Chapter 16: Unethical businessman

Avery, who was exhausted after a long day, fell asleep not long after lying on the bed. When she woke up again, the sky was already dark and there weren't any noises in the living room anymore. Avery opened the door and walked to the living room. Sure enough, George was no longer there, and the ingredients he had sorted before were no where to be seen too. However, there was a note on the dining table. "The food is in the refrigerator, heat it up yourself." Although it was not signed, Avery knew that it must have been left by her "housemate". "I didn't expect him to be this considerate." Although Avery had not completely let down her guard against George, her impression of him was better. At this time, George had already started his business in front of his stall. His business today was rather well, maybe because school was about to start, and many students have returned to school early, so there was naturally more people around. Of course, compared with several other barbecue stalls nearby, his business was still much worse. However, George had no other thoughts except envy. He knew that his skills weren't as good and the stall is too small. When George returned to home, it was already late at night. At this time, Avery, who was still trying to adapt to the new place, was still lying awake on the bed. When she heard the sound of the door opening, she was startled and her whole body tensed up. A man and woman were alone in the same house, and they were strangers, so Avery couldn't help but feel nervous. Fortunately, George quickly entered his bedroom, and when she heard the door closing, Avery breathed a sigh of relief. George had no intention of paying attention to what Avery was thinking. After returning to his room, he simply took a bath and entered the game world. Returning to game world, George was still at the village chief's house. George thought of what he had been thinking about during the day and simply went to the village chief. "I heard that you have become Li's apprentice? That's good. Learn from him and you'll definitely benefit from it for the rest of your life." The village chief spoke first when he saw George. "I will." George nodded. He naturally wouldn't miss such a good opportunity after meeting a master-level instructor. "That's good." The village chief said with satisfaction, "What do you want from me? I don't have any missions here." "I'm not here to ask for a mission." George said, "I noticed that there is a lot of empty land on the mountain behind our village. Chief, look, since the land is empty, why don't you give them to plant some crops?" George looked at the old village chief expectantly. The land in the mountain was quite large. If the old village chief was really willing to let him use it for farming, it would be equivalent to having his own planting base for barbecue in the future. "Why do you want the empty land? What do you want to plant?" The village chief looked at George Wu in confusion. "Just some vegetables, fruits and so on." George said. "It's not impossible. Anyway, there are not many people in our village, and most of them are quite old. They can only take care of the one-third of an acre of land in front and behind their own houses. They don't have much energy to take care of the land in the back hill." The village chief said. George face lit up after hearing this. There was room for negotiation! However, at this moment, the chief's tone changed as he said, "But..." "But what?" George asked quickly. This is related to his real-life money-making plan. If he can really get the land there, not only will he have some ingredients for the barbecue stall, but he believed that he could make a lot of money by selling it directly too. Hence, he couldn't help but care about it. "But, do you have the money?" the old village chief looked at George Wu with a smirk on his face. "Money?" George's face froze, and then he looked at the old village chief flatteringly and said, "Chief, we are already so close, how about I owe you first? When I make enough money, I promise to pay you back." "That's not possible." The old village chief shook his head and said, "I don't do credit here." "Why are you so heartless?" George said, "But this village is just this big, where can I make money?" George had been thinking about the money issue before, but after killing so many monsters and even getting dropped equipment, he didn't even see a single copper plate, which made him feel helpless. "You want to earn money? It's easy!" said the old village chief. "How do I do it?" George asked quickly. With money, not only can he solve the problem of renting vacant land, but it will also be much easier to do other things. "You can go to the outskirts of the village to kill those monsters, and then sell their fur, claws and even teeth to those in need, especially Mr. Liu from the grocery store. He usually likes to collect these things." The old village chief pointed out a way for George to make money. When George heard this, he immediately thought of the two corpses in his backpack. One was the demonized fox and the other was the colorful evil tiger. He left in a hurry yesterday and forgot to deal with them. He didn't expect to make money from them. At the thought that he would be able to make money soon, George quickly said, "I'll be back in a jiffy!" Afterwards, he ran out of the village chief's house in a hurry and went straight to the grocery store. George was now familiar with the buildings in the village, so it was not difficult to find the grocery store. "Mr. Liu, I'm here to sell some stuff!" George took the corpses of the demonized fox and the colorful tiger out at the door of the grocery store and placed them there. "I'm coming! I'm coming!" The grocery store door opened, and an old man walked out. When the old man saw the the corpses of the demonized fox and the colourful evil tiger on the ground, he was first surprised, and then overjoyed. "Treasures!" The grocery store owner didn't bother to talk to George anymore. His attention was on the two corpses. George could see the light in his eyes clearly. "Mr. Liu, do you want these two things?" George asked. "Yes, yes, I definitely want it!" Mr. Liu said without hesitation, "I heard Aunty Wang talk about you, and I know you are a good young man. These two things are good, and I won't let you suffer any losses. I want these two corpses, how about I give you two gold coins?" Two gold coins? To be honest, George didn't know much about the money system in this world. He didn't know whether two gold coins were a lot or not. However, these were gold coins after all the shop owner seemed very sincere. Coupled with the fact that he only offered this price for the sake of Aunty Wang's good words, George believed that he wouldn't scam him. Therefore, George agreed after thinking about it. The transaction was done and both parties were happy. However, just as George thought that he had money and went into the grocery store to see if there was anything suitable for him, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared. "This unethical businessman!" George walked out of the grocery store in disgrace and muttered to himself.