Lin Man carried his mother on his back and brought the three members of the Wu family to the valley. When they saw the puddle and the wild vegetable field, they felt like they had arrived in heaven, and Grandma Wu even cried with joy.
They began to busily prepare the meal.
Those who pick wild vegetables pick wild vegetables, and those who collect firewood collect firewood.
Lin Manlai no longer has to filter the water used for drinking and daily life.
After much persuasion, Lin Man finally convinced the picky little chicken to agree to pump water into the space without filtering it. So now as long as Lin Man puts his hand into the water, he can pump water out quietly. This is not difficult. As long as he doesn't do it too obviously, others won't notice.
In fact, the little guy was still hesitant. The dirtier the soil and water, and the worse the quality, the more spiritual energy would be consumed to cleanse and nourish them. But Lin Man told it that the more abundant the water, the faster the crops would grow and the more spiritual energy would be produced.
So the little chick did some calculations with a sad face, and felt that it was worth it in the end. It had tasted the sweetness of new spiritual energy, and finally it ruthlessly suppressed its cleanliness and perfectionism and gave in.
Even the humus soil that Lin Man had just dug, as long as it was not too dirty or had a strong smell, they were willing to let Lin Man put it directly into the space.
Lin Man almost wanted to kiss it, it really saved her the trouble.
She found an excuse to leave the valley and enter the space. She dug from under the sweet potato and corn seedlings that had grown a little taller, and then put the fertile soil underneath, hoping that it would have some effect as topdressing.
Those wild vegetables grew up obviously in just three hours after being planted, which is equivalent to more than a day in the outside world. They grew much faster than sweet potato seedlings and corn seedlings, and each plant was very plump and much better than those outside.
Looking at the chicks enjoying themselves in the vegetable garden, Lin Man said with a smile, "Guan Guan, I haven't received my three gifts for today yet."
"Oh, what do you want?" Guan Guan opened his dark eyes.
"Of course it's food." She couldn't take anything else out, but thinking about being with the three Wu family members, she could eat secretly in the space or outside, but it was obviously not convenient for Mother Lin to cook for herself. "Is there anything small and powerful that can be put in your pocket and then secretly eaten in small amounts?"
Guan Guan thought about it, ran to the wooden house, and quickly dragged out a big iron box of candy. After opening it, it was mysterious and refused to show Lin Man what was inside, and took out a few chocolates wrapped in candy wrappers.
Lin Man had never eaten anything like this before, and the packaging was in English: "What is this? Is it delicious?"
"Chocolate. It's high in energy."
Lin Man opened her eyes wide: "Is this chocolate?" She had heard people say that it was easy to carry and had a very high calorie content. A small piece was equivalent to several large bites of biscuits. Most importantly, it was fragrant and delicious. Talking about it filled her with nostalgia. She had never expected the packaging to look like this, so black.
It seems like I want to try it.
"Is this piece considered one thing?"
"Um."
“…” This is a bit uneconomical. She can get two very heavy multi-grain cakes for the same thing.
"Multi-grain cakes can be made by simply extracting wheat and grinding it into flour. The chocolate will be gone once you eat it." Guan Guan's explanation was also very reasonable.
"Okay, what else?"
Guan Guan then took out condensed milk candy, glucose tablets, beef granules... They were all good things, but each granule counted as one thing.
Then this one pill is not enough!
If he could be given a handful, Lin Man would definitely take it and put it in his mother's pocket, so that she could eat one when no one was looking, and it could also be used as a snack.
Guan Guan felt that Lin Man was being too slow. After a moment's thought, he ran to get a small white bottle. Lin Man took it and looked at it: "D3... calcium carbonate? Calcium tablets? A calcium supplement!"
Her voice suddenly rose. Calcium supplements are good things. When she was little, her mother always found ways to make her some bone soup, saying it's good for growth. Old people who are prone to fractures are calcium deficient, and so are those who suffer from cramps.
My mother often suffers from cramps, she must be severely deficient in calcium.
"If you have any other good stuff, take them out!" Lin Man urged hurriedly.
