Chapter 131
After dinner, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu were not idle. One of them took a colander to collect supplies, and the other took a fishing rod to start fishing. Why didn't they fish together? It was because the income was not enough. Without the bonus of the fish bone bracelet, the income from fishing was still lower than that from catching.
In addition, Qiao Sheng had a wooden hairpin on his head, which made him faster, and the probability of catching a drifting bottle was also very high.
Li Mu's speed was even faster because he saved the step of freezing the fish. In winter, he could place a maximum of 200 orders in an afternoon, but this first afternoon of spring, he actually placed 300 orders.
Qiao Sheng also received the sweatshirts and pants sent by Xia Beibei. They all looked the same, but the colors were different. Qiao Sheng really prepared a colorful outfit for him. Of course, she didn't forget about Li Mu. She had ten sets of black sweatshirts and pants. It was really hard to tell whether he changed his clothes in spring.
Li Mu himself didn't react much. He quietly put them into his wrist bag and put them into his suitcase when he went to the bathroom. After
collecting the supplies for a while, Qiao Sheng put down the colander and went to the storage cabinet on the second floor to get the cloth and cotton. He cut them with scissors, sewed them, and stuffed them with cotton. After a while, he finished making a waistcoat.
Although the stitching and tailoring are not very good, it is definitely no problem to wear. The first one was made in iron gray, and Li Mu tried it on. It was cut according to the size of the cotton coat he usually wears, so the waistcoat is a little wider.
Li Mu tried it on and said it was very good. The tailoring was just right, so it would not be inconvenient to work, and the larger one would not affect the movement.
Then Qiao Sheng made two more pieces, one for her and one for Xia Beibei, and told Xia Beibei to wear it. In this weather, you still have to protect your chest and back, and don't be too cold at night. Spring
is here, and the biggest advantage is that the planting pots can finally grow crops normally, and they don't have to be placed in the greenhouse. It just so happens that the storage capacity of rice and flour grains at home is not much, so you can store more at this time.
Winter felt quite leisurely, but now that spring has arrived, Qiao Sheng feels that she is so busy that she has no time to rest.
The first day of spring was spent in a busy schedule. At night, they slept on bamboo beds, which was not something they were used to, without the warm kang under them.
The next morning, as soon as Qiao Sheng opened her eyes, the system reminded her that she would drift to an island at noon. There were only three ships heading in one direction nearby, and there were already two ships of players on the island.
"Why do I suddenly feel that there are more players? Our island can accommodate six ships of players at the same time. It will be a lot of trouble to scramble for all the supplies." Qiao Sheng felt that since she entered the game, she had never seen so many players gathered together at the same time.
Li Mu was open-minded. He had brought enough weapons and medicines, so he could go for a stroll. He would pick up whatever he could. If he couldn't pick up anything, it was fine. He didn't have to force it. If someone wanted to make trouble, he would fight them if he could, and run away if he couldn't.
Thinking of getting to the island early in the morning, Li Mu turned on the drive equipment. The system reported that they would arrive at the island at noon. They accelerated, had breakfast, and just packed up their things when the boat arrived at the shore.
There were no ships at the shore where they docked this time. The two ships mentioned by the system should be docked in other directions.
After dropping the anchor, the two took Ah Dai and You Su ashore. Ah Dai was still squatting on Li Mu's shoulders. You Su had been wrapped around Qiao Sheng's neck for a while, and she felt a little breathless. The fox fur scarf was as warm as it was in winter, but it was also as suffocating at the moment.
The man and the fox discussed for a while, and You Su finally let go of Qiao Sheng's neck, stuffed his tail into her sweater hood, and laid his upper body on her left shoulder. To be honest, it was still quite heavy.
On this island, the shore where they stopped the boat was a beach, and walking inside was a forest. There were no very high mountains on this island, just a whole lush forest with all kinds of trees.
The two of them cut down trees and collected them along the forest. When they saw a mulberry tree, Li Mu didn't let them cut it. He went up to pick some leaves first, and then cut down the tree. They hurriedly
cut down more than a hundred trees, and also harvested a Chinese toon tree, which can be used to make scrambled eggs. Qiao Sheng also deliberately saved the seeds of the Chinese toon tree so that he could eat them anytime on the boat in the future.
There are many mushrooms in spring, but the embarrassing thing is that Li Mu and Qiao Sheng don't know anyone. They are afraid that they will be poisoned if they eat them, so they just pick some wood ear mushrooms.
While they are busy, they heard a sound from the shore. They turned their heads and saw that two boats were landing at the same time. A group of men and women got off. Qiao Sheng counted them, eight men and four women, twelve people, but the two sides were clearly divided, seven people on one side and five people on the other side, so they probably didn't know each other.
Qiao Sheng and Li Mu continued to cut wood in the forest and didn't care about the things on the shore at all. The two groups of people obviously tangled on the shore, and then one side sent someone to shake hands and get to know each other. I don't know what the two sides said, anyway, one went into the forest along the left side and the other went into the forest along the right side.
Qiao Sheng and his team were in the middle, so they couldn't bump into each other. It was estimated that the two groups saw that there was a missing piece of the forest in the middle, and Qiao Sheng and his team's boat was parked on the shore. They knew that there were people here, so
they deliberately went around. Since the other party deliberately went around, Qiao Sheng and his team also let go of the woodcutting. Recently, the silkworm baby's appetite has increased greatly, and the few leaves at home have been eaten up. Now they rely on the leaves and cabbage leaves picked by Qiao Sheng every day to feed the animals. Now they are in urgent need of various green leaves.
