So, relying on the two bottles of mineral water I brought from the wreckage, I walked aimlessly along the coastline for a day, and then lay on the beach for a night.
The water they had drunk along the way was also used up, and they were already in a state of hunger and thirst.
I only just saw the coconut grove. Just as I was about to get a coconut to eat, I happened to meet Qin Ruoshuang who was carrying coconuts.
After seeing Zhang Liu at this moment, Anya, who often paid others to do things, immediately felt that Zhang Liu was bossy and superior.
When Qin Ruoshuang heard Anya's tone, she frowned slightly.
"Uh..." After hesitating for a few seconds, Zhang Liu pointed to the coconuts behind a small rock not far away and said, "There are only coconuts at the moment."
"Alright, go and open one for me." Waving her hand, Anya also saw the foam on the ground in the direction of Zhang Liu's finger, so she walked over and sat down, then said, "Hurry up, I'm dying of thirst."
"Okay!" Zhang Liu nodded, but did not go over to open the coconut immediately. Instead, he said to Qin Ruoshuang who was standing still: "Classmate Qin Ruoshuang, why don't you sit for a while? We can have lunch together."
"Yeah." Qin Ruoshuang nodded, swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth, and sat next to Anya, but when her eyes fell on her again, they were no longer as friendly as before.
Instead, he felt somewhat dissatisfied.
"Ah... I don't know how long it will take for someone to come and save me..." After Anya took a big sip of the coconut shell filled with coconut juice handed to her by Zhang Liu, she asked Qin Ruoshuang, who was holding the coconut juice but didn't drink it, "Why don't you drink it?"
"Student Zhang Liu, you have a drink first." Qin Ruoshuang ignored Anya and stood up and walked to Zhang Liu who was chewing coconut meat, and handed the coconut shell directly to his mouth.
"Ah?" Having never had such intimate contact with a girl other than his sister, Zhang Liu subconsciously turned his head and spurted out the coconut shell in Qin Ruoshuang's hand.
The coconut juice immediately spilled all over the ground and seeped into the golden sand.
"Sorry." Seeing Qin Ruoshuang's embarrassed expression, Zhang Liu quickly apologized: "I'll open a few more for you."
"It's okay, just open a drink for yourself first, your face is all sweaty." After reaching out to wipe the sweat off Zhang Liu's forehead, Qin Ruoshuang did not sit back next to Anya. Instead, she picked up a stone and started to help him pick out the coconut meat.
As the heir to a big family, Anya is not an idiot. She has already seen it from Qin Ruoshuang's actions and expressions.
This should be the other party trying to please Zhang Liu deliberately.
But why?
Zhang Liu is just an ordinary man. Is there anything special about him that needs to be pleased?
Although I felt very unhappy and didn't understand.
But Anya stopped talking and just drank her coconut juice.
Compared to Zhang Liu's miracle-making version of using great force to peel the flesh off a coconut, Qin Ruoshuang appears to be more gentle and delicate.
The residual coconut meat rate on the coconut shell directly dropped from 40% to 10%.
But soon, Zhang Liu asked Qin Ruoshuang to continue sitting in the front.
The reason is very simple.
He was not blind and had already seen the blood on the other person's thigh.
It is really ungentlemanly to ask a girl to work at this time.
But before leaving, Qin Ruoshuang picked up a few pieces of coconut meat and fed them to Zhang Liu.
The touch of the girl's lips and the cold, soft and slender fingertips brought him an extremely strange and refreshing feeling.
"Why are you trying to please him so much?" After Qin Ruoshuang sat back next to Anya, she also heard the girl next to her whispering inquiries.
In response to this question, Qin Ruoshuang glanced at the other party without answering.
Her behavior was not to please, but to express gratitude.
No one in this world has the obligation to be unconditionally good to others. Zhang Liu and I are at most classmates, but Zhang Liu has already helped me a lot.
There was nothing she could do because she was not feeling well before, but now that she has recovered a little, Qin Ruoshuang is ready to repay the other party handsomely after being rescued, and to cooperate with the other party to survive here before being rescued.
"..."Anya looked at Qin Ruoshuang's eyes and could only shrug helplessly, pretending to be bored.
"Come, let's eat together." Zhang Liu said, and brought the lunch he had prepared over one by one.
