That was not what she meant when she said ‘dear’. Jasper Milton was doing it on purpose.


    She refused to answer him. “Let’s get it done as soon as possible. It’ll be bad if it rains tonight.”


    Jasper nodded and said thoughtfully, “It’s fine if it rains. It just so happens that we’ve run out of fresh water. Besides, you can have a good rest. Didn’t you say that you were very tired before?”


    Her cheeks flushed red.


    He wanted to do ‘that’ with her, but since she said she was tired, he refrained from doing so.


    She cleared her throat.


    “Don’t make fun of me. You should eat more. You have a lot of manualbor waiting for you. If you don’t eat more, you will be lighter and thinner. Then, you will be less important in my heart.” Ste tried to end this topic.


    Jasper scratched her nose.


    He knew that Ste was shy, so he stopped teasing her.


    He resumed his meal.


    After eating, Ste Grace went to wash the pot. Jasper first cut the bamboo into two pieces which were 3. 5 meters long. He then dug a hole for about 2 meters before he hit firm soil. He dug for another 50 centimetres, inserted the bamboo in it, and then covered it up with mud. After stepping on it firmly, he filled it with sand again. That way, the dried bamboo would be standing upright.


    After washing the dishes, Ste came back and started to help Jasper. She dug a hole simr to his about 1. 2 metres away from his other hole.


    Jasper finished his work and took over her work. “Leave this hard work to me. You should make some ropes. The more the better, and the stronger the better, too.”


    “Alright.” Ste sat on the ropes weaved under the parasol and drank a big mouthful of water. She found that there were only four bottles of mineral water left.


    Jasper finished preparing the bamboo jerky and came over. He took the bottle from Ste’s hand and gulped it down in one shot.


    “Jasper, our fresh water might be finished today.” Ste reminded him.


    “It’s not a problem. I’ll make more now.” Jasper took out the mineral water bottle that he had made before to extract the distilled water from the sea. He took up a bamboo slice, broke it in the middle and mped the bottle filled with seawater in the middle. He then ced it five centimetres away from the fire.


    “Watch the amount of sea water in the bottle carefully. If there’s too little left, the bottle will burn,” he said.


    “I understand.” Ste nodded. She made a rope while keeping watch at the mineral water bottle on the fire.


    Jasper split a small hole on the top of the bamboo pole which was 1. 5 meters long and inserted the rope into it first. Then, he wrapped it around the bamboo pole before tying a dead knot. “The meat can now be hung on the pole.”


    “Well, I’m done here too.” Ste took down the bamboo pole with a bottle of mineral water.


    “Don’t touch it yet. It’s very hot. Put it aside for a while.”


    “Okay.” Ste looked into the mineral water bottle. This method of distilling water seemed to be very fast and efficient. There was already two-thirds of water umting in the inverted mineral water bottle.


    Although the process of making water was very troublesome, at least they weren’t worried that they would thirst to death.


    When she was cooling the mineral water bottle, she went to deal with the pork. She pierced a hole in the pork leg with a dagger, put the rope in, and hung it up on the dried rope.


    Jasper didn’t continue to cut bamboo. Instead, he took out the fishing and used the rope to surround the bamboos and make it into the shape of a pocket.


    Ste continued to create ropes.


    “I’ll put the fishing at the bottom of the sea and bring it back in around 10 minutes. Take the gun with you for self-defense.” Jasper said.


    “Okay, be careful,” Ste said.


    Jasper nodded and put a big stone in the fishing. He then put a rib in the.


    He didn’t take off his clothes and went to the sea with the fishing in his arms.


    Ste poured the distilled water out and made another batch while continuing to weave the ropes.


    Eight minutester, Jasper returned from the sea. He took off his coat and pants, and hung them on the dry rope, revealing his strong chest muscles and eight packs.


    She felt that he seemed to be stronger than before.


    Jasper looked at her.


    She cleared her throat and said, “Do you want to eat fish tonight? We don’t have enough pork and stewed bamboo shoots left.”


    “I’ll finish up our little house first. If I have time, I want to dig a pond, and then pour the seawater into it so that I can rear fish and other sea creatures.” Jasper thought.


    “You don’t have to rear fish. You catch them every day anyway and we can’t possibly finish it all. I can wash them and dry them so that we could make themst longer.”


    “True, there should be fresh fish for us to eat every day anyway. Tomorrow, we will go to the forest to find some fresh nts.” Jasper said and began to cut the bamboo poles.


    “Do you know the species of the nts? Are there a lot of nts in the forest that are poisonous?” She did not know much about the species and couldn’t help but worry.


    “We used to carry out our missions in the forest, so we didn’t usually bring any food with us. We got our food from where we were staying, and nt experts were with us at that time. Therefore, I know what we can eat and what we can’t. Don’t worry.” Jasperforted her.


    Ste chuckled and said, “I have the feeling that I can eat and drink however I want as long as I stick with you.”


    “Goes to show that you should be with me forever,” Jasper said with a smile.


    Ste’s eyes shed and she nodded. “I will follow you for the rest of my life.”


    “Silly.” Jasper said dotingly. The smile on his face was blissful, rxed, and joyous.


    He chopped the tree into five meter long logs. He separated the thick ones and the thin ones before tying them in a bunch.


    Four hourster, he finally finished tying them up.


    Ste made a lot of ropes and she spent those four hours making three bottles of steamed water.


    Her belly did not feel well, and she had a bad feeling.N?velDrama.Org content rights.


    Her menstruation had always been irregr in the past. It woulde once in every two or three months, and when it came, the pain would be very severe.


    It was about toe now, but there was no sanitary napkin here.


    She came up with many ways to solve this problem, including using leaves or ropes to make a temporary tampon.


    In ancient times, it seemed that people used charcoal ash, which could absorb water.


    “What are you making now?” Jasper came over.


    Ste blushed and said, “Some basic necessities.”


    “Come here and have a look at our house,” Jasper said. Then, he turned around and walked towards the house.


    Ste held Jasper’s hand and found that something was wrong. She spread out his hand and found that it was full of blisters. Some of them were already inmmed.


    “You can’t work any more today. Your hands are badly hurt. Are you nning to destroy your hands?” Ste said worriedly.


    “Don’t worry. This is because I haven’t worked this hard for some time. In the future, there will be calluses recing these blisters. If I continue to work, I won’t feel any pain soon.” Jasperforted her with a smile.


    “Continue your work after the blisters have healed. Otherwise, your hands will be ruined. What if you get a fever? There are no hospitals here. Anyway, you are not allowed to work today anymore. Let’s go to the mountains to find some wild vegetables, maybe even some pork and seafood. Then we should be good for over 10 days,” Ste’s heart ached as she blew gently on his palm.


    Jasper stared at her. As long as he was with her, no matter how bitter the times were, there would always be a warmth in his heart.


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