Urban Cultivation with a Demonic System-Chapter 281 - 230: Saintess Transfiguration Chronicle!

"With one of you at Qi Cultivation Middle Stage and the other at Early Stage, you might not be able to handle it."

They were greeted by a refined middle-aged man with a cultivation level reaching the Foundation Establishment Peak. His nametag read Song Mountain.

In this era, although Flying Swords were already widespread, heavy lifting was still primarily done manually.

The reason is simple: Flying Swords are costly, and carrying loads of several hundred to a thousand pounds up and down constantly wears them out quickly.

Humans are cheap. Carrying a hundred-pound bag to the tenth floor costs only five bucks, far less than using a Flying Sword to carry the load.

This alone demonstrates how grueling and unprofitable it is to work as a laborer at construction sites.

If there were any other way besides manual labor, who would be willing to work at a construction site?

However, Zhu Tianqing and Aunt Zhang agreed straightforwardly. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Because they truly had no other options.

Once their Identity Cards were lodged, they began work immediately.

Their task was simple: to carry cement and other building materials to the twentieth floor of this building.

For every sack of a hundred pounds of cement they carried up a floor, they earned fifty cents, making it ten dollars for twenty floors.

Thanks to her powerful physique, Zhu Tianqing could carry ten bags of cement at once, a full thousand pounds.

Before officially starting, she was delightedly thinking the job was easy—just one trip to the twentieth floor, and she'd have a hundred bucks.

But as she began to climb the stairs, she realized she was wrong.

The stairs were too narrow, and with ten bags of cement on her back, her frame became cumbersome, making turns extremely difficult.

Accidentally dirtying the stairway walls would bring scolding from the management and possibly fines.

It took her a full half hour to deliver one batch of cement.

Sitting on the cement bags in the client's house, Zhu Tianqing felt somewhat aggrieved.

She only earned a hundred bucks, yet she was getting stuck in the stairwell, scolded, and even fined.

This job was simply not worth doing!

The girl gritted her teeth, ready to discuss with Aunt Zhang about finding another job.

But as soon as she stood up, she saw a small figure struggling into the room, carrying as many as twelve bags of cement.

That twelve hundred pounds of cement was completely disproportionate to the small figure.

It was as if that person was carrying a mountain.

And that person was none other than Aunt Zhang.

Rushing over to help unload, Zhu Tianqing asked in surprise, "Aunt Zhang, why are you carrying so much at once?"

"A Qi Cultivation Middle Stage cultivator can't handle twelve hundred pounds; you'll injure yourself if you keep this up."

In response to Zhu Tianqing, Aunt Zhang merely gave a tired smile:

"I can manage."

"Without earning four thousand in three days, what about tuition fees?"

Zhu Tianqing: "..."

The words about changing jobs got stuck in her throat, unspoken. Silently, she went downstairs and continued carrying the cement.

Starting work at three in the afternoon, she and Aunt Zhang worked until eight at night.

They didn't stop because they couldn't go on but because there was no more work.

When settling the wages, Aunt Zhang received twelve hundred dollars, and Zhu Tianqing got one thousand.

This thousand bucks once wouldn't even buy Zhu Tianqing a drink.

The girl tightly gripped the thin wad of money, silent.

Unbidden, a few thoughts came to mind.

For people living this hard, how difficult is it to raise completely non-working Spirit Beasts?

Were her previous thoughts too naive?

Just then, as she was lost in confusion, foreman Song Mountain smiled and said, "Are you both still hungry? Our site offers a dinner; come eat with us."

"Don't underestimate our employee meals; there are good things here you can't buy outside."

"Dinner!"

Zhu Tianqing's beautiful eyes suddenly lit up.

Having been hungry for two days, at the mention of food, she immediately forgot all her philosophical ponderings.

She quickly grabbed a meal tray and, along with Aunt Zhang, went to the outdoor site canteen for dinner.

But when she saw the food in the big pot, she was dumbfounded once again.

Because besides a large amount of vegetables, there was actually quite a bit of stewed meat!