Chapter 155 Book House
This is a tree-shaped building about three or four meters high. From a distance, you may think it is a short and fat tree. But when you get closer, you will find that it is actually a small house with a log exterior wall, but it is made in the shape of a tree, with thick branches and "green leaves" hanging from the branches. When you get closer, you will find that the "leaves" are decorative carved leaves of green wood, and there are arc-shaped lattice windows of different heights on the fat "trunk".
The painting style is warm and fairy-tale-like, making people fall in love with it at first sight.
The entrance hall is about one meter above the ground. It is also arc-shaped, inlaid with glass and wooden strips, and also made into a lattice pattern. You can enter the library by walking up a short flight of steps.
There are also two redemption machines on both sides of the inside of the bookstore door, indicating that this is also a small business shop.
Inside is a compressed space with a high ceiling. It is very large, about one hundred square meters in area. The internal height difference is only more than ten meters. It is the tallest single-story building among all the current raft buildings.
The walls inside were similar to the exterior, also curved. It was power-on time, and after Wu Shaoshan found the switch and turned on the light, the small room with a tall ceiling was suddenly lit up with a soft, clear, warm yellow light.
The interior of the building of more than 100 square meters is filled with wooden tables, chairs and sofas. The layout is very reasonable, with no wasted space but not appearing crowded.
In the middle of the building, there is a pillar supporting the high top. The diameter of the pillar is about one meter. At the bottom is a circle of bar built around the pillar. The operator can see the scene inside the entire bookstore from any point in the bar at any time.
The most exquisite part is the four walls inside the building. Every wall, except for the windows, is covered with bookshelves, stacked from bottom to top. The curved walls, which are nearly ten meters high, are filled with all kinds of different books.
The bookshelves are simple in style, with different categories of books separated by different colors, and the shelves for placing books are also different.
There are pulley ladders arranged along the walls around the house, and you can push the ladder to any bookshelf on the wall to get the book you want to read.
There is a simple water bar at the central bar counter, which sells some drinks. There is also a public restroom in a corner of the bookstore. It is not large but has complete facilities.
After everyone looked around, some impatient friends were about to pick up the book to read, but they were blocked by an invisible wall of air.
"Maybe the bookstore hasn't officially opened yet, or you need to pay a certain amount of points before you can get the books you want to read." Wu Shaoshan guessed this as she was wandering around looking for the cottage where she lived.
So far, after each raft owner's raft is upgraded, the original cabin will change into a small apartment with two bedrooms and a living room.
But she had searched several times and couldn't find the door leading to the small apartment.
"Maybe he is outside?" asked Zhang Tian, who came with them to visit the bookstore.
So, everyone went out of the library again and finally found another staircase on the left side of the library. It was a spiral staircase built along the fat "trunk", spiraling up to the top of the "big tree".
Because there were branches blocking the view before, and it was night time, the light was not very good, so it was not until now that everyone realized that there was indeed a tree house on the top of this "big tree".
That was Wu Shaoshan’s living space—her home.
Shu Fu followed Wu Shaoshan and Zhang Tian and walked up the stairs to the top of the big tree. There was a wooden platform with a log cabin with a triangular roof on one side and a fence on the other side. The platform looked very much like a balcony, with a wooden round table and two chairs on it.
Zhang Tian knocked on the door as a visitor and entered the house smoothly.
Shu Fu had no problem entering anyone's room, but she knew how much Wu Shaoshan valued her personal space, so she asked her first before following her and Zhang Tian into the room.
The lights soon came on, and the interior space of the log cabin with a simple exterior shape was indeed large. However, unlike the business area of the bookstore downstairs, the ceiling here was very low, only about 2.2 to 2.3 meters, which made the house have an even more exquisite fairy tale feel.
The interior of the house is somewhat similar to Lu Zheng and Yao Ruoyun's apartment. As soon as you enter the door, you will see a dining and living room with an open kitchen. There are simple furniture furnishings, all of which are minimalist in style, in natural wood color, and clean and tidy.
Besides this, there is a bathroom and two rooms.
Honestly speaking, it was just the right time for Zhang Tian to move in. Although it was a bit troublesome to apply for a visitor every 12 hours, the average person sleeps 8 to 9 hours, so there was plenty of time for eating, washing up, and spending the night there.
As for the daytime, Zhang Tian would go to work at the hotel in front. The working hours of the hotel were different from those of other rafts. It was divided into morning and evening shifts, with two people taking turns.
The morning shift starts at 7 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m., a total of eight working hours, with a one-hour meal and lunch break at noon.
The night shift starts at 2pm and only requires six hours of work, plus an hour for dinner and rest, and ends at 9pm.
The hotel's employees currently have only one day off a week, probably because there are not enough employees. Lu Zheng said that if three employees could be hired, the employees' rest days could be adjusted to two days off a week.
In general, Zhang Tian was also quite busy, and as long as she knocked on the door, no matter when, no matter whether Wu Shaoshan was at home or not, as long as she clicked on the personal panel, Zhang Tian could enter the house. Rounding it off, it was equivalent to the time it took to press the password lock.
