After Li Jia finished speaking, she picked up a small black woven bag next to her, and then quickly assembled a dozen stainless steel pipes into a support frame in front of everyone. Then she walked to the riverbank, found some stones, and fixed the support frame in place. "Let's help each other out, Xiao Yan, bring me that plastic bag under your feet."

Upon hearing this, Li Yan picked up a plastic bag about the size of a laundry detergent from where he was standing, and walked a few steps to Li Feng. "Is this barbecue shreds?"

“That’s right!” Li Jia said, unfolding the folded strips from the plastic bag, flattening them, and hanging them on the barbecue grill. She used the protruding sections of the strips to secure them to the grill. “Almost there!” She then went to the campsite and found a piece of dark sheet metal. She unfolded it into a U-shape, put the sheet metal over the grill, and then went into the woods to find four tree branches about the thickness of an arm. She adjusted them with a camping survival knife she had brought and used them to support the metal. Thus, a makeshift outdoor barbecue grill was completed.

"Alright! Done!" Li Jia reinforced the barbecue grill, checked it to make sure there were no problems, clapped her hands, and shouted.

"Big brother, you...you're amazing!" Li Xiaotong exclaimed first, followed by Li Xiaoqing, who looked at her older brother with admiration and felt incredibly proud. "Brother Li, you're not one of those special forces deserters in the movies, are you?" Zhou Xiaoyu scrutinized Li Jia from head to toe. For almost an hour now, Li Jia had been doing all the work by himself, and no one else had been able to help much.

Meng Yao watched as Li Jia smoothly and skillfully set up the campsite, and then quickly built a simple barbecue grill with a bunch of ordinary things. Although it didn't look very good, it had a unique flavor and was full of original natural atmosphere.

"Deserter? That's quite possible." Meng Yao linked together two seemingly unrelated terms: a refined-looking deserter from the special forces.

"Alright, Xiaoyan, you're a man, so I'll leave the rest to you. Go find some fist-sized pebbles, wash them clean, let them dry, and put them in the metal trough on the barbecue grill. Any questions?" Li Jia asked Li Yan, pointing to the metal trough on the barbecue grill.

"Leave it to me!" Li Yan said, looking at the size of the trough. He walked to the stream, took off his shoes, rolled up his trousers, and went into the river to look for suitable pebbles.

"Ladies, let's get started! Take out all the seasonings and fresh beef, chicken, and fish from the car. We're about to start our outdoor barbecue. Today, I'll show you my cooking skills. Let's begin!" Li Jia clapped her hands and loudly encouraged the crowd that she had already attracted.

In an instant, Zhou Xiaoyu, Li Xiaoqing, Li Xiaotong, and Meng Yao all sprang into action. Li Xiaoqing took out a large piece of plastic and laid it on the flat grass. Then, Li Xiaotong, Zhou Xiaoyu, and Meng Yao filled the plastic with the abundant snacks they had brought from the car, such as sausages, bread, mineral water, pickled vegetables, potato chips, and so on.

"Xiaoyu, go help Xiaoyan and speed things up!" Li Jia saw Li Yan alone in the stream and inexplicably thought of his personality. "Let's start today and let him slowly learn to communicate with outsiders."

"Alright, Li Yan, I'm here to help you!" Zhou Xiaoyu said crisply, then skipped and hopped to the riverbank, took off her sneakers, rolled up the cuffs of her sweatpants to reveal a section of her fair calves, and walked barefoot into the river.