Chapter 33: The whole night showed how strong the wind was.
“It’s lit!”
"Finally, we've gathered everything," Bai Xi patted his muddy hands. "Let's go back and see what our kitchen will look like after the upgrade."
Bai Yu nodded and held Bai Miao's hand.
The three of them quickly returned to the island and came to the kitchen door with the upgrade card that lit up to indicate that all the materials had been collected.
Although Bai Miao is young, he is already experienced in upgrading. Without waiting for Bai Yu's instructions, he took the card and walked quickly to the kitchen, stuck the card on the kitchen, shouted "upgrade", and then retreated to Bai Yu's side.
The familiar white mist enveloping the kitchen is still in front of me.
"It would be better if it were bigger so we could sit down and eat in the kitchen."
"Yes, we can, but we are short of tables and chairs."
"Yeah, do we need to upgrade the tables and chairs?"
"After upgrading the kitchen, let's build the dock first?"
"Let's build the house first. Once the dock is built, we can move the boat. It won't be easy for us to sleep on the boat. It's rocking and unsafe at night."
"That's right. Let's find a suitable spot on the island to build our house first," Bai Yu said, pointing to a certain spot further in. "I've seen a lot of sheltered spots on the island these past few days, but we need to build our house closer to the outside. That spot would be perfect."
Bai Xi looked in the direction Bai Yu pointed, but before he could see clearly, the white mist covering the kitchen dissipated.
As expected, the kitchen space is obviously much larger than before.
As the one who was in charge of cooking, Bai Xi entered the kitchen first. After seeing the appearance of the kitchen, she turned back happily and said, "Big sister, come and open it. It's such a big pot."
Bai Yu pulled Bai Miao into the house and saw the big pot on the stove. She suggested, "Xiaoxi, try cooking something. I'll light the fire for you."
"no problem!"
Bai Xi actually didn't know much about cooking. All her cooking experience was cooking casseroles on a boat. The conditions were limited, so no matter what the ingredients were, they were just cooked directly.
During their time on the island, they still had to cook their meals because the only cooking tool they had was a clay pot. Now that they had an extra pot, she couldn't wait to try it.
After Bai Yu lit the fire, she immediately poured a spoonful of oil into it, then threw the chopped vegetables directly into it and started stir-frying with a clean wooden spatula.
Then……
"There's so much white fog."
“Cough cough cough——”
"A stream."
"I was wrong. I didn't expect cooking to turn out like this," Bai Xi continued coughing violently. "No one told me cooking would produce so much fog... No, this is smoke, right? When we cooked before, if the firewood was a little wet, it would easily produce so much smoke."
Bai Yu was still in the kitchen, and when she came out she was holding a plate of black food.
Bai Xi stared at the dish for a long time and asked in shock, "Is this the dish I made?"
Bai Yu moved the plate in his hand closer to her.
Bai Xi lowered his head and sniffed the burnt food on the plate: "Don't say that, even though it doesn't look good, it smells pretty good."
"Would you like to try it?" Bai Yu said with a smile.
Bai Xi actually reached out and took a small piece that didn't look that burnt, put it in his mouth and chewed it, then turned around and spat it out, saying "It tastes weird and not good. What a shame, a good dish is burnt."
"It's okay, just cook it a few more times and it will be fine," Bai Yu took the dish aside and dumped it out. "We'll throw it back into the sea to feed the fish. You try it first. If it doesn't work, we can go to the magic plane and ask how people there cook."
"Well," Bai Xi looked at the black marks still on Bai Yu's bowl, "this is the only way."
After that, Bai Xi tried it twice more. Although the final product was not as strange as the first time, it still did not look very good. She had to give up cooking temporarily and use this big pot to cook rice instead.
At the same time, a large bowl of meat was steamed.
Wild boar meat has thick skin. They had cooked it several times in a casserole before, but it was never fully cooked. However, when they cooked it in this big pot, it cooked quickly. Not only was it cooked, but it also tasted very soft.
While we were eating, we suddenly heard a whistling sound outside.
They hurried to the kitchen door, only to see a huge piece of cloth flying over from nowhere.
"Sister, this is the sail."
"With such a big sail, how big must the ship be?" Bai Yu asked in surprise. Feeling movement beside her legs, she pushed Bai Miao, who was trying to stick his head out to see, back inside. "You're so small, you'll be blown away by the wind."
"Raise your head and take a look." Bai Miao tried hard, pressing down Bai Yu's legs and stretching out half of her head. As soon as it came out, she made a "Pooh" sound, and her hair was blown by the wind and covered her face again.
Bai Yu could only continue to smooth her hair and hold it to make her look outside.
At this moment, Bai Xi suddenly exclaimed, "Sister, a ship! Such a large sail is flying towards us. Does that mean there's a ship not far from us, and it's a large one?"
Bai Yu also widened his eyes in shock.
But after being surprised, she frowned slightly: "We can't go back for the time being."
"Big sister?"
"That's our boat, this is our kitchen, and there's also the classroom and the rain pavilion," Bai Yu pointed out one by one. "If we return to the inland, even the slightest change to our boat will be discovered. Although we can live a stable life inland, if we go back now, it will just be the three of us living together, with no one else."