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After Wu Shaoshan and Zhang Tian moved out, the number of guests in Lu Zheng's hotel returned to the original six. The huge hotel was empty, and the raft points were missing every day. However, the vending machine business was good. Except for Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun's family, everyone else had already consumed the fresh fruits and vegetables around them, regardless of whether they had space in their backpacks.
Therefore, every time the vending machine is restocked, it is always emptied within an hour.
Lu Zheng sold all the stocks he had, and the pressure was put on Yao Ruoyun's family in the planting house. Fortunately, not long after, the first batch of chickens and ducks in the breeding house were ready to be sold. This batch of chickens and ducks accounted for about half of the total number.
In the first few days, Zheng Feifei and her friends had no experience. After taking care of these furry creatures for a few days and catching up on their knowledge, they realized that chickens and ducks are also divided into different breeds, including broilers and laying hens.
Broiler chickens mature and are marketed quickly, while laying hens mature slowly and lay eggs more slowly.
After the broiler chickens are sold, not all of them are slaughtered. Some are kept as breeding chickens.
The chickens produced by the raft breeding house, even the broilers, are very suitable for breeding. After intensive study of relevant knowledge and careful selection, we can finally drive all the other broilers into the harvesting area.
There is a receiving area in each beehive house in the breeding house. The internal slaughtering and cleaning are all fully automatic, and it can even be detailed to whether to remove the head and claws, whether the finished product is cut in half or whole, whether to keep the duck intestines, chicken hearts, and chicken livers...
The final product, a total of ten chickens and ten ducks, are all cut in half, all the internal organs are retained, and the heads and feet are packaged separately and sold to friends who particularly like these parts.
Because the first batch of harvest was not large in quantity, Zheng Feifei and her mother picked out the fattest chicken, divided it into three equal parts, and gave them to Wu Shaoshan, Longsheng and Yue Dong as work benefits.
In addition, they left two chickens and two ducks for their own use. Half a chicken and half a duck automatically appeared in the profit area of Shufu Space, and the rest were all sold to Lu Zheng. He set half a chicken as a commodity and checked the "limited purchase" option, which finally made the first batch of fresh meat appear in the vending machine.
That day, everyone was celebrating as if it were New Year's Day, and the aroma of chicken soup wafted from every raft.
The meat produced by the raft breeding house, even if it is just broiler chicken, is very delicious when used to make soup, because each chicken is fat and fresh, so no one is willing to braise or fry it.
This kind of chicken soup does not require any seasoning except salt, just sprinkle a handful of chopped green onions before turning off the heat.
Some friends grew some onions and garlic on the windowsills of their rooms. Those who were too clumsy to even keep onions went to Yao Ruoyun to get some from the raft. Onions are the same as leeks. As long as the roots are kept, the onion whites and leaves will continue to grow after being cut off.
In addition, the fruits and vegetables grown in the plantation house have a short growth cycle, so the green onions grow very quickly, one batch after another. Yao Ruoyun's family does not sell these seasoning vegetables, but gives them away directly.
Shu Fu was also curious about the chicken produced in the raft breeding house, and she also made soup in the drifting island house. However, she used richer ingredients and added bamboo fungus and bamboo shoots to make a more fragrant and delicious bamboo fungus chicken soup.
She didn't take any other side dishes. She drank half a pot of soup, ate a chicken leg and some bamboo fungus, and she was already very full.
After the meal, she went to the Tree House Bookstore at the back, which had started trial operation a day ago. The books inside were not for sale, but after spending a certain amount of points to apply for a bookstore card, one could read inside the bookstore.
When a guest leaves, the books cannot be taken out of the library, unless he goes to the counter to go through the borrowing procedure. The operator uses the machine on the counter to scan the wristband and then the book to be borrowed, and the guest can take the book away.
Borrowed books must be returned within a specified time, and if they continue to be damaged, the guest must pay a certain amount of points. But the amazing thing is that as long as these books are returned to the bookshelf, they will be restored to their original appearance when other guests take them down to read them next time. These bookshelves seem to have the function of automatic repair.
If the books from outside are not returned within the specified time, the books will disappear from the person's home and return to the shelf in the library. The guest's library card will be automatically locked for a period of time. During this period, he can still read books in the library, but he can no longer borrow books from outside.
Wu Shaoshan was originally afraid that she would not be able to manage it as she had to be responsible for the counter, organize the bookshelves, and clean the bookstore. However, through the electronic tablet inside the door of her residence, she quickly figured out how to run a bookstore and discovered that she could manage it alone.
However, because she is still working at the breeding house, she has temporarily scheduled the trial operation time on her day off from work.
There are not many people on the raft, and not everyone likes to read, so the bookstore does not need to be open every day. In addition to the work in the breeding house, she has three days off a week, which she feels is enough for now.
During these three days, she plans to open the bookstore for two days only. There is no need for people to stay in the bookstore from morning to night. As long as she can get the bookstore cards for friends who want to read, they can stay in the bookstore and read freely.
