OFR – Chapter 96 Southern Grocery Forum.

Mur Bai was surprised to see a message from Mu Xiaoxiao.

He didn’t expect that a classmate who had become a big star would still remember him.

“Yeah, I’m here. It’s been a long time since we last talked.”

With a sense of nostalgia, he started chatting with Mu Xiaoxiao. After about ten minutes of conversation, he realized that Mu Xiaoxiao had reached out because she heard he was unemployed and wanted to help him find a job.

This made Mur Bai feel touched.

He typed back, “Thanks for thinking of me, Miss Big Star, but I don’t need it. I can find a job myself.”

Mur Bai declined. After all, looking for work was almost laughable for someone as wealthy as him.

However, Mu Xiaoxiao didn’t understand and sent a voice message, “Mur Bai, you don’t have the education or connections, so stop being so stubborn, okay? Don’t act like a chauvinist. Let’s meet in a few days when I’m free, and we’ll talk.”

Listening to her sincere words, Mur Bai knew she meant well. If he kept refusing, she might misunderstand.

So, after some thought, he typed, “Alright, let’s talk when we meet.”

“That’s more like it! Good boy, always listen to your big sister.”

Mur Bai couldn’t help but shake his head with a wry smile. “Mu Xiaoxiao, we may both have the surname ‘Mu,’ but if we’re talking generations, you might have to call me ‘uncle.'”

“Yeah, right! Not happening.”

“Brat. By the way, why did you think of me today after all this time?”

“I’ve been busy acting as an extra and learning how to act these past few years, but now that I’ve made something of myself, I naturally want to take care of my little brother.”

“Speechless…”

The two chatted on QQ until lunchtime, exchanged waving emojis, and ended the conversation.

Mu Xiaoxiao becoming a big star left Mur Bai both surprised and happy for his old friend.

As for feeling envy or jealousy like some of his former classmates? He truly didn’t. After all, being a celebrity wasn’t enough to make him feel that way.

After closing QQ, he noticed it was already noon.

Mur Bai opened his food delivery app and casually ordered a hearty meal.

Then he started thinking about his plans for the day.

Besides waiting for Mi Xuan to finalize a contract, he also needed to buy some expensive medicinal herbs.

His space for farming was still largely unused, and he had already reached his monthly limit for growth-boosting cards.

That space was his main source of wealth, so he couldn’t let it go to waste.

With this in mind, Mur Bai searched for valuable herb seeds on Taobao and Tmall, but all he found were ordinary seeds priced under a thousand yuan. They didn’t pique his interest.

He wanted seeds of the highest or even supreme quality!

The higher the seed’s grade, the better and more valuable the grown herbs would be. This was a fact.

After some thought, he decided to check out the biggest marketplace forum in the south.

Yes, a general marketplace forum, not a dedicated herbal forum.

Though there were many herbal forums in the south, they were mostly small and lacked authority. The general forum, despite not specializing in herbs, was the most respected and popular online source for herbal sales.

It even had listings for supreme and near-legendary herbs.

That’s why Mur Bai, after a quick search, entered the marketplace forum.

Upon entering, he couldn’t help but admire how vast and well-organized the site was.

The forum boasted tens of millions of followers, surpassing platforms like Longyu Forum and Nanjing Floral Community.

Despite its size, it was neatly divided into numerous sections: heavy machinery, electronics, plants, aquatic animals, rare herbs, relationship communities, shipping and trading, and more.

Of all these sections, the relationship community and rare herbs sections were the hottest, each seeing thousands of posts daily, with millions of followers.

Mur Bai skimmed the homepage briefly before heading straight to the herbs section.

Inside, there were already numerous new listings:

【Centennial Premium Wild Ginseng. Interested buyers, please contact. Only one available, sold whole, not by the gram.】

【Super Premium Lingzhi Sapling. One available, priced at 700,000 yuan or exchangeable for a high-end BMW 7 Series.】

【Top-Grade Deer Antler. 3,000 grams, available for just 100 yuan per gram.】

【World’s First Trade Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Thousand Chrysanthemum Trade Co., is buying premium herbs at fair market prices. Contact if interested.】

【Rare Musk, suitable for enhancing a couple’s intimacy. Long-lasting fragrance, no side effects. PM if interested.】

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Mur Bai scrolled through these herbal listings, and after over an hour of searching (even letting his food delivery get cold), he finally found one that caught his eye.

【Old Yue Trader Alliance: Selling a large quantity of Super Premium Wild Ginseng Seeds. Interested buyers, please add QQ: 568. The Old Yue Trader Alliance QQ group is also recruiting serious long-term buyers. We offer rare herbs, exotic plants, and even antiques. Must have a monthly spending limit of one million yuan or more to join. Serious inquiries only.】

This post mentioned super premium wild ginseng seeds. It was known that saplings could be of various grades, but the highest grade for seeds was super premium.

After looking through hundreds of posts, this was the only one offering seeds of this caliber.

Even on such a large forum, super premium seeds were still extremely rare.

The rarer they were, the more valuable they became. Super premium seeds were the best chance to grow high-quality medicinal herbs, a universally recognized fact in the industry.

Mur Bai decided to contact the seller.

He memorized the contact information and switched to QQ to send a friend request.

“Hello, I’m a buyer from the Southern Marketplace Forum, interested in some super premium wild ginseng seeds.”

While eating lunch, he patiently waited for a reply.

1:30 PM.

In a medicinal herb shop in Guangzhou’s Moyun City, a rugged middle-aged man in a black leather jacket was leaning over the counter, engrossed in the Old Yue Trader Alliance group chat.

“This hotshot lady has a sinking incense tree? Whoa, never thought she was a billionaire heiress in disguise!”

He muttered to himself, amazed, while scrolling through the messages.

Just as he was about to send another message, a notification popped up.

“Hmm? Someone wants to buy super premium wild ginseng seeds?”

The man exited the group chat, noticed the friend request from a marketplace forum buyer, and accepted it.

Then, he began to chat with his potential customer.