The night passed uneventfully!
The first thing he did upon waking was instinctively reach for his mobile phone.
It was six-thirty in the morning. Most of the time, he naturally woke up around this hour.
“Hmm? I didn’t charge it last night, so why is it fully charged?” Xiao Ran took a look. The charger was on the other side, and he definitely had not charged it.
Because there was no signal, he had barely used it all day yesterday, so he had not bothered with it at night.
Well, full was full!
Xiao Ran did not dwell on it too much.
He got up, put on his clothes, and went to the bathroom to wash up.
He did not really feel like cooking. There was cake in the refrigerator, and he could just drink some milk.
He opened the refrigerator door and froze again when he saw two apples.
There had been two apples yesterday, but he had taken them when he went out. He had eaten one and given the other to Third Lady.
Why were there still two apples?
“Could this be a supernatural incident?” Xiao Ran could not help feeling his scalp go numb, while a chill ran down his back.
He reached out and picked up an apple to examine it. It was exactly the same as the one he had eaten yesterday.
“What is going on? I ate this one!”
“What happened yesterday left such a deep impression. There’s no way it was a dream!”
Xiao Ran got up, opened the motorhome door, and stepped outside. The light was somewhat dim because he was inside a mountain cave.
He had blocked the entrance to the mountain cave with bushes he had cut down.
“I found this mountain cave and hid the motorhome here. It wasn’t a dream.” Xiao Ran raised his hand and flicked Xiao Hei on the head, making his own hand ache a little.
“Woof, woof, woof!” Doggie was very dissatisfied.
Xiao Ran also saw that the two boxes he had forgotten several times were still sitting on the ground.
The fishing from before had really happened. It was neither an illusion nor a dream.
However, Xiao Ran still had no idea how to explain the apples he had eaten reappearing in the refrigerator.
Xiao Ran walked over to the boxes and prepared to put them in the trunk.
He opened the trunk and was dumbfounded.
The trunk was packed full. There were also two boxes inside, exactly the same as the ones on the ground.
“What the heck!”
Xiao Ran scratched the back of his head. “What’s going on?”
He hurriedly opened the box on the ground. The things inside were definitely his; they were all items he had organized yesterday.
Nothing was missing, and nothing extra had appeared. Everything was exactly as it should be.
The boxes on the ground were his, so what were the two boxes in the trunk?
Xiao Ran furrowed his brows, completely unable to figure it out.
“Who has so much free time that they stuffed things into my vehicle?”
Xiao Ran carefully examined the boxes in the trunk. They were identical to the ones on the ground, down to every worn spot.
He lifted the boxes out of the trunk, placed them on the ground, and slowly opened them.
A familiar feeling washed over him.
There were quite a lot of items, arranged very carefully to save space.
Xiao Ran could tell at a glance that these were also his boxes, and that he had put all these things inside them.
The boxes on the ground and those from the trunk were not only identical on the outside; their contents were identical as well.
It was as if they had been copied and pasted.
Xiao Ran began rummaging through them and discovered a difference.
The box containing the cooking utensils was missing calcium milk biscuits, tender tofu, baby bok choy, and several other items.
He had eaten them yesterday, so it was understandable that they were gone.
However, all those things were present in the box he had just taken out of the trunk.
“This thing has refreshed!” Xiao Ran reached a startling conclusion.
Xiao Ran took the Samoyed and ran out of the mountain cave, arriving at the shore. The traces left behind yesterday were still there.
This ruled out one possibility: he was not repeating the same day.
Instead, the things on the motorhome had refreshed!
The prerequisite was that they had been used, or that they were no longer on the motorhome, for them to refresh.
Xiao Ran planned to try it again tonight.
If this was really the case, then his livelihood was guaranteed. At the very least, he would not need to worry about running out of food.
Although eating the same things for a long time would become tiresome, it was still better than starving.
Of the boxes he had used before, the one containing fishing gear was also missing its bait, in addition to the missing ingredients and side dishes.
From now on, he would not only have no need to worry about food; he would not need to worry about bait either.
Xiao Ran still had several packets in the vehicle, which would be more than enough.
After returning on the motorhome, Xiao Ran checked and found that the water in the tank, as well as the electricity on the motorhome, had also refreshed.
He no longer needed to worry about fresh water, electricity, or fuel.
“This is secured!”
Supplies were no longer a problem; he even had an abundance of them. He just had to hide the motorhome properly so that no one else discovered it.
After eating something, Xiao Ran put on his jacket. Autumn had arrived, and the morning temperature was somewhat low.
He took out his telescope and went to check the situation nearby.
Xiao Ran also wanted to look for the two sisters from before.
He hoped to use their help to obtain household registration in Kaolao Village, making his identity legitimate.
Xiao Ran did not know the exact identities of Li Shimin and the Others, whom he had gone fishing with before, but they had ties to a duke of the state. Obtaining household registration should not be difficult for them.
However, Xiao Ran did not want to expose this fatal weakness of his to Li Shimin and the others.
Xiao Ran had no household registration. He was an outlaw and was not protected by the law.
That was extremely dangerous!
He had too many valuable things around him. If the other party used them to threaten him or made an exorbitant demand, he would be in trouble.
Xiao Ran did not want to gamble on someone else’s kindness.
The sisters were ordinary people, so the threat was clearly much smaller. Xiao Ran did indeed have another purpose in seeking them out, but he genuinely wanted to help them as well.
Before leaving, he brought half a packet of calcium milk biscuits, threw away the packaging, and transferred them into a transparent plastic bag.
He walked to a high place, raised the telescope, and looked around.
There were indeed quite a few people harvesting millet in the fields.
In other words, millet ears!
Before coming here, he had never seen this crop planted in the fields.
In a field that had been harvested not far away, Xiao Ran once again spotted Third Lady of the zhang family.
She was dressed as before, carrying a kaolao in one hand and looking down as she searched the field for millet ears others had left behind.
Xiao Ran looked around. There was no one else nearby, and Zhang Erya did not seem to be there.
He wanted to bring the little girl something to eat.
Xiao Ran led the Samoyed toward Third Lady.
Afraid of startling her, Xiao Ran called out from a distance, “young lady!”
“Third Lady!”
Hearing the sound, Third Lady looked up and glanced around. Then she saw Xiao Ran and the Samoyed.
She did not respond to Xiao Ran, but neither did she run away.
Xiao Ran truly had not harmed her before. He had even given her fish and apples. Although Third Lady was young, she could sense that Xiao Ran was not a bad person.
At least, that was how he appeared on the surface.
Children did not have many complicated thoughts.
Xiao Ran approached with the Samoyed. “Third Lady, are you alone?”
There was still fear in Third Lady’s eyes.
There had been dew in the morning, so a great deal of mud clung to the tops of her feet, and her little toes were red.
“Elder sister went to work at the village head elder’s house!” Third Lady’s voice was very soft.
The village head was the village chief. Xiao Ran would need this person’s help if he wanted household registration in the future.
“I see! I happen to have nothing to do, so I’ll help you gather them!”
Third Lady nodded. “Okay!”
Xiao Ran took out the calcium milk biscuits from the bag. “Third Lady, have something to eat first.”
The little girl looked at the calcium milk biscuits, then at Xiao Ran. Instead of taking them, she shook her head.
Clearly, her family had taught her not to accept things from strangers casually.
“We’ve met before, so I’m not a stranger. It’s fine. Give them a try!”
Only after hearing Xiao Ran say that did the little girl accept the calcium milk biscuits.
In this era, most people ate only two meals a day. Third Lady certainly had not eaten anything that morning.