Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Now That We're Here
After breakfast, Gojo Satoru discovered that this "Mister Palace" really left him aside and went about his own business.
Even the two children at home have things to do.
He followed her out and saw—this was a new feeling—that everyone in the village had gone out as well. He said loudly, "I'm going to ask the villagers!"
Gong Zhili glanced at him and smiled: "Then go ahead."
Gojo Satoru raised his arms, his palms touching the back of his head, his fingers naturally intertwined, his elbows stretched backwards with the movement. This posture made his upper body draw a smooth arc, his muscles slightly tensed under his skin, revealing a perfect balance of strength and flexibility. At this moment, he still looked very relaxed. "Forget it, Gojo-sama has eaten your breakfast, so it's not impossible for me to help you with something."
Even though he did not possess extraordinary powers, his mind was never just for show.
Whether it is "assimilation" or "equivalent exchange", we must always give it a try.
"It's a pity, but now (after returning from the past) I am invincible." Gojo Satoru lowered his arms and followed her. With such a tall guy following behind her, Gong Zhili always felt as if a dark cloud was pressing down on her head.
But now it was bright outside, and she had no time to argue with this "Gojo-sama". After all, this young master still looked like a student. He was very strong, but the limitations brought by his age were objective.
As long as he doesn't suddenly go crazy and massacre or destroy the village, let him do it. She has a lot of work to do today.
She put on a straw hat, wrapped herself tightly in long sleeves and long pants, put on gloves, and carried a backpack full of tools, a bottle of water and two apples in it. The marks on her shoulders were also eliminated by her using her power - after regaining her memory, although the supernatural power was transformed into another kind of power, it was all hers, and the tricks of using it were almost the same.
It was really annoying to have Gojo following him around. He kept asking questions all the way to the pier. After Miya Chiri responded with "hmm", "yes, yes", and "yes, yes", Gojo Satoru shut up and just looked at the scenery.
Gong Zhili had secretly looked at his pale blue eyes. When they first met, he was wearing an eye patch, and she thought he was blind. But after he took off the eye patch, he could see things clearly. Is it a personal habit?
So why not wear it today?
Maybe it's because she's too good-looking, and wearing an eye mask can reduce the number of times she's harassed - that's what the knowledgeable lord thought.
She came to the dock and filled her backpack with the leaves, pine needles, moss and other odds and ends that she had collected but had no time to take back. She reached out her hand and dug into the gaps between the hemp ropes that bound the wood, holding it tightly. Holding a large bundle of bark in each hand, she took the wood tied with several strands of thick hemp rope in her right hand and then carried them all on her shoulders.
Gojo Satoru watched with interest, wanting to see if she would mobilize the earth to move these heavy objects like she did last night - maybe not, after all, these materials were scattered on the dock and she still needed to come and move them. Either she didn't have enough strength, or there were limitations to using the power of the earth.
Which one is it?
Gong Zhili didn't care what he was thinking. She took a deep breath and did not mobilize the surging power of the earth. The earth was her exchanger and her energy storage room. Her body now was more like a sapling. She took root here and absorbed nutrients from it, but she also had to grow. The more she did on this land, the faster she would grow.
"Hmm!" She pulled the hemp rope, leaving deep marks on her palms and shoulders, but this heavy object that looked like it would not be easily moved left traces on the ground.
Gojo Satoru asked, "Don't you use that?"
I didn't hesitate when I tied him up last night.
Moreover, the fragrance of gardenia was so strong that he felt marinated in the aroma after waking up.
Gong Zhili's attention was completely focused on the hemp rope and the weight behind her, and she ignored him completely.
Gojo Satoru watched her dragging two large bundles of tree bark and trunks away, even carrying a backpack on her back, with beads of sweat rolling down her face, but she didn't even ask him for help.
He simply found the hemp rope from another bundle of bamboo poles, tried it, and felt that he could do it now. He followed her example, dragging the bamboo poles and following behind her.
As perceptive as he was, he knew the reason why she did that as soon as she started moving.
He caught up with Gong Zhili, dragging a bundle of bamboo poles with him. He followed her and said, "Is this the condition of your technique? Or is it the effect of the field? Will those villagers also experience this effect in this field?"
Gong Zhili was originally taking a deep breath with her lips pursed. She was annoyed by him again. Moreover, this guy's brain was too fast! She herself had been here for a day or two before she got the hang of it.
"Are you a sorcerer?" Gong Zhili asked, his cheeks flushed from the effort. "Six eyes?"
She only knew of a few sorcerers with names and surnames, and considering the eye mask he wore last night, she felt that her guess was probably right.
She actually happened to run into a hotshot in the world of spellcasting? Even though the other party had bumped into her on their own initiative.
Gojo Satoru narrowed his eyes: "You are indeed not an ordinary person——"
Gong Zhili interrupted him: "You are not either. Same here. Say something useful."
Gojo Satoru simply asked, "What did you do in this village?"
Gong Zhili: "One question for another: After I arrived, I adopted two children, cleaned the house, and survived in the mountains, forests, and lakes—exactly as you saw. So, what are you doing in the village?"
Gojo Satoru had already walked in front of her and looked at her sideways: "I'm here to find the two children in your family and confirm their conditions."
