Chapter 107

"I have the urge to overturn its food bowl now." Qiao Sheng listened to Li Mu's narration and stared at the cassock cub.

The little bear must have heard her words. With its mouth still in the iron bowl, it immediately held the bowl with both hands, turned 180 degrees, and faced them with its butt.

Qiao Sheng looked at the other three animals and asked Li Mu uncertainly, this little bear with a low IQ must be stupid, right? It must have nothing to do with the way they feed it, after all, the other three look quite smart.

Before Li Mu could answer, the snowy owl spread its wings and touched its head, then knocked on the bowl with its beak.

"Look, I was right, this one is extremely smart. Is it telling us that it is very smart when it touches its head? It knocks on the basin because it is not full. Give it some more." Qiao Sheng picked up five more dumplings for it. From then on, he believed that the monk's cub had a low IQ and should not be too fussy about it.

Who can have the heart to blame a bear that eats mulberry bark and tripped and fell on the stove to protect the mulberry bark?

In the afternoon, the two did not get off the boat, but sewed and patched it on the boat. Qiao Sheng became more and more angry as he repaired it. They reinforced the boat at all costs. If the door was not reinforced, it would be ruined.

Fortunately, the construction hammer has a repair function. With the materials in the left hand and the right hand clanging, they can finish a layer of reinforced wooden wall in a short while.

It is this glass roof that makes them very worried. This material cannot be reinforced. In order to facilitate drying, it cannot be replaced with an ordinary wooden deck. Later, I thought that it seems that we will not always encounter people like Tan Sanzhuo and his wife. The mud and sand in the storage box are enough to replace it more than ten times, so it is better to use the glass roof first.

It was not until the evening that the nine young men and women returned to their boats. There were nine people in four boats, two of which had three people on them, and the other two were single and double boats.

Seeing Qiao Sheng and his crew repairing the boat, they stood in the distance and watched for a while. When they got on their own boat, they got off in less than two minutes. First, a few people stood aside and talked angrily for a while, and then walked to the side of Qiao Sheng and his crew's boat.

"Hello, I want to ask, what happened to your boat?" The leading young man stood on the shore and asked the people standing at the bow.

"Just now, the couple was not satisfied when they left, so they smashed our boat. When we came back, it was full of holes everywhere. What happened?" Qiao Sheng was repairing the damaged floating board at the bow.

The young man quickly said that their four boats were also damaged, but the damage was at the stern, which could not be seen without boarding. He remembered that he had just seen Qiao Sheng and his friends repairing the boat, so he came over to ask what was going on.

"The two of them had a slingshot on their boat, and they threw it at the boat, breaking everything they hit. They had failed to get the snowy owl, so they threw stones at our boat and damaged it. Otherwise, the two kids in our family would not have rushed up to attack them when they saw them." Qiao Sheng explained the whole story to these people, mainly because he was afraid that the other party would think that they were the ones who caused the damage.

Fortunately, although he had the diagram of the slingshot, he was busy collecting materials and had no time to make and install it, otherwise he would have been blamed for it today.

After chatting for a while, as it was getting dark, everyone went back to their own boats. Qiao Sheng finally finished repairing the boat before dinner.

When he entered the cabin, he saw that Li Mu had built a room the size of two floating boards next to the duck house on the first floor of the cabin where they were tied. Inside, he also built wooden racks with wooden boards, and each layer was padded with a board.

Li Mu explained that this would be a silkworm room from now on, specifically for raising silkworms. Bamboo baskets would be placed on each layer of the racks, and when the silkworms came out of the eggs, they could be put in, fed with various tree leaves, and waited for them to grow up and spin silk.

This important task was handed over to him. Qiao Sheng decided not to set foot in this place from today on. He kept a distance from it. However, he looked at the ducks and chickens next to him and felt that it seemed quite safe. If anyone dared to crawl out, it would definitely be a snack for the chickens and ducks at home.

At noon, he was very angry, so he just cooked some dumplings. For dinner, Qiao Sheng decided to continue to draw water, took the hot pot base given by Fang Yueyi, washed the vegetables, and asked Li Mu to cut some lamb legs and some seafood such as black fish slices.

To eat hot pot, you have to sit on the kang. The bamboo bed was placed at the door of the warm room. The four members squatted down. There were shark meatballs in the three iron basins. The one tied was a vegetarian, and the basins were still filled with corn kernels.

The two people on the kang enjoyed the meal very much. The vegetarian didn't have any extravagant demands for the hot pot on the kang, and Qiao Sheng also added corn to it, so it was quite happy.

The other three were not so happy. Compared with the red oil soup base, the shark meatballs in their iron basins were not so fragrant. They all looked at the people on the kang with resentment.

"Can we close the door? Their eyes are affecting my appetite. Will eating spicy food kill them?" Qiao Sheng was determined not to turn his head to look at the three resentful old men outside.

"If you lock them up outside, they will slam the door hard, and it will affect your appetite. As for whether eating spicy food will kill them, I have never read any books on the feeding of protected animals. Since we can't follow the book, why don't we raise them like pigs? At worst, if they get sick, we can feed them Baibaodan and cod liver oil. They will definitely not die. Besides, these three are smart. They will not eat the red oil pot bottom next time." Li Mu used to be very cautious, but now he is completely relaxed and his ideas are very simple.

