Chapter 141
Planted the large planting pots with trees. It was already noon when they finished all this. They went into the kitchen to make lunch without taking a break. Li Mu mixed a bowl of dough, preparing to make some dumplings in the afternoon.
After lunch, Qiao Sheng began to arrange the fillings for the dumplings. There were three types: pork and cabbage, three-fresh chives, and pure meatballs.
She thought there was enough time, so she asked Li Mu to mix the dough for dumplings. In her words, we should make it today and do it all at once. Don't procrastinate for several days. There is always delay.
After kneading the dough, Li Mu started to chop the meat fillings, from pork to Spanish mackerel. In the end, Qiao Sheng even asked him to get a new chopping board and knife to chop shark meat, so that the animals could have a different taste, otherwise they would be eating Qiao Sheng's rice bowl every day.
It was a good idea. Once you start this job, you really can't finish it. In addition, the quantity is large, so the two of them worked from dawn to dusk, from standing to sitting.
The plan was to make dumplings with shark meat, but in the end it was changed to steamed buns. It was really difficult to make dumplings for the cassock cubs. If the pot was not so big, she would definitely use all the dough to wrap a big stuffing cake and steam it directly in the pot.
They had steamed buns and porridge for dinner. They really didn't have the energy to cook anything else. In the evening, Qiao Sheng dreamed of making dumplings. Fortunately, she didn't know how to make dumplings with folds. Li Mu made them. Otherwise, she would be exhausted that night.
The next morning, Qiao Sheng took out the husked wheat. She made too much pasta yesterday and the flour jar was empty. She wanted to try out the stone mill produced by the system, so she took the materials and made a new stone mill. At first glance, it looked much more solid than the stone mill Qiao Sheng had assembled before.
She put the wheat in and turned it a few times. It was indeed better than their previous stone mill and saved a lot of energy.
Seeing the millstone, the monks were eager to try again. Li Mu rebuilt the track he had made before and placed the millstone next to them. They fished and added wheat to the millstone from time to time.
The animals were very excited. Qiao Sheng couldn't beat him for doing such a good job. He said that the meal was worth it. Every bite of food showed its value at this moment. Even Xinxin, who hadn't eaten for a few meals, tied a rope and ran several laps on the track. The little guys treated it as a game, but their physical strength was obviously not as good as the monks.
In order to let them have fun, Qiao Sheng ground cornmeal after flour, and ground all the flour that could be ground into flour. She even soaked a lot of soybeans and mung beans. The soybeans were used to make soybean milk and tofu, and the mung beans were used to make pancakes the next morning.
When she asked these guys to work, she drew cakes for them, such as eating steamed buns after flour was ground, making cornmeal pancakes after cornmeal was ground, and drinking soybean milk with soybeans. They had never eaten pancakes made of mung beans, but they couldn't resist the roundness of the pancakes Qiao Sheng drew.
After finishing their work, the four of them still looked like they had endless energy, were not tired, and could still do it.
She was very sorry for the damage to Qiao Sheng and Li Mule. Of course, as a big leader, she couldn't just draw cakes. She steamed shark meat buns and cornmeal porridge for these little guys for lunch and dinner. She
needed fruit to make pancakes. She also contacted Lin Haiyang and sent him oil and flour, asking him to fry more fruit so that they could spread out the pancakes to eat the next morning.
Li Mu made the pancake griddle overnight, using a lot of iron products. Qiao Sheng was heartbroken and it made the already poor family even worse.
The next morning, Lin Haiyang sent over dozens of fruit to tell him, and along with the fruit, he also sent a letter with just one line of words.
[Sister, I'm hungry. Yangyang and Beibei are staying. Yangyang wants spicy and green onions, while Beibei only wants spicy without green onions. 】
Qiao Sheng really made him laugh and cry. He first gave two sets to each of them. Now that the family had enough eggs, he gave each of them an egg and sent them to Lin Haiyang and Xia Beibei respectively.
He also quietly told Xia Beibei that this was what Lin Haiyang had fought for her. The sentence "Beibei only adds spicy food without adding green onions" highlighted the point, which made Xia Beibei feel disgusted.
【He is always fussy! When can Sister Qiao make something delicious without taking me? She worries about eating salty radishes and doesn't even add green onions! Sister Qiao doesn't understand my taste at all. I don't eat raw green onions, but I do eat cooked green onions! 】
After a brief chat with Xia Beibei, she continued to sell pancakes. During this time, she received another letter from Lin Haiyang. However, after seeing the content, Qiao Sheng replied to him that he would never get a bite of pancake from her again!
Li Mu stood by to help. He saw Qiao Sheng suddenly stop moving, then frowned and looked angry. After asking, he found out that Lin Haiyang actually dared to let Qiao Sheng add lettuce and pork into the pancakes. The guy must not be nearby, otherwise the angry Qiao Sheng would chop him up and put him into the pancakes.
Compared to □□ Lin Haiyang, Li Mu and the four little animals at home who eat whatever they are given are simply too cute. The pancakes are not easy to digest. Xinxin got a small palm-sized pancake skin and a bowl of soy milk, while the other three ate until their stomachs were full.
