I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

Four people can harvest one acre of land in less than two hours.

The harvested rice was arranged in bundles, and looking at them, they were neat and tidy. Each bundle was full of rice grains, heavy, long and thick.

Halfway through the rice harvest, before 3 p.m., a group of people from the dark alley rushed over, bringing with them many more mutated bamboo shoots.

I walked in and took a look.

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"Why are you harvesting rice?"

An old man with a sallow and thin face stared blankly at the neatly harvested rice stalks in the paddy field.

"I remember when I came here, the rice wasn't fully ripe yet!"

Ji Hong: "No, this is clearly the time for transplanting rice seedlings, not for harvesting them now!"

The group looked completely bewildered, as if they had seen a ghost.

Jiang Li noticed them, put down her sickle, walked over, glanced at the bamboo shoots in their bags, and asked, "Here to sell your trash?"

Ji Hong nodded, then asked again, still somewhat worried, "Do you still collect garbage?"

"receive."

Jiang Li said bluntly, "It's the same as before, you can go to the recycling machine and operate it yourselves."

Having received confirmation, Ji Hong led her people over.

Bags of mutated bamboo shoots were thrown in and turned into points. The machine seemed to be a bottomless pit; whatever was thrown in disappeared without a trace, but the points on the card were real.

Some people looked around curiously, wondering, "Is the bottom of this machine hollowed out? Does everything thrown in go down there?"

Ji Hong: "No matter where it's sent, we'll just focus on selling our garbage."

These days, earning points is a good thing; earning points means you can eat.

She earned over two hundred points today, more than ever before. Not only her, but even their two youngest children, Xiao Mu and Xiao Qi, each earned over one hundred points.

Everyone looked at the points in their cards, feeling both gratified and excited.

"This is wonderful! So this is what it feels like to earn points." An old man in the crowd wiped away tears with excitement. "When you get old, you are disliked everywhere. My son and daughter-in-law don't want me. They say I'm a waste of food."

"Now that I can earn so many points on my own, it seems like they're not entirely useless."

For the first time, he realized that picking up trash could also fulfill his purpose.

Seeing that Old Cheng was emotional, everyone comforted him, saying, "Old Cheng, don't say that. Everyone has their own value in life. If your son drives you away, that's his filial impiety, not your problem."

Li Kun: "I really had a stroke of luck today. How could people like us earn a hundred points in a day? It's something we wouldn't even dare to dream of."

"I wish every day could be like this."

But can they do this every day?

Can I still come to collect trash tomorrow?

That boss probably won't collect garbage anymore, right?

They dared not have any expectations at all.

"Should we go ask them?" someone suggested in a low voice.

The group walked towards Jiang Li.

Jiang Li was still busy in the rice paddy when she saw them walking towards her. She looked up at them and asked, "What's wrong? What do you need?"

Ji Hong thought for a moment and asked, "We wanted to ask, are you still collecting garbage tomorrow?"

Jiang Li: "Receive."

"I will continue to do the waste recycling business, I will collect any amount."

This group of people must have sold a lot of junk today. She has several hundred points just from commissions. She can earn points without doing anything. Why not take them?

Jiang Li made up her mind: she would expand and strengthen the scrap metal business! The volume was small now, but she planned to grow it into a large and successful enterprise, ideally collecting at least 10,000 jin (5,000 kg) of scrap per day, which would earn her over 1,000 points! The fertilizer factory owner's dream was shattered, but the recycling station owner's dream was rekindled!

Jiang Li became more and more excited as she thought about it!

She reminded them, "It's getting late, you should hurry back. You don't have anywhere to stay here, and it will be troublesome if you can't get back. If you want to collect trash, come earlier tomorrow."

The group was even more excited than Jiang Li.

"Can we still collect trash tomorrow?"

"This is wonderful!"

If there's money to be made, then the money to buy grain will be secured.

Ji Hong glanced at the time. "It's getting late. The last bus will arrive in Tianqu at around 3:40. We have to get to the bus stop by then."

After saying that, she said to Jiang Li, "We'll come again tomorrow."

Jiang Li watched them leave, then continued working in the rice paddy until five o'clock when she finished harvesting all the rice in the field.

Although they were exhausted and covered in sweat, all four of them had joy on their faces.

Jiang Yan: "It should weigh about a thousand jin."

Lin An: "It's definitely more than a thousand catties. This rice isn't ordinary rice; it's so thick and long, how could it only weigh a thousand catties?"

She estimated it to be at least 1,500 jin (750 kg).

Harvested rice needs to have its grains separated from the stalks before it can be milled into white rice in a rice milling machine.

Jiang Li looked at the system store and found the [Rice Threshing Machine].

Rice thresher: An agricultural machine from the new world used to thresh rice. You pour the rice in, and the machine automatically separates it into straw and grains.

Price: 10000 points.

This machine isn't cheap, but it's practical and easy to operate; you just throw the rice in.

Jiang Li clicked to purchase and place the item next to the [Garbage Recycling Machine], connecting it to the farm's power supply.

The machine is about the same size as a garbage recycling machine, and even its shape is similar.

Jiang Li carried a large bundle of rice and threw it in, then started the machine.

The threshing machine started vibrating, and soon, the grains poured out from the outlet below.

"Quickly bring the bags over to collect the rice."

Jiang Yan brought a woven bag and placed it below the discharge port to catch the grains.

Meanwhile, the grass stalks were packaged into a compact cylindrical block and ejected by the machine.

This machine can even automatically bale the straw! It's very convenient and great value for money!

The hay bales can be processed into feed for cattle and sheep, but Jiang Li doesn't have any cattle or sheep yet. Jiang Li carried the hay bales to the livestock shed and put them there, hoping they might come in handy later.

The machine was very efficient and quickly filled a bag of rice, weighing about 100 kilograms.

Lin An carried the rice into the small shop and piled it next to the rice milling machine.

The shop is not open for business right now and is completely empty. It's perfect for storing things, like a place to store grain. There's even a cold storage room inside, so we can store large quantities of fresh vegetables there in the future.

To celebrate today's harvest, Jiang Li went to the river to catch two fish, planning to braise them. Jiang Tang went to cook, while Jiang Yan and Lin An continued working around the rice threshing machine.

"..."

"You said you earned over 130 points by collecting trash?"

After hearing Lin Xiaomu's words, Xiaoshu opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

The other children also gathered around, asking, "Really? You can really earn that many points?"

Xiaoqi showed off her points display, "Xiaoshu, it's true! I earned over a hundred points too!"

The two transferred all their points to Xiaoshu.

Xiaoshu is the leader of the group. Every time everyone earns points, they transfer them to Xiaoshu. Xiaoshu will pool the points to buy food. One person can't buy food with ten or twenty points, but if they pool them together, they can occasionally buy a pound or two of food.

Moreover, sometimes some children can't earn points for several days in a row. In this case, as long as other children earn points, everyone can drink rice soup together, they won't go hungry, and they can all survive.

This is a survival pattern they have developed over a long period of time: sharing both good times and bad.