Seeing Bai Wei's increasingly demanding attitude, she felt more and more that if she didn't make things clear now, it would only cause more trouble in the future.
"These three rules of mine are not only binding you, but also binding everyone else. I'm sure you don't want others to enjoy the food you worked so hard to find. Our situation is very difficult right now. You need to understand that it's not easy for anyone to live. I have no obligation to support your livelihood. I'll say it again: if you want to live peacefully, then let's live as neighbors and take care of each other. If you don't want to, then there's nothing I can do. We'll just have to go our separate ways."
Wang Ping and Chen Jian had already moved aside when they heard that Bai Wei and I were arguing.
Upon hearing what I said, Wang Ping's expression immediately changed.
"President Bai, Sihai is right. In our current situation, we can only survive by helping each other. If it weren't for the gun in Sihai's hand, we would have died countless times already."
"Yes, and how could Brother Sihai not care about us? He goes out to hunt, and we can pick wild vegetables to exchange for them. If he can find fruit, we can exchange the jicama we dug up for it. As long as we don't starve, that's fine. I think we should stop arguing. I'm thinking of going down the mountain to find more firewood today."
Since someone offered Bai Wei a way out, he naturally accepted it.
He sighed as he looked at me, as if he thought I was hopeless. I don't know where he got the courage from.
However, he turned around and left my sight. A little while later, he followed Chen Jian and Wang Ping down the mountain, probably to collect dry branches and firewood.
“Actually, I don’t think our yard needs to be too big, just big enough. We can’t grow vegetables on the mountain, otherwise we could plant the wild vegetable seeds we’ve collected in the backyard, that way it would be more convenient to eat them.”
Wang Xiaoxiao stood behind our wooden house, looking at our open space.
I suddenly realized that his idea was actually quite good. If we could bring some fertile soil up here on the mountain, then growing some vegetables shouldn't be a problem.
However, the most important thing right now is to settle all the short-legged birds in peace; that's the most important thing.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of all these things for you, bit by bit. Today, let's fence off this little courtyard. Tomorrow, I'll take Chen Jian and the others back to the cave by the sea to set up more distress signals along the shore. That way, if any passing ships do come by, we'll have a chance to be rescued."
Xu Wei and the others also knew that even though their survival skills had become stronger through training over this period of time, no one would really want to live here for the rest of their lives on this deserted island.
So no matter what, we have to find a way to get out of here.
If we can't count on our search and rescue teams, then we can count on the ships that come and go.
Fortunately, Bai Wei and his group of foreigners are still on the beach. However, we don't know if they will mention our existence if they spot passing ships. So, for safety's sake, we still need to make some preparations.
We should also send people to the seaside regularly to check and avoid missing any boats that could be rescued.
Having been stranded on the deserted island for so long, we have always relied on ourselves, so we have long been quite skilled at collecting branches and building fences.
I simply took two male colleagues down the mountain and gathered some neatly arranged dead branches.
Wang Xiaoxiao, Xu Wei, and the others had already started setting up the fence.
I used a hammer to break open a few rocks, then inserted wooden wedges into the wooden blocks to make a simple yard.
Without stopping, after finishing the yard fence, we wove a very large fence out of vines to enclose all the short-legged birds.
Fortunately, the shellfish meat we dried when we arrived is enough for these short-legged birds, but it will be troublesome to find more shellfish meat in the future.
So the next time we go out together, we must do our best to get as much as possible back.
After tidying up the yard, I took a few women to the back hill to collect hay in the afternoon.
There wasn't as much hay here as around the cave we had before.
So collecting them became a bit troublesome.
Fortunately, time is not too tight, so we can gather some groundwork first and then proceed little by little.
It wasn't until the sun was almost setting that we carried the bundled hay back up the mountain.
When we got back, Bai Wei and his group had already started cooking. Since we all worked together to kill the python, the snake meat wasn't divided among us; whoever was hungry could get some to eat.
Chen Jian and Liu Jiaojiao were sitting in front of their wooden house, packing up their few remaining supplies.
Liu Jiaojiao accepted Chen Jian's advances, and the two have now officially confirmed their relationship.
Because Liu Jiaojiao has lived with us for a long time, she occasionally comes to help us.
Speaking of Chen Jian, her face flushed red with shyness.
Chen Jian was overjoyed to have won the heart of his beloved, and he busied himself tidying up his small house every day.
Seeing that we had fenced off the yard, he also fenced off a piece of land, piled it with firewood, and even put a bunch of wildflowers at the door. He was making a door right now, sweating profusely but full of enthusiasm.
Liu Jiaojiao came to visit us. She sat on a rock and looked at Chen Jian, sighing softly.
"Chen Jian didn't get anything after separating from Bai Wei. Si Hai helped us set up our beds, but there was really no food at all. I was thinking of going back to the cave with Chen Jian tomorrow. There's clay there that can be fired into bowls and basins. I want to get some of it and make some containers to hold our food."
"Also, I want to go to the beach in Shanghai to collect some more shellfish and shrimp. If I can't eat them, I'll dry them. That way, if I really can't find anything to eat in the future, it'll be a backup plan."
Liu Jiaojiao has always been very meticulous, and what she said is exactly what we were worried about.
I immediately nodded: "Okay, then let us know when you go tomorrow, we'll go together. I still have some baskets I wove back then that I'd like to give to you two as a wedding gift."
Liu Jiaojiao blushed when she heard me say that.
"I really want to thank Brother Sihai for saving me back then. Otherwise, I wouldn't be where I am with Chen Jian now. You are my benefactor. If we can leave this island safely, you can be a witness when we get married."
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