Chapter 163
The four decided not to separate when they encountered an island. They baked some more cakes while cooking dinner, so that they could eat them when they went to the island tomorrow. They really didn’t want to get up early to eat breakfast tomorrow and have to make extra food.
They even prepared soy milk and tofu pudding for the next day’s breakfast. All they needed was Lin Haiyang to fry some fruit.
After dinner, the four of them took their fishing rods and sat on the terrace, eating fruit, chatting, and fishing. Anyway, there were refrigerators on the three boats, so they could stock up on these ingredients.
Before going to sleep, everyone checked their equipment and found that they had brought everything they needed. Qiao Sheng also checked the knockout drugs and Baibaodan in his bag. He found that the stock in the Baibaodan storage box was not much, so he went to the planting area on the third floor to harvest all the crops and replace them with Panax notoginseng.
After sleeping for a few hours, Qiao Sheng was awakened in the middle of the night by the shaking of the boat hitting the shore. After drifting on the sea for a few months, he had already gotten used to this feeling. He turned over and continued to sleep.
Thinking about going to the island, we all got up early in the morning. The rain outside was still pouring. After putting on raincoats and hats, Qiao Sheng and his friends packed their bags and got off the boat.
There were no other players at the shore where the boat was moored. After observing the terrain of the island, there was a relatively high mountain not far from the boat, and the forest was farther away.
After discussing it, everyone decided to go directly up the mountain. Although it was still raining and it was a little inconvenient to climb the mountain, Xia Beibei, who rarely went to the island, was full of energy and unconsciously led the others.
Ah Dai flew out and turned around, came back to shake off the rain on his feathers, and then hid under Li Mu's martial arts hat. You Su never got off Qiao Sheng's shoulders, and the monks were too small and would not let them get off the boat.
From the moment they climbed up, several people kept collecting. Usually, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu rarely dug because they had no shortage of food. Now that Xia Beibei and Lin Haiyang were there, they were like locusts passing through. Wherever they passed, they would eat everything they could.
It was hard for Lin Haiyang to know everything. He led them to dig all the way. Later, when the tools were not suitable, Li Mu even made a small hoe on the spot, one for each person, and the speed increased immediately. While digging,
Lin Haiyang also explained to them that Qiao Sheng had collected a lot of elm money and acacia flowers before, but this time there were many people working, so it didn't matter if he collected a little more. Anyway, there were many people working, so they worked a lot and consumed a lot. These wild vegetables were only eaten fresh, and they would not be able to eat them soon.
Broom, shepherd's purse, houttuynia, wild bamboo shoots, wild garlic, fern, horsetail, water spinach, dandelion, gray-gray vegetable, ground vegetable, Qiao Sheng was confused by what she heard, and she really couldn't recognize them all, but after listening to Lin Haiyang's cooking methods, the only feeling she had was that the eggs at home would go bad, and she didn't know if the taste could be restored by scrambled duck eggs.
"I heard it, it's all kinds of wild vegetables, and there are only four ways to cook them: cold salad, soup, scrambled eggs or bacon, and stuffing." Xia Beibei didn't stop talking and didn't forget to ask.
"It seems to be right, try it, anyway, you haven't eaten it before." Lin Haiyang heard her say this, and thought about what he said, it seemed to be true.
Qiao Sheng was squatting beside them picking wood ear mushrooms. Hearing this, he said that when they returned to the boat in the evening, they would replace all the planting pots with wheat. They urgently needed a lot of flour to make dumplings and dumplings. It happened that they were strong now, so they could concentrate their time to make semi-finished products, which would be much more convenient when they were busy.
In spring, not only did plants grow lushly, but there were also many wild animals that were hungry for a whole winter. Qiao Sheng and his team hardly walked far. After digging wild vegetables for a while, some animals would jump out to make trouble. They had already chopped off the heads of five snakes and killed two wild boars. These animals live in groups, and there must be many on the mountain.
By noon, they had just moved to one-third of the mountain, found a relatively flat location, and took out all the food prepared last night.
Li Mu had already set up the fire and the pot. Because there were so many people, Qiao Sheng didn't put all the food in the space ring, but in a bag. It was already cold now. Although the weather was not too cold, it was uncomfortable to eat too much cold food.
So they heated up the salsa, rolled it up with lukewarm pancakes, and cooked a pot of kelp soup. Qiao Sheng also thawed a portion of the prawns he had caught in Iceland before, and took some dried octopus tentacles, cut them into pieces and put them in the pot. The soup was so delicious.
After eating and drinking to their heart's content, they had just put out the fire and were cleaning up the cooking utensils when the sound of Ah Dai flapping his wings attracted their attention. From the movements of this guy, they knew that someone was approaching. As for You Su, he had already finished eating and went back to rest on Qiao Sheng's shoulder.
The four of them continued to clean up step by step. Sure enough, within a few minutes, six people came from the other side of the mountain, four men and two women. One of the men and one of the women were obviously over 40 years old, and the man looked older than Pei Hong.
When the two sides met, the ten people were considered to be all present. Before Qiao Sheng could say anything, the middle-aged man on the other side began to introduce himself enthusiastically. His name was Zong Ruqing, and the other woman in her 40s was his wife Huo Min. There were also four players, all of whom were his juniors.
