Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 266

Chapter 266: Chapter 262: A Cunning Jailbreak?【-01 Update】

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While they were sleeping soundly, a sudden fire broke out in a remote prison. The intense blaze engulfed the prison in darkness, and luckily, it started at midnight.

At that hour, many prisoners were still awake, so when someone screamed "fire," the guards promptly opened the prison gates.

This prison only held ordinary criminals with longer sentences but not vile villains, so the security level wasn’t strict. Additionally, located in a remote area bordered by a primeval forest, many prisoners, being rational, dared not escape using the fire as cover.

Having some sense, they would not attempt to escape in such desolate mountains without anyone to receive them!

Not to say anything, the longest sentence among the prisoners here was just seven years. Oh, but that’s incorrect, a new prisoner who arrived a few days ago was sentenced to fourteen years... and she was an old woman.

At that time, the prison mostly comprised of stone and wood structures, very ancient, and since it didn’t hold very dangerous criminals, the security level wasn’t strict. After the fire, the warden checked the deceased prisoners, the surviving prisoners, the guards, and so on, only to discover that three prisoners were missing!

This startled the warden tremendously as while death might pass, escaping from prison was a serious matter! And if it was a premeditated escape, that would be even more outrageous.

The fire not only caused injuries, but several innocent people also died in it!

Moreover, these prisoners were merely involved in minor offenses, nowhere near committing major crimes!

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First Company had been busy for three days in the county town, almost finishing setting up their new home.

Now, Zhang Shan Ni, caressing her belly, walked on the small streets of the county town with her little aunt, familiarizing themselves with the neighborhood map.

Xie Jingzi’s school was already settled; it was the Number One Middle School. She also took a test paper on the spot and was promptly assigned to a class.

As the school term had already started, Xie Jingzi didn’t have any learning materials here, so she would start school on Monday.

They were out to buy school supplies and also to look for a nearby kindergarten.

According to Zhang Shan Ni’s wishes, it was better for the children to attend school. It would ease the burden on the elders, and the children would have peers to play with and progress together, which constitutes a normal childhood.

Originally, Xie Tiesheng thought that since San’er had just bought a house, they should tighten their belts. The elders being thrifty were reluctant to send the children to school, but Zhang Shan Ni insisted, and eventually, the elders yielded.

In the eyes of the elders, firewood was the proper cooking resource, and only meals cooked with firewood had the authentic aroma of firewood.

Zhang Shan Ni didn’t oppose this; after all, given the environmental situation at that time and the staircase on the first floor that could store firewood, they just needed to pick a well-ventilated spot and build a stove.

In the yard of slightly over sixty square meters, setting up a small kitchen of about ten square meters was feasible. With the leftover space, the elders intended to cultivate a small vegetable garden and move the existing flowers and fruits to the periphery. Thus, although the plants would be denser, it was practical.

Zhang Shan Ni let her in-laws play with their own ideas entirely, anything they wanted was fine as long as it didn’t interfere with outsiders and neighbors didn’t complain.

To modify the layout of the first floor, the elders explicitly asked Zhang Shan Ni not to move in because, according to folklore back in their hometown, it was inauspicious for a pregnant woman to see her own house being excavated.

When Zhang Shan Ni heard this belief, she was completely baffled. In the end, it was Xie Jingchen who summoned a few soldiers after their shift to voluntarily labor for half a day at their new house, helping to divide the storefront on the first floor according to Zhang Shan Ni’s ideas.

The area of one hundred thirty square meters, connecting the staircase on the first floor and one side of the backyard, was intended for their own use. Since they mainly sold food and snacks as cooked food, the space required for the storefront wasn’t large; an opening of about two meters, roughly equal to less than thirty square meters of space, was sufficient.

The adjacent two units, each about forty-eight square meters, were quite regular; the front could be used for business, and the back could be partitioned into living quarters.

Zhang Shan Ni sealed the rear entrance to the backyard from those units. Except for the windowsill where clothing could be hung to dry, only the main entrance could be used for access.

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