Problem Girls Strategy

Pekolim was surprised that Jiang Zao did not give a direct answer, but instead threw the question to herself. She tilted her head in confusion: "I can't guess, but if it were me, I would probably want to look for delicious food everywhere."

"That's right," Jiang Zao nodded and agreed with Pekolim's idea: "The original intention of our guild is to search for all kinds of rare delicacies in the world with our companions, live a leisurely life, and do commissions by the way!"

"The commission was just a side job. It doesn't feel like an adventure guild."

"Kael, you should know that dragon meat is also one of the legendary ingredients. Defeating the dragon is in line with the ultimate goal of the Adventure Guild, right?" When it comes to food, Pekolin talked incessantly, bombarding Kael with all kinds of quotations, almost making her drown in the ocean of food.

"Master, since you and Pekorim both love gourmet food so much, how about calling the guild 'Gourmet Hall'?"

Kokoro's suggestion was instantly recognized by the two. Pekolim even stepped forward and held Kokoro's hands tightly, with stars in her eyes: "Kokoro, it turns out that you also know a lot about food. You can come up with such a wonderful name."

"Three votes in favor, Kael abstained, and Huihui definitely wanted to use the explosion magic for the name, so she voted against. So it's decided that the name of the guild will be 'Food Palace'." Jiang Zao quickly wrote the name of the guild on the application form and put it away to prevent Huihui from stealing the application form and modifying it.

After Huihui changed into dried clothes, the group hurried back to Landsol and came to the Adventurer's Guild before night fell on the earth.

Jiang Zao handed the application form to the front desk. After the other party verified the content, he took out his seal and stamped it: "Okay, now your guild is officially established."

"There is only one house left for rent to the Adventurer's Guild. Everyone from the Food Hall, would you like to take a look?"

Although Jiang Zao has capsule houses that can be carried around, most of the time they can only be used in uninhabited areas in the wild. It would be nice to be able to rent a house for daily use from the Adventurer's Guild.

Jiang Zao asked for the opinions of the others: "What do you think? Do you want to rent it?"

"The guild still needs a base anyway."

"I don't want to live in the wild forever."

"As long as I am with my master, I can live anywhere."

"It would be nice if the living room could be bigger so that we can all eat together."

"That means it's unanimously approved. Please take us to see the house."

"Okay, my name is Hua Lin. If you have any questions about the adventure, please feel free to come to me." After introducing herself, Hua Lin said a few words to the rest of her colleagues, walked out of the counter and led Jiang Zao and the others to the only remaining guild hut.

The Astraea continent is extremely vast, and Landsol, as the royal city, is not small in size either. Hua Lin walked in front, leading the group for about ten minutes, from the Western-style streets into a remote cottage in the countryside.

Judging from the outside, there is really nothing wrong with this house. The triangular roof is covered with fish-scale red tiles and has a design similar to a castle tower. It looks warm and childlike, and it is large enough that five people can live in it without any problem.

"Oh~ It looks pretty good." Kailu thought the remaining houses were the kind of shabby and unwanted ones, but unexpectedly they looked nice. She walked to the door and ran her index finger across the doorpost. There was a layer of dust on her white fingertips: "It's just that no one has lived here for too long, so there's a lot of dust."

"Kailu, open the door and see what's inside."

"Got it!" Kailu responded to Jiang Zao, then opened the door. The thick dust falling from the door made her cover her nose.

Then she saw hell.

Chapter 229: Those who want to touch the cat’s ears, step out!

Rats, bats, snakes, cockroaches, and millipedes rushed out of the darkened house, and many of them climbed directly up Kaylu's brown high heels.

"No~!!!!!" Kailu was so scared that her face turned pale and tears welled up in her eyes. She took a few steps back and fell to the ground. The sticky feeling on her hand made her heart tremble. She raised her hand and turned her palm, and found that she had killed a cockroach. She immediately shook her hand and let out an even more shrill scream.

"Ohhh, there are so many scary monsters. Jiang Zao, can I use explosion magic?"

"Are you going to kill the bugs or kill Kailu?"

Jiang Zao rolled his eyes at Huihui, rushed to Kael's side in two steps, pressed his hands on the ground, released an electric current to drive away the insects around her, and then carried her out.

"How can people live in this kind of house?" Kailu hugged Jiang Zao's neck in shock and asked Hua Lin loudly, "Isn't it a haunted house that's why no one rents it?!"

Hua Lin smiled and explained to Kailu: "Don't worry about this, it's definitely not a haunted house. It's just that this place is too far from the Adventurer's Guild, so not many people would choose it. It's definitely not because of ghosts or something that no one rents it."

"Hey! You mentioned ghosts just now, didn't you? You definitely mentioned ghosts, didn't you!"

