Chapter 36: The '60s Farm System (2)

Xie Yang had been awake for a while, having spent some time absorbing the original owner's memories and understanding her current environment.

But all in all, it was still because the transition from luxury to frugality made her unable to adapt all at once.

This was a cramped little bed that she would almost fall off of if she turned over; it was a bunk bed, and her head would hit the upper bunk the moment she sat up.

This stark contrast was truly hard to get used to!

Xie Yang touched the swollen and painful back of her head.

That was where the original owner had slipped and hit her head in the middle of the night after being woken up by the urge to urinate and running to the public restroom at the end of the hallway, not seeing the puddle of water in the darkness.

The original owner thought it was nothing serious, rubbed it a little, and lay down to sleep, but who would have known that she had a brain hemorrhage, fell into a coma shortly after lying down, and was subsequently sent away.

【Host, the reward points for the previous plane have been credited. After deducting the corresponding service fees, 6222 remain.】

The recovery task in the previous plane was not difficult, so the reward points were not high, only 8000.

But what are service fees? Why were so many deducted?

Main System: 【Oh, it's just for the things the Host entrusted System to investigate, such as Wu Tianyu's background, collecting evidence of the Wu family's crimes, etc.】

Xie Yang: "..."

No wonder it was so proactive in helping back then; it turns out the labor fees weren't cheap.

She worked hard for a lifetime and only earned 10,000, yet this guy just moved some things in the background and took away nearly half.

"What can 6222 buy in the System Mall?"

【Recommend the Host purchase the S-Rank Physical Enhancement Potion for strengthening the body; it's on a limited-time discount for only 5999!】

【Don't look at the 5999 points price tag even with the discount; it's actually very cheap! This physical potion is high-end goods even in advanced civilizations because it can not only improve human physical fitness without any side effects, but it can also continuously repair damaged parts of cells and organ tissues with bad genes.】

【Of course, if the Host thinks it's expensive, you can buy the temporary version for only 99 points, but the temporary version is only effective for thirty days.】

Xie Yang: "..."

She suspected this dog-shit System was inciting her to spend money—no, to spend points.

What good would it do for it if she spent all her points?

But, a physical enhancement potion that could comprehensively and permanently raise one's physical fitness to S-Rank did sound very tempting...

Redeem!

Anyway, points were just a string of numbers to her; they are only "money" when used, and just a stack of white paper if not used.

The body is the capital of the revolution!

Never mind that she had enough points; even if she didn't, she would redeem it even if it meant going into debt.

The Main System happily deducted 5999 points and redeemed a Permanent Physical Fitness Potion for the Host.

Xie Yang drank the physical enhancement potion in one gulp, waiting for the feeling of being strong and robust, but instead discovered a layer of black, greasy grime seeping out from the surface of her skin.

"..."

She almost hit her head when she jumped up from the bed.

She hurriedly found the original owner's change of clothes and headed straight for the public washroom at the end of the hallway.

There were no conditions for a proper bath right now, so she could only give herself a simple scrub and wipe.

According to the Main System's claims, as long as her physical body didn't die, she would not only possess S-Rank physical fitness and skin as smooth and moist as jade, but her body would also not contract any illnesses other than natural aging.

These 5999 points were well spent!

After the physical potion was completely absorbed, Xie Yang felt so light and powerful that she could go up a mountain to fight a tiger or down into the sea to catch a dragon.

Secondly, she felt hungry!

The original owner had lived under her stepmother's thumb and had never been full; at a young age, she had already starved herself into having stomach problems.

If she hadn't used the physical potion to repair her damaged organs, given this frail body and severe stomach disease, even with the most careful nursing after she took over, she feared it would be hard to return to a healthy state and she would likely live a sickly life.

It was no wonder the original owner had always been lukewarm toward her stepmother, Yu Huizhu.

Their interactions on the surface were merely passable, but in her heart, she had always been on guard against the other party.

