They were now living a comfortable life on the island, ancient pedantry and feudal superstition distressed Xiaoyu deeply, so if possible, she would prefer to live on this island for the rest of her life, but now it seed that the tranquility was about to be disrupted by a man nad Yan Qing.
Yan Qing appeared to be a tall man, and if it were not for his illness that made him so frail, his gaze and deanor would suggest that he was not an ordinary citizen like them. She had noticed the way he ate; despite hunger and thirst, he never wolfed down his food, but instead chewed slowly and delicately, more so than her.
This indicated that he ca from a well-off family, at the very least one that had subjected him to strict etiquette training.
In comparison, she and her brother were just countryfolk, simple and unrefined. A man like this, now stranded here, would not stay for long. What she had to do was take good care of him without giving herself away, hoping to use his help in the future to secure a good future for her brother.
Shen Ze was very intelligent; it was just his unfortunate family background that prevented him from being literate like others. Although Shen Xiaoyu could read, she only had a limited understanding of ancient traditional characters and could only teach Shen Ze the basics, which wasn’t much help. Now with Yan Qing’s arrival, she saw a good opportunity.
Indeed, Yan Qing did not plan to stay here forever. He felt he still had much to do, so he was very keen on taking the dicine Xiaoyu provided.
After finishing the prescribed ten doses, his illness had greatly improved. The symptoms in his lungs were less severe, his breathing had beco much smoother, and his strength was returning. His appetite and fluid intake had also gradually increased, though he would not be back to his forr healthy self anyti soon.
The siblings had clearly divided responsibilities; after completing the stone steps, care of Yan Qing was left to Shen Ze. Now the three of them had taken the dicine—one for treatnt, two as a precaution. Besides chopping wood and doing laundry, Shen Ze’s primary responsibility was taking care of the chickens and helping Yan Qing bathe, as a way for Xiaoyu to carve out a future for her brother.
When the two n were at ho, everything was convenient, so she took the initiative to go out to the sea, casting fish baskets.
She would harvest seaweed from the rocky cliffs, along with kelp and various types of shellfish, bringing them ho to cook and dry. These made for excellent dried goods, and they could enjoy delicious als even when the weather was bad.
Indeed, the marine resources of the ancient seas were so abundant that it was overwhelming—clams, scallops, sea snails, spicy snails, swimming crabs, and sea shrimp. At low tide, they found plenty, catching sea fish, eels, octopuses, and even occasionally catching large octopuses in the baskets; one octopus was enough for the siblings to eat for two days, and even with an extra person, they still enjoyed endless blessings every day.
Two months ago, she had spent all her savings on wheat seeds. Two months later the wheat was ready to harvest, and although Yan Qing couldn’t tell different grains apart, he was still surprised to see grain harvested in what wasn’t wheat season, as Xiaoyu cut it down and took it to the beach to dry.
Over these two months, Xiaoyu had been farming vegetables and cereals daily in "space", and she had now leveled up to "five plots of land", earning money to purchase rice seeds.
Liang Tian had said that growing rice was like growing wheat; it would mature without her watering, but the yield would be better if she did water. Thus, following the instructions of the "space", Xiaoyu converted the wheat fields into neat mud squares and planted the rice seedlings bought from "space" in the muddy water. Now, the money she had painstakingly saved was gone again.
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