Chapter 191

Ke Junhua saw her serious face and knew that she was worried about the children. She spoke with less caution, fearing that she would be unhappy. She whispered to her that it was okay. The children were used to eating like this. It might not be good for them to eat too much at once.

"They are all growing children. If they don't eat well, they will be malnourished." Qiao Sheng frowned slightly.

"It's good to be alive. We are used to it. Except for me and Hanmo, no one on this island has ever had enough to eat in the past, including Hanhe. He is younger than Hanshuang and can't remember anything when he first arrived on the island. It's normal for us to have just enough food to fill our stomachs. Thank you for letting the children know what it means to be full." Ke Junhua grabbed Qiao Sheng's hand and thanked him sincerely.

The children were eating happily, and Qiao Sheng and Ke Junhua stood at the door to talk. First, they asked about the planting situation here. Because the soil is not very good, the harvest is very poor.

Ke Junhua said that they had also farmed on the island before, but now the harvest is less than one-third of what it used to be. Although the three of them are not experienced farmers, they have worked in the fields since they were young.

The current operation process is exactly the same as before, and they are even more meticulous, but the harvest is much worse.

Qiao Sheng thought about it and told her that they still had to deal with the beasts on the mountain first. It would be more appropriate to solve the external troubles before solving the internal troubles.

While the two were talking, the children who were eating in the house put down their bowls and chopsticks and came out. Qiao Sheng poked his head into the house and saw that the baskets of roasted sweet potatoes and boiled corn were not eaten much. He

squatted down and pulled a child over, asking her if she was full. The little girl nodded, and he touched her belly with his hand to know that she didn't eat at all.

After further questioning, the little girl said that her father and mother were still at home, and her brothers and sisters had not eaten yet. They had already eaten and were not hungry now. She was too young to do much work, so she did not need to eat so much.

Qiao Sheng burst into tears when she heard this. The little girl wanted to help wipe her tears, but she felt that her hands and clothes were not clean enough. She wiped her hands on her body several times before wiping the tears on Qiao Sheng's face.

When Li Mu walked into the village, he happened to see Qiao Sheng still crying. He hurried over to check what happened to her and whether she was injured. After asking, he found out that it was because these children were too sensible that they could not hold back their tears. He quickly took a piece of cotton cloth from his wrist bag to wipe her face.

Pulling her aside, he comforted her in a low voice, saying that since they were here, it would be impossible for these children to live like this in the future, so stop crying.

"It's a good thing that these children are sensible. They can go further if they help each other. Cao Hanmo and his friends will grow old one day. The older ones will take care of the younger ones. There will be a way out on the island. These children won't have to go out on a raft to make a living in the future. When we improve their lives, the island will be able to develop." Li Mu held her face and wiped it.

At first, Qiao Sheng thought it was quite warm, but later he found that this straight man's technique was too rough. Although the cotton cloth used as a hand towel was rubbed, it didn't hurt too much to wipe it on the face, but wouldn't normal people's tears be shed on the face? Li Mu, on the other hand, caught the tears from the cheeks and wiped them against the eye sockets.

After doing this, Qiao Sheng's fair face was rubbed with two red marks. The atmosphere was really not ambiguous at all. She snatched the cotton cloth from his hand and rubbed it a few times. The emotion she had just felt disappeared. She really couldn't cry.

The two of them returned to the wooden house and ate with everyone. Although Qiao Sheng's bold words before were to let everyone eat a full meal, and Ke Junhua also cooked according to her instructions, when they ate, everyone subconsciously only ate half full. Liwu, who

had been busy for the whole morning, looked at the table full of food and was ready to fill his hungry ghost stick, but everyone on the table had eaten half full, so he didn't feel comfortable eating too much, so he stopped eating after he had eaten more than half of his hungry ghost stick.

Cao Hanmo was still urging him to eat more, after all, he had done the most work and was the most tired this morning. Li Mu shook his head and said that the children should eat more, because they would have to deal with the beasts at the entrance of the village and in the village in the afternoon.

In such hot weather, if these things were not cleaned up quickly, they would rot in a short time, so this was also a big project.

In the afternoon, Qiao Sheng put the lame You Su and the broken arm A Dai in a cool place to rest, and specifically reminded the children not to disturb them. The broken arms and legs were corrected, and Qiao Sheng didn't know if he corrected the position correctly.

He could only ask them while he was doing it, and then bandaged all the wounds, fed them a little cod liver oil, and fixed the broken arms and legs with wooden sticks.

It's not that he was reluctant to feed them insurance, they were all external injuries, and the internal injuries were not serious. According to Li Mu, feeding them some Baibaodan powder water would be enough. But Qiao Sheng felt sorry for them and fed them cod liver oil. This thing is much more difficult than Baibaodan, but in fact the treatment effect is similar.

Li Mu and Cao Hanmo went to the back of the wooden house to clean up the more than 50 wild boars. The arrows on the wild boars had been pulled out by the leading boy, and now it was a matter of splitting them.

