Su Keke hasn't gone out for several days except for going to Lu Mei's house for dinner with Grandma Qiao in the evening.
During the day, when she and Grandma Qiao went into the space pond to feed the fish, she found that the fog outside the capsule house had dissipated a little.
This time, she and Grandma Qiao walked a long way in the forest with the dumplings. The midday sun shone through the shade of the trees, emitting golden light.
The two people and the cat walked slowly through the green cedars, with dense branches and leaves and clear textures on the trunks. When passing a path, Tangyuan found a little squirrel running with pine nuts in its hands.
It has big black eyes, gray fur, and two short and sturdy little ears standing on its furry head, which looks very cute.
“Meow… meow meow meow…”
Tangyuan mistook it for one of its own kind and chased after it with cheers.
"Tangyuan...don't run around..."
Su Keke and Grandma Qiao were both shocked. They had never explored this primeval forest in the space before. If a ferocious beast ran out from there, Tangyuan would be in great danger.
Thinking of this, Grandma Qiao panicked. She chased Tangyuan all the way, and her feet were scratched by the weeds in the forest without feeling anything.
Su Keke discovered that along the way, there were many plants and trees that she was completely unfamiliar with. They looked ancient and mysterious, as if they had a history of thousands of years.
Fortunately, Tangyuan stopped after running for a while. It followed the squirrel to a stream. Su Keke and Grandma Qiao also breathed a sigh of relief.
The stream was gurgling and clear, and Su Keke used her hands to pry open a large rock, which made a few splashes and scared away a small fish that was resting below.
Looking upward along the direction of the stream, I saw a long waterfall pouring down from the mountains not far away.
A few little squirrels were jumping around on a big tree, turning the pine nuts in their hands around and playing by themselves.
Tang Yuan followed them to the bottom of the tree, meowing to try to get close to them. Seeing that the squirrels ignored him, he stood up again, scratching around under the tree with his little claws, trying to climb up.
"Ah..." Grandma Qiao sighed when she saw it, "The cat is really grown up and it's out of my control!"
Su Keke saw that Grandma Qiao looked lost, just like an old mother who had raised a child with great difficulty, and then the child suddenly had a girlfriend.
I felt angry and amused at the same time.
"Tangyuan, let's go! Come and play with them next time."
Su Keke picked up Tangyuan and planned to go back to the capsule house with Grandma Qiao.
This primeval forest gave Su Keke a feeling of mystery and danger. Facing such an unknown situation, Su Keke did not dare to move forward rashly.
“Meow… meow…”
Tangyuan was held in Su Keke's arms, with its big head still looking back. It looked reluctant to leave until the squirrels were getting farther and farther away.
After returning to the capsule house, Su Keke went to the basement and got out the medicine box.
There were two scratches on Grandma Qiao's ankles, which were caused by the weeds in the woods when she was chasing Tangyuan just now.
"There's no need to treat this small scratch. If you take the medical kit a little slower, it will probably heal on its own."
Grandma Qiao was joking with Su Keke, not taking the scratch on her foot seriously at all.
She picked up Tangyuan who was squatting at her feet and patted its big head. "Tangyuan, don't run around like this in the future. There are big tigers in the forest who come specifically to eat cute little cats like you."
Tangyuan also realized that he had been disobedient and had hurt Grandma Qiao, so he squatted at Grandma Qiao's feet with his head down.
Grandma Qiao actually used a big tiger to scare Tangyuan. Su Keke couldn't help laughing, holding her stomach.
"What are you laughing at, little girl! Am I wrong? Aren't there big tigers in the forest?"
Grandma Qiao said in a deliberately unpleasant tone.
She moved her scratched foot to the other side, saying that it was a minor injury and there was no need to waste the ointment.
Su Keke imitated Grandma Qiao and retorted unhappily, "It's not like we don't have the conditions. What's wrong with this minor injury? What if it gets infected? Do you still want to keep your foot?"
Su Keke deliberately exaggerated the consequences, and Grandma Qiao even suspected that she had been seriously injured.
In the space, they helped Grandma Qiao clean the wound, disinfect it, and finally apply ointment and wrap it with gauze. Only after everything was done did the two of them and the cat come out of the space.
In the afternoon, Su Keke and Grandma Qiao went to 2004 to start planting vegetables again.
The temperature has risen a little bit in the past few days, but the temperature outside is still very cold.
It should be fine to grow some cold-hardy potatoes and radishes indoors.
Su Keke and Grandma Qiao took some seeds and water and started a new round of planting in the two rooms in 2004.
Lu Mei and Shi Huan are usually responsible for growing hydroponic bean sprouts and raising the 10 chickens.
Now these 10 chickens have been raised by them to be fatter and fatter, and they lay eggs every day. The daily improvement of the meals on the 20th floor depends on these eggs.
The chickens only need to be fed twice a day, morning and evening, which consists of vegetable leaves grown by themselves and low-quality rice soaked in flood water.
Although the food they were fed was not very good, these 10 chickens really worked hard and laid big, smooth eggs all day long.
Shi Huan protected them like treasures, fearing that someone would be so tactless as to take advantage of the chickens.
Su Keke remembered one time, Meng Yi and Chen Li were looking at the chickens, wondering whether braised or stewed chickens would be better, and then they were driven out of 2004 by Shi Huan with a mop.
Since 2004, four big words "No Men Allowed" have been posted at the door.
During dinner, Meng Yi and Chen Li brought some good news, saying that if it didn't snow in the next few days, the Municipal Office planned to hold a market on Fangquan Pedestrian Street.
Those who have excess supplies or other unused items at home can take them to the market to exchange with others, similar to barter in ancient times.
The government will also have stalls, and anyone who has something can go and trade with the government.
As Su Keke expected, the markets, transactions for supplies or points, and other official emergency measures for the successive natural disasters were all implemented earlier than in the previous life.
The market in the previous life seemed to be at the end of the extreme cold, when the temperature seemed to be slowly returning to normal and the extreme heat was about to begin.
Neither he nor Grandma Qiao had anything good to exchange with others.
The government collects the wild vegetables we dig. Ten kilograms of wild vegetables can only be exchanged for one kilogram of rice, and that is the kind that has been soaked in water.
Even for this kind of inferior rice, there are still many people queuing up to exchange it. If you hesitate for a moment, your opportunity will be snatched away by others.
Su Keke still remembers that it was during that time that many big cockroaches appeared everywhere, whether in high-rise buildings, low-rise houses, or even in the streets and alleys.
This is different from the short-term insect plague caused by previous flood backflow.
There are so many cockroaches in the whole city that it is impossible to kill them all.
People who have little food to eat just fry cockroaches and eat them themselves.
The people on the 20th floor were also shocked, but Su Keke really couldn't eat it, so she could only take it to the market to exchange for some wild vegetables.
In the previous life, Su Keke and Grandma Qiao basically survived for a long time by eating wild vegetables.
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