Let's Farm Some Level-Up Experience!

Going back to the work unit dormitory for a meal was a bit far.

Besides, he really didn't want to eat that food anymore.

What should he make to eat?

Liang Xin looked at the marketplace in his mind.

The marketplace was full of agricultural and sideline products, with nothing he could eat right away.

Never mind instant noodles-even if you gave me some raw dumplings, I could at least boil them!

But the most convenient thing in the marketplace was dried noodles.

There were only ten types of goods in the marketplace.

Rice for thirteen fen, white flour for sixteen fen, pork for seventy fen, eggs for fifty fen, salt for seventeen fen, and white sugar for eighty fen.

Seasonal vegetables cost three fen. This covered several kinds: cabbage, radishes, potatoes, and so on all fell into this category.

Last came a few kinds of coarse grains: sorghum, corn, soybeans, and the like, all priced between six and nine fen per jin.

Some agricultural and sideline products marketplace this was!

Liang Xin couldn't help complaining again. With so little on offer, how did it have the nerve to call itself a marketplace?

Liang Xin wanted stir-fried dishes, but he didn't know how to cook them.

There was rice, but no rice cooker. Asking him to boil rice and drain it was asking too much.

There was no way he had that kind of skill.

In the end, he had no choice but to cut off another jin of meat and buy a jin of dried noodles.

This time, the meat had a little lean meat on it.

Yesterday's meal of fatty pork had put some grease in his belly, so he didn't need quite so much today.

He boiled the meat, let it cool, and cut it into pieces.

The noodles were cooked too. Thanks to yesterday's experience, he ate several fewer mouthfuls of raw noodles while cooking them today.

That was progress!

Just then, the front door creaked open.

"Brother Liang, my mom told me to call you..."

"What's that smell? It smells so good."

Oh no, I've been caught in the act!

Liang Xin froze for a moment when he saw the little head poking in through the doorway.

He was secretly eating meat at home. If someone pressed him about where it came from, how was he supposed to explain?

If he couldn't explain, what kind of punishment would he face from the organization?

So, should he just kill her to keep her quiet?

Forget it. Who'd be bored enough to press me about that?

Even if someone insisted on asking, did I have to tell them?

What's wrong with eating some meat? It's not like I killed someone or set a fire. Was there any need to make such a big deal out of it?

At that thought, Liang Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

After a moment's hesitation, he beckoned to Jiang Xinxin at the door.

The little girl walked in as if she'd been put under a spell, her eyes fixed straight ahead.

Well, fixed on the meat in the bowl in front of Liang Xin.

So much fatty pork!

One look was enough to know it had to be delicious!

"Xinxin, go home and tell your mom I've already eaten."

Jiang Xinxin nodded without thinking, staring at the fatty pork without so much as looking at Liang Xin.

It was as if the meat were a magnet holding her eyeballs in place.

She probably hadn't even heard what Liang Xin said.

Liang Xin scratched his head and had no choice but to pick up a fairly large piece of fatty pork with his chopsticks and offer it to her.

Jiang Xinxin instinctively held out both little hands to receive it.

But Liang Xin didn't put the meat down. He moved his chopsticks away instead.

The dazed Jiang Xinxin instantly felt utterly disappointed.

The next moment, Liang Xin dipped it in the bowl of mashed garlic and soy sauce before bringing it back to her.

He'd forgotten to dip it just now!

Jiang Xinxin was instantly happy again.

"Brother Liang, is this really for me? Can I really eat it?"

The little girl asked cautiously, afraid Liang Xin was only teasing her.

After all, this was meat!

And such a big piece, too—it had to be more than a liang!

It could definitely be traded for half a jin of rice!

If she traded it for coarse grains, it would be enough for a whole jin!

"Go on, eat it, but keep it a secret! You can't even tell your mom and dad! Otherwise, I won't give you any!"

Jiang Xinxin nodded vigorously, her little head bobbing like a rattle drum.

Then she held the piece of meat, which was almost as big as both her little hands, and started to run outside.

"Come back!"

Liang Xin slapped his forehead.

This silly girl had just promised not to tell anyone. What was she trying to do?

Carry it home like that?

Wouldn't everyone know then?

Wouldn't the neighbors cooling off outside and the children running wild everywhere all see it too?

That was practically the same as telling the whole courtyard!

By tomorrow, wouldn't the entire supply and marketing cooperative department know about it?

"Come here, eat it right here! Go back after you're finished!"

"Don't forget what you just promised Brother Liang. You can't tell anyone, not even your mom and dad!"

"Otherwise, I won't give you the meat!"

Jiang Xinxin stared blankly for a moment, then suddenly raised her little hands and took a ferocious bite of the fatty pork.

Only after she had eaten it in a few bites did she narrow her eyes and stick out her little tongue to lick her lips.

She looked blissfully happy.

Then, thoroughly satisfied, she said goodbye to Liang Xin and ran off.

[You have earned Jiang Xinxin's gratitude and gained 10 Level-Up Experience points]

There it was again!

Level-Up Experience!

But it still wouldn't tell him how many experience points he needed to level up!

How annoying!

"It really is a better deal to give it to the little girl."

"Yesterday, I gave Aunt He two jin of eggs and only got 5 Level-Up Experience points."

"That piece of meat I just gave the little girl was only a little over a liang, worth about ten fen, and I got 10 Level-Up Experience points for it. It's obviously a better deal."

"So, should I use the little girl to farm experience from time to time?"

Liang Xin suddenly grew interested.