Chapter 131 Processing the Fish
After finishing processing the scraps from the giant crucian carp, Li Sijing then took care of other matters.
First, she untied the rope from the car tire and prepared to hang the wet rope up to let the wind dry it.
It was only then that she realized she hadn't taken out the clothesline and hangers, and the damp bath towels were still wet.
He quickly took out a clothes rack from the car and hung up the bath towels and rope.
Then, she took two empty buckets, went to the roadside to fetch two buckets of water, and boiled a kettle of water to wash her underwear later.
While waiting for the water to boil, Li Sijing got back into the car and prepared to dry her hair with a towel.
It was so cold that even with a hair drying cap on her head, she still felt a cool sensation on her head.
Li Si boiled water after drying her hair until it was half dry, so she simply washed the hair-drying cap and her underwear together.
After hanging everything up to dry, she also took out a hot water bottle she had gotten earlier and filled it with the leftover hot water from washing clothes.
Then she exchanged for a few more wood fragments, chopped them with an axe, took out a portable oven, and prepared to light a fire.
This time, without straw to start a fire, Li Sijing tore off several sheets of toilet paper to get the wood burning quickly.
I took out the parasol to block the wind, placed the portable grill beside me, and put the hot water bottle in my arms.
Next, she prepared to process her main catch: two large pieces of fish.
The outside temperature was unusually cold, and Li Sijing wanted to go back to the car to deal with it, but there just wasn't enough space inside!
After everything was prepared, she placed a large piece of fish from her mustard seed space on the ground with a 'bang'.
A piece of fish meat is two meters long, which is quite a sight when placed on the ground. As for the ground being dirty?
There's nothing she can do about it; given her current circumstances, this is all she can do. At worst, she can just wash it with water before eating.
Li Sijing took out a kitchen knife and carefully removed the fish bones, which were as long as chopsticks, along with the fish skin underneath, following the grain of the fish.
Although fish skin is a good source of collagen, she had no intention of eating it, simply because she didn't have the time or the means.
The fish skin was covered with countless palm-sized scales, and she didn't want to have to painstakingly remove them piece by piece with a knife.
If she had used that time to do other things, she would have certainly gained something no less than a piece of fish skin.
After removing the unnecessary parts, Li Sijing cut the fish meat into pieces, each weighing about one pound.
This piece of fish is just enough for her to eat one meal, which is convenient whether she sells it or eats it herself.
She planned to process all the fish meat now, even though the weather was cold, it would only get colder later.
Despite having taken ample precautions, Li Sijing's hands remained red and swollen from the cold outdoors in sub-zero temperatures.
There was no other way but to stop every few minutes to warm her hands by the fire before continuing.
This took even longer, and it took Li Sijing half an hour to finally finish processing this piece of fish.
After squatting for half an hour, when Li Sijing stood up, her legs felt like they were being pricked with needles; the sensation was truly excruciating.
She carefully moved her legs, walked back and forth twice, and finally returned to normal.
She then quickly went to the roadside, used her mustard seed space to store the items she had previously placed there, as well as another piece of fish, and returned to the car to continue processing them.
The hot water bottle had long since cooled down, and Li Sijing had added wood chips to the portable oven several times.
Having gained experience, I was much faster at processing the second piece of fish, finishing it by just five o'clock.
Looking at the two large, intact pieces of fish skin and the two or three hundred fish bones the size of chopsticks in front of her, Li Sijing felt a great sense of accomplishment.
Most importantly, there were neatly stacked piles of fish meat, 10 pieces per pile, and 3 pieces left over from 20 piles.
That means there are a total of 203 pieces of fish meat, each weighing one jin (500 grams), for a total of 203 jin of fish meat.
After stretching out, Li Sijing squatted down again and collected piles of fish meat into her mustard seed space.
In a space of one cubic meter, the fish meat took up one-third of the space.
It also contained a fish bladder the size of a head, ten pounds of fish fillets, and other supplies she had specifically put in beforehand, filling it to about eight-tenths full.
As for the two large pieces of fish skin and the fish bones, Li Sijing didn't plan to store them in her mustard seed space; she simply piled them up on the folding table in the car.
After finally finishing processing all her catch, Li Sijing began to pack up the rest of her things.
The parasol was put away, the portable grill and hot water bottle were put in the car, and the ginger and garlic that had been drying for two or three hours were also taken back.
Finally, she put the clothes rack back into the car, still half-open, because the clothes hanging on it weren't dry.
After everything was packed, Li Sijing got into the car, closed the door, and said, "Xingkong, drive."
It's 5:16 PM now, and she needs to continue on her way to get the resource box.
Actually, she has already had a lot to show for it today. Putting everything else aside, 200 jin of fish alone is a huge income.
One pound of fish meat can be exchanged for 25 units of metal. 200 pounds of fish meat is worth 5,000 units of metal. How many resource boxes would that take!
She hadn't planned to continue unless there were special circumstances.
Anyway, there's only a little over an hour left before dark, so wouldn't it be good to use that time to rest?
However, this is the choice under normal circumstances, but she has special circumstances now!
But don't forget, she hasn't encountered a mid-level resource box yet today!
She has never missed a single day since she came to this survival game world, with a guaranteed minimum of one mid-level resource box every day.
Others encounter several mid-level resource boxes every day, while she only gets one guaranteed reward each day, which is already pitiful enough.
Today, she didn't even encounter a guaranteed mid-level resource box! Of course, she can't give up.
For others, a mid-level resource box might just mean a few more supplies, but whether they can get blueprints is uncertain.
For her, however, obtaining the blueprints was a certainty. If she wasn't too unlucky, she might even get two or three blueprints.
Everyone knows what the blueprints mean in this world, so how could she give them up so easily!
Even though she was exhausted both mentally and physically, she decided to keep going until she found the intermediate resource box.
From the moment she started driving until nightfall, based on the speed of the stars, she could still encounter two more resource boxes, and the third one was still about ten minutes away.
Based on the principle of guaranteed minimum, one of these two resource boxes will definitely be a mid-level resource box.
If the intermediate resource box isn't found until the second one, then there will only be half an hour left before nightfall, leaving no time to get out of the vehicle and explore.
If the first resource box is a mid-level resource box, that would be great. She doesn't plan to continue for the rest of the time.
Who would want to be constantly busy if they could rest?
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