Qing spent the whole day tending the stove, though she did leave at times.
Every time the stove was filled with firewood, I would go for a walk on the beach and occasionally go swimming in the sea.
Of course, every time we come up, we inevitably bring some seafood with us.
Yong kept searching for salt blocks on the beach. Qing saw how hard he was working and didn't want him to come back so she could continue cooking.
She'll just do whatever she wants; she plans to eat seafood all the time until she gets tired of it, then switch to something else.
Since we're at the seaside, we definitely have to eat our fill. Seafood tastes best when it's fresh.
The two of them would change locations every two or three days, partly because the places Yong had to go to to collect salt blocks were getting farther and farther away.
Another issue is that most of the seafood on the side has already been picked clean, so if you don't move to a different spot, your catch will only decrease.
To collect more, it's best to frequently change locations!
As I travel further and further away, I spend more time on the road. In order to avoid wasting so much time on the way back, I have to move frequently.
Fortunately, there is storage space at the moving site, so I can easily go empty-handed.
Qing and Yong spent five months at the seaside, excluding the month they spent on the road, in the autumn harvest season that was just around the corner.
The two discussed it and decided to leave.
In any case, the two of them didn't waste a single moment during these five months. They collected a large amount of fresh seafood and a lot of dried seafood in their space.
They were all dried little by little while the brine was being boiled.
They collected a lot of sea salt; the amount collected in just five months would last two people more than five or six years.
For the next five or six years, Yong didn't have to worry about not having enough salt at home, and Qing didn't say that she had stockpiled a lot of salt.
When I first told him that I had storage capacity, I didn't tell him that there was anything inside. I made him think that it was empty, so that I would motivate him to fill it with things.
The two packed their things and prepared to leave. Looking at the coastline where they had lived for so long, they were a little reluctant to leave, but since they had come out to travel, they couldn't just stay in the same place forever.
Once inside the forest, it instantly felt cooler, much better than at the beach.
I'm also glad that I have a lot of good stuff, so I didn't get tanned, but Yong did get tanned. Fortunately, he didn't drink too much of it, as he has some naturally fair skin.
Not long after entering the forest, a sudden downpour began. There were many large trees in the forest, and you couldn't just take shelter under any tree. Although I was worried about being struck by lightning, I thought my luck couldn't be that bad, so I took shelter under a tree, hoping for the best.
Fortunately, the two of them were quite lucky. After walking some distance into the forest, they suddenly discovered a hole in a large tree.
The tree is so big that it would probably take twenty people holding hands to encircle it, which gives you an idea of how enormous it is.
The tree hole is about 3 meters above the ground, so there's no need to worry about heavy rain flooding the hole.
Yong stepped forward to check if any animals were hiding inside. He casually climbed up in a couple of steps.
As expected of warriors raised in the tribe, climbing trees is a piece of cake for them.
Yong cautiously entered the tree hollow, worried that there might be wild beasts inside. After a careful inspection, he discovered that someone must have lived in the tree hollow before, but it had been abandoned and looked very dilapidated.
Once it was confirmed that there was no danger, they quickly called Qing in. Even though the tree was covered with lush leaves, water would still drip onto them from below.
Looking at the tree hole, which was more than 3 meters above the ground, Qing didn't think she could climb up.
“Yong, I can’t get up. Why don’t you come down and get a rope, then go up and pull me up?”
The large leaves, once dried, can be woven into very durable ropes.
Luckily, she likes to hoard a little bit of everything, so she doesn't have to worry about not being able to take it out.
Seeing that Qing couldn't climb up, Yong came down without saying a word, took the rope, and then climbed up again.
Their movements were so nimble that Qing was incredibly envious, wondering how long it would take her to become that nimble without her special abilities.
Yong lowered the rope, and Qing quickly grabbed it, climbing up little by little with the force from above.
After going inside, I carefully examined the tree hole, which was only about five square meters in size. For such a large tree, the tree hole was indeed not very big.
However, it's enough for two people to stay temporarily.
He took out a broom made of reeds, ready to clean the tree hole, but Yong quickly took it and cleaned it himself.
After sweeping away the tattered thatch and cleaning it up, although the room wasn't very bright, it looked much cleaner.
Set up a sleeping area at the very back for two people, cover it with animal hides, and use the remaining half-size area as a cooking and living area.
Listening to the increasingly loud rain outside, I wondered how long this heavy rain would last. Although the tribe had started growing their own food, everyone still habitually went into the forest to gather food in the autumn.
A heavy rainstorm delayed everyone's entry into the forest, so we got used to the rain stopping sooner.
You should know that there are a lot of mushrooms after the rain. Apart from being a bit bigger, they are no different from the mushrooms in the previous two small worlds.
So Qing wasn't worried at all about picking poisonous mushrooms. Even if they were poisonous, she would keep them, because she never knew when she might need them.
The two men changed into clean animal skins inside the tree hollow and then prepared to cook a bowl of hot soup for lunch.
A huge pot full, so even if Yong has a big appetite, he doesn't have to worry about not having enough to eat.
The heavy rain lasted for five days, and it finally stopped. If it had continued, people would have become extremely irritable.
After all, being trapped inside a tree hole and unable to go anywhere for a long time, one feels extremely stifled.
The rain stopped in the evening, and by the time I woke up the next day, it had almost completely receded.
It's also possible that the rain was absorbed underground by the big tree; in any case, the ground was already walkable when I woke up the next day.
Even though Da Yezi's shoes were covered in thick mud, it didn't dampen her happy mood.
"Yong, let's go pick mushrooms. There are lots of mushrooms this season, especially right after it rains. If we pick a lot, we'll have mushrooms to eat even when it doesn't rain."
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