Chapter 68: Sixty-Era Farm System (34)

Just like that, Xie Yang dragged three people along and brought them all to the Public Security Bureau.

The little girl and her aunt both breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the public security officers wearing peaked caps.

Zhao Wanqing, however, was on the verge of a breakdown.

Facing the officers' questioning, she almost blurted out the existence of the Super Farm System.

The moment the words reached her lips, Zhao Wanqing's reason returned, and she quickly changed her tune: "I'm sorry, officers! Just now I felt like I was possessed! I'm fine now! It's nothing!"

"Are you really fine now?"

The young officer responsible for taking her statement picked up his pen and looked at her sternly:

"If you're fine, then please tell us about how you appeared in that alleyway and the process of discovering the abducted girl..."

"..."

In order to clear herself of the suspicion of being an accomplice to the human traffickers, Zhao Wanqing had no choice but to honestly explain how she had ended up in that alleyway.

Of course, she didn't say she wanted to go to the black market to sell things; instead, she said she wanted to go to the black market to trade for some grain or meat that didn't require coupons, but when she saw the red armbands of the inspectors everywhere in the black market alleys, she got scared and ran here.

Given that she had no tools for speculation and profiteering on her person, nor any items that could be sold, the officers had to let her go even if they doubted the truthfulness of her words.

After the little girl and her aunt verified their own identities, they filed a real-name report on the traffickers' hideout.

The public security officers were busy deploying personnel to catch the traffickers, and since Xie Yang and Zhao Wanqing had finished their statements and had nothing else to do for the moment, they could return.

"Big Sister!" The little girl called out to Xie Yang, stood on tiptoe, and reached out to hand Xie Yang a piece of candy. "This is what the public security uncle gave me to eat; I'll share one with you. Thank you, Big Sister, for saving me and my aunt."

Xie Yang smiled and didn't take it: "Thank you, you eat it yourself. I'm an adult, I don't like eating candy."

"Really? But my aunt is also an adult, yet she always loves eating candy."

Her aunt, who had been called out, twitched the corner of her mouth: "Ahem, Xu Beibei, just say thank you, why are you bringing up other things!"

"Oh, oh." The little girl bowed solemnly to Xie Yang. "Thank you, Big Sister! Great kindness is not spoken of with thanks, do not seek rewards for favors bestowed..."

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!" She was interrupted by her aunt again. "The first half is enough!"

Xie Yang was amused; this child was truly funny.

Finally, the little girl was pulled to the side by her aunt, and her aunt stepped forward to shake hands with Xie Yang:

"Hello, Comrade Xie Yang, my name is Xu Shengnan, and I live in the Ming Island Red Flag Brigade. I was originally going to the city to attend a commendation meeting, but my niece pestered me and insisted on coming along, so I had to bring her. I didn't expect to get tricked on the train and brought here... I heard you are an Educated Youth who was sent down? Thanks to your help this time, would it be convenient to leave an address for me? I will write to you when I get home."

"Okay."

Xie Yang left her the address of the Yuewan Brigade.

Zhao Wanqing, who had watched their interaction the whole time, felt very uncomfortable inside.

It was clearly she who had discovered Xu Shengnan and her niece first; if there was anyone to thank, it should be her! Why thank Xie Yang! At best, Xie Yang was just someone who picked up the scraps!

Thinking of picking up scraps, her brow twitched.

The Super Farm System had unbound from her; would it have bound to someone else? Could that person be Xie Yang?

Thinking of this, the look she cast at Xie Yang held a trace of probing that carried hidden hostility.

Xie Yang had taken back the Super Farm System, so naturally, she wouldn't bother with Zhao Wanqing anymore.

Walking out of the Public Security Bureau, she strode toward the ox-cart assembly point.

It was long past mealtime, and even if the State-run Restaurant wasn't closed, there wouldn't be anything left to eat.

Fortunately, knowing she might be wandering around with Zhao Wanqing for half the day, she had specifically brought enough dry rations.

Xu Shengnan had wanted to treat her to a meal, but considering the traffickers hadn't been caught yet, it was better for the aunt and niece to stay in the Public Security Bureau and not come out, so Xie Yang politely declined the other party's kindness.

Instead, she stuffed a few hard-boiled eggs and two salted egg mixed-grain rice balls into their hands.

In case the public security officers didn't provide food, they could at least pad their stomachs.

At the ox-cart assembly point, Yang Qingqing and the others were already there.

Seeing Xie Yang and Zhao Wanqing return one after the other, Yang Qingqing's expression was somewhat displeased: "Wanqing, where did you go? We waited for you at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative for a long time, we didn't even have time to go to the State-run Restaurant for lunch, just because we were afraid of missing you..."

Lu Jieqiong also chattered on, showing off their harvest for the day: "Wanqing, you don't know how lucky we were; not long after we arrived, there was a batch of defective soap that didn't require coupons..."

Zhao Wanqing ignored them, got on the ox-cart with a heavy heart, and found a seat. Her subtle gaze swept toward Xie Yang from time to time.

Xie Yang found an empty spot in the corner to sit down, took off her basket and placed it on her lap, propped her chin on her hand with her elbow on the basket, and closed her eyes as if resting, but in reality, she was familiarizing herself with the newly bound Super Farm System.

She had already learned the generalities from the Main System, but what one hears with ears and what one "sees" with consciousness always have some discrepancies.

For instance, the space of the Farm System was more vast than she had imagined. It was just that, apart from the already cultivated Black Soil, a Thatched Cottage, and a babbling brook, the surroundings were shrouded in a layer of faint mist.

Or for instance, the nine-grid Black Soil was more fertile and rich than any land she had ever seen in reality.

【Host, this soil was transplanted from I999 Agricultural Agricultural Reclamation Star. I999 Agricultural Agricultural Reclamation Star is the planting star with the strongest vegetation reproductive capacity among all currently known planets, and the crops grown there are widely acclaimed.】

The Novice Sub-system was busily introducing the various things in its territory to Xie Yang:

【Host, the mist will gradually expand outward as you level up, and you will be able to cultivate more land. You will also unlock the breeding area, fishery, pasture, Processing Workshop... In short, there is nothing you can't think of that the Farm Space can't do. Host, work hard at farming!】

Xie Yang: "..."

No wonder Zhao Wanqing had always wanted to recruit people to come in and help her farm.

After working all day, she was tired enough; finally able to lie down and rest, she was still being nagged by the system to farm at every opportunity—anyone would feel mentally exhausted.

She ignored the Sub-system, her consciousness drifting to the side of the small stream, and asked it: Are there fish and shrimp here?

【Fish and shrimp? The fishery hasn't been unlocked yet...】

Xie Yang: I know, but there are fish and shrimp in the streams outside, don't you have any here? Then your space design is a bit of a failure.

Sub-system: 【...】

Main System: 【...】

Here it comes!

The familiar pua, though it may be late, it always arrives!

When the ox-cart slowly drove into the Yuewan Brigade and finally stopped near the Threshing Floor, Xie Yang had already persuaded the Novice Sub-system to stock some fish and shrimp in the small stream for her.

Of course, she also agreed to one condition for it, which was to help it level up as soon as possible.

From the time it left the factory until now, it hasn't even tasted the benefits of an upgrade!

【The previous Host came in to farm every day, working until the first light of dawn in the outside world, and still didn't accumulate enough experience points to reach level two. Host, you must work harder than she did!】

"..."

Xie Yang twitched the corner of her mouth.

Sacrifice her sleep time to farm? That is impossible!

But she promised it she would reach level two as soon as possible.