You need to raise your pet using a system [Era]

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As November approached, the village gradually became less anxious.

There's no need to rush to collect the grain.

Now we're slowly planting some vegetables.

The land cannot be left empty and wasted. Winter wheat needs to be planted, followed by vegetables that can be eaten in winter, including the special vegetables of the Sichuan and Chongqing region.

Especially mustard greens, this vegetable has a bitter taste whether it is stir-fried or boiled.

However, a lot of these vegetables are planted here every winter to sell, specifically for making pickled mustard greens.

After the Spring Festival, before the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the crops will be harvested from the fields and sold by the production team.

It was because of this income that Zhao Zhongcai was able to distribute all the grain without any burden, leaving very little grain in the warehouse.

Besides these, there are also Chinese cabbage and white radish that need to be planted slowly.

On this day, Lu Yuanqing took out a long-sleeved shirt from the closet, put it on, and came out of the room yawning.

His very capable husband, Lu Yuanhuan, had already prepared breakfast.

"Little sister! You're up so early!" Lu Yuanqing exclaimed as he brushed his teeth.

He didn't know if it was because the weather was getting cooler, but he felt particularly greedy for the warm blankets.

"If you go to bed early, you'll wake up early," Lu Yuanhuan said with a smile.

Lu Yuanqing pursed his lips, speaking in a very familiar and commonplace tone.

Isn't it said that you can't wake up for the first thirty years of your life?

At Lu Yuanhuan's age, he's at the age where he can't get enough sleep!

A short while later, Lu Yuanbo and the others also sauntered out of the room.

Wash up and eat breakfast.

"What are you going to do today?" Lu Yuanqing asked. "Still planting mustard greens?"

This stuff tastes really good when made into pickles.

Their own food was almost gone, but there was nothing they could do. There were plenty of mouths to feed in the family, and what they were eating now was a little bit that their aunt had sent them.

"Mmm!" Lu Yuanbo slurped his meal. "We need to plant these next few days!"

This stuff can be sold for money after the New Year. Every year, the village plants a lot of it, planting it in paddy fields and all kinds of land, even those without water.

"Third Brother, aren't you going to work today?" Lu Yuanhuan asked curiously.

Lu Yuanqing took a sip of porridge, then picked up a large piece of sweet potato with his chopsticks, took a bite, and said, "I'm not going. I have to go with the captain to hand in the mission pig today."

"So early?"

"What do you mean 'early'? They're not gaining weight anymore, keeping them is just a waste of food. Their weight has just reached the target for the mission, let's hurry up and deliver them!"

The village only raises two pigs. One of them needs to meet quotas, and its weight must not be less than 90 jin (45 kg). It also cannot be sick, otherwise the pig farm will not take it.

In this day and age, people can't get fat, and pigs can't grow to 200 pounds.

"Wow, does that mean we can eat meat?" Lu Mingnan exclaimed in surprise.

He was a little older than the twins and had seen the village slaughter pigs for the New Year. Every time a pig was slaughtered, he could eat delicious meat.

"Meat?" Xiao Bei and Xiao Zhong tilted their heads.

Lu Yuanqing chuckled and patted their little heads.

What a poor kid! Apart from the meat buns he brought back, he's never eaten any other meat.

"It's still early!" Lu Yuanqing said with a smile. "After handing in the quest pig, there's one left. We'll slaughter it and divide the meat around the New Year, but that might have to wait until a few days before the New Year!"

"Oh!" Lu Mingnan lowered his head and continued eating.

“Brother…” Lu Yuanbo blinked his big eyes and looked at him expectantly.

Lu Yuanqing: "..."

"Fine!"

"Yay!" Lu Yuanbo exclaimed in delight.

"Third Uncle!" Lu Mingxi pouted!

“Third Uncle!” Lu Mingdong looked at him expressionlessly.

Lu Yuanqing clicked his tongue. "You guys are going too?"

He understands.

After all, there are too many things that children of this era have never seen.

So even something as mundane as turning in quest pigs is something they still want to do to join in the fun.

In the past, the children in the family would have been sensible enough not to make such a request.

But Lu Yuanqing dotes on them!

What parent would allow them to skip work and earn work points to go out and have fun?

Hey! Lu Yuanqing, this grown man, is willing!

Whenever the team needed him to go to the commune or other places, he was willing to take them out to broaden their horizons.

After one or two times, the clever kids will realize his indulgence.

Even if you're going to join in the fun, you can't bring your whole family!

The three younger ones were immediately excluded by Lu Yuanqing.

He wanted them to broaden their horizons, not to become a burden to himself.

He excluded all the children who couldn't walk back and forth on their own two legs.

Lu Mingnan/Lu Mingbei/Lu Mingzhong: "..." Hmph, biased!

