Transmigrating to the Ancient Times with Lu's Convenience

Chapter 23:

23. Grandma Lu Makes Yet Another Scene
Translator: Sissy That Walk

Chen Xiao Mi felt a lot closer to Lu Lin after they shared the secret of the convenience store. And he was in no rush to venture for money since they had a decent amount of money in hand now, he spent a lot of time collecting firewood instead of hunting. Now he valued Lu Lin's opinions more than anything, he collected firewood because Lu Lin told him the kang needs more firewood at night.

Lu Lin had once again seen how mighty Chen Xiao Mi was, Chen Xiao Mi would wield a blade like it were a plume, and he was able to run carrying a basket of firewood. It took Lu Lin five times the time to collect a comparable amount of firewood with Chen Xiao Mi.

However, knowing Lu Lin was a ‘rich kid’ from a different time and space, Chen Xiao Mi actually appreciated the efforts he had put into the house. He accepted Lu Lin's ‘incompetency’ without complaint.

The villagers were still daydreaming about hunting after seeing how well-off Chen Xiao Mi's family had become. But not a lot of them actually had the guts to venture into the mountains.

Chen Xiao Mi and Lu Lin spent about ten days on collecting firewood, Lu Lin had also stored some mushroom, bamboo shoots and Chinese yam in the convenience store for winter.

Mushrooms weren't easy to keep, and so were Chinese yam, they would go mouldy within a few days. But Lu Lin didn’t have to worry about that since time didn’t exist in the convenience store.

Chen Xiao Mi and Lu Lin had even built a kang for Old Hunter Zhou who had taught Chen Xiao Mi hunting. Old Hunter Zhou would suffer severe joint stiffness and pain on cold days, Lu Lin once mentioned a kang would help, so Chen Xiao Mi asked Lu Lin whether he would like to build a kang together with him for Old Hunter Zhou, Lu Lin was touched by Chen Xiao Mi’s gratefulness and he agreed with alacrity.

Old Hunter Zhou wasn't thrilled about the kang until he tried it himself, he would spend hours on the kang after Lu Lin and Chen Xiao Mi built it for him. The warmth relieved his pain a great deal, his joints were less swollen.

Chen Xiao Mi had also collected a decent amount of firewood for Old Hunter Zhou before he left.

Old Hunter Zhou was so grateful for the young couple for there was a cold-air outbreak on that very night, and soon Old Hunter Zhou's kang had caused attention from the villagers.

Old Hunter Zhou had been crippled for years, but luckily he had some savings from hunting and dealing mountain products, villagers would visit him and sell grains to him to exchange money. Old Hunter Zhou sometimes would get so anxious that one day soon all his savings would be used up and he would meet his doom by then.

Soon the villagers who had been to Old Hunter Zhou’s house started to talk about that magical kang, they would give a vividi description about how warm the kang was and how great it was for old people's joints.

Villagers would swarm to Old Hunter Zhou's house and have a look at this magical bed that would keep the entire house warm. Some villagers were well-mannered, they knew they shouldn't visit Old Hunter Zhou empty-handed, they would bring a small amount of food or some firewood or a cluster of vegetables.

Even though everything was in a small amount, Old Hunter Zhou still felt very grateful and he would ask them to sit on the kang and feel how warm it was. It had been so long since so many people visited Old Hunter Zhou, Old Hunter Zhou beamed with smiles all day.

But the villagers showed different reactions after knowing it was Chen Xiao Mi and Lu Lin who had built the kang for Old Hunter Zhou. A lot of them were surprised to know that cold-hearted and ferocious monster would do such a nice thing to an old man, and some of them would just give a snort and leave Old Hunter Zhou’s house.