Hu Jun didn't leave many children behind, as it would take quite a while to get back, and besides, his granddaughter had to go to work tomorrow.

Zhang Yuezhen picked a bag of seasonal vegetables for her nephews and nieces: reddish-green persimmons with a slightly gritty texture, bright green cucumbers that could be eaten as fruit, purple round eggplants, fresh chives, long beans, bok choy, ten free-range eggs, and a piece of salted meat.

"Hu Bei, go to the accountant's house and borrow his bicycle to ride around. Take your cousin and the others to the intersection to wait for the bus."

"Okay, Mom." Second cousin Hu Bei ran off like a gust of wind.

Hu Jun nodded to himself as he looked at what his daughter-in-law had packed. This daughter-in-law was quite clever; even if she had some ulterior motives, she could still distinguish between what was important and what was not.

“Ruyu, you, Jiang Hui, and Jiang Lin, the three of you, come over often. Grandpa is getting old and his legs aren’t very strong anymore. At my age, every time we grandparents and grandchildren meet, it will be one less time.”

"Grandpa, what are you saying? Second cousin isn't married yet, little cousin isn't married yet, and Jiang Hui, Jiang Lin, and I haven't settled down either. You still have to live, so take good care of yourself. Next time we come, we'll get you some wine." Jiang Ruyu couldn't stand hearing such words, so she quickly changed the subject with a smile.

“That’s right, Dad, why are you saying that?” Uncle Hu Qingling looked at his father disapprovingly.

Hu Jun waved his hand: "Alright, that's enough. Hu Bei is here. You guys go back now. Be careful on the road. Come visit us when you have time."

"Okay, Grandpa, Uncle, Aunt, Cousin, Cousin's wife, we're leaving now. Grandpa, please don't smoke your pipe anymore, it's bad for your health," Jiang Ruyu reminded her grandfather.

"Oh dear, I've been smoking for decades, how can I just quit like this? Don't worry about me, you guys go back." The old man, who had always stood straight, had become slightly hunched with age.

The three siblings said goodbye one by one. Jiang Ruyu seemed to see tears streaming down her grandfather's face. She pursed her lips and followed her second cousin's bicycle toward the village entrance.

The villagers have already started going to the fields to earn work points again. On the road, only a few children are carrying baskets to go up the mountain to cut pig feed and gather firewood. The clothes they wear are patched and patched, and they don't fit well. Some are too short and barely fit, while others are too big and look like they are wearing someone else's clothes. When they look at Jiang Ruyu and the others, their bright black eyes are filled with envy that they themselves don't know they have.

Even after walking a distance, Jiang Ruyu could still hear several eight- or nine-year-old children whispering, "They are city people. They are so pretty, and their clothes are so white."

Jiang Ruyu didn't know what her two younger brothers thought. She only felt that she should cherish her current life even more. Looking at them and then at herself, she was already luckier than many people.

Hu Bei looked at his cousins, who were looking down, and thought for a moment before asking, "Are jobs easy to find in the city?"

Jiang Ruyu looked up at her second cousin, who was 21 years old, with a somewhat blank expression. He was tall and dark-skinned, with large knuckles on his hands as he gripped the bicycle handlebars. His hands had many scabbed wounds, and he looked like a rural laborer.

After thinking for a moment, she told the truth: "It's very difficult to find a job in the city. Nowadays, young students in the city are all going to the countryside to work in rural areas. Many jobs are only available to one person, and very few factories are hiring. Usually, any job openings are filled internally. If you want to work in a factory, I will keep an eye out for news about it. I will let you know if I hear anything. But don't get your hopes up too high."

Hu Bei nodded with a silly grin: "I know, I was just asking. I'm still young, and if I have the chance, I don't want to stay in the countryside for the rest of my life. I want to go out and see the world."

Hu Bei's words stirred up the hearts of the three siblings. Yes, they had never left the place where they grew up since birth. Who wouldn't want to go out and see the outside world? A few years ago, during the Great Cultural Revolution, the three siblings all wanted to go out and see what the outside world was like, but they were all suppressed by their wet nurse's scolding.

Jiang Ruyu didn't say anything. She looked at the mountains to the north and asked her cousin curiously, "Second cousin, are there any animals in these mountains?"

Hu Bei smiled and looked at the mountain: "Yes, of course there are. This mountain is quite big. You can find wild eggs even if you just run a little inside. If you're skilled enough, it's common to catch a pheasant or a rabbit. My grandpa told me that before Liberation, there were even wolf-hunting teams. A few years ago, wild boars came down the mountain, and our village even caught one to eat."

"Really? That's great." Jiang Ruyu remembered that she hadn't used her sign-in form for today, so she used her consciousness to control the system: "System, sign in."

"Yes, host, check in, location: Qingshan Brigade, Daqingshan."

The familiar system busy tone came through, and after a minute, the system's flat voice came through: "Sign-in successful. You have received a Daqingshan local specialty gift pack and a wooden box buried deep underground in Daqingshan."

Jiang Ruyu was a little stunned when she heard about the sign-in package. She could only imagine that the local specialty gift package contained wild animals from the mountains, but what was that wooden box? Treasure? Impossible, right? It couldn't be a coffin, could it?

Thinking of this, she felt a chill run down her spine. Hmm, better not to overthink and scare herself. After all, the system wouldn't scare its host to death, right?

"System, what's that wooden box? It's not some kind of coffin or anything, is it?"

System: ··········@##￥%￥%…………&……

"Fine, I won't make things difficult for you. I'll go back and check it myself. Anyway, if you scare me to death, you'll never find a host as reliable as me again."

"Don't worry, host. The system will only be bound to one host until the host passes away. The system will then return to the developer database."

"Oh, that's good." Although Jiang Ruyu hadn't figured out what the system did after all this time, she had a guess: it might come from the distant future. She didn't know its purpose, but the system kept talking about data, so it was probably for this data.

Half an hour later, the group arrived at the intersection and waited for about ten minutes before seeing a bus that was accompanied by a puff of smoke: "Second cousin, we're leaving now. You should go back too. I'll let you know if there's any news about work."

"Hey, don't worry about it, it's okay if you don't have it." Hu Bei felt a little embarrassed, thinking he had troubled his cousin.

"It's okay, I know, you can go back now." Jiang Ruyu and her two siblings got on the bus. The journey was long, and it cost two cents per person. After finding a seat, she remembered to check the sign-in notes.

She didn't dare open the wooden box right now, mainly because she was still a little scared. What if it was something scary and she was frightening others in public? She decided to wait until she got back.

She opened the Daqingshan local specialty gift pack and felt like she must have stepped in dog poop when she came today. Her luck was off the charts! Let's see what she's signed up for.

A bamboo basket with fifty wild eggs, a plump pheasant, an even plumper wild rabbit, a basket of non-toxic edible wild mushrooms, five catties of Daqingshan's unique green dates, and ten catties of Qingshan Brigade's specially selected millet.