Li Mu was already familiar with this, so

he didn't even need to remove the head. Qiao Sheng had chopped it all off before, peeled the skin, dug out the internal organs, and cut the pig's body in half, then divided it according to different parts. It took him 20 minutes to kill one pig, so he could finish three pigs in an hour. Cao Hanmo and the other kids had a hard time. They had never killed such a beast since they came to this island. They had always been bullied before, and they had never learned anything about anatomy. They could not even finish a pig after working for an hour.

Qiao Sheng helped feed the wounded, and when he strolled to the back of the wooden house, he got a headache watching their movements. At this rate, they would not be finished until the day after tomorrow.

After saying something to Ke Junhua, she took the machete and went to help in the back. She was still not as good as Li Mu at this job, but she was definitely better than Cao Hanmo and the others. She was usually slow because she wasted time moving the wild boar meat after it was cut up, and now there were several teenagers following her.

While she was cutting, a group of children placed the parts on the straw mats, dividing the work and cooperating with each other, so that they could work faster.

Since Li Mu had assistants, he had increased the speed to cut down four pigs in an hour, and Qiao Sheng also increased the speed from two pigs in an hour to three pigs.

Cao Hanmo cut down one pig in two hours at the beginning, and from the second pig onwards, his speed was a little faster, but only a little. In one afternoon, until the sun set, he only cut down three pigs.

The three of them worked for nearly five hours and slaughtered a total of thirty-six wild boars. When they finished eating, Qiao Sheng felt that her right hand was a little out of control while holding the chopsticks. It was Cao Hanshuang who sat next to her and saw that her movements were not right, so she took the spoon for her and she was able to eat the meal.

Because of the addition of wild boar, the dinner was more abundant. The staple food was still steamed potatoes and sweet potatoes, and the corn was also boiled and placed in a basket for everyone to take.

After two or three days on the island, Qiao Sheng finally saw meat dishes. In fact, it was stir-fried pork slices with wild vegetables. The wild vegetables were picked by Cao Hanshuang when she took the children out during the day, and the pork was freshly slaughtered tenderloin.

It was far inferior to the dishes that Qiao Sheng usually cooked, but the advantage was that the ingredients were fresh, and the children had never eaten them before. Because there were so many children and a lot of wild boars, Ke Junhua and Cao Hanshuang lost control when cutting the pork slices.

Three pots were cooked so that all the children could eat meat. The wounded lying in the wooden shed outside also ate mashed pork with mashed potatoes.

In Qiao Sheng's eyes, the meal did not look very good, but everyone was eating happily.

The wooden shed where the wounded lay was built by the older children. Li Mu originally wanted to help, but Cao Hanmo told him not to, because these children were sensible and smart, and they could make anything if they were given the materials.

When the sun went down, when Qiao Sheng and his friends came back after dissecting the wild boar, they passed by the wooden shed. What's more, the shed was high in the front and low in the back, and it was covered with layers of bundled banana leaves and coconut leaves.

It seems that the saying that children of poor families grow up early is really true.

After dinner, Cao Hanmo arranged for the night watch, while Qiao Sheng and Li Mu dragged the remaining sixteen wild boars to the open space at the entrance of the village, lit torches, and continued to disassemble the wild boars.

After all, there might be more beasts delivered to the door today. If the first batch is not dealt with, there will be no place to deal with the next batch. However, there is really no time to deal with the four brown bears.

The two of them spent two hours and easily disassembled the remaining sixteen wild boars. They asked the children to find a clean room to put these wild boars away first. Qiao Sheng also put a lot of ice next to the pork, for fear that it would go bad before eating, otherwise it would be very sad.

I originally wanted to discuss with Ke Junhua how to deal with the pork. After all, some can be dried, some can be smoked, and some can be made into sausage. At worst, they can be pickled with salt to extend the freshness of these ingredients to the greatest extent.

But they have not rested since late last night. Today, they don’t know whether there will be beasts that will continue to besiege them. In order to conserve their energy, they decided to sleep first and have a good rest so that they can have the strength to fight the beasts.

The children who will be on guard have also been arranged. Because there are no adults following this time, Cao Hanmo specifically told the leading boy to be careful and not to wait for the beasts to rush in before giving the alarm. They must be alert.

Just in case, Qiao Sheng and his companions did not return to the boat, nor did they sleep in the wooden house prepared by Ke Junhua and Cao Hanshuang. Instead, they chose to sleep in the wooden shed built for the wounded.

The weather was quite hot, and Qiao Sheng fell asleep almost as soon as he lay down with a thick layer of dry straw under his body. He was really exhausted after a busy day.

Li Mu slept on the outer side and fell asleep immediately. Cao Hanmo, on the other hand, checked the village, repeatedly warned the group of children who were on night watch, and then returned to his room. He did not even dare to take off his clothes and fell asleep on the bed.

Ke Junhua and Cao Hanshuang took a group of children to wash and dress before going to bed.