"I'll help too!" Shao Shengfei brought Dabao back and saw Shao Shengan chopping stuffing, and immediately became interested and tried to recommend himself. Shao Shengan also felt his hands were sore, so he gave the chopping board to Shao Shengfei and dealt with the chopped fish paste first. He was busy and sweating, and Qiao Qingqing sat on a small stool to fan him. The sunset in the sky covered the ground, and this place had a rare peace and tranquility.

Not far away, Song Sanhe and his friends also started cooking dinner.

The pond in their camp was getting bigger and bigger, filled with water from the seaside, and all the fish they caught were kept in it. Unfortunately, the weather was getting hotter day by day, and even though they were careful to keep the fish, two of them died today. Song Sanhe said, "I saw Shao Shengan drying fish, so let's do some drying too, it's easier to preserve." They had been busy fishing these days, and it was time to make some time to deal with these fish.

"It smells so good. The food they cook always smells so good." A girl looked curiously in the direction of Qiao Qingqing's campsite.

Another person said: "It seems like steaming rice, how nice."

"I smell the smell of braised pork, do you smell it?"

"It's the smell from the big camp, it smells really good at mealtimes. It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others, oh!"

"Don't compare yourself with others, just live your own life well." Song Sanhe spoke and began to arrange tasks for everyone.

"We are out of salt, Third Brother. I originally wanted to make salt by drying seawater, but seawater doesn't seem very salty." Liu Zhen was distressed. The sea was called a sea, but it was more like river water.

Song Sanhe looked at Qiao Qingqing's camp and thought for a moment: "I'll ask tomorrow if they still have salt. We can exchange it with them."

The other camp was also jubilant. They also came together. One of them was said to be a geography teacher. She identified the geographical features along the way and led them to the seaside. The moment they saw the sea, they all cheered and rushed forward to scoop up water to drink.

"Teacher Chen is really amazing. Thanks to Teacher Chen!"

Teacher Chen smiled shyly and said, "This is the result of everyone's hard work. We all worked together to get here. Everyone deserves credit."

"Oh, Teacher Chen is just too modest."

"Life is finally going to get better!"

"Let's eat the fish we caught today. My mouth is watering!"

They had never experienced the dense fish schools at the seaside a few days ago, so they were very happy to catch five fish today.

"There are so many fish here. Those people came here before us and it looks like they have already caught a lot of fish. Let's go catch some tomorrow!"

The sun is shining brightly during the day, and the sky is dotted with stars and half of the moon is visible at night. On such a peaceful and beautiful night, everyone regains some confidence in the future.

It was dark when the fish balls were halfway through being made, so Qiao Qingqing and her family had dinner first.

Each person had a large bowl filled with rice and a spoonful of braised pork on top. The rice and soup were soaked together, and the aroma of the braised pork was infused in it. Everyone took their own bowls and ate heartily. There was also a bowl of light and refreshing mung bean sprout soup on the table. You could serve yourself as much as you wanted.

After eating, Shao Shengan remembered that the fish balls had not been finished yet, so he continued to make them without taking a break.

Add scallion and ginger water to the chopped fish paste to remove the fishy smell. Then add appropriate amounts of salt, starch and egg white. Stir well and you can make meatballs.

"It's quite easy to shape. It's not difficult." Qiao Qingqing tried it and found it easy to get started.

Shao Shengan did the same, kneading the fish balls quickly and well. Qiao Songzhi and Shao's mother also came to help. After Shao's father washed the dishes, he led Shao Shengfei to boil water and prepare to cook the fish balls later.

The kneaded fish balls were put into hot water and boiled. After a while, they floated up. The white and round balls looked very pleasing to the eye. When Shao's father fished out the cooked balls, he was in a good mood: "These balls are really good. They look very elastic."

"I, I, I, can I have one, Dad?" Shao Shengfei stretched his neck, looking greedy.

Father Shao scooped a bowl and asked him to give it to Qiao Qingqing and the others to try its taste.

Shao Shengfei endured the heat and ate one quickly, praising the food repeatedly. He hurried over to Shao Shengan and the others, and seeing that they were busy, he fed each of them one.

"Is it delicious? Isn't it delicious?"

“Delicious, delicious!”

"Mmm, it's really delicious, bouncy and chewy. It's different when you make it yourself."

“It tastes better than the ones sold in the market.”

Qiao Qingqing praised it highly and looked at Shao Shengan with a smile: "Shengan made fish balls so delicious for the first time. You can set up a stall to sell fish balls."

Hearing Qiao Songzhi and the others laughing, Shao Shengan felt happy and embarrassed, and his face turned a little red.

Suddenly the camp was filled with laughter.

Qiao Qingqing stored the cooked fish balls in the space and took them out when she wanted to eat them.

This attempt to make fish balls was a great success, and Qiao Qingqing decided to continue making them tomorrow. Qiao Songzhi also said that fish balls are good, and they have no bones and taste good: "We have dried enough salted fish, so we can make fish balls from now on. It won't be tiring if we make them together."

The harvest in the past few days was good, and the saved fish meat is enough to make two large buckets of fish balls.

