The Beginning of the World: Going to the Countryside as an Educated Youth

At this time, his vegetarian noodles were also cooked. After the proprietress scooped up the noodles, she specially added an egg.

Zhao Dongchuan nodded, said thank you, and quickly gulped down a bowl of hot noodle soup.

While Zhao Dongchuan was eating noodles, the mother and daughter were already packing up their things, apparently planning to close the stall and go home. It was obvious that after what had just happened, they were still scared and didn't plan to continue setting up the stall tonight.

After Zhao Dongchuan finished his noodles and wanted to pay, the proprietress refused to take any money.

"Thank you for what happened today!!!" Although the proprietress didn't know how Zhao Dongchuan set a trap for the two gangsters, she was actually helping them.

Zhao Dongchuan was helping them in this way, so they had to repay his kindness, so of course they couldn't accept any money. Although the women had not received much education, they still knew how to repay a favor.

"I just can't stand it. Chairman Mao taught us to help the weak at all times!" Zhao Dongchuan said and waved his hands.

Everything was packed up, and the mother and daughter pushed the cart loaded with things away. Seeing them staggering, Zhao Dongchuan felt pity for them. Since there was nothing much to do, he decided to help if he could.

So Zhao Dongchuan lent a hand and helped push the cart, and the little girl smiled gratefully.

"Brother, you are a good person." The child was not hypocritical and was not so worldly-wise. She expressed her gratitude sincerely.

The little girl and her family lived on Dongguan Street, deep in an alley, near the old Dongguan bridge.

Not far away is the bus station, where many people from various counties in the Huangyuan area live.

Maybe because he had helped them before, they did not hide anything. After talking along the way, Zhao Dongchuan also understood some of the situation.

The little girl's name is Cao Yuan and her mother is Li Huiying.

Their family was originally from Beiguanyanggou Village. Cao Yuan's father went out to work in the mountains for the production team and earned work points. Li Huiying took care of the children while working, which counted as half a work point. Since they lived separately, the family of three could still make ends meet.

Last year, the man in their family saved some money and borrowed some more. He wanted to renovate the place, so he hired a few people to dig a few earthen caves and then prepare to connect the stone openings.

In order to save a few dollars, he went to help out on his holidays, but was crushed to death by a collapsed pile of earth.

Their family suddenly fell into poverty. Not only did they lose their pillar, but they also owed a lot of foreign debts.

For the sake of her child, the mother gritted her teeth and persevered. In order to quickly pay back the money borrowed from relatives, the mother and daughter thought about doing some small business secretly, so that they could earn more money to pay back the debt. So they set up a stall with the help of their family.

The place they live now is rented privately for two yuan a month. If the two places were not too far away and inconvenient to set up a stall, they would not be willing to spend the money to rent a house.

Doing business these days is risky but the money earned is more than the work points earned from farming. After calculating the accounts, they still think it is better to rent a house.

After learning about their situation, Zhao Dongchuan couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"Ding, triggering the system task. Task content: Help Cao Yuan and her daughter pay off their foreign debts (they need to be self-reliant). Task time limit: 2 months. Task reward: 5 chances to draw a lottery. Task failure: no penalty. Completion progress: 0/1."

As a clear voice rang out in his mind, Zhao Dongchuan's face became dazed.

Shit, the mission was actually triggered. This, this system is so inhumane. These two mother and daughter never appeared in the original book. They are definitely passers-by.

It really is worthy of being called the Passerby A system.

Although Zhao Dongchuan complained about the system, he was really surprised to be able to trigger the task. This broken system had been silent for a long time. If he could not still see the system interface and the inventory, he would have thought that the system had crashed.

In order to help Cao Yuan and her daughter pay off their foreign debts, he could not give them money directly, so they had to support themselves. While helping to push the cart, Zhao Dongchuan silently thought about countermeasures.

Soon they arrived at a dilapidated cave, which was Cao Yuan and her friends' temporary home. There were some sundries scattered around in the yard.

Cao Yuan's mother warmly invited Zhao Dongchuan into the house for tea. For the sake of the mission, Zhao Dongchuan did not refuse and stayed and had a cup of tea.

While chatting with Cao Yuan's mother, Zhao Dongchuan was thinking about the mission. At this time, Cao Yuan brought a bag of brown sugar and made him a cup of brown sugar water.

Zhao Dongchuan suggested that they should not set up stalls in front of the cinema for the time being to prevent people from looking for opportunities to retaliate.

From Zhao Dongchuan's indirect questioning, he roughly found out that Cao Yuan's family owed a total of 200 yuan in foreign debt.

200 yuan of foreign debt, paid off within 2 months, average daily net profit of about 4 yuan. They earn about 5 cents per bowl of noodles, and they have to sell 80 bowls a day.

Zhao Dongchuan drank brown sugar water while thinking.

It was already a bit late. The street lights would go out at 9 o'clock in the evening. He had to go back quickly. If the dormitory was closed, he would probably be left on the streets.

Zhao Dongchuan stood up and prepared to leave, saying that he would come to see them when he had time. Then he said goodbye and left in Cao Yuan's reluctant look.

Since he didn't have a watch and wasn't sure what time it was, he could only walk quickly and try not to go back too late.

Following his memory, Zhao Dongchuan returned to the dormitory of the cultural center.

The old man at the door had his head hung down and was a little sleepy. When he saw Zhao Dongchuan coming back, he didn't ask much. They had met several times before and knew that this was the new librarian.

Zhao Dongchuan returned to his dormitory, washed up, took a cold shower, and felt much more relaxed. He then started to practice questions, as he had not practiced them properly for several days.

He came to the desk, turned on the desk lamp, opened a physics exercise book, took out the system pen from the space, and started to do the questions.

He suddenly lost track of time. By the time Zhao Dongchuan had finished doing more than twenty questions, the clock on the wall had already pointed to twelve o'clock.

Zhao Dongchuan let out a long sigh, and the guilt he felt for falling behind in his studies gradually disappeared.

Zhao Dongchuan put down the book, rubbed his temples, and poured himself a cup of tea.

Zhao Dongchuan drank tea while thinking about how to complete the task, but even after he finished the tea, he still had no idea.

"Don't think about it anymore, go to sleep and talk about it tomorrow."

Zhao Dongchuan simply stopped thinking about it, took off his clothes and slept on the lower bunk that he had made up during the day.

Zhao Dongchuan closed his eyes and fell asleep soon.

The next day, Zhao Dongchuan woke up early due to his biological clock. He followed the usual routine, washed up, exercised, had breakfast, and continued to practice questions.

It was almost 8 o'clock, so Zhao Dongchuan entered the cultural center and found the Human Resources Department where he had been yesterday. Amid the warm greetings from the aunt in the Human Resources Department, he received his work permit with a stamp already in place.