"Grandma, I'm back!"
"Oh my, why did you buy so much fruit? How can just the two of us possibly finish all of it?"
"The weather's so hot now, it'll spoil in just a few days!"
"It's okay, if it spoils, Hanhan can just eat it."
"……"
[Hanhan's frustration value +60, money +300]
The elderly woman was used to saving — she usually ate meat only once a week. Seeing her grandson come back and spend so much, even though she spoiled him, she felt a little hurt and kept nagging in Li Ran's ear —
"The weather's getting hotter day by day. Buying so much meat and letting it spoil in a couple of days is just wasting money!"
"You've already graduated from college but haven't found a job, and the family has no money. How are you going to find a wife in the future?"
Li Ran broke into a sweat: "Grandma, I'm not short of money now. Yesterday alone I earned tens of thousands!"
Li Ran had received over a hundred thousand yuan in gifts during yesterday's livestream. After platform fees and taxes, he still took home at least fifty to sixty thousand yuan.
No matter how he explained, even showing the earnings statistics in the livestream backend, the old woman simply wouldn't believe him and thought he was joking.
Li Ran had no choice but to open his mobile banking app — the few tens of thousands he'd earned through the frustration value system were deposited directly into his bank account.
Seeing the balance, the elderly woman was shocked.
"You're a genius! Where did you get so much money? Are you doing something bad?"
Li Ran was speechless.
For many elders, all ways of making money seem to involve doing something wrong…
It took Li Ran quite a while to convince his grandmother that all the money he earned was legal and legitimate, nothing bad or shameful.
"Anyway, from now on we can eat meat and fish every day. Grandma, whatever you want, just say it, I'll buy it for you!"
The old woman stared at Li Ran for a few seconds and said, "I just want a granddaughter-in-law!"
Li Ran was stunned.
The livestream room immediately erupted.
"Haha, so cute!"
"The host is being pressured to get married by his grandma!"
"Look at the host's embarrassed expression, so funny!"
"Didn't expect the serious grandma to be so playful!"
"Grandma, please give us your address so the granddaughter-in-law doesn't have to look for him. I'll take the high-speed train myself!"
"Smart women have already d their flights to Sichuan…"
Finally, the sound of a baby in Li Ran's stomach saved him from the awkward moment.
"Cough, cough… Grandma, I'm a bit hungry, let's hurry up and cook!"
For lunch, he still cooked two dishes: spicy stir-fried pork and tomato scrambled eggs.
He wanted to stew pork ribs with radish but the grandmother insisted that it would be too much and wasteful, so Li Ran gave in.
After lunch, despite many fans' desperate pleas, Li Ran decisively ended the livestream.
He put a dozen or so different fruits into his pocket, carried them to the empty ground outside the front door, and dug holes to plant them one by one…
He then poured diluted growth solution around each hole, and soon tender green seedlings sprouted vigorously.
Peach trees, plum trees, loquat trees, longan trees, lychee trees, watermelon vines, and a dozen other kinds of fruit trees and seedlings rapidly grew thanks to the growth solution, quickly encircling the original modest vegetable garden.
With less than one-third of the empty space left, Li Ran planted more than ten kinds of flowers such as gardenias, roses, and night-blooming jasmine. Also treated with diluted growth solution, these soon formed a moderately sized flower garden.
Li Ran glanced around and nodded with satisfaction: "This basically completes the layout of the self-service vegetable and fruit garden at the villa's entrance!"
"From now on, Grandma can just pick whatever vegetables or fruits she wants right outside the door!"
He then looked back at the stacked cedar logs under the eaves, hesitating a bit.
"Better make a refrigerator first; otherwise, the pork ribs I bought today really won't last overnight."
Li Ran pulled out a cedar log, then took from his system storage the high-pressure water jet cutter he had prepared earlier, and quickly cut the log into several thick wooden boards.
He coated each board with a moisture-proof layer, then joined them together using wooden dowels…
In just over ten minutes, a cedar wood double-door refrigerator was fully assembled.
"Hmm, it looks pretty good!" Li Ran praised himself.
He hadn't learned how to make all kinds of appliances — this refrigerator was purely a replica.
But Li Ran's craftsmanship was excellent, and aside from color differences, it looked just like the ones sold in stores.
"Last step: refrigeration."
He returned to the system interface and quickly found two items he discovered earlier that morning:
[Extremely cold refrigeration item. One megaton of liquid nitrogen compressed and condensed by black technology into a small sphere, which continuously emits cold air. Exchange price: 200 frustration points.]
[Micro particle collider heating item. Over 30 million quark particles constantly colliding and rubbing inside to produce continuous heat. Exchange price: 300 frustration points.]
Both items were walnut-sized, one white and one black, smooth spheres. The white one felt icy cold, the black one warm.
Li Ran placed the two small spheres into a tiny compartment in the middle of the refrigerator as planned.
Outside this compartment was a temperature control knob.
Turning the knob controlled the position of the two spheres, whose movements balanced heating and cooling, allowing temperature adjustment.
With that, a non-electric "refrigerator" was fully completed.
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