One of the two tall guys is his son Zong Zuo, and the other is his nephew Zong You. The other two are his son and nephew's classmates, one is Zhang Jia, and the other is Wen Boxu.
The other party introduced himself in detail and was very friendly. Li Mu also introduced his team members. He did not say that the four people were not in the same boat, but just said that they were all team members.
Introducing each other like this, in fact, Zong Ruqing's implication is that he wants to coexist peacefully. Although Qiao Sheng and his team are few in number, and two of them are women, they may let a snowy owl and a fox follow them, which obviously means they are not good people.
The IQ of animals in this game is generally higher. These two animals that are not friendly to people can be raised. These people are obviously not people they can provoke. Of course, they themselves have no intention of provoking others.
From the time he entered the game until now, he, his wife and four younger generations have been able to persevere until now, all thanks to his ability to judge people. He can tell a lot about people by looking at their faces. If a person is not good, they will never be soft-hearted when it is time to take action. If a person is good, they will also help him as much as they can. This is how they have been able to avoid danger until now.
Before leaving, he asked what kind of green plant Xia Beibei was holding in her hand. They have seen these plants many times along the way, but they did not collect them because they did not understand them. Now that they saw someone picking them, they asked a question in
case the other party was willing to tell them. Xia Beibei and Lin Haiyang looked at Li Mu at the same time. After getting his approval, Lin Haiyang took out various wild vegetables from his bag and explained them to the other party. Zong Ruqing's people were all smart people, and they would know what was going on after a brief explanation.
In addition, the other party's appearance, although he was wearing tattered clothes, his posture and shape still looked like a veteran cadre, which made it easy for people to like him. Lin Haiyang talked more in detail, and even gave them samples in the end to facilitate their search on the mountain.
After they separated, he complained to his teacher, saying that he was too friendly. He couldn't help but burst out in a moment. Li Mu patted him and said it was normal. With Zong Ruqing's attitude, let alone the inexperienced Lin Haiyang, even if he went there, he might have to tell him everything.
There are plenty of wild vegetables in spring. It always feels ungenerous to hide these things. The other party didn't have any bad intentions, and didn't ask them to help pick them. It was just a little identification. It was told, so it was not a big problem.
The other party even said that they were going to take a detour and return. In the next few days, they would prepare the supplies in the forest at the foot of the mountain. They would not go near the mountainside when they went up the mountain, let alone the side where Qiao Sheng was. In response
to the other party's attitude, Li Mu also promised not to go down the mountain to get close to that side. The two sides divided the area peacefully. In fact, Qiao Sheng and his team were more careful. It was not clear when we were on the shore. Only when we got up the mountain did we know that three-quarters of the island was the mountain, and the rest was the forest.
In the afternoon, they also dismantled a few beehives. It happened that Xia Beibei knew how to make beehives, so the problem of eating honey was solved in one go.
Bees were caught with a bee net, and the beehives were broken by hand with something cushioned. At the beginning, because of their lack of experience, Li Mu and Lin Haiyang were stung by the bees.
Li Mu's was on his bare forearm after he rolled up his sleeves, while Lin Haiyang's was more severe, stinging his face. Although they pulled out the stinger in the shortest time, the stinging areas of both of them still swelled up quickly.
Li Mu's forearm was red and swollen, which was still bearable, but Lin Haiyang's was swollen like a bee's dog head, with half of his face swollen and sticking out. Just looking at it makes you want to laugh.
The itching pain is unbearable, but fortunately Qiao Sheng's space ring contains daily necessities, and Li Mu asked her to get soap and water. He explained that the bee venom is acidic, so it should be cleaned with an alkaline solution such as soap and water.
After washing, he walked around the area again, but couldn't find the herbs he needed, so he asked Qiao Sheng to take out the dandelions she had collected in the morning from her bag, mashed them and applied them to the wound, and cut a piece of artificial skin film for him to apply, and then he was done.
He also simply treated his own wound, and the four of them continued to collect herbs.
"You guys have pretty good physiques. When I was a kid, I went to poke a hornet's nest with my neighbors. Those of us who ran fast were fine, but those who ran slowly got stung. One was particularly miserable. He was stung all over and went into shock. We were all scared. We thought he was stung to death by the hornets. Some of the kids next to him who were stung six or seven times were still alive and kicking, but he was the only one lying on the ground unable to get up. Later we realized that whether or not one goes into shock has to do with physical constitution, not the number of stings." Xia Beibei thought of the experience of being beaten and felt that she had to blame the kid who went into shock. Otherwise, her mother wouldn't have scared her enough and beaten her up.
By the time it was getting dark and they were ready to go down the mountain, Qiao Sheng and his friends had a lot of food in their bags, including more than 20 kinds of wild vegetables, a dozen decapitated snakes, five wild boars, more than 30 wild rabbits, three pregnant ewes, and two rams.
They were reluctant to shoot the sheep, so they caught them in the hunting nets. Some of them had torn the hunting nets and ran away because they were struggling too hard, but they were caught again later.
Because they were preparing to keep the sheep for reproduction, it was a bit strenuous to move them back. The struggle was too severe and it was hard to carry. Qiao Sheng took the knockout drug and asked Li Mu if there were any side effects. After learning that there were no problems, he drugged all five sheep. The two men each carried two sheep, and Qiao Sheng and Xia Beibei carried the heaviest sheep.