Chapter 21: Chapter 21: Getting on Track
As soon as Lin Fan's post went live, it was instantly pushed to the top.
"Holy crap? We can buy furnaces with raw wood now?"
"Damn, I'm sick of eating raw meat! Lin Fan is my savior!"
"Not just yours—he's a savior for all of us!"
"Well, well, I won't say much, but to those who trashed Lin Fan earlier—don't you dare buy furnaces or stone swords now. If you do, I'll lose all respect for you."
"+1, don't buy them! If you do, you're a hypocrite."
"Wait, how is Lin Fan doing this? Half a stack of raw wood for a furnace? It takes a full stack of cobblestone to buy one from the wandering traders…"
"Maybe he bought them from the traders with cobblestone and is now reselling them for wood?"
"But what's in it for him? Is he just helping us out?"
"I think so. What else could he gain? He must've seen how rough things are for us and decided to lend a hand… like some kind of wandering saint."
"Damn, I'm getting emotional. Humanity really comes together in times of crisis."
"Honestly, I'm starting to believe he's making the furnaces himself. If he were just reselling them, he'd need an insane amount of cobblestone—way more than he could mine alone."
"I agree. At first, I doubted he could make furnaces, but now? It's totally possible."
"Yeah, we really owe him one. And to think people were badmouthing him before—so unfair."
"Exactly! If you trashed Lin Fan, you don't deserve to buy from him. Go reflect on your actions!"
"Enough talk—I can't wait to taste cooked meat again. Heading to Lin Fan's coordinates now!"
The forum was buzzing with excitement. Lin Fan's initiative had gained him overwhelming support.
Although some still accused him of murder or deception, those voices were drowned out by the majority rallying behind him.
As soon as the post was up, people started gathering stacks of apples and rushing toward Lin Fan's location.
Meanwhile, Lin Fan decided to use the time before the crowd arrived to build a small shop where he could conduct business.
He constructed a 4x6x4 oak wood shop right next to the farm.
To make transactions easier, he modeled the shop after a newsstand, cutting out a 2x3 window in the front.
The door was installed on the side so he could enter from there.
Once the shop's structure was done, Lin Fan crafted a crafting table and placed it inside. This way, he could make items on the spot without running back and forth.
Then, he took oak planks from his inventory and used them to craft four chests, combining them into two large chests.
These would store stone swords.
Since stone swords couldn't stack, keeping them in his inventory would take up too many slots. The chests were the only solution.
After placing the chests, Lin Fan crafted oak slabs and laid them outside the shop's window as a decorative counter.
This made the shop look even more like a newsstand.
With the basic structure complete, Lin Fan felt like something was still missing.
Then it hit him—"Item frames!"
His eyes lit up, and he dashed out of the shop.
Lilian, who had been watching the potatoes grow, glanced over at him.
She had been observing Lin Fan's work for a while but still couldn't figure out what he was up to.
But since he hadn't asked for help, she just let him be.
Lin Fan quickly ran down the stairs, heading straight for the furnace.
Lin Fan took rotten flesh and coal from his backpack. He placed the coal in the bottom slot of the furnace and the rotten flesh in the top slot.
As expected, the rotten flesh started burning in the furnace immediately.
Seeing this, Lin Fan was overjoyed.
"Just as I thought! This world has the 'Rotten Flesh to Leather' mod!"
Without hesitation, he threw all seven pieces of rotten flesh into the furnace and then called out to Lilian.
"Lilian, give me all your rotten flesh!" Lin Fan shouted.
Lilian was outside playing in the water when she heard him. She answered with a curious tone and walked back toward the house.
"What's wrong? Are you out of food?" she asked, handing him fourteen pieces of rotten flesh.
Lin Fan shook his head, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
"No, I just found out we can smelt rotten flesh into leather!"
"Oh." Lilian responded plainly, not understanding why he was so excited. To her, this was common knowledge in this world.
Lin Fan took the rotten flesh from her, kept eleven pieces as food, and threw three more into the furnace.
The leather smelting process was quick—in just the time they spent chatting, two pieces had already finished.
Lin Fan took the two pieces of leather from the furnace and went to the crafting table.
Using 8 sticks + 1 leather, he crafted two item frames!
With the item frames ready, Lin Fan headed outside.
At his small shop's workbench, he crafted a stone sword and a furnace.
Then, he placed the two item frames on the shop's walls:
Left side → A furnace
Right side → A stone sword
Now, the shop finally looked complete!
However, making stone swords and furnaces consumed a lot of cobblestone.
Lin Fan still had about three stacks of cobblestone in his inventory, but he knew it wasn't enough in the long run.
He decided that later he would visit the wandering trader from yesterday and exchange for more cobblestone.
For now, Lin Fan took out five bones from his inventory and crafted fifteen bone meal.
Then, he walked over to his farmland near the river.
Two potatoes were already close to being fully grown. Lin Fan left those alone and instead used bone meal to speed up the growth of another potato and six wheat plants.
After using up all fifteen bone meal, the crops were ready to harvest.
Lin Fan gathered:
✅ 2 potatoes
✅ 6 wheat
✅ 10 wheat seeds
'Not bad, pretty lucky,' he thought.
He replanted the 2 potatoes and 10 wheat seeds in his new farmland.
Now, with six wheat in hand, Lin Fan headed to his small shop and crafted them into two loaves of bread.
He turned to Lilian and gently handed her the bread.
"Compared to baked potatoes, I bet you'd prefer bread, right?" he asked softly.
Lilian's eyes lit up at the sight of the bread. She stared at it, practically drooling.
She nodded enthusiastically, took the bread, and smiled brightly.
Seeing her so happy, Lin Fan chuckled.
"If you like it, I'll dedicate an entire field to wheat. That way, we'll never run out of bread," he promised.
Hearing this, Lilian jumped up excitedly. Holding the bread, she suddenly rushed forward and kissed Lin Fan on the cheek.
Lin Fan, who had been seriously planning for the future, instantly froze.
His entire face turned red—from his neck down to his toes…
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