Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Fishing, a leisurely moment
Su Qing was walking up the mountain when she heard a howling sound behind her. She stopped and turned around to see the puppy running towards her.
The puppy ran to her and kept circling and barking at her. She first thought that the puppy wanted to go out with her. Just as she was about to continue walking forward, the puppy bit her pants with great effort to prevent her from moving. After thinking about it, she remembered that she seemed to have not fed the puppy yet.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I forgot about it. I'll prepare it for you right away." Su Qing touched the puppy's head, quickly took out the milk powder and bowl from his backpack, rinsed them with mineral water, and placed them on the ground.
The puppy dove into the bowl and started eating.
Su Qing squatted down and looked at it, thinking that he should give it a name. Since he had decided to keep it, he couldn't let it bark like a puppy all the time.
Su Qing tilted his head and thought for a moment, then patted the puppy's head. "From now on, I'll call you Fugui'er, Su Fugui'er."
The puppy looked up at Su Qing in confusion, then lowered his head and continued eating.
"I'll take this as your agreement, Su Fuguier."
After waiting for Fuguier to finish drinking milk, Su Qing packed up and took him to fill up the empty buckets that had been used in the past few days, and then started to cut bamboo.
Cutting bamboo is strenuous work. She ran out of strength after cutting a few pieces. She sat down to rest for a while and then got up to walk back. It rained heavily last night, and there were many mushrooms growing on the mountain today. She picked them as she walked and picked quite a few. However, she didn't know whether these mushrooms were poisonous or not. She picked all the ones she could see and planned to take them back to show Lu Chen first. If they were not poisonous, their menu would be expanded.
After going down the mountain, I saw from a distance a rack set up in the open space in front of the two wooden houses, with quilts and blankets hanging on it. It seemed that the heavy rain last night had soaked Lu Chen's quilt.
As she got closer, she saw Lu Chen squatting in front of the hut and plastering the wall with mud. Fuguier ran to Lu Chen before her, sobbing and acting cute towards him, completely forgetting the horrible look on Lu Chen's face when he laughed just now.
Su Qing took out a pot of mushrooms and walked over. "I'm back. There are a lot of mushrooms growing on the mountain. I picked some, but I'm not sure if they're poisonous. Can you tell?"
Lu Chen shook off the mud on his hands, looked up for a few seconds, and said thoughtfully, "It should be edible. I'll take a closer look after I'm done."
"Let me help you, both of you, hurry up."
The two men covered the bamboo walls of the hut with mud. Lu Chen left two openings, cut the bamboo strips on top with a machete, and then wove two bamboo strips together and tied them on top. He then supported them with bamboo poles, and the windows now had light.
The hut can now simply provide shelter from wind and rain, which can be considered an upgrade. It is definitely better than the previous bamboo walls that were full of cracks.
After washing his hands, Su Qing took out all the mushrooms he had picked. Lu Chen checked them carefully and told Su Qing that they were all edible.
There were a lot of mushrooms, so Su Qing decided to keep half of them fresh in his backpack and dry the other half for storage.
The sun was shining brightly today, perfect for drying mushrooms. She took out a bed sheet, spread it on the ground, and spread out the mushrooms one by one.
Fuguier was a little curious, so he ran over to smell it and was about to bite it, but Su Qing saw him and quickly picked him up.
"This is raw now, you can't eat it! Do you understand? If I see it again, I will spank your little butt." Su Qing put it aside, squatted down, patted Fuguier's butt with one hand, and said in a slightly serious tone.
Fuguier's golden eyes rolled around, he whimpered twice, and licked Su Qing's hand with his tongue, as if trying to please him.
Su Qing's hands were wet and itchy. Seeing Fugui'er's expression, she found it a little funny. She raised her hand, touched it and said, "Okay, I will give you anything you can eat, but you can't just steal it."
After educating Fuguier, Su Qing stood up and saw Lu Chen cooking in the simple kitchen. She walked over and was about to greet Lu Chen when she saw a set of simple bamboo tables and chairs placed on the open space to the side of the kitchen. Su Qing said in surprise, "You actually made it already."
"I had nothing to do and saw that there were enough bamboos behind your house, so I made some." Lu Chen stood in front of the stove, stirring the pot with chopsticks in one hand. "I added some mushrooms to the instant noodles. I don't have any seasoning, so this is the only way to add some flavor."
Su Qing nodded numbly. What a free time! While she was gone for a while, this man actually did a lot of things.
After lunch, Lu Chen said to Su Qing, "I'm going out for a while. I'll see if I can find anything you need and bring it back."
"Are you feeling better now? Can you go out?"
"Much better. I need to go out and find a way to contact my friends."
"Well, there's nothing special I need for now. It would be great if I could find seasonings." Su Qing thought about it. It seemed that Lu Chen couldn't bring back the building materials she needed. The only thing she lacked at the moment was probably seasonings. God knows how unpalatable those wild vegetables are. After all, she had limited cans of instant noodles on her. It would be better to find seasonings.
"Okay, can I borrow your car? I'll see if I can find some more gas."
Su Qing nodded, "It's just that there's not much gas left in the car."
Lu Chen thanked him and was about to leave.
"Hey! Um... wait a minute." Su Qing suddenly thought of something and shouted hurriedly.
Lu Chen turned and looked at her.
"Well...if it's convenient...you can collect some supplies and bring back to me anything damaged or rotten."
Lu Chen raised his eyebrows, as if he didn't understand, "Damaged and rotten things?"
"Yes, I know it's difficult to find supplies right now, but there are damaged and rotten food, supplies, clothes, etc. everywhere. Just bring them back to me and I'll find a way to deal with them."
"Anything?"
"Yes, anything is fine. As long as your car can fit it, take it all back."
