I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

Lin An frowned, picked up a thick wooden stick, and solemnly tapped and pounded on Jiang Li's ground. He then borrowed a thermal imaging scanner from someone else and scanned it 360 degrees without any blind spots. He then said to Jiang Li:

"Hurry up and dig them up. Once you've dug them up, get back in the car and hide. It's too dangerous in this field."

Not only do we have to be wary of snakes in the ground, but also of birds that fly by in the sky from time to time.

Some birds are very mischievous and may suddenly attack humans.

If something happens to Jiang Li, she won't be happy at all.

"Okay." Jiang Li nodded and obediently dug up sweet potatoes.

It seems that the farm's fences and electric fences are indeed very necessary; if something like a snake were to slither into her land, it would be very dangerous.

……

Liu Weidong didn't dare to dig up any more; he only dug up 99.9 jin of potatoes before quickly leaving Jiang Li's farm.

As soon as they came out, Zhou Yang locked the gate of Jiang Li's farm from the outside.

Lin An made him do it.

After all, Jiang Li's farm also has Zhu Cuihua, who is a very valuable pig.

On the way back to the safe zone by bus, Liu Weidong was both excited and incredulous.

He actually managed to get 100 jin of potatoes for 50 points per jin! Such a large batch of potatoes, I wonder how much it could sell for in the safe zone.

After the bus arrived at the safe zone, he immediately called his wife, Li Qiaozhen, and asked, "Qiaozhen, did you find any work today?"

Li Qiaozhen was worried, her expression was solemn.

"no."

She went to the cotton mill very early in the morning, but there were only women queuing up to work at the entrance, and there was no place for her.

Everyone is worried about rising food prices, so they are scrambling to earn points and save up food.

Neither Li Qiaozhen nor Liu Xinrui received a spot at the cotton mill.

However, Liu Hongmei took the lead and was happily working in the cotton mill, carding cotton.

"That's perfect, you guys come to the market and help me sell potatoes!" Liu Weidong said.

He didn't know what the market was like and was worried that he wouldn't be able to sell all these potatoes, so he would need someone to help him.

Upon hearing this, Li Qiaozhen and Liu Xinrui's eyes lit up immediately. "Weidong, you successfully obtained the goods?"

Liu Weidong exclaimed excitedly, "It went very smoothly! The boss was a very nice guy and didn't give me any trouble. He let me take the goods right away. I even carried back a hundred pounds, and I'm just waiting to sell them!"

Liu Qing said that yesterday she sold her potatoes for 80 or 90 points per pound, and he also plans to sell them at that price.

If this actually sold, wouldn't that be incredible? We'd make a fortune!

"Tell me where you are, and Xinrui and I will come right away!" The gloom in Li Qiaozhen's heart was swept away, and she was full of anticipation.

……

The people harvesting the sweet potatoes finished digging one after another and lined up to get on the truck.

Someone died, and no one wanted to stay in this place in the wild any longer, fearing that something else might happen. Some people were also on tenterhooks the whole time they were digging sweet potatoes, fearing that some mutated snake might appear.

This trip was akin to risking one's life for food.

But the results were all quite good.

"How many kilograms of sweet potatoes did you collect?" the harvesting team asked.

"Each person in our family weighs 16 jin (7 catties)."

"I dug up 19 jin (7.5 catties), and there's still a jin (0.5 kg) of sweet potato sprouts left!"

"Miss Jiang, how many kilograms did you dig up?" Li Lan asked Jiang Li with a smile.

Jiang Li: "Jiang Yan and I together weigh a total of 58 jin (24 catties)."

Ye Hongjun: "Then you're very lucky!"

"And you?"

"Thanks to you," Li Lan knew asking Jiang Li was the right thing to do, "the three of us dug up a total of 97 jin!"

Li Lan filled two snakeskin bags to the brim! This trip was truly fruitful.

The price of sweet potatoes in the safe zone is about the same as that of potatoes. Even if we calculate based on the market price of 60 points per kilogram, this trip has earned us a full five or six thousand points!

