On a summer afternoon, the sun burns the skin, the heat hits the face, and the air is filled with the smell of tar burning.

In such oven-like weather, Zhou You pedaled his bicycle and climbed wildly on the winding road of Xiyun Mountain.

Seven or eight kilometers of uphill slope had already made his legs sore, but he did not slow down at all, and when he saw that he had reached a fork in the road, the handlebars turned and merged into the nameless loess road halfway up the mountain.

Remember that you will be there in three minutes on the dirt road.

Thinking that he was about to get his wish and become a "landlord", while excited, he also pedaled faster and faster.

The landlord who wants to be a landlord is not a chartered man, but the owner of a homestay or manor.

It is not too difficult to realize, it is nothing more than to find a mountain stream and lakeside, build a few wooden houses and earth houses, raise one or two pets, serve three points of the pastoral, the guests come to cook and brag, the guests go to beckon cats and dogs, exercise in the morning in the forest, lie in the hammock in the afternoon to read, and ...... at night It would be nice to have a lovely hostess, this ...... Actually, it doesn't have to be.

Zhou You's yearning for such a landlord's life originated from his grandfather.

At the end of the 90s, after the grandfather retired, he made a piece of land on the mountainside of Xiyun Mountain, and built the "Old Zhou Compound" to welcome visitors from all over the world, and the business has been good, until the grandfather had a serious illness, so he had to sublease the yard, and then the business plummeted, and after a few hands of subleasing did not get better, with the death of the grandfather, the yard was completely dilapidated, and no one came.

Only traveling, since I was a child, I liked my grandfather's yard, and I rode over on weekends, and I could play here for a long time.

Until I was 14 years old, something happened.

He didn't know exactly what happened, he only knew that he had been asleep in the yard for two whole days, and when he was discovered, there was something "unclean" wrapped around his body, which was washed off after a long time, and then his parents did not allow him to go again.

Traveling around but always thinking about this place, I did not hesitate to apply for architecture in college, and taught myself interior design in my spare time.

Seeing that their son had grown up, his parents still insisted on it, and finally on his 20th birthday, that is, the night before, they handed over all the real estate and business documents of the small courtyard, together with the New Year's money saved for their son, and asked him to take care of the yard with his own hands and bear his own profits and losses.

At the same time, the parents also truthfully explained that the owners of several rental yards before said that the yard was not clean, and the guests were either frightened or lost things, and the reputation became more and more stinky, and the yard was defeated.

Zhou You naturally didn't believe it, those bosses complained about hauntings or something, they just wanted to rely on the rent.

If it's really haunted, it's even better, as soon as the haunted B&B signs are sold, business is immediately so good that it explodes.

Thinking about it, Zhou You had already ridden to the end of the dirt road.

A completely rusted iron gate blocked the way, and on top of the iron gate was a sign printed with three red lacquer characters of "Nongmile Le", and the lower part of "home" was completely unclear.

Wandering threw down the bicycle and walked to the iron gate.

For a moment, it was like a dream.

He took a few deep breaths before he pushed open the iron door.

Six years on, he believes he's got what it takes.

As expected, the forces of nature reigned on the courtyard, grass squeezed out of the cracks in the stone tables, vines crawled on the facades of the bungalows, pavilions were still alive, and vegetable gardens were overgrown with weeds.

Regardless of this, he couldn't wait to go around the courtyard, behind which was a very beautiful small lake, and there was a mountain stream that happened to fall here, and the water was cool, and now he just wanted to plunge into it to relieve the heat.

But as soon as I bypassed, my heart was half cold.

The mountain stream was so dry that there were only a few drops left, and it looked like it was going to dry up completely, and the place where it should have been a lake was full of weeds and moss, and there was only a small ditch left.

Zhou You smiled bitterly and shook his head.

It doesn't matter, it's a big deal to fill this place, and it will be used as an expansion area.

Tidy up the mood, revisit the old place, walk down in a big circle, and you can't help but sigh at grandpa's vision again.

The small courtyard has mountains, rivers and forests, and the total area is slightly larger than a football field, not to mention a homestay, it is enough to build a hotel.

Naturally, there was a boss who wanted to buy this place for development, but the grandfather insisted that this was a treasure land and wanted to leave it to future generations, so he held it in his hands for so many years, only renting and not selling.

After thanking his grandfather again, Zhou You began to think about it.

In terms of theme, it can be animals, farms, fish ponds, etc., the room can be made into a characteristic wooden house for couples, or it can be a family-style Chinese courtyard, a Zen-style mountain residence loved by middle-aged people in literature and art, etc., in the eyes of designers, rotten wood can also be carved, not to mention a place with such excellent scenery.

It's about to take a summer vacation, and it's time to do a big job.

After taking a circle of photos and videos, Zhou You found a flat big black stone in the shade of the forest in the west and sat down, took out a few large sips of mineral water, and the water dripped down the side of his mouth onto the stone, and the stone moistened the water, revealing a faint texture like annual rings, as if it was flowing.

