Chapter 1 Sign in successfully Sign in successfully, get [Fine Salt]*1...
"Miaomiao."
"Hey," Bai Miao quickly ran out of the cabin, knelt at the bow, leaned forward, and grabbed the rope that was already tied to the boat, "Second sister."
Bai Xi raised her hand and showed what she was holding: "Look, what did my second sister find for you?"
Bai Miao was attracted by the thing in her hand at first sight. The shiny shell looked like a fairy object that only appeared in storybooks. It was the most beautiful shell she had ever seen in her life.
"I knew you would like it," Bai Xi smiled and raised his hands while grabbing the rope. "Come on, sit tight and spread your hands."
Bai Miao immediately sat down, opened his hands towards her, and watched his second sister put the shell in his palm: "It looks good, second sister."
"Who's prettier, my second sister or Beike?" Bai Xi asked deliberately.
"Second sister is pretty!" Bai Miao said immediately.
Bai Xi smiled and pointed to the cabin: "You go in and play. Second sister will go down and feel around to see if there are any good things. If we can find pearls, we can take them to the shore and sell them. Then we won't have to worry about food and drink for a while."
"Okay, second sister, be careful," Bai Miao said obediently. He watched his second sister go back into the water and patted the rope again. "Be good and hold on to my second sister."
As she said, she knelt and moved back until her whole body was in the middle, then she moved her bent legs, opened them, and walked into the cabin, supporting herself on the slightly shaking boat.
The cabin was covered with a mattress that was already a bit hard.
After she sat firmly in the middle, she kept looking down at the shell in her hand.
I didn't know where I touched, but suddenly a sound came from the shell.
【Sign in】
【Sign in】
Bai Miao stared in surprise, looked around, and then put the shell to his mouth: "Are you talking?"
Shells make no sound.
She frowned and continued to ask, "Are you a fairy thing?"
"Why don't you speak?"
She took the shell down and continued to touch it. When she touched the raised part inside the shell, the sound came again.
【Sign in】
【Sign in】
Bai Miao held the shell carefully and repeated, "Sign in?"
【Sign in】
Bai Miao shook it and asked, "Sign in?"
[Successful sign-in, get [fine salt]*1 pack]
The moment the sound was heard, Bai Miao saw a package falling in front of him.
Just as she was wondering, a voice came from outside: "Miaomiao."
"Big sister," Bai Miao dropped the shells in her hand, grabbed a set of clothes from the side, and walked out quickly. She saw a big fish fall out of the basket in her big sister's hand and land in the small pond where fish were kept on the boat. She squatted down holding the clothes, "What a big fish!"
"This fish is enough for us to eat for two days." Bai Yu reached into the basket, took out a handful of shellfish, and put them aside. "We'll cook these tonight. After we eat the meat and the shells, I'll give them to you to play with."
"My second sister just gave me a very beautiful shell. The shell even makes sounds," Bai Miao looked up and spoke seriously to her eldest sister, "and something fell out of it."
Seeing that the eldest sister had already packed, she immediately handed the clothes over.
"Really?" Bai Yu reached out and took the clothes from her sister's hand. She thought the sound was knocking and the falling object was the meat from the shell. She didn't take her sister's words to heart. "Then I'll change my clothes and you can listen to me."
"Yeah." Bai Miao nodded repeatedly, stood up and stepped back to give Bai Yu enough space to change clothes.
By the time Bai Yu had changed her clothes, a knocking sound was heard on the edge of the boat.
Bai Yu turned around and took the bamboo basket from Bai Xi, who was still in the water: "Today's harvest is not much."
"The fish down there are becoming harder to catch. Should we move to another location?" Bai Xi climbed up the rope ladder.
Bai Miao went back to the cabin, got Bai Xi's clothes, and brought them out for her to change.
Bai Yu was talking to her about changing seats: "We can't do it alone. Let's ask the eldest uncle and the second uncle. We have to change together when the time comes, otherwise we won't get a good seat."
"My uncle and second uncle's boat went quite far these past two days, so they won't be back for another two days," Bai Xi said as she changed her wet clothes. "Tomorrow, let's go in the direction my uncle and second uncle left. After we meet, we can take the salted fish from the boat ashore to sell, and then buy some salt and vegetables."
"OK."
Bai Yu and Bai Xi changed their clothes while talking, and then they were busy collecting the ropes and fish and processing the ingredients.
Bai Miao always wanted to talk to the two of them about the shells, but they were too busy, so he could neither help nor say a word. He could only sit obediently in the cabin and continue to play with the beautiful shells in his hands.
Now when she pressed it again, the shell was silent.
She could only imitate the speech.
"Signed in, signed in, signed in."
"Miaomiao, what are you talking about?" Bai Yu walked into the cabin.
"Would you like to sign in?" Bai Miao stretched out his hand and handed over the thing that had just fallen out of the shell. "Sister, this is what fell out."
"Where did it fall from?" Bai Yu took the paper bag puzzledly.
"Shell," Bai Miao raised the shell in his hand, "Sign in? Snap, it fell down."
"How is that possible?" Bai Yu laughed and opened the paper bag in his hand. After seeing what was inside, he frowned in confusion and lowered his head to smell it.
Bai Miao thought of what Shell said when the item fell out, and immediately repeated it: "Successful sign-in, received a packet of fine salt."
Bai Yu suddenly looked at Bai Miao.