"Haha, what are you talking about? I don't know." Hua Lin turned his head and buried his face in the shadow, but his gold-rimmed glasses emitted an eerie white light.

"Then look at me when you say this!"

In front of Jiang Zao's eyes, there was a pair of furry cat ears swaying with the owner's excitement. The gray fluff emerging from the pink earlobes made people want to reach out and find out if they were really that soft.

Unfortunately, Jiang Zao was holding Kailu in both hands and couldn't touch her with his own hands. But watching the cat ears swaying in front of him without being able to touch them always made him feel itchy as if he was being scratched by a cat.

So he chose another approach and blew gently into the cat's ears.

"call!"

"Ah~" Kailu cried out, then glared at Jiang Zao in shame and anger: "What are you doing?"

"Your ears have been dangling in front of me all the time. I can't touch them with my hands, so I can only blow on them."

Kailu then noticed that she was still lying in Jiang Zao's arms. She jumped up and left as if her butt was pricked by a needle: "Even if you rescued me from the bugs, you can't blow into my ears, let alone touch them!"

Jiang Zao shrugged: "Okay, I'll pay attention to it later."

"I think you're still planning on my ears!"

While Jiang Zao and Kailu were arguing, Kokoro asked Hua Lin: "Um, Ms. Hua Lin, can we repair the house and the surrounding environment ourselves?"

"Of course, the rent is fifty thousand eris a month."

“Here’s this month’s rent.”

"Well, I have received it. I wish you all a peaceful stay."

Kokoro interrupted the quarrel between Jiang Zao and Kailu: "Master, Miss Hua Lin said that we can repair the house ourselves."

Jiang Zao no longer wanted to argue with Kailu about whether he still wanted to touch her ears: "We can discuss this kind of small matter later. Now let's clean up the guild hut."

Does this question need to be confirmed again and again? He definitely wants to touch it. No one can resist the opportunity to rub the furry animal ears.

"Hmph, I'll let you off this time. Pekolim, Huihui, we must clean the cabin thoroughly!" Kael snorted and turned around to find a rag to clean. The jumping tail behind her almost made Jiang Zao reach out to grab it.

"Master..." Kokoro held Jiang Zao's half-raised right hand, and her light pink eyes and the unique childish face of an elf broke into his field of vision: "Let's go buy some furniture."

Jiang Zao bent down to help her straighten the hair ornament that exuded a gentle floral scent on her forehead, then held her little hand in his palm: "Well, let's go."

Just looking at the four pests crawling everywhere in the house, most of the furniture inside might be unusable and must be replaced with new ones. Fortunately, Jiang Zao had foresight and hunted many monsters in the wild with Pekolim and Kokoro, and obtained some materials. When applying to establish a guild, he exchanged them for 200,000 Eris.

Jiang Zao now knows that in order to determine whether a monster has produced materials, he only needs to pay attention to whether there is a conspicuous golden light that appears when he kills it. Although this setting is very much like an online game, it is indeed very convenient to encounter in the real world, saving the steps of dissecting one by one to find materials.

Kokoro picked up the plate with a bird pattern on it: "Master, what do you think of this plate?"

"If you like it, buy it. We don't need to buy a lot of dishes and chopsticks."

"Ah, that's true..." Kokoro remembered that there were a lot of dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen of the capsule house. Buying these plates now would be a purely unnecessary expense, so she put down the plates under the disappointed gaze of the vendor: "Then let's go take a look at the bed."

Holding Kokoro's soft jade-like little hand again, Jiang Zao saw a crepe stall not far away and took her over.

"Manager, please give me five crepes!"

"Okay, sir, what flavors would you like?"

"Kokoro, choose whatever flavor you like." Jiang Zao patted Kokoro's little head and handed her the menu.

"Then, then strawberry cream flavor."

"For the rest, I'd like chocolate banana, chestnut cream, apple cream, and mango cream."

"I understand. Please wait a moment."

The shop owner made the crepes skillfully and it didn't take long for them to be ready and handed them to Jiang Zao: "A total of one thousand eris, brother, you are so lucky to have found an elf girlfriend!"

"Hey, I, um...we are not in that kind of relationship." Kokoro explained in a low voice with a red face, at a loss.

Jiang Zao handed her the strawberry cream crepe: "We are trying to become a family, right?"

"Yes!" Kokoro nodded repeatedly.

"Wow~ Then you have to work harder, young man." The owner gave Jiang Zao an "I understand" look and gave him a thumbs up.

"That's natural."

Jiang Zao paid the money and left with Kokoro.

"The crepes in this shop are quite delicious, Cocoro, do you like them?"

"Mm, the crust is very soft, and the strawberries and cream are delicious. I've only seen crepes in books about the Fairy Forest before, but I didn't expect them to taste like this."

