Chapter 151
Listening to Qiao Sheng's lively talk, Li Mu also casually clicked on the world channel. Sure enough, everyone was chatting enthusiastically. After a few glances, he closed it and continued to enter the trading system to study the price. It was very sad to find that the ratio needed to be set lower.
Before, it was 20% lower than the market ratio, but now it has to be lower than 25%-30% to exchange.
This did not stump them. They set some according to the original ratio and put the rest in the refrigerator. They can just eat it on weekdays. Whether they can exchange it or not is up to fate.
Because most of the crops have been distributed to Pei Hong and the islanders, the top priority is to grow more food. Before, they did not dare to stock up in advance because of the freshness restriction. Now that they have a refrigerator, this problem is perfectly solved. If they don't start stocking up food, they are simply stupid.
Because there was no need to rush for this stockpiling operation, they didn't even adjust the flow rate. They just planted and harvested three or four times a day, neither too fast nor too slow. The rest of the time was also very busy. The crops had to be dried, and the dried crops had to be threshed and ground.
Some of the crops, such as corn and sweet potatoes, did not need to be dried. After harvesting, they could be directly put into the refrigerator and taken out whenever they were needed, which was also convenient.
Life was still quite leisurely. I was a happy farmer and cook every day, making some semi-finished products, and making a little more for each meal, storing them in the space ring. When I was too lazy to cook, I would take some out and make a meal.
What broke the leisure was a thunder in the sleep. Qiao Sheng and Li Mu were awakened. They pushed open the wooden window at the head of the bed and found that the wind was howling outside and it was still raining sporadically.
"Oh no, the drying rack on the third floor, is the cabin door closed? I can't remember." Qiao Sheng muttered "Oh no, oh no", and put on his shoes and prepared to run out, but was grabbed by Li Mu behind him and a hat was pressed on his head. When he
went up to the third floor, the crops hanging on the drying rack were blown up. Li Mu said he would clean up the terrace, and Qiao Sheng went straight to the cabin.
Before entering, she saw that the wooden door was closed, and she felt a little relieved. But after entering, she found that she was too relieved too early. The door of the third-tier cabin was indeed not closed last night, and it was closed now because of the wind. The rice and wheat that were originally spread on the ground in the cabin had flown everywhere.
Fortunately, these were just harvested not long ago, and they were still with ears. If they were threshed, it would be difficult to harvest.
When Li Mu came in, Qiao Sheng was still holding an oil lamp and picking ears all over the ground.
Putting the drying rack that had just been taken from the terrace into the wrist bag in the corner of the cabin, Li Mu asked Qiao Sheng not to collect it yet, as it was unnecessary in the dark, and to wait until tomorrow morning when it was cooler.
This suggestion was very reasonable. Before returning to the second deck, the two took out the empty big wooden barrel. It was just the right time to collect some rainwater. Recently, they had been living on the water from the filters. They had been saving water for washing, and they were even more reluctant to take a bath.
When they woke up, the rain outside had not stopped, and there was thunder from time to time. They woke up almost at the same time. Li Mu was faster in washing, so he told Qiao Sheng not to worry, and he went out to cook the wontons first.
When Qiao Sheng went to the kitchen, he saw this man squatting in front of the stove, staring blankly at the corn cobs they had left over. There was water in the pot, but it was not warm at all.
After asking, they found out that the corn cobs in the kitchen were all wet and could not be lit at all.
"There's no sign of water entering the kitchen, so how come the corn cobs are wet? Have you tried the dry firewood piled next to it?" This situation also caught Qiao Sheng off guard.
She quickly asked Li Mu to try the other firewood piled next to the stove, and ran back to the cabin to get other things that could be used as fuel from the storage cabinet. By the time
she had moved everything out, Li Mu had already tried everything he could try, and was ready to take the firewood from Qiao Sheng and continue to try to light it.
She said directly that there was no need to light it, because it felt wet to the touch. Even if it was placed in the storage cabinet, these fuels were soaked. The rain was simply an indiscriminate attack.
"This charcoal can be used after it is dried, but the others can only be used after the weather clears up and they are dried in the sun." Li Mu squatted in front of the stove and sorted the firewood by type.
Qiao Sheng suddenly remembered that there seemed to be firewood and charcoal in the supplies he had put into the space ring at any time in the past few days. He
took it out and saw that time really stopped, and there was no sign of erosion by rain at all. He quickly handed it to Li Mu for him to ignite.
Time was very tight, and he had to dry more charcoal as quickly as possible. Qiao Sheng collected the other wet firewood on the ground, turned around and went into the cabin again, this time bringing out 500 pieces of charcoal.
Their breakfast was also very pathetic. Both people and animals were roasted sweet potatoes. No hot water was allowed. Each person had a glass of boiled water.