This time he spent a lot of money to open the coconut.
The snow-white coconut flesh of four coconuts was piled up into a mountain, with a row of small peaks sticking out.
The three large coconut shells are also filled with clear coconut milk.
As for the few snail-like shells originally in my pocket...
Zhang Liu didn't realize until now that they had been worn down by their climbing behavior into a mixture of mucus and shell fragments.
So he had no choice but to take out these suspicious things that might be food from his trouser pockets, throw them aside and bury them with sand.
"Thank you." Qin Ruoshuang thanked Zhang Liu sincerely before reaching out to help bring the coconut milk, but Anya directly grabbed a handful of coconut meat and stuffed it into her mouth.
Chew a few times and swallow directly.
She hadn't eaten any solid food for a day and a night.
Even the coconut meat that Zhang Liu and Qin Ruoshuang began to dislike was an absolute feast for her.
"Eat slowly... drink some coconut milk to soothe your throat." Zhang Liu looked at Anya who was choking on the coconut meat, and quickly handed her the coconut milk and said, "I have something else to prepare, so take your time."
Anya didn't say any words of thanks, she just took the coconut milk and put it into her mouth.
Qin Ruoshuang looked at this scene without saying a word, but her delicate eyebrows slightly raised.
She had already seen that Zhang Liu's attitude towards Anya was absolutely an attempt to please her.
After hesitating for a few seconds, she reached out and grabbed Zhang Liu's sleeve and said, "Zhang Liu, can you come with me?"
"What's the matter?" Zhang Liu, who was trying hard to drink coconut milk, asked in confusion.
"Well, come over here, okay?" Qin Ruoshuang's eyes were very sincere. After Zhang Liu looked at her for a few seconds, he nodded.
So the two of them left Anya, who was still eating, and walked to a farther side.
"Student Zhang Liu, do you like student Anya?" Qin Ruoshuang asked with a very serious expression.
"No, I don't like her that much." Zhang Liu quietly looked over at Anya who was looking in their direction, and then said seriously: "Why are you asking me this?"
"I just feel that your attitude towards her is strange." Qin Ruoshuang stretched out her right hand and grabbed her left arm and said, "Are you too enthusiastic?"
Seeing Zhang Liu's puzzled expression, she couldn't help but add in a low voice: "And I feel that classmate Anya looks down on you..."
Chapter 9: Talk to the school beauty about your future plans.
After expressing her biggest doubts, Qin Ruoshuang looked at the other person seriously.
She needed an answer.
This is related to how he and Anya will get along in the future.
"Well, classmate Anya might look down on me!" Zhang Liu nodded, acknowledging Qin Ruoshuang's feelings, and then he said, "When she was in school, she would often pay me to run errands for her, and then she would laugh at me for being greedy for money."
Without saying anything, Qin Ruoshuang just bit her lips lightly and remained silent.
But in her opinion, paying money to force classmates of equal class to do things for her is already a form of school bullying.
"But, Anya gave me a lot of tips, which added up to almost 50,000 in the past two years." Zhang Liu couldn't help but smile when he said this: "My two younger sisters' tuition fees in the past few years all depend on this money."
"Are you paying your sister's tuition and fees? Where are the adults at home?" Qin Ruoshuang felt a little disgusted when she saw Zhang Liu talking about a lot of money and then laughing.
But when he heard the other party say that he would use the money for his sister's tuition and fees.
The woman's intuition immediately told her that there might be something hidden behind this.
"My parents died of cancer when I was in the first year of high school. All the money in the family was spent, and we owed a lot of foreign debts. Only my two younger sisters and I were left. It was only with the help of the school that I was able to continue my studies." Zhang Liu hesitated for a moment and briefly explained his situation to Qin Ruoshuang.
"A favor will be remembered for a thousand years, and Anya didn't give me money at first, but later she found out that my family..." Zhang Liu was just about to continue speaking for Anya.
But there was a call from the other party behind me.
"I'm full! Zhang Liu, what are you guys whispering about?"
Touching her belly, Anya stood up from the foam board with a smile on her face and walked quickly towards the two of them.
Faced with this situation, although Qin Ruoshuang wanted to comfort Zhang Liu, after seeing him walking towards Anya with a smile on his face, she could only purse her lips silently and swallow the rest of her words.