Of the remaining four, Lu Yuanhuan was very sensible. She never competed for anything, but gave up her own opportunities and let the other three have them.

As for Lu Yuanbo, he would treat his nephews and nieces very well at other times, but when it came to going out with Lu Yuanqing, he would resolutely refuse.

"Third Uncle, I want to go too!" Lu Mingxi said coquettishly.

She felt she had an advantage because she was a girl.

Her third uncle was often kinder to her and Lu Yuanhuan.

When she and Lu Mingdong got into a fight, Lu Yuanqing always sided with her.

Unfortunately, Lu Mingxi still doesn't understand Lu Yuanqing. When it comes to fairness in the family, he neither favors boys over girls nor girls over boys.

"Then speak faster next time. This time, your fourth uncle spoke first, and I agreed!" Lu Yuanqing said with a smile.

If he knew that Lu Mingxi thought he favored girls, he would definitely say that he was overthinking it.

In this family, Lu Yuanhuan is the one who is most easily moved to pity.

That's because he thought Lu Yuanhuan was a very well-behaved and sensible girl.

However, Lu Yuanhuan didn't compete with them, and Lu Yuanqing didn't stand on her side or help her.

He may be soft-hearted, but he is fair in every decision he makes; the two are not intertwined.

Besides, he had already promised Lu Yuanbo, and he couldn't go back on his word at the last minute.

"Okay!" Lu Mingxi lowered his head in disappointment.

She also knew that Lu Yuanqing was a man of his word.

"Oh! Right!" Lu Yuanqing put down his chopsticks, suddenly remembered something, and said to everyone at the table, "My work points as an accountant this year haven't been converted into grain. I told the brigade leader that they will be converted into money. If you three students do well in your studies, I'll give you a New Year's gift!"

There are four days of work points in a month, which is 40 work points.

Lu Yuanqing has been working as an accountant for five months. Based on this year's work points, he can earn 52 yuan a month, not including the next two months.

Five months, 52 yuan. After being fully aware of the current prices, Lu Yuanqing didn't know whether he could still be considered cheap labor!

"Really? Third Uncle, can I specify what I want?" Lu Mingxi asked in surprise.

Her grades were decent, so she was naturally even happier.

Lu Yuanqing laughed and said, "Of course, uh, how about this, if you get first place in the class, you can get a one-yuan reward, second place gets fifty cents, and third place gets thirty cents."

"When I have time, I'll take you to the county town and we'll go to the department store there. You can use this money to choose whatever you want to buy, how about that?"

This is a very tempting offer.

After all, no one in this family has ever been to the county, not even the original owner of this body, nor Lu Yuanqing.

Everyone says the county is more prosperous than the town. If we have nothing to do during the Spring Festival, we can take them there to broaden their horizons!

"The county? Really? That's great! Thank you, Uncle! I want to buy it..."

Sure enough, the temptation to go to the county was still very strong, and even Lu Mingdong, this cool guy, was filled with joy.

His grades had always been number one, which meant he could lock in the one-yuan reward in advance. The more Lu Mingdong thought about it, the more his lips curled up slightly.

"No, brother, you're being unfair! I want to go to the county too, I don't get any reward!" Now it was Lu Yuanbo's turn to wail!

"I don't have any either!" Lu Mingnan pouted, looking like he was about to cry!

As for the two younger ones, they had already eaten and gone out to play hand in hand, so they weren't involved in this topic.

Lu Yuanqing shook his head with a smile, patted Lu Yuanbo on the head, and said, "How could you be left out? From now on, you'll have twenty work points as pocket money every month. How about we only calculate it for three months this year?"

He has money, but he can't just give it to them directly!

So, using his own work points as pocket money is not a bad idea!

"Ah! Why?!" Lu Yuanbo was not initially happy or excited, but rather puzzled.

Pocket money? Please, this was the first time he had ever heard these three words. Children sent to the countryside never had a single penny to their name.

Lu Yuanqing laughed and said, "Because you are the most capable person in the family besides me. You have also earned a lot of work points. Third brother cannot treat you unfairly!"

Besides, they're all grown up now, and they'll all be thinking about getting married in a few years. How can we let him be penniless? If he wants to buy something for his girlfriend, does he expect his older brother to ask for it?

All three members of the family who earned work points went to school, and Lu Yuanbo was the only one who worked every day except during busy farming seasons.

“It’s fine if they don’t give it to me, the work points I earned originally belonged to my family!” Lu Yuanbo said.

“Here you go, just take it. You don’t have a penny in your pocket, it looks pathetic,” Lu Yuanqing said.

Lu Yuanbo: "..."

Is it shabby?

Most of the married men in the village are still struggling financially! What's so pathetic about him?

However, since his third brother said he could have it, he accepted it.

Hehe, he's got money now, and he's going to spend it!