"There's cream on your face." Jiang Zao used his thumb to wipe the cream off her cheek, then put the cream into her mouth: "If you like, I'll make it for you in the guild later."

"Thank you, Master..." Kokoro's ears were tinged with a light pink. She was still getting used to Jiang Zao's intimate behavior.

Chapter 230: Sleeping with the Guide, It Makes Sense

The bed, mattress, quilt cover, sheets and other things all need to be purchased again. Fortunately, Jiang Zao has storage space, otherwise so many items would have to be transported back to the guild hut by hiring someone in a carriage.

After purchasing bedding, it was the turn of kitchen utensils and daily necessities. Jiang Zao and Kokoro went separately, he went to buy kitchen utensils and Kokoro went to buy daily necessities.

When buying kitchen utensils, Jiang Zao saw the white glaze cups and came up with a good idea. After discussing with the store manager, he bought ten cups. Then he borrowed the cup painting tools in the store and painted the Q version images of Kokoro and the others on four of the cups he bought.

Considering that Pekolim and he sometimes have big appetites, Jiang Zao chose the largest-sized kitchen utensils such as casseroles and soup pots, which should avoid the situation where there is not enough food.

Jiang Zao quickly bought the kitchenware and returned to the meeting place. He found that Kokoro had not come yet, so he went in the direction she left. Not long after, he saw her bargaining with the lady selling towels at the stall.

What a wise guide.

Jiang Zao did not go up to interrupt Kokoro, but chose to watch from the side.

"Manager, is it really impossible to have one hundred eris per pair?"

"Little girl, if you buy it with these 100 eris, what else can I earn? Look at the soft material and the bright color. Two hundred eris cannot be less."

"How about this? I buy five and each one costs ninety eris. How about that?"

“Ninety?!” The aunt’s saliva almost sprayed on Kokoro’s face. She waved her hands impatiently, “If I sell it for ninety eris, it’s like I’m doing charity. No, no, since you want to buy five, I’ll give you one hundred and fifty eris.”

"Forget it then." Kokoro put down the towel regretfully and turned to leave.

Seeing that she turned around and left without hesitation, the aunt hurriedly called out to her, "Hey, hey, hey, little girl, don't go. Seeing that you are so young and you are out shopping alone, I will charge you 100 eris per towel, but this is the price for buying five, not one less."

Kokoro turned around and quickly picked up the five towels she had picked out. "Here, five hundred eris."

Kokoro, who had successfully bargained, jumped up and down in joy, and then saw Jiang Zao standing on the side of the road smiling at her: "Master, have you finished buying the kitchenware?"

"Well, I've finished shopping. By the way, I also saw you bargaining. You're really good." Jiang Zao praised Kokoro generously, and stroked her white hair with his big hand: "I'll give you the money for safekeeping from now on."

"Thank you for the compliment. I'd better put the money in the master's storage space." Kokoro squinted her eyes and enjoyed Jiang Zao's pat on the head. Her heart felt as sweet as if she had drunk honey.

"Have you bought everything?"

"Yes."

"Then go back."

"Ah."

When we returned to the guild hut, Huihui and Kailu were sitting on the lawn outside chatting, and Pekorim was chopping trees with her sleeves rolled up.

"We're back, what is Pekolim doing?"

"Welcome back. The dining table in the living room has been rotten after being left there for too long. She is cutting down a tree to make a new one."

"She can actually do carpentry?" Jiang Zao looked at Pekolim in surprise, then took out crepes from the storage space: "This is the crepe I bought outside. Chestnut, apple, and mango. These are the only three flavors left. Pick the one you like."

"Thank you, the house has been cleaned." Kailu pointed at the guild hut that was sparkling from the inside out, holding the crepes, and said, "Put the things you bought in there."

"Oh, Kael, this apple cream crepe is so delicious." Huihui felt that joining the Food Palace was the best decision she had made during this period. Not only could she eat delicious wild boar meat from the deep forest, but she could also eat milk and snacks with strange packaging in the wild, and now she could even eat desserts like crepes.

"It's really good. Don't try to steal Pekolim's portion. This is for her."

"I, I don't have that idea."

"...Just pretend you didn't have it."

Jiang Zao and Kokoro walked into the guild hut and looked around. The entire hall was still empty. Many of the furniture had been cleared out because they were in tatters.

"Instead of decorating the hall, I think we should put the bed in place first."

"Well, the hall can wait until tomorrow to be decorated."

After walking around the house, Jiang Zao found that there were only four rooms in total, two downstairs and two upstairs.

"Kokoro, it looks like you'll have to live in the same bedroom with me."

"I don't feel wronged. Taking care of the master is my duty."

"I'm sorry for talking too much."