Traveling Through Farmhouses: Taking the Baby on a Famine Escape

This time, Zhang Dacheng and his group found a small pool with running water. The path was narrow, allowing only one person to pass at a time, so the people fetching water lined up in an orderly fashion.

When Zhang Xixi arrived, she saw the long queue and stopped rushing to fetch water. She looked around and saw Zhang Dacheng standing on the hillside above the pool, deep in thought.

"Dad, what are you looking at here?"

Zhang Dacheng turned around and glanced at Zhang Xixi. "Nothing, just looking around. Girl, did you come to get water?"

"No, I came to find you and also to fetch some water to take back," Zhang Xixi replied, putting the wooden bucket on the ground.

"Your mother sent you to find me?" Zhang Dacheng asked, puzzled. Had something happened at home?

“Dad, it can’t be me who needs to talk to you,” Zhang Xixi said with a smile.

Zhang Dacheng smiled and asked Zhang Xixi, "Hey girl, what's up?"

Zhang Xixi looked around and, seeing no one, turned to Zhang Dacheng and said seriously, "Dad, I have a secret to tell you."

Seeing Zhang Xixi's cautious demeanor, Zhang Dacheng lowered his voice and asked, "What secret?"

"Dad, it's the fruit that the Monkey King gave me last time! There was a special fruit among them that I kept. I found that after eating it, my strength suddenly increased. It's this one." Zhang Xixi took out the Blood Vine Fruit and handed it to Zhang Dacheng.

Zhang Dacheng was stunned. Such a miraculous fruit existed in the world. "Daughter, you're not kidding, are you!"

Zhang Xixi picked up a large rock next to her and exclaimed, "Dad, look, your daughter is so amazing now!"

Zhang Dacheng wondered if he was still half asleep, so he rubbed his eyes hard and opened them wide again. Sure enough, his daughter could lift a rock weighing over 100 pounds.

After Zhang Xixi put the stone down, she saw that Zhang Dacheng was still staring blankly. She gestured with her hand in front of his eyes and saw that he was dumbfounded.

Zhang Dacheng waved his hand, "Daughter, let your father calm down first."

Sigh! This old man's resilience is still not as good as his mother's!

Zhang Xixi looked at the blazing sun. It was really hot today. She decided to find a shady spot.

After a while, Zhang Dacheng came to his senses and saw his daughter resting under a big tree in front of him. He excitedly walked over and asked, "Daughter, how many of those fruits do you have left?"

"Enough for our whole family to eat."

"So many! That's wonderful! If the whole family becomes stronger, we can survive better during this famine year," Zhang Dacheng thought to himself. "It's truly a blessing from heaven for the Zhang family!"

"Girl, are you sure you ate this fruit and not something else?"

Seeing her father's conflicted look, Zhang Xixi replied, "Dad, I'm sure I ate this fruit. If you're worried, you can try it first. Anyway, I've already eaten this fruit and there were no problems. If it really works, then let my older brother and the others eat it. If it doesn't work, just consider it a special fruit!"

Zhang Dacheng nodded in agreement, thinking it was safer to do it this way, and ate the fruit in his hand.

Zhang Xixi handed another fruit to Zhang Dacheng, saying, "I ate two last time, so you should eat two this time too. You should see results in two or three days."

Zhang Dacheng took the fruit, peeled it, and put it in his mouth. It melted in his mouth, and he still couldn't taste anything!

Is this what all magical fruits taste like?

Once Zhang Xixi saw that everything was finished, she decided to go back.

"Dad, I have to go back and cook. What about you?"

Zhang Dacheng glanced at the many people still fetching water below and waved his hand, "You go back first, give me the bucket, I'll fetch the water for you later."

"Girl, wait a minute!" Zhang Dacheng suddenly remembered something and called out to Zhang Xixi again.

"Dad, is there anything else?" Zhang Xixi turned to look at Zhang Dacheng.

"What are you going to do with your big cat? There will definitely be a lot of people after we go down the mountain."

Zhang Xixi understood Zhang Dacheng's meaning; he wanted her to release Xiao Jin. However, after raising her for so long and using up so much of her spiritual spring water, releasing her was definitely out of the question, and Xiao Jin certainly wouldn't want to leave.

However, since the white tiger is so rare, it will definitely attract unwanted attention after it comes down from the mountain. Even if no one does, it will cause panic, which will then affect the villagers.

"Dad, I'll go back and think about it. I'm leaving now!"

Zhang Dacheng waved his hand. "Go!"

"System, is there any way?"

"Host, you can actually put that white tiger in the system's built-in storage space, but there will be a price to pay!"

"What price?" Zhang Xixi wondered if this damn system was planning to rip off her luck points again!

"After this, the system's built-in storage space will be shut down!"

Zhang Xixi thought to herself, "If I turn it off, I might as well turn it off. Anyway, I already have more than 20 square meters of space in my storage bag, so I don't need the system's space anymore."

"System, put everything from the storage space into the storage bag." Zhang Xixi thought she had to move the things now, in case she forgot them later.

"Host, is there a need to be in such a hurry?"

"Time waits for no one, there's still so much to do when we get back!"

"Host, everything has been put into the storage bag. Please take the storage bag with you, as this system needs to clean the space!"

Zhang Xixi paused for a moment, then hung the storage bag on her waist. Did the space need to be cleaned?

System: Clean up and welcome the White Tiger!

After returning, Zhang Xixi took Xiao Jin to a secluded place and stored it in her storage space, along with two buckets of spiritual spring water.

Zhang Xixi wondered if Xiao Jin, a lone tiger, was afraid of the dark inside. She prepared dinner while thinking about it. Today, she would cook all the remaining grains and add the leftover bear meat from yesterday.

After dinner, Zhang Xixi blatantly took out the seasoning packet she had bought, letting Chen Shi use it to her heart's content, while she went to struggle with the unchopped rabbit meat. She added a layer of salt, felt it was not enough, and continued to add more.

Upon noticing this, Chen immediately scolded, "Zhang Xixi, do you think salt is free? And why are you putting in so much? Do you want to eat salt or meat?"

Zhang Xixi was embarrassed! "Mom, it's so hot, I was just worried it would break!"

It's not that she lacks experience; she's good at eating vegetables and growing vegetables, but she's just not good at cooking!

Mrs. Chen shook her head. This daughter still needed her continued supervision. She squatted down, brushed Zhang Xixi's hand away, and marinated the rabbit again. "Did you learn it? This little bit of salt is enough!"

Zhang Xixi quickly nodded, indicating that she had learned it!

As she was preparing to continue marinating the rabbit, Zhang Xixi suddenly caught a glimpse of a snake swimming towards her from the corner of her eye next to the wooden basin. Startled, she jumped up.

"Mother, there's a snake!"

Chen glanced at it and said helplessly, "It's just a rat snake, it's not poisonous, what's there to be afraid of!" As she spoke, she picked up a stick from the ground and used it to lift the snake to the side.

She was terrified of these soft, slippery snakes. She guessed it was because she watched too many snake movies when she was a child in her past life, and it gave her a psychological trauma. Zhang Xixi thought she would definitely have nightmares tonight.

Alas! I will not be able to meet the Duke of Zhou (the god of sleep) tonight.