of the item appeared in Ye Rongyao's mind.

Item Name: 100 ml Small Bottle of Advanced Plant Nutrient Solution.

Item Description: A one-time consumable item that can promote the rapid and healthy growth of plants and improve the quality of plants.

Ye Rongyao felt a bit of a toothache. After all that, he only drew a "100 ml Small Bottle of Advanced Plant Nutrient Solution," whose use he didn't even know, instead of the money he wanted. This made Ye Rongyao somewhat disappointed.

Ye Rongyao wanted to draw again but found that it required 100 Glory Points, and he only had 90 points, so he couldn't draw again.

Feeling a bit depressed, Ye Rongyao put the small green bottle on the bedside and lay down to sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, the sound of knocking woke Ye Rongyao from his sleep.

"Wife, stop knocking, I'll get up right away."

Ye Rongyao put the bottle on the bedside into his pants pocket and said to Liu Qingqing, who was knocking outside.

Fortunately, the bottle wasn't too big and could fit in his pants pocket. If it were any bigger, he wouldn't have had a place to hide it. This made Ye Rongyao feel a bit inconvenient. If he drew something really big in the future, he wouldn't have a place to hide it. However, for now, Ye Rongyao didn't have a good solution for this.

"Why did you lock the door while sleeping?"

Liu Qingqing asked, a bit puzzled. It was daytime, and he usually didn't lock the door when sleeping.

"Locked? I didn't know. Maybe I didn't notice and locked it," Ye Rongyao said with a laugh.

"It's not early anymore, get up and have dinner."

Liu Qingqing said. Since Ye Rongyao got up late in the morning, breakfast and lunch were basically the same, and he ate much more than usual. Liu Qingqing didn't wake him up for lunch and just cooked a bowl of noodles for herself.

...

"Wife, what's wrong?"

After dinner, Ye Rongyao noticed his wife seemed distracted and asked with concern.

"Nothing," Liu Qingqing shook her head and said.

"Wife, I am your man, the head of our family. You must tell me what's going on," Ye Rongyao said assertively. Since he wanted to take charge of the family, he felt he should start by caring for his wife.

"Really, nothing."

Liu Qingqing still shook her head and said. She felt that telling her husband about some things now wouldn't help, as he couldn't do anything about it.

"What's really going on? Tell me quickly. We are a couple, and if you don't tell me, I'll be upset," Ye Rongyao said anxiously.

"Husband, the land we have is still idle. Neither of us knows how to farm. For the past six months, we've been living off the money and compensation left by our parents. There's not much left. If we don't have any income soon, life will be very hard," Liu Qingqing said, somewhat troubled. She didn't want to tell her husband these things, but seeing that he had really changed, she told him about the family's financial situation.

Actually, according to the village's living standards, tens of thousands of yuan shouldn't have been spent so quickly in half a year. The main reason was that Ye Rongyao had lost a lot of money gambling.

"It's all my fault. If it weren't for me, the money wouldn't have been spent so quickly," Ye Rongyao said, feeling guilty. He knew very well that most of the money had been spent on gambling and drinking.

"Talking about it now doesn't help. Fortunately, our parents left us over a hundred acres of land, but we don't know how to farm," Liu Qingqing said, somewhat frustrated.

"Don't worry, wife. As long as I'm here, our family will get better. You don't need to worry about these things; with your husband, everything will be fine," Ye Rongyao said confidently. He believed that with the "Lazy Person System," their life would get better and better.

"Alright, I'll rely on you from now on," Liu Qingqing said happily, though she didn't have much confidence in her husband, she was still happy. At least he now looked like the head of the family.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure you live a happy life," Ye Rongyao said, patting his chest.

"Hehe."

Liu Qingqing laughed happily and started to clean up the dishes and wash them.

Ye Rongyao waited for a while but didn't receive a "help your wife wash the dishes" task from the system. Feeling a bit depressed, he walked out of the kitchen. Why didn't the system give more tasks? Otherwise, where would he earn Glory Points?

Walking along, he came to the two tall longan trees at the gate of the yard. It was already early September, and the other longan trees in the village had already borne fruit and could be eaten, but the two trees in his yard hadn't even bloomed.

"I don't know what you're good for, growing taller than the other longan trees in the village, but not bearing any fruit," Ye Rongyao said angrily to the two tall longan trees, even kicking each tree hard out of anger.

These two longan trees were planted by Ye Rongyao's grandfather, and they were older than his father. According to his father, they were both over seventy years old and had never bloomed or borne any longan fruit.

If it weren't for the shade they provided in the summer, these two fruitless longan trees would have been cut down long ago for firewood.

"I wonder what would happen if I gave these two longan trees a boost," Ye Rongyao thought, touching the bottle of "100 ml Small Bottle of Advanced Plant Nutrient Solution" in his pocket.

Thinking about it, Ye Rongyao couldn't resist taking out the bottle and pouring half of it at the roots of each longan tree, then throwing the bottle into the trash can outside the yard.

Back in the yard, Ye Rongyao stared at the two longan trees until it was almost dark, but he didn't see any changes.

"Is the 'Advanced Plant Nutrient Solution' ineffective on these two longan trees, or is 100 ml not enough for them to absorb?" Ye Rongyao couldn't figure out the reason.

"Husband, it's dark, go take a shower and sleep," Liu Qingqing called from inside to Ye Rongyao, who was standing at the gate of the yard.

Liu Qingqing was very hygienic. If Ye Rongyao didn't take a shower, she wouldn't let him go to bed. Ye Rongyao couldn't do anything about it and had to take a shower obediently.

Ye Rongyao's family was very poor, and they only had a 32-inch LCD TV, which he bought when he got married. However, Taoyuan Village didn't have cable TV or digital TV networks, so the 32-inch LCD TV was just a decoration, with very few channels.

...

In the evening...

"Husband, are you tired? Go to sleep," Liu Qingqing said gently, feeling that her husband was really tired. This was the first time she spoke to Ye Rongyao so gently.

"Okay," Ye Rongyao responded, a bit embarrassed, and closed his eyes to sleep. It wasn't that he didn't want to talk to his wife, but he felt ashamed.

Ye Rongyao secretly resolved to draw a physical enhancement drug in the system to make himself stronger.

Thinking about it, Ye Rongyao fell asleep...

"Husband, get up quickly, something strange is happening!" Early in the morning, Ye Rongyao, who was still in bed, was pushed awake by his wife.