2. First Trip to The Sea

The weather this morning was good, as the storm cleared up. Liu Fu got sick and just recovered recently. During the bad days, his eldest son was responsible for the whole family's food. He was proud, and happy mixed with some sadness. As the family head, he should not let his family down. Although his son was reliable he was still young. he should be more free and happy.

In this village is surrounded by abundant resources as nature provides for the village. The vastness of the Great Red Sea provides more than enough marine production. The Red Mountain and its forest have many games if you dare enough to go hunting, collecting wild vegetables, and even precious herbs are available. It is just that, if you dare to go deeper, you might gain more. But the risk is also high.

Village folks will not starve if they were willing to work more.

His family just migrated to this area, and with the minimal resources at home, Liu Fu need to go fishing from time to time, occasional he would go to the forest mountain to hunt some game, though his family had enough to eat but little savings, when he was sick this saving was used up, if not for Liu Fan, maybe they will be starved.

"Brother Liu, did you recovered already?" His neingbor Wang Gui asked.

Liu Fu turns to him and politely replies "Yes, I can not lie down, and wait for my son and wife to work right, I am going now."

The weather is good, there is no wind, the sun is shining above the water current, and the seawater was deep blue due to the reflection of the clear blue sky.

'After the gloomy storm, the weather cleared up', he thought.

Liu Fu arrived at the bay, there already some people came ahead of him, the surrounding people exchange greeting with each other as they were welcoming a new day, and expecting the grand harvest of the day.

Liu Fu's boat was not too big, but it could hold three or four people easily. In the boat, there were various fishing equipment. there is also some fresh water and food that his wife has prepared for him.

As Liu Fu's boat, move again against the sea wave current heading further deep into the sea surface. Suddenly there was some movement inside the messy fishing net, Liu Fu sense alert him immediately, reflexively he grab the paddle and started to walk closer to take a look,

"Dad! Please spare me, don't hit, it is me" Liu Fan abruptly talks first to avoid misfortune" then he cleverly apologized first to silence his father,

"I just worried about your health, to avoid you to tired yourself that might aggravate your cough more, furthermore, I am already 12 years old, old enough to learn some awesome fishing skills from you, and I promise not to slow you down". Liu Fu was speechless, whether he should scold his son, or be happy for his filial pity. As his son said, he was already 12 and will become an adult soon, so why not take this chance to teach him some skills?

On the way to the fishing spots, Liu Fu notice his son's complexion improve by leap and bound, his body getting tan but looked healthy and glowing, his muscle started to form in the correct proportion, his biceps looked tough his abdomen had six pads of muscle which were full of vitality, his height was only below himself for one head. He might become quite tall when he reached adulthood.

First, they need to lay the fishing net to trap fish in various locations, then they would find the area to dive and collect sea materials, such as abalone, seaweed, lobster, sea cucumber, etc. Around noon they rest on the boat, and eat lunch which consists of dry rations, with some rice balls. After that, they travel to collect their fishing net before going back home. At the dock, Liu Fu selects good quality seafood to sell at the market and lets Liu Fan bring small, poor-quality fish back home to cook for dinner.

Quickly, the fish were sold out, and precious sea materials were sold to restaurants in town. Liu Fu got some tales from selling fish, he went to buy some candy for his daughter and wife, and some grains to store back at home.

The sky slowly turn dark when he arrived home, and his daughter swamp up to him for a big hug with the expected something he brought back. Liu Fu give them fruit candy and said,

"Also share them with your mom ok". Liu Xiao Cao smiled and said,

"I will be the one to divide this candy".

Of course, she took one candy stick and a half while her brother took half of the candy stick, and her mom took one stick!

However, Mom gives her share to her big brother.

Liu Fu stores the grain, taking a bath before having dinner with his family.

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Liu Fan had tested his system many times, the land and the pond inside his space. He brings in the carp, crab, and prawn, that he finds at the nearby lake. They were alive, healthy, growing big, and multiplying in numbers quite fast in the last few days. Today he is going to bring in sea-based marine life. This time sea, small sea cucumbers, small abalone, and poor quality sea fish. The space does not distinguish between lake or seawater.

On the land, Liu Fan plant some crops, that were easily found such as potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, bean, even banana, and coconut.

As the two days passed outside of space, six months passed inside the space, crops were ready to harvest, and the fish became big enough for sale.

"Will the fish died of old age in the space so let's keep some to observe for now", Liu Fan thought. Tomorrow I will sneak out to town to sell some of them. Liu Fan does not need to go fishing in the sea, all the fish will grow inside his space pond, all he needs to do is to catch them when they are suitable to sell.

The next test is rare medicinal herbs, such as ginseng, ginger, and spiritual herbs. How will they grow? He hopes there are some to find easily even if they are just a small spout or stalk!

The other problem was his system limitation for him to level up. He could not go out to beat the monster to level up right? If it is true how can his parents allow him to go hunting a beast or monsters? There must be some other ways to level up. It says cultivation body refinement, does it need labor work to cultivate, or does it need martial art technic to cultivate?

Liu Fan also knows that in the game, there are also pills when eating will increase cultivation, improve the constitution, break the bottleneck, and even transform oneself into a reborn. These pills require precious spiritual herbs, materials, special handling, adequate cultivation, and time for concocting. There is also another method by directly consuming the spiritual herbs. Some herbs need to be processed before consumption, if eaten without a special way to prepare them, it will cause toxication, crippling cultivation, and death. Some herbs can eat without processing, simple ways such as boiling, and cooking with food are enough to be eaten. The problems are Liu Fan can not even identify herb, how can he know what kind of medicinal plant can be eaten?

As he was deep in his thought, dawn came, the sun started to wake up from its slumber, and the birds are singing, welcoming the new day. Liu Fan had a full black eye bag because he could not sleep last night, thinking about his system, and also thinking of an excuse to visit the town.