Gong Zhili unloaded the wood and bark onto the open space next to the warehouse, took off the backpack, and stood there thinking for a moment before saying, "They both always said they could see cursed spirits. Are they also sorcerers?"
Gojo Satoru also put down what he was holding and asked curiously: "Are these two children important to you?"
Gong Zhili said calmly, "Children's education is very important. If they are sorcerers, they should receive specialized education from a young age, right?"
The future of children is the most important.
Gojo Satoru was deeply impressed by this and nodded repeatedly, his tone full of agreement: "That's right, education, education, this is the foundation!"
Gong Zhili: "Are you raising children too?"
Gojo Satoru smiled and said, "Not at the moment, but how did you learn about sorcerers and cursed spirits?"
Gong Zhili: "That's a long story—do you still have the strength?"
Gojo Satoru: "Am I being underestimated? I can fight you right now."
Gong Zhili waved his hand and said, "Don't waste time. Go help me move all the materials from the dock. I need to build a duck house and a chicken coop. I'll talk to you slowly after I'm done."
Gojo Satoru: "You're treating me as free labor?"
Gong Zhili: "How can it be free? Didn't I give you a benefit?"
Gojo Satoru looked at her mysteriously for a moment, then turned and walked towards the pier.
Gong Zhili started from the lakeside, using old fir trees cut from the mountains to drive a few sturdy wooden stakes, which were inserted obliquely into the bottom of the lake. While doing this, she stood on a small boat and used a piece of wood to knock on the inserted wooden stakes - from Gojo Satoru's perspective, it was really very curious, as if an ant was trying to shake a tree, and it really shook it.
After hammering the wooden stakes, Gong Zhili wrapped an old fishing net around the part of the stake that was exposed above the water, forming a large semicircle around the lakeshore, which could at least provide some protection.
Then Gong Zhili took out a machete and began to chop the bamboo, avoiding the bamboo joints and cutting them into the required length. Then she used a hand saw to smooth the cut, and used a bamboo splitter to split the bamboo tube into even thin bamboo strips, and then soaked them in water to soften them. She planned to use these bamboo strips to build a bamboo platform on the shore - it would allow the ducks to walk by the water without stepping on the ground into mud. While waiting for the bamboo strips to soak in water, Gong Zhili went to deal with the wood. She used an axe to chop the intact wood with bark to make anti-slip grooves, and then used a shovel to dig a long semicircular pit on the low slope leading to the shore in the open space, and then put the wood she had just processed into it, and knocked it down with another piece of wood. The ducks could flutter into the water from here in the morning, and go home on the wooden steps in the evening, shaking their wet feathers.
Gojo Satoru, who was carrying the materials, thought to himself: It's like a sea otter using stones to smash shells.
Of course, the open space and other parts of the lakeshore were surrounded by fences, and Gong Zhili reinforced the fences with the collected materials.
After Gojo Satoru brought all the materials over, he saw two children also standing there wearing straw hats. One was wiping her face with a wet towel, and the other was pouring water for her to drink. He immediately felt aggrieved: "I'm even more tired!"
Gong Zhili sat on the woodpile and said, "If you can teach them some common sense about the world of magic at night, you can also enjoy such treatment."
After saying that, she pushed the children's backs and signaled them.
Out of trust in Lord Miya, Nanako immediately ran to the well to pump water, washed the handkerchief again, and ran over to hand it to Gojo Satoru.
Because Gojo Satoru was too tall, she even pulled his pants and stood on tiptoe to pass it to him. Gojo Satoru bent down to take the handkerchief and said, "This deal is so unfair."
Quickly free your pants from the child's hands.
Mimiko looked at the water cup in her hand that belonged to Lord Gong, then hesitantly glanced at her own small bucket by the well. Gojo Satoru keenly noticed where her gaze was and protested loudly, "I don't want to drink well water!"
Mimiko had no choice but to run back home and get a bowl of water.
Gojo Satoru, who had successfully drunk the water, sat down on another pile of wood, drank the water, and asked, "What are you weaving?"
Gong Zhili held the reed stalks that Nanako and the others had completely dried, and her hands were busy, saying, "I'm going to weave some nests for the ducks to lay eggs."
In fact, there are a lot of wild ducks here. Maybe the wild ducks will also take a fancy to this more comfortable nest and come here to lay eggs.
She didn't teach this time, and her hands were extremely fast. During the short break, she weaved a small nest with a pointed roof. Then she gave the nest to Nanako and asked her to put it home.
Gojo Satoru couldn't help but ask, "Why not leave it outside?"
Gong Zhili said, "We need to put some pine needles inside, but the pine needles haven't dried yet, so we have to wait a while."
Mimiko's ears perked up, "Where are the pine needles?"
Gong Zhili took out pine needles from the backpack and said, "These are them."
So Mimiko happily went home to get a bamboo basket and prepared to pick out the pine needles and dry them in the sun.
Gojo Satoru looked at Gong Zhili and saw that she had formed another nest while she was talking, and couldn't help but said, "I'll try it too."
Gong Zhili was surprised: "Can you?"
Gojo Satoru said confidently: "I have six eyes, this kind of thing is very simple."
Gong Zhili was silent for a moment, then asked, "What exactly is 'Six Eyes'? Where are your other four eyes?"
Gojo Satoru was stunned.
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