Zhou You wiped his mouth and looked at the demonic texture, and then remembered that this stone seemed to be the place where he fainted when he was a child.

Stunned, the mobile phone emitted a sound effect of "Goo~Goo~", which is not the sound of text messages or WeChat, but a prompt sound that has never been heard, like the sound of underwater bubbles.

I took out my phone, and the screen was on, showing a new reminder -

[Attachable equipment detected, Xianyu binding......]

Is it the website that trades second-hand items? It seems that some classmates have sold old mobile phones on it.

Zhou You frowned and unlocked the screen, the software has become more and more rogue these years, and it can't escape the forced installation if you escape to the deep mountains and old forests.

He quickly found the icon that "Xianyu" was installing at the end of the software list, it was a yellow croaker that looked cheap, and he didn't want to drag the icon into the "trash", but the icon did not disappear, but returned to the previous place.

Zhou You tried a few more times, it still didn't work, and I was about to shut down and restart, the screen flashed, the installation was completed, and it automatically jumped into the interface of "Xianyu", and a series of prompts slid by.

[Configuring, please wait for ......]

[Language adaptation - Chinese Mandarin. 】

[World Detection - No Demon Plane.] 】

……

[After the configuration is completed, the ...... is officially launched]

……

[Hello, store manager. 】

"I'm not good at all!" Zhou Youfang pressed the shutdown button to turn off the screen, but the screen didn't move at all, as if all operations were ineffective.

After Xianyu said hello, he entered the regular process of rogue software.

[Please read the "Store Manager (Plane Manager) Agreement" carefully]

[First, after binding Xianyu, you will become the manager of the current plane, and while enjoying the right to trade, you are also obliged to maintain the order of the plane......]

[Article 2, all transactions are settled in the official currency of Xianyu, please do not believe in private transactions. 】

[Article 3, there will be energy decay in the transmission of items between planes, and Xianyu will give an official assessment, and the purchase of goods will accept the decay result and will not be returned. 】

……

It's impossible to see such a thing as an agreement, and it's impossible to see it in this life.

Zhou You habitually dragged to the bottom, ready to refuse, but at the bottom there was only "agree", and there was no option to refuse.

Yes, yes, very rogue.

Long press to shut down, invalid, force restart, invalid.

After a frenzy of operations, he got angry.

Do you have to throw your phone away to let me go?

This software is too much, who wants to be the manager of the idle fish?

Even if you throw your phone away, throw it in the water, or throw it outside, you will never do it.

Zhou You raised his phone and was about to throw it away.

“……”

Forget it, it's a very expensive thing, maybe there is still salvation, agree first, and it won't be less meat.

After agreeing to the agreement,The screen immediately jumped to the main interface of Xianyu,What Zhou You didn't expect is,This interface is refreshingly typeset,Clean tone,Serious,The visual experience is actually not bad。

The top two rows of the homepage are the icons of the product categories, which should be mobile phone numbers, clothing and bags, etc., but the product types here are very strange, they are [Pill Alchemy], [Summoning Contract], [Secret Techniques], [Rare Beasts]......

Although these labels are very nonsense,But the icon style is very beautiful and detailed.,I don't know where to go than those mobile games.,Out of respect for UI artists.,Zhou You was curious to pull down.。

Below this, there is the "What's New" section, which is actually a variety of buyers or sellers' shows, similar to the state of WeChat Moments.

The first novelty is very heavy, the publisher's avatar is a red ugly little monster, like a ghost in a hell-themed painting, but his message is very harmonious-

[Ula Ula, Lv.3 Buyer, Red Snake Gut Plane (Low Magic)]:

[The sulfur dog received it, and my son liked it very much, and he took out a lot of sulfur every day, which was enough for our whole family, and he would buy things from the maggot plane in the future. Ulla!!】

There is even a picture underneath this text comment.

It was a dog that looked like a rotten lemon, as if it had been doused with sulfuric acid, and there was a video below.

Zhou You shuddered and clicked on the video, which showed a little red monster baby playing with the dog in the sulfur water, and the "baby" barbell-like laughter was heart-palpitating.

Zhou You swallowed and spit, and his expression changed subtly, no longer the initial resoluteness and disdain, and gradually became serious.

It's not that this thing is disgusting.,It's mainly these people who play this software.,Play too seriously.,It's too hardcore.,It's very troublesome to make these pictures and this realistic video.。

In the next message, the poster's avatar is a bunch of unintelligible green symbols.

[Upper God Strain, Lv.7 Seller, Ten Thousand Trees High Well Plane (High Magic)]:

[30 Divine Thoughts Seeds Personally Refined in the Next, Help Your Child Quickly Condense into a Godhead, Each Sells 1888 Fish Balls, the price is a little expensive, but it can definitely help your child win at the starting line, pay attention, it is only valid in the High Demon Plane~~]

The accompanying picture is a lot of floating objects scattered with various colored halos, which looks like that.

There are two more replies at the bottom of this state.,Zhou You is curious to click on it.。

[This god is a liar!

[Don't believe in winning at the starting line, becoming a god only depends on fate!!]