"Lihua, I'll go ahead and check the situation,"
Meng Shaode, bow and arrow in hand and a bamboo basket on his back, walked towards the sun.
Cai Lihua was busy preparing pots and pans, while Tuoba Yan, with sharp eyes, immediately began setting up a stove with stones, just like before.
Aunt Li and her two children, who had never been so comfortable, were sleeping soundly, all askew.
A Jiu dismounted the carriage gently.
"Jiu'er, why don't you sleep a little longer?" Cai Lihua noticed her as she was tidying the stove.
It was precisely because she saw her sleeping restlessly that they had stopped in this secluded spot.
"I've slept well, Mother. I'm going to relieve myself," A Jiu slipped into the woods.
"Don't go too far."
"Understood, Mother."
Meng Shaode was leading the horse into the woods.
People need to eat, and horses need to eat grass, otherwise, who would pull them forward tomorrow?
Meng Shaode stroked the horse's face with affection, his mouth puckered in distress.
This time, Wu Dalei seemed spurred by Cai Lihua and volunteered to go into the mountains to hunt.
As soon as A Jiu squatted down in the woods, she took out peach pits from her pocket to plant. She then spotted Wang Shi digging the earth in the distance.
A Jiu dug holes with her bull-horn knife as she watched, buried the peach pits, and then planted some watermelon seeds a few steps away.
She took out the kettle containing earthworms and poured water on them.
Only then did she get up and approach, "Grandma, are you also planting peaches and watermelons?"
"Are you the only one allowed to plant, and I'm not?" Wang Shi, without looking up, spoke with a sour tone.
"But Grandma, you don't have water," A Jiu was confused about this.
But these words struck a nerve with Wang Shi. This girl just wanted to show off that she had water with spiritual energy.
"Can't I use my urine?" Wang Shi rolled her eyes at A Jiu. She had been telling him to bring rain, so she might as well serve him some spiritual spring water.
At this pace, when would Wang Shi finally achieve a full circulation of qi and gain some divine abilities?
Now, she hadn't even opened her Heavenly Eye, and yet she was talking about rain. This girl just knew how to make sarcastic remarks.
"..." A Jiu looked at her grandmother as if she were an idiot.
To her surprise, he actually stood up, turned his back to A Jiu, unfastened his belt, and stuck his hand into his pants, intending to urinate while standing. He suddenly felt empty.
"Oh... I forgot, I forgot," Wang Shi said, quickly squatting down, groaning in annoyance.
Damn it, his master must have deliberately punished him by making him reincarnate into an old woman, making even urinating inconvenient.
"Grandma, then don't forget to urinate on every pit. Otherwise, if one dies of thirst, the others will also dry up,"
A Jiu advised kindly, with absolutely no intention of mocking.
"I know, I know, do I need you to remind me?"
Wang Shi moved a little with each urination, ensuring she sprinkled evenly.
"Go, go, go, see what your mother made to eat. I'm hungry."
Wang Shi pouted as she tied her waistband.
"I'm not going. I'll eat whatever my mother makes," A Jiu returned to her planting spot and squatted down, observing carefully.
There were water marks in every pit. They should sprout soon.
A Jiu waited with anticipation.
"If you don't give your mother water, no matter how capable she is, she won't be able to make anything to eat."
Wang Shi's words sparked an idea in A Jiu.
She stood up and left.
Wang Shi squatted down to look at her own planting, then stood up to look at what A Jiu had planted.
At that instant, the soil cracked, and faint green sprouts pushed through.
Wang Shi's eyes widened: "So fast?"
Meanwhile, A Jiu took out a waterskin and handed it to Cai Lihua:
"Oh, Uncle Wu caught so many sparrows."
There were five or six sparrows by the stove.
Cai Lihua had been thinking that if all else failed, she would use the water from the last remaining watermelon to stew the sparrows.
"These were caught by Xiao Yan. Your Uncle Wu hasn't returned yet."
Cai Lihua took the waterskin and her eyes lit up: "A Jiu, where did you find this water?"
A Jiu pursed her lips. In fact, she had wanted to tell the truth for a long time:
"Mother, actually, I can get water from my dreams. Do you believe me?"