Chapter 58: Sixty Farm System (24)

"Alright, alright, go play over there! Don't crowd the Educated Youth Xie."

The woman in charge of distributing the pig-slaughter feast walked over, shooed the children aside, and pulled Xie Yang to the side of the pot: "Educated Youth Xie, come quickly! I saved the best piece of pig face meat for you!"

"Educated Youth Xie, do you eat pig blood? Shall I give you a bowl?"

"Educated Youth Xie, pig liver is good for the blood, just braised, want a scoop?"

The women from the logistics team enthusiastically packed food into the lunchbox Xie Yang brought: a scoop of stew, a scoop of pig blood, a scoop of pig liver... and soon the lunchbox was full.

"Eat up, eat up, and when you're done, Auntie will fill it up for you again."

Xie Yang gave them a thumbs-up while eating: "So delicious! You aunties have such great skills!"

The women were all smiles from the praise:

"Not at all, not at all, it's just that this meat is good!"

"Educated Youth Xie, you must eat more. Without you, we might not have been able to eat such fragrant wild boar meat today!"

"It's strange to say, but for wild boar meat, this one not only has more meat, but the texture is also especially fragrant and tender, even more fragrant than the pigs the brigade raises itself!"

Xie Yang mumbled: "Perhaps it has to do with what the wild boar usually eats!"

The women suddenly realized: "That's right! I heard there are different types of wild boars, some eat meat and some eat vegetables. Those that eat meat have a strong gamey smell, while those that eat vegetables taste just like the pigs we raise at home. This one must have grown up eating vegetables; no wonder it's so fragrant even without stewing with star anise! Educated Youth Xie really knows a lot, eat quickly! Auntie will fill you up some more!"

While speaking, she scooped several more full spoonfuls into Xie Yang's lunchbox.

This scene made Yang Qingqing, Lu Jieqiong, and the others so jealous they were practically turning sour.

"The Brigade Leader is too unfair! Even if he wanted to reward her, there was no need to give her fifty jin! It made us only get this little bit..."

"Isn't that the truth! We're all Educated Youth, yet she gets the best treatment! It's too bullying! Don't you think so, Wanqing... Wanqing? Wanqing? What are you thinking about, so distracted?"

Zhao Wanqing was thinking that if she had Great Strength like Xie Yang, she could definitely handle those nine plots of land in the Farm Space easily, and wouldn't be having such a headache right now.

She waved her hand listlessly: "It's nothing, just didn't sleep well."

"Why have you been so listless every day lately? You aren't sick, are you?"

"No, no, just didn't sleep well." Zhao Wanqing yawned.

Working in the fields during the day and farming at night, anyone would be sleep-deprived.

So much so that a thought had often occurred to her recently: hire someone to enter the Farm Space to manage those nine plots of land for her.

She also knew this was a crazy idea, but she couldn't help the stirrings in her heart...

After the lively meat distribution and the pig-slaughter feast, the spring plowing for the Yuewan Brigade was mostly finished.

The wasteland that needed clearing was cleared, the fields that needed planting were planted, and the rice seedlings that needed transplanting were transplanted. The next wave of busyness would wait until the end of May for harvesting rapeseed, early June for planting Corn, and July for harvesting rice.

From the end of spring plowing until the next wave of busyness, it would just be daily labor, not as tiring as before.

There had been much more laughter in the Youth Hostel these past few days.

Since the daytime labor wasn't as tiring, there was energy for idle chatter at night.

"Wanqing, my foot is still a bit uncomfortable when walking, so I can't accompany you to the Commune tomorrow. How about you wait a few days too? Let's go together once my foot is better?"

On the day of the Qingming Festival, Xie Yang returned from the mountains and passed by the dormitory window, hearing Yang Qingqing discussing with Zhao Wanqing. They had originally agreed to go to the Commune together tomorrow, but Yang Qingqing had accidentally twisted her foot the day before yesterday. She had seen a barefoot doctor, and while the bones were fine, it was estimated that she had strained a tendon and couldn't walk long distances.

