Neighbors in forbidden land

"Is plant ashes just dust..." Looking at the branches burned by the little goblin in front of him, they have turned into a mixture of black, white and gray flocs, and dark red sparks flicker in the slightly scattered ashes.

The little goblin just quietly floated by Yimi's side, shining with a faint red light.

"That's it. Wu Shao said that you can use these plant ash to improve the soil quality first, and then plant potatoes." Yimi turned her face towards me, slightly raised the corner of her mouth and asked me, "Xiao Hei, are you sure about this place?" Isn’t it a saline-alkali land?”

"Well...probably, at least I didn't see any salt..."

In retrospect, the ground on the other side of the stronghold is covered with a little white powder, which can be easily seen at a glance.

At least there is no white salt on the ground here even if all the fallen leaves are pulled away, so there should be no problem.

"Hey...Xiao Hei, you are so uncertain, I express my doubts."

"Uh...no problem, even if there is a problem, Yimi, you can solve it, right?"

At least since I got to know Yimi until now, Yimi can give certain solutions to the problems that have occurred.

"I can't solve all the problems..." Yimi sighed softly and lowered her head slightly, "Besides, there is no chance for us to solve the problem. There are not many potatoes left. If it’s messed up, then there’s probably nothing left.”

I seem to understand what Yimi means.

These potatoes were all found by Xiao Gu from the shipwreck at sea, no... even this is just Yimi's deduction. In fact, we don't know where these potatoes come from.

Leaving this aside, that is, if the potatoes temporarily stored in the cave do not grow in the end, all the potatoes are used up in this way.

When I first buried potatoes in the ground, I said they would grow, but the truth is far from being as simple as I thought.

But Yimi didn't give up because of failure, so I feel that no matter what happens, she has a solution.

"Then we can work hard this time to make him succeed?" I knelt down beside Yimi, looked at Yimi's face, and those conversations I had had before surfaced in my mind, "Didn't you say that Yimi Want to make it better than the south side of the sea?"

For a moment, I wanted to reach out and hold Yimi's hand.

But I still resisted the urge that came out of nowhere.

I can't hurt Yimi.

"I will accompany you to make this place even better than that over there."

This point, since it is agreed, let's implement it.

"..." Yimi didn't speak, but raised her index finger, fumbled around in front of my eyes, and finally landed on my forehead with a light touch.

"Okay, let's make it happen together, then...Xiaohei, you have to loosen the soil in the cave first, otherwise how can I do it?" Yimi smiled softly, and then put her finger on my forehead A circle was drawn on it, "I have to carry the ashes over."

"Loosen the soil in the cave? How to loosen it?"

"To put it simply, dig up the soil and then put it down..." Yimi exerted a little force on her fingers, pushing my head back, "It's still so stupid."

"Go right away..." I supported the ground on both sides with my hands, stood up, and walked towards the cave.

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"The previous sentence, I thought you became smart..."

Only the lingering sound of this sentence floated from behind me.

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Fortunately, because of the random digging before, the cave was expanded to a relatively large size.Just now Yimi said that the ground needed for planting potatoes this time may be larger, at least the cave is much larger than the potato field.

So according to Yimi's request, I directly re-planed the planned ground, saying that it was to loosen the soil.

At least the ground that has been loosened looks darker than the surrounding ground that has not been loosened, so it should be ok?

So, Yimi took some plant ash with her hands and sprinkled it on the surface of the loosened land, and then asked me to loosen the land again.

It is said that mixing a small amount of plant ash evenly with the soil can increase the nutrition of the soil while avoiding the same alkalinity of the soil. I don't understand a lot of words.

Why not just bury the branches in there?

Can something that has been reduced to dross by flames be more useful than itself?

On this point, maybe I have to ask Yimi.

Now I just turned the land over again and mixed plant ash and soil together.

"The next step is to sprinkle some water. Fortunately, I brought the stone bowl with me... Is this the direction?"

"Yes."

So, I watched Yimi come in and out continuously, scooped a bowl of water in, and then scooped water from the bowl with one hand and sprinkled it on the ground mixed with plant ash.

