0p0 Chapter 21: Being put in small shoes
Chapter 21: Being put in small shoes
The space is currently at level one, with a total of 200 points. Once you reach 1000 points, you can upgrade to level two.
The higher the space level, the more good things you can exchange in the space shop, such as voice-changing pills, truth-telling pills, etc., which may be used later, as well as various secret manuals, such as martial arts and medical manuals.
Considering her own safety and the needs of farm work, Feng Qingqing decided to buy a "power pill" first. This was truly an essential item for rural life. Moreover, it was something Feng Qingqing could redeem with her points, costing only 60 points each.
The next morning, Feng Qingqing got up very early because she had to go to work. She had a watch that her mother had left her, which made it very convenient to tell the time.
After getting up, thinking about the stimulant pill she had taken last night, Feng Qingqing walked to the empty courtyard, looked around the rooms, and tentatively reached out to lift the water tank.
OMG, Feng Qingqing's eyes were filled with disbelief. She hadn't expected the product from this space to be so good; it was far beyond her expectations.
After the initial surprise subsided, a look of joy appeared on Feng Qingqing's face. After all, for her, having this was like divine assistance, making many things much easier.
She quickly made breakfast for herself and Hu Fangming. They took turns cooking, and if anything happened, they could help each other. After all, they were both young girls and not the type to hold grudges, so their cooperation was quite pleasant.
After finishing his meal, Hu Fangming got up, gave a brief greeting, and left with two boiled eggs in his pocket.
It was still early, as it was already late September and the days were gradually getting longer; there was also a slight chill in the air in the morning.
Feng Qingqing walked along the path towards the back of the mountain. Since she went to the countryside, she had been going up the mountain quite often, mainly to try and meet men.
As soon as he arrived at the mountain today, he ran into He Yong'an, who was already roasting sweet potatoes there. Feng Qingqing had heard him mention the place where the sweet potatoes were roasting in her previous life, so the man was a little surprised when he first went there. But thinking about the many times they had met, he could roughly sense that this girl didn't have any ill intentions towards him.
In an effort to bridge the gap between them, Feng Qingqing recounted her family situation and how her relatives, such as Feng Damei's family, treated her in great detail.
Although he vaguely felt that he might be being a bit too forward with someone he hadn't known for long, he couldn't be too critical of the girl for telling him these things, so this place became their tacit meeting point.
Since they found this place, the two of them have gone from being strangers at the beginning to being able to greet each other familiarly when they meet. Feng Qingqing knows that this is progress.
She knew that men were mostly silent, slow to warm up, and had a rather cold personality, but since he had been so good to her in her past life, she believed that they could be the same in this life, and that everything could start anew.
When she arrived today, Feng Qingqing shared her eggs and recounted in detail what had happened at the educated youth compound yesterday. Although she hadn't felt much at the time, now that she was telling him, he listened attentively, his expression occasionally showing anger, relief, or helplessness.
She suddenly felt wronged. Perhaps this feeling was something she would only show when she was with a man. She knew he was someone she could rely on.
After she finished speaking, the man didn't say anything to comfort her, but judging from his expression, he was quite pleased with how she had handled the situation.
The two chatted as they went, mostly Feng Qingqing talking, while the man listened attentively and carefully. He gave her some sweet potatoes, and soon it was almost time to go to work. The two went down the mountain from different places to the brigade headquarters to wait for their assignments.
When she arrived at the brigade headquarters, she found that most of the people from the educated youth compound had already arrived. She went straight to Hu Fangming's side and waited for the brigade cadres to arrange the day's workers.
Hu Fangming glanced at her, wanting to say something, but seeing so many people around, he choked back his words.
The Jiang siblings who had already arrived looked at her with some confusion, while Jiang Yun had a thoughtful expression.
Feng Qingqing appeared calm and collected, but she knew in her heart that these people would be watching her no matter what she did. She just needed to be more careful in the future, as she didn't want them to disrupt her plans.
And so, when the brigade cadres arrived and the work was assigned, Feng Qingqing and her companion were assigned to a separate field to harvest peanuts.
This was no easy task. One of them had to pull the peanuts out in front while the other picked them up behind. Some peanuts buried in the soil had to be dug out with tools. If there were no tools, they could only use their hands. For the two educated youths, this was already considered quite a heavy burden.
When Hu Fangming heard that the task was to harvest peanuts, he looked miserable and thought to himself, "We're not going to get any work points today, and we don't even know when we'll finish."
Moreover, she was already suspecting that the brigade leader was making things difficult for Feng Qingqing because of what happened yesterday, and that she was just an innocent bystander.
To be fair, although the brigade leader didn't go so far as to make things difficult for Jiang, the educated youth did lose 200 yuan. Moreover, considering the overall situation, he didn't report it to the police. This led to some bias when assigning tasks, though it wasn't obvious, but individuals could still sense it.
Take the two Jiang brothers, for example. Their job today was to go to the field to peel corn. This job pays a lot of work points and is easy. Usually, it is done by two women, but today it was assigned to the two brothers, Jiang Hongwei and Jiang Hongjun.
Today, Jiang Yun even became a scorekeeper. Although she was still following behind the pregnant scorekeeper who was about to give birth, at least she didn't have to work in the fields, which made her look good and feel more secure.
At this point, the educated youth gradually realized what was going on, but unless they were brain-dead, they generally wouldn't say much about it unless it involved their own interests.
Sure enough, when it comes to idiots, one immediately jumps out:
"Some people are so high and mighty, but look what happened, they've been proven wrong right away. People shouldn't be too arrogant."
Although the sound wasn't loud, everyone heard it because the educated youth were all standing close together.
After listening, apart from a few of the parties involved, everyone else was speechless. No matter what, what does this have to do with you? Do you need to be so eager to get involved?
The Jiang family and Qi Hongsheng and the others had expressions that said they deserved it, and there was a hint of schadenfreude in their eyes.
For the educated youth, especially those from families with modest means who didn't receive much financial support from their families, their only source of income was work points, which at least ensured they had enough to eat and wouldn't go hungry.
Therefore, most people still value work points. Today, the brigade assigned two helpers to Feng Qingqing and Feng Qingqing. Normally, two girls wouldn't be able to finish the work. If they didn't finish, they wouldn't get any work points, and the day would be wasted. This was a big deal for the educated youth who relied on work points to make a living.
But Feng Qingqing completely ignored her, and even smiled as she said to Hu Fangming:
"Fangming, let's hurry up and finish this quickly. I'll cook minced meat and eggplant with rice for lunch to reward the two of us for our hard work."
She talked as she walked, her tone and expression suggesting that it was nothing to her.
The truth is, today's work was no problem for Feng Qingqing, who had taken some kind of super-strength pill.
After getting out of bed, Feng Qingqing waved her right hand, pointed to the plot of land they had been allocated, and said to Hu Fangming:
"I'll finish picking these two plots before 11 a.m. today. I'll go back to cook lunch first, and you can continue picking here."
Hu Fangming stared at her, dumbfounded, as if she had said something she couldn't understand.
After all, the place Feng Qingqing was pointing to was two-thirds of the total land allocated today. It could be said that as long as this was finished, she could go back for lunch, even take a two-hour nap, and then easily finish the work early and go home early in the afternoon.
Hu Fangming, not knowing what had gotten into Feng Qingqing, said with a hint of helplessness after regaining his senses:
"Qingqing, you'd better stop bragging. If we could have done all that, would we have been laughed at by those people just now?"