Chapter 010: A Remote Corner

A lot of things were found, and together with the textbooks and newspapers that Tang Yuan had picked out earlier, they filled a large bag.

Fortunately, when this body was set up, the basic values ​​were all full. If she were to switch to her own body, she might not be able to take it away.

Before leaving, Shen Wenyu pulled her aside again and emphasized not to reveal it to anyone, and she agreed. Anyway, she had no intention of leaving these things outside. Except for newspapers and textbooks, she would put the rest of the books and paintings in the game space.

Before she was carried away, she was stunned for a moment, moved her body sitting in front of the stove, listened to the conversation of the people in the stove room, quickly came to her senses, and left with a bag of paper.

She carried a bag of paper back to the "temporary residence", brought her things in, then took out the lunch box that had been placed there in advance, opened it and took a bite.

As soon as it entered her mouth, she felt nauseous. Looking at the pickled vegetables in the lunch box, she frowned and took a cucumber from the box next to her.

She swallowed the cucumber, picked up the lunch box again, took a bite of rice, and felt the same disgust.

The food is not bad. She just put it in this morning, so it must be edible. The problem is with this body. This body created from the game space can only eat food grown here and cannot eat food from outside.

She closed the lid of her lunch box and continued to eat her cucumber.

After eating the cucumber and feeling her strength growing, she put her body back to her "temporary residence". In the blink of an eye, she was already sitting behind the stove.

The weather was hot, and she felt hot sitting behind the stove. Even though she didn't move at all, she was sweating secretly.

She stood up and walked out of the stove room, then went to the sink outside, turned on the faucet and washed her face with cool water. She took the opportunity of going to the bathroom to enter the game space and opened the panel.

The information belonging to "Xiaofang" on the panel shows that the health value is 100, the hunger value is 95, the energy value is 90... the energy value is 91.

The only difference between this moment and before is that "Xiaofang" is resting, so the recovery of her energy value depends on how well she rests. The longer her rest time is, the more energy value will naturally increase.

As for the hunger value, it should be increased by eating. Before she came back, she used "Xiaofang's" body to eat a few cucumbers, and the hunger value increased to 95. If she wants to increase it again, she just needs to continue eating the food in the game space.

While she was distracted, Xiaofang's body entered the game space again. She ate another cucumber, and her hunger level slowly rose to 99.

Let Xiaofang go back to the temporary residence to rest. She walked out of the bathroom, washed her hands and face, and returned to the boiler room.

She moved her chair further away before sitting down.

"I thought you weren't afraid of the heat." Someone nearby said with a smile.

Tang Yuan replied: "I have to work at home even in the summer. I don't feel the heat all the time, but I feel hot after going out for a while."

"That's true. When I was doing farm work at home, I didn't always think about the heat when I was working." The other party responded. Seeing Tang Yuan sat down and continued to stare at the stove blankly, he stopped talking to her and continued to chat about gossip with others.

Tang Yuan hadn't left yet, but was pretending to be dazed.

Because of her deliberate adjustments, the title of "silly girl" was not suppressed in the machinery factory, but became more and more intense. More and more people knew that she was a silly girl, so even if she was in a trance for a long time, people would not think that there was something wrong with her, but only thought that this was her normal state.

After staying for a while and seeing that no one was talking to her, she went back to controlling Xiaofang.

This time she did not go out, but let her go back to the game space and put the things she bought back, newspapers in one pile, textbooks in another, and books and paintings that might be antiques in a separate pile.

Today, the game's wooden house is still empty, with no tables or chairs, no beds, only a piece of dark grey cloth on the floor, placed in a prominent position to prevent her from walking over and dirtying the sleeping place.

There are also bed cabinets for sale in the game, and the price is not cheap. The worst one costs more than a hundred coins. She doesn't have many game coins, and she needs to buy cloth and seeds. She also has to exchange the items she redeems for cash. No matter how she calculates, it's not enough, so she tries to save as much as possible on things in the house.

They are all wooden beds. You can sleep on the hard wooden boards or on the floor. There is not much difference.

Good books, calligraphy and paintings, she walked out of the wooden house, squatted on the ground to look at the condition of the beans. Many of the beans were so ripe that they were about to crack, so she didn't wait any longer and collected all the beans.

So far, she has harvested 50 kilograms of soybeans.

Each storage grid costs one thousand coins, and she doesn't have enough game coins to store the soybeans. Fortunately, the weather is hot now, and she secretly spreads the soybeans on her bed to dry before going to bed every night to remove the moisture. These soybeans can even be stored for a year or two.

While planting a crop of soybeans, she also planted a tomato plant for her own consumption. She didn't need too many tomatoes or cucumbers. The characters in the game could only eat things grown in the game, so she couldn't always eat cucumbers.

