Chapter 21
Comparing this way, it is nothing to succeed in making without a recipe in one go. Xia Beibei directly opens various recipes and seeds from the drifting bottle, and the most important thing is that she can get a critical hit. The most she has ever gotten from a drifting bottle is 500 pieces of rare metal steel. This game's brocade halo makes Qiao Sheng feel that the other party is now shining.
As for not seeing the island until now, it doesn't make any difference to her. This child can guarantee basic food and drink by opening the drifting bottle, and this child is also an all-round senior high school student! She can make salt and ice, which is simply a full stack of various buffs.
So at lunch time, when she asked Qiao Sheng to exchange salt for food, Qiao Sheng agreed without any hesitation. She knew how to cook, but she lacked salt. This was a win-win situation, so why not do it?
Qiao Sheng even asked Xia Beibei to order dishes. For stir-fry, she could choose diced rabbit meat with peppers or wild boar slices with peppers. For soup, she could choose fish soup or pork ribs and radish soup. For staple food, she could only choose sweet potatoes or corn, but she could choose to roast, steam or boil them. The service was quite good.
At first, even Li Mu was not qualified to choose the menu because there was a shortage of supplies. He couldn't choose even if he wanted to.
"Sister Qiao, do you only have two kinds of stir-fried dishes to choose from? I want to eat stir-fried shredded cabbage. I ordered takeout a few days ago so I wouldn't have to eat my mom's dishes. Now I want to eat them. I don't know what's happened to them. Did they enter the game like me, or did they find me missing when they were out? My mom must be worried to death." Xia Beibei thought of her family and sighed.
This is also a problem that Qiao Sheng doesn't want to think about in detail. Since she started working, her parents bought her a house near the company for convenience. Because she was too busy at work, her mother was worried that she would order too much takeout, so she would cook for her every now and then. After she quit her job, her mother never nagged her. She always said that she didn't need to do that kind of job, and she could just find an easy job. If her parents found out that she was missing, they would definitely not be able to bear it.
"Sister, there really is no cabbage here. I'm not much better than you. I went to two islands and only collected peppers and radishes. If you really want to count, there's also some kelp." Qiao Sheng told the truth. This really couldn't satisfy the child.
"No vegetables? I have. Wait for me to see what I have. I've been suffering from boiled vegetables these days. I saw someone using seeds to exchange for rare metals in the trading house before, so I exchanged a lot of fruits and vegetables. That's how I got the watermelon." For Xia Beibei, cooking is much more important than ingredients.
The child brought out several cabbages and a bunch of rapeseed in a short while. Worried that Qiao Sheng didn't have enough salt, he also took a big box. The two of them stretched out their hands and hooked for a long time before completing the handover.
Having seen Li Mu's float drifting farther and farther, Qiao Sheng asked the little girl to throw a rope to her side to slightly fix the two boats, so that the rice would be ready and the boats would drift away. While
Qiao Sheng was cooking, Xia Beibei was not idle either. She took down a few pieces of the wooden wall at the location of the window just now and made a new colander. She chatted with Qiao Sheng while collecting supplies. The talent
of this child's order was not difficult. In addition, there was a lack of seasoning, so Qiao Sheng could only stir-fry as much as possible. He tore the cabbage, picked the rapeseed, and washed it with clean water collected from the island. He
added pork fat to the iron pot, and simply stir-fried it and it was ready to be served.
Xia Beibei squatted beside the floating board and kept sniffing and praising the smell. In the earthenware pot was cooking pork ribs and radish soup. She deliberately put more pork ribs in and cooked a full pot.
Finally, she cooked the chili fried rabbit cubes and wild boar slices. It was a simple four dishes and one soup. The sweet potatoes were also the roasted sweet potatoes that Xia Beibei ordered. When they were ready, Qiao Sheng asked her to bring the food for the dinner party over to help.
Looking at the several small iron basins that Xia Beibei handed over, Qiao Sheng was helpless.