After a while, she dipped her finger in the contents of the paper bag, put it in her mouth and tasted it, and exclaimed in surprise, "It's really salty? Could this really be fine salt?"
Bai Miao still held up the shell and repeated, "Signed in successfully, got a bag of fine salt."
Bai Yu turned around: "Second sister."
After shouting, she took two steps towards where Bai Xi was: "Second sister, was there something inside the shell in Miaomiao's hand when you gave it to her?"
"No, it's just an empty shell. It just looks pretty," Bai Xi said, and saw the paper bag in Bai Yu's hand. "What is this?"
"Try it." Bai Yu said.
Bai Xi was puzzled. He also stretched out his finger to dip some in it, put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully. Then he said, "Is this salt? How can it be so white?"
Bai Yu looked serious and took Bai Xi's hand: "Come in, let's talk in detail."
The two entered the cabin. Bai Yu pulled Bai Xi and said to Bai Miao: "Miao Miao, say what you just said, please repeat it."
Bai Miao looked at the two of them and repeated, "Sign in successfully, get a bag of fine salt."
Bai Yu whispered, "Miaomiao said this thing fell out of the beautiful shell you gave her."
Bai Xi was stunned for a moment, looked at the shell in Bai Miao's hand, and then looked at the paper bag in Bai Yu's hand: "This... can something fall out of this shell?"
"It definitely wasn't the shell itself that fell out, right? Even if it did, it couldn't have fallen out of the paper bag, right?" Bai Yu held the paper bag in her hand, "Touch it and see if it's wet."
Bai Xi's hands were still wet. Hearing her words, he raised his hand and touched the tip of the paper bag. Sure enough, the tip of the paper was wet, confirming that it was indeed paper.
Both of them were extremely surprised. After being shocked, they turned around and looked at their younger sister.
"Miaomiao, is it true what you said just now that this shell can talk?" Bai Yu asked.
"Yeah, but it's not talking now." Bai Miao asked the two to look at the shell and pointed to the place where it made a sound every time it was pressed. "Here, it was talking just now."
"What does it say?"
Bai Miao said softly, "It says 'Are you signing in?' 'Are you signing in?' 'Are you signing in?'"
Bai Yu and Bai Xi didn't understand what "Sign in or not" meant, but they could tell from "Sign in successfully, get 1 bag of fine salt" that they could get something by signing in.
"Will you keep silent from now on?" Bai Xi asked.
"I don't know," Bai Yu shook her head, holding the paper bag in her hand, "but this is real, it should be fine salt."
"That's a bag of fine salt, which is good," Bai Xi said happily. "We don't have to buy salt next time we get back to shore, so we can save some money."
"Well, this bag of fine salt is enough for us to eat for many days." Bai Yu carefully folded the paper bag, listened to the voice beside her ear, and smiled, "Let's go cook something first, Miaomiao should be hungry."
Bai Miao covered her rumbling stomach and tilted her head back with a smile: "Miao Miao is a little hungry."
"Second sister will cook it right away." Bai Xi raised her hand and rubbed Bai Miao's head.
The food on the water is very simple, just pure fish rice, a little bit of fish meat, a little bit of shellfish meat, and some coarse grains, all cooked together.
In fact, it is not exactly boiling, but stewing, as long as it is stewed until cooked.
After all, the conditions on the boat are limited, and firewood fuel has to be replenished on shore. When staying on the boat normally, use as little firewood as possible.
After a day, we had a good harvest. The dead fish and shrimps caught would have gone bad overnight and would be better if cooked. So we cooked this meal every day and ate the same thing the next day.
Therefore, the meal in the evening tastes pretty good and they always eat it very seriously.
But today, the three of them didn't eat seriously. After finishing their meal in a hurry, they sat in the boat together to study the shells.
When it got dark, they continued talking in the dark cabin.
There are kerosene lamps on the boat, but they can only be used in extremely special circumstances. Normally, they would not use kerosene lamps.
Firstly, I couldn't bear to leave it, and secondly, the boat was wobbly and made of wood. If I lit the kerosene lamp and it accidentally capsized, the whole boat would catch fire.
They live on a boat like this, and the boat is their entire property. Once it burns, they will be left with nothing.
As they chatted, the three of them fell asleep in a daze.
The next morning, Bai Miao woke up rubbing his eyes.
"Eldest sister, second sister."
"Miaomiao is awake," Bai Yu picked her up, "Do you want to pee?"
"Yeah." Bai Miao hugged her neck and let her pick him up.
Bai Yu carried her out of the cabin.
After a while, the two returned to the cabin.
Bai Miao had regained consciousness by now. Seeing the shell in Bai Xi's hand, he pointed towards it and said, "Beautiful shell."
"Second sister pressed it, but there was no sound." Bai Xi handed the shell to her.
Bai Miao stretched out his hands, grabbed the big shell, and pressed the place where the sound would be made.
【Sign in】
Bai Yu immediately hugged her and knelt down.
Bai Xi moved closer to his younger sister, reached out and pressed the button, but there was still no sound.
Bai Miao pressed it again.
【Sign in】
"So it turns out that only my little sister can make a sound when she presses it," Bai Xi said, feeling a little disappointed, but soon happy again. "Then what? What did you do yesterday?"
Bai Miao thought about it carefully.
Grabbing the shell with both hands, he brought it to his mouth and whispered softly, "Sign in."
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