This time, the base really went all out to encourage the farmers, giving them so much grain.

"Li Lan! How come you dug up more sweet potatoes than we did?" Wang Guihua came over angrily, her face turning as black as charcoal when she saw the burlap sack full of sweet potatoes in Li Lan's house.

Keep in mind that there were five of them! The two elderly people, her and Jiang Bin, and their eldest daughter Jiang Yanyan, who had just turned eighteen, also came along.

The five people only dug up 63 jin of sweet potatoes.

Even though there were two more people than Li Lan's family, they dug up fewer sweet potatoes than Li Lan's family. What's the reason for this?

Li Lan glanced at her and said, "The fact that your family dug so few holes just means you're unlucky."

Wang Guihua, her face dark with anger, complained to the head of the harvesting team, "Why is it that our family of five dug up less sweet potatoes than Li Lan's family of three? Why don't you give us another plot of land? Let us dig some more. We have a large family, four children and two elderly people! This amount of sweet potatoes is simply not enough to eat!"

The head of the collection team refused outright, "No! Each person can only get one plot of land; there are no more."

"The conditions of each plot of land are different. I told you before that some plots have a high rate of plant mutation and some have a low rate of plant mutation, so the harvest will naturally be different."

Some people watching Wang Guihua argue with the harvesting team couldn't help but sigh, "Wang Guihua's family is really unlucky. On average, they get less than 13 jin per plot of land, which is really very little."

"Exactly! There are three people in my family, and on average, each person weighs about 18 pounds!"

Listening to the discussions of the crowd and looking at the sweet potatoes in her own snakeskin bag, Wang Guihua felt a pang of sadness and grievance, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Why am I so unlucky?

This 63-pound food, even if it's enough for a family of eight, would only last them five days at most.

Wang Guihua was under immense pressure because her family was too large and there was never enough food.

Seeing her making a scene, Jiang Bin glared at her and said, "Why are you crying? You're embarrassing yourself! If there's not enough food, just eat less. You'll get through this."

He has one daughter and three sons. With so many offspring, they will all be able to contribute to the workforce in the future, and things will surely get better.

Wang Guihua glared back, "It's easy for you to talk when you're not in my shoes. Your three sons are all underage and can't work in the safe zone. How are they going to earn money?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Bin subconsciously glanced at Jiang Li, "Then maybe my three sons will awaken superpowers like some other people in the future!"

Even if they awaken superpowers, the probability of their family awakening superpowers is higher than that of others. With more people, the probability is naturally higher.

He would be truly blessed if even one of his three sons could awaken a special ability.

Wang Guihua: "You think awakening superpowers is such an easy thing?"

"Why can't it be? I won the lottery before the apocalypse..."

The couple started arguing, their faces turning red with anger.

Lin An walked over, giving them an impatient look. "Shut up, both of you! Is this the place for you to argue? Go argue somewhere else!"

When Wang Guihua and Jiang Bin met Lin An's gaze, their faces darkened, and they got into the car with stiff necks.

Goods covered in mud and muddy footprints were loaded onto the bus. The goods were piled up so high that there was nowhere to step. Some people had no choice but to put bags of sweet potatoes on their legs.

Furthermore, the air inside the bus was filled with the stench of sweat and the damp, fishy smell of rain.

Su Xiao couldn't stand it anymore. She watched as Jiang Li easily got into the military off-road vehicle, with the cargo placed in the trunk, and her jealousy intensified.

"Mom, I dug up 34 jin of sweet potatoes today, which can be exchanged for a lot of points. Let's not be stingy with the points. Let's spend 50 points to ride with Captain Lin. Then our goods won't have to be crammed on the bus. We can put them directly into Captain Lin's car, and we'll be much more comfortable."

Su Caihua refused curtly, "No way!"

"50 points isn't money? Why don't you value points at all? This is all we have. Everyone else is fine taking the bus, why can't you?"