Chapter 132
He pinched the neck of the monk with his right hand, took a large oil cake from the plate with his left hand, threw it into its food bowl, and then put the monk back on the bamboo bed. The whole set of movements was so smooth that the monk almost flew in a parabola.
On the other hand, Su and Ah Dai performed in front of Qiao Sheng, which really made her feel guilty if she didn't give them a reward. Fortunately, the monk was not that smart, otherwise, if he was seen through and treated differently, Li Mu's pants would be in trouble.
After dinner, there was just enough leftover biscuits for breakfast tomorrow. After clearing the tableware, the two went to the first floor and found work to do. Qiao Sheng took a chair, put on a fishbone bracelet, and started fishing. Li Mu held a wooden basin and started scraping the pile of mulberry bark.
They didn't understand why they always wanted to get rid of the mulberry paper, so they just followed their hearts and did whatever they wanted.
Li Mu had been scraping the mulberry bark that he had recently stored for a whole night. When he was tired, he put the fish that Qiao Sheng had caught into the trading system.
The two also opened the wooden door of the cabin and observed the situation outside from time to time.
The players on the two ships were really persistent. Both sides lit torches to cut wood. Qiao Sheng thought it was dangerous, but they didn't stop.
When Li Mu finished scraping all the mulberry bark and they were ready to wash and go to bed, the two teams hadn't come back yet.
"If we had their diligence, wouldn't we have dominated the ocean long ago?" Qiao Sheng lay on the bed and looked at the deck above, and couldn't help sighing.
"Don't think about it. You can't dominate even if you work yourself to death. It takes five or seven people to copy them. There are only two of us. Let's take it slowly. It's not worth it to die of exhaustion." Li Mu really thought it was unnecessary. It wasn't to the point of lack of food and clothing.
In the dead of night, Qiao Sheng was woken up several times. The people on the two ships were a little bit unconscious, or they didn't expect that someone could sleep while they were frantically collecting supplies. There
was a clanking sound back and forth, and the footsteps were gone. There were also people chatting and laughing. In the end, there was really no other way. Qiao Sheng and Li Mu dragged their bedding back to the warm room to sleep. Dinner was cooked early and the fire was extinguished long ago, so it was not too hot inside. The two layers of wooden walls plus a layer of animal fur finally blocked the outside sounds a little.
Because of the tossing and turning at night, Qiao Sheng got up late in the morning. He sat on the kang and was dazed for a while before putting on his sweater and going to the bathroom to wash up.
The hardworking Li Mu was already heating up their breakfast in the kitchen. Qiao Sheng even poked his head out while he was brushing his teeth. The Jiashazi and the others were also making shark meatballs on the stove. There were
also a few pieces of roasted sweet potatoes on the grill. Qiao Sheng thought that this breakfast might be a bit too much.
After she cleaned it up and put it on the table, she realized that they had made some arrangements.
Their own breakfast was still porridge with pancakes. Li Mu was quite smart and knew to bake it in a frying pan instead of steaming it in a large pot. He deserves praise.
The Jiashazi and the others had a small portion of shark meatball soup with two pieces of sweet potatoes. Li Mu’s idea was that they couldn’t just eat meat, and they had to have some vegetables and carbohydrates in the future.
The animals on the opposite side didn't understand what he was talking about, but it didn't affect them from eating the sweet baked sweet potatoes. It was just that the skin didn't taste good.
Li Mu also taught them how to peel the skin. When it came to eating this, their little brains worked very fast and they all learned it in a short while. Only Xinxin, who was still eating the meat paste, was not very skilled. Li Mu peeled it for him and put it in the food bowl. He licked it and ate it all.
The members on the second floor were the most miserable, only the tied one, who lived on corn kernels all the time. But this guy didn't seem to be picky, and he wasn't as greedy as his friends. He ate whatever was given to him and never put his head into other people's bowls.
After breakfast, the two packed their gear and prepared to go to the island for another tour. Unexpectedly, before they left the cabin, they heard a quarrel on the shore.
It was not a good idea for the two to just go out, so they quietly lay down on the sofa where Yousu and A'dai slept at night, and slightly raised the wooden window to watch the excitement.
A group of men and women were shouting outside. Qiao Sheng listened for a long time before he understood. It seemed that they were fighting for territory. Last night, except for their boat, the players of the other five boats had already met. The other three boats were parked on the shore in different directions from them.
Among the three boats, two had three players in them, and one had five players on it, mostly young male players. The content of the quarrel was that someone had sneaked into the area of others while it was dark.