Qiao Sheng also thinks it's okay. There is not much mutton in the house, so he quietly didn't give them some. He put some black fish slices and various vegetables, but considering whether they can eat it, he only put a small pot bottom.

The snowy owl and the Arctic fox took a sip and then jumped away to find a water bowl to drink. The only one who continued to eat on the bamboo bed was the cassock cub. After it finished eating in its own bowl, it found that the bowl next to it was empty, but there was still food in their bowls.

After all, the little guy was at the bottom of the food chain. He turned his head to observe and determined the location of the snowy owl and the Arctic fox. Then he quickly grabbed the two iron bowls, poured the red food into his own bowl, and put the bowls of the snowy owl and the Arctic fox back in place.

Qiao Sheng and Li Mu, who witnessed the whole process of the crime, began to discuss secretly again. Isn't this a stupid bear? How can he be so methodical in stealing food? They didn't understand and were shocked.

When Snowy Owl and Arctic came back and saw that the young monk was still eating, they understood what was going on. However, the two of them never made a fuss about food they didn't like, so they just let the young monk eat it.

After dinner, a greeting came from the shore. It was the young man who spoke on behalf of the group. He stood outside and called out politely, asking if they could talk.

Li Mu said, "Wait a minute." The two put on their cotton coats and went downstairs to stand in the cabin to ask each other what was going on.

"Hello, let me introduce myself first. My name is Yan Sihai. The nine of us drifted to this island yesterday, and today we went into the forest together to cut wood." Yan Sihai's introduction confused Qiao Sheng. Was he telling her about the history of their team? However, considering the issue of courtesy, she chose not to interrupt.

"Just now our ship was also damaged. Now we are together and want to discuss with you. We will provide materials in exchange for your technology to reinforce the wooden wall. We noticed before dinner that your wooden wall was only dented, while our ship was hit with big holes and was seriously damaged." Yan Sihai rambled for a long time and finally got to the point.

The two looked at each other and saw in each other's eyes that they didn't want to take the job.

"It's not difficult to take this job, but it requires a lot of rare metals and iron products. One plate requires one piece of rare metal. We got the materials for this ship by cooperating with a large team of 50 people. Otherwise, we really can't build this ship. If you can take out this material, we are willing to help." Li Mu's skill in fooling people is also unique.

There is a large team of 50 people, and they only know a team of 20 people of Pei Hong. Now they have started to calculate food, not to mention reinforcing the ship. Qiao Sheng looked at Li Mu sideways, and suddenly felt that the image of a very dignified teacher collapsed a little. He was really down-to-earth when he was fooling people.

When Yan Sihai heard that so many things were needed, he knew that he couldn't afford it. However, thinking of the floating board with a big hole in it that he saw when he just returned to the boat, he decided to grit his teeth and reinforce the floating board.

"Reinforce the floating board? There's really no need. Look at the floating board on my boat, it's not reinforced. We call it a boat, but it's still quite different from a real boat. That kind of boat will sink if it takes in water. If we break one or two floating boards, there are still other floating boards to support it. It's just scary to look at, and it won't sink at all." Li Mu continued to present facts and reason.

Sure enough, Yan Sihai was convinced again. He thanked the two and went back to find his friends.

"Did you fool students like this before? You have so many tricks, it doesn't seem like you just learned to fool people today." Qiao Sheng started to tease him after entering the cabin.

"It's a white lie. If the cake is drawn big and round, the children will follow and learn well." Li Mu thought about it and smiled calmly.

Yan Sihai and others were waiting for him on his boat. When they came back, they heard that he failed. They were very upset. After all, who doesn't want to have a reinforced hull?

"Don't worry about them. It's us who don't have the strength. A wooden wall requires a piece of rare metal. Don't we know what we have in our hands?" Yan Sihai looked at the people present who were angry and tried to persuade them.

"They said that a wooden wall only needs one rare metal? I suspected that they were being cunning and wanted to seize our supplies. How much effort would it take to reinforce the ship? They are all selfish people." The speaker was Shen Xing, who had his own ship. "

I don't think it's possible. From what Yan said just now, it's obvious that the other party doesn't want to take this job. It's not good for them to lie. It's really unnecessary. Besides, we asked them to do something for us, so we can't be resentful if they don't care." Qu Junze, a brother who was on the same ship with Yan Sihai, shook his head to express his disagreement.

"You are just too honest. In the situation this morning, I said to tie up the couple and throw them aside, and then release them after we left, but you refused. You insisted on saying that if you endure for a while, the storm will be calm, and if you take a step back, the sea will be vast. We can't use the majority to bully the minority. This caused a big disaster, and our boat was smashed. Besides, those two people used the boat to vent their anger, maybe it was because they were beaten by those two animals. If their animals didn't beat people, the other party wouldn't be so angry that they smashed our boat. So those two people are the instigators, and they should be made to pay compensation and take the initiative to provide supplies to reinforce our boat!" There was nothing wrong with Shen Xing's words at the beginning, but the latter part exposed his idea of ​​taking advantage. But now ,

except for Yan Sihai and Qu Junze, the other six people are a little hesitant, obviously agreeing with what Shen Xing said.