Chapter 002: Not Very Smart

Finally calming down, Tang Yuan sat on the bed which was only covered with a straw mat and sniffed again.

After inhaling, he came to his senses, took out a handkerchief, pinched his nose and blew out the snot.

In the past few days, she was only concerned with "escaping" and was exhausted from running all the way here. If the original owner had not been used to doing farm work and had good physical strength, she would never have been able to make it here.

When he got here, he found his biological father, as well as his stepmother and half-brother.

Her scumbag father found her a job and a house. If she starts making trouble again, others might not stand on her side, so she will have to live on her own from now on.

This was a good thing for her. The monthly salary for working in the boiler room was 15 yuan, which was difficult to support a whole family. It would be much easier to support just her. Having a job was better than marrying someone and living a life dependent on him.

She held the dry side of the handkerchief toward her nose and blew her nose again. She let out a long breath, enjoying the rare moment of unimpeded breathing during her cold.

After leaving the bag in the house, she got up, took the key and went out.

The house was located next to the bridge. In addition to her house, there were three other houses. At this moment, all the doors were closed. Standing at the door, there was the factory area on the left, the river on the right, and a railway further away. There was a station here.

In other words, the factory was built here because there is a railway, which makes it convenient to transport materials.

After walking a dozen steps to the river, she dipped the handkerchief in her hand into the relatively clean river water, washed and wrung it dry, then put it in front of her nose to blow her nose. After blowing it several times, and with the stimulation of the slightly cool river water, her nose finally became much clearer.

She stood up and looked back.

The big factory behind me is a machinery factory, which was a very large factory in that era. Many people were trying their best to get into the factory, but the number of workers was limited and only a few could actually get in.

Tang Jianguo's adopted father had entered the machinery factory before his original mother died. Three months after his original mother's death, he married his current wife. Half a year later, he had his current child, and it was obvious that the child was born full-term.

According to this time calculation, the child was conceived earlier than the two got married.

Everyone knew there was a problem, but Tang Jianguo and his wife insisted that the child was premature. Outsiders only whispered about it behind their backs, but when facing the original body, they only said that at least the child was conceived after the original body's mother died.

The original person wanted to make trouble, but was locked up in the house by her family for three days. She was not given any food except water. They let her go only after she compromised and stopped making trouble. It was at that time that the original person gave up.

However, she gave up and her family did not let her go and kept forcing her to work. The accident was caused by long-term high-intensity labor and a sudden cold.

Tang Yuan put the handkerchief over her blocked nose again and blew her nose hard. This time some snot came out, but it did not relieve the blocked nostrils, so she could only breathe with her mouth open.

She glanced at the factory not far away, dragged her heavy legs back into the house, locked the door from the inside, lay down on the bed which was covered with only a straw mat, and fell into a deep sleep.

Half asleep and half awake, she touched the landscape jade that she had been wearing in her previous life. The jade was worthless, and the landscape on it was also common, but there was a touch of green on it, which made it worth some money.

She saw this piece of jade on a street stall when she was very young. She begged her grandmother to buy it for her, and she has been wearing it ever since. Even when she grew up and earned money, she never thought of spending it to buy a better piece.

But she traveled through time, so the jade would never appear on her again.

[The game has been activated, do you want to enter? ]

Tang Yuan opened her eyes blankly, moved her hand in front of her eyes, and watched the jade in her palm melt into her palm, leaving a barely visible green.

[Activation successful]

The moment the voice sounded, the scene in front of Tang Yuan suddenly changed, and he saw a small pink room with a passage only one person wide. On the right was a row of closets, and in the front was another pink door.

She stood up carefully, walked to the door, and opened it.

What appeared before her eyes was not a real object, but a vortex. She hesitated for a moment, but still stepped past the vortex. After a few seconds, she opened her eyes and saw the cabin and land in front of her.

Standing in front of the cabin, you can also see the vortex leading to the closet. The pink vortex is recognizable at a glance.

She tried several times and was able to go back and forth successfully each time, so she continued to check on the situation in the cabin.

The cabin was really small, about the same size as where she lived now, but apart from being clean, there was nothing inside, no bed, no cabinets, no windows, it was just an ordinary empty house.

The closet, which can only be reached through a vortex, is also empty.

After turning around several times, she fixed her eyes on the field in front of the cabin, bent down resignedly and started weeding.

As soon as I pulled one out, a new prompt popped up in front of me.

【Is it for sale? 】

【yes】

【Sold successfully, received: 0.01 coin】

[Open the mall system, players can purchase the required goods in the mall]

Tang Yuan immediately opened the mall, glanced at the extremely valuable goods in front, selected all the prices from low to high, and saw the first item: [Grass Seeds: 0.01 Coins/Grass Seed]

If one grass seed grows into one grass plant, and one grass plant sells for 0.01 yuan, then her planting grass and selling it is essentially a waste of effort.

After grass seeds, many vegetable seeds appeared. The cheapest ones were 0.1 yuan per seed, and the most expensive ones were several yuan per seed. Relatively speaking, the price of selling vegetables was a little higher. The rapeseed bought for 1 yuan could be sold for 2 yuan as long as it was grown. The more you planted, the more you earned.

She lowered her head and looked at the weeds all over the ground. She spent some time clearing all the weeds around the cabin and decided to sell them, eventually earning 0.53 yuan.

