Chapter 18 is about the fire stick. Before, there was not enough cloth, and now there is not enough thread...
No one knows what the future will be like, but we must go on living our lives now.
After breakfast, the three of them went to the grassland plane hand in hand again.
You will meet people in this plane, so the three of them deliberately chose a hidden corner when they left. When they appeared again, they were still in this hidden corner.
I don’t know whether the little girl from yesterday will come, but the price at which the dead grass can be sold is certain.
Bai Yu took out the thin vines that he had processed yesterday from his bag and stuffed a few of them into Bai Xi's bag. After collecting enough dry grass, he could use them to tie the grass.
He took Bai Miao to the other side to look for dead grass.
I don’t know how long it took, but I heard a voice calling “Miaomiao” in the distance, although the sound it made sounded like “Meow Meow”.
Bai Yu stood up holding Bai Miao, and sure enough, she saw the little girl from yesterday walking towards them quickly with a bag on her back.
"Miaomiao."
"Seven Seven."
Bai Miao struggled to get out of Bai Yu's arms, crawled out of the bushes, and ran towards the other party quickly.
Bai Xi stood up not far from Bai Yu and asked in confusion, "Why are they so close?"
"Because they're about the same age, that little girl also came here to pick grass by herself," Bai Yu smiled as she watched the two chattering away. "Miaomiao didn't have any friends on the boat before, but now she finally meets someone about her age."
Having said that, Bai Yu reached out to Bai Xi and said, "Give me the grass over there. I'll tie it up and give her some later."
Bai Xi immediately handed the grass in his hand to her.
Bai Yu took it and walked towards the two children.
The two of them were whispering to each other with their heads down.
Although Bai Miao said several times that he didn't understand, the two of them still found a way to communicate that they could understand each other.
As Bai Yu approached, Bai Miao seemed to have received some surprising news from her. He immediately turned around to look for someone. Seeing Bai Yu coming over, he quickly waved, "Sister, sister, she has a tinderbox here."
"Fire starter?" Bai Yu approached.
"Yes," Bai Miao held up the thing in his hand, "This is it, a tinderbox. It can make fire. It will light up as soon as you touch it."
As she spoke, she turned to talk to the little girl, then took a wooden stick from the little girl's hand, placed it on the top of the "fire starter" in her hand, and after turning it twice, the wooden stick in her hand suddenly caught fire.
"Big sister, look—!"
Bai Yu was shocked: "Is it really on fire? Don't you need to blow it? Are the sparks in here so strong?"
"There's no spark. This tinderbox is made of grass," Bai Miao said. Hearing the voice beside him, he took a deep breath and blew out the wooden stick. "She said '&%$#@*&^'."
Bai Yu: ...
She looked at the little girl who nodded repeatedly, then looked at Bai Miao: "What do you mean?"
Bai Miao shook his head: "I don't know, anyway, '&%$#@*&^', that's what she said."
The implication is that she can repeat the exact same words but does not understand what they mean.
"Then you two can talk for a while," Bai Yu said, putting down the grass in her hand. "Give her these grasses. Your second sister and I will continue to collect grasses. We won't go far. If you need anything, just give us a shout and we will be here soon."
"Oh." Bai Miao nodded.
Although they couldn't speak the same language, she soon became happy because she finally had a little friend to play with.
Today, Qiqi was well prepared. After Bai Yu left, she took out a lot of things from her bag.
"How to play?" Bai Miao squatted down.
Qiqi pointed at something and talked a lot.
Bai Miao still didn't understand, but she pretended to understand and nodded "Oh oh oh".
But as she played, she really understood it.
She quickly took the tools from Qiqi's hands, crushed the dried grass one by one, and after breaking it into powder, put them into hollow wooden sticks. She knew that this step was similar to a tinderbox.
When Bai Yu and Bai Xi came back, they had installed a row of wooden strips.
"Is the stuff in the tinderbox here made from this grass that's dried and crushed?"
"Is it just chopped grass? If you put it directly in the wood strips like this, will it burn?"
"No," Bai Miao shook his head, "Qiqi said that we still need to use that wooden stick."
"Are there really no sparks on the wooden sticks and chopped grass?" Bai Yu asked doubtfully, reaching out to help Bai Miao pack the chopped grass.
Qiqi had been working with her head down. When she looked up and saw Bai Yu's actions, she immediately reached out to stop him. At this time, Bai Yu had already installed a wooden stick.
"I'll help you," Bai Yu showed her the wooden strips he had already installed, and said slowly, "Is this the right way to do it?"
Qiqi didn't understand and just looked confused.
He grabbed her wrist and looked at the wooden bar, then looked at her face, and then looked at the wooden bar again.
Then he picked up another stick and handed it to her.
Bai Yu smiled, picked up a small piece of wood, picked up some grass fragments, and put them into the wooden strip. During this process, the grass fragments fell on the back of her hand several times. She thought that she would sell this thing for money and it would not be good to waste it, so she patted it and it fell back into the pile of grass fragments.
"Is it okay?" Bai Yu installed the wooden strips and showed them to her.
What he got was an even more puzzled look from the little girl.