Zhao Wanqing was actually hoping Yang Qingqing wouldn't follow, so as not to hinder her money-making career, and immediately stated:

"Qingqing, it takes a hundred days to recover from a muscle or bone injury. Even if you didn't hurt your bone, you still twisted a tendon, so you can't take it lightly. I'll go to the Commune by myself; if there's anything you want me to bring back, I'll bring it for you."

"Then bring me a vegetable bun." Yang Qingqing was craving White Flour; she couldn't afford meat buns, so she could only buy a vegetable bun to satisfy her craving.

"Okay."

Zhao Wanqing agreed immediately.

Listening to their conversation, Xie Yang remembered that tomorrow was April 6th—the day Zhao Wanqing would take in a stray child into the Farm Space.

The boy she had sent to the hospital last time had received timely medication, so he shouldn't have burned to the point of amnesia. Even if Zhao Wanqing didn't catch the ox cart back from the Commune tomorrow and passed through Majia Gully on her way back to the brigade, she shouldn't run into this boy, right?

But thinking about it, she still felt uneasy, so she decided to go to the County tomorrow under the pretext of "sending things to her aunt's house."

It was just that the pork belly hadn't been smoked through, and the sausages hadn't dried, so she had to pack a jar of lard, a portion of braised pig trotters, a few fresh spring bamboo shoots with soil, and some newly dried wild vegetables and mushrooms. She made a medium-sized parcel, put it in a basket early the next morning, and followed behind Zhao Wanqing as she left.

Once bitten, twice shy.

Zhao Wanqing was clearly much more familiar with the Black Market Alley on her second visit.

She carefully avoided the crowd and took out a basket of fresh, succulent Bok Choy from the Farm Space in a hidden corner of the alley.

Soon, a woman who looked like a worker approached her and asked what was in the basket, and if she had any grain or Pork?

Zhao Wanqing shook her head awkwardly: "It's Bok Choy."

She was short on grain and Pork herself; even if she had some, she wouldn't take them out to sell.

Upon hearing it was Bok Choy, the other person left in disappointment.

Watching Zhao Wanqing peddling the Bok Choy from afar, Xie Yang curiously asked the Main System: "Does the Bok Choy grown in the Farm Space have any special effects other than tasting better?"

Main System: 【She is using ordinary seeds gifted by the farm, so there are no special effects. Once the experience level reaches level 100, the Farm Mall will open a batch of rare seeds, and those will have special effects.】

"Oh?" Xie Yang became interested, "Elaborate on that. What kind of special effects? Can it prolong life and grant immortality? Or can it make hair grow quickly, or keep one forever young and preserve one's beauty?"

【All of those. But level 100 is not easy to reach. In the original world, Zhao Wanqing took in over a hundred people into the Farm Space to help her farm, and they still didn't break through level 100.】

"..."

"Ah! My money is gone! Someone stole my money!"

"Catch the thief! That scoundrel stole my money!"

Just as Xie Yang was leaning against the trunk of a locust tree at the entrance of the alley, chatting idly with the Main System, she suddenly heard a commotion in the distance.

Her hearing was sharp, and she clearly understood the cause of the commotion.

An older woman had her handkerchief, which was wrapped around her money and tickets, snatched away while she was buying things at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

After discovering it, she hurriedly chased the person out of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. Just as she was about to catch up, she was pushed hard by the other person and stumbled.

The short young man who did the pushing took the opportunity to dash to the side of the street, grab a bicycle, pedal away, and the direction of his escape was exactly the entrance of the alley where Xie Yang was.

"Make way! Make way! Those who don't fear death, make way!"

The short youth shouted as he rode.

Many passersby, not understanding why, actually cleared a riding path for him.

Only Xie Yang did not move aside; instead, she stuck out a foot...