Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Shopping at Mist Village

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Since Nie Qing had removed the barrier and illusions around the village, even Lu Hao could find the way out. The three of them finally made it back to the main road, where their GPS kicked back into gear.

With the help of the GPS, they successfully made it to Mist Village. The village stood between the mountains and a lake, with beautiful scenery to boot. If they properly packaged it as a nostalgic farmland, Su Jin thought, they might be able to promote the place as a tourist destination.

Since the village was hard to find, it had its own market for the villagers. The three of them parked the car at an open clearing near the entrance and walked into the market.

While they were in the car, Su Jin had explained their motives for coming here to Nie Qing. When Nie Qing heard that Su Jin’s storage dimension could be used to rear livestock, he barely had the energy to be surprised anymore. The couple had surprised him so many times that he had to get used to it, or else he would be a failure of a quasi-immortal who had lived through centuries.

Since Nie Qing was still wearing his traditional Han-style clothing, Su Jin and Lu Hao first found a roadside clothing stall and bought Nie Qing some clothes that fit his size. They had no choice. Although the market here was decently sized, it was still the type to have everything displayed in stalls outside.

Nie Qing accepted the clothes from Lu Hao and quickly changed into them. He had to admit that modern clothing was truly convenient, sans the layers upon layers of wrappings. He just had to put on a single thin layer. When he turned to look at the old clothes he had taken off, he clicked his tongue and swept them into his storage bag.

Su Jin stood outside the car and looked at Nie Qing as he stepped out. The cheap clothes somehow looked high-class when he wore them. Rather than a grandfather several centuries old, Su Jin felt as though she could safely call him her uncle. Somehow, Nie Qing had made his long beard disappear, his long tied-up hair reduced to a head of short black cut.

“How do I look, lass? Handsome, right?” Nie Qing was quite happy with his new modern look too.

“Aren’t you going to call yourself ‘this old man’ anymore, Grandpa Nie?”

“Haha, this— I mean, I’m learning modern slang from you lot. When in Rome, right?” He nearly said “this old man” again.

“Grandpa Nie, should I call you Uncle Nie from now on? You look too young for me to call you Grandpa now.”

Uncle Nie? So he could literally make her call him uncle. Not bad, not bad.

Nie Qing agreed readily.

The three of them continued walking through the market. It was not very busy, with only a few people buying things in two’s and three’s.

Su Jin and Lu Hao found a store that sold live poultry. The place was barely decorated at all, with only a few chicken cages in the middle of the stall with some live chickens and ducks inside.

The owner was a middle-aged woman who hastily greeted them when the three of them walked in.

Business was extremely slow for her. This was a village, after all, so almost every household had their own poultry. Very few people would spend money to buy these things.

“Ma’am, did you raise these chickens and ducks yourself?” Su Jin asked.

“That’s right, missy. We have a farm and plenty of birds. We’re only selling a few of them here.”

“If we want to buy more, do you have more stock?” Su Jin wanted to buy more birds at once, since it was very difficult to buy live poultry in the city these days.

“What are you saying, missy? Of course we have enough. How many do you want?”

“Chickens and ducks, a hundred each,” Lu Hao said.

“What? That many?” The lady could barely believe what she was hearing. She had never sold this many birds at once before.