Guan Guan frowned, thinking that his partner was really nagging, and ran to drag out a large first aid kit.
There were many medicines in it. Lin Man read the instructions one by one with great enthusiasm, hoping to find some panacea. In the end, the only medicines that seemed suitable for Lin's mother were various vitamin tablets, cod liver oil, etc.
There's only one bottle of each.
What should my mother eat in that situation? Lin Man was a little distressed, but finally chose the calcium tablets that he couldn't go wrong with: "I want this one. Does one bottle count as the same?"
“It’s all the same.”
Lin Man: “…” This profiteer.
"Are you sure it's not expired?" The production date was eighteen years ago, even a year before the end of the world.
"Don't worry, after I collect these things, they won't change at all and won't expire."
Lin Man asked for a calcium tablet. There were still two spots left. She touched her hungry stomach and still asked for a bowl of pancakes. There were two pieces in a bowl. She only took a bite of one and almost choked herself to death.
Guan Guan tempted her by taking out a bottle of mineral water. Lin Man was not tempted and ran out of the space and returned to the valley. Grandma Wu had just boiled one or two pots of water and was pouring them into the kettles. She filled Lin Man's iron kettle first. She blocked a lid of water on the side, blew it slightly to cool it down, and drank it, sighing calmly.
Mother Lin reached out and touched the sweat on her forehead: "Are you exhausted?"
This is the sweat from eating alone.
Lin Man felt ashamed and whispered, "Mom, do you want to go to the bathroom? I'll carry you there."
Mother Lin has difficulty walking, so she tries to drink less water. When she needs to drink water, she tries to hold it in until she really can't hold it anymore.
It was okay before because we had a toilet at home, but now we don’t have one. I’ve been in the cave these two days, and luckily Grandma Wu helped me, but it’s still very embarrassing.
Mother Lin smiled and was about to refuse, but Lin Man winked at her and she stopped talking.
Lin Man carried Mother Lin on his back and went out of the valley. Grandma Wu knew where they were going and told her grandchildren to stay in the valley and not go out.
Lin Man found a place to put Lin's mother down: "Hey, you look like a thief." She took out the calcium tablets as if presenting a treasure, "Mom, this calcium tablet, eat it quickly."
Mother Lin was stunned for a moment: "Eat it, eat it."
"I'm in good health now and don't need this." She wanted to say that she had special abilities, but she didn't even know what her abilities looked like. It was too early to say it now, so she held back.
But she explained the situation of the planting in the space. When she heard that the crops could grow so fast and that all the harvest would belong to her daughter, Mother Lin was even happier than Lin Man. Lin Man took the opportunity to persuade her again and finally convinced Mother Lin to eat the calcium tablets. They were chewable and had a crispy bite.
Lin Man was very satisfied after hearing this and thought to himself, why not not change the food tomorrow and just eat wild vegetables. He replaced all three things with medicine, calcium tablets and vitamin tablets, and gave them to his mother in turn to nourish her well.
Lin Man took out the remaining multi-grain pancake and shared it with Mother Lin.
"Mom, I'm full." She had just eaten wild vegetable soup.
"That's not enough. You'll be hungry soon." Could Lin Man let his mother eat wild vegetables as the staple food?
"Mom, I'm not going to share those suspicious things in the space with other people anymore, so you have to get used to our special cooking. Oh, and there's one thing I haven't changed. Do you want noodles or eggs? Or how about we have a bowl of tomatoes?"
Mother Lin laughed: "Okay, then eat tomatoes."
So the third thing today is a bowl of tomatoes mixed with sugar.
The tomatoes were crisp and juicy, very sweet in themselves, and sprinkled with sugar. For the mother and daughter who had not eaten any fruit properly for many years in the apocalypse and had only nibbled on the shriveled and sour fruits on the mountain, they were simply a delicacy.
The two of them ate the multi-grain pancakes happily, and then went back to pretend nothing had happened.
I felt a little guilty facing the three members of the Wu family who knew nothing about it.
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