It wasn't just them who were caught and forced to transport the goods; all their relatives were included. They can go back now, but going back doesn't mean their families will be reunited.
Bai Xi came back to his senses and looked at the boat parked on the beach: "Actually, we may not be able to have a stable life if we go back, right?"
Bai Yu was stunned and nodded slowly.
If they go back, they will just be ordinary people. Once people discover that they have special abilities, not only will they not have peace, but they may even be in trouble.
"We're actually doing pretty well on the island," Bai Xi smiled. "We don't have to worry about food, water, or clothes. We even have several pieces of cloth we don't need. We don't even have to go into the water to live here. Life is even easier than when we were inland. Instead of going back and being scared, we might as well stay here."
"There will be a day when we can go back," Bai Yu said, "when our boat becomes bigger and can withstand the wind and rain at sea, and we know the direction to go home, then we can go back."
"There's still wind and rain," Bai Xi stretched out his hand to feel the wind outside. "With such strong winds, even a big ship might not be able to survive in the sea, let alone a small boat like us."
"Yes, it will take us at least several days to get back, maybe even ten days or half a month. The weather at sea is unpredictable. If we are not well prepared, we may encounter danger while drifting on the sea."
As we were talking, the wind outside was getting stronger and stronger.
They were originally talking with the kitchen door open, but when they saw the wind getting stronger, they quickly closed the kitchen door.
But even so, the doors and windows of the kitchen still made slight noises due to the strong wind outside, which shows how strong the wind was at the moment.
At the same time, the sky was getting darker and darker.
They should have gone to the boat to rest at this time, but after feeling the wind outside, they didn't even dare to leave the kitchen and simply stayed in the kitchen to rest.
Fortunately, the kitchen was just upgraded today, so the floor is still relatively clean.
After confirming that it was impossible to sleep on the boat facing the wind, they lay down in the kitchen with their clothes on.
This time the wind blew for the entire night, and even in the newly upgraded kitchen, there was occasional sound of wind, which showed the situation outside. Therefore, even though Bai Yu heard the sound, he did not dare to go out to see what was happening outside.
Until the next morning.
The bright light from outside came into the kitchen through the gaps in the window. The faint light without wind made people judge that the wind outside should have stopped.
Bai Yu got up, walked to the kitchen door, removed the bolt and opened the door. Even though he had been prepared the night before, he still gasped when he saw the situation outside.
"What's wrong?" Bai Xi rubbed his eyes and walked to Bai Yu's side. After seeing the situation outside, he suddenly woke up and wanted to cry, "Where's the firewood we saved with great difficulty!"
"The rain pavilion doesn't block the wind," Bai Yu sighed. "Normally, it doesn't have much of an impact with wind or rain, but yesterday's strong wind blew the wooden curtain we hung over the rain pavilion to keep out the rain. When we build the firewood shed next time, we need to find a place that's sheltered from the wind and rain."
Bai Xi nodded helplessly: "Yeah."
The two walked out of the kitchen, turned back to close the kitchen door, and walked towards the rain pavilion.
When they got closer, they found that the situation here was worse than they had imagined. Except for the main body of the rain pavilion, which was not affected by yesterday's wind, all the firewood originally piled here was blown away by the wind.
Some of them were not blown far away and were scattered on the island, while some were blown into the sea. From a distance, you could see the firewood floating on the sea.
The firewood picked up on the island can be used directly, but the wood floating on the sea needs to be dried before use even if it is picked up.
Without hesitation, the two of them went to pick up the firewood scattered on the island and put it back into the rain pavilion.
The wind has stopped, but if the firewood is left outside and it rains again, it will all get wet.
"Xiaoxi, pick up some and put them in the kitchen. Keep some for burning. Even if the firewood in the rain pavilion gets wet, the ones in the kitchen can be used. If that doesn't work, we can go to the forest plane to pick some."
"Okay." Bai Xi responded, holding a pile of firewood in his arms and opened the kitchen door.
Putting the firewood down, she saw Bai Miao, who was half awake with her eyes open. She smiled and squatted in front of her and spoke to her: "Miao Miao, get up."
"Second sister?" Bai Miao was still a little confused and looked around with a puzzled look.
"You forgot, the wind was so strong yesterday that we slept in the kitchen and didn't go on the boat." Bai Xi picked her up gently, and after she recovered, he took her out to pack up.
After washing his face and going to the toilet, Bai Miao finally woke up completely and saw the firewood scattered on the island.
"Miaomiao, help me collect firewood."
"oh."
Bai Miao agreed obediently, and ran with his short legs to collect firewood. After a while, he picked up a small bundle of firewood.
The three of them worked together and soon they had collected all the firewood that was scattered on the island and that was visible on the surface and brought it back to the kitchen and the rain pavilion.
Bai Yu is weaving the curtain again.
Bai Xi remembered that today was a new day, and hurriedly urged Bai Miao: "Miao Miao, sign in."
Bai Miao ran towards her happily, raised his hands and cheered: "Sign in."
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