Chapter 27 Chapter 27 Unmanned Vegetable Stall
Today is the third day of rain.
Miya Chiri was horrified to find that the tatami in the living room felt damp.
Xia Yujie squatted beside her and complained: "The whole village is full of moisture. I can't do anything even if I want to."
Gong Zhili still finds it hard to accept: This house is not good, the house designed as a summer vacation home needs to be changed!
She said she wanted to renovate the house, but Xia Yujie advised her, "It's still raining now, so you should wait until the weather clears up before doing anything."
Gong Zhili had already walked to the door and started putting on his raincoat, saying, "There are things you can do on rainy days."
Xia Yujie watched her carry the basket out the door again and asked the twins who were practicing holding a pen in the living room, "Is she such an impatient person?"
Nanako: "What is impatience?"
Geto Suguru: "I just do whatever I think of right away."
Mimiko: "Mister Gong is such a good person!"
Geto Suguru: "...That's definitely an advantage."
Nanako said, "Aren't you going out with Master Gong, Brother Xia Yu?"
Mimiko agreed: "Brother Takeuchi, you are here to study, so you need to do more work." The word "study" is really difficult to understand and say.
She didn't quite understand the meaning of study and practice. Miya Chiri told them yesterday that Geto Suguru, like Gojo Satoru before him, was a high school student who came to help at home, and this was their study activity.
In short, they could understand that these two people came to their house to do something.
There will be others coming later.
Xia Yujie stood up and said, "Then I'll go take a look too."
He was also curious about what Gong Zhili would do on this rainy day.
He put on his raincoat and chased after her. With his long legs and big steps, he soon caught up with Gong Zhili at the dock.
Miya Chiri went to Sato's house. His family had a large warehouse which was also a shop. He mainly sold hardware accessories. If the village needed additional building materials, they would also make an order from him.
As Suguru followed her around the warehouse, he said, "I thought you would prefer the traditional materials."
Gong Zhili: "I want to take a shortcut - using bamboo as a chimney is different from using a tin chimney. We need to be well prepared for the winter here."
Sato Minoru agreed: "I said when the house was being built that it was only designed for summer use and would be uninhabitable in the winter. Are you planning to build a stove in it, Lord Gong?"
Gong Zhili nodded. "I'm going to build a square stove and heat the house with a flue. I need galvanized iron chimney pipes, ceramic fiber cloth, expanded perlite, and stainless steel wire mesh. Do you have any in stock?"
Sato Minoru took out his notebook and pen and began to write down: "I have dozens of meters of chimney pipes here, which is enough for your house. I also have fiber cloth and perlite, but I'm not sure if the quantity is enough. I have as much stainless steel wire mesh as you need."
He muttered the names of the materials and went straight to the warehouse to look for them. Gong Zhili was left behind and he began to wander around the warehouse, looking for something he could use.
Xia Yujie's hands gradually became full of things. Gong Zhili stuffed things into his hands and said, "Luckily you came, Xia Yujun, otherwise what would I do?"
Xia Yujie said with a dull expression: "I think you have a solution."
Snowmelt, emergency heating pads, solar lanterns, bathroom anti-skid plates, a huge bundle of galvanized steel pipes (I couldn't carry this, so I told the boss and marked it), canvas fittings, door and window seals, a kerosene heater, an aluminum kettle... his hands were full, and Gong Zhili's backpack was also filled with a lot. Gong Zhili sighed as they walked, "We have nothing at home. There are so many things to buy."
Geto Suguru: "Is the winter here terrible?" I bought a lot of things for winter.
Gong Zhili stopped and thought for a moment before saying, "I'm not sure either, but the deeper you get into nature, the more you respect it. These things are our weapons against winter. Since they're weapons, preparing more will make you feel safer."
She wasn't really that afraid of temperature changes, she could fool around in the winter, but she had two small children at home!
Although they are strong children, they are also human beings.
Xia Yujie pondered and said, "That only adds heat to the living room, what about the bedroom?"
Gong Zhili sighed: "The bedroom is too small to light a stove, so we'll have to make do with a kerosene heater." Fortunately, the area is small, so this is enough for heating. I turn it on for a while before going to bed, and then turn it off and go to bed when the temperature rises.
"If you need it, Lord Gong, I can also go to the curtain factory to place an order. They have thick curtains specially prepared for winter." Boss Sato's face was covered with dust from rummaging through the inventory, and his hands were also covered with dust. He did not forget to take over the conversation as he walked over.
Gong Zhili shook his head: "We don't need thick curtains when we have a kerosene heater at home."
Boss Sato showed her another item on the shelf. "If the heater won't be moved, you can use this wall bracket and bolt it in place. If you're still worried about safety, you can weld a circle of steel pipe around it to make a guardrail. Do you have any welding tools? If not, I have a small home welder you can rent, or I can do it for you."
This was the era when DIY was popular, and Minoru Sato welded the wire mesh outside his own windows himself.
Gong Zhili: "If the stove catches fire, it will be very difficult to put out the fire."
Sato Minoru: "I have a fire blanket here, but it's a bit expensive and few people in the village are willing to buy it. I only have one in the warehouse. Actually, a fireproof sandbox next to it will be enough to put out fires."
Gong Zhili didn't even blink: "I want both."
Seeing that she was spending money like water, Xia Yujie paid and made an appointment with the boss to come to her house to weld shelves with the purchased iron pipes - it was obvious that she was going to do a major reorganization of the utility room.
After ordering so many things, Boss Sato said to Gong Zhili, "Mister Gong, it's raining outside. Let me send these things by truck."
