Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower-Chapter 31 - Green Pool

Chapter 31: Chapter 31: Green Pool

Chapter 31 -31: Green Pool

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Nobody chatted on the road; Old Uncle Qiu walked in utter solitude, and Bai Junjun was no different.

She hadn’t dared to slack off for a moment in shuttling the energy of plants and trees back and forth.

Yet, for the whole afternoon, she had not even fully absorbed the energy from such a tiny twig.

The sesame seed-sized energy inside her body remained just that, at most a tiny bit plumper than before.

Having grown accustomed to a full Special Ability Value, Bai Junjun felt incredibly frustrated returning to a period of meager growth.

Despite her desire to continue nurturing her Special Ability discreetly, she couldn’t lie in the cart all the time.

After all, no normal person could sleep for so long; otherwise, Old Uncle Qiu might think she was sick.

Bai Junjun had no choice but to get up.

The people all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Bai Junjun rise; they had all witnessed the girl’s condition in the morning, which was nothing short of hanging by a breath, so weak that she could pass out at any moment.

That’s why Old Uncle Qiu insisted on cooking the last bit of coarse grains at noon.

Apparently, his method had worked; the young girl had eaten and slept for the afternoon, and now she was spirited and no longer as frail as before, not about to collapse at the slightest push.

In the afternoon, people mostly continued their journey without rest, so they arrived at Green Pool much earlier than expected.

The sky hadn’t darkened yet, and the surroundings were still clearly visible.

Old Uncle Qiu then asked Xiao Shan to take the Bai siblings around to look for the fragrant herbs they had mentioned at lunch.

Xiao Shan, being at an age of playfulness, happily ran out at his grandfather’s behest, and Bai Junjun, intending to look around as well, followed him.

Bai Lingyu and Bai Sasa originally wanted to stay behind to help Old Uncle Qiu with chores, but seeing their elder sister leisurely follow Xiao Shan, and remembering how she often picked toxic food, the two children exchanged glances and silently followed.

Better keep a close eye on their elder sister, who wasn’t familiar with all types of grains.

“…” Bai Junjun.

Compared to the children going out to play, Old Uncle Qiu’s adults had a lot of work to do.

However, they worked in an orderly manner, busy yet not chaotic.

Qiu Da started to dig a stove, Madam Liu prepared the food, Qiu Er filled the water bladders and buckets, and Qiu San gathered firewood.

The family of strong laborers finished dividing the work in a moment, leaving Old Uncle Qiu, with nothing for him to do, supervising his sons’ work.

Occasionally, he would fiddle with the dry tobacco pipe around his waist, but as his supply of tobacco leaves was running low, this was not the time for indulgence.

Once the children had wandered off into the distance, Lao San felt it was time to have a family meeting. He pulled Qiu Er, who was about to fetch water, to his side before turning to Old Uncle Qiu, “Father, are we going to keep traveling with them? I don’t mean anything by it, just that with three more people we will have to…”

“Encounters are fate; looking after them is no issue,” Old Uncle Qiu interrupted his son.

“While our Old Qiu family may not be saints, we do observe righteousness. Turning a blind eye to a few children starving to death in front of us would incur a debt on our conscience in the future.”

“But three more people means three more portions of food,” Qiu San said with some melancholy.

Although they were skilled hunters, procuring game, like growing crops, was dependent on the whims of nature. For instance, this spring hunt had yielded so little despite more than a month in the mountains. Now, in the constant rush to travel, there was no time to set traps, which made the prospect of future food supply quite uncertain.

Old Uncle Qiu wasn’t overly troubled, “Let’s use the food we have to travel further, and when it runs out, we’ll stay put for a few days to replenish before setting out again. What does a family of mountain folk have to fear from hunger?”

“Father is right, saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-tiered pagoda; doing good deeds will also attract the Mountain God’s favor.”