Xia Hua nodded, "Don't worry, big brother, it's just a matter of adding a set of chopsticks and a bowl. But you have to be careful and try not to go too deep, otherwise your group won't be enough to keep those animals from biting you."
Although those people are all quite strong, they don't seem as powerful as our leader. I don't want to have to save them and risk my life in the process.
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
"Okay, after you finish eating, go and rest. We'll take care of things here."
"Okay, you guys pack up, we'll go back and rest." He pulled his wife up and headed to the room. They hadn't slept well for over ten days. They could manage, but his wife couldn't.
The dark circles under my eyes are terrifying; this awful place is pure torture.
After watching them leave, the group washed the dishes together before returning to their rooms to rest. The next morning, after making breakfast, they stayed in their rooms and didn't need to go anywhere else.
On the third day, the eldest brother led ten people to the island, while the others stayed on the cruise ship. An Shuyi and the others sailed the cruise ship back and parked it, then prepared to go fishing for seafood.
When Yang Yahan got up, she saw that they were already washing up.
"Sister-in-law, the food is on the table, it's still warm. You can eat it yourself, we've already eaten," An Shuyi said.
"Okay!" She didn't say thank you. Shuheng said that there was no need to be too polite with her two younger sisters, otherwise it would be too formal.
I sat down at the table and was surprised to find that breakfast was so plentiful: congee with preserved egg and lean pork, jianbing guozi (Chinese crepe), and a basket of steamed dumplings.
Although there are only three kinds, it is already quite a feast compared to others. It would be great to have these for breakfast.
After dinner, she would clean up with them. It wasn't difficult; she would do whatever her two younger sisters did, and they could even chat together.
They stayed in the sun for ten days. An Shuheng and the others returned once on the fifth day. Although they didn't bring much, it was mostly medicinal herbs, which was enough.
The seafood was dried for ten days, then rested for two days, and then dried again. All the seafood in the vicinity was gone, so the cruise ship had to sail to a more distant place.
They were diligently sunbathing, while others only glanced at them occasionally, showing no curiosity and assuming they were just casually sunbathing, since it was just too hot outside.
It's fine before the sun comes out in the morning, but once the sun comes out, it gets unbearably hot.
Ten days later, they stopped drying seafood. Now they have fifty boxes of abalone, thirty boxes of oysters, fifty-two boxes of dried shrimp, and ten cans of sea urchin.
These meats can last a long time even if they are taken out, so they don't plan to dry them anymore. Instead, they plan to kill animals and store some meat.
When An Shuheng learned that they were going to the island, he rushed back and, after resting for a day and a night, prepared to take the others to the island.
"Captain An, you were able to bring those things back, so why do you want us to go to the island? It's too dangerous, we're not going," Chen Weijie said.
Staying on the cruise ship is great; there's no danger, it's not hot, and we don't need to do any research. All we need to do is extract the components from those medicinal herbs when Captain An and the others return.
Sending them to the island now would be tantamount to killing them. They might as well stay on the cruise ship and wait for the light to appear before leaving. Why take the risk?
Wu Ming also said, "Captain An, Wei Jie is right. Why don't we do it the way we did before? You guys are responsible for bringing the medicinal herbs back, and we can extract the components on the cruise ship. That way, you don't have to protect us."
"It's not only dangerous for us to go to the island, but we also need your protection. It's quite troublesome, don't you think?"
An Shuheng looked at them impatiently, "Going to the island to find those medicinal herbs is your job. We've been looking for them for over twenty days. Now you want to sit back and reap the rewards? There's no such thing as a free lunch."
"You all stay comfortably on the cruise ship every day, while I send my people to risk their lives to find medicinal herbs. Do you think that's possible? Besides, we only brought back a few kinds of medicinal herbs, and we don't recognize many of them."
“You don’t have to go looking for me. Once you’re out, I will report to the higher-ups the truth about how you did your job, taking the benefits while hiding behind the scenes.”
He knew that in order to get these researchers to come along, the higher-ups had given them a lot of benefits in advance, and that their families would be taken care of if they couldn't go back.
It's like paying money to save their lives, but they don't even go out to look for medicinal herbs. What a good thing! They could have gone out to look for them, but they only know a few kinds of medicinal herbs, and my sister and the others also want to go to the island.
If they were left on the cruise ship, things would turn upside down. Perhaps when the blue light appears, it won't wait for them at all and will just sail away, leaving them to die there.
Therefore, the cruise ship must be in their hands, and even their subordinates will not be allowed to touch it. It's not that they don't trust them, but that people's hearts cannot withstand the test.
Xie Yunfeng said, "Captain An, don't be angry. We were just too scared. We'll do as you say and go to the island. But there are also a lot of medicinal herbs on the outskirts, so we'll look for them there."
As for going inside, that's impossible; it's too dangerous. Outside, you can go on the cruise ship to rest every few days.
"I don't care how you find me, but once you get out, you have to be able to deliver. You can't just hand over some random stuff; that would be unfair to the benefits you received. Let's get going if we agree." After saying that, he told them to quickly get on the inflatable boat.
After they left, Xia Hua steered the cruise ship to the other side, lowered the kayak, and An Shuyi put the cruise ship into the warehouse. Then the group rowed the kayak to the island.
We stowed up the kayak and headed deeper into the jungle, checking for fruit and medicinal herbs along the way.
Perhaps this small island is rich in resources, because before long, we found a tree laden with grapes. There was no doubt that it was a tree, with vines entwined around it and roots embedded in the trunk.
If it weren't for the vines, they would have doubted whether the grapes were actually from the tree. They had no intention of looking for any other grapes and decided to pick the grapes from this tree first.
"Shushu, you're in charge of packing them down here, and we'll be in charge of picking them," Xia Hua said.
"Okay, you guys pick them, but be careful." Of course, she was talking to Hua Hua. As for the other two, they had martial arts skills, so there was no need to worry about them. Even if they fell, they would be fine.
They took the bamboo baskets out of the warehouse. These are the baskets they use to hold fruit. When they came, they realized that the fruit here was too big and there were too many kinds to put together, so they made a lot of baskets.
The bamboo basket is one meter wide, one and a half meters long, and eighty centimeters high, making it perfect for storing fruit. She also prepares storage boxes, bamboo baskets, and burlap sacks, which are mainly used to store these fruits, grains, and meat.
This way, we can not only pack more grapes, but also take more back with us. This one tree can yield at least five baskets of grapes.
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