Quick Transmigration: Passer-by Craftsman System [MTL]

Chapter 14

It's getting late, and it's definitely too late to fall asleep and enter the daily free virtual classroom. Qingchuan got up early and washed his face with cold water. It was already winter and the weather turned cold. When the cold water stimulated him, Qingchuan immediately became sober that he could no longer wake up. He shivered and put on his clothes.

Two layers of thin single clothes are not enough to keep out the cold. I only have a set of thin cotton-padded jackets at home, which I won't take out until the coldest time. Cashmere sweaters and other cold-proof items don't appear in the countryside. In this era, both fabrics and cotton were light luxury goods. If you couldn't get them easily, you had to hunch your neck close to the stove to keep warm, and wait for the sun to come out before it would be better.

In the past, he would have taken bowls and chopsticks to the village canteen to wait for his meal, but now that he is a 'worker', he cannot eat from the big pot. Although his registered permanent residence is still in a rural area, Qingchuan received wages but no work points after going to the slaughterhouse, so whether it was a big pot meal or work points, he had nothing to do with it. He could only use money to buy work points in the village in exchange for food.

There are some welfare benefits in the village, such as the New Year Pig, collective distribution of fish and fruits, etc. Basically, they are based on the ratio of four points per person and six points for work. Those who work can get more, but Qingchuan, who has a household registration here, gets less.

Nowadays, the salary of temporary workers in Qingchuan is 12 yuan, and the slaughterhouse also has many benefits. From time to time, there is free pig blood and pigs in the water, and you can also buy free meat. As for the villagers, a full day's work point is ten, and one work point costs about six cents, which is six cents a day. Excluding slack periods, especially around the Chinese New Year, I can work an average of twenty-two days a month, which is 13 yuan and 20 cents.

Strong laborers work hard for a day and get the same money as those who work in Qingchuan that is not considered strenuous. There are many hidden benefits in Qingchuan, so in this calculation, of course it is better to be a worker. Pork will do.

Because he doesn't eat in a big pot, Qingchuan has the privilege of cooking alone. If anyone else starts cooking, the village patrol team will come to the door. This group of people has nothing to do all day long, just stare at whose chimney is emitting white smoke. The smell of rice wafts. That is, here in Qingchuan, no one cares about the white smoke.

He bought a handful of brown rice and cooked it in an earthenware pot. He placed a small steamer on top of the earthenware pot and put four or five cornmeal steamed buns on it to steam. There was also a fire opening on the side, which just accommodated a small round pot. He added oil and fried a poached egg, fried cabbage with the little oil left in the pot, and buried two sweet potatoes under the stove.

The corn steamed buns cooked quickly, so Qingchuan took the steamed buns and cracked an egg to make brown sugar egg tea. Four or five steamed buns, almost half a catty of grain, plus brown sugar and egg water, made this a rare and rich breakfast. Ordinary people, even city dwellers, dare not eat like this. Qingchuan dares to eat like this because prices in the system are low.

Finely ground cornmeal costs one hundred kilograms per point, brown sugar is also cheap at five kilograms per point, and eggs cost thirty per point, although they are not too big. Things with three points can be used for a long time. Qingchuan wanted to save up some purchasing quota, so there were discounts during the Chinese New Year. The system's discounts were real discounts.

Qingchuan felt that he could probably understand why people here cherished various tickets. He looked at the daily purchase limit of ten points with the same feeling as they looked at the tickets.