Chapter 30 What Kind of God Tier Slacking Skill Is This !
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 30
Chapter Title: What Kind of God-Tier Slacking Skill Is This?!
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Su Yi didn't have the time to handle all these matters on the farm himself.
So he needed a tool person to help him handle them.
Zhou Yan was clearly a good candidate for it.
As for whether this tool person was loyal or not, it actually wasn't important.
He held the greatest power in his hands, and the actual profit or loss of the farm itself wasn't what he cared about most.
Running the farm was just something incidental while he reasonably and legally obtained bulk grain and other goods. It would be best if it made a profit, but if it lost money, it didn't matter to him either.
If the farm lost money, he would just change to another professional manager.
And regarding where the things acquired through the farm ultimately went, it would be very hard to hide it from the tool person. But Su Yi had plenty of ways to make him afraid to speak of such things to the outside world.
Even if Zhou Yan really was a spy or an informant sent by someone, he wouldn't truly go so far as to disregard his own life.
He only made so much money a month, why would he risk his life for it?
Not to mention, no one should have the motivation to bribe Zhou Yan to be a spy right now.
The Shen family could be curious, sure, and they absolutely had the ability to do it, but currently, Su Yi's relationship with the Shen family wasn’t bad, and they had just established contact.
He felt that if the people of the Shen family didn't have any problems with their brains, they wouldn't come to offend him at least for now.
Su Yi had personally finalized the issues regarding welfare benefits and appointed a person in charge.
He had no intention of managing the farm side of things anymore than this.
Though just before he left, he asked Zhou Yan to select some plots of land with better conditions and leave them unplanted in the near future. He told the man that he would get a batch of special new crops to try planting, but he didn't say what exactly he was going to plant.
Although Zhou Yan was puzzled, since the big boss had spoken, he naturally wouldn’t object.
Anyway, if the things planted in these fields didn't survive, and they lost money because of it, it wouldn't be blamed on his head.
By the time Su Yi finished arranging everything on the farm, it was already evening again.
Yue Ling had followed behind him while acting as a decoration for a whole day. Wherever Su Yi went, she followed behind without saying a single word to outsiders.
But when it was time for dinner, she proactively opened her mouth and proposed:
"How about we go eat here tonight?"
As she spoke, she took out her phone, opened a certain video app, and pulled up a restaurant advertisement from her favorites.
Su Yi glanced at it. It was the kind of restaurant that resembled an ancient imperial banquet. The average cost per person wasn't high there, and besides food, there were also some song and dance performances.
They even provided some ancient costumes for guests to wear to blend into the environment and gain a sense of immersion.
Of course, he agreed without a second thought.
It was just eating. He inherently didn't have any high requirements for food. As long as it didn't taste bad, he was fine with anything.
With a price per head of several hundred, it couldn't possibly be that bad.
Moreover, although he had bought so many clothes for Yue Ling, he hadn't bought her any ancient costumes. He was also quite curious to see what effect it would have when Yue Ling put one on.
If it looked good, he could get her more of them later.
"Wait!"
Just after agreeing, Su Yi realized another thing.
"Weren't you following behind me the whole time since we went out today? When did you watch this video?"
"During the day!"
Yue Ling blinked her eyes.
"There’s a magic called the Eye of Insight that allows me to see the location I want to see.
After I used this magic on the phone screen, I could see the content on the phone. Combined with another minor magic, I could also control the phone from a distance."
Su Yi: ......
"So during the day, you looked like you were standing behind me without making a sound, but you were actually scrolling through short videos?"
Good heavens, what kind of god-tier slacking skill was this?!
"Yeah, but don't worry, most of my energy was focused on your safety. If anything had happened, I could have reacted to it."
Yue Ling didn't hide it at all.
"Uh, alright."
Slacking off was slacking off, but who let her have the ability to multitask?
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The place where Yue Ling wanted to eat was quite far from the suburbs, taking them nearly half an hour to drive there.
This kind of restaurant sold not only food, but also service and performances.