The next morning, Shao Shengan led Shao Shengfei to start working. The materials were almost ready, including sand, clay, ordinary soil, and the cement blocks that Qiao Qingqing brought back from the space. These blocks were everywhere, hurting your feet when walking and getting stuck in your tires when riding a bike, but they were undeniably very good materials that could be used to build the outline. After the kang for hatching eggs was ready, the remaining materials could be used to repair the camp and strengthen all the shed legs.

While working over there, Qiao Qingqing was making fish balls. This time the fish paste was chopped by Shao's father. Qiao Qingqing could see that Shao Shengfei's great strength was inherited from his father, and Sheng An was also quite strong.

Everyone worked together and accomplished a lot in just the morning.

During this time, she saw many survivors coming to this area. When the survivors came here, their first reaction was excitement, and then they rushed to the beach. Feeling their happy and joyful emotions, Qiao Songzhi also had a good mood. She said to Qiao Qingqing: "This place is really good. I really hope other people can find this place."

Qiao Qingqing looked up. She could feel the scorching heat of the sun through the awning. The weather was getting hotter. She was a little worried that the natural disaster would come again. If there was another extreme heat or extreme cold, it would be very bad. However, she did not express her concerns to her mother and make her worry. She smiled and looked away and continued to make meatballs, saying, "There will definitely be more and more people coming. In such hot weather, there will definitely be a shortage of water in the wild. Everyone will follow the traces of the water shortage and eventually come here."

Time flies when there is something to do, and a day goes by quickly. Under the sunlight, the kang made in the morning is half dry by the evening. Shao Shengan also burns some firewood to use the residual heat to help dry it.

In order to save precious fuel, more manpower was needed. Starting from the second night, the duck eggs were moved from the incubator. Every two hours, the eggs had to be turned over. At night, Qiao Qingqing set the alarm clock and the whole family took turns to take care of the eggs.

Qiao Songzhi and the others didn't complain of being tired at all. Instead, they became even more motivated.

Shao's mother also said: "When Sheng An Feifei was just born, I woke up more often at night than I do now!"

Qiao Songzhi laughed loudly and echoed Qiao Qingqing's words when she was a child, saying that she had to get up seven or eight times at night: "It's so torturous to keep you awake all night!"

Qiao Qingqing: “…”

Shao Shengan: “…”

Shao Shengfei handed the alarm clock to Shao Shengan: "Brother, help me set the alarm clock. It's my job to set the alarm clock at four o'clock in the evening!"

After the best, Shao Shengan and Shao Shengfei continued to go fishing. Song Sanhe and his friends had found a new fishing spot, but it was a little far away. They generously told Shao Shengan the specific location. Even if they didn't tell him, it wouldn't be hard to find it along the coastline. They were all on good terms, so there was no need to be stingy. There was a tricycle at home, so Shao Shengan and his friends rode over. There were people in Song Sanhe's place who knew how to make net bags with rattan. Those rattans were originally dug out of the ground as food. As a result, they were very tough and almost impossible to cook. They were also difficult to digest when eaten. Later, they were made into net bags to hold fish, and only then did they find their true use. That thing was very heavy when it was submerged in water, so Shao Shengan asked them to put the net bags on the back seat of the tricycle and carry them over together.

Shao's father used two buckets of silt that Shao Shengan brought back from the sea to fertilize the land. This piece of land was not to be planted for the time being, so he carried the buckets to the nearby area to look for wood, even sawdust, which could be burned after drying.

"Your father-in-law just can't stop." Qiao Songzhi sighed as he looked at Shao's father limping with his cane, then looked at Shao's mother in the duck shed, "Your mother-in-law is the same."

Shao's mother was guarding the kang in the duck shed. The temperature of the kang needed to be maintained in a range suitable for hatching duck eggs. It could not be too high or too low. At the same time, the humidity of the air had to be taken into consideration. In order to reduce the space and control the temperature and humidity, Shao Sheng'an inserted four bamboo poles at the four corners of the kang, propped up a canvas, and sealed the top. A closed space was created. Shao's mother could not walk well yet, so she sat there to take care of the duck eggs. Every two hours, she would lift a corner of the canvas and reach in to turn the eggs over. She also asked Shao's father to make a sprinkler with a Coke bottle. If the eggs were too dry, she would spray some water. She never left.

"Mom, it's too hot, just come out."

Mother Shao shook her head and said she was not hot.

How could it not be hot? Although the kang was surrounded by a layer of cloth, the temperature was controlled in this small space, and the smoke from the kang was sent out. When Shao's mother lit the fire, she only needed to sit next to the kang. But now it was summer, and with such a kang burning next to her, Shao's mother was already sweating profusely.

"Axia, come out and let me keep watch." Qiao Songzhi went forward to help her.

"Oh, Sister Zhi, I'm not hot. I'm just sitting around doing nothing." Shao's mother insisted on not moving, and Qiao Songzhi had no way to force her to move, so she had to pour her more water.

At noon, Shao's father came back with a bucket of broken wood. Only then did Shao's mother's attention turn away from the kang and ask, "It's almost noon, why hasn't Sheng An Feifei come back yet?"

Qiao Qingqing said, "Sheng An told me that they might have to go further and might not come back for lunch. They brought some dry food."