"good……"
Lu Chen turned and left while thinking, after hearing her say that, he thought there must be some way to convert unusable things.
Thinking of the fresh and soft bread she had seen before... If she really had the ability to convert waste... Once people knew about it, she would probably become the object of competition among various bases in this doomsday.
And the land in this place... It's hard to see new plants growing outside, but here there are many wild vegetables, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and those growing fruit and vegetable crops...
Thinking of this, Lu Chen had an idea. Maybe he could make a deal with Su Qing.
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After Lu Chen left, Su Qing sat on a chair and stared out the window in a daze. She had been very busy these days, and she felt a little uncomfortable with suddenly having some free time.
Looking back at the dog, Fuguier was tired from playing. After drinking milk, he lay down in his nest and fell asleep happily.
She couldn't sleep in broad daylight. What should she do now?
After thinking for a while, she opened her backpack and remembered that she had searched a fishing tackle store before and bought a lot of fishing tools. She planned to go to the river two kilometers away mentioned by the system to see if she could catch any fish.
Not only were there various fishing tools in her backpack, she also found a broken sunshade. She quickly opened the refresh mall to check and saw that it could be refreshed. After a few clicks, a brand new sunshade appeared in her backpack.
At this time, Su Qing found that his backpack was about to be full. He had packed so many things without realizing it.
“System, system!”
"What's up?"
"My backpack is almost full, what should I do?"
"Spend 50,000 gold coins to increase 100 slots."
This is so shady! She saved a life for 50,000, and a 100-slot backpack also costs 50,000.
She was still in debt, so how could she afford to increase her debt? It seemed that she had to find some time to tidy things up and move some temporarily unused things out and put them in the house.
Su Qing simply packed his backpack, left the house and walked to the east of the wooden house, looking for the river that the system mentioned.
After walking for about half an hour, she finally saw a river. The water flowed relatively slowly, so she found a flat place on the shore. Su Qing set up the tent and took out the tables and chairs from the wooden house that she had put in her backpack. She placed wild fruits and snacks on the table, poured half a basin of stream water into it, and put the happy water in to cool it down.
Then she took out the fishing rod, fish food, a stand and a fishing box, put the bait on the rod, swung it and placed it on the stand beside her. Everything was ready.
The warm sunshine is pouring down, the clouds are floating slowly in the sky, the breeze blows across the water from time to time, causing tiny ripples, the chirping of insects can be heard from the grass from time to time, and the leaves of the lush woods on the opposite bank move in the wind, making a rustling sound.
Su Qing sat under the canopy, enjoying the breeze while eating snacks, occasionally taking a sip of happy water. It was rare to have such a pleasant time after being here for so many days.
Just a moment after the fishing rod was dropped, there was movement. Su Qing quickly took the rod in his hand and reeled in the line little by little. After a while, a fish floated to the surface.
When the line was pulled in, the fish fell to the ground. Su Qing stood up and walked over to take off the hook. She didn't know the species of fish, but this fish was quite big. She quickly put it into the fishing box, installed the bait and continued to cast the rod.
Su Qing spent the whole afternoon going back and forth like this. Perhaps it was because there had been no human disturbance for too long, but the fish here were particularly easy to catch. Looking at the several fishing boxes full of fish, Su Qing felt extremely happy because he would have fish to eat in the evening.
As the sun set, Su Qing had almost finished fishing, so he packed up his things and went home.
When she returned to the wooden house, Lu Chen had not come back yet. Fuguier was lying at the door with his tail hanging down. When he saw her, he jumped up with a howl, ran to her and howled, cursing as if he was scolding her for leaving him, a dog, here.
"Okay, okay, I saw you were sleeping, so I didn't disturb you. Let's have fish tonight! I'll make it up to you." Su Qing held Fuguier in his arms and kissed its little head.
Looking at the bountiful harvest, Su Qing wondered whether he should build a fish pond to raise these fish as food reserves.
"Congratulations host, the breeding function has been activated. Please select a breeding area."
The system's voice suddenly came from Su Qing's mind, and then the topographic map popped up.
Breeding function? Su Qing looked at the topographic map and placed the breeding area on the right side of the farmland.
"A breeding area has been identified and construction is underway. The organisms in this breeding area can be rapidly reproduced and harvested."
There was originally an open space there. After she confirmed the area, she saw a wooden fence suddenly appear in the open space. There were several thatched houses in the fence, and there was a small pond in the middle.
Su Qing looked at this series of operations in amazement, and found the breeding icon at the bottom of the page. He saw that the breeding page showed a poultry area, an aquatic area, and a livestock area. The number of these three areas was currently displayed as zero.
She only had fish in her backpack now. After thinking for a while, she walked to the breeding area, opened the fence door, took out two boxes of fish and poured them into the pond.
The fish swam freely as soon as they entered the water. The pond didn't look big, but she poured a lot of fish into it and it didn't seem crowded at all. At this time, the number of aquatic areas in the aquaculture industry had changed.
Total number: 27
To be produced: 3
Juveniles: 11
Adult fish: 16
Harvest: 13
It seemed that the young fish and the female fish about to give birth could not be harvested, so Su Qing simply poured all the fish in his backpack into the pond.
Total number: 53
To be produced: 9
Juveniles: 20
Adult fish: 33
Harvest: 24
This breeding area came at the perfect time, and she didn't need to collect any materials to build it, which was really rare.
"System, it's rare to see you so generous."
"The host's self-awareness triggers a function to be activated, granting a material-free construction reward for the first time."
“No gold coin reward?”
"No."
"oh……"
There is only one free building material, and no gold coins... The system is still that stingy system.
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Su Fuguier: Acting cute and rolling around to ask for collection! Awooo~Awooo~
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