Her Cultivation Diary

Yun Duo had also thought about this question, and she answered seriously at the moment: "Any place with a house, a few thousand bucks is fine, as long as there's a job and a skill."

People from the mountains are particularly pragmatic. Without a clear goal, she wouldn't have argued with her older sister for so long.

Song Tan nodded: "Your demands are pretty simple. Why don't you just drop out of school and come work for me? As long as you're willing to do all kinds of work, working twelve to thirteen hours a day, you might earn eight thousand a month!"

Yun Duo hadn't even had time to be doubtful before being attracted by the eight thousand salary: "Is it really eight thousand?"

Lun Chuan watched Song Tan bluffing from the side and couldn't help but glance at Yun Duo again—

This is the downside of having little education, I suppose.

Just a slight change in the topic, and her thinking got hijacked.

He habitually made a silent mental note about Yun Duo's character—

Struggling hard to get the chance to study from the mountains: a bit talented, but initially with no opportunity to access knowledge, lacking foundation.

Tantan changes the angle and leads people astray: smart, but lacks perspective, and overconfident in herself, only trusting her own thoughts.

He silently curled his lips, then picked a few chestnuts to slowly peel and soak in water.

Meanwhile, Song Tan continued to bluff:

"Depends on the work intensity."

"If you cut rice and till the land for me, you surely can earn over ten thousand a month. If you don't want to, go deliver takeout; being diligent, you could probably make that too."

Yun Duo:...

"I want to make money, but I don't have to work that hard for it." She was speechless, feeling Song Tan's suggestions were unrealistic.

"Then go be a waitress, a cashier, or a salesperson. The pay is lower, but it's not that exhausting."

Yun Duo was a bit stuck: "Can't I just run my own business?"

"Go ahead!" Song Tan responded more casually: "What if you make money? Even if you lose, you can just work as a cashier or a waiter again to earn funds for a second try at business."

"No!" Yun Duo found it hard to accept: "Do I have to do these jobs?"

"What else then?" Song Tan asked as if it were obvious: "Now even decent companies need a bachelor's degree for a receptionist. You've dropped out of college, so you can't even be a receptionist, right?"

"It's better to be more practical, come back and farm rice with me."

"This way, you can earn about ten thousand a month, and when others ask, they'll say, this is Yunyun's sister, how close they are."

"It would even sound glamorous to say. Look! Her own sister came all the way from the mountains to another village just to farm with her."

"Who wouldn't praise such deep sisterly affection?"

"Your brother-in-law is nice, might even find you a suitable match through your sister..."

Yun Duo could no longer listen.

At this moment, her heart was all tangled, at one moment imagining how she couldn't hold her head high when her sister introduced her to others, at another moment imagining villagers secretly calling them fools...

And that father, locked away in memory, who despite being uneducated, used to scold them as failures one by one.

Yun Duo felt her hair stand on end instinctively, unable to accept such a reality at all.

"I can't come to your place and farm or cut rice. I can't deliver takeouts either. Even if I want to make money, I don't plan to do it by working myself to death."

She was very clear about her abilities, she had strength and could farm, but those tasks even a man found laborious, she really wasn't sure she could do it.

Saying this made Song Tan even more puzzled:

"You're not trying to work yourself to death making money, then what are you in such a hurry not to study for?"

"To earn money three or four years ahead of your classmates? Does saying that make you feel superior?"

Yunyun couldn't say a word.

Exactly, why?

These questions seemed like ones her sister had mentioned before, just described differently, but she never paid any heed.

But now, thinking along these lines, it really was like this!

If she doesn't go to college, the jobs she might want to try in the future would directly shut the door on her.

Actually, Song Tan didn't really want to persuade this kind of person.

It's just, if Yun Duo hadn't gotten into college it would be one thing, but she's already in her first year and still has these sorts of thoughts, it's simply absurd.

And if she couldn't come around, she'd end up endlessly vacillating between [learning nothing from school] and [what if I started working earlier].

Time and energy wasted, and even if she finished college, she'd achieve nothing.

The chestnuts soaked in hot water were dried with tissue and handed over, Song Tan took them, biting down hard.