The group had a meal together the day before, so they didn't eat or drink much at noon today, since they had to go back to work in the afternoon. They just had a simple meal of stir-fried shredded potatoes, stewed cabbage with vermicelli, and winter melon soup.
It was simple, but it was still much better than the cornbread that the other survivors had.
After dinner, everyone got busy according to their assigned tasks. Two of the four men dug the foundation, and the other two carried the excavated soil to one side.
The land had already been cleared when they arrived, so it saved them a lot of work; they could finish digging the foundation in about an afternoon.
Grandma Wu continued watching Youyou, while Xu Lin and Li Jingjing did the initial processing of the wood. The group worked enthusiastically.
Dr. Dai's clinic has already opened. She's been too busy to come and help lately, but she promised to save dinner for her to cook. She can manage to leave work early.
The base gathered a few teachers and started a school, so Dr. Dai simply let Xiang Qing and Hao Hao go to school.
Nowadays, schools teach survival skills, but in a post-apocalyptic world, learning flashy but impractical things is useless.
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, Dr. Dai arrived, carrying groceries.
"You even brought your own groceries to cook for us!" Li Jingjing thought Dr. Dai was being too polite.
"The three of us who haven't done any work are coming over to freeload a meal later, so we'll have to bring our own food," Dr. Dai said with a smile.
As Xu Lin listened with a smile to everyone chatting while they worked, she felt that this was the meaning of life: having food, drink, and shelter, and having a group of teammates who could fight side by side and help each other.
Apart from Zheng Ming, the others were all skilled builders, so their rooms were completed in three days, and Zheng Ming moved in smoothly.
All materials are all natural, so there's no need to worry about formaldehyde or anything like that. And the fact that they can survive shows their excellent physical condition; they don't care about the small amount of toxins emitted by building materials.
With accommodation sorted out, there was no rush for anything else. The project was successfully completed on the tenth day, and then everyone could go about their own business.
Xu Lin cultivated a vegetable garden in the yard, planting tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, peppers, green beans, and so on.
Zhou Pin built chicken coops, rabbit hutches, pigsties, sheep pens, and other livestock behind the house. The animals inside were all brought back from hunting in the mountains. The others were used to it and just said they wanted to trade with them.
Xu Lin was naturally happy to accept it, since her personal space would have been overrun with unwanted content long ago if it weren't for the separation of male and female users.
As Dr. Dai's small clinic grew, it took up the space where she and her two children lived. She consulted with Xu Lin and Sun Wei and built a house at their campsite. She went to work at the clinic during the day and rested at the campsite with her two children at night.
Then there's Shuke and Beta, who spend their days patrolling the camp and going out to the mountains, becoming a wild child with a bit of a sense of responsibility, and you never see the dog again.
Sun Wei and Li Jingjing also replicated Xu Lin's model to develop planting and breeding industries, and their beekeeping business also started with Xu Lin's support.
When Minister Sun built the house for the doctor, he also built his own house and moved out from Sun Wei's place. Now he spends his days tending to his vegetable garden to make a living, or hunting in the mountains with his two dogs. He is living a very happy life.
Besides farming, growing vegetables, and hunting like everyone else, Zheng Ming also takes care of Youyou every day. Now, Zheng Ming is a qualified stay-at-home dad.
The families would arrange a get-together every month, taking turns hosting. The others would also bring some of their own homegrown vegetables and fruits to add to the meal. Among them, the things Xu Lin brought were the most popular, as they were things that no one else had.
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