Chapter 20: Fishing with Bare Hands: Second Aunt’s scissors were not returned to her. …
"Forty-five left."
"Five sticks for each. Let's buy twenty-five or thirty first, leaving a little for the round trip…blanket money."
The situation in this plane was beyond their expectations. Although they had only bought thread for sewing clothes at present, and they did not dare to buy meat or other things here, they would need some copper coins in case they needed them in the future.
All they can do now is make fire starters.
One copper coin could buy five empty tubes. Bai Xi counted out thirty copper coins and exchanged them for one hundred and fifty empty tubes filled with chopped grass.
The return trip still requires a flying carpet ride.
Fortunately, they had experience this time, so Bai Yu and Bai Xi kept their expressions steady and even had the time to listen to the person who was also sitting on the blanket.
Everyone is talking about meat.
Everyone was holding colorful meat in their hands. When certain words were mentioned, they all ended with the same sound, so they could guess that it was "XX meat". Meat of different colors came from different animals.
The snacks in Qiqi's hand were part dried meat and part candied fruit. Although the fruits and meat in this world were very strange, the production methods were basically the same.
Perhaps because their gazes were too focused, Qiqi's mother kindly wanted to share, but all she got was the three of them shaking their heads.
It’s not that they haven’t eaten bad food before. Living on the boat, sometimes they can’t go ashore due to some special circumstances, or they can’t bear to throw away dead fish, so they occasionally eat some stinky fish.
But according to Bai Miao's description, this thing tastes like sour rotten fish, and it has to be soaked in water for several days. They can't accept it no matter what.
Another reason is that they are not short of food now.
Currently, their food sources are more than before when they were inland. They can get food by shelling, casting nets in the ocean to catch fish and shrimp, and occasionally catch wild animals in the forest. They cannot eat them all normally, so they have to pickle or air-dry them for storage. These strangely colored meats and preserved fruits are really hard for them to accept.
The flying carpet landed and the passengers got up and left.
Qiqi's mother also took Qiqi to say goodbye to them.
The area of fire grass is in another direction. From the village... or should be this side of the village, you can see another large area of fire grass, but you can only see grass and nothing else.
When the three of them crossed a certain dividing line, the village completely disappeared from their sight, and was replaced by a whole expanse of fire grass grassland, just as they had seen it at the beginning, thinking that it was a whole grassland.
"Fortunately, we hid in secluded places every time we went back and forth."
"We were outside just now and couldn't see clearly what was going on inside."
"It's better to be safe than sorry," Bai Yu held Bai Miao and walked deeper into the cave. "We have to be more careful in the future."
"Then we'll go back and forth to the old place," Bai Xi said, looking at some dry grass around him, "Are we still going to pick fire grass today?"
"Come back tomorrow. There's still some fire grass on the island that should be dried. We can crush it and package it today," Bai Yu said, with a hint of joy in his eyes. "Once this batch of fire grass is packaged and sold, we can exchange it for 150 copper coins."
"Let's buy a pot when the time comes, a bigger one," Bai Xi thought of the pheasant he stewed before and swallowed his saliva, "A bigger pot can stew a whole chicken."
Bai Yu thought about the taste of pheasant and nodded: "Okay, let's save money to buy a pot."
As they were talking, the three of them came to a secluded place, confirmed that there was no one around, and then returned to the island together.
As soon as they returned to the island, the rain from above fell directly on them.
The weather was dry the previous few times they went there and back, and they never expected it to rain suddenly when they came back. Bai Yu hurriedly picked up Bai Miao and ran towards the rain pavilion with her. Finally, they hid in the corner of the rain pavilion before she was completely soaked.
"When I went there in the morning, the sky was still blue. It's raining so heavily in such a short time."
"The weather at the seaside is always gloomy and unpredictable," Bai Xi looked at the sky in the distance, "The sky over there is still blue, but it's raining here."
Bai Yu also saw the blue sky in the distance. She took out a handkerchief from her bag and wiped the rain off Bai Miao's face. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly looked to the other side and said, "It's over. The grass we dried this morning is all soaked."
"It's almost dried up," Bai Xi stood on tiptoe, "It's too late now. We don't even know how long it rained before we came back."
Bai Yu sighed, "I didn't expect the weather at the beach to be so changeable. If I had known, we shouldn't have been out in the sun this morning."
"Well, it's fine to just sunbathe in the afternoon. We'll be here in the afternoon, and we'll be able to find out when the sky gets dark." Bai Xi looked at the dark sky on their side and cursed in dissatisfaction, "Damn God, he didn't even wait for us."
This curse seemed to wake up the evil sky, and the rain suddenly became heavier.
Bai Xi shuddered all over, clasped his hands together and apologized softly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have scolded you, I was wrong, I won't do it again."
The heavy rain continued for a while, and the dark clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, revealing a clear blue sky.
A dark cloud in the distance just blocked the sun, and the sunlight penetrated the cloud and fell onto the island, adding a bit of dreamy color to the entire island.
