Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 175: Dealing with the Brothers Upon Returning to the City (1)
[Your situation conforms to the reimbursement process.]
[Even if it’s just our two teams encountering Brother Xiao Ma and his group due to an emergency, the resources spent on them can be reimbursed once we return.]
[Moreover, you’re a civilian, and we can’t take even a thread or needle from a civilian without offering reimbursement.]
[Alright, Sister Cao, I’ll go over my ledger first.]
Ye Nai had gotten into the habit of meticulous bookkeeping after living independently, and with the advent of the computer, she took to creating electronic spreadsheets even more efficiently. With comprehensive tables and sub-tables for monitoring her finances and inventory, it took her less than half an hour to complete the electronic report and send it to Sister Cao.
After a short while, Sister Cao replied.
[Your bookkeeping is so detailed, it’s really a good habit. Would you like cash or goods?]
[Whichever is more convenient.]
[Of course, giving cash is more convenient.]
[Then please convert it to cash. I’ll head back to town to restock tomorrow and stay in the city for a few days.]
[Alright, have fun.]
Before sleeping, Ye Nai glanced at Rat Mountain in her Space. The Fungus had, at her request, skinned and gutted all the big and small wild rats—on one side was a mountain of rat hides and on the other, a mountain of skinless rats.
The rat hides were all clean, ready for the craftsmen to tan, and the rat carcasses were spotless inside, without a single drop of Blood Dripping; just a quick rinse with water and they’d be ready to be chopped and cooked.
Remembering Brother Peng’s words that male rat meat wasn’t tasty, she ordered a separation of the male and female rats.
She wasn’t sure if it was still possible to distinguish between male and female on these skinless rats, but decided to try anyway. Trying didn’t cost anything.
Hiding under the covers, with her phone plugged into the charger, she intended to browse the forum once more. However, as soon as she opened the forum, sleepiness washed over her irresistibly, and she had to put down the phone and go to sleep peacefully.
The next morning, as soon as the sky began to lighten, Ye Nai, after a good night’s sleep, packed up everything and, taking advantage of the sparse traffic and cooler temperatures of the early morning, started off for the city.
She drove fast but safely because the spores spread out around her, scouting the road conditions ahead.
Midway, a minor accident had occurred up ahead causing a traffic jam. She knew about it from a kilometer away, slowed down in advance, and joined the queue of stopped cars at the scene.
It was rush hour, and the traffic was backed up tightly. The traffic police had arrived and could only maintain order, asking the drivers to wait patiently so that the injured drivers could be rescued and the cars moved to clear the way.
The collision involved two small cars, with the fronts facing each other, and both drivers were trapped. Ambulances were on standby, just waiting for the firefighters to cut open the doors.
The surrounding drivers stuck in traffic began speculating about what had happened to cause such a severe crash so early in the morning.
Some guessed drunk driving, some fatigued driving, and others road rage due to aggressive overtaking. A group of strangers had quite a lively discussion.
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After exhausting the topic of the car accident, they moved on to the latest gossip in the entertainment and sports world, and then to the gossip in their own lives, with the conversation becoming completely unmanageable, one story more explosive than the next.
People gossiping seem like they’ve been holding it in for too long, spilling everything they know. Some of the gossip that’s been revealed is skating on thin ice, and if you look into it just a little, it’s like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
But since everyone around is a stranger, take it as a story, who cares if it’s true or not.
Ye Nai listened intently for dozens of minutes, until traffic finally cleared up, and just as someone was spilling the latest entertainment industry gossip with such vivid detail, as if they had witnessed it hiding under the person’s bed.
Just as she was getting into it, the road cleared up, and drivers started their vehicles, and the half-finished gossip was lost.
Holding back frustration, Ye Nai controlled her motorcycle at the speed limit, rushing to the city, where she checked into the best hotel. The first thing she did after closing her room door was to pull out her phone and search for that entertainment industry gossip; she wanted to see what the fuss was about.
And wouldn’t you know it, everything is online. The powerful netizens had already clearly outlined the details, and there were entertainment bloggers with big whiteboards in their videos, breaking down the origins and process of the incident. The results weren’t out yet, but the best possible outcome seemed to be the male lead going to jail for ten years and the female lead paying taxes, whether they would be incarcerated depended on their subsequent attitude.
Now, the male lead’s fans were crying foul, feeling it was unjust. Why should their beloved brother face ten years in jail, while the female lead only needed to pay up? So they hopped furiously all over the internet, everywhere decrying the unfairness and crying their hearts out about gender discrimination. Their efforts got the issue trending, provoking a wave of vitriol from bystanders.
Ye Nai, like a gossip-hungry monkey, flitted back and forth through various gossip fields, moving from text to videos, feeling extremely satisfied with the juicy tidbits, which even improved her appetite for lunch.
After lunch, without resting, she braved the midday sun and rode to the middle school where her younger brothers studied to have a look.
The timing of her return was rather fortuitous; it was late June, and she was a bit fuzzy on when the middle school’s final exams were. After inquiring with the school security guard, she learned that the exams were next Monday, and since today was Friday, the school would close its gates a bit earlier, at five in the afternoon, which set her mind at ease as she headed to the wholesale market.
With the midday heat scorching and reducing foot traffic, Ye Nai easily maneuvered her electric scooter back and forth along the narrow market paths, mainly browsing the medical supplies market. Those medicines and consumables really do get used up quickly.
Armed with a Beginner First Aider certificate and plenty of funds, she bought up to the allowable limit of various medical devices, consumables, and medicines that a first aider could purchase.
After maxing out her purchases at one store, she moved on to the next.
Equipment and consumables weren’t a big deal, with few restrictions, but medicines were more complicated. Some needed to be stored in cold storage continuously, including probiotics. Fortunately, her Space Energy had preservative capabilities, and she could store them.
But, as Brother Peng said, there was no need to let outsiders know too much. On her way to the medical supplies market, she also wholesale purchased a bunch of takeaway thermal boxes and ice packs to camouflage these medicines.
Store clerks like to make small talk with customers, and seeing Ye Nai buying in large quantities and only using thermal boxes, they couldn’t help but give a couple of reminders.
Ye Nai simply nodded along with their comments, indicating that keeping things cool for two hours would suffice as there was a refrigerated truck waiting outside.
The clerks made their assumptions, believing she was part of a group making purchases separately before regrouping at a refrigerated vehicle and said no more.
As for Ye Nai’s demonstrated Space Energy ability, the clerks acted as if it was nothing extraordinary, which wasn’t surprising since they were quite used to it. Wholesale markets were frequent haunts for the Space Awakened.
Ye Nai spent the afternoon stocking up on medical supplies, and upon leaving, she passed by the luggage market and bought a crossbody sling bag to hold her phone at a roadside stand.
The rugged phone was thick and bulky, and with summer clothes being light, even wearing men’s pants couldn’t accommodate it, and keeping it in her Space meant she wouldn’t receive messages, so she had to carry it in the bag.
The grocery market was near the entrance of the wholesale market, and she went in to buy several hundred pounds of salt and sugar.
As she neared the school on her electric scooter, she saw students with backpacks coming out, and adults resembling parents carrying their children’s change of clothes.
