After chatting for a while, Shen Yanming said, "Alright, I'll head back now."
"Okay, let's go back. We don't have anything to worry about here." Qin Yiren waved her hand, and Li Wanwan nodded in agreement.
There were too many people here, so it wasn't convenient for Shen Yanming to give the two of them supplies. Just as he was about to leave, the two little ones clung to Shen Yanming's legs, preventing him from moving.
Shen Yanming's eyes darted around, and he held Xiao Pidan and Xiao Dousha, giving Qin Yiren and Li Wanwan a wink.
The two reacted quickly, standing up to block Shen Yanming from view.
Upon seeing this, Shen Yanming quickly took out a few chocolates from his pocket and stuffed them into the cotton-padded jackets of Xiao Pidan and Xiao Dousha.
The two little ones quickly crossed their arms over their chests and looked at Shen Yanming with smiling eyes.
Shen Yanming even mouthed a "shh," and Little Egg and Little Red Bean nodded to indicate that they understood.
"You two be good, don't just play around and skip eating. Uncle's leaving now, I'll come back to see you when I'm done with this."
"Uncle Yanming, you must come to visit us often!" Xiaodousha said with a smile.
“Yes, otherwise I’ll have my mom take me to find you!” Little Egg added.
Shen Yanming nodded, patted the two children's heads, and left.
Back in the cave, after telling Bi Qiaoan what had happened, they quickly took out their food and started eating.
"I've been busy all day and haven't eaten anything. My stomach is killing me with hunger," Shen Yanming complained as he wiped his mouth after finishing his meal.
Bi Qiaoan ignored this question and only asked him, "Are you going to help out later?"
“Help us. Only after Li Zhaozhao’s cave is finished can we work on Heping and Lao Ji’s. They have families to support, and it would take them forever to dig the cave by themselves.”
“Then we’ll go with you,” Bi Qiaoan said.
Shen Yanming refused without hesitation: "There's no need. Their wives don't do any work, and neither does my wife."
Bi Qiaoan: "......" Okay, she was quite touched.
As the two were talking, the ground shook again. Fortunately, the mountain was quite sturdy, and only some mud fell from the walls and roof.
"Thank goodness, otherwise we would have been buried alive if it had collapsed," Bi Qiaoan said with lingering fear, but Shen Yanming looked at her with a complicated expression.
"What's wrong?" Bi Qiaoan asked.
"Now I understand why everyone looked so uncomfortable when I installed this door. This door, although sturdy and discreet, is obviously not as convenient as those cheap, half-hearted doors when it comes to escaping in case of danger."
Bi Qiaoan was stunned for a few seconds, then burst into laughter.
After she finished laughing, she tugged at Shen Yanming's cheek and said, "Our family is different from other families!"
"Hmm, I don't want to think about it too much. As long as I'm comfortable living here, that's fine." Shen Yanming raised his hand and held Bi Qiaoan's hand, gently relieving his distorted face.
After resting for a while, they went out again. Bi Qiaoan, along with An'an and Nuannuan, mixed cement in the cave.
Lacking experience, the mother and her two children were just blindly following the instructions. But with nothing to do, they couldn't just sit idly by and wait for Shen Yanming to come back before getting started.
And so, Bi Qiaoan produced a mixture similar to the one she had seen at the construction site. She took out her tools, put on protective gear, and together with An'an and Nuannuan, began scraping the walls and floors.
As for the roof, it's a bit high, so let's leave it for her husband, Lao Shen.
Shen Yanming returned after it was completely dark.
There's no electricity here, so we can only move around by moonlight. Most people have average eyesight and try to avoid going out at night. Only someone like Old Shen, with his excellent vision, dares to recklessly roam around in the dark.
As soon as he entered, Shen Yanming lowered his voice and said, "I found a secluded place outside to enter the space. It's quite far from here, at Sidao Mountain. We can go there to store supplies in the future."
Bi Qiaoan nodded and asked him, "Are you hungry? Do you want something to eat?"
“A little!” Shen Yanming said, then took out a small, dim desk lamp and lit it. The light dispelled the darkness, and he could see the inside of the cave by its glow. He immediately gasped in shock.
"Didn't you say we'd do these things when I got back? Why did you start doing them yourself?"
"Since I had nothing better to do, I just messed around with it. See if it works. If it doesn't, take advantage of the fact that it's not completely dry and peel it off quickly."
Shen Yanming pressed a dent into the wall, felt it, and nodded: "Not bad, that's fine."
"That's good. I was afraid I might have made things worse." Bi Qiaoan said, taking out a chicken soup that had been simmering all afternoon from her spatial storage. "Drink it quickly. I made it this afternoon when I had some free time."
Just then, Shen Yanming's stomach rumbled, and the aroma of the chicken soup made his mouth water. Without saying a word, he finished it in a few gulps.
Feeling the chill in the cave, he suggested, "Let's go back to the space to sleep tonight." Otherwise, he was afraid his family would get sick.
“Okay, I feel cold too.” After saying that, Bi Qiaoan led her family into the space.
The warm air sent a shiver through the group. The couple took off their dirty cotton-padded coats and went into the bathroom to clean themselves up.
An'an and Nuannuan also wanted to go in and wash, but they couldn't compete with their parents. Their hands were covered in dust, so after thinking for a moment, they ran to the stream and washed their hands and faces with the water.
"This feels so good!" An'an exclaimed as she lay on the grass.
Nuannuan sat down next to him and said with a smile, "Yes, it's completely different here from outside."
The two sat outside for more than half an hour before the couple called them back to the mobile villa.
The two children went in to take a bath one after the other, while Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan harvested the grains that had grown in the space and spread them out on a rainproof cloth to dry.
The fruit in the space had all ripened, and Bi Qiaoan used her consciousness to collect them. Looking at the fruit trees that had become bare again, she said softly, "It's so cold outside, even if I wanted to take the fruit out, I couldn't."
Shen Yanming smiled and ruffled Bi Qiaoan's long, smooth hair: "You can put dried fruit in!"
Bi Qiaoan pouted and complained, "That's too much trouble!" But she still picked the smaller blueberries, figs, strawberries, raspberries, and grapes and put them on a waterproof cloth to dry.
They didn't stop until they had piled up waterproof tarpaulins and enough space to dry the grain. After that, they gathered up the animals from the lake and the grassland.
It was already one or two in the morning when they finished their work. Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan yawned and prepared to go to sleep. But neither of them dared to fall into a deep sleep, leaving a sliver of consciousness outside.
In the middle of the night, a loud bang startled everyone awake. Shen Yanming quickly got up and dressed, as did Bi Qiaoan. Although An'an and Nuannuan were unaware of what had happened outside, the couple still woke them up.
The family of four rubbed their faces, held hands, and stepped out of the space. As soon as they opened the door, they found that everyone had come out of the hole.
"What's wrong? What happened?" many people asked in a panic.
"Maybe some hot air is wafting out again!" someone said, yawning.
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