Li Mu dried a batch of charcoal, and Qiao Sheng collected a batch in the space ring. He said something to him and sent a piece to Xia Beibei. She must have wet charcoal. Drying a few pieces would get her through the day. As for the rest, she would have to think of a way.
After receiving the dry charcoal, Xia Beibei praised her sister Qiao again. She was not in a hurry to cook with charcoal. After drying part of it, she boiled water like crazy. She could exchange it in the trading system for food, but she really couldn't do without water for the boiled water.
Using this method of roasting a piece at a time, Qiao Sheng also boiled a lot of water. There was no container for it, so she cleaned a large wooden barrel and boiled it with boiling water. She poured it out before filling it with boiling water. The water in the pot boiled and poured it into the large wooden barrel. When the large wooden barrel was full, she put it into the space ring.
It was a pity that the large wooden barrel could not be placed directly on the stove to make boiling water, otherwise it would be easier.
Five hundred pieces of charcoal were almost roasted, and Qiao Sheng went in to get another 1,000 pieces. She had opened a lot of charcoal before, and had opened a lot of big and small crits. She also had a lot of charcoal when she mined that time, so she had no shortage of things. Who would have thought that after a night, the dry ones would become wet.
More than a thousand pieces of charcoal were roasted until noon. Qiao Sheng was browsing the world channel to see other Wanhua talking. She didn't have the heart to cook, so she cooked half-finished dumplings.
The dumplings were not big. Li Mu could make thirty or forty dumplings in one meal. Qiao Sheng had a smaller appetite, so she had to make twenty dumplings. The remaining animals, except Xinxin, got five dumplings. The rest of them had ten dumplings plus a piece of roasted sweet potato.
Qiao Sheng was not being stingy. If it were dumplings, she would eat them casually. The cassock cubs had a large appetite and would burp after eating three dumplings in one meal. It was too strenuous to make dumplings. The whole family had to make nearly 100 dumplings in one meal. It took her a long time to make them.
After dinner, the two of them didn't move. One of them went to the world channel to check the latest news, and the other opened the trading system. Sure enough, everything was in a mess.
A few days ago, it was still prosperous, with all orders for various cooked fish. Now, all of them have become fresh fish. Even then, the fish are divided into different grades according to species. The price of salmon and octopus that can be eaten raw has doubled, and the price of other fish that need to be cooked has become even lower.
It would be a bit stupid not to make a profit at this time. Li Mu stood in front of the refrigerator to choose fish, and Qiao Sheng closed the world channel. The players have gone from being angry and cursing at the beginning to attacking each other. They don't want to think about how to get dry firewood or get some food and drink, but they still have time to curse each other on the world channel. They deserve to be hungry in the future.
Xia Beibei asked Qiao Sheng if he had enough to eat and drink. When asked, this guy took dry charcoal and exchanged a lot of food. At that time, he was so excited that he forgot about the freshness. Now facing a deck of delicious food, he didn't feel excited.
Qiao Sheng said a few words to her, took the materials and made a refrigerator. Li Mu put all kinds of salmon and rock snapper that can be eaten raw directly on the trading system at a high price. Turning around, he saw a new refrigerator in front of her. Seeing that there was no extra space in front of him, he asked.
Qiao Sheng told Xia Beibei about the stupid things she did. If he didn't send her a refrigerator, all the food would be wasted.
"By the way, are you sure that what you put up can be eaten raw? I saw on the world channel that someone was brave enough to eat raw food, and now he is almost in the toilet. It is said that he has a debuff of parasite erosion, and it takes three days to heal himself. He has run to the toilet many times in a short
period of time. His diarrhea will also affect the hunger bar. Now he is really eating and having diarrhea at the same time." Qiao Sheng thought that the players who did this thought it was funny. How could they be so bold that they had to be the first to eat crabs. When I first entered the game, I didn't say anything about eating raw fish. How come I have become more and more courageous in the third season and dare to eat it blindly.
Li Mu guessed that it was because he felt that he was an old hand that he dared to do it so boldly. When he first came in, everyone was very cautious, afraid that they would accidentally kill themselves. No one would do such a stupid thing.
After the refrigerator was sent, Xia Beibei finally didn't have to promote her delicacies everywhere. She promised Qiao Sheng aggrievedly that she would never do stupid things again and would definitely collect supplies honestly.
Qiao Sheng also reminded her that if she had no food to eat, she would say that he would definitely not miss this bite of food, which touched Xia Beibei.
This time, the fish that can be eaten raw were hung, and even though the proportion was relatively high, the speed of replacement was also very fast, because they usually reserved some fish that can be eaten raw for sashimi, so the consumption was also quite large, and there was not too much stored in the refrigerator.
Li Mu moved a chair to the first deck to go fishing. After fishing for more than an hour, he came back to talk about the battle situation. The ratio was too different. One-third of the fish could be eaten raw, and two-thirds could not be eaten raw.