Just as Ding Yun had pieced together enough information to figure out how to legally obtain household registration and hadn't had time to implement it yet, her farm experience accumulated to one million.
She smoothly leveled up from Level 1 to Level 2.
Simultaneously, two new seeds were unlocked: wheat and rice.
In addition to that, she gained an extra plot of land.
"Leveling up from Level 1 to Level 2 unlocked two new seeds, and now I have two plots of land. Does the number of seeds unlocked and the amount of land owned relate to the farm level? I'll have to wait to see what Level 3 looks like to confirm.
Regarding the specific unlocking of seeds, it feels quite random.
Never mind, I'll plant them first. I haven't made my own rice and flour in a long time, and I really miss it."
Muttering to herself, Ding Yun couldn't be bothered to overthink or speculate further. After all, she wasn't just staying for a month or two; she'd have plenty of time to slowly plant and observe later, so there was no need to rush.
After her musings, she opened the seed warehouse.
She clicked on wheat and rice separately.
As she clicked, the radishes on the plot she had used for planting fruit radishes quickly disappeared. In their place, wheat grew at a visible rate. The newly appeared land transformed into a paddy field first, and then rice began to grow at a visible speed.
It was quite magical to behold.
It could even change the environment based on the species.
If she unlocked the Snow Lotus of Tianshan later, would it conjure a snow mountain to grow it?
However, Ding Yun's attention quickly shifted from the newly grown paddy field to the numbers above the wheat and rice plants, because the numbers were changing incredibly fast.
They were increasing at a rolling speed.
So fast that Ding Yun stared at the numbers for a long time, mentally calculating the frequency, and was utterly astonished.
She was so surprised her mouth was nearly agape.
"This, this is too fast! Ten points per second. Why is the growth speed of wheat and rice so quick? Looking at it this way, the growth speed doesn't seem related to their normal growth rate. What's the logic behind it?"
After her initial shock, Ding Yun quickly remembered that when she planted white radishes and large pumpkins, they were counted individually. Thus, she couldn't help but worry if wheat and rice were counted by the grain.
If they were counted by the grain.
This speed wouldn't seem that fast.
To verify whether the output of rice and wheat was calculated by grain or by some other method, Ding Yun couldn't wait for the maximum output of wheat and rice. In the next second, she extended both hands, touched the wheat and rice separately, harvested them once, and opened the crop warehouse.
Then, as usual.
She clicked on the icons for wheat and rice.
Immediately, a stalk of wheat and a stalk of rice appeared in Ding Yun's left and right hands, respectively.
They felt quite heavy when she weighed them.
Estimating them to be at least one liang each, they were clearly high-yield varieties.
"So they are calculated by the stalk. That's a relief, thank goodness it's not by the grain. But if it's by the stalk, then the yield is quite high.
Wait, let me count and calculate..."
Looking at the wheat and rice in her hands, Ding Yun, after letting out a sigh of relief, unhurriedly continued to figure out the corresponding data for these two crops.
After her observation, the final conclusion was that for both wheat and rice, there were two hundred and forty plants per plot of land.
Ten stalks ripened per second, meaning each produced two thousand four hundred stalks per second. Even if one stalk weighed only one liang, that would be two hundred and forty jin.
And if calculated by the sixteen liang per jin used locally,
That would still be one hundred and fifty jin.
One hundred and fifty jin per second, if produced non-stop every day, would be a daily output of 12.96 million jin. And this was only for one type of crop, wheat or rice. Doubling that for both would mean an even higher output.
In short, it was terrifying.
After calculating this, Ding Yun herself was somewhat stunned, as the numbers were incredibly exaggerated. And this was calculated by jin; if calculated only by stalk, the uninterrupted daily output.
Would be over four hundred million stalks.
And experience points were calculated by the number of stalks.
One stalk was one experience point.
She had been worried before about the ten million experience points needed to go from Level 2 to Level 3, and the increasingly terrifying amount of experience required for subsequent levels.
How long would it take to reach them?
Now she realized she had worried for nothing.
Planting rice and wheat for a while would suffice. This yield and experience were simply outrageous.
It was like cheating.
Furthermore, the planting time for wheat and rice was quite considerate, with a maximum production time of eight hours. This meant three harvests a day were sufficient, and timing them wouldn't interfere with sleep or other activities.
"The yield and experience of rice and wheat feel so out of place compared to the previous two crops.
Could it be that the farm encourages the planting of staple foods?
There's truly no discernible pattern.
Besides, the farm doesn't seem to offer hulling or milling services, let alone de-husking.
Ah, it's really troublesome!"
After her surprise and astonishment, Ding Yun wasn't exactly overjoyed, because no matter how high the yield, she couldn't eat it immediately. With the effort of manually de-hulling, then slowly shelling and milling with stones to cook noodles, she might as well sell a couple of jin of radishes and buy something to eat at the market.
Her fruit radishes had already gained a reputation, selling for three wen per jin, which was more expensive than the wild fruits many people painstakingly gathered.
But her expensive price had its reasons. Those wild fruits were sour and less sweet than her radishes.
Many people loved that refreshing sweet taste.
A bowl of meat wontons only cost six wen, and she could sell at least three jin of her fruit radishes. While she couldn't afford delicacies, she could afford most of the snacks sold at the market.
Why bother torturing herself?
Even so, considering the high experience points from planting wheat and rice, Ding Yun decided to continue planting them until a crop she really wanted to eat appeared, or a crop with higher experience points than wheat and rice.
At that point, she would switch seeds.
Later, it didn't take Ding Yun long. In just over half an hour, thanks to the extremely high experience points from rice and wheat, she successfully leveled up to Level 3. She not only unlocked apples, garlic, and winter melon again, but also gained another plot of land.
Ding Yun didn't plant wheat and rice on the new plot. Instead, she planted apples. It had been over a month since she had eaten any fruit. Even though "fruit" was in the name of fruit radishes, they weren't considered fruit, nor was selling them.
While apples weren't her favorite fruit, she had no other choice. She decided to plant them first, intending to stockpile enough for her own consumption and for sale for a period, then switch back to planting high-experience seeds to hopefully unlock more fruit seeds.