At this time, the goblin was just floating slowly at the entrance of the cave, as if she didn't want to enter the cave.

"Is that enough?"

"It should be ok...that's about it...Xiao Hei, hurry up and wash your hands." Yimi stood by the river ditch, waving a stone bowl for me to come over.

"do you need?"

"Of course it is necessary. Girls should pay attention to hygiene, you know? Stretch out both hands."

I obeyed Yimi's request and obediently stretched out my two muddy hands to the front, so Yimi slowly lifted up the stone bowl filled with water:

"Is that possible?"

It seems that there is still some distance, so I stretched my hands forward and put them under the stone bowl: "That's it."

"it is good……"

Then Yimi poured the water in the stone bowl down slowly, the clear and transparent water flowed through the seemingly soft hands, washed away the scattered dirt and dust, and slid down to the ground along the snow-white short fingertips.

The feeling of clear water flowing through the hands is like a faint coldness, but also a different kind of softness.

It's like the feeling of Yimi's hand touching me, but Yimi's hand has a temperature that belongs only to her.

Yimi repeated the same action, and I continued to maintain the posture of stretching out my hands, letting Yimi wash my hands with water. "Are you ready?" Yimi asked me softly after pouring a bowl of water.

"Okay... right?" I'm not sure, because I don't know the standard.

"Xiao Hei, you really... really want to wash it for you yourself..." Yimi put down the stone bowl, and gently touched my arm with one hand, "Of course it's fine to touch my arm..."

Because my original body, the most aggressive part is the claws.But now it looks like Yimi's hand, but the fingers still retain the most primitive state.

However, even so, in terms of contact, it is already much better than in the past.

"I also want to help you wash Yimi, whether it's washing your hands, washing your hair, or taking a bath, uh uh uh—"

But before I finished speaking, Yimi's hand went up my arm, from my shoulder to my neck, and finally grabbed my face lightly, blushing and angrily said: "I just said Help you wash your hands, Xiao Hei, where did you think of going!"

"I just want to help Yimi, just like Yimi you help me uh uh uh—"

Yimi's hand holding my face suddenly became stronger, and for a while all my words became a single syllable.

"That's why I said, Xiao Hei, what on earth are you trying to do!" Yimi's cheeks were flushed with a blush like the sunset, and then she pinched my face hard, "Every time you say this kind of thing that makes people feel helpless!" If you're on guard—"

Every time Yimi blushes, she seems to be more excited than usual, and the degree of excitement seems to be related to the degree of blushing.

But I have never grasped what kind of words will make Yimi fall into such emotions.

However, based on past experience, such emotions seem to get better on their own in a while.

My head can only be pulled back and forth with the rhythm of Yimi's hand shaking, watching the fiery red goblin slowly swaying behind Yimi.

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According to Yimi, these are the preparations.After doing these tasks, you only need to wait for a while before you can start planting potatoes.

In the evening, we returned to the stronghold and resumed our life of eating grilled fish.

Yimi and I stood by the seaside fire, the flickering firelight and the setting sun fell on us at the same time, leaving long shadows on the ground, while Xiaogu floated on the dark sea surface full of sunshine , sparkling waves.

But Yimi seems to have other ideas.

"Even if the conditions are tough, don't you think it's not enough to just eat potatoes and grilled fish..." Yimi who stood by the fire seemed a little weak.

Goo and I looked at each other.

"Is it enough?"

"Gulu Gulu? (Do you want fish?)"

After hearing me and Xiao Gu's words, the powerlessness on Yimi's face seemed to become stronger: "You two... I should have realized that I was the only one who would worry about food from the beginning to the end... ..."

Goo and I looked at each other.

"Uh... After all, I'm not human..."

"Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr so Goo also fell silent.

"There are no fruits here, but we must find a way to get some vegetables..." Yimi sighed softly, with a trace of sadness on his face, "Eating these things every day will be unbearable..."

I looked at Xiao Gu, who also blinked his white eyes at me.

"Vegetables... where do I get them? I'll get them?"

