She Only Cares About Cultivation
Chapter 165: 【164】Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 15 (Third Update)

Chapter 165: 【164】Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 15 (Third Update)

Over the following few days, the siblings buried themselves in studying clay, but they still had to eat, right?

In the absence of the ability to go to sea, they purchased ten fish baskets from the Space Mall. They placed some bait inside and threw them into shallow waters, tying the other end of the rope to a nearby rock. This way, they could catch some shallow-water fish.

Since Xiao Yu only had a vague impression, and it was just that, an impression, the actual operation was not easy.

They didn’t know how many methods to try to mix the clay, like adding plant ashes into it and kneading it. The resulting shapes were odd and bizarre.

The clay was either too soft or too hard. If too soft, it couldn’t support its own weight—it would either cave in or bulge out, never taking shape.

Sometimes, because they dried it too soon and the sun was too harsh, the pottery would crack, and many times they couldn’t even touch it without it falling apart.

But through repeated trials and errors, the two of them gained a lot of experience and lessons, so the pottery gradually started to look decent.

In just half a month, they successfully made two large ceramic containers that were at least fifty centimeters wide in diameter. Though ugly, they were sun-baked and very solid. They gently moved them to two corners of the cave for water collecting. Not knowing whether they would leak, they saw it as an experiment.

With this experience, the siblings used their imagination. They needed jars for pickling, and just making the jars was not enough; they also needed to make airtight lids.

The grain also needed to be stored in these ceramic containers. Keeping it outside was not only prone to moisture but also attracted rats.

By now, the brother had become adept at making ceramic containers, while she was better suited to making bowls, plates, small jars, and small pots, especially since the island was so sunny—the items always came out extra solid and were especially useful.

Gradually, as they almost finished making everything at home and tested them for leaks, they began making bricks—clay bricks.

Making bricks required no special skill, so they let Ze do it every day, while she continued to fish.

The past half month of toiling needed plenty of nutritional replenishment. The fish baskets had been very useful; the biggest catch was an octopus, which they ate for two days. Fortunately, it was cool enough to keep the octopus from spoiling.

In addition to the octopus, there were crabs, shrimp, sea eels, groupers, yellow croakers, and so on. Even without going out to sea, their bellies were filled every day.

After a little over half a month of feeding, their chickens began to lay eggs, which was indeed good news. Besides crowing, the rooster also served to propagate the next generation. After all, the island was vast and lush with grass seeds—raising more chickens meant they could have meat and eggs. How great was that?

So, she let nature take its course.

The ten-year-old brother, besides messing with clay, sometimes tried his hand at woodworking. She even bought him a woodworking book from the mall, claiming she found it by the beach. She intentionally dirtied and wrinkled it, bought him tools like saws and chisels meant for woodworking (also said to have been found), and then he got hooked and started working relentlessly.

Men are responsible for the outside, women for the inside—that applied to the siblings too. Each day, she toiled on how to make tasty food and how to capture it, while her brother’s daily task was to make the things she envisioned, like wardrobes, and furniture such as stools, chairs, and tables.