Whole School Transmigrated: I Have 3 Daily Intel

Chapter 44: Chapter 42: Contacting the Fishing Club, "We’ve Got It, Bro!

"What kind of crops?" Chen Chong asked.

"Tomatoes."

Chen Chong smiled.

Although tomatoes weren’t as good as sweet potatoes, they were still a rare and valuable crop.

They could be used as both a vegetable and a fruit, making them extremely valuable to cultivate!

Shen Xinrou thought for a moment, then continued, "Peppers, onions, carrots... and there are probably a few others I don’t recognize, so I don’t know if they’re crops or not."

Huh?

Chen Chong was taken aback and blurted out, "Does your family own a vegetable market or something?"

’How could you find all these at school?’

"It’s not like that." Shen Xinrou sounded a little anxious, as if she was genuinely afraid Chen Chong would misunderstand and think her family actually owned a vegetable market.

"When the semester first started, my roommates and I went to decorate our dorm. We went to the flower and bird market and bought some potted plants for the balcony. Besides the usual flowers and plants, we also got a few ornamental vegetable plants."

"The vendor actually recommended them. He said that when vegetables like peppers and tomatoes grew fruit, they would look very pretty, so we bought them."

"I chose a tomato seedling. I took very good care of it, watering and fertilizing it every day. It’s already started to flower and bear fruit, although the fruits are still very small and green."

"But it seems like my other roommates lost interest after the novelty wore off. They don’t pay much attention to the plants anymore. If I didn’t help water them every day, I’m afraid they would have already withered and died..."

"So that’s how it is." Chen Chong understood.

’Girls are just more meticulous than guys. For guys, you’d be lucky to find a top-tier roommate who didn’t just toss their stinky socks all over the room, let alone have the leisure to go buy potted plants together.’

"Were these sweet potatoes also a potted plant you bought?"

Chen Chong was a little curious. He could understand keeping tomatoes and peppers as potted plants, but this thing... ’Surely it wouldn’t have any ornamental value when it grew, right?’

"This one wasn’t." Shen Xinrou shook her head. "I found these in the cafeteria. By the time I got there, everything had been looted, but I found these few sweet potatoes in the corner of a freezer..."

"I see. Your luck is pretty good, then." Chen Chong continued to ask, "What about your roommates?"

"They went to a bar the night of the transmigration. I didn’t go..."

"So that means you’re the only one in your dorm room, and you’re free to do whatever you want with those potted plants?"

"Mhm~"

"So, do you want to trade these things for food?"

Shen Xinrou didn’t speak, but the slight nod of her head was answer enough.

Just as Chen Chong was about to speak, Wang Biao, who had been standing to the side, seemed to have spotted something.

"Sir, Xu Jun and Jia Wen are here."

Chen Chong looked to the side and, sure enough, saw Xu Jun and Jia Wen standing not far away, looking around for him.

"Over here!"

Xu Jun heard Chen Chong’s voice and hurried over, carrying two black bags on his back.

"Brother Chong, I’ve been looking for you for ages! Where’d you run off to?"

"Sorry, Ah Jun. I ran into something good and didn’t get a chance to meet up with you."

"What kind of good stuff?" Xu Jun looked at the ground and froze. "Sweet potatoes?"

Chen Chong clapped Xu Jun on the shoulder, giving him a "You get it, right?" kind of look.

"How much meat did you bring down?"

Xu Jun quickly replied, "Over seventy-five pounds of fresh meat. We brought it all, and it’s really heavy."

Hearing this, Chen Chong’s brow furrowed slightly. This meat was all intended for trading, so it hadn’t been smoked. They had only rubbed some salt on the surface as a simple preservative. At most, it would only last for two or three days before it would definitely spoil.

If he traded it to Shen Xinrou, she definitely wouldn’t be able to process it all. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have offered to trade cured meat with her before.

’If I take her back to get the smoked meat now, then go with her to the women’s dorm building to get the potted plants, it will waste a lot of time.’

’My mission today isn’t just to trade for plantable crops. I also need to trade for other supplies, and maybe even go to the Fishing Club to see if they have any live fish...’

"How about this: you hold on to the sweet potatoes for now. Tonight, bring the potted plants to the faculty apartments and find me. I’ll give you cured meat that can be stored for a long time, and you can give me the sweet potatoes then."

"Besides, how to plant sweet potatoes can’t be explained in just a few words. I can teach you properly then. Is that okay?"

Shen Xinrou nodded. "Okay."

"By the way, will they be easy for you to carry? If not, I can also come find you downstairs at the women’s dorm tonight."

Shen Xinrou quickly shook her head. "It’s fine, they’re easy to carry. The pots are very small, only about the size of my palm. I can manage..."

"Alright." Chen Chong nodded. "In that case, see you tonight?"

As he said this, Chen Chong prepared to leave with Xu Jun. But suddenly, Shen Xinrou stood up and thrust the five sweet potatoes into his hands.

Before Chen Chong could react, she jogged away, leaving the group of men looking bewildered...

"Brother Chong, that girl sure trusts you, huh," Xu Jun said with a laugh.

Chen Chong looked at the few sweet potatoes in his hand and shook his head with a helpless sigh.

"She’s too kind. I almost wish she wouldn’t trust people so easily. At least that way, it would be easier for her to survive..."

...

「An hour later...」

"Brother Chong, that should be about enough. These supplies will probably last us for a long time."

"Yeah, it’s about enough. We’re already down to half the meat we brought."

After nearly two hours of scavenging and trading, Chen Chong and his group had acquired a lot of things.

All sorts of seasonings, medicine, and daily necessities like unopened bars of soap.

Food items like instant noodles, various canned goods, bread, and white sugar.

In addition, there were also outdoor tools like durable hiking backpacks, survival ropes, water canteens, and thermoses.

They even traded for a few fitting sets of clothes for Wang Biao and Jia Wen to have something to change into.

But the item Chen Chong found most valuable was a monocular telescope.

That thing would definitely be immensely useful in their future jungle explorations!

They had traded for so many things that it was a struggle for the four of them to carry it all.

There wasn’t much in the way of seasonings, medicine, soap, or white sugar.

It was mostly food.

Two boxes of instant noodles, two boxes of bread, and around twenty assorted cans of vegetables and meat of various sizes.

It had taken a large amount of fresh meat to trade for all these things.

Once they got it back, they wouldn’t touch it for the time being, storing it as their emergency food reserve.

Chen Chong and the others brought the items back to the apartment, then immediately headed out again with the remaining fresh meat and their weapons, without even stopping to rest...

The Fishing Club was located in the Hobbies Building, next to the main academic building.

This building housed many club rooms and activity rooms for various majors, and since the transmigration, it had become a popular base for many large and small groups.

Originally, Chen Chong had only planned to go with Wang Biao, leaving Xu Jun and Jia Wen to take the supplies back and watch over the smoking meat. But on second thought, he wasn’t familiar with the Fishing Club.

’If a conflict breaks out during the trade, having two extra people would be good insurance.’

The Fishing Club’s location was easy to find. They just had to check floor by floor for the sign with the club’s name engraved on it.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK—

A moment later, the main door opened.

A young man with tanned skin appeared in the partially opened doorway, looking at the four unfamiliar faces in confusion.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Hello, we’d like to trade some food for fish. Do you have any here?" Chen Chong asked politely.

The young man instantly grew excited and quickly pulled the door wide open.

"We do, brother, we do..."

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