Initially, the two sisters were chosen together, and they were originally supposed to ally with Wu Jing, but they unexpectedly met Wang Lun and his group. After arriving on the island, they chased prey but lost their way, yet still managed to find a suitable campsite. Later, they even encountered Wang Lun and his group again; their luck was truly remarkable.
After the four had rested, it was almost time. Wang Lun led the other three to the beach to collect seafood. Wang Lun went into the water to collect the fish baskets, while Li Ling and the other two checked the traps. Then they went back to the beach to collect seafood.
It took nearly an hour for the four of them to return to camp. They carried four baskets, each half-filled with food, mostly shellfish, with some fish and other marine life. Wang Lun's favorite was seaweed, but unfortunately, there wasn't much—only three sheets. Wang Lun liked seaweed because dried seaweed could be stored for a long time, even into winter. They had eaten most of the seaweed they had previously had, leaving only a little. Now, with three more sheets, they could eat for a while longer.
The four returned to the camp. Wang Lun and Li Ling went to fetch water to prepare for cooking dinner. The two sisters, Liu Ruoling and Liu Ruoxi, stayed at the camp, hanging the seafood on the windbreak wall where needed and drying it where necessary.
When Wang Lun and his companion returned from fetching water, Li Ling and Liu Ruoxi began preparing dinner. Tonight's dinner consisted of stewed fish with wild vegetables, plus a grilled fish for each person. In this one meal alone, the four of them ate seven fish: four grilled fish and three boiled fish.
After the meal, Liu Ruoling took out cards from her basket and suggested they play. Li Ling and Liu Ruoxi naturally followed, and they also asked Wang Lun to join them. Wang Lun thought about it and agreed, since it was dark outside and there wasn't much to do. There wasn't much else to do at the camp for the time being.
The four of them played cards together for a while, until Wang Lun lost all his chips, then he stopped playing. He told the three of them to play, and he would go to sleep for a while, then get up to keep watch in the second half of the night, leaving the three of them to play together in the first half.
When the three women saw that Wang Lun had gone to sleep, they lowered their voices, but soon after Wang Lun fell asleep, they started talking loudly again.
In the middle of the night, Wang Lun was woken up by Li Ling. The three of them were so sleepy that they had to wake him. After all, if they didn't wake Wang Lun, they couldn't sleep too soundly, for fear of something unexpected happening. Wang Lun woke up groggily and saw Li Ling and the other two staring at him. Wang Lun paused for a moment, then got up. Before he had taken more than a few steps, the three women lay down on the haystack and fell asleep.
Wang Lun used the water from the bamboo tube to wash his face briefly to clear his head, then closed the door and sat alone at the entrance, looking at the campfire and the wall of fish in front of him.
Wang Lun thought that with so many fish, if there were still this many tomorrow, they could go back the day after, a day earlier than previously estimated. But then Wang Lun suddenly remembered the banana grove that Li Ling and the others had visited before. He figured they should have some more by tomorrow. Wang Lun made up his mind to go to the banana grove tomorrow; even if there weren't any bananas, picking up some coconuts on the beach would be good too. Wang Lun made a mental note of this.
Soon, it was dawn. Seeing that the three of them had not yet gotten up, Wang Lun went alone to fetch water from the stream with a pot.
After filling both pots with water twice, Wang Lun went to do other things. Seeing that it was broad daylight, he went into the water to collect the fish baskets. He caught four more fish, which he set aside for breakfast. After all, who would eat dried fish when there was fresh fish to eat?
After Wang Lun put the fish away, seeing that Li Ling and the others hadn't gotten up yet, he slung a basket over his shoulder and went to the beach to collect seafood.
While Wang Lun was searching for the fish caught in the trap, Li Ling woke up in the shelter. After getting up and going outside, she saw two pots by the campfire and four fish nearby, but not Wang Lun. Li Ling walked past the windbreak and saw Wang Lun by the sea. So Li Ling hurried over, ready to go beachcombing with Wang Lun.
Not long after, Liu Ruoxi woke up. Before she could even step out the door, Liu Ruoling woke up as well, called out to Liu Ruoxi, and told her to wait together.
The two went outside and found Wang Lun was not there. Passing the windbreak wall, they saw Li Ling and Wang Lun returning from the beach in the distance. So they didn't go over there, but instead went to the stream to wash up.
When Wang Lun returned, he emptied all the catch from his basket onto the ground, sorted out the fish, and then went to the beach to process them. Li Ling stayed in front of the shelter to process the shellfish. As for the octopus, lobster, and crab, which didn't need processing, they were set aside separately. They would be dried in the sun or eaten directly after being cleaned.
Not long after, the Liu sisters returned. Liu Ruoxi asked Liu Ruoling to help process the seafood, while Liu Ruoxi prepared to cook breakfast.
Twenty minutes later, Wang Lun returned with a half-full basket of fish on his back. Li Ling and the others had already processed the fish with shells on and were drying them. When Wang Lun returned, he hung the fish back on the windbreak wall. Then he went to the stream to wash his hands and face. He just had to wait for dinner.
After breakfast, Wang Lun took Li Ling and Liu Ruoling to the stream to paddle a raft and go fishing. Liu Ruoxi stayed at the campsite, looking after the food and the fire source.
Wang Lun and his two companions first retrieved the barrier net they had set out the day before. There were still about ten or twenty fish in it. After retrieving the net, Wang Lun ignored the barrier net and instead took out the casting net to begin today's fishing. Li Ling and Liu Ruoling removed the fish from the barrier net, tidied up the net, and set it aside. They would recast the net into the sea after they finished fishing.
Wang Lun cast his net several more times, with results roughly the same as yesterday: a dozen or so fish per cast, though sometimes he'd only catch a few clearly visible ones. But it was still better than hunting; at least fishing guaranteed a catch, unlike hunting where bad luck could leave you with nothing.
After a busy morning, they finally filled the baskets. Wang Lun put away the casting net and tossed it onto the raft. Then he lowered the barrier net into the sea. After throwing some fish entrails into the water, the three of them quickly rowed away on the raft.
Once they reached shallow waters, Wang Lun began rowing, while Li Ling and Wang Lun propelled the raft with wooden oars. This time, they didn't go to the shore, but directly to the estuary, paddling the raft into the stream.
Once they reached the shore, they first unloaded the fish, fishing nets, and other equipment from the raft. Then, the three of them pulled the raft together, hauling some fish ashore, and then secured it with straw ropes. At this time, Liu Ruoxi also arrived at the stream.
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