Geto Xia Yu: The truck can't cross the trestle again. Wait, could it be that——
Sato Minoru rubbed his hands and said, "I'll put the things on the boat so it will be convenient for you to transport them over."
Geto Suguru: He vaguely guessed it.
The last time he and Miss Gong made the chickens and ducks line up to cross the wooden pier, and he saw that she never rowed the boat, he knew that this person never hid her abilities in front of the villagers.
Gong Zhili: "Put your things on it and push the boat a little, I'll make it move. Don't worry, remember to cover it with the rainproof cloth."
Sato Minoru nodded excitedly and ran outside the warehouse to start the truck.
Xia Yujie asked in a low voice: "Will the boat move by itself?"
Gong Zhili: "Just like when I was on the boat and let the lake water push me."
Geto Suguru thought thoughtfully, "I thought it only worked when you were standing on the boat."
Gong Zhili: "Ah, that's not the case."
Xia Yujie heard the sound of a truck starting amidst the rain outside and said, "They have seen that scene before." Otherwise, they wouldn't be so excited.
Gong Zhili put the newly emptied backpack on his back and said, "Well, they all really like to watch the fun."
Geto Suguru: "I call the phenomenon of my own ability 'lively'..."
Gong Zhili spread his hands and said, "Actually, they really like to gather together to watch the lake water push the boat forward, and they also like to watch the chickens and ducks follow the parade. When there are more people, it seems lively."
They put on their raincoats and headed towards their next destination.
Gong Zhili stood for a long time at an unmanned vegetable stall on a road in the village.
Geto Summer Oil: "You've been staring at this for a long time. Is there something wrong?"
Gong Zhili said in a complicated tone: "The phrase 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do' is such an important historical lesson."
She had never imagined that there would be such a specialty as an "unmanned vegetable stall" here! Then what was the point of her hard work (and failure) in finding food in the mountains a few days ago?
No wonder Gojo-kun laughed at her for having "no common sense"! Compared to a local kid like him, she really had no common sense!
While repenting in her heart, she swept through the cabbages, pumpkins, komatsuna, sweet potatoes, and water spinach on the vegetable stall without hesitation, and took all the chicken and duck eggs on the plate there. She put the money at the bottom of the basket and weighed it down with the remaining handful of vegetables.
Xia Youjie watched her movements and understood: "Before this, didn't you know there were unmanned vegetable stalls in the village?"
If Gojo Satoru were here, he would definitely laugh out loud, but the person standing here is Geto Suguru. Although he is laughing in his heart, he won't laugh so loudly.
Gong Zhili covered the backpack and headed to the next place. She had originally planned to buy vegetables today, and now that her one-stop shopping was successful, she glanced at Xia Yujie's smiling face and said, "Laugh if you want to. Do you city people know there's an unmanned vegetable stall here when you first arrive?"
Xia Yujie laughed twice and said, "We will also go to the village to carry out tasks."
But there are more and more mysteries surrounding Miss Gong.
She clearly knew a lot of farming skills and was very skilled in cooking on a stone stove, but she showed her ignorance in such a place.
Does Wu know this?
Geto Suguru guessed Miya Chiri's background and identity.
Gong Zhili's next stop was the flour shop. Just as the village chief said, although the village was small, every household in it had some survival skills that they could show off.
This allows them to live a self-sufficient life in a corner after the economic bubble disappears.
Gong Zhili asked the village chief what to do if the village couldn't consume the supplies it produced. The chief said they should sell them to a direct sales outlet outside the mountain. Those with vehicles could haul them farther to supply shops in small towns or towns. Those who wanted to stay within the village could ask the village grain and oil shop to sell them, or they could take the excess wheat to a mill to be ground into flour for consumption. These primary agricultural products were always easy to sell.
Today she was going to the flour mill to buy flour and some yeast powder.
Mr. Saito, the owner of the flour mill, also said that he could deliver the goods to the dock. Suguru Jie found that what Miya Chiri said before was right. As long as they were given a reasonable explanation, they would quickly accept the strangeness in life.
—and even be excited about it.
So Gong Zhili's backpack was empty again. When Mr. Saito saw the vegetables in Gong Zhili's backpack, he said eagerly that he also grew some vegetables at home and would sell them at the unmanned vegetable stall in the future.
Xia Yujie felt like laughing again.
When they arrived at the dock, the boat had already transported all the things they had bought. Boss Sato was helping unload the goods on the other side of the dock and covering the items with a tarpaulin.
He was not the only one on the other side of the pier. There were also some villagers who heard the noise and ran out of their homes, as well as children who were on holiday today.
They saw Mr. Saito's car coming over, and there was some commotion on the other side of the lake.
With so many people helping, even though it was raining and the ground was slippery, these things did not get wet and were safely placed under the corridor.
After watching the excitement, the villagers dispersed with satisfaction. Only Boss Sato went to the utility room to start welding the storage racks.
He confirmed the appearance of the shelf with Gong Zhili, and Gong Zhili told him the data he had measured earlier: "I plan to put the shelf against the east wall. It will be two meters high, five meters long, and one meter wide. Then, make even partitions here, leaving a few large compartments here."
Mr. Sato drew a blueprint of the shelf she wanted in a notebook, and after measuring it, he said, "If we hurry, it will take a day to build this shelf."
Gong Zhili nodded in understanding: "It will be calculated according to the normal price. If you work overtime, it will also be calculated according to the overtime price."
Mr. Sato knew that Lord Miya was paying normally now, so he swallowed his words of refusal and decided to secretly increase the amount of vegetables at the unmanned vegetable stall.
The author has something to say:
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I went out today, so my plan to update more chapters was completely ruined. I will definitely not go out tomorrow!
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