Rated F for Farming, Now Every Guild Bids on My Vegetables novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: The Grand Market
He planted the twelve on Friday at dusk, under the lean-to, in a bed he had worked with twelve scoops from the ash trough.
He laid the seeds a hand apart in two rows of six, the way Grandma had spaced ginseng under the old shade-shed.
He banked warm stones from the stove along both rows and pulled the grass mats over them.
Then he sat in the doorway of the house wrapped in the Busan blanket and watched the mist come down white.
The floor was very quiet without Bom in it.
For a week there had been another person's breathing at night and another person's boots by the stove.
Now there was only the stream, which made no sound, and his own cough.
She had walked out of the lot door with him on Saturday, in front of the whole Market.
Then she had gone down the stairs to the Cheongju guild house.
He had not let himself watch her go.
At dawn he lifted the mats.
Twelve roots lay under the soil, each with its beard of fine hair.
He brushed the dirt off them one at a time and laid them in a box he had woven from split cane on Wednesday.
The box had taken a day and the skin off two fingers.
Then he thought the word Status, because it was Grand Market day and he wanted to know what he was carrying in with him.
[Ju Gyu-ho. Keeper of an unlisted floor. Day 88.]
[Sow, Level 5. XP: 39,896 of 45,000.]
[Health: 54 of 100. Stamina: 36 of 100.]
[Hunger: sharp. Thirst: none.]
[Coins: 22,268. Lots per Market: 3.]
Grandma's flour had run out on Tuesday, and he had lived since on radishes and tomatoes.
They filled him, and they did nothing for him at all.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Rated F for Farming, Now Every Guild Bids on My Vegetables are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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