Chapter 110
Li Mu stood at the bow and took out all the herbs he had exchanged. After checking them one by one, he put them into his wrist bag. He then thought about the recipe of memory carefully to make sure that there was nothing missing. Then he put all the frozen fish on the bow into the barrel and took them back to the cabin. He continued to place orders in the trading house to exchange for supplies.
Qiao Sheng was fishing so bored. In the past, she could take turns to catch supplies, but now it is not possible. Fishing alone is a single job, and it is easy to get bored. She would call an animal down to tease it for a while, either tickling the cassock cub or rubbing the Arctic fox. She also called Shuanzhu to scare it into making a beer duck. Shuanzhu was so scared that it ran around Li Mu and asked for help.
The duck rushed forward and backward, and several times its webbed feet stepped on Li Mu's cotton slippers. At first, Li Mu retracted his feet and ignored it, but later he found that no matter where his feet were, he could step on it accurately.
He was so angry that he grabbed the runaway duck and threw it into the duck house. The duck wanted to rush out after being thrown in, but Li Mu took out the hemp rope to scare it, and then it jumped into the basin obediently.
Back to the work, Li Mu asked Qiao Sheng to be more honest, because he was always teasing cats and dogs. Qiao Sheng made a few faces at him and continued fishing while stroking the Arctic fox.
In the afternoon, I received a letter from Xia Beibei asking for help. The little girl had been eating boiled fish soup for several days and was really irritable. She wanted to find Sister Qiao to improve the food for everyone. Anything was fine as long as it was not fish.
In the evening, Qiao Sheng handed the fishing rod and fish bone bracelet to Li Mu. She got up and went to the kitchen, thinking that if she didn't cook something from the sea, she would cook something from land. It happened to be the last bit of pickled cabbage left in the jar.
When I was rummaging through the storage box, I found that there was still some sheep offal left. The sesame seeds had been planted a long time ago, but Li Mu had been busy recently and had no time to make sesame oil and sesame sauce. I took this out separately and asked him to make it tomorrow.
Then she found the pork belly and pork liver, which can also be fried. She didn't know what to cook at first, but in the end, four dishes and one soup were served on the table, plus two cold salads, which was very rich.
After receiving the dinner, Xia Beibei exclaimed that Sister Qiao was awesome, and she always responded to requests. She also sent a lot of brown sugar to Qiao Sheng. Qiao Sheng was curious, could she also make a fire bed?
Xia Beibei said that she didn't know how to make a fire bed, but she could put four or five braziers in a partition room to keep it warm. But that room was closed, and every time she went in, she had to rush in quickly, open the window, wait for air to flow in, and then go in to collect the crops. It was a bit troublesome, but it was nothing for food.
Qiao Sheng asked her if this consumed a lot of coal, and Xia Beibei replied that it was quite a lot. If she hadn't always gotten coal crits before, she wouldn't dare to do it now.
Since even Koi said so, it means that ordinary players still can't grow crops. It seems that this method cannot be popularized.
There is no need to worry about making too much dinner. After all, there are three trash cans at home. If you can't finish the food, just pour it into them. It won't waste anything.
"Has this cassock cub grown a lot? Why does the snowy owl seem to be bigger, but the Arctic fox hasn't changed at all." Qiao Sheng noticed the changes when he turned his head while eating.
Li Mu also said yes. He suspected that it was because the Arctic fox was an adult, while the other two were still young and growing. However, they could not identify the age of these three species.
The cassock cub did not need to be identified. It was very small when it was first brought back. It was estimated to be less than a year old in a few months. The Arctic fox and the snowy owl were really incomprehensible.
When they were thinking of a solution, Qiao Sheng chose the simplest way and asked directly. The two were smart and should be able to figure it out.
The answer was that the snowy owl and the Arctic fox were both adults. As for why one grew a little bigger and the other did not change.
Qiao Sheng concluded that the fox spirit is not called that for nothing. The fox family has a special plan to maintain its body shape, which can keep it in the best shape and make its owner love it. The snowy owl is just naive and fat.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that the snowy owl and the cassock cub are the ones who eat the most every time. The Arctic fox really has a fixed amount of food. Once it eats too much, it will not nest on the sofa, but choose to wander around on the deck to digest the food.
"Fortunately, this game didn't make me fat. We are too decadent. There is not a single fox with self-discipline." Qiao Sheng sighed. The blow was too great.
The next day, Li Mu was forced to grind sesame seeds, and Qiao Sheng sat on the first floor to fish, still stroking the Arctic fox while fishing.
Li Mu moved the stone mill from the kitchen on the second floor and moved his work location downstairs. At least the two of them could talk to each other. It was too quiet on the first floor alone and they were not used to it.
After grinding sesame seeds for a while, he took the fish caught by Qiao Sheng and put it on the bow to freeze. The frozen fish was put into the trading system. After
grinding ten kilograms of sesame seeds, Li Mu found a helper for himself. He made a track in the shape of the stone mill outside the stone mill. The handle of the stone mill was originally facing upwards, but now he added a horizontal one, which was just the right length for the circular track. Then he put a bamboo pole on the monk's back with a shark meatball hanging on it.
Put the cassock cub in the track, with a shark meatball in front of it, and the cassock cub started to spin by pushing the handle of the millstone.
"You are too cruel, using the black bear as a donkey. It is really stupid, just spinning around like that." Qiao Sheng picked up a fish, shook his head, and simply couldn't bear to watch.
