Chapter 167
This hit the soft spot of the smart eagle, and he didn't think about it for too long. He stared at the little eagle rubbing against Ah Dai for a while, and then prepared to leave. The slightly stupid eagle was still showing off the rabbit meat strips, and only reacted after being kicked.
Qiao Sheng saw that the matter was resolved peacefully, and asked the two eagles to wait for a while. He entered the third deck and picked up the rabbits that were smashed to death.
He didn't clean them up, but threw them directly into the basket that he had just made yesterday, and let the eagle take them away. These rabbits should be enough for them to eat for several days. After all, they kidnapped someone's children, so they gave them some food as a token of their appreciation.
After seeing Ah Dai flying with a basket, the smart eagle called his companions, grabbed the basket and flew away.
Xia Beibei didn't dare to touch the little eagle until the danger was gone, otherwise she really didn't dare to do it with the two dangerous eagles staring at her.
"I can be considered to have touched the eagle, but it's really bald. Hey, Ah Dai, you are a male, don't protect your cub like an old mother!" Xia Beibei was pecked by Ah Dai as soon as she finished speaking, which meant that he was not allowed to slander the little guy.
After a busy night, the four decided to take a nap. Li Mu also went to Zong Ruqing to check if he was affected. He returned to the cabin after confirming that there was no problem.
After sleeping until noon, he got up and had a quick lunch. After lunch, Qiao Sheng, Li Mu and Xia Beibei started to take out supplies to repair the boats. Qiao
Sheng's boat was the most seriously damaged. Xia Beibei's boat in the middle was also hit by holes. Lin Haiyang's boat was also hit by stones, but not much. He had repaired it before lunch.
So now he was busy in the kitchen cutting mustard greens and amaranth, making them into stuffing, buns and dumplings.
Before Li Mu started working, he also logged into the trading system. The dry coal they had released before was still quite useful. Now there were a variety of cooked food in the trading system.
He put all the fish he had stored before and caught recently on the trading system. The proportion of fish that could be eaten raw remained unchanged, and the proportion of fish that could not be eaten raw was reduced. All the fish he exchanged for were iron products.
Four more empty containers were taken from Xia Beibei, the ship's time flow rate was adjusted, and all the containers were put into the furnace.
This time, the renovation started directly from the fourth floor. The fourth floor had not been capped before, so they took this opportunity to build higher and bigger. Then they consulted Xia Beibei and Lin Haiyang, who considered it and decided to build a fourth floor and upgrade the ship.
However, compared to Qiao Sheng's disaster-stricken side, which needed to reinforce the entire ship, they only planned to reinforce one floor. In Xia Beibei's words, it was completely possible to slowly reinforce it later. After all, there were not so many troublemakers in the family. As long as the first floor could be saved, if other parts were damaged, they could just rebuild it.
This job is something that has been done for a long time. As long as there are enough materials, the work can be done quickly. Qiao Sheng finished the construction and reinforcement of the fourth floor and went to the kitchen on the second floor. The
preliminary preparations for making noodles have been prepared. It is obviously unrealistic for one person to do this job. Xia Beibei really doesn't know how to do it. Li Mu is the main labor force and can't spare time, so this job was handed over to Qiao Sheng.
While the four people were busy, Qiao Sheng also arranged work for the monks. He took the husks off the dried wheat and put them into the stone mill, letting these little guys take turns to grind the mill.
Xia Beibei and Lin Haiyang had never seen such a fight before, and they were dumbfounded. They could not believe that the animals with explosive fighting power were just donkeys pulling millstones at home.
The point was that these animals were getting more and more excited, and sometimes they complained that Qiao Sheng was too slow in adding wheat, and they kept shouting and urging her to add wheat to the millstone.
When the sun set, Li Mu and Xia Beibei had rebuilt the third floor, reinforced the deck of the third-floor terrace and a circle of wooden walls, and replanned the livestock area, planting area and drying area inside.
The damaged planting pots and drying racks were taken out, and those that could be repaired were repaired, and those that could not be repaired were all made anew. It was really tiring to clean up like this.
Qiao Sheng and Lin Haiyang made hundreds of buns. They kept kneading the dough and mixing the fillings. They asked Li Mu to plant more wheat upstairs. They planted it today and dried it in the sun. They could peel it and grind it into flour the next day or the day after tomorrow. They had
wild vegetable buns for dinner. Lin Haiyang also cooked a pot of kelp and pork ribs soup. Each of the cassock cubs was given a wild vegetable bun just to taste the freshness. The rest were shark meat buns. Compared with the more vegetarian wild vegetable buns, these cubs were more interested in the ones with more meat.
Xia Beibei looked at Baba, who was chewing the buns with all his strength, and decided to ask Qiao Sheng for some shark meat buns when they separated. The little guy really liked it. The braised fish she had left over or that she had bought specially for him didn't taste as good as this.
After dinner, the four of them decided to take a break. Because the rain hadn't stopped, they moved the fishing location to the first floor of the boat, opened a few floating boards, and each of them had a bamboo chair. There was also a bamboo table between the two of them, with tea and fruit on it.
A few monks also came over to make trouble, jumping in front of them, and Xinxin and Baba, the two little guys, even fell into the sea because they were not very agile.
