After inquiring, it was found that only Zhou Island, which was the closest to Qiong Island, could be the Zhang family's temporary residence. However, to go from Qiong Island to Zhou Island, it was necessary to hire a local boat. Wang Shiyu had no mood to go to that island, because from the environment of Qiong Island, it could be seen that Zhou Island was definitely not a good place.
Qiongdao looks vast and sparsely populated, but many places have exposed yellow and white land, and some land is covered with salt flowers, which should be the so-called saline-alkali land.
Wang Shiyu lowered her head and rubbed the soil on the ground, then put a little into her mouth to taste it. It was very salty and astringent, and even had a fishy smell, the smell of blood. After spitting out the taste in her mouth, Wang Shiyu's eyes darkened a little.
If you come to this kind of place for tourism, it's okay to have some fun, but if you stay here for a long time, even if you are a good person, you will go crazy. There is nothing to play here, and even basic life will be a big problem.
They had just arrived here and settled down. Because all the purchases had to be made by boat to Jizhou City, the next day the old man took his two sons to Jizhou City and left the women and children in the family at home, without even worrying about any problems at home.
Looking at the old man's decision, Wang Shiyu didn't say anything, but she was secretly cautious in her heart. It seemed that she didn't trust the old man as much as before, mainly because the old man had been a little too strange in the past two days.
After the old man came back from Jizhou and bought some food, some dried vegetables and various seasonings, the remaining fresh vegetables would need to be picked by the women in the wilderness, because no one sold them in Jizhou City. Even now, there are no green vegetables in the entire Jizhou City, and the few dried vegetables that are available have to be robbed.
This house seemed to have a hidden secret. When they were cleaning up the house, they found a very large cellar near the left side of the second entrance. There was nothing in it. Wang Shiyu had sneaked down there once before, and the pungent smell inside made her remember it. Since then, she never walked down there again.
Because the fishy smell was definitely a strong smell of blood, which had permeated the entire cellar. The old man seemed to understand it, so he and his two sons filled it with a layer of soil at night. Although the cellar looked smaller, the disgusting fishy smell was covered up a little. In order to be able to put things here as soon as possible, the old man directly put the exit of the cellar under the sun and began to expose it to the sun, which made the smell in the cellar dissipate faster.
The old man's attitude towards this cellar is suspicious, mainly because his familiarity with it is surprising.
After seeing the house cleaned up, Wang Shiyu still felt a little uncomfortable, especially when she looked at the entrance to the cellar. She felt even more irritated. She didn't know how many people had died here. It would be better to build a new house at home so that it would be cleaner. But the old man was determined to use this place. She was still young and had no ability to resist. Even her father and second uncle had discussed with the old man to fill this place up, but the old man disagreed.
Although they didn't understand why grandpa made this decision, they could only respect it.
After the cellar had been ventilated for three days, the old man asked Wang Shiyu to take out all the boxes that he had placed with her before. Wang Shiyu didn't think much about it and took out all the gold, silver and jewelry that the old man had placed in her space. Except for the food that she had exchanged for gold and silver along the way, she didn't touch the others. Wang Shiyu didn't even bother to tear off the seals on them to take a look.
You know, Wang Shiyu has a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in her own space, and she is not short of the old man's things. After all, she has swept up treasures from many countries, and even ordinary grocery stores. She is not short of mismatched ones. After all, these jewels are not pure, and Wang Shiyu doesn't take them seriously at all.
She even took out all the things that the old man had purchased in the town before, because at this moment she really felt that something was wrong with her grandfather, so she wanted to withdraw and did not want to be caught in any vortex.
After putting all her things into the cellar, she left immediately because she didn't want to stay in the cellar for too long. It was too cold and terribly cold.
The old man didn't care about Wang Shiyu's movements. After watching Wang Shiyu leave, he took out a list from an unopened box and checked it. After confirming that there was no problem with these things, he sealed the cellar where the box was placed. However, except Wang Shiyu, no one knew that there were so many gold, silver and jewelry in it. Some people even thought that it was just some food storage.
Even the neighbors knew that these people didn't have much money, so they naturally wouldn't target them.
Even at night, Wang Shiyu could hear the old man's footsteps walking back and forth outside. He was probably looking for something, so he sealed half of the cellar. Maybe he was afraid that someone would sneak in.
She didn't care about the old man's actions. Instead, early the next morning, he took a small basket and started walking directly to the small hill outside, wanting to dig some wild vegetables. They had settled in Qiong Island for five days now, and she couldn't stand eating dry food every day. She didn't see any vegetables at all, and she even felt a little constipated.
She had inquired about it these days and found out that there were no people buried on the hill over there. Most of the people buried were near the sea. Even if the sea water came up and washed out the bodies, no one would care. The bodies would be directly swept into the sea. As for what ate them, no one knew.
After arriving at the small hill, the environment here was really unacceptable. There was not even any wild vegetables. It was basically just weeds, and they were all withered yellow and green weeds. Wang Shiyu looked carefully and found a little bit of yellow stem vegetables, which barely covered the bottom of the basket. When she couldn't find anything else, she gave up.
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