To make it easier to keep track of work points, everyone took on several rows of sweet potatoes based on their own abilities.

On the way to the field, team leader Gu Xiangyang had already explained to her that because their group's work was relatively easy, they were paid one work point for every two rows of furrows.

The land here is very neat and orderly; even the fastest aunties can only earn eight work points a day.

Shen Mu Ning took on six tasks first, fearing she wouldn't be able to finish them all if she took on too many.

Shen Mu Ning was working hard in the sweet potato field. This job really didn't require any special skills, and she had already done it smoothly in less than ten minutes.

At first, the aunties wanted to see Shen Mu Ning make a fool of herself, but they found that Shen Mu Ning soon became quite skilled and surpassed the capable worker Li Gui Hua in less than half an hour.

Li Guihua was well-known in the brigade, not because she was the brigade leader's wife, but because she was one of the most capable women in the brigade.

Normally, these easy tasks would earn her eight work points, and she would get eight work points.

If she's assigned a job that's worth ten work points, she can do it exceptionally well and earn ten work points.

Moreover, this was only because the brigade leader intentionally didn't let her do too much; she was much more capable when she was younger.

But ever since her sons were able to work in the fields, the brigade leader stopped Li Guihua from working so hard, otherwise she would have to spend even more money if she overworked herself.

So now, Aunt Guihua just needs to earn a full work point as usual.

Shen Mu Ning buried herself in her work and kept working hard. When she stood up and stretched, she realized that she was ahead of the other women.

Shen Mu Ning gave herself a mental thumbs-up, it seemed she did have some talent for getting things done.

The women who were close to Shen Mu Ning breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Shen Mu Ning had finally stopped to catch her breath.

They watched helplessly as Shen Mu Ning went from being unskilled to skilled, and as she caught up with and then surpassed them.

They were seething with resentment, thinking that even a junior educated youth was more capable than them, how could this be allowed?

So everyone buried themselves in their work, no one chatted or rested or drank water, everyone was competing with Shen Mu Ning.

Now that Shen Mu Ning has stopped to rest, they can finally catch their breath.

Li Guihua quietly rubbed her sore arms and called Shen Mu Ning to come over to rest and have a drink of water.

"Little Shen, you've never done any work before, how come you're so capable?"

“Yes, yes, you’re more capable than us old women,” a slightly plump woman chimed in.

"Hello, aunties. I'm just a bit strong and have good stamina, nothing else." Shen Mu Ning was happy to answer the aunties' questions.

"Really? With your small frame, how much strength can you possibly have?" The women around her heard Shen Mu Ning's words and were skeptical of her claims.

The main reason is that they don't think Shen Mu Ning has much strength, but it's also a fact that Shen Mu Ning is more capable than them.

Shen Mu Ning nodded heavily, "By the way, Auntie, what should we do with these sweet potato tips that we've picked off?"

She was carrying only a small basket on her back, and the tips of these sweet potatoes were already peeking out.

"These sweet potato tips can be stir-fried or used in soup. As for the rest, just leave them in a small pile and wait until it's almost time to finish work; the men will come and carry them."

Shen Mu Ning nodded knowingly. She already knew that sweet potato tips were edible, and she had smuggled some of them into her spatial dimension to cook with. She also wanted to grow some more cuttings in her space, since they would mature quickly anyway.

After resting for a while, Shen Mu Ning continued her work in her sweet potato field, earning ten work points in just one morning.

When Gu Xiangyang came to record the scores, he couldn't believe his eyes, but Shen Mu Ning had indeed searched through twenty rows of sweet potato vines right under the noses of the aunties.

Although the women in her group couldn't help but be surprised, none of them questioned her. After all, they were all in the same area, and even if they were far apart, they all knew that Shen Mu Ning was always walking at the front of them.

Moreover, the aunties around her were always the most impartial, and even they looked at the young educated youth with admiration, so what was there to question?

Gu Xiangyang looked at Shen Muning with a complicated expression: "Shen, you're an educated youth. In our brigade, once you've earned all your work points, you can choose not to continue working. But you can continue this afternoon; you'll get work points for whatever you do. Are you coming this afternoon?"

Shen Mu Ning nodded knowingly. She had thought the work point system of Xinshan Brigade was very fair when she read the novel before. Now that she had experienced it firsthand, she felt even more that their brigade leader and secretary were really talented people.

In this way, she could work half a day and rest half a day, or earn more work points during the busy farming season and rest when she didn't earn many work points even after a whole day of slack farming.

After considering for a moment, Shen Mu Ning decided to come anyway. Not to mention that this batch of educated youth had already missed three months of earning work points, given her appetite, who would believe she could support herself if she didn't do more work?

While we still have plenty of work points each day, we have to work hard. "I'll come back this afternoon."

Hearing Shen Mu Ning's words, everyone around nodded in agreement. They were all farmers who toiled in the fields, and no one disliked hardworking people.

Since the other two educated youths in the first team with Shen Mu Ning were Chu Ming Xu and Zhu Yang, Shen Mu Ning walked happily towards the educated youth settlement by herself.

Back at the educated youth settlement, Shen Mu Ning quickly cooked rice. She didn't cook any vegetables for lunch; she just blanched sweet potato tips, made a cold salad, and ate it.

So Shen Mu Ning, who had cooked the rice, carried a chair and sat by the door, enjoying the gentle breeze outside.

The older educated youth looked at the disheveled Lin Siqi, He Xiaolan, and Zhang Jiayang, and then at the carefree Shen Muning; the contrast was quite striking.

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