Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?! Chapter 59 Part-time Job

"Three thousand gold coins for twenty pickaxes, with the order valid for two days." Jiang Yuan pondered that with the harsh conditions in Riverfront Village, the farming tools that ordinary villagers might have couldn’t be outrageously expensive, so he could definitely earn a sure profit as a middleman.

Then he rembered Yun Mo’s conversation with the shop owner, which implied that the Floating Market orders ca from bounties released by the auction?

So relying solely on completing orders to make money and beco self-sufficient in the ga seed a bit challenging; bounty orders surely wouldn’t appear every day, and even if they did, he might not have the goods on hand.

If he wanted to make money, he still had to focus on selling goods from his showcase.

These past two nights at the market, he wasn’t just wandering aimlessly. After all, opening a shop requires basic market research, and it’s best to sell sothing unique to the entire Cyan Fish Mountain Market to actually make a profit.

At six in the morning sharp, the market completely closed and Ascended into the Wilderness, and Jiang Yuan, taking advantage of his apprentice not being awake yet, quit the ga and got out of bed.

For the first ti imrsed in the ga world for so long, he needed to clear his mind properly.

In the modern city at ten-thirty in the evening, the stalls of small vendors downstairs were still bustling; upstairs soone was on the balcony making a phone call about work; next door, Yang Hongye was still watching a drama, faintly hearing a woman shouting about denouncing so affair.

The vibrant breath of life in the Mortal World quickly pulled him back to reality from the ga world.

"Oh, if only I could bring things from here into the ga, grabbing a lighter or a flashlight to put in the showcase would definitely fetch high prices!" Jiang Yuan thought to himself, ordering so takeaway with his phone.

"Dong dong!"

Just after placing the order, a WeChat ssage ca in, opened to find it was from a forr colleague.

Before he found his last job at a runaway tech company, both he and this Yang brother, who was nearing fifty, worked in sales at a renovation company.

Due to Jiang Yuan’s peculiar disposition and frequent unemploynt, he developed a wide array of skills to secure work, dabbling a bit in everything, including basic photo editing. Occasionally, he would help with rendering images, so he was quite popular in the company.

Unable to withstand the boss’s incompetence, who screwed up two big projects leaving nothing but misery, the renovation company naturally went under.

His earlier colleague Yang’s WeChat was just lying in the list, and now he suddenly popped up offering to introduce a part-ti photo editing job.

"The first batch involves editing thirty images, ten bucks per image, totaling three hundred, and it’s cash paynt upon completion?" Jiang Yuan queried upon seeing the proposal: "Don’t tell it’s about removing watermarks from stolen images? I’m serious, I can’t do that."

Even now, with money in hand from selling cherries, he wouldn’t stoop to aiding and abetting by stealing soone’s pictures for a re couple hundred bucks.

Yang: "No way, man. I’m introducing a genuine part-ti job to you. It’s my friend’s company, he’s in charge of inventory—running a website. Previously they hired a professional designer to create renderings, but now those products are outdated and not being sold anymore. They want new renders without wasting more money, claiming designers charge too much. So they’re looking for soone who can edit images to replace the products on the page!"

"Just replace the products using the original files from the designer. These designs usually have lots of source layers, just find the product layer, delete it, and place the new one. Why spend that money?" Jiang Yuan thought it wasn’t difficult.

Anyone who knows a bit about computers can easily modify the images.

As long as the original file made by the designer is intact, it won’t even take a minute to modify an image. Is it possible their company website can’t handle that?

Yang: "Ah, you don’t get how these bosses think? Outsiders seem more legitimate!

My friend ntioned that initially, the boss didn’t want to spend much money, so they specially recruited a designer. That guy drew a grand picture inspiring the designer to work zealously, creating the whole website and images. When all was done, the boss pointed out tardies and early leaves during the probation period, paid a basic salary, and fired him.

Now they need to update product images. If soone within the company claims they can do it, it turns into unpaid work, burdening them more. And next ti, any related work might just get pushed to them with no salary raise. So even if they could do it, they’d say they can’t.

