Xia Qingqing's injuries had almost healed, so she went to Zhang Hongyan to mention that she could go back to work.

When the original owner was alive, she also had to go to work; she couldn't be treated specially.

Looking at her daughter, who had become fair and tender from being pampered these past few days, Zhang Hongyan suddenly felt a little reluctant to let her go to the fields to do heavy work.

After thinking it over, Zhang Hongyan went to the brigade leader's house in person.

Zhang Yougen looked at Zhang Hongyan, who had suddenly come to his door, with some surprise: "He Ping's wife, what do you want with me?"

Zhang Hongyan didn't stand on ceremony and went straight to the point: "Captain, you know that my Qingqing was injured before. Now that she's recovered a bit, she wants to go back to the fields to earn work points. I came here today to ask you to arrange an easier job for my Qingqing. Is that alright?"

The wounded do indeed need special care. Zhang Yougen nodded in agreement, took a puff of his pipe, and began to squint as he started to make plans.

As the team leader, he was in charge of assigning tasks to the team members. Everyone hoped to get an easier job, but there was only one spot available, and there weren't that many easy jobs to share.

Recently, a new job as a scorekeeper became available in the team. He Ping's daughter is one of the few high school students in the team, making her the perfect candidate for the position. Unfortunately, Accountant Ding came to him a couple of days ago to discuss arranging for his daughter to be the scorekeeper, and he couldn't refuse Accountant Ding's request.

Ugh, this is so complicated.

Zhang Yougen exhaled a puff of smoke. Just as he was worrying, he suddenly remembered the scene he had seen the two children from the Heping family digging for wild vegetables. He still vividly remembered Xia Qingqing's cheerful appearance.

He smiled and said to Zhang Hongyan, "He Ping's family, I'll arrange a job for your Qingqing that she'll be absolutely satisfied with."

Hearing this, Zhang Hongyan was pleased and immediately asked, "What kind of work is it? It can't be too tiring."

Zhang Yougen replied mysteriously, "Absolutely not tiring. Although the work points are not high, it's extremely easy."

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Early in the morning, Xia Qingqing carried a large basket on her back and headed up the mountain. This was her new job: to go up the mountain to gather pig feed.

Yesterday, after Zhang Hongyan went out alone, she came back and told her that she had found her a good job.

Xia Qingqing was quite satisfied after hearing this. Although she had never cut pig feed, she had dug up wild vegetables, so the two should be quite similar.

Compared to working in the fields, gathering pig feed is much easier. As long as you can gather four baskets of pig feed a day, you will earn four work points.

Upon arriving at her destination, Xia Qingqing looked at the vast expanse of lush pig feed, took a deep breath, put on the gloves she had prepared beforehand, and began working with a sickle.

Before long, her basket was full of harvested fruit. Looking at the fruits of her labor, Xia Qingqing felt a great sense of satisfaction and couldn't help but boast a little: "My God, how can there be such a beautiful and capable fairy?"

The capable little fairy almost collapsed to the ground from the weight the moment she hoisted the basket onto her back.

Xia Qingqing awkwardly got up from the ground, looked around, and when she found that no one had seen her embarrassing situation, she kicked the basket in frustration: "Damn it, why is a blade of grass so heavy? This is not scientific."

This basket of pig feed must weigh at least several dozen kilograms. If Xia Qingqing carried it down the mountain by herself, she would probably be exhausted before she even reached her destination.

Just as she was wondering whether she should ask someone for help, Xia Qingqing suddenly remembered that she had a system repository. She slapped her head in frustration, thinking, "Isn't this a cheat code?"

It just so happens that her system's warehouse contains the empty bamboo basket she often uses when going to the county.

Xia Qingqing put the basket full of pig feed into the system warehouse, and then carried the empty basket on her back as if to make a show.

On the way down the mountain, I tried to stay away from crowds, afraid that people would see that there was nothing in my basket.

When they were almost at the pigpen, she secretly replaced the basket full of pig feed with the original one.

Liu Caixia, who was feeding the pigs in the pigsty, saw Xia Qingqing struggling to carry a basket of pig feed over and quickly went to help her: "Oh, Qingqing, you're here. Let me help you unload it."

Xia Qingqing looked at Liu Caixia's big belly and didn't dare to ask her for help. She quickly took off the basket and said, "Sister-in-law Caixia, no need, no need. Be careful with your belly."

"Well, your sister-in-law still has some strength," Liu Caixia said, easily lifting the basket into the pigsty despite her large pregnant belly.

After coming out of the pigsty, he laughed and said to Xia Qingqing, "Qingqing, why did you carry so much at once? Your back is all bent over. It would be funny if you became a hunchback."

Liu Caixia's words were somewhat joking, which made Xia Qingqing laugh out loud: "Haha, I know, Sister-in-law Caixia, I'll be careful."

Liu Caixia made a note for Xia Qingqing in the notebook: "Qingqing, I've noted down this basket of pig feed for you. Next time, if I happen to be away, you can register it yourself."

Xia Qingqing nodded obediently: "I understand, Sister-in-law Caixia."

As she spoke, Xia Qingqing glanced at Liu Caixia's belly and asked with concern, "Sister-in-law, your belly looks so big, how many months pregnant are you?"

Upon hearing her words, Liu Caixia gently touched her belly: "Almost eight months along."

Liu Caixia is in charge of the pigsty, mainly responsible for taking care of the piglets' food, water, and waste. In the past, she would go up the mountain to cut pig feed herself, then feed the pigs, clean the pigsty, and so on.

As her belly grew bigger and bigger, and the work of cutting pig feed required bending over for a long time, she was finding it increasingly difficult to continue. Considering this issue, the brigade leader specially found someone to cut pig feed, and Xia Qingqing successfully took on this task.

With the system's warehouse as a cheating tool, Xia Qingqing found it very easy to gather pig feed, filling four baskets with pig feed in half a day.

After she finished cutting pig feed in the morning, she would rest and read at home in the afternoon. This went on for several days, and she gradually got used to this kind of life.

That day, after Xia Qingqing finished cutting pig feed, she realized she still had some time to spare, so she decided to go find some mushrooms nearby. Halfway through finding the mushrooms, she suddenly noticed something unusual about a certain pile of grass.

She took a closer look and discovered that it was actually a nest of wild eggs: "Hehe, it's like finding a needle in a haystack, only to have it come to me without any effort."

Last time, she and Gou Dan searched for so long, but they didn't even see a chicken feather, let alone wild eggs. This time, she didn't need to search anymore, and the wild eggs were delivered to her on their own initiative.

Xia Qingqing counted them; there were 12 eggs in total. She had just happily put the eggs into the system warehouse when she heard a chicken crow.

A brightly colored pheasant appeared in Xia Qingqing's line of sight, its two dark eyes staring intently at her.

Xia Qingqing stared at the pheasant for three seconds. Before she could even think of a way to catch it, the fierce-looking pheasant flapped its wings and flew towards her, its sharp beak pecking fiercely at her arm.