Xiaoliang then said to Gu Xinzhou, "Also, I'm a woman, and when I came here over ten years ago, there were quite a few men on the island. I had to think about my own safety."
"If I taught everything to everyone and they all learned it, I'd become expendable, and I could be bullied, I might not survive."
"Human nature is something you can't see through."
"In the short term, maybe everyone would get along and help each other, but as time goes on, all sorts of problems come to light."
"I always have to plan for the long term."
Gu Xinzhou understood, "So these are your means of survival."
Xiaoliang nodded, "Right."
"Those families on the island need new herbal mats for mosquito and snake prevention every year, which they have to replace every three months, and various large and small baskets are all daily consumables."
"I've also made some sanitary belts, the kind that ancient people used, teaching the women on the island how to make them, which they don't have."