Over the next few days, she used "Xiaofang's" body to go out a few more times, and took the money to buy large baskets and winnowing baskets, in which she dried the soybeans and stored them. When she planted more, she could sell them all at once.

Game coins are also needed, so every time she grows soybeans, she only keeps half for herself and sells the rest to the game. This also causes chaos in the harvest time of various things planted in the fields.

Tang Yuan yawned and looked at the stove with his eyes downcast.

In order not to waste any time, she always got up in the middle of the night these days to see if she could get anything. However, because she was not sure about the time, she came back empty-handed several times.

She still needs to find a way to buy her a watch or an alarm clock, otherwise she will be thinking about it every night before she goes to sleep.

…

"Is she okay? Why is she yawning so early in the morning?"

"Maybe she hasn't adjusted to the schedule yet. It's because of the shift change. Everyone has the same problem," Aunt Qian said. "She's fine. She's been talking less and less these days. She's always staring at the stove in a daze."

"Is this okay?" Zhang Xiumei frowned. "If we keep going like this, won't we become more and more stupid?"

"Not really, we didn't do anything to her," Aunt Qian glanced over her shoulder, "Look, she's in a daze again. It's not like we didn't talk to her, but she just didn't respond."

"Why aren't you approaching me yet? I thought he looked a little silly before, but he was quite polite." Zhang Xiumei also stretched her head to look, "Oh, his eyes look lifeless now."

At this moment, Tang Yuan came back to her senses, looked at the stove, did what she was supposed to do, and naturally there was a gleam in her eyes.

Aunt Qian looked at this scene and said directly, "It's just boring. This is what our job is like. We can't leave people, but it's also very boring. What do you think about me taking her to buy some wool and knitting a sweater together?"

Zhang Xiumei looked at her and said, "Just do your own thing. Why are you bringing someone along?"

"It's good to knit a sweater. You can do two things at once without delaying anything." Aunt Qian felt aggrieved, but she really meant well.

"Hey, hey, hey," Zhang Xiumei suddenly pushed her, "Look at what she is doing?"

"That's... a book? She's reading a book?" Aunt Qian asked in surprise.

On the other hand, Tang Yuan did take out the book and spread it out on her knees to cover up her lifeless eyes.

She had heard the people in the boiler room say that she was becoming more and more dazed these days, and when she listened carefully she realized that when her attention was focused on another body, that body's eyes would gradually lose their luster.

In other words, like a real idiot.

That won't work.

She can be a "silly girl", but definitely not a "fool". The former is just not very smart, but can still do things, communicate and work, while the latter can do nothing at all.

If word really spreads that she is a "fool", she may not be able to keep her current job.

So she went out specially, brought the books she had bought a few days ago, put them in her bag and took them to the boiler room.

She had read these books in the past few days. There was nothing particularly outstanding in them. Elementary school textbooks were child's play for a college graduate like her. She took them out now so that, on the one hand, she could use reading to cover up her dazed look when she was daydreaming, and on the other hand, if she did something beyond the original owner's cultural level in the future, it would not arouse suspicion.

Sometimes, people who are foolishly stubborn actually have a higher talent for learning.

Not long after she started reading, she noticed Aunt Qian's footsteps coming back, and she deliberately didn't look up. While reading, she still wanted to make it a habit for the people in the boiler room not to talk to her too often. Even if they talked to her, it was normal for her to not respond when standing in front of her.

…

"How is it?"

"She's really reading a third grade textbook," Aunt Qian said to the person next to her. "Do you think she can understand it?"

"Whether she goes in to look or not is another matter. If she wants to look, let her look. Just make sure it doesn't interfere with her work," the person next to her whispered. "Can we take out all the yarn now? She won't tell anyone."

"Or move her to a corner? Just give her a quiet environment for reading." Aunt Qian and the person next to her looked at each other, and they both laughed.

The work in the boiler room is not busy. In fact, one or two people can do all these jobs, but no one is willing to do more work. It is better to do something else in their spare time.

Sewing shoe soles, mending clothes, making handkerchiefs, knitting sweaters... everything.

As summer is over and the weather is getting cooler, it is time to knit sweaters. Everyone is afraid that someone will go out and say too much. Now that they see Tang Yuan is "introverted", they are naturally happy to see this scene.

When Tang Yuan looked up again, she heard Aunt Qian talking to her, saying that she would give her a place to read in peace. She immediately stood up, picked up her bag, and went to the corner.

Feeling the joy on everyone's faces, she was also very happy in her heart. Even if she didn't lower her head to read in the corner, no one would notice her absent-minded look.

Happiness alone is not as good as happiness with others. The ancients were right.