Unless someone really likes the book and wants to take it home to read, she will come over to take care of it. In this case, just shout her. She is usually not in the book room downstairs, but in the tree house upstairs, and you can hear her if you shout.
She was trying out the store to see if she could do two jobs at the same time. If she could, she planned to continue working in the breeding house. After all, there weren't many people on the raft right now, and she would be bored to death if she just watched the store every day.
In addition, another reason for the trial operation is to see if they can make ends meet by working six days a week and resting one day. If not, the bookstore will hire a helper - someone who only works two days a week.
Shu Fu applied for a library card yesterday, which has a huge amount of books. Although she has downloaded a lot of books on her phone, e-books and physical books are different. She has limited physical books, and the library has a unique atmosphere. It feels great to read a book here.
After two days of trial operation, Wu Shaoshan still wanted to hire an assistant to be responsible for the cleaning and sanitation of the bookstore.
Currently, only the Xu Tingfeng brothers are unemployed on the raft, but Jiang Dai also likes this job very much because she only needs to work two days a week, and with the work in the plantation house, she still has three days of rest a week.
When Shu Fu went over, Xu Tingfeng and Jiang Dai were introducing themselves to Wu Shaoshan. She looked around but didn't see Xu Jiechu.
She didn't ask any more questions. She found a detective novel that she had read halfway through last time, sat on the sofa, took out a cup of iced lemon tea, put on headphones, and began to read quietly to the soothing sound of the piano.
After a while, Zhang Tian also came to the bookstore, greeted her, then found the book she wanted to read, found a seat nearby, and sat down to read quietly.
Shu Fu knew that Zhang Tian was able to accept Wu Shaoshan's changes so calmly. In addition to Wu Shaoshan's efforts, she must have also tried hard to adjust her mindset.
After all, even her last best friend has become a superpower and the raft can be towed, but she herself has a raft, but she has to live in the house on someone else's raft. Anyone would be depressed for a while if this happened to them.
However, because Zhang Tian moved into Wu Shaoshan's raft tree house, she had to frequently activate the visitor function every day, which led Wu Shaoshan to discover a visitor upgrade function.
After the same person has been a temporary visitor for seven consecutive days, when that person knocks on the door again, the prompt on Wu Shaoshan's panel will change: You have a regular visitor - Zhang Tian, do you want to let him in? Note that the duration of a regular visitor is 24 hours.
This unexpected discovery made Wu Shaoshan and Zhang Tian very happy. In Wu Shaoshan's opinion, the visitor function may be upgraded further, and after the upgrade, the time a visitor stays in the room should be extended.
Maybe one day, "visitors" can become real "family members."
Outside the raft was the boundless sea. In the dark night, huge shadows would occasionally jump out of the water and then fall down. Some of those shadows were whales living in the deep sea, and some were new species of giant marine fish that they had never seen before.
It is also possible that they are not new species, but marine organisms that used to only live in the deep sea have mutated, so they can pass through the shallow sea and come to the surface of the sea to take a look at this planet which has almost become a vast ocean.
Generally, the deeper the water, the greater the chance of encountering giant marine creatures. When there is daylight or conditions for filming, they will take pictures with their mobile phones whenever they see them, and then send them to Shu Fu.
Shu Fu would mark the longitude and latitude of the marine life in these photos and videos, and then Lan Lan would upload them to the website to provide some new information to the authorities and scientific researchers, which was the biggest feature of the Drifting Island House - reconnaissance.
Occasionally, in the distant sea on the left side of the raft, there would be scattered land. That was the largest land on the planet - the western plate of the eastern continent.
The west of this area was once connected to the European continent, but now, except for a few mountain peaks, the European continent has basically disappeared. In the western plate of the eastern continent, most of the countries have sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the land has become a vast sea.
The difference between here and the European continent is that there are more mountainous areas with higher altitudes, so some countries have not completely disappeared.
In the drifting route of their raft, there were occasionally small lands like this - perhaps it would be more appropriate to say islands now, and occasionally some huge ships were seen near the land. Those were huge ships built with the efforts of the whole country, and some lands had two or three ships docked next to them, while some very small lands had only one ship docked next to them.
These huge ships reminded Shu Fu of "Noah's Ark". Each of them might carry all the survivors of a country and their desire for life.
It is no wonder that the Fengshang Plateau within the territory of Hua State has become a land that some countries are trying their best to seize.
**
The days pass slowly in such a peaceful and pleasant drifting time.
They drifted on the sea for another month and returned to the southern waters of Fengshang Plateau at an extremely slow speed. It was already September and summer was completely over.
During this period, Yao Ruoyun's plantation house raft underwent tremendous changes. Because he harvested thirty different kinds of vegetables and fruits and achieved a certain sales volume, it was upgraded from a plantation house to a plantation hall!
The author has something to say:
Broiler chickens can be kept for breeding, depending on the growth and health conditions of the chickens. Here, they are raised on rafts, so they are naturally in the best condition and can be kept for breeding without worry.
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