Chapter 44: The book says this wild vegetable is delicious! ...
"How much is left in there?"
"I can't put my finger on the number, but there should be quite a few. The bookstores here were quite large before the disaster."
"That's enough for today. We can't carry any more back. Let's just block it with rocks for now. We can come back next time. Come out now. We'll be back soon."
"Okay," the people in the bookstore came out, looking at the books piled outside with a bit of joy. "With so many books, we can exchange them for a lot of food. I wonder what we can get. It won't just be pickles and salted fish, right?"
"Even if it's just these two things, it's fine. At least they have salt in them, and the things you give us in exchange won't be bad."
"That's right."
As they talked, everyone picked up two large bags of books and walked towards the building.
The floor they lived on was quite high, and since there was no elevator, they could only climb up one floor at a time. But even so, they did not hesitate and went up as soon as they entered the building.
When they were almost there, they saw someone following them at the stairs.
Seeing them return, the person who was following them immediately showed a happy expression: "I have good news for you. There are new items on the room card: matches and firewood."
"matches?"
"Things that look like matches can start a fire. We originally thought you'd come back with books and share the fire with your lighters after exchanging food. But we didn't expect the room card to have new stock. Besides matches, there's also dry firewood. If possible, we can all cook together and save a lot of firewood."
"Is everyone okay with this?"
"You can all go down together to find something, and have a meal together. It will save firewood and benefit everyone."
As they were talking, a group of people had already walked up to the floor carrying books.
Those who heard the sound and saw so many books couldn't help but feel happy.
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"That should be enough, right?"
Bai Xi looked at the temporary fish farming area on the boat. The fish that had just been caught were all lively and looked particularly fresh.
"Although there are thirty households living downstairs, each with quite a few people, they all seem to be quite frugal and probably won't exchange much for food," Bai Yu also stood by. "But we can't always go out fishing. How about setting a time, once a day?"
"Once a day is fine, so you don't have to keep an eye on it." Bai Xi looked at the fish pond for a while, then took out a fish that he was not sure if it was edible and threw it back into the sea.
They live on the water all year round and are familiar with most fish. They can tell whether they are edible or not at a glance. However, in the sea, there are always some fish they don’t know, and they don’t dare to take the risk for fear of damaging their health.
Anyway, they have enough food now.
As they spoke, the transaction information on the rental panel in front of them lit up.
Someone wanted to exchange books for pickles.
The pickles were placed aside. Bai Yu reached out and clicked on them. The pickles disappeared, and were replaced by two books that appeared on the panel.
After the transaction was completed, someone else wanted to exchange for salted fish.
After another transaction, the ingredient column on the panel became empty.
Bai Yu put his hand in the fish pond and picked up a fish at random.
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“Oh my god!”
"Fresh fish! Holy crap! This is incredible! I can actually summon lively fish!"
"Quick, put this fish in the bathroom."
"This is a sea fish. It can't survive in fresh water."
"It's okay. We'll keep it as long as we can. There are so many of us, and we'll eat it quickly. Let's see what else we have."
"Another fish."
"Did we disturb the fish den today? It's full of fish. Just use a bucket to catch them."
"It's fish again, this time it's hairtail."
"The hairtail can be stored for a while, so leave it there."
"I need more books this time. It seems that this piece of meat is a bit big."
"It looks like pork."
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"Great! I've finally traded away the wild boar meat. I'm tired of pickled pork," Bai Xi breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the new project that had been successfully traded. "I want to eat fresh pheasant meat."
"Once these deals are done, we'll go to the forest plane and see if we can catch some pheasants," Bai Yu continued to add fish to the trading column. "We're much stronger now than before. We shouldn't have any problems catching wild boars, let alone pheasants."
"If we encounter wild boars again, we can just trade them to them and keep some for ourselves." Bai Xi was happy that there was a new way to sell wild boar meat. Looking at Bai Miao, who was carefully flipping through a book with his head down, he asked, "Miao Miao, do you have any books about wild vegetables in the forest plane?"
As he was talking, Bai Miao flipped out a book and showed Bai Xi the cover: "Wild vegetables!"
"Really?" Bai Xi said, getting even more excited looking at the bright and colorful cover. "It's actually a colored book. Wouldn't it be easy for us to find out which wild vegetables are edible?"
"Miaomiao, you have a good memory. Go watch over there. When you finish watching, we'll go to the forest plane and find some wild vegetables." Bai Yu raised his foot, hooked over the small stool on the side, and let Bai Miao sit down and watch.
Bai Miao always listened to her sister, so she immediately sat down with the book in her hands and started reading.
The characters in the new dimension are similar to those in this world. After a period of systematic study, Bai Miao has already recognized many characters. Now when reading a book, he not only writes down the appearance of the wild vegetables in the pictures, but also writes down the characters. No matter whether he understands them or not, it is always right to write them down.
