After Shiyue started sending homemade lemon mint water to the soldiers, Liang Yueming and Cui Yun soon joined in.

Shiyue and the others then learned that Cui Yun was now also involved in military industry, but her job was to help out in the army's cooking squad, doing odd jobs there.

It makes sense, considering that the number of soldiers on the island far exceeds the number of experts who are about to arrive.

The work of the cooks is very demanding.

After the adults got busy, the three children went wild with fun.

Basically, they eat as soon as they open their eyes, and once they're full, they run out to run around and have fun.

Unlike later times, there was no intense competition, and children had to learn a lot of things very quickly.

Many schools are currently closed.

Not to mention that there were no books to read on the island.

Jiajia has her father watching over her to help her learn to read in the evenings, while Huzi and Erniu are basically raised in a free-range manner.

Now that they're in a new environment, there are so many things that attract them, so they're rarely home, and you can't see them at all until mealtime.

Neither family really took it too seriously.

Whale Island is only so big, and everyone who can come to the island has undergone strict screening, so there's no way there could be any bad people.

The engineers had been on the island for a year before they arrived.

Even if there were any dangerous wild animals, they had already been cleared away.

As long as you don't run to the rocky beach or the sea, there's no danger.

The adults are actually quite at ease letting their children run around outside.

Who knew that such a tiny oversight would almost lead to disaster!

That day, the sky was clear and blue in the morning, but no one expected that a sudden downpour would start in the middle of the morning.

When the rainstorm hit, Shiyue and her sister-in-law Liang Yueming were sitting inside making dumplings.

Today, the mess hall delivered a lot of fresh scallops, so the two of them thought of changing the flavor and pairing them with chives and the fried pork cracklings from the last supply ship to make dumplings with a three-ingredient filling for everyone.

The two were busy rolling out dough and wrapping dumplings when the rain started.

Shiyue looked out the window and asked, "Sister-in-law, where's Jiajia?"

Without looking up, Liang Yueming said, "She's at Sister Cui's house. She didn't even eat breakfast properly this morning; she just grabbed a steamed bun and ran off. Sigh, that little girl is really having a blast these days; she's never home. She practically wants to stay at someone else's house and never come back!"

Shiyue laughed as she listened: "It's alright, we'll come back when we smell the dumplings once they're cooked."

She glanced at the torrential rain outside and sighed, "I wonder if the road repairmen have gone back yet? They'll definitely get sick if they get soaked in this rain for half a day."

Liang Yueming glanced at the ginger drying on the kitchen window and said, "I'll boil some ginger water later and have your brother and the others deliver it to the camp this afternoon."

"Yes, I still have some perilla leaves that I picked earlier. I'll go get them when the rain stops and cook them with ginger."

As the two were talking, Cui Yun started knocking loudly on the door.

She shouted from outside, "Tiger! Niu Niu, come home!"

Hearing her shout, the two sisters-in-law were both stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly stood up together.

Liang Yueming ran fast and quickly ran to open the door, saying, "Sister-in-law, Hu Zi and Niu Niu aren't at my house? Didn't Jia Jia say they were going to your house to play today? They left early this morning!"

Cui Yun was clearly taken aback when she heard her say that.

Cui Yun said, "I wasn't home this morning; I went to help out in the kitchen."

She held up the lunchbox she was carrying and said, "I didn't cook today. I got some food from the cafeteria and told them to go back and eat!"

Shiyue followed along this time, and upon hearing this, she quickly said, "Sister-in-law, you haven't gone home yet, have you? I bet those three are at your house right now. Why don't you go back and check on them?"

Cui Yun readily agreed.

With Cui Yun making this trip, Liang Yueming couldn't sit still any longer.

She said to Shiyue, "You keep wrapping these yourself. I'll go to my sister-in-law's house and call Jiajia back. She's getting more and more troublesome as she gets older; she doesn't even know to come home when it's raining!"

As she spoke, she grabbed an umbrella from the corner of the wall and followed them out.

Shiyue returned to the table to make dumplings.

But a growing unease crept into my heart, and my heart suddenly jumped into my throat.

She waited at home for quite a while, thinking that if her sister-in-law had gone to call Jiajia, she would have made several trips back and forth by now.

Why haven’t you come back yet?

She couldn't sit still any longer, so she went over, opened the door, and peered across the rain.

Then she saw her sister-in-law and Sister Cui running over anxiously.

Upon seeing her, Liang Yueming shouted loudly before even getting close, "Shiyue, none of the three of them are home! I don't know where they've gone!"

One sentence made Shiyue's heart skip a beat.

She subconsciously looked up at the sky.

At this time, the island of Whale was shrouded in dark clouds, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier.

The rain wasn't raindrops at all; it was all connected in a continuous mass.

The sky was so overcast it looked like night was almost here.

In this kind of weather, where could three children possibly run off to?

Clearly, Liang Yueming was thinking the same thing as Shiyue at this moment.

Besides, Jiajia is her daughter, so she's even more nervous than Shiyue!

Her tears flowed instantly, and she sounded extremely panicked.

She said helplessly, "They wouldn't have gone to the rocky beach, would they?"

These words made Shi Yue and Cui Yun's hearts tighten at the same time!

That rocky beach is located near the current camp of the Sixth Iron Battalion.

It was a very steep cliff.

There is a path leading down the cliff, which leads to a rocky beach.

The rocky beach was difficult to walk on; many of the rocks were covered with moss, making it wet and slippery.

Moreover, there are many broken seashells in the middle, which can easily cut your feet if you are not careful.

But there are many small crabs over there; you could catch a hermit crab by simply picking up a rock.

It was very appealing to the three children.

Their families usually don't allow them to go there, mainly because the island's health clinic hasn't been established yet, and there's only one medic in the camp, and the medicines aren't complete.

The adults were afraid they would fall and get hurt, or catch a disease and get into trouble.

But isn't that how kids are?

The more adults forbid them from doing something, the more attractive it becomes to them.

As soon as Liang Yueming said this, the three of them almost simultaneously felt that this possibility was extremely high!

"I'll go find it!"

The He family father and sons, who were busy inside the house, also came out when they heard the commotion.

He Liping was the first to get restless; he grabbed an umbrella and ran outside.

He Lixuan and He Lixue quickly followed.

Shiyue thought for a moment and said, "Don't all go to the rocky beach. Let's split up and search. What if they've gone up the mountain?"

After saying that, she herself became nervous.

Going up the mountain in this weather is more terrifying than going to the rocky beach!

The mountain road is narrow and the trees are dense. With such heavy rain, who knows if there will be any landslides...

Just thinking about it is chilling.

Shiyue couldn't stay any longer either.

She rushed out after him, saying, "I'll go too! Let's split up and search. I know the mountain well, I'll go up!"