Each green vegetable seed cost 0.1 yuan. She spent a huge sum of 0.5 yuan to buy five seeds, buried them all in the soil, and then waited for them to grow.

Tang Yuan stood up and saw the weeds in the corner of the wooden house when he turned. He bent down to pull it out and was about to sell it when he suddenly heard a "bang bang bang" sound in his ears.

As she was wondering, the scene in front of her eyes spun and she returned to the dirty little house.

"Xiaoyuan, are you in there? Xiaoyuan? Xiaoyuan?"

The voices kept shouting and the knocking on the door became louder and louder. She quickly walked forward and opened the door.

The slap on the door fell again. When it was about to hit her, he pulled his hand back and looked up at Tang Yuan: "Are you there? Why didn't you respond when I called you just now?"

Tang Yuan's nose moved: "Sniff——"

"You have a cold?"

Tang Yuan nodded: "Yeah, I'm sleeping."

"No wonder you didn't wake up even after I slapped you like that. You should have a good rest if you have a cold. What are you holding? Why are you pulling a piece of grass?" The other party reached out and pulled the grass out of Tang Yuan's hand and threw it on the ground. "Since you have a cold, can you be on duty at night? It's your turn now."

Tang Yuan lowered his head and looked at the discarded weeds.

"Why are you looking at the weeds? What's the use of weeds? Answer me," the other party pulled Tang Yuan's arm and shook it, "You have to be on duty at night. If you don't go, you have to ask for leave and change shifts."

Tang Yuan: "Weeds are useful and can be eaten."

If weeds can be taken out, it means other things can be taken out as well, such as bok choy, cabbage, carrots, and even rice and flour. If all of them can be taken out, then she won't have to worry about her life.

"Oh, Old Tang doesn't even give you food, and just lets you eat weeds? He's really something. After all, you are his daughter, and he can't just ignore you after you've found a job and a house. Let's put it this way, you go on duty, and I'll talk to the factory and advance you some food coupons. You can save them and eat them until the next payday, but you have to go on duty and work, do you understand?" The other person held Tang Yuan's face with both hands and turned it towards him.

Tang Garden: 0.0

"Do you understand what I'm doing?"

"Understood. I can be on duty." She was just shocked that she could bring out the weeds and forgot to reply.

"It's OK if you understand. Then come with me now. I'll take you to get your food coupons in advance," the other party took Tang Yuan's hand and walked out. When she was about to take the key to lock the door, he took the key and locked the door, muttering, "This child is so stupid. Old Tang is really stupid. I was thinking about finding a job and a house for my daughter. He is still a good person. What a stupid thing he did."

Tang Yuan wondered whether he should take advantage of the situation and step on the enemy's feet.

But at this time, Tang Jianguo already had a very bad impression among these people. If they stepped on him now, at least he hadn't done anything too bad, and it would be easy to bounce back, so they should just take it step by step.

She didn't say a word, but the person accompanying her talked a lot.

After a while, she found out that the other person was the person in charge of the boiler room, named Zhang Xiumei. The boiler room of the machinery factory was not small, with a lot of work to do and many people, but Tang Yuan was assigned to the kitchen in the boiler room, and all she had to do was to light the fire, nothing else.

Even at night, the furnace cannot be turned off, so someone needs to be on duty to watch over it.

Other jobs in the machinery factory are good, except for the night shift, which not many people are willing to do. The one who left first did so for this reason. He looked for a better way out and left decisively.

The people left, leaving the house and the job vacant. Just then, Tang Yuan came over and Tang Jianguo and his wife made a plan, so they handed everything over to Tang Yuan.

Some people in the factory only want houses but not jobs, while those in the boiler room want to recruit people to be on duty, so houses are not a big deal. However, if someone must have a house to get the job, they all say they have to give him a house as well.

After all considerations, Tangyuan is still the most suitable.

"Can you take the night shift? Just stay a few more hours at night, okay?"

"Okay." Tang Yuan felt that the other party's tone was a little strange, but it was not easy to find a job now. Without this job, her future life would be in trouble.

"Then take the food coupons and money. This is an advance for you. The factory will deduct it directly from your salary next time. Go eat first," Zhang Xiumei urged Tang Yuan to go out. "Turn right after leaving the cafeteria and go straight. You can't go wrong."

Tang Yuan nodded, took the money and went out. Thinking of the working hours, she turned back to ask, and then she heard voices coming from inside.

"She's just a little bit stupid, but it's just for burning, there won't be any problem," Zhang Xiumei muttered to the people inside, "Old Tang is really something, he left a daughter of this age in the countryside, when she came, the whole factory was full of rumors about her condition, people said even beggars wouldn't be like that, she must have been tortured at home, now no one with connections wants her job, if she wants a better one, just give it to her, at her age, if she is sent back to the village, she's not smart, and no one will take care of her, I'm afraid she won't have a good life."

"You should be careful. A fire may not be a big deal, but if you are not smart, it can easily lead to trouble."

"Then I'll keep an eye on her for a few more days. I think she may not be very smart, but she's not completely stupid. The fire is not a big deal."

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Tang Yuan walked silently towards the cafeteria holding the bill.

I just can't figure it out.

How does she look like a fool?