Chapter 234 Stocking up on seafood
But no one had breakfast, so the girls stayed to make breakfast, and the boys took buckets to the beach to see if there were any seafood. If there were, after breakfast, everyone would go to the beach together to catch seafood and stock up on supplies.
Seeing that all the female classmates wanted to go, Song Hongmu said with embarrassment: "You'd better not go with us. Let's go and check out the situation first. If it's safe, you can go!" After a pause, he continued, "You also know that before the end of the world, coastal areas, whether at home or abroad, are very dangerous because of tsunamis, seawater backflow, waves, sea ice, red tides, storm surges, typhoons and other severe disasters. I don't want everyone to die with you. You have to understand me. If it's not the seaside, I won't stop you from going anywhere you want."
After they have stockpiled enough supplies, they will leave quickly to avoid being cruelly and mercilessly swept away by natural disasters.
Since Song Hongmu said so, everyone should be obedient and not let Song Hongmu have too heavy a psychological burden. Ever since he brought them back home, Song Hongmu looked like he was sorry for them, as if he had not taken good care of them and owed them.
Seeing the boys leave for the beach, Lu Xingtang and the others immediately grabbed their only fresh water from the car and made breakfast. Seeing there wasn't much fresh water, Lu Xingtang said, "I'll look around to see if there's any!" He grabbed a bucket and went looking for water. If there wasn't any fresh water, they could have it this morning, but what about lunch? What would they drink on a regular basis? They couldn't drink seawater.
The other female classmates told Lu Xingtang to be careful and that it didn't matter if they couldn't find water, as they might be able to find it after Song Hongmu came back. After all, they were not very familiar with this town.
Lu Xingtang carried a bucket and went looking for fresh water. The town was destroyed and he searched for a long time but couldn't find any water. He was almost out of the town but still couldn't find any. However, he found a lot of wild vegetables and dug them up.
Ji Yanmo and the others came back from the sea and were very worried when they didn't see Lu Xingtang. Song Hongmu slapped his forehead in frustration when he learned that Lu Xingtang had gone to find fresh water. The water they used for cleaning yesterday was sea water, not fresh water. They had stockpiled fresh water before and it was now used up.
"After dinner, I'll go find some fresh water!" Song Hongmu decisively took on the task of finding fresh water. He did know where there was fresh water, but ten years had passed, and he couldn't guarantee that the fresh water there was still drinkable and hadn't been mixed with seawater.
Ji Yanmo went to look for Lu Xingtang, but before he had gone far, he saw Lu Xingtang coming back with an empty bucket, "Time to eat!"
Lu Xingtang quickly ran to Ji Yanmo, took Ji Yanmo's big hand, and returned to Song Hongmu's house together. Everyone was waiting for her. Seeing her coming back with an empty bucket, Song Hongmu immediately said that he would go find fresh water after dinner and let them rest assured.
Lu Xingtang said, "Su Cheng, Fox, Squad Leader..." He called out the names of seven people in succession: "Go with Song Hongmu to find water. Regardless of whether you can find it or not, you must return before noon."
Su Cheng and the others quickly agreed. After dinner, Song Hongmu led everyone to find water, while Lu Xingtang and the others went to the sea.
Arriving at the beach, I saw saury, eels, oysters, abalone, grouper, sea cucumber, mantis shrimp, crayfish, geoduck, mango snails, crabs, scallops, octopus, clams...
Lu Xingtang and others were dazzled by what they saw. They had just sent back a wave of enemies.
Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo separated from everyone else, picking up things into buckets and sending them to the space at the same time. They stockpiled as much as they could and never wasted anything on the beach.
Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo carried the buckets and walked farther and farther away, away from the crowd. They had already filled the buckets. Ji Yanmo used his lightning ability to weave an electric net to catch all the seafood from afar. Lu Xingtang put them into the space warehouse and waited to eat them whenever he wanted.
When Song Hongmu came back from finding fresh water, he saw Lu Xingtang and the others picking up sea fish on the beach, so he joined them and taught them how to pick up fish. Some fish were hidden under the sand, and they could be seen by digging the sand with a shovel or hands.
At noon, everyone returned home with a full load and started to process the seafood. There was a lot of seafood, and under Song Hongmu's guidance, everyone processed the seafood, cleaned it, and then started to cook their seafood feast.
It had been a long time since they had a seafood feast. Everyone was drooling and staring at the seafood in the pot. While waiting for the seafood feast to be ready, Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo gathered all the classmates and assigned them the next tasks. Their biggest task was to stock up on supplies, find fresh water, and other food. They couldn't eat seafood all the time, so they looked around to see if there were any supplies they could use in the town.
After discussing the distribution, they decided to fish in the morning or go to the beach after low tide, which was a collective activity. In the afternoon, everyone would process the seafood together. While doing so, five people would go to fetch fresh water.
Song Hongmu has found fresh water. There are many fresh water wells in the ancient town. Many of them have been destroyed, but there is a fresh water well that is a little far from the sea. There is still water in the fresh water well. The water Song Hongmu brought back today is from that fresh water well. They have tried it and it is indeed fresh water and can be drunk.
Five more people were assigned to look for wild vegetables and fruits near the ancient town. They would take as many as they could find, and Lu Xingtang did not have a strict requirement on how much they had to bring back.
At night, after the seafood was processed, everyone washed their clothes, took a shower, and went to bed early, waiting to repeat the process the next day.
The weather here in FJ province is very hot, so it is convenient for them to make dried seafood.
There was no objection to the results of the discussion, and everyone started to implement it from the next day and worked hard to stockpile supplies.
When Lu Xingtang was collecting seafood, fetching water or looking for wild vegetables, she saw many coconut trees, so she quietly collected many coconut saplings into the space and planted them in the mountains and black soil. She did not dare to guarantee that the coconut trees would survive in the space. If they died, they would be burned as firewood.
On this day, Lu Xingtang came back from the sea. After his clothes were dry, he saw a layer of sea salt. He thought about how they had exchanged a lot of salt before and they didn't have much salt left. Should they stock up on some sea salt?
Stockpiling sea salt also received everyone's support, so everyone had an additional task: making sea salt.
They used the alkali scraping and brine refining method, the soaking and drying brine refining method, and the reed mat and sand infiltration method to stockpile 100 kilograms of sea salt. That was made by everyone working overtime, and it was not easy.
Seeing the snow-white and crystal-clear sea salt, smiles appeared on everyone's faces. Everyone's hard work was not in vain. With salt, their health was also somewhat guaranteed.
Lu Xingtang and Ji Yanmo also used three methods to make sea salt in the space and stockpiled 500 kilograms of sea salt. The production by consciousness is much faster than that by real people, and Lu Xingtang has more tools available.
After stockpiling almost all the supplies, Lu Xingtang and his team decided to leave the ancient town. They filled up the truck with gas and loaded all the supplies into the truck. After making sure nothing was left out, they left the ancient town with Song Hongmu leading the way and Lu Xingtang finishing the rest.
They had discussed before leaving and decided to go to Haicheng Base to check out the situation. If the Haicheng Base was good, they would join the Haicheng Base. If the Haicheng Base was not good, they would leave immediately and find a new place to settle down.
(End of this chapter)
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