None of the three ships worked all night. Only the two ships next to Qiao Sheng's had worked all night. Now the 11 people came to ask for an explanation. The
twelve people on the two ships next to them said they did not do it. Now there is no way to distinguish the matter, so the five parties began to quarrel.
"Who do you think did it?" Qiao Sheng asked the people around him in a low voice.
"It's a team of five people. You see, those few people were the most fierce when they quarreled, but they couldn't say a useful word. They just denied it vigorously. The woman standing behind had a guilty look on her face." Li Mu stretched out her index finger and pointed it to her.
Qiao Sheng observed for a while and felt that he should have seen through the truth. It was indeed similar to what Li Mu said.
The two people who were enjoying themselves had never expected that there would be a trick to divert trouble. Although the people on the two boats next to them had the advantage in numbers, they were not good at quarreling and were about to be stepped on.
Those people pointed at Qiao Sheng's boat and said loudly that it must be a man and a woman on that boat who did it. They did not participate in the division of the territory, and they must have been randomly collecting everywhere.
Qiao Sheng was speechless. Are these guys sick? They are looking for someone to blame when they can't win the quarrel? If this operation had happened on the Internet before, she would have given them a 666.
This sentence attracted everyone's attention to Qiao Sheng's boat. Fortunately, they reacted quickly and closed the wooden window before they looked over.
In the eyes of the twenty or so people on the shore, Qiao Sheng's boat was ordinary, not unusually big, nor unusually high. After observing for a while, they decided to come over and ask for clarification.
Qiao Sheng was so angry that she was sitting on the sofa to try her luck. If Li Mu hadn't stuffed Yousu into her hands and let her rub it for a while to vent, she would have gone out to tear that nonsense mouth apart.
Those people were also afraid that Qiao Sheng and his people had some experts. After all, such a big boat didn't look like there were only two people living on it, so they were quite polite when calling for help.
Li Mu looked at Qiao Sheng, and before he could grab her, she rushed out like a small cannonball, and didn't even go to the bow on the first floor, but went to the terrace on the second floor, which meant that he wanted to look down on the other party from a height.
"What brings you here so early in the morning?" Qiao Sheng was quite calm as she walked to the terrace, stroking You Su, who was frizzy from her hair.
The players below were a little nervous, after all, Qiao Sheng's outfit showed that she was a good player in the game, colored fabrics were rare, and she was wearing a colored sweater.
The little animal in his hand couldn't be a dog because of its tail and mouth. It was not easy for everyone to have enough food and clothing while drifting on the sea. Raising some livestock was considered a bit of a family property. Suddenly, someone holding a pet came out, and everyone felt like they were stepping on an iron plate.
"It's nothing serious. I just want to tell you that we have divided the collection area. You may not know that I went to someone else's territory to collect last night. Be careful next time." The man who used Qiao Sheng to change the topic stood up at this moment.
"What this gentleman said is not quite right. Last night, only your two ships were collecting all night. My teammates and I were sleeping the whole time. And because of your carelessness and noise, we were woken up several times. So if there was a situation of collecting in other people's territory, it could only happen between your two teams." Before Qiao Sheng opened his mouth, Li Mu, who had just come out of the cabin, interrupted him.
"You said you didn't come out, so you didn't come out? Who can testify? Neither of our teams saw it, so it must be you who did it." The man was still racking his brains to frame us, but because he was not well prepared, his words were full of lack of confidence.
"Who can prove that we did it? You? But you look guilty now. Look at your teammates. They are so guilty that their heads are about to fall to the ground." Li Mu calmly turned everyone's attention to the girl in the back row.
The girl was already feeling guilty because of the sudden attention. She almost cried. She waved her hands in front of her chest and kept saying that it was not her.
The man who had talked to Qiao Sheng and the others walked in front of the girl and blocked everyone's gaze: "Don't scare her. I accidentally walked into the wrong area last night and collected your supplies. It was because it was too dark and I couldn't see clearly. After I saw it clearly, we immediately changed places."
"Then why didn't you say it earlier? You dragged innocent people into the water." Qiao Sheng said leisurely on the terrace. The others nodded and looked at the man.
"You came here to accuse me so early in the morning. There are only five people in our team. How can we fight you head-on?" The man explained guiltily.
"So you first pulled the seven-member team over there to unite against the enemy, and now that you see the enemy is defeated, you want to divert the trouble to others? If I hadn't seen you still protecting your female teammates, I would have definitely beaten you up today." Qiao Sheng calmed down and said to the people from other teams: "How did you divide the areas? Should we also bring our team with us? It's not appropriate to divide six teams into five areas, right?"