Even women who travel through time can become prime ministers and nobles.

Outside the cave, Shi Wanxia was digging a hole with an entrenching tool. She was already having a headache looking at the small hole she had been digging for almost half an hour. It was only a few centimeters deep and 50 centimeters wide. She wished she had a hoe. She was worried that she would never be able to finish digging with the entrenching tool.

But this is the only thing we can use right now. Using a knife is too slow, so it seems we can only carve a little bit each day. We'll carve for another hour and a half, and then continue carving tomorrow afternoon. We still need to cook dinner tonight.

Even a person can live a good life, Shi Wanxia thought about the past as she dug a hole. She was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage and had seen all sorts of people and things, but fortunately, she lived in a great, peaceful, prosperous country.

Thanks to the national nine-year compulsory education, I was able to attend school smoothly. In high school, I worked part-time while studying and was admitted to Wuhan University as the second-highest scorer in the county in both arts and sciences. I am currently a junior in college. Since being able to enter university and start creating, I have also accumulated a lot of savings and donated 70% of my income to welfare homes and some charitable organizations.

It's fair to say that I am who I am today thanks to the help of kind-hearted people in the country and society, as well as welfare institutions and schools. I originally wanted to enlist in the army when I was in high school.

But I was rejected because I wasn't tall enough, and I felt a bit annoyed. How useless I am! If I were taller, I could serve my country and give back to society. Oh well, I'll stop thinking about it. I'll graduate next year and plan to take the postgraduate entrance exam. I want to continue studying and learn more useful knowledge to serve my country.

Without such good national policies, such a stable society, and so many kind-hearted people, orphans like us would probably have been reincarnated long ago in a different country or era.

"A wide river flows, its waves surging, the wind carrying the fragrance of rice blossoms to both banks. My home is on the shore, I'm used to hearing the boatman's calls and seeing the white sails on the boats..."

As Shi Wanxia sang her favorite revolutionary song, her heart was filled with mixed emotions. Sigh, exams were at the end of the month, and she didn't know if anyone was searching for her, or when she would be able to leave this place.

But the premise is that I can't wander around this primeval forest alone right now, otherwise, before the search and rescue team can come to my rescue, I will have already been swallowed by this wild beast.

Shi Wanxia was digging a hole with her entrenching tool, lost in thought. After some time, it suddenly started to rain heavily. Fortunately, the hole she had dug was dry, otherwise all her work would have been for nothing. However, the raindrops splashed a lot of water vapor and mud on the ground. She immediately stopped, picked up her entrenching tool, and went back to the cave.

"The weather is so unpredictable. It was sunny just a moment ago, but now it's pouring rain. The weather changes in an instant. Use a stick to clear the mud off the entrenching tool."

I casually placed it not far from the fire, spread some dry grass on the ground, keeping it a little distance from the fire to avoid it burning. I went behind the stone pillar to take out my backpack, and found a lighter and two spice jars inside. When I was camping, all I had in my backpack were salt, MSG, and a vacuum-packed bag of dried chili peppers and chili powder. People in the southwest really can't live without chili peppers.

Luckily, I had put it in my bag, otherwise I wouldn't have any seasonings. I remember there were two packets of salt and MSG in the compartment, so I had to use them sparingly. Who knows how long I'll be staying here?

With no meat available for calories and energy, salt and chili peppers are extremely precious. After lighting a fire and adding some firewood, I washed a relatively flat large stone with water, cut the bamboo shoots into small pieces, took out a pot, put the bamboo shoots in it, added water, and placed the pot on the stove.

She started a fire, and soon the flames grew stronger and stronger. She took out a wooden spatula and began to stir it. After the water boiled, she added a little salt, covered the pot, and let it simmer slowly. Shi Wanxia controlled the fire, not daring to let it get too big, for fear of burning the pot.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning ripped across the sky, followed by a deafening clap of thunder.

Rumble... I was so startled that I almost dropped the wooden spatula in the pot. I patted my frightened heart, put the spatula down, got up and walked to the cave entrance. The scene in front of me was truly terrifying.

The silent sky once again unleashed a dazzling, devastating flash of light. Purple lightning streaked across the horizon, followed by a deafening clap of thunder that echoed for a long time through the empty mountains. As the thunder subsided, another long, serrated bolt of lightning pierced the sky like a sword not far ahead. The sky that followed was filled with flashes of light and thunder, as lightning lashed the heavens like a whip, a truly terrifying sight.

The rain poured down like a burst dam, and the air was thick with moisture, obscuring everything except for the lightning.

"This weather is terrible! Luckily I found this place to take shelter from the rain, and it's on higher ground. Otherwise, I might have been flooded. Oh dear, my bamboo shoots are almost ready!"

Shi Wanxia remembered that Guoli was still cooking bamboo shoots, so she hurriedly ran back to the cave. The aroma of bamboo shoots wafted from the pot, whetting her appetite. Although there was no oil or meat, the soup and bamboo shoots were still exceptionally delicious. She took out a compressed biscuit and threw it in.

"These compressed biscuits are really hard to swallow. If you boil them until they melt, the taste shouldn't be too bad."

After boiling for five minutes, I lifted the pot off the stove, took out another large pot, filled it with water, and prepared it for washing and drinking later. I absolutely cannot drink tap water. I only have two or three bottles of mineral water in my bag, which I absolutely cannot touch; I need to save them for drinking on the road.

I took out my bowl and chopsticks, ready to serve the food, but almost burned myself on the bamboo shoot. I picked up a piece; it was refreshing, crisp, sweet, and tender.

"Not bad, these bamboo shoots are worth all the hard work I put into digging them today. They're delicious, slightly sweet, and juicy. If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'll go dig some more. If it rains, the bamboo shoots will grow like crazy. We're really lucky, hehe, they're delicious."

Shi Wanxia ate two and a half bowls in one go, and only put down her chopsticks when she felt uncomfortably full. There was only one and a half bowls left in the pot, which she would eat tomorrow morning. She checked the time and it was only a little past 8 o'clock, which was still early. Since she couldn't sleep anyway, she could slowly weave some straw mats so that she could put them at the entrance of the cave to block some of the wind.

Shi Wanxia sat on the dry grass and began to weave a straw mat with vines. It wasn't difficult; she simply used vines to intertwine and entwine the vines and weeds together.

While weaving, I thought about the next step. It was a habit to use my brain and my hands. I can only say that after weaving for about half an hour, I finished weaving a half-length, two-meter-long and 40-centimeter-wide grass mat. It was a bit narrow, and there were still a lot of weeds and vines left on the ground. So I continued weaving. Practice makes perfect.

It was almost ten o'clock. Five pieces had been woven, two of which were kept as mattresses. Shi Wanxia dragged the rest to the door and used the remaining vines to tie the straw mats to the tree stumps. She climbed up and down and worked for a long time, tying up three straw mats. She looked at the remaining area and the existing straw mat area. To cover the whole area, my goodness, she still had to weave four and a half more pieces. The workload was heavy. Tomorrow she would continue to go out to find food, fetch water, and find mud to make buckets to store water.

"Ouch, my back and waist are aching. I don't want to think about it anymore. I'll continue tomorrow. Today's task is already completed." Just as Shi Wanxia was about to go back, a loud "thud" broke the silence outside the cave as rocks slid down.

"What's going on?" Shi Wanxia was still shaken. Could it be a landslide? She had to go out and check what was happening!