"I found a renovation company, and the construction crew is settled too! Old Zhu said they're friends of his, so they're reliable~"
That evening, Qiu Wuji came home with a cat in her arms and bags upon bags of meat, fruit, and vegetables. She started chattering away while changing her shoes by the door. "Tomorrow morning, I'll go buy the cement myself. I heard that can save quite a bit..."
Chu Ge had been leaning back on the sofa watching a new show released that day. Seeing her, he hurried over to take the bags. "Huh? Where's Vermilion Bird?"
"I left her with Mengmeng. We were planning to have her teach Mengmeng anyway, weren't we?"
"Right... she and Mengmeng are such a perfect match." Chu Ge picked up the cat with one hand and took the fruit with the other. "Why did you buy so much...?"
"There's new fruit in season. It looked cute, so I bought a little extra. These wild cranberries are only available for a short while in April and May each year~ In the World Within the Book, we call them pao. I loved eating them when I was little. Waaaah, I never thought the Mortal World would have them too! I'd never seen them here before, so I thought they only existed in the book."
"Ummm, aside from special immortal herbs and fruits I made up, most plants in the book-the basic species in its ecosystem-came entirely from things I knew in the Mortal World. That's why the tropical plants we saw in Indonesia are rare in the book. It's mostly things commonly found in Huaxia... As for the names and accents..." Chu Ge scratched his head. "Huh, you're right. Your accents sound a lot like mine. I only just noticed..."
"Of course those developed