"Gu Gu Lu Lu. (Eat and eat.)"

Yimi waved her hand helplessly, and said as if she had given up on something: "It's available where I used to live, Xiao Hei, can you get it?"

That's it.

I nodded to Xiaogu: "Let's go."

"Gululu? (Want to play?)"

"Hey, hey, what are you going to do, Hei..." Yimi, who hastily called out to me, became even more serious, and a faint shadow was reflected in the setting sun.

"If I go with Xiao Gu, we can get it back soon. By the way, what do the vegetables look like?"

As long as you know what it is, this body can get it without causing huge damage. It is very convenient to think about it carefully.

"Are you really planning to go... I'm just talking casually. Instead of talking about this, it's better to look for algae in the shallow sea..."

"Algae?"

"...In words you can understand, Xiao Hei, it is a plant that grows in the sea... I remember the book said it grows on rocks...probably."

"Then I'll look for it.

Since Yimi's final decision was this, I whispered what Yimi said to Xiaogu, and then searched separately.

I haven't been in the sea many times, and I haven't paid attention to what is in the shallow sea. I vaguely remember that there are only sand and stones.

Flapping the single wing and swimming eastward along the shallow sea, there is only white sand and gravel covered with the seabed below, occasionally one small shell after another can be seen.Occasionally, I could see slightly larger rocks, but I didn't find the algae mentioned by Yimi, or rather, I didn't see anything similar to the plants in my impression.

But the shells... I looked at my hands in the sea water, and my current hands also couldn't pick up those shells intact.

The last time I used my claws to pick up the shells that I gave to Yimi from the beach, almost all of them were broken.

If you want to give it to Yimi, it seems that you have to find something that I can get.

Swimming in the sea while facing these things, I checked that there was nothing around me, and then swam back the way I came from.

When I returned to Yimi, Xiao Gu also came back.

But the sharp horns under Goo's head, the fins on his body, and the blue-black scales were all covered with tiny things.

Like tangled dark green leaves.

So, when the sunset was close to the skyline, we ate grilled fish and grilled... Yimi touched it with her hand and said that she didn't know what it was called, maybe it was kelp, maybe it was seaweed, maybe it was something else.After being grilled on the branch, it turned into the same kind of charred black thing. I watched Yimi carefully bite the skewer in her hand, while Xiao Gu was writhing in the sea to swallow the roast as always. Unidentified algal plants came out.

The leprechaun floated by the fire we had built, as if fused with the flickering sparks.

"It seems to be edible... Xiaohei, you should try it too!" Yimi handed another skewer to my mouth, and I took a bite of it lightly and kept chewing in my mouth.

I never knew food could have so many flavors, and I just noticed that baked things seemed to have a similar taste.

Kind of hard...and kind of weird.

"How?" Yimi asked me excitedly.

"It's about the same as grilled fish?" That's what I thought.

"Hey...Xiao Hei, your sense of taste is really strange. Can vegetables taste the same as meat?"

"Perhaps it is still impossible to distinguish and compare..."

"But at least there is something else to eat." Yimi smiled and tore off some roasted unknown algae with her teeth, "It's all thanks to you and Guo."

"I didn't do anything..." Xiao Gu found all these, and after entering the sea, Xiao Gu had to get used to it better.

"Even so..." Yimi stuck the skewers in the sand, gropingly put her hand on my hair, and stroked it gently, "I still want to thank you, Xiao Hei, who went to the sea to help me find it together. .”

At this moment, I don't know what to say.

I just lowered my head slightly, letting Yimi caress my head gently, feeling the unique tenderness in this world for me.

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"Yimi has made a new plan for planting potatoes in the experimental area, but it seems that he needs to find other food. What is the name of the plant that Xiaogu finally found?

But obviously it’s all going to the sea, it’s fine if you can’t catch fish, why can’t I even find non-moving plants ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

Or does the plant actually move?

Thinking about it this way might make sense, eh.

Yimi touched my head today, and I always feel that every time she touches my head, there will be a special feeling in my chest... What is it?

No.40 thirty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety-six days.