Especially the cassock cub, it added spicy food! After eating two bites, it had to drink a mouthful of soy milk. Even this did not stop it from continuing to refuse. However, reality also taught it a lesson. It ate too much in the morning, and the pancakes were the most filling.
When Su and the others ate shark meat buns for lunch, it couldn't eat a single bite and could only lie on the ground and sigh at its brothers with resentment.
Qiao Sheng and his friends have been fishing non-stop for the past two days. The iron products they got were quickly consumed. They were either used to reinforce the boat or to make cannons. They felt that they were almost going bald. They were completely out of money. Now they were just making cannons. The large parts of the iron products and the shells for the cannons were too much for them to even think about.
No matter how hard life was, they had to get by. They also learned to find joy in hardship. They would fish, dismantle mulberry fiber, and then use a colander to collect supplies from the first floor.
Qiao Sheng, who was carrying a wooden hairpin to collect supplies downstairs, exclaimed. Li Mu, who was fishing upstairs, threw down his fishing rod and ran down in two steps.
She held an empty bottle in her left hand and a diagram in her right hand, muttering "ouch, ouch". Li Mu was so scared that he thought she had broken the glass bottle and pricked her hand.
He took the things in her hands and threw them back, then began to check her hands to see where she was injured.
"Hey, hey, don't throw it." Shouting "I'm fine", Qiao Sheng reached out and picked up the diagram that had not yet fallen to the ground, letting the glass bottle break.
With a smug smile on his face, he put the diagram in front of Li Mu and motioned him to look at it quickly.
Li Mu took the diagram from her, but his focus was still on her hands, until Qiao Sheng spread her five fingers and repeatedly let him check both sides to make sure there was no injury, then he looked at the diagram.
At this glance, he understood why Qiao Sheng was so excited. This turned out to be a diagram of a furnace.
As soon as this thing was obtained, it was immediately made and temporarily placed in the cabin on the first floor. As for what to smelt, the two of them searched in the storage cabinet for a long time. Only the container was suitable. First, the materials in the container were emptied, and then it was transferred to the wrist bag. When it reached the first floor, the container was transferred from the wrist bag to the furnace.
When this thing was put in, Qiao Sheng and his friends thought that the smelting time would definitely not be short, but when they clicked on the furnace, they were still surprised by the 24-hour smelting time.
In order to see what can be smelted as soon as possible, the two of them directly adjusted the time flow of the ship, selected the fastest gear, and directly went eight times faster. Sure enough, when they checked the smelting time of the furnace, it became three hours.
Of course, this furnace also has its shortcomings. You can only put one item in at a time, and wait and see what can be smelted out. If the things are good, you can make a few more furnaces in the future, put them in a row, and melt them at the same time. Another point is that it is quite wasteful of fuel. The furnace needs to add coal as fuel. Fortunately, they are not short of this now.
With the furnace, the two of them feel that they have the energy to fish. After covering a layer of floating boards, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu returned to the second-floor terrace to start fishing again.
In the afternoon, the system informed them that they would encounter a large island tomorrow morning, and it was a four-star island. You have to know that the cannibal island, the island of the Wang family mother and son, and even the container ship were all three and a half stars. The extra half star made the two of them feel depressed.
Qiao Sheng also asked if there were other players on the island now, and how many people were heading there in the nearby sea.
The system answered her that there were no other players on the island for the time being, but there were more than 20 ships in the nearby sea, and sixty or seventy players were heading for the island.
This answer made the two of them even more entangled. They were just two people, and it would be too easy to suffer losses if they were mixed with sixty or seventy players. However, a four-star island has both opportunities and crises. If they give up, both of them are a little reluctant.
After thinking about it, the two decided to continue fishing and not speed up to the island. They just drifted slowly. Anyway, they would arrive tomorrow morning. There was no point in arriving early now. Now they just hoped that the twenty or so ships were not a fleet. If they were all scattered players, they would have an absolute advantage.
When making dinner, Qiao Sheng specially baked a lot of pancakes and brined a pot full of meat and eggs, just to prepare for tomorrow.
Li Mu went to the trading system to exchange a lot of medicinal herbs, and with the ones he collected and grew in the past few days, he made several bottles of knockout drugs in case of emergency.
A lot of high-attack iron arrows were also made, replacing the ordinary arrows they had made before in the quiver. Don't worry about the loss at this time, life is more important. If you really fight with others, whoever has the higher attack will have the upper hand.
The first batch of smelted containers in the furnace has also been produced. There are really a lot of materials obtained, and there are many types, including metal steel, iron products and even plastics. However, the things are big and the quantity is even greater. One container produced 500 rare metal steels, 3,000 iron products and 500 plastics.
The two of them are still very satisfied with this shipment. It is really impossible to exchange this amount with fish for a day. However, they only have a few thousand containers in total, and they can go back to Xia Beibei to exchange some.
"I regret it so much. Why did we have to be so picky? We should have moved all the containers on the container ship back, and the ship as well! If we had dismantled it, how many iron products would we have? We would have become rich all of a sudden." Qiao Sheng was very regretful. They were too wasteful. They sank the ship in vain.
Li Mu hadn't thought of this. He always had to look forward. Maybe there would be some opportunities in the future. He could collect more then. But the furnace couldn't be kept running all the time. The coal consumption was also a big expense.