Qiao Sheng saw that the two were getting closer and closer to the hole in the floating board while they were fighting. He was about to say to them to move away so they wouldn't fall in, but before he could finish his words, they fell in.
He threw away the fishing rod, grabbed the two frightened guys by the back of their necks, and put them on the floating board. The two were shivering from the cold sea water.
Xia Beibei looked at the two little lions who looked like chickens in the soup and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She took the cotton cloth from her coin purse and started to wipe them. Li Mu quickly went to the storage box to find a brazier, lit a fire and roasted the two.
Although it is spring, the weather is not warm at night. If these two guys are still wet like this, they will probably catch a cold tonight, not even tomorrow morning.
Lin Haiyang looked at them taking care of these intelligent animals, and suddenly felt that it was not bad not to raise them. At least the chickens, ducks, and rabbits on his boat would not run out of their nests and make trouble, nor would they get into the sea by themselves, making everyone busy cleaning up the mess.
Because of the sleep in the morning, they fished until late at night, and only went back to the boat to rest when they felt sleepy.
The next morning, Qiao Sheng was awakened by a duang sound. He pushed open the cabin door and saw the silly eagle coming back with the basket that took away the rabbit meat yesterday.
After making sure that the other party had no intention of attacking, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu looked at the basket and realized that it was a gift. The basket was filled with various herbs. It must have been difficult for the stupid eagle to fly over, so it put the basket down when it arrived, and then made a sound.
Qiao Sheng also asked why the smart one didn't come, but seeing the stupid one with a blank expression, he knew that it was useless to ask, because this guy couldn't understand human language at all.
Seeing that it was about to fly away, Qiao Sheng grabbed it, went upstairs to catch two rabbits, knocked them to death, and put them in the basket for it to take away. Seeing the dead rabbits, this guy didn't bother, just grabbed them and flew away.
"Why is there a stupid one here? Why doesn't the smart one come? This one doesn't even know to look after the smaller one and just flies away like that." Qiao Sheng couldn't help shaking his head as he watched the eagle flying farther and farther away.
"The smart one should be incubating the young in the nest. That one is a female. This stupid one, judging by the color, should be a male, so it was sent out as a gift." Li Mu picked up the herbs he had just taken out of the basket. Compared with the herbs Su and Ah Dai picked the day before yesterday, there were more varieties and better quality. As expected, the local boss knew more about the local situation than these outsiders.
After waking up, he got up and continued to work. He had fried fruit and soy milk for breakfast. After the meal, Lin Haiyang was left in the kitchen to prepare the ingredients. Qiao Sheng stayed on the boat to repair the terrace and cabin on the second floor.
In fact, only the terrace on the second floor was slightly damaged. It can be repaired with a construction hammer and supplies, which is also very convenient.
Li Mu went to Xia Beibei's boat, and the two of them repaired and rebuilt the boat. They worked together and worked fast. When it was getting dark, Qiao Sheng had already repaired the second and first floors, and he and Lin Haiyang made a lot of dumplings for today.
Xia Beibei's boat also changed completely, from three floors to four floors. She also learned from the structure of Qiao Sheng's boat and built a large terrace on the second floor. Because she didn't need too much space, the third and fourth floors were built smaller.
After dinner, Xia Beibei explained the design concept to Qiao Sheng. The first floor was for the drive equipment, the second floor was her sea view room, the third floor was for her chickens, ducks, and rabbits, and the fourth floor was for drying and planting.
It wasn't that she didn't want to put the planting area and livestock area together, but there wasn't enough space in her small boat. She also considered expanding it, but she was alone and felt it was unnecessary.
Lin Haiyang's boat almost didn't need to be repaired, it just needed to be built. The construction drawings were worked out that night, and the construction work had to be handed over to Li Mu and Xia Beibei.
Lin Haiyang still had to do cooking. He had made most of the wild vegetables they brought back into steamed buns and dumplings these days. When the wild vegetables ran out, he asked Qiao Sheng to grow a lot of leeks and cabbage. The three-fresh stuffing and cabbage and pork stuffing were also good. It just so happened that
the wild boars brought back a few days ago had not been cleaned up yet. The two chefs felt that they were running out of time. The mill workers, Jiashazi, also went from being excited at the beginning to being numb now. They were tired of grinding day after day.
Zong Ruqing came to say goodbye on the day when Zong Zuo and Zong You's debuff was healed. He was ready to leave. He wanted to bring some thank-you gifts to Qiao Sheng and the others, but found that they ate good food every day, and the fragrance on the boat wafted from far away.
But it was not appropriate to meet him empty-handed, so he took the other two young men to cut trees in the forest for two days. Qiao Sheng happened to be building ships. After
building them himself, he knew how much materials were needed, and he built two or three ships at a time. This financial resource should not be underestimated. When he brought a thousand pieces of wood as a thank-you gift, he felt embarrassed. After all, it was a bit embarrassing. It was
still Li Mu who communicated with him. Qiao Sheng was really reluctant to talk to someone he was not familiar with. Li Mu refused at first, but later found that he could not refuse, so he took the wood boards and took out three bottles of Baibao Dan from his wrist bag and gave them to the other party. Zong Ruqing also knew how useful this thing was.
It was not appropriate to take something back after giving the gift, but the three bottles of Baibaodan were so attractive that he took them without hesitation. However, he added Li Mu's gift and planned to give it to him if he found something good in the future.