They kept chopping until the bag was full. Seeing that the sun was about four o'clock, the two of them had a meal in the forest at noon, and now they decided to go back first.
"We just saw two boats with 12 players, and there are still three boats missing. We don't know where they are. For safety's sake, let's go back to the boat early." Qiao Sheng patted his small backpack and discussed with Li Mu.
Li Mu also agreed with this suggestion. It was a good opportunity for him to go back and pack up, and see what other players were thinking.
When they walked to the beach, they could clearly feel the sight lines in the woods on both sides. Whether it was curiosity or exploration, it was normal, so they didn't turn their heads and went straight back to their boats.
After getting on the boat, Li Mu was not idle. He first went to arrange for his silkworm babies who had never eaten mulberry leaves since they started eating. He put several pieces of mulberry leaves in each basket, and kept saying that they had eaten too much, and that they were wronged. They must work hard to spit silk.
Qiao Sheng came down with the sweet potato vines he had just collected from upstairs. He happened to see this scene, so he put the sweet potato vines on the ground, reminded him to remember to make pig food, and went upstairs to get sweet potatoes and corn. The sweet potatoes were for the pigs, and the corn kernels were for the chickens and ducks.
It takes a lot of time to take care of the livestock area on the ship and the zoo upstairs every day.
After instructing Li Mu, Qiao Sheng went upstairs to cut cabbage leaves and radish strips. These were for the rabbits on the upstairs. When he stood in front of the rabbit nest, Qiao Sheng felt that the number was not right. The dozen or so bald little guys beside the mother rabbit were probably just born.
"Li Mu, come and think of a solution, the rabbit nest is not big enough." Qiao Sheng was not as cautious as before. He grabbed a newborn rabbit and fiddled with it in his palm.
The first thing Li Mu did was to take the male rabbit out of the nest, and then touch the female rabbit's belly. There was obviously still some. He checked several other female rabbits and found that three of them were already pregnant. It was really unlimited reproduction.
The first batch of rabbits had grown up a long time ago, and Qiao Sheng couldn't give them all away to his friends. At first, he couldn't bear to eat the ones he raised at home, but later he let it go. He couldn't bear not eating them. These guys eat a lot and reproduce quickly. Now they kill two from time to time.
Because of the birth of the little rabbits, the rabbit nest needs to be upgraded again. Li Mu took the wood and straw and started to make a nest.
Qiao Sheng took the smart ones to the second-floor terrace and cooked for them. Usually, he cooked shark meat or shark meatballs. As the temperature rose, the frozen shark meat at home had slowly thawed. The amount of this stuff was large, which made Qiao Sheng very worried.
Today, I made shark meat cakes for these stalls. The frozen shark meat was chopped into meat stuffing, and only a little tomato juice was added to it. It was spread with lard. The aroma spread far and wide, and the monks were greedy. They all stood by the pot and refused to leave. It was only when Qiao Sheng said that he would not let them eat for a while that he drove the four away.
Xinxin still had to eat watery soup, so Qiao Sheng used soup to cook a pot of crushed shark meat stuffing for it, and pinched a little tofu to thicken it.
It couldn't be given to them first after it was ready, otherwise when Qiao Sheng and his friends had dinner, these guys would still be around the table to grab food and drink.
When she was making meat cakes with lard for them, Qiao Sheng suddenly wanted to eat big oil cakes. After asking Li Mu if he had any objections, she made some pancakes with flour and picked up a lot of pork fillings.
The staple food was quite greasy, so she cooked a pot of cornmeal porridge and mixed some cold vegetables and salted vegetables. She roughly counted them and found 40 big oil cakes and 30 meat filling pancakes. It sounded like a lot, but they were actually quite small. She sent five to Xia Beibei, and also sent some to Lin Haiyang and Fang Yueyi.
The rest, the two of them plus the animals that were eating and drinking for free, could have breakfast tomorrow if they couldn't finish it this time.
After the meal was ready, Li Mu also fed the livestock downstairs, built the rabbit nest upstairs, and fed them. He also planted mulberry trees upstairs, and planted wheat, rice, sweet potatoes and corn in the planting pots.
In order to accelerate the growth of these plants, the flow rate on the ship was increased. Four or five rounds of crops should be harvested before going to bed at night. The mulberry trees planted in the large planting pots should be grown tomorrow.
Because of the need to plant trees, Li Mu had moved the large planting pots to the terrace on the third floor, for fear that they would grow in the cabin and break the glass.
During dinner, the two of them moved the table to the wooden door of the second deck, opened the door, and opened the windows on both sides, one for ventilation, the other for observing the situation outside. As
the sky darkened, Qiao Sheng and his friends sat in the deck eating big, fragrant oil cakes. She also added chili oil to the vinegar bowl, which tasted so delicious. They could clearly see flames moving on both sides of the forest on the shore. It should be that the teams on both sides were still working.
After the cassock cubs finished the shark meat cakes in their bowls, they began to covet the big oil cakes on Qiao Sheng's table. The cassock cubs were straightforward and started to act coquettishly while hugging Li Mu's thighs. When they saw that their saliva was about to drip onto his new pants, Li Mu put down his chopsticks, grabbed their necks and lifted them up.