Privately, she had even secretly saved up some money, thinking that once she graduated from high school, she would ask her aunt to help find her a job—a Formal Worker position would be best, but a Temporary Worker position would do—and then she would definitely leave this family.

But before she could even graduate, she had to respond to the policy to go up to the mountains and down to the countryside.

This made her anxious.

Once she went to the countryside, she could forget about returning to the city; her stepmother wished for her to die in the countryside and would absolutely never let her father find a way to get her back to the city.

Even if her father had a way, her stepmother would only whisper in his ear to make him give up.

In her desperation, she thought of her stepmother's job.

Her aunt had said that the job originally belonged to her biological mother. When her biological mother passed away from a severe illness, the factory Cadre pitied her as a young child and, seeing that the stepmother treated her quite well, agreed to let the stepmother take over her biological mother's job, and at the original wage level, too.

If her biological mother were still alive, even if she didn't give up the job for her to take over, she would have found a way to find her a Temporary Worker position to start with; with a job, she naturally wouldn't have to go to the countryside.

Since it originally belonged to her biological mother, wouldn't it be logical for it to be given to her now?

If her stepmother held onto it and refused to give it up, then she would let the neighbors and the Women's Federation Cadres judge the matter and tear off that hypocritical mask of her stepmother's!

If the original owner hadn't fallen, she might have really used this method to stay in the city.

Even if Yu Huizhu refused to give up the Level 4 Worker job she held, for the sake of her reputation, she would have found a way to find a Temporary Worker position for the original owner.

But now that the soul inside had been replaced by Xie Yang, she was determined to go to the countryside.

Because the Golden Finger that needed to be recovered in this plane was in the countryside! It was in the hands of a reborn female Educated Youth named Zhao Wanqing.

Zhao Wanqing was among the first batch of Educated Youth to go to the countryside. Life after going to the countryside was not easy; her family had many siblings and couldn't give her much help, and the work points she earned weren't even enough to feed her for three basic meals.

In her previous life, she chose to marry after being in the countryside for half a year, marrying the youngest son of the Production Team leader.

The first few years were indeed passable; if she didn't want to do farm work, she would just stay home to get pregnant, give birth, and raise children.

But she gave birth to daughters for three consecutive pregnancies, and her mother-in-law was unhappy, and her husband was not as good to her as before.

Just at that time, the country resumed the College Entrance Examination, and Educated Youth began to return to the city one after another.

Zhao Wanqing also wanted to sign up for the College Entrance Examination; regardless of whether she could pass or not, she didn't want to stay in the countryside—she wanted to return to the city! But her husband, who listened to his mother, tore up her registration form and imprisoned her at home.

She pried open the window intending to escape, but when she jumped, she didn't see clearly and fell headfirst onto a stone, dying instantly.

Reborn, she bound herself to the Super Farm System from the interstellar era, which contained nine plots of oily Black Soil, a simple Thatched Cottage in the distance, and a shallow stream flowing beside the house.

According to the system, Planting and harvesting on the Black Soil allows one to sell the harvested crops to the system in exchange for points.

Reaching 100 points unlocks the Warehouse, 500 points unlocks the Mall, 1000 points unlocks the Chicken Coop, Duck Shed, Pig Pen, Cattle Pen, Mill, and Processing Workshop, and 5000 points unlocks a beautiful European-style Villa...

Both Planting and harvesting increase experience points; once the experience target is met, the Black Soil can be upgraded, from nine plots to sixteen, from sixteen to twenty-five... in short, it can expand infinitely.

Additionally, the Farm Mall will also successively open up more crop seeds based on the experience level.

Zhao Wanqing kicked away the mama's boy who was fawningly chasing after her; with such a mysterious and powerful Super Farm System, was she still afraid of not having enough to eat, not having enough to wear, or not being able to support herself?

However, only when she truly entered the Farm Space and began Planting did she realize the difficulty was not ordinary at all...