Chapter 11

After visiting Aunt Wang, Xu Di started to study her space.

In her previous life, Xu Di’s husband was like a widower, to use a popular internet phrase, “widower-style parenting.”

Used to living without reliance, Xu Di still wanted to take her fate into her own hands.

She thought that in a year’s time, she would first prepare some money. If the opportunity arose, and she had no money, everything would be in vain.

Xu Di’s idea was to try her luck, see if there were any families with fewer people and more job positions. When they retired, and no one needed to take over their jobs, she could buy a job position with her own money.

Jobs at this time were iron rice bowls, and they could be passed on to family members.

Based on the time travel novels she had read and the current prices, a good job would cost at least one thousand or two thousand yuan.

Xu Di made up her mind and started to prepare.

Luckily, she had her own room. At night, she locked the door and entered the space.

The things she had smuggled in were still there, and they were in the same condition.

It seemed that this space had a preservation function.

Xu Di unlocked the first function of the space and tried calling out.

“Automatic planting, system, spirit beast, display screen, come out…” In the end, she was left with nothing.

This was just a space with black soil and a preservation function, nothing else.

Xu Di even doubted whether this black soil could grow crops.

Thinking about it wouldn’t help, she had to try it out.

Luckily, Xu Di had brought in the hoe and pickaxe from home, just in case.

Xu Di had lived in the countryside in both her previous and current lives, she knew that you had to make ridges before planting vegetables.

She picked up the pickaxe and started working.

She didn’t know how long she had been working, but she had made five ridges, her arms were tired.

“Forget it, that’s enough for today.”

Xu Di told herself, five ridges, she would plant them tomorrow.

Thankfully, the soil was loose and hadn’t hardened, otherwise, her arms would have been exhausted.

She left the space and quietly went to the living room to look at the clock, it was 8:55 pm.

Before entering the space, she had deliberately checked the time, it was a little past eight o’clock. She had been working for so long, and only a little over an hour had passed.

It seemed that the time flow in the space was different from the outside world, she just didn’t know the difference.

Xu Di went to the bathroom to wash up and prepare for bed.

The next day, after breakfast, Xu Di went to school. School wasn’t the main purpose of going to school now.

The college entrance exam was stopped, most people were just waiting to get a diploma so they could go home and take over their parents’ jobs, or find a temporary job.

Those with connections at home were arranged to go to the army, the song and dance troupe, or any other place they could go.

Those without connections at home, if they couldn’t find a job, they only had one option, going to the countryside.

“Xu Di, you didn’t go to the activity on Saturday. I’ll tell you, those Red Guards were so scary, they beat people until they bled.”

As soon as Yang Dani saw Xu Di come in, she pulled her back to their seat and whispered.

“Really? I went to my grandmother’s house in the countryside on Saturday.”

Xu Di had been here for a while, and she hadn’t actually seen a real criticism meeting, she had only heard about it. She knew this part of history, as an ordinary citizen, she couldn’t comment on right or wrong.

“Sigh, you’re lucky, you can go to the countryside to support rural construction whenever you want. I want to go, but my parents won’t let me.”

Yang Dani’s family was well-off, her parents doted on her, how could they possibly let her go to the countryside.

“If you really want to go to the countryside to build it, I’ll take you to experience it during the autumn harvest. See if you have the ability to build the countryside, let’s let the facts prove it, at least we can’t cause trouble for the farmers, right?”

“You’re serious, you can’t go back on your word, I’ll bring my own food, I won’t eat and drink for free.”

Looking at Yang Dani, who was carefree and innocent, she was a child who had grown up in a honey pot, she was too naive.

Xu Di wasn’t being kind for no reason, she just felt that since they had met, she might as well help. Otherwise, if Yang Dani, a simple girl, impulsively signed up to go to the countryside, the consequences would be unpredictable.

The two of them chatted and gossiped until the teacher arrived, then they quieted down.

The teacher stood on the podium, regardless of what the students were doing, he just focused on teaching the lesson.

Too many bad things had happened in the school, the teachers’ hearts had grown cold and they were afraid.

Xu Di tried to follow the teacher’s train of thought, she had forgotten a lot of knowledge, it was rare to have a chance to start over, she should study hard.

Seven years later, she would still be young, she could try those universities she never dared to dream of in her previous life.

The class ended, Xu Di had taken two full pages of notes, her hand was sore.

“Xu Di, the college entrance exam is canceled now, why are you still studying so hard?”

“What else can you do in school if you don’t study? Knowledge is yours once you learn it. Even if you want to build the countryside, you can’t be illiterate, can you?”

Xu Di didn’t dare to mention the restoration of the college entrance exam, she had to keep her secret, be careful, and not reveal her true identity.

There were always smart people, she, someone with average intelligence, shouldn’t dream of doing anything big.

It was a rare chance to start over, she should just live a low-key life, enjoy an ordinary life, be healthy, happy, and live a long life, not die prematurely.

Xu Di’s life was like this, going back and forth between school and home.

During the day, she studied hard at school.

At night, after dinner, she went to her room early to rest, taking the opportunity to enter the space and farm.

Through Xu Di’s tireless efforts, two-thirds of the land in the space was planted with seeds. And the first plants she had planted had already sprouted, Xu Di was relieved, this black soil could grow crops.

In a few more days, she would plant the rest of the land with corn, and then when the corn grew taller, she would buy some chicks and raise them in the space.

She had tried it, the space could support living things.

In the 1970s, eggs were a common form of currency.

In the city, each family only had a limited number of egg coupons each month, and they couldn’t buy more if they wanted to.

In the countryside, every household had a fixed number of chickens, three or two per family, they also lacked eggs.

As for where to buy chicks, Xu Di didn’t know yet.

A few days before October 1st, the crops in Xu Di’s space were already over a foot tall, and Xu Di had calculated that the time flow in the space was about three times faster than the outside world.

This meant that under normal circumstances, it would take about one hundred days for corn to grow from seed to maturity. In the space, it would only take about thirty days.

The corn that Xu Di had planted half a month ago was already as tall as her, each plant had two corn cobs, and they were not small.

Xu Di knew that the yield of crops in the 1970s wasn’t high, unlike the high-yield seeds of decades later.

It wasn’t because of the seeds, but because the soil was fertile, so the yield was probably high.

Xu Di silently thanked the fairies in the Nine Heavens for leaving her with such a treasure.

The grain was growing, but she still hadn’t found any chicks.

At the city’s seed factory, you needed a letter of introduction to buy chicks, otherwise, they wouldn’t sell to you, where could Xu Di find a letter of introduction?

Hens nest in the spring, it was autumn now, where could she find chicks?

If all else failed, Xu Di planned to buy some eggs and hatch them in the space, she knew the principle.

Xu Di’s space was all about doing it yourself and being self-sufficient!