Chapter 181
Because the only toilet for animals was occupied by the cassock cub, Li Mu could only carry Xinxin, who could no longer control herself, to his bathroom. Qiao Sheng went to the stove to get some ash and took some dry straw from the storage cabinet.
He cleaned up all the excrement Xinxin left on the deck. When he went in and out, he saw the cassock cub just climbed down from the toilet, his whole body was still, and then he climbed up again. This made Qiao Sheng, who was holding Xinxin's excrement in his hand, laugh and cry.
After everything was cleaned up, Qiao Sheng immediately went to boil water. At this time, Li Mu had already asked Pei Hong for a prescription for treating diarrhea. Although it was not appropriate to disturb others in the middle of the night, they could not watch these four people vomiting and diarrhea and dehydration.
Qiao Sheng originally wanted to make some ginger soup for them, but later he was afraid that drinking ginger soup would irritate the stomach, so he could only boil water, add cold boiled water, add a little salt and sugar, so that it would not be so hot, and then put it in the food bowl for them to drink.
The salt water for the cassock cubs was brought to the toilet on the terrace, completely realizing the bear's dream of drinking and defecating at the same time.
After tossing around until dawn, Li Mu boiled the Chinese medicine and placed the bitter dark brown medicine soup in front of them. Except for Xinxin and the cassock cub who had to be forced to drink it, Yousu and Ah Dai smelled it for a while and drank it all by themselves.
At this time, we have to talk about the difference between being raised by a mother of the same species and being raised by humans. Obviously, the two adults have more survival experience, and Qiao Sheng and his friends are obviously a little stupid.
"If these two are released, they will starve to death. Look at these two, they know that it is medicine that can cure themselves, so they drink it happily. Look at these two again, they are lions and black bears, which is simply an insult to the species." Qiao Sheng sat on the deck, circled Xinxin's four cubs with his legs, opened their mouths with his left hand, and took the Chinese medicine with his right hand and forced it into them.
Xinxin wanted to bite and struggle, but when she heard Qiao Sheng say that if she bit her, she would be kicked off the boat, and she would never be able to eat delicious food again, nor would she see her good brother Jiashazi, this guy was like a deflated ball, and let her force the medicine into her mouth.
Li Mu didn't waste a word, and waited for Qiao Sheng to finish his threatening words, then held her down and force-fed her.
After drinking the medicine, they were all given soup pots to cover their stomachs, and only then did the four of them behave themselves.
The biggest benefit of this vomiting and diarrhea was that Bingjian didn't have to watch them anymore, and they never licked the ice secretly again.
Because of these animals, Qiao Sheng specially prepared a good breakfast. It was all soup, without even a hint of fishy smell. It was rare that the four of them did not make trouble. They ate whatever was given to them and collapsed in their mattresses after eating.
In the morning, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu were busy looking for a fishing spot. They dismantled two floating boards in the cabin on the first floor and marked the corresponding deck positions on the second floor. In the future, they would lift up these two decks when they wanted to fish. The weather was too hot, so they tried to limit their activities to the second floor.
It would be better to put more ice cubes here, but the job of collecting supplies still had to go downstairs. The sieve made in the game was too short, and it was impossible to catch supplies in the sea by lying on the second deck.
Finally, the two decided to go out with the ice cube after dinner for an hour. They would sweat and take a shower after work.
In the afternoon, Qiao Sheng found a serious problem. She cooked porridge for the cassock in the morning and had another meal at noon. She even put the clay pot next to the ice cube. But before dinner, the porridge was still sour. When she looked at the freshness, it was not a number, but two words: rotten.
Qiao Sheng quickly opened the refrigerator to check the supplies inside. Sure enough, the freshness section became two entries. One was the freshness of the food itself. For example, fresh fish used to have a freshness of three days in autumn, winter and spring, but now it has been changed to one day. The freshness of the refrigerator is still 180 days.
At this time, they were really thankful that they had found the refrigerator diagram. Without it, all the food at home would be useless.
Xia Beibei sent an email for help after dinner. She wanted Qiao Sheng to help make ten refrigerators. She would provide the materials and send a bunch of tropical fruits along with the letter. This guy probably brought Aunt Jiang from their copy on the boat, and she could still wander around.
Qiao Sheng helped make ten refrigerators and sent them over. He asked about it by the way. Sure enough, they brought Aunt Jiang and her three daughters on the boat. As summer approached, Wang Xiaohu, the troublemaker, really started to make trouble. Wang Xiaohua and Aunt Jiang were too weak and fell ill. Xia Beibei and Lin Haiyang were both confused.
In the end, Xia Beibei suppressed the situation by force, and finally made Wang Xiaohu behave himself. Wang Xiaohua and Aunt Jiang were actually weak, and they had heatstroke due to the hot weather. Xia Beibei did not dare to use ice cream on their plastic bodies, so they had to rely on medicine to keep them alive.
Qiao Sheng inquired in detail, and found out that Wang Xiaohua's illness was the same as the one they had encountered, so she sent the antipyretic herbs she had used before. As for the heatstroke, she could only send a pot of mung beans, and boil some mung bean soup to get rid of the heat.
Xia Beibei gave Qiao Sheng a copy of the sour plum soup recipe she had just exchanged from the trading system. She exchanged the ingredients, so she could just cook it directly. It was not that she was being stingy and would not send the finished product to Sister Qiao, but the quantity was really small, so she had to give it to the NPC first.
Qiao Sheng started to pick herbs after receiving the prescription. There was no black plum in the recipe. The others that were in small quantities were planted in planting pots. He packed a few and sent them to Xia Beibei, asking her to go to the trading system to exchange for more black plums.
