The next morning, Wang Lun woke up and found the three women still asleep. He got up to wash and then started cooking. First, he boiled water in an iron pot to fill all three bamboo tubes, making it easy to leave in the morning. Then he took out an earthenware pot and boiled water there. He also took out the pheasant he had prepared the day before, chopped it into small pieces, and picked some mushrooms to make a chicken and mushroom stew. After completing these preparations, the water in the iron pot was boiling, so he placed another iron pot on top and continued boiling water. He also took a fish and a handful of wild vegetables to cook a fish and wild vegetable stew, which completed the meal.

While cooking, the three of them got up one after another. They thought Li Ling would be the last to get up, but Liu Ruoxi turned out to be the last. Little did Wang Lun know that Liu Ruoxi hadn't fallen asleep until the early hours of the morning and was still a little sleepy when she got up.

Seeing that Liu Ruoxi had gotten up, Wang Lun asked Liu Ruoling, who was the first to get up, to watch the pot while he went to check on Liu Ruoxi. The check showed that her fever had subsided; all that was left was to let her rest, which was about what Wang Lun had estimated. So Wang Lun said to Liu Ruoxi, "Drink several bowls of chicken soup later. I didn't cook you any rice this morning, just drink some chicken soup." Liu Ruoxi was excited to hear that she could eat other things, after all, she had been eating vegetarian food for a long time, and today she could finally eat meat without restraint.

Wang Lun sent the two who had just gotten up to wash up, then he and Liu Ruoling filled the bamboo tube with water, put the pot on the table, served rice to everyone, and waited for the two to return so they could eat. It's worth mentioning that since only one chicken was cooked, Wang Lun divided the two chicken legs between Li Ling and Liu Ruoxi. Li Ling was favored by Wang Lun, while Liu Ruoxi was unwell. Of course, Liu Ruoling wasn't particularly jealous, since she received both chicken wings. Wang Lun himself put the chicken head in his own bowl.

Li Ling and her companion returned quickly. Seeing that the food had been prepared and Wang Lun and his companion were already seated, waiting for them, they each found a seat and began to eat. The three of them each ate two bowls of chicken stew with mushrooms, leaving the rest for Liu Ruoxi so she could eat more, since the patient needed care.

Wang Lun quickly finished eating and then went to pack up his tools. Li Ling and the other two arrived shortly after, and soon the tools were ready. The three said goodbye to Liu Ruoxi and set off to continue their search for food. Liu Ruoxi was left alone in the camp again, along with many camp affairs to attend to, such as feeding the rabbits and pheasants, planting the plants she had brought back yesterday, tending to the full pond of wild vegetables, and preparing the two ceramic bowls she had made earlier. Thinking about all that still had to do, Liu Ruoxi felt a headache coming on, but she didn't complain. After all, the other three were doing more than she was doing, and at least in the camp, she didn't have to worry about snakes, insects, rodents, or other predators.

Liu Ruoxi tidied up these things. First, she put the pottery in the fire pit to fire, then she planted the plants, then she cut some grass for the pheasants and rabbits, and finally she processed the wild vegetables. If there was still time, she would cut the fruit she brought back yesterday into slices and dry it, since they couldn't finish eating so much fruit in a short time, and they also needed to save some for winter.

Now that she had figured out the arrangements, Liu Ruoxi just needed to follow the plan. First, she went to bring the pottery into the house and put it in the hearth to fire, and then she went to wash the pots and pans.

After leaving the camp and entering the woods, Wang Lun and his two companions split up and searched towards the peach trees, just as they had done the day before, packing up everything edible and usable along the way. They weren't worried about carrying too much; they were worried about having nothing to carry.

It was a sunny day. Liu Ruoxi watered the wild onions she had planted in the open space between the pond and the wall. The sun came out, and Liu Ruoxi put away her entrenching tool, grabbed a knife, and cut some grass next to the camp. She threw it into the shelter and saw that the two pheasants and six rabbits inside had started eating. Liu Ruoxi felt relieved; she had been worried the little creatures wouldn't eat, especially the two pheasants, which were Wang Lun's treasures. He was counting on them laying eggs so they could eat them. Of course, Liu Ruoxi wanted them too, and not only her, but Li Ling and Liu Ruoling did too. They used to think eggs were just so-so, but now they really wanted to eat them.

The other teams also had a pretty good haul yesterday. Wu Jing and her partner spent the whole day outside, collecting the carcasses of more than ten small animals, as well as an injured fawn, which they took home as a reserve food source and kept in their yard.

From morning until afternoon, Qian Xiaoxiao spent her time digging for wild vegetables and collecting firewood around the camp. By evening, her cough seemed to have gotten worse. Fortunately, it would be a month since she arrived on the island in just a few days. According to her records, today was the twenty-eighth day. If she could just hold on for two more days, she would receive a reward of 100,000 yuan. For the next two days, Qian Xiaoxiao didn't plan to go out. She would just stay in the shelter, eating when she woke up and sleeping again after eating.

When Hao Yun and his companion returned from the woods, they found a deer carcass at the entrance. Although some parts had been eaten, there was still plenty of edible meat left. They quickly put the collected food into the cave, then carried the deer out and to the water source. After processing it, they discarded the bitten parts and all the internal organs, keeping only the meat and skin. They even kept the bones with some meat attached, abandoning everything else. Only after finishing did their rumbling stomachs bring them back to reality. They took the deer meat back to cook rice and some wild vegetables, and that was it.

Tang Shengli and Zheng Yun spent the whole day running through the mountains, and their harvest was quite good. They filled their shelter to the brim with food, mostly wild vegetables and some meat, except for a resting place. Seeing so much food, Tang Shengli and Zheng Yun discussed it and decided to focus on building the wooden house starting tomorrow. They would think about other things after the wooden house was completed.

In the woods, Wang Lun and his two companions reached the peach tree. Since a day had passed and the animals they encountered had already gnawed on the fruit, they hadn't picked any, only gathering some wild vegetables and mushrooms. When they reached the peach tree, their baskets were only about half full. Without resting, Wang Lun quickly climbed the tree to pick peaches, while Li Ling caught them below and put them in their baskets. As for Liu Ruoling, she didn't have much to do there, so she told Wang Lun to wander around the area and see if she could find anything. Wang Lun told her not to go too far, and Liu Ruoling said she understood. So, armed with a knife and a wooden spear, they began searching the surrounding area.