CHAPTER 85: CHAPTER 85: WE CAN’T DO WITHOUT YOU HERE

Saying this, Pei Shu’er took a sip of Spiritual Spring Water and swiftly excavated a large rock.

After the rock was dug open, it revealed the yellow soil underneath.

Pei Shu’er dug at the yellow soil for a while, picking out some stones, and then continued to dig.

After digging for a period, the stones underneath became smaller and smaller.

Moreover, the soil wasn’t as bad as it looked on the surface.

The eyes of the people from the third house were red with joy; heaven never seals off all exits.

Before digging, Pei Shu’er had given everyone some water mixed with Spiritual Spring Water, the ratio was about 1:3.

This way, everyone’s strength increased limitedly, without too obvious a change.

As for the side effects of the Spiritual Spring Water, how could one not feel exhausted after digging so much sand soil?

After drinking the Spiritual Spring Water, everyone found the rocks very easy to dig through. By dinner time, they were all dug up.

Everyone saw the soil exposed, and it was very good.

People from the second and fourth houses also came to have a look, discovered the situation here, and quickly went to dig in their land, finding that although the soil was poor, it could be cultivated.

Pei Shu’er believed that perhaps the government officer placed them here for land reclamation.

If they truly intended for them to die, they wouldn’t have transported them here from afar.

During the process, several government officers were lost, wasting time and effort, which was unnecessary.

It would be cleaner to do it with one swipe of the knife.

They probably knew that this land was moldable.

They divided the cultivated land into three plots: one for building houses, where the soil was relatively barren; a middling plot for farming.

The last plot, relatively fertile, was for planting.

Now everyone plans to build a house first.

With so many people following Pei Shu’er, they can’t let people have no place to stay.

But building houses tonight wouldn’t be finished, so Pei Shu’er smiled and suggested.

"Why don’t we first make a big grass shed in the breeding area; the house can be built slowly later."

Everyone quickly nodded upon hearing it, now having a temporary place, their hearts, wandering throughout the exile, finally settled down.

Everyone was full of enthusiasm while constructing the grass shed.

Pei Shu’er laughed, "We can use the grass mats and curtains we wove before, some branches too. This isn’t temporary, everyone will be staying for quite a while, and later it can be turned into a livestock shed."

Zhang Chao nodded, "Understood, miss."

The grass shed was quickly constructed according to Pei Shu’er’s requirements, with wind blockers on all sides, and even had doors and windows. It was built very thick, ensuring the wind doesn’t get through much.

Pei Shu’er also let Yinxing and Granny Zhang Red Flower look for any wild fruits or animals in the nearby forest.

In the end, they returned empty-handed, as did the others.

Winter had set in, animals were hibernating, coupled with the cold place where few crops grow, after winter, it’s even colder, and the fruits had already fallen.

Sent for water, Lai Fufu and Wangcai came back, the water they fetched was a bit murky.

Pei Shu’er filtered it with cotton cloth, boiled it in an iron pot, then distributed it for everyone to drink.

Granny Zhang with silver apricot and red flower used all the salted fish left from before to cook.

Because the grass shed was tightly constructed, even if some fragrance drifted outside, Pei Shu’er wasn’t afraid of provoking envy.

Now everyone was spaced far apart, making it hard to smell anything.

However, the amount of salted fish was enough to last only two days, given the number of people.

Pei Shu’er thought it was time for her to take a walk and get some things out of her space to use.

At nighttime, Pei Shu’er looked at the crowd.

"Let me check your injuries, lately there’s been too much going on, haven’t looked at them much."

Zhang Chao and others had some joy in their eyes, quickly gathered around Pei Shu’er.

Zhang Chao and the others’ injuries weren’t serious anymore, just needed careful nurturing, Pei Shu’er gave them some bone injury healing pills, then looked at Tang Zan.

Only to find Tang Zan was looking at her too.

She was stunned, then her lips curled into a smile, "Let me see your injury."

The others tactfully looked away, and only then did Tang Zan roll up his pant leg.

Instantly visible were his mottled legs, covered with horrific wounds.

Brows furrowed, he shifted his gaze elsewhere.

Pei Shu’er gently touched the skin around Tang Zan’s wound with her hand, raised her hand and pressed lightly.

"Does the place I’m pressing hurt now?"

Tang Zan shook his head, "No pain anymore."

Pei Shu’er raised her hand pressing other areas, Tang Zan felt a twinge of itchiness in his heart.

Seeing Pei Shu’er’s hand stopping at a patch of skin and not moving, he turned to look at her.

Pei Shu’er was a bit surprised, new flesh on Tang Zan’s leg had grown a lot, covering half of the original bowl-sized scar.

The other half of his leg had begun to gradually grow some flesh too.

Pei Shu’er didn’t know if the meridians could recover, but simply relying on Spiritual Spring Water, without human guidance, the effect wouldn’t be ideal.

Thinking this, Pei Shu’er immediately took out a silver needle from her package and pricked Tang Zan’s leg.

Tang Zan’s thin lips tightened as he silently let Pei Shu’er apply the needle.

Pei Shu’er’s needle technique was unique, no Imperial Physician had treated like this.

Tang Zan initially felt nothing, but after about forty minutes, he felt tiny ants biting his leg.

Not painful, but somewhat hard to endure.

Pei Shu’er hurriedly said, "Persist a little longer, you’ll have acupuncture every day, your leg will gradually improve."

Tang Zan lowered his eyelids, looking at the ground, his long lashes hiding his emotions.

The people from the third house were silent, with such severe injuries, how could they recover.

That Tang Zan’s leg could recover to this extent without cutting below the knee, everyone felt it was heaven’s blessing.

Pei Shu’er said, "Tomorrow I’ll go out to see if I can find more herbs, then soak your foot every night, accompanied by acupuncture, the effect will be much better."

Tang Zan’s dark eyes studied Pei Shu’er, who raised her eyebrows, meeting his gaze with her black-and-white eyes.

"Bring me along when you go hunting tomorrow."

Pei Shu’er was a bit surprised, isn’t this so unlike Tang Zan?

This solitary, rebellious villain, why would he want to go hunting together?

More importantly, how could she take out prey from her space?

Is this villain intentional?

Pei Shu’er felt a bit melancholic.

Pei Shu’er coughed, eyes filled with grave importance.

"Hunting is a small matter; leave it to me."

"Tomorrow, you continue reclaiming land, no one’s got more strength than you. You’re worth several of us."

"Here, you’re indispensable."