The truck window rolled down, and a young man looked my way.
"Excuse me, are you Miss Mo Buyu?"
"Yes, that's me... And you are?"
"Oh, I'm making a delivery. Could you open the gate and receive it?"
"Uh... Sure."
Awkward
I opened the gate and let the truck in. Then seven or eight young men jumped down from the back, putting me a little
on guard. But when I thought about it... I also found it
a little funny. The fact that they did this kind of work was proof enough that they weren't particularly strong. Besides,
we were inside the city. There was no need
to be so jumpy.
"What are you delivering?"
It was a truck, and it barely squeezed through the wide gate. Then the men started unloading it, one crate after another,
all of them large. The biggest crate
was over two meters tall.
"These are the goods Lord Wild Wolf ordered. Please check them."
As he spoke, the men opened the crates one by one. What was inside... left me at a loss for words. Clothes and shoes
filled two big crates, each roughly
a cubic meter in size, with clothes in every color. Then there were quilts and door curtains. In short, they'd brought everything
you might need for winter, along with plenty of coal.
The largest crate held an iron furnace over two meters tall. Three or four men carried it straight
over to the water pipes.
Someone brought over a machine to flush the pipes. They didn't even use my electricity, connecting it directly to the truck's battery instead.
After asking where the water supply was, they got
to work.
"Did Wild Wolf send all of you?"
The others were busy carrying things into the house, while a few worked on