Naturally, their charging method was also different from ordinary restaurants.
After asking briefly, Su Yi directly bought the most expensive package ticket. Setting aside the food inside for now, the ticket included front-row seats and the ancient costumes provided by the restaurant.
He came precisely for this, so of course he had to buy the most expensive one.
Of course, although it was said to be the most expensive, it cost no more than a thousand per person. To the current Su Yi, this was just a drop in the bucket.
The quality of the clothes provided here naturally couldn't be that high. The material felt cheap to the touch.
But Yue Ling's perfect figure and face perfectly compensated for this minor flaw.
After putting on the ancient costume, she was like a gentlewoman stepping out of a painting. One glance was enough to leave a person intoxicated and fascinated.
Although Su Yi bought the same ticket, he didn't go and wear the ancient clothes.
He didn't have what it took to make it work!
These ancient costumes were completely unsuitable for modern men to wear, alright?
Forcing them on would only make one look like a nondescript mess.
With his beardless, pretty-boy appearance, and with him being unable to fake a scholarly aura, if he put on a whole set of ancient costume, people who didn't know any better would think that some eunuch had run out from somewhere.
This wasn't his fatal flaw. Most modern men wearing this kind of ancient costume looked like eunuchs.
There was no helping it. In ancient times, what decent man didn't grow a beard?!
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"It's so beautiful here!"
Upon entering the banquet hall, the decorations inside made even this elven princess, who had seen much in another world, sigh in admiration.
"What do you say? How does it compare to the royal palaces of the Elven Race or the humans in your world?"
Yue Ling thought seriously for a moment and said:
"If we're talking about being magnificent and luxurious, then this place is definitely inferior to the human palaces in the magical world. Let alone the palaces of those empires, even Vivi's palace in Dream River City is much more luxurious than this. The pillars in the grand hall of her palace are made of solid gold, after all.
If we're talking about being simple and elegant, then this place is definitely inferior to the royal palace of our Elven Kingdom. You can rarely see metal products inside our royal palace. Most are made from some special magical plants. Even the entire grand hall of the royal palace is itself hollowed out from the stump of a giant tree. And because our Elven Race has long lifespans, we’re quite accomplished in the arts. Every sculpture and every mural in the royal palace is an artwork that ranks high in the magical world.
But this place is different. In terms of being magnificent and luxurious, it's inferior to the human palaces in the magical world. In terms of being exquisite and elegant, it's inferior to our Elven Race's palace. Yet it combines the advantages of both, appearing both resplendent and magnificent without seeming overly vulgar."
Understood. The humans over there are filthy rich, wearing gold, silver, and the like to decorate their palaces to be shiny and dazzling. The Elven Race are poor but particular, able to make common things look exquisite.
Su Yi immediately nodded in agreement.
But the next moment, he realized that something was wrong.
"Wait, a pillar in Vivi's palace is made of solid gold? How big is the pillar?"
Yue Ling was stunned for a moment, seemingly not expecting him to pull the topic this far away all of a sudden, but she still answered quickly.
"I've only seen it a few times and haven't measured it. It's probably less than three meters in diameter and a dozen or so meters high? I'm not too sure about the size, but it’s indeed solid gold."
"???"
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T/N - Lol, classic Chinese MC. He immediately realized that he got low-balled by Vivi for his batch of food since gold is so abundant in the other world that they actually make pillars of pure gold for their palaces over there. For that one pillar alone, that’s already over 1,500 tons of gold! Imagine!
Also, I need that Eye of Insight magic and that mirror magic of Yue Ling. The MC might have joked that it was for slacking off, it’s a godly reconnaissance skill in reality. No, I’m not gonna use it to peep, why are you asking that? 😁
There we go! 30 initial chapters. What do you guys think of this novel? It’s quite different from the Barbarian one I’m translating, but I like it nonetheless. It has this chill slice-of-life vibe to it, making it a welcome break to the action-packed narrative of my other novel. And it perfectly captures my “What would I do if I was rich” daydreams.