Although the old and slow phone was outdated, it was still very convenient for making calls. By piggybacking on the neighbor’s WiFi, going online wasn’t a problem either. Of course, the most important thing was that it stored his contacts.

He pressed the home button at the center of the bottom edge of the phone and found that not only did the screen light up, but the phone also responded normally—slowly but steadily.

Maybe I should make a call to test the call quality? Jason Ford thought as he glanced at the phone’s interface.

Then he froze: it was eight o’clock in the evening?

Well, eight o’clock wasn’t that strange, since he had gone to sleep close to six.

But why… was the phone’s battery already at one hundred percent?

Chapter 2: Actually Going to Harvest the Grass

Jason Ford’s phone really was one of those you get for free when you top up your phone credit. Not only was its configuration extremely low and its operation slow, but… it also took a long time to charge.

Because it lacked fast-charging technology, it took four hours to barely reach a full charge, and then it could be used for a day and a half to two days.

If you kept playing on it all day, it wouldn’t even last a day.

What Jason Ford was curious about was how this phone could be fully charged in about two hours.

He was so curious that he even forgot about his worries over his impending resignation.

Jason Ford was a guy who liked reading online novels. This choice was actually a bit out of necessity—he also enjoyed pastimes like hanging out at bars, but those hobbies were too expensive. Reading was much cheaper; even if he read official versions, he wouldn’t spend more than the price of a pack of cigarettes in a day.

—Could it be that I’ve encountered a legendary stroke of luck?

Jason Ford really couldn’t stop himself from thinking this way. After all, it seemed like… he’d been struck by lightning and yet was completely unharmed?

He tried making a call to his colleague Eric Clark, and as it turned out, the call quality was quite good. He could even tell that the other person was in a bad mood.

Eric Clark was someone he was relatively close to at Hongjie Club. Although the guy was also in his twenties, he had a coach’s qualification certificate and was highly skilled in fitness. The two were close in age but worlds apart in status, yet they had a good personal relationship.

Jason Ford complained about what had happened today and said he didn’t want to keep working there.

Coach Clark absentmindedly replied, “Oh, David Miller bullied you? I’ll deal with him later.”

David Miller was just an ordinary body-shaping coach, and already in his thirties. Although his muscles were pretty impressive, if it really came down to a fight, he was no match for Eric Clark.

After hanging up, Jason Ford muttered softly, “That guy’s got something on his mind.”

Well, other people’s business didn’t have much to do with him. What he needed to consider now was whether he should go to work tomorrow.

Although Hongjie Club was in the service industry, it was still fairly formal. Because of the high turnover among service staff, the company had a daily wage system. If Jason Ford resigned tomorrow, he’d still get paid for these twenty-some days.

However… the new finance lady had a lot of quirks, so he’d probably get nagged for a long time.

More importantly, if he quit, he’d have to find his own place to stay tomorrow night, which would cost money.

“Sigh, there aren’t many good people in Hongjie,” Jason Ford muttered as he glanced at his phone—charging so fast, hopefully it wouldn’t drain just as quickly?

As he looked, he noticed the QQ app on his phone and suddenly remembered: he hadn’t harvested his crops in QQ Farm yet.

QQ Farm wasn’t something Jason Ford had installed for himself. He’d installed it to curry favor with the boss of Hongjie Company—strictly speaking, to curry favor with the general manager, Ms. Ford, who liked to steal crops.

In the workplace, you didn’t need to be as cautious as in officialdom, but if the boss had a hobby, it was best for the junior staff to play along. This was something Eric Clark had reminded him of.

Sure enough, two days after he installed QQ Farm, Ms. Ford came to inspect and noticed the farm interface he’d “accidentally” left open, so she asked for his QQ number. With his double degree, this was basically a direct line to the top.

But being close to the boss wasn’t all good. A little over a month after adding him, Ms. Ford casually mentioned one day, “Now that you’ve leveled up, you can’t just stop planting pasture grass.”

Jason Ford immediately realized: the boss also had a ranch!

Jason Ford actually had a ranch too, but the grass he grew was usually just enough for himself. Only when he was running low would he think to plant a couple more rounds. Who would have thought the boss’s ranch also needed grass?

Ms. Ford never planted pasture grass herself. She was high-level and only grew high-value crops.

So what to do if you don’t plant pasture grass? You could only steal it. Anyway, with so many employees at Hongjie Club, she had plenty of targets.

Jason Ford could barely be considered a favorite of fortune. After getting the boss’s hint, planting pasture grass became routine for him. He also reminded himself not to harvest it right away—he had to wait for the boss to finish stealing before he collected it himself, even though he really didn’t like the feeling of being stolen from.

However, Ms. Ford didn’t always harvest on time. As the general manager of Hongjie, she had so much to do every day. The farm owners often waited half a day for a thief who never came. In the end, he could only wait until the pasture grass had been stolen as much as possible before harvesting it himself.

That was probably enough to satisfy the boss, right?

Now, Jason Ford was planning to let the boss down. “I’m quitting anyway. I remember I planted all pasture grass this time…”

Then he opened QQ Farm, looked at the mature pasture grass in the field, and, controlling the big hand on the screen, gave it a gentle tap.