"Feed the Arctic fox more at noon, and then tie a rope around it, and tie the other end to the handle of the millstone. It will run willingly. Make the best use of it. It is a part of the family and cannot be idle." Li Mu took a shark meatball and stuffed it into the mouth of the cassock cub.
As for the use of child labor, there should be some benefits, otherwise these guys are not stupid and will go on strike. This is good. The loss of one meatball can grind two or three pounds of sesame.
Li Mu had free time except for filling the stone mill with sesame. He went back to the second floor to get iron products and made a stone mill. He sat next to the stone mill and cut up the herbs he exchanged yesterday one by one and put them into the stone mill to grind them into powder.
Qiao Sheng saw that he had something he had never seen before in his hand, so he asked about it. The answer he got was to try to make more medicines. The answer was very reasonable, but the names of the Chinese medicines he said surprised Qiao Sheng. They were all Angelica dahurica, Bletilla striata, and White Poria cocos.
Finally, he took out a stone mortar and took out a pile of shells. When he opened them, he found a lot of pearls in different colors. Qiao Sheng was curious and went to look at them for a long time. There were not only white pearls, but also pearls of other colors.
Li Mu picked out all the white ones and gave the rest to Qiao Sheng. He also asked her if she wanted a pearl bracelet and he would make one for her when he had time.
Which girl doesn't love beauty? I didn't have one before, but now I can have one, so I definitely want one. After confirming that the pearls of other colors were useless, Qiao Sheng put them away. She could choose which ones to use for the bracelets when she rested at night.
When Li Mu finished grinding these Chinese medicines, the cassock cub had already ground a wooden basin of sesame paste. At this moment, the little black bear was already panting non-stop.
To get the snowy owl to turn the mill, you have to persuade it with reason and emotion, and the key is to tempt it. After Qiao Sheng promised to prepare twenty Spanish mackerel dumplings for it at noon and in the evening, and not only shark meatballs but also half a watermelon for snacks, the owl stood happily on the track, spread his wings, and let Li Mu tie the rope.
A bird pulling a mill certainly cannot run around the track. It is flying in the air, which is a bit strenuous. It may be that the food stimulated it, and it did not stop no matter how hard it tried. At lunch
time, Li Mu really increased the Arctic fox's food intake. The man and the fox stared at each other for a long time, but the fox still lost the battle and chose to eat the food and then lose weight.
Qiao Sheng almost died of laughter when he saw the resentful look in the Arctic Fox's eyes. It was clearly condemning Li Mu for being unkind and tempting it to make mistakes with food.
In the afternoon, the pressure of grinding sesame seeds fell on the Arctic Fox and the cassock cub. The two took turns and had time to rest, so they didn't seem to be too tired.
In the evening, Qiao Sheng didn't eat the mutton soup he had planned yesterday, because the sesame sauce had not been made yet. He planted a lot of sesame seeds. He only watched the three animals grinding the mill all day and forgot about making sesame oil and sesame sauce.
While eating dumplings in the evening, the system that had not appeared for several days appeared again.
[Container ship detected, other players' ships nearby are approaching the container ship. The difficulty this time is three and a half stars. Players are requested to deal with it carefully. If you complete the progress, the system will issue rewards.
Qiao Sheng hurriedly asked how long it would take to reach the container ship at this speed, and the answer he got was tomorrow morning. Only then did he feel relieved and told Li Mu to eat and drink, and prepare weapons after eating and drinking enough, because it would arrive tomorrow anyway. The
last three and a half stars encountered cannibals, and this three and a half stars is not going to be too simple. It is reasonable to suspect that there are likely to be indigenous people on the ship. What really worries them is the ships drifting there together. Most of the time, players are much scarier than NPCs.
The container ship, as the name suggests, is used to carry goods. If it is empty, they will have made a wasted trip. If it is full of goods, they should be able to make money this time.
After dinner, the two of them went their separate ways. Li Mu took two wrist bags to carry knockout drugs, Baibaodan, artificial skin film and cod liver oil. He looked at the arrows in the quiver and thought they needed to be replenished. The oil in the wind lamp also needed to be filled up.
Qiao Sheng went to the kitchen to prepare food for tomorrow. The hot water can be poured into the glass bottle after it is boiled tomorrow morning. If it is prepared now, it will be ice water tomorrow.
The food was conveniently prepared, so meat buns were made. The pork and eggs were brined. The buns were also baked. Tomorrow morning, the brined pork will be heated up, and the buns will be baked. Finally, they will be assembled. It is convenient and quick.
At night, the two of them washed up early and went to bed on the kang. They had to conserve their energy, as there might be a tough battle tomorrow.
When the two ships collided in the morning, Qiao Sheng and the others woke up in shock. They got up, and Li Mu got dressed and went to the terrace to check the situation. Qiao Sheng packed up and went into the kitchen to prepare food for the day.
Through the wooden window of the kitchen, she could see the container ship. It was much larger than the last cruise ship. Their wooden boat was like a toy in front of the container ship.
Li Mu climbed up to the glass roof on the third floor, but still could not see the situation on the container ship.
Finally, the Snowy Owl was sent out to fly around the field, first flying once, then looking over the container ship to see if there was anyone, and finally flying around to see if the players who approached here at the same time as them had arrived, and if not, how far away they were.