Not long after sending the letter, she received a reply from Xia Beibei, with a large package of black plums. This kind of job that relies on luck had to be done by her, and it might not be possible for others to exchange.
After getting the ingredients for sour plum soup, Qiao Sheng cooked a large pot. The cassocks drank it warm, while she and Li Mu drank it with ice.
"Although there is no ice cola, this ice plum soup is also a good medicine to prolong life. This game is really unfair. There is no excess at all. It was spring breeze one day, and it was midsummer the next day. It really didn't prepare us at all." Qiao Sheng drank a bowl and stopped. It was really because she remembered the appearance of the cassock cubs in the early morning. She should eat raw and cold food in moderation. She
put the remaining plum soup into the ring space first, and she could continue to drink it tomorrow.
The next morning, the two were awakened by the heat. The ice cubes in the cabin had all melted. Qiao Sheng was soaked, as if she had just been pulled out of the sea. She had a thin mattress under her body and a thin cotton sheet on her body, but she was still sweating all over.
You Su usually lay on the sofa, but now he had moved to the deck. It was probably because the sponge on the sofa made him uncomfortable. He got
up and replaced the ice cubes in the ice cubes first. Li Mu thought that the focus of this morning was to make ice with saltpeter. He would put it in the space of Qiao Sheng's ring and take it out whenever he needed it, so as to avoid the trouble of making it every day.
Qiao Sheng took the beddings of the two and put them on the third floor. He hung the beddings on the poles first, and then poured fresh water on the Chinese medicinal herbs planted in the planting pots last night. They still couldn't plant anything in the planting pots at night. These herbs almost withered. Their semi-automatic sprinkler still needed to be manually turned on and off.
It was impossible to turn on the switch when sleeping at night, so the planting time had to be controlled during the day.
Li Mu came up and replaced the ice cubes in the ice cubes in the livestock area, and added food and fresh water to the trough and water basin. The two went downstairs to wash up. Now it was necessary to take a bath N times a day. The fresh water consumption was too high, and the two were reluctant to do so.
Finally, I decided to fill the tub with water, and then try to make a shower similar to the one upstairs. Showers are always more water-efficient than baths, and more comfortable than sponge baths.
However, I couldn't catch up with this morning bath, so I could only scoop up some water and simply rinse off, at least to wash off the sweat on my body.
Now all three meals a day are simple. For breakfast, I cooked some brown rice and mung bean porridge, and grilled some corn and sweet potatoes on a simple grill. If I wasn't afraid that my stomach wouldn't be able to handle the cold, Qiao Sheng would have wanted to add ice to breakfast. It was really uncomfortable to sweat while eating.
The furry ones like the cassock cubs were even more uncomfortable. They had to drink water anytime and anywhere because of the sweat they were sweating, especially Su and Ah Dai. These two Icelandic creatures really suffered every day.
But they recovered really fast. They were listless yesterday, but they wanted to play tricks when drinking porridge this morning. That movement was that they wanted to eat meat. Li Mu checked them and told Qiao Sheng that they were almost done. They could have a little shark meatball soup at noon.
But they still had to eat in moderation, no more than five, and dinner could only be porridge for three consecutive days to nourish their stomachs. If they were greedy and ate so much ice again, they would be collectively starved for three days.
What he said really worked. The monks who were originally reluctant to give up the mung bean porridge immediately picked up the bowl and started eating. In the end, they licked the bowl cleaner than their faces, for fear that Qiao Sheng and the others would go back on their word and starve them.
After breakfast, Qiao Sheng prepared sour plum soup for every member of the family. The cassock was still at room temperature, while she and Li Mu had iced it.
This morning, Li Mu had been making ice non-stop. He asked Qiao Sheng to put away the whole block of ice after it was made, and then take it out and break it when needed.
Qiao Sheng took out the bamboo from the storage cabinet and thought about how to make a cool mat. The current situation was really too embarrassing. They had to dry the mattress every morning. Those who knew them would think that they sweated too much and the sweat soaked the mattress. Those who didn't know would think that they had kidney problems and peed on the kang every night.
The idea was good, but the production process was difficult. Her plan was to split the bamboo into strips first, then trim the rough edges, and then weave the trimmed strips into mats. In this process, Qiao Sheng failed at the first step of splitting the bamboo strips.
The tools were not suitable, and the split bamboo tubes were crooked. It took a lot of effort to waste a whole bamboo tube before she could split it. Later, she was finally able to split regular bamboo strips. Trimming the rough edges was difficult for her, and after being stuck for the Nth time, she gave up. She
was originally sitting on a bench doing manual work, but she threw away her things and sat back at the dining table, picked up the iced sour plum soup, gulped down most of the bowl, and then sat there to try her luck.
When Li Mu made the next batch of ice and was about to call her to put it away, he found that she was holding a brand new bamboo strip mat in her hand.
After observing the materials on the ground, and then the workmanship and size of the cool mat in Qiao Sheng's hand, it was obvious that this cool mat was exchanged from the trading system.
"Look at me, am I smart? I'm not a good person, but I have a good brain. If I can't make it, how can I not exchange it? It's a pity that I only managed to get one pair. This thing is still a hot commodity now. I will wait in the trading system for a while. If I still can't exchange it in the afternoon, I will call Beibei to go with me to grab it. I don't believe it. We must sleep on a new cool mat tonight!" Qiao Sheng stuffed the newly exchanged cool mat into Li Mu's hand, and then put all the freshly baked ice into the ring space.