But this is easy money, hehehe... If it weren’t for us being older and not tech-savvy, we wouldn’t have co to you first. You practice with the first batch of images, earn three hundred, and share a hundred with us. You get the bigger share for your effort, and plenty more work awaits!"

Jiang Yuan: ...

No matter how small, it’s still money. Moving a finger to earn two hundred bucks can cover tonight’s supper.

Getting up to start the computer, receiving the raw design files and new product photos, he completed thirty color page promotional images before his takeaway even arrived. He had already earned three hundred by the ti he collected the takeaway and ate halfway through.

Transferring a hundred commission to Yang, it paid off the takeaway and left him with an inco of a hundred and twenty, making the small barbecue and cola even more enjoyable.

After a good night’s sleep, in the early morning, Yang Hongye watched him huffing and puffing while moving boxes of cherries into her car boot, teasingly said: "Jiang Yuan, all that gym effort hasn’t gone to waste, huh? You actually have muscles now."

Muscles?!

Jiang Yuan thought to himself, considering how he eats several als a day and constantly sleeps, occasionally exercising here and there, how could there be any results?

After placing the cherries and closing the boot, as he was about to joke, he couldn’t help but be stunned. Yang Hongye wasn’t kidding; it was true!

In a completely relaxed state, his biceps were indeed quite prominent, even though a couple of days ago, they were still buried under fat when he saw them in the bathroom mirror. How did they suddenly erge?

"Uh... maybe I have a solid foundation and just wasn’t really fat all along."

"That’s true." Yang Hongye pursed her lips and smiled, "Hurry up and get in the car, I’ll give you a ride. Once you sign the contract, leave the rest to the professional business service company. I’ll work harder promoting as a sales rep, so we can aim to earn ten thousand every day. When you build more muscle, buy a car, you’ll surely find a girlfriend before the end of the year."

"What do I need a girlfriend for!" Jiang Yuan took the passenger seat, buckled his seatbelt, thinking to himself, how could a girlfriend be more fun than an imrsive ga?

She drove, grinning, "When your inco is stable and business is thriving, don’t your family pressure you to get married?"

"You are three years older than , don’t your family pressure you?" Jiang Yuan deftly maneuvered the conversation direction.

Yang Hongye’s smile widened, "I don’t go ho. How can they pressure ? My parents are anxious to marry off to get a dowry to help my brother buy a house and get a wife.

They’d pocket tens of thousands in dowry while I take the bla. I wasn’t stupid; why would I go ho? I might never get out if I do."

Jiang Yuan was yet again taken aback, never expecting a situation he had only heard about online to occur right beside him; mainly because she never ntioned it before. "But... your family funded your university education; they shouldn’t..."

"Tch!" Yang Hongye clicked her tongue in disappointnt, "If it weren’t for my good grades earning scholarships and doing work-study without spending their money, tutoring my brother, and claiming that female college students had more chances to find wealthy n, my parents wouldn’t have let go to college!

I drew them grand plans, saying my brother didn’t perform well academically and it’d be better for to graduate and make money to buy him a house, so they didn’t tear up my university acceptance letter."

She slapped Jiang Yuan’s shoulder heavily, earnestly declaring, "So starting today, as we register the company, our business officially steps onto its proper path. Let’s work hard to make big money!

I’ll rely on myself to pay the down paynt to buy a house, settle my residency, and truly take root in the city without worrying about being forced back ho! In the future, I’ll just remit support paynts straight to their accounts without needing personal etings."

"Okay, we’ll make lots and lots of money, buy whatever we want, and achieve financial freedom without worries!" Jiang Yuan nodded vigorously, feeling an inexplicable sense of responsibility towards this venture.

[The cherries by the hostead river bank are ripe, ready for harvest and storage for consumption, or used as raw material for making food products]

Just as they neared the business service company Chuci had introduced, a ga system alert suddenly popped up.