It was Anya who gave money to help Zhang Liu, not himself.
For Anya, who is only 1.53 meters tall and petite, it is impossible for her to eat much food no matter how hard she tries to fill her stomach.
When Zhang Liu and Qin Ruoshuang sat down to continue their lunch, only a small tip of the coconut meat had been eaten.
Later, Qin Ruoshuang couldn't eat any more, so with her and Anya watching, Zhang Liu finished all the coconut meat by forcing it to eat.
After a simple lunch, Zhang Liu began to chat with the two about his future plans, which he had been thinking about for the whole morning.
“When I set out to look for caves this morning, I was thinking about a lot of things.”
"According to the descriptions in the videos and survival novels I watched, the things we need most right now are shelter, water, fire, food, and an escape plan."
"The problems of shelter and water have been initially solved. I found a cave over there that is very suitable for living in at the moment."
"There is a fist-sized puddle next to it. I have just emptied all the water in it. I will know the water storage speed when I go back."
"It's fresh water, but it's a bit bitter. It's probably because of the minerals mixed in with the rocks. I will only drink this water tonight to confirm whether it is suitable for short-term drinking."
"The fire issue is a bit embarrassing. I don't know how to make fire by rubbing two sticks together. I just know some principles."
"As for food... since we are close to the sea and there are coconuts here, then the priority for carbohydrates is coconut meat. For protein and fat, we will temporarily choose fish from the seaside. In the future, we will see if there are other useful things in the forest."
"In the short term, I don't plan to enter this forest. At least within ten days, the possibility of rescue is still very high."
"If there is no rescue after 10 days, then I think we have to consider the long-term situation and then develop the forest resources."
"The first thing is to climb to the top of the highest mountain over there to confirm whether this is an island or not."
"If it's endless, it's obviously not a pirate situation. Maybe this is an undeveloped primeval forest. After we pass through the forest, we can find tourist attractions or something."
"What if it really is an island?"
"Then the goal will be to build a large ship that can go to sea as a last ditch effort."
In front of Qin Ruoshuang and Anya who had fallen silent, Zhang Liu listed all his plans for the future that he had made that morning.
"Zhang Liu, how do you know so much?" Anya took the lead in breaking the silence and asked.
Beside her, Qin Ruoshuang also had a puzzled look in her eyes.
To be honest, she thought she was calm enough, and during these two days of rest, she also made preliminary plans for the future.
But Qin Ruoshuang's plan, in general, still cannot avoid the idea of muddling through.
The plan Zhang Liu talked about at this moment was to list various solutions in an orderly manner.
There is a world of difference between the two.
"In order to improve my English, I have been translating my favorite wilderness survival books into English." Zhang Liu said with a wry smile, "I originally did this for the purpose of taking a research paper, but I didn't expect it to be useful here."
After hearing this, Anya and Qin Ruoshuang remained silent.
Both of them have private English tutors at home who provide one-on-one education.
I also understand that learning English ultimately depends on self-discipline.
Zhang Liu's self-taught and self-disciplined character made them feel deeply shocked.
Compared to Qin Ruoshuang's admiration, there was a hint of regret in the depths of Anya's eyes.
"Then why don't we go over there first?" Qin Ruoshuang turned her head to look at the sun which had already climbed to the center of the sky. The scorching light made her head feel hot.
Zhang Liu and Anya also felt the same.
So they both nodded.
Zhang Liu walked in front with a coconut in each hand.
Anya and Qin Ruoshuang each held a coconut, and the three of them slowly walked towards the small cave they had come from.
After entering the cool place covered by the shadow of the mountain, several people couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, the air breathed into the body no longer feels burning, but instead has a slight cool taste.
"The puddle I'm talking about is right here..." Walking to the small puddle he had seen before, Zhang Liu couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly and smiled.
Because he was surprised to find that in just a short period of time, the puddle had been filled with water and continued to overflow from the edge, moistening the surface of the mountain.
Although it's only the size of a fist, it can withstand the steady flow of water.
And there seems to be quite a lot of water.
When Qin Ruoshuang saw this small pool of clear liquid, she couldn't help but stick out her tongue and lick her lips lightly.
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