Chapter 31: It's Raining
"We're going to die here!" Cai Jing muttered with a glazed gaze.
Ever since he had exchanged the biscuits from the treasure chest for the fire, he had been waiting for the rain all day with his neck up.
When he was committed to lying in the broken house, looking at Wang Lan and Liu Wen on the side, he was angry.
"I know you've disgusted me these days. I just can't make a fire! I just can't catch something to eat in the wild! What's wrong with this? If I hadn't been shipwrecked and brought to this deserted island, Lao Tzu would still be drinking cold drinks and blowing air conditioners in a big three-bedroom house......." Cai Jing's originally hideous face became more and more terrifyingly distorted.
The more he talked, the more angry he became, and although Wang Lan and Liu Wen were dissatisfied in their hearts, after all, Cai Jing was also the secretary of the department manager of Babbitt Company, and they still needed to rely on him when they got out of the desert island, so they could only endure it and not have a seizure.
"Don't pretend to be dumb for Lao Tzu, aren't you very capable? Lao Tzu is thirsty and hungry now, you go and get me water and food, otherwise don't let me see you!" Cai Jing said and pushed the two of them out.
"Boss. The two suddenly felt that Cai Jing in front of them was a little unfamiliar.
"It's useless to call me boss, don't you two just want to rely on me to get into the management? Either find water for Lao Tzu or get out!" Cai Jing shouted frantically.
Just when Wang Lan was angry and rushed to his chest and made a big fight, a dull thunder suddenly rolled in the sky.
Cai Jing shrank his neck in fright and looked up at the sky.
"Rain, it's going to rain!" he shouted in surprise at a dark cumulonimbus cloud rolling across the sky.
"I thought I couldn't wait for this day!" Cai Jing thought excitedly while catching the rain falling from the sky with his long mouth.
In order to wait for the rain, he had been impatient for a long time.
The campfire has been covered with leaf bark.
Around the treehouse, Wang Lan and Liu Wen spread a lot of wide leaves to catch water. The two-litre kettle also has its lid open, ready to hold water.
Cai Jing took off his shirt several times, revealing a not very strong body. He wanted to enjoy the rain, and the sweltering heat of the past few days had made his clothes smell of sweat.
However, the rain was much lighter than they had imagined.
After a silky drizzle drifted by the wind, it could have rained for seven minutes, and then the rain followed the distant thunder
Drift out into the sea and have a great time next to the island.
Cai Jing, who was extremely disappointed, shouted and scolded again.
"It's raining?" On the cliff, Lu Ming turned his head to look at the sky behind him.
The ancients said that it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to get down, but now, his situation is the opposite.
The cliff, which is more than 100 meters high, has now become the biggest obstacle preventing him from going back. He's been climbing up for an hour, with two breaks in between.
But there was still more than thirty meters to go, and he didn't have the strength to climb up again.
Now, he felt his legs trembling unconsciously, and when he stepped into the stone nest, he had a feeling of lightness. The backpack behind him was falling like a heavy rock.
On several occasions when he looked down, he had the illusion of falling on his back.
At a height of tens of meters, even if there is a river below, he will be hit and bleed, not to mention, there is still a reef with different teeth under the cliff.
"No, I can't climb like this anymore, otherwise my physical strength won't be able to climb this cliff at all. The cumulonimbus cloud would be here in half an hour, and the rain would make the rope slippery. Hasn't he been hoping for a rain to alleviate the water problem?
Thinking of this, he unloaded his backpack, took out a water bottle from it, and then carefully tied the backpack to the climbing rope, so that when he climbed the cliff, he could lift the backpack up again.
It's no longer a matter of saving water.
He had to regain his strength as soon as possible.
Thinking of this, he raised his head and drank half of the collected mineral water.
He felt a sense of relief as the active water molecules seeped into his blood and cells through his esophagus and stomach.
When he felt his strength gradually return to his body, he tightened the climbing rope with his reddened hand, gritted his teeth and climbed up!
Just as the drizzle was blowing through the foothills, Lu Ming finally pressed his arm against the rock on the edge of the cliff.
"It's okay, I'm so lucky!" he thought silently as he grabbed the rope and pulled his backpack up.
The improvised rain clouds still brought valuable fresh water reserves to Lu Ming.
The rainwater flowed down the rocks near the cave, and flowed down the drainage ditch that Lu Ming had planed beforehand into the plastic bottles, although the water looked like diluted mud, but after all, most of it was fresh water.
"Lu Ming, why have you been there for so long, I'm worried about death. Bai Xiaoyi looked worriedly at Lu Ming, whose clothes were torn.
"Bai Xiaoyi, I went to the cliff just now and found a good place. Lu Ming couldn't hold back his excitement and said.
"You just went to the bottom of the cliff, how dangerous is that!" Bai Xiaoyi said anxiously.
"Not dangerous, it's still easy to go down the mountain. Lu Ming said lightly.
"Lu Ming, you really don't want to be so nice to me. You have to take care of yourself, and if you are tired and sick, I have no hope. Bai Xiaoyi's eyes turned red.
She was telling the truth.
Lu Ming has taken good care of her in the past few days, and he has not neglected her at all because of the lack of food and water.
This made Bai Xiaoyi moved.
You must know that this is on a desert island, and Bai Xiaoyi believes that no one can do this except for her parents.
While affirming Lu Ming's kindness, she also made other conjectures.
"Perhaps, is he in love with himself?"
She wanted to repay Lu Ming's careful care, but Lu Ming did not show a trace of undue thoughts for her. It made it difficult for her to speak.
"Xiaoyi, don't be like this, we are destined to meet here, so we have to take care of each other. Come, I'll help you turn it around. Lu Ming patiently explained.
"Hmm. Bai Xiaoyi nodded vigorously in agreement, and hugged Lu Ming's neck tightly as he carefully grabbed her shoulders and tried to move her.
Lu Ming's movements froze suddenly.
Bai Xiaoyi could feel his body trembling. So she put her face on Lu Ming's face and whispered in his ear, "Lu Ming, I want to go out to breathe?"
"Good. I'll carry you out. Lu Ming heard Bai Xiaoyi say this, so he put one hand around her waist, and the other arm reached the crook of her moth, and stood up to hold her in his arms.
In order to reduce the pressure on Lu Ming's arm, Bai Xiaoyi hugged Lu Ming's neck tightly and let him carry himself out of the cave.
"You sit here and blow the wind and breathe in the fresh air. I'll go to the cave and clean it up. Lu Ming placed Bai Xiaoyi on a flat stone in the shelter, then turned around and went back into the hole.
The weeds and branches used as mattresses had been scattered by Bai Xiaoyi.
Lu Ming cleared all the weeds and branches, and then swept the rocky ground with the branches.