Soon, the water drops falling from the rain pavilion turned into a dripping sound.
Bai Xi glanced back at the rain pavilion behind him and said, "It's a good thing we have this rain pavilion, otherwise all the firewood we collected with great difficulty would get wet. I don't know how long it would take to dry it."
They anticipated the coming rain and arranged the firewood in advance, but they did not expect the heavy rain to come so suddenly that the fire grass that was drying was soaked by the rain.
"Fortunately, we didn't dry out all the fireweed."
There were not enough wooden mats for drying grass, so they only dried out a portion of the fire grass this time. The rest were hung in the rain pavilion together with the leftover cabbage.
When the rain completely stopped, Bai Xi walked out of the pavilion and ran to the small kitchen to check the situation. After looking around, he said happily, "Sister, it's not wet. The stove underneath is still good and can be used to light a fire."
Bai Yu and Bai Miao then approached.
Bai Yu touched the inside of the small kitchen ceiling and said, "Fortunately, it's dry inside too."
This shows that they are quite thoughtful about some things.
"Let's build another shed. We can spread out the cabbages and fire grass in the shed later. Even if it rains while we're away, it won't affect us."
"We need to make more mats."
"Clothes need to be sewn too."
"The fire grass that got soaked by the rain needs to be cleared out."
There were only three people on the island, but there were a lot of things to do. They were busy and had to do a lot of work. Bai Yu and Bai Xi decided on what to do next and started doing them one by one.
During this period, Bai Miao was not idle either. He helped this and that, passed things and moved stones, and was busy like a little top.
Bai Yu wanted to ask her several times if she was tired, but every time he looked at her, she had a smile on her face, so he knew she must be very happy.
Thinking carefully, when they were on the boat, Bai Yu and Bai Xi had to go into the water to work, and Bai Miao had to stay alone on the boat. Although she was not tired, she did not feel very comfortable.
After all, it's always boring to stay on a boat alone.
"Miaomiao, help me get a handful of vines."
"good."
Bai Miao responded obediently and walked with his short legs to the rain pavilion to get the vines.
After a while, she went to hold down the fire grass that was drying on the wooden mat and was almost blown away by the wind.
After a busy period, Bai Yu took Bai Miao to the forest plane. When they came back, they were holding a hare that had accidentally fallen into a trap.
"When you have time, make the trap over there bigger. I saw footprints of several large animals near the trap," Bai Yu hurried back. "If we can't catch them, we'll have to stay away from that place next time."
Their range of activities in the forest plane is not as large as that of the grassland... The new plane is large, and they basically only move around the place where they first landed and the water's edge. There were no footprints of large animals before, but now they suddenly appear. If they accidentally encounter them, it will be very dangerous.
"Take the hoe. It will dig faster with a hoe," Bai Xi said. "It's a pity that we don't know which wild vegetables and mushrooms are edible, otherwise we could have a lot more food."
They thought about going to the forest plane to pick wild vegetables several times, but every time they looked at those wild vegetables that they were completely unfamiliar with, they really didn't dare to do it. What if any of the wild vegetables were poisonous and they ate them, it would be troublesome.
It's not just wild vegetables. They also don't dare eat some wild animals that accidentally fall into traps or that they don't recognize, for fear that they may be poisonous. They can only skin and chop them up, throw them into the sea from a high place, and feed them to the creatures in the sea.
Wild rabbits are edible.
Bai Yu picked up the wild rabbit and put it into a casserole to cook. The seasoning was still basic salt and soy sauce.
The taste of wild rabbit is different from that of pheasant. In comparison, pheasant tastes a little more fragrant, but for the three people who rarely eat land animals, this pot of rabbit meat also tastes fragrant.
After dinner, Bai Xi returned to the cabin and sat on the deck to sew his sleeves.
It wasn't too dark, so after Bai Yu and Bai Miao had packed up up there, they returned to the boat, chatting and doing some seemingly meaningless things.
"Second aunt hasn't returned her scissors." Bai Yu put down the scissors and sorted out the scraps of fabric left over from Bai Xi's clothes making.
"When there's a chance in the future, there should be a chance. We'll buy her a new pair of scissors and return them to her." Bai Xi lowered her head and sewed her sleeves carefully. "There should be scissors for sale on the flying carpet plane."
"I almost forgot, I still need to buy a kitchen knife," Bai Yu rolled up the cloth in her hand, "I can't always use scissors to cut meat and fish. Those scissors are a bit rusty. Will there be a whetstone on the flying carpet plane?"
"Should... there be, right?" Bai Xi was unsure.
"Of course there is," Bai Yu nodded. Turning around, she saw Bai Miao, half of her body lying outside the boat. She immediately reached out to grab her, "Miao Miao!"
"Fish." Bai Miao raised his hand and struggled to pull out a big fish from the water.
"Oh my god, you caught a big fish with your bare hands?!" Bai Yu exclaimed in shock. He quickly helped her take out the fish, then looked back at the water, expressing his surprise again. "How did this fish get in such shallow water?"
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