She Only Cares About Cultivation
Chapter 182: 【181】Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 32 (Fourth Update)

Chapter 182: 【181】Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 32 (Fourth Update)

Under Yan Qing’s insistence, she ultimately did not take on a formal mentorship, but he was a man of his word and indeed devised a specific training regimen for Ze. Each day before dawn, they would begin their exercise around the small island.

The only way Xiao Yu could repay their hard work was by cooking good meals.

The best way to illustrate the deliciousness of the sea was to preserve the freshness of the ingredients, the fresher the ingredients, the more they should be cooked in the most primitive ways.

Hence, the most common method Xiao Yu used was steaming or boiling. Unless absolutely necessary, she wouldn’t even add salt, because the seafood already contained salt.

Her most popular dish was the seafood noodles, which were spicy, so they were very fond of them. The broth was made from scallops, octopus, shrimp, clam meat, etc., producing a particularly delicious taste. Adding chili sauce, bean paste, garlic sprouts, and cabbage created a messy stew effect. When noodles were then added, the broth became rich and the noodles chewy and tasty.

Xiao Yu’s research into food was exceptionally thorough, almost inventing different dishes to arrange for their three meals a day without repetition.

Ever since Yan Qing arrived, they even got to enjoy the game on the island, like wild rabbit and wild chicken, everything was available.

Under the nourishment of Xiao Yu’s ingredients, Yan Qing gradually put on weight because the two men ran all over the hills daily, turning their fat into muscle, hence their bodies were well-proportioned and very healthy.

Xiao Yu was not bad either, with yoga and farm work, her physical condition was also good. She hadn’t fallen ill in months since she arrived here.

Winter passed, spring came. On the island, they had no concept of time. After all, "In the mountains, there are no years; outside the world, a thousand years can pass." On the island, it was difficult to keep track of the days, let alone know about the outside world. The siblings were okay with this, but she could see that Yan Qing was getting restless.

Finally, one day, he approached them and expressed his desire to leave.

Xiao Yu calculated the time. By now, nearly half a year had passed since the epidemic, and after such a long time, they might have endured through the worst of it. Although it wasn’t as safe as leaving in the summer (the virus weakest in summer), the summer seas were rough and the weather unpredictable. After thinking it over, she seemed to have no reason to refuse.

Moreover, Xiao Yu wanted Xiao Ze to leave with him, and although Xiao Ze was reluctant, Xiao Yu insisted.

"You can only see how Mom and Dad are doing if you leave this sea. Don’t worry, I won’t go anywhere. I will just stay on this island and wait for you to come back and get me."

Ultimately, Xiao Yu convinced Xiao Ze, and Yan Qing agreed to take care of him.

So, in the following days, the brothers busied themselves repairing the boat, while Xiao Yu brewed Medicine Pills for them. The recipes were all purchased from the Space Mall, each recipe costing ten thousand yuan, including various kinds such as Detoxification, promoting blood circulation, and nourishing Qi among others; she included all of them in her brewing.

Although each recipe cost ten thousand yuan, the Medicinal materials were fairly priced. It took them over a month, altogether, to repair the boat for sailing.

They used the remaining tent cloth from Yan Qing as a sail, and the rest of the cloth was nailed to the cabin, which could prevent leaks.

Then they began to pack food and drink; roasted dry cakes, pickles, cold water, and over one hundred bottles of Medicine Pills, with a cost of two million from the Space Mall—just the recipes alone amounted to one and a half million, and the remaining five hundred thousand went on medicinal herbs, not including the daily expenses for firewood and water used in brewing the medicine.