But the little girl was also certain of something, so she stopped stopping Bai Yu and even made room for her to get closer to the pile of grass.
Although we don't speak the same language, we do the same thing.
Soon, the wooden sticks that Qiqi brought were filled with chopped grass.
She put the remaining grass clippings into a large jar, looked at the row of wooden sticks filled with grass clippings in front of her, lowered her head and rummaged through her bag, took out a few copper coins from the bag, pointed at the wooden sticks, and handed the copper coins to Bai Miao.
This move needs no introduction.
Bai Yu explained to Bai Miao in a low voice: "She wants to spend money to buy these from you."
"These things were originally hers, weren't they?" Bai Miao looked up.
"Because you helped me, right?" Bai Yu said. Thinking that Qiqi's time was not wasted, he did not give her the grass for free as he had originally planned. Instead, he gave the grass to Bai Miao and said, "Tell her that you can sell these to her and get the copper coins."
Bai Miao nodded, took the grass and handed it to Qiqi, and then took the copper coin from her.
Qiqi thought she didn't understand, so she returned the grass to Bai Miao and pointed at the wooden sticks and talked to him.
Bai Miao pushed it back again: "Here you go."
He picked up the wooden stick and gave it to her as well.
The two of them declined each other for a while, but finally understood each other's meaning. After confirming that they didn't have to spend more money, Qiqi smiled and hugged the grass in her arms tightly.
Bai Xi stood aside and leaned over to speak: "Miao Miao, ask her if she wants to sell the stick that can start a fire."
Bai Miao nodded, grabbed a wooden stick and started communicating with Qiqi.
Finally, for three copper coins, he got a brand new fire-starting stick and a fire starter.
The actual price was determined during the discussion: a tinderbox was worth one copper coin, a wooden stick was worth two copper coins, and one copper coin could buy five empty wooden sticks filled with chopped grass.
"The dry grass doesn't cost anything, so if we spend one copper coin on five sticks, we can sell them for five copper coins."
The three returned to the island with today's harvest.
"That little girl seems easy to talk to. Since she comes here so often, there must be a place selling tinderboxes. We can also sell the finished tinderboxes to her and ask her to help sell them."
"It would be best if she could help sell it. After all, we can't even speak the language there, and even if we go to the market, it might not be easy to sell it."
"But her family actually let a little girl walk on such a large grassland by herself."
"Anyway, this fire stick can be sold for money."
"Not only can fire sticks be sold for money, but grass can be sold for money too. Miaomiao, what is this thing called over there? It's also called a fire stick?"
Bai Miao looked up at the thing in Bai Yu's hand and pointed at the grass they brought back: "This is called fire grass, and Qiqi calls that thing 'fire laite', but I don't understand."
"Then let's call it a fire starter," Bai Yu said, picking up the stick that could start a fire. "This is called a fire stick."
"The fire stick is a big one." Bai Xi gestured with his hand.
"So... then it's called... Matches? How about that?"
"Matches are fine. They can be used to burn firewood. It's a good name to call them matches," Bai Xi nodded repeatedly. "Then let's first dry the dry grass... the fire grass. Once it's dry, crush it and pack it, we can also sell it."
"This new plane has ten days in total. If we go there for two hours every day, we can stay there for sixty days. By then, we should be able to save up quite a few copper coins or tinderboxes from that plane. Then we can learn a few more words and ask the little girl how to get to the market to buy some thread. Are you running low on sewing thread?"
"Yes, I was thinking of buying some on the shore, but we were stopped that time, and then... never mind," Bai Xi shook his head. "Besides the line, we have to buy something else. We'll see if we have enough money by then."
"Um."
The best thing about living on the island is that no matter what they sign in or out, it won't be discovered. The biggest problem is being isolated from the world. Now that they have the opportunity to communicate with outsiders, they are all looking forward to it.
Although the outsiders who can communicate with them do not speak the same language as them, they are still human beings after all.
Over the next few days, no more plane pass cards or upgrade cards appeared in Shell [Sign-in]. The daily sign-in results were:
[Peanut oil]*1 bottle; [Steamed buns]*10; [Hoe]*1, [Corn]*10; [Toffees]*10; [Soybeans]*10 jin; [Cotton cloth]*3 pieces.
Bai Xi put away the cotton cloth he had just signed in.
"Before, there wasn't enough cloth, and now there's not enough thread." Bai Xi took out a nearly finished piece of clothing, "There's only one sleeve left, but there's no thread. Otherwise, you could wear it, big sister."
"This outfit is fine now," Bai Yu thought to himself, "but it's time for us to go to the market in that grassland plane and take a look."
"Well, we've learned most of the simple words, so buying and selling things shouldn't be a problem," Bai Xi put away his clothes. "But speaking in that dimension is a little difficult, and we're not very proficient yet. Let Miaomiao speak when the time comes."
Although Bai Xi and Bai Yu also learned it, they always sounded a bit awkward when they spoke it. Unlike Miaomiao, she can now speak very fluently with Qiqi, and there is no difference in their accents at all.
The two men took Bai Miao out of the cabin and went upstairs.
After standing near the small kitchen, he took Bai Miao's hand and went to the grassland plane together.
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