With firelight, Xiao Ze continued to collect firewood outside, while Xiao Yu gathered a large basin of water from the crevices of the rocks, which looked relatively clear, and stealthily poured it into a tile jar on the side, reserving it for domestic use. Then, when Xiao Ze wasn’t paying attention, she poured water from the space into the stone pot, ready to boil porridge.
Among the wild vegetables they had picked up on the road were dandelions, so she boiled rice porridge with dandelions that evening. Right at the end, she crushed some Western medicine and sprinkled it into Xiao Ze’s bowl, stirring it until it was indistinguishable.
Xiao Ze thought it tasted a bit bitter when eating, and she lied to him, saying it contained herbal medicine and that he would be fine after drinking it.
Xiao Ze had no suspicions and drank it. Xiao Yu herself had already taken medicine earlier, so she drank the thin porridge greedily, gurgling it down. Maybe it was psychological, but the porridge seemed sweeter than the water they had been drinking from their canteens!
That night, they found the safest corner in the cave and lit two fires around it. Xiao Ze took the first half of the night, and Xiao Yu took the latter half because it was an unfamiliar place and potentially unsafe, so the siblings took turns keeping watch. The reason Xiao Yu let Xiao Ze take the first shift was that it was difficult to wake up in the latter half of the night; she wanted her brother to get a good night’s sleep starting from then.
The sea breeze blew fiercely, and it was tough to fall asleep in this strange place. But due to extreme fatigue, she, who thought she wouldn’t be able to sleep, soon fell into a deep slumber.
In the middle of the night, she woke up on her own and found Xiao Ze dozed off to the side, exhausted from keeping watch. She gently covered him and entered the space with her Spiritual Sense.
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Xiao Yu was somewhat excited and, following the method taught by the Spiritual Field, silently thought: "Enter."
Sure enough, in the next second, she arrived at the farm that had appeared on the screen earlier. Everything here, every blade of grass, was as picturesque as in an animated film.
She walked around the farm and pulled out the ripe radishes, shoveled the ground flat, and then bought 15 cabbage seeds to plant.
Since they were all Level 1 crops, the prices were identical, all 100 coins each.
The harvested carrots, along with their shiny green tops, were extremely enticing. The carrots were longer and thicker than the unpolluted, clean carrots of later generations; one carrot was enough for a meal for the siblings.
Calculating the time, she left one radish behind and stored the remaining 14 in the warehouse, saving them up. She decided not to sell them yet, thinking it was better to wait until she ran out of money, as there were still some funds left.
She had placed a tile jar underneath the rock crevices, and now the jar was full, suggesting that the springs on the island were richer than she had anticipated.
Could this mean that there might be groundwater as well?
On the way here, she also saw plenty of clay. If she collected the clay and piled it up with some stones, they could make adobe bricks, and thus this cave could have walls and even doors and windows!
Standing inside the cave and looking out, the cave was shaped like a ">", narrowing as it went deeper, the height decreasing, until the rocks inside were completely connected, leaving no gaps.
So, to get a decent-looking dwelling ready before winter arrived, the first step was to build a perimeter wall. Even if they could only build it one meter high, it would be much better than the bare situation now; at least a little over one meter high would provide some shelter from wind and rain.
After all, surviving in a place "surrounded by sea," there could be trouble even with the sturdiest of houses when a strong storm hit.