Her Cultivation Diary

The weather forecast was indeed very accurate; it predicted several days of continuous rain, and indeed, it was several days of continuous rain.

Lun Chuan was upstairs organizing his new books, while Song Tan was calculating the security guards' salaries—as it was raining and everyone had to tend to their own land, for three consecutive nights, the security guards were the ones harvesting the vegetables.

Song Tan was now figuring out the additional wages for each person. But this isn't a sustainable solution; there still needs to be a way to recruit talented people.

But this salary...

She couldn't help but feel conflicted: Should she raise it a bit more?

However, before that, she still had to go up the mountain once with an umbrella to find Chen Yuan in the monitoring room:

"Are the drone blockers all installed?"

"They're all set up." Chen Yuan showed her some pictures: "We borrowed Yan Ran's drone to test them, and they work well."

Song Tan nodded, then went straight to the point: "Thanks for working hard to harvest the vegetables these past few days. As for the overtime pay we agreed on, do you guys want it paid daily or together with the salary?"

Chen Yuan was taken aback, then shook his head: "It's fine to send it along with the salary, as there's nothing to spend money on here."

There truly isn't anywhere to spend money.

Everything from food, clothing, housing, and transportation is arranged. The few miscellaneous items sold in the small shop would mostly only be needed by smokers.

But, it's just harvesting some vegetables at night, similar to plowing spinach before. For them, it's not difficult at all.

Song Tan nodded and then added: "We might need to trouble you guys for a while longer. I posted some job listings online, but... it's not easy to recruit people."

Chen Yuan also saw the salary requirements. Based on their actual experience, with meals and accommodation covered along with this salary, it's already quite generous.

After all, from their practice, actually, only two hours of high-efficiency work each night is enough.

So he nodded in understanding:

"We have many people, so this little work is really nothing. Plus, with overtime pay, everyone's quite willing to do it."

"Recruiting can be done slowly."

However, he happened to have another question:

"Does this vegetable harvesting job accept people with children?"

Hmm?

Song Tan curiously asked: "Tell me more."

Chen Yuan was asking on behalf of someone else on the team:

"It's Liu Ning's cousin. She got divorced and has a six-month-old child. She can't find work in the urban area, didn't make money from setting up a stall, and can't return home for a stable income... So now she's just selling some vegetables."

"Since we're hiring here during this time, Liu Ning asked me to check if his cousin could bring her child, rent a house herself, and do this vegetable harvesting job?"

Song Tan was a bit surprised: "It's doable, but the salary is only 1200, and there's no social insurance or housing fund—if she comes all this way, wouldn't she find it too little?"

If she remembers correctly, Liu Ning is from Ming City.

After thinking for a moment, Song Tan added: "If she lives on her own, there's a housing subsidy of 100 a month."

Chen Yuan then started laughing.

"That's already quite good—I'll inform Liu Ning first."

Song Tan nodded: "Alright, explain everything you should regarding the specifics, but if she doesn't do well, she'll have to resign."

Chen Yuan nodded seriously: "I'll explain in advance."

...

Meanwhile, in Ming City far away, Liu Liu is unaware she is about to have a stable job.

She's just been wandering in the job market for half a day, yet hasn't submitted even one resume.

How could she?

Her education isn't high; she dropped out in the second year of high school, and could come to the job market simply from listening to some young people chat.

But even if companies hire cleaners or sanitation workers, they don't allow bringing children along to clean, do they?

Her parents are gone, and now at 32, she's divorced and raising her six-month-old daughter alone. The child can't be left unattended; at six months, she can't even go to daycare, and hiring someone to care for her...

Liu Liu forced out a bitter smile.

Nowadays, childcare prices are indeed quite high, and if she really goes to find a job, the money earned might not even be enough to pay for the childcare.

Doing her own business by setting up a stall, but ironically in the past two years, the market hasn't been good, and even the city stalls are saturated...

Thinking it over, Liu Liu finds herself besides being diligent, not possessing any real strengths, not even being able to run a stall properly.

Even if occasionally she can make a small amount of money, it's usually just people sympathizing with her struggles of carrying a child late at night...

The city's living costs are high, and she has the heart to return home, but it's a remote village where earning opportunities are scarce year-round.

She could spend less money, but as the child grows, headaches and fevers, clothing and meals... what doesn't cost money?

At this moment, with her child on her back, she tidied up some previously wholesale vegetables, prepared to ride her tricycle to set up a stall, but was stopped by traffic police on the road—

"What's with this? Bringing a child out strapped to your back is dangerous!"

"And you yourself, where's your helmet? Wear your helmet."

Actually, the traffic police's attitude was quite good; although his words were stern, he wasn't intimidating.

But somehow, maybe it was the heaviness of the vegetables today, or the deflated tire making the tricycle hard to pedal, or perhaps the child's cries leaving her utterly exhausted...

Liu Liu, gripping the handlebars, suddenly had tears streaming down her face, surprising the young traffic policeman:

"Hey, you... you... Oh, I didn't say anything bad, why are you crying? Alright, alright, just leave..."

He waved his hand, ceasing to worry about the child's safety or the helmet, just urging Liu Liu to quickly move on.

But now her face was covered with tears, causing her to raise her head awkwardly to wipe them away, unable to see the road clearly.

It wasn't until a while later, with the traffic police helping to push the tricycle to the side of the road, that she finally managed to pull herself together, giving him a polite smile.

Just then, her phone rang:

"Sis, there's a job offer here, are you interested?"

A job?!

A job she could do while bringing her child?!

Liu Liu instantly became excited: "What kind of job? You know, Ran Ran is too young, I can't leave her."

From the other end, Liu Ning had already made arrangements for her:

"It's a night shift job, harvesting vegetables for 2-3 hours each night. I tried this work, it's not heavy, you can do it while carrying the child."

Moreover, since it's night work, the sleeping child can stay at home.

"Originally it's with meals and accommodation included, 1200 yuan a month, but since you can't stay in the dormitory with a child, I negotiated with the boss..."

He continued: "I'll help you rent a place in the village, it's only 1000 yuan a year."

"Then, if you don't stay in the dormitory, there's a monthly housing subsidy of 100, bringing your salary to 1300. It's not much, but it doesn't interfere with you taking care of the child—are you willing?"

In that instant, Liu Liu's mind became more active than ever—

1300 a month, 15,600 a year, the money is indeed little, but since meals and housing are equivalent to no expenses!

If it's stable, she could work for two years, then resign to send her child to kindergarten, eventually looking for other jobs again!

Thinking of this, she immediately responded: "I'll do it!"