While Bai Miao was reading, Bai Yu and Bai Xi traded the fish they had just caught one after another.
After making almost all the money, I closed the trading interface.
At this time, there were already a lot of books piled in front of them, but unfortunately this transaction only involved books, not seeds.
Fortunately, the books do contain the content they want. When they go to the forest plane, they can find a lot of edible wild vegetables there. It doesn’t matter if there are no seeds for the time being.
At this time, on the other side, everyone who had been exchanging food also saw the prompt to close the transaction.
The transaction was closed this time and no one knew when it would reopen next time, but even the things they exchanged right now were enough to make them happy.
"There's so much fish, meat, and vegetables, it's enough for us to eat for several days."
"Save the hairtail, salted fish, bacon, and pickles for now and eat them slowly later. The fresh fish can be eaten first. I don't know what's going on on the other side of the trade. It feels like there's a food shortage there, besides fresh fish."
"No matter what the situation is over there, at least we do get fresh food, and that's enough."
"That's true, but I think the other side is better than ours anyway. In that case, we should find the seeds as soon as possible and let them plant them. Then maybe we can eat fresh rice and flour."
"That makes sense. Let's organize another group to go out and look for seeds tomorrow. No matter what kind of seeds they are, we need them."
"Well, those small packages of vegetable seeds should be easier to find. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn are also easy to grow."
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"Sister, the book actually teaches how to grow corn."
"Really?" Bai Yu immediately looked at the book in Bai Xi's hand, and after reading it for a while, he said, "That's great! With this, we can try growing corn. Maybe in a few months, we can eat fresh corn."
Corn was obtained by [signing in], and it would be available every once in a while, so they ate a lot of it.
As for growing corn, they had indeed thought about it before, but because the three sisters had lived on boats since childhood, they knew a lot about things in the water, but when it came to things in the land, they knew nothing about it. They wanted to grow corn but didn't know where to start.
Now with the information in the book, perhaps they can really grow corn successfully.
On the way back, the three of them carefully read the article about growing corn. After returning, they peeled the corn kernels and put them in a basket to dry. The book said that sun-dried corn has a higher germination rate.
But there were only two corns left, and they were quickly spread out and flattened.
After that, they did not sit idle either. They immediately went to the forest plane to look for edible wild vegetables written in the book.
This time they came with clear results and soon discovered that the weeds in this forest that they had seen many times before were actually edible wild vegetables.
Bai Miao has a good memory and remembers the appearance of all edible wild vegetables clearly. He can pull out a bunch every two steps.
Bai Yu and Bai Xi followed behind her, looking at the wild vegetables in her hand while listening to Bai Miao's detailed description of the specific details of this wild vegetable. In this way, as they became familiar with it, they would be able to find edible wild vegetables themselves.
No one has come to this forest all year round. When they came here before, they only focused on the wild animals and trees, and completely ignored the wild vegetables in the forest. This time, they came here with the knowledge from the book, and it was like entering a blessed nest. It didn't take long for them to find a basket of wild vegetables.
"How come there are so many? Are these all edible?" Bai Xi found another bunch. "It seems that all the wild vegetables we find here are edible. Even if we don't know anything about them, we can just pick them."
Bai Yu smiled and pointed at the wild vegetables they had left behind and said, "That's not entirely true. These are simply inedible, don't you think, Miaomiao?"
"Well," Bai Miao's small face showed a serious expression, pointing at the wild vegetables on the ground, "This one will give you diarrhea, and that one can't be eaten. Eating it will make you very uncomfortable. Second sister, you can't eat anything you don't pick."
"Got it. Second sister, listen to Miaomiao," Bai Xi nodded seriously. "Let's continue. What other wild vegetables can Miaomiao pick?"
Bai Miao carried the small basket on his back, turned around and continued walking forward.
Bai Yu and Bai Xi looked at each other and smiled silently.
"Miaomiao has grown up a lot." Bai Yu said softly.
"She's almost four years old, so she's not too young," Bai Xi followed Bai Miao, "but she's definitely different now. It might be because there's someone to talk to. Before, she was always alone on the boat."
Although the three sisters used to depend on each other, Bai Yu and Bai Xi had to support their families. They would go to the water whenever they had time. They also had many chores to do in life and had little time to talk to Bai Miao.
It's different now. Even though there are a lot of things to do now, the three sisters have more time to talk together. Bai Miao, who could only speak a few words before coming here, can gradually speak long sentences to them.
Over there, Bai Miao saw another bunch of wild vegetables and turned back with a smile: "Sisters, this, this, this wild vegetable, the book says it's delicious!"
"Delicious food? Here we come!"
"Wait, let's come over and see what they look like in the field first."
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