Just as Zhang Min hurriedly swapped in the new hiring notice and sent the requirements to the Liberty Market again,

Su Mo had already completed all the procedures. Holding a work badge that allowed temporary registration, he rode an energy car toward Luna Town one step ahead of her.

After staying three days at the guesthouse in Luna Town, the huge expense was already making him uncomfortable.

If he could reach Mulberry Field Town a day earlier and rent a room there sooner to cut this spending, he would keep more savings for later development.

At the town entrance, another three trade points were taken from him, and Su Mo got off the car with a blank face.

He glanced at the time. There was still more than half an hour before Huang Xiaojuan got off work.

Su Mo simply went to a roast duck shop in town and spent two points on a roast goose that gave off a rich, oily fragrance.

He waited at the place where the planting workers got off work, and before long, an exhausted Huang Xiaojuan appeared in his sight.

Compared with two days ago, Huang Xiaojuan had clearly recovered somewhat and gotten used to the labor intensity here.

Even now, although her pretty face was still pale, like someone with severe low blood sugar, at least she no longer staggered from side to side when she walked.

“Eh, Brother Zong, why are you here!”

Walking with her head down, she realized she was about to bump into someone and instinctively raised her head to apologize.

But the next second, seeing that it was Su Mo, she pounced on him in delight and hugged him tightly.

“Xiaojuan, I found work. Tomorrow we are going to Mulberry Field Town!”

“By then we can settle down!”

“Ah? You found a job?”

Huang Xiaojuan let out a shriek, which immediately drew the attention of quite a few people.

At first, everyone thought it was just another young couple being sappy.

But the next second, when they noticed the roast goose in Su Mo’s hand, quite a few people’s eyes took on an envious look.

“Let’s go home.”

“Oh, then I have to go collect the pay for these three days first!”

She slapped her forehead. Remembering that tomorrow she would be leaving for Mulberry Field Town to begin her real long-term life, Huang Xiaojuan hurried back into the park against the flow of the crowd.

After a good while, when the stream of workers leaving through the gate had thinned out, she came out of the main gate cheerfully and waved her hand.

“Brother Zong, three days, and it’s 1.2 points!”

“And these last two days were already counted in the Summer Harvest period, so I got an extra 0.3 points of bonus, plus five mao in Yuan coins!”

In Qingguo Territory, even at the busiest times, an ordinary person who worked themselves half to death for a month earned only about two trade points.

Thinking that she had earned in three days what she used to earn in a month, Huang Xiaojuan could not help giggling foolishly, overjoyed.

“Hey, you’re amazing!”

Su Mo patted Huang Xiaojuan on the head and pressed his lips together.

Before, he had thought the Tian Yuan Territory merely had a serious wealth gap. Now it seemed that the class lines had hardened even more than that.

If Huang Xiaojuan found out that a round trip into the city cost six points, and a single roast goose cost two points,

then no matter how optimistic she was, she probably would not hold any hope for her future.

And once people like this became numerous inside the territory, it would inevitably affect public order and the territory’s future development.

“Come on, let’s go back and eat.”

“Tomorrow we’ll go settle down in Mulberry Field Town.”

At ten at night, after settling Huang Xiaojuan in to sleep, Su Mo quietly slipped out and waited outside the guesthouse.

This was one of the more prosperous streets in all of Luna Town.

In front of the door there was a brightly lit open-air food stall, packed with migrant workers.

It was the season of the Summer Harvest.

Now that they had income, these migrant workers were not stingy.

Most of them were drinking cheap, low-quality beer, eating skewers made from who knew what, and boasting loudly, extremely happy.

Compared with the native residents of the Tian Yuan Territory, they actually lived more freely and comfortably.

“When I’m not here, no one steps in to regulate things...”

“Sigh, the territory is just too big, and in the end it’s the ordinary people at the very bottom who get sacrificed.”

In fact, from the first year of the wasteland up to now, the way the Tian Yuan Territory had grown unchecked ran completely against Su Mo’s original intention when he founded it.

Apart from being somewhat more developed and stronger than other small territories,

in people’s livelihood, infrastructure, and even education, farming and so on, the Tian Yuan Territory had not dared to be a pioneer at all. It had merely rigidly transplanted that set of things from Earth, afraid of making mistakes.

The ordinary people living in the Tian Yuan Territory, and the newcomers who joined later, still lived bitter lives. They did lots of work with no nutritional value and took an income that was just barely enough to keep them from dying.

Moreover, the residents who had been in the territory from the very beginning had not taken up the responsibility of letting the first rich lead the later rich. They only knew to lie on the backs of the latecomers and keep sucking their blood to grow stronger themselves.

This outcome was a serious failure of the territory’s management, and also a major structural failure that appeared once the territory’s scale expanded.

“With this kind of sense of belonging to the territory, once the zombies really come, I’m afraid it will fall into chaos before it can even be pulled together.”

“It seems that in this disaster, people’s hearts are also something that needs attention.”

“But luckily, not only do I have a chance to make amends in this world, in the real world I even have time to turn things around from the start!”

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