After graduating from college, Jian Xingxia inherits her grandmother’s old farm. Unfortunately, it’s tucked away deep in the mountains, overrun with weeds, and the buildings are falling apart with leaky roofs.
As she pulls weeds until she’s questioning her life choices, she groans, “Can’t someone come help me weed the fields and fix the roof?”
The very next second, a twelve-year-old girl from ancient times emerges from the mountains.
“Weeding? That’s easy. Just let me keep the wild vegetables.”
Soon after, a gaunt old man who looks to be in his fifties arrives carrying a shoulder pole.
“Repairing roofs and building stoves are no problem. I just don’t know what this ‘cement’ and ‘ceramic tile’ are.”
As the owner of the farm, Jian Xingxia carefully puts together wages for her temporary workers according to a “salary standard.”
A few cents’ worth of cold medicine, a few dollars’ worth of brown sugar, plus free wild vegetables and fruit grown on the farm are enough to send her workers home delighted.
The system cheerfully hands out rewards:
- Temporary worker satisfaction: Perfect! Reward: A complete solar power generation system!
- More temporary job positions unlocked! Reward: A packet of magical seeds!
- Hiring quota reached! Reward: One permanent employee position unlocked!
Jian Xingxia grins:
“First, conquer this little farm. Next stop—a grand mountain estate!”
