Chapter Seventy-Six: Encampment
The island is at a high altitude and is now at low tide, and the base of the island is surrounded by coral reefs or woods several meters high. The place I chose is probably the only good place on this island to land.
Because there are not so many reefs and dense and difficult trees to prevent people from going to the island, even at low tide, the water on the island is more than half a person deep. As you can imagine, when the tide is high, there are large boats parked here.
My shack is behind a rock on the hillside, condescending to this natural "harbor".
As long as I choke this fortress, I can find out even if someone sneaks up on the shore at night.
The herringbone tent is set up in an anti-slope pit. The location is also very secluded and not easily detected.
While Wu Xiuwen was fetching something for me, I walked around the neighborhood again, picked up some dry branches, and came back, ready to make a fire if necessary.
Although I don't really want to be a sentry for Cui Mingren, it is important for each of us to grasp the situation of those robbers. It's nowhere near like a "little inn" in the jungle, and I'm determined to make it my home.
At this moment, Wu Xiuwen came back again.
She also took Xu Yue with her. The two of them carried a roll of rattan mats and took a few daily necessities.
"Why do you live here?" Xu Yue looked at my simple tent and asked softly curiously.
She's one of the more easy-going people in the company. Sometimes I help her collect a courier or something, and she says thank you to me sweetly. Once, he bought me two boxes of cigarettes to repay me.
So I'm kind of familiar with her, and I'm very impressed.
"Ah, I'm here to guard the sea for you. I looked at her with a smile.
Xu Yue wanted to say something, but was glared at by Wu Xiuwen, so frightened that he didn't know where to put his hand.
It seems that Wu Xiuwen and Cui Mingren are in cahoots and have bullied Xu Yue and Zheng Shuang. I thought to myself.
In addition to the rattan mat used as a mattress, Wu Xiuwen also brought me a stainless steel lunch box with a handle, a thread blanket, two shirts and a pair of men's pants. A small plastic bag also contained a small bar of soap and a used somewhat blackened towel and a small bag of tooth powder.
"Xiao Cheng, I'm going to wronged you. If you still lack something, you want me. I'll bring it to you next time. Wu Xiuwen wiped the sweat from the corners of his forehead and said to me flatteringly.
"There's nothing missing. The main thing is water, if there is no water, I can go to the pool and fetch it myself. I glanced at the little plastic cylinder that could hold five liters of water.
"No, no, Mr. Cui and I will come to see you often. I'll bring you water then. Wu Xiuwen heard that I was going to run back to fetch water, so he hurriedly said.
"If only there was some more rice. There are so many seafood in this sea, I can cook seafood porridge, so you don't have to send rice back and forth. "I said to Wu Xiuwen as if I was going to live here.
"Oh, it's not a big deal, we still have some rice over there. "In order to stabilize me, Wu Xiuwen also responded to my requests.
Hearing that there is seafood that can be used to cook porridge, Xu Yue's eyes couldn't help but show a look of anticipation.
I can also see it today, she and Zheng Shuang can only pick up some leftovers with Cui Mingren, and they can't eat enough at all. And they don't know how to catch fish, so they can only eat some vegetable leaves.
But Wu Xiuwen didn't seem to want Xu Yue to have too much contact with me, so she was polite to me and urged Xu Yue to go back.
"What are Cui Mingren and Wu Xiuwen trying to hide?" "The more she is like this, the more questions I have in my heart.