Quick Transmigration: I Actually Became a System Bug

“Ji Zhiqing, you won’t be able to finish today’s task like this. Why don’t you exchange labor with us? We really don’t need much. If you let Brother Dahe and the others come, they’ll ask for three cents for every work point!”

Ji Han rubbed his shoulders, which were aching from being rubbed by the carrying pole, and could only helplessly abandon his grand dream of working in the fields.

"Alright, then thank you for your hard work..."

Before Ji Han could finish speaking, the children, having received a positive answer, swarmed towards the river. Before they ran, they took the two buckets that were beside him. If they hadn't had wooden sticks, Ji Han doubted he would have been able to keep the carrying pole he was holding.

The children's cheers were quite loud, and the team members working nearby could hear them clearly. The team leader of the third squad could only shake his head helplessly, while constantly comforting himself: "It's good that he's rich. At least he can hire these children to help. Otherwise, if we really can't finish the task by the time we finish work, then I'll be really worried."

In the end, the third team leader gave Ji Han a summary: a rich but powerless young master who relies solely on his looks.

Shi Shaoyu, who was also a young master, was not as lucky as Ji Han. He worked himself to the bone all day with a shovel, but in the end, the scorekeeper only gave him three work points. Even that was only after Ji Han helped him; otherwise, he would have barely gotten two points.

After Shi Shaoyu finished recording his work points, he and Ji Han led a group of children back to the educated youth settlement. The first and third team leaders looked at their long silhouettes, exchanged a helpless glance, and both understood the meaning in their eyes.

Ji Han led a group of children to the educated youth settlement. He took out eight cents and a few pieces of hard candy from the house.

"Here's eight cents. Count them, are they right?"

However, the first child didn't borrow money directly; instead, he first took out three eggs from his tattered clothes.

“Ji Zhiqing, three eggs for eight cents.”

Ji Han...Are all kids these days so shrewd and cautious? Ji Han went along with the child's words, gave the child eight cents, and accepted three eggs.

Then, he took the opportunity to distribute the candy to the children one by one, giving each child one piece. When he reached the child in the lead, the three eggs were handed back to him.

"Kid, I'm not very good at using the earthen stove yet. Could you please ask your parents to boil these three eggs for me? I'll come and get them myself later."

The child readily agreed, saying that the eggs would definitely be taken back, but whether they were boiled or fried was none of Ji Han's business.

With candies in their mouths and eight cents in their pockets, the children disappeared in a flash, already scheming about how to turn the two educated youths into long-term clients.

Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu were also thinking about how to get some relatively easy tasks every day so that the children could continue to "help".

Before Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu could figure it out, the opportunity came knocking on their door the next morning before they even started work.

Before Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu received their missions, they were called aside by the two team leaders. The third team leader gave the first team leader a wink, and the first team leader could only frown and take on the task himself.

"Back then, when we were educated youth, it was like this: in our team, the daily work was divided into several categories. One of them was the kind of work you did yesterday, which was worth ten points. Generally, the strong laborers in the team did that."

"Secondly, there are relatively easy jobs such as weeding and sowing seeds, which are worth 5-8 work points. These are usually done by the women or teenagers in the team."

"The third job is cutting pig feed and cutting cow feed. This job has the lowest work points. You have to hand in two big baskets full of feed every day. You can only get three or four work points at most. Usually, this job is done by pregnant women or children in the team."

"The last task is feeding the pigs and cattle. You two don't need to worry about that. This task is to be assigned to elderly people and women who need special care."

At this point, the team leader glanced at the expressions on Ji Han and Shi Shaoyu's faces, and seeing that they didn't seem to mind, he continued.

“You educated youth Shi and Ji, you know how well you worked yesterday. The third team leader and I observed you and you don’t seem to be short of money. How about you change your work today?”

Change it! We must change it! What's there to hesitate about? Ji Han gave Shi Shaoyu a wink, and Shi Shaoyu immediately broke into a big smile.

"Oh, you two team leaders, I knew it! You are the kind people who understand the difficulties we educated youth face the most, and you are truly the kind team leaders who care about us educated youth."

"Well, I'm wondering what kind of job we could best switch to?"

The captain immediately understood the unspoken meaning behind Shi Shaoyu's words.

"Now, as educated youth, especially Ji, if you want the grass-cutting job, it's not impossible, but that job is currently full. If you go now, two people will have to step down, and..."

Good heavens! Good heavens! If anyone tells him again that rural people are simple and honest, Ji Han will spit in their face. From yesterday's kid to today's squad leader, none of them have done anything that is honest.

"Captain, we understand, but we don't know if they want to exchange something or something else?"

Good that you understand. The two captains didn't say what exactly needed to be replaced. The third captain turned around and soon brought over two heavily pregnant women. Then he and the first captain hid to the side.

However, there's no point in dragging things out when both sides are clear about their intentions.

"My two sisters-in-law, what do you need?"

These two women had clearly planned this beforehand. One of them, a woman with short hair who looked quite capable, spoke up.

“You two young educated youths, we won’t beat around the bush with you. My sister-in-law and I are about to give birth, and our families feel sorry for us, so they let us give up our jobs. We were thinking of exchanging these jobs for some brown sugar coupons and industrial coupons. These are rare items, and our family has been looking for them for a long time but we still can’t find them.”

Ji Han knew that at this time, sugar was considered one of the best nutritional products, and it was in extremely short supply. Urban residents were generally only allocated one or two ounces of sugar coupons per quarter, and they could usually only buy brown sugar.

As for refined white sugar and rock sugar, only women who give birth, residents who are hospitalized for serious illnesses, and those who enjoy special supplies can buy some with "special supply sugar coupons".

The items mentioned above are almost never rationed for agricultural households, which is why it is so rare for people in rural areas to have a piece of sugar.