"I didn't want to do that either, Sister Qiao. This bowl is the same as my Erbing's rice bowl. I was quite happy when I saw the picture, but I started to get irritated when I saw the real thing. Do you think this game is deliberately trying to upset me? By the way, sister, just give me half of it. I can't eat that much. Let's eat it together." Xia Beibei saw that Qiao Sheng was about to pour the whole dish to her, and quickly stopped him. This dish would only taste good if it was freshly made. She couldn't let others work for a long time and still not give them food. Even if she exchanged it for salt, it would not work. If her mother knew she did this, she would break her legs.
"Second pancake?" Qiao Sheng originally wanted to take all the food to her and make another one for himself. It wouldn't be a big deal anyway. But seeing the anxious look on the little girl's face, he decided that it wouldn't matter if she just ate one. He would add some wild boar and rabbit meat to Xia Beibei later, so that she could at least have some meat when she boiled the vegetables.
"Yeah, our French bulldog snored loudly. Every time I was doing homework, it liked to lie down at my feet and sleep. It was so annoying. I kept kicking it to wake it up. Once my mother saw it and gave me a lecture." Xia Beibei took the food Qiao Sheng prepared for her and pulled the dining table to the side of Qiao Sheng's float.
Seeing her like this, Qiao Sheng also pulled his own dining table over to make it easier to talk.
This meal was spent with Xia Beibei's boasting. After the meal, I realized why this girl thought it was delicious. She has not opened the fishing rod until now. There have been a few times when the fish jumped onto her boat by themselves. She just put the whole fish into the pot and cooked it. With the scales and entrails, you can imagine how it tasted.
From then on, the child lived a life of eating boiled vegetables. She was also amazing. She opened the planting pot map, corn, carrot, and rapeseed seeds. Later, when the boat was upgraded, she exchanged various fruits and cabbage seeds with others.
So these days, although she had no meat to eat, she was not starving to death.
After dinner, the two discussed. Qiao Sheng used dried wild boar meat, rabbit meat, and dried fish to exchange for all of Xia Beibei's vegetable and fruit seeds. He also used ten rabbit skins and two bottles of coconut oil to exchange for all of her salt and half of the saltpeter. The child also told her how to refine and reuse saltpeter to make ice.
Qiao Sheng took a fishing rod and caught a few fish. He demonstrated to Xia Beibei how to kill and scale the fish. He even made a pot of fish soup so that the child could drink it.
Xia Beibei watched with a grin. When the fish soup was cooked, she tasted it and decided to ask Qiao Sheng to kill two more fish. She must learn it. It tastes much better than boiled vegetables.
Compared to the things Xia Beibei exchanged, Qiao Sheng thought it was no big deal to teach her until she learned it. She was prepared to kill a few more fish.
Unexpectedly, the child learned it after watching it twice, and asked Qiao Sheng to throw one to see if she did it right. Qiao Sheng originally wanted to lend her the kitchen knife in his hand, but the child took out a knife from the cabin by herself. Qiao Sheng felt that she really didn't understand the term "game koi" well enough.
When Xia Beibei brought the stove, pots and pans over, she was no longer surprised. It was a game koi, which was normal.
Qiao Sheng heard that Xia Beibei had never opened a fishing rod before, so he wanted to make a few more for her, at least she could have fish to eat.
"No, Sister Qiao, didn't I tell you I'm going to bring out a fishing net? It's very convenient. Hang it on the stern and you'll have a lot of fish in a short time. I didn't use it because I didn't know how to clean it. Now I know how to do it. Thanks to meeting you, I feel my living standards have improved." Xia Beibei smiled sincerely.
When the two of them were about to part, Xia Beibei used a watermelon peel to leave her ID and name, and they could add each other as friends when Qiao Sheng's boat was upgraded to level three. They
also agreed to think of each other in the future, and they could exchange things and share what they had after adding each other as friends.
Before the boat drifted away, Qiao Sheng cooked a few more dishes for her so that she could have dinner. After delivering them, he untied the rope between the two boats. This time, the two of them drifted in the same direction, but Xia Beibei's boat was obviously much faster than Qiao Sheng's.
When Qiao Sheng finished tying the 104th floating board, Xia Beibei's boat was no longer visible.
[Congratulations to player No. 38 for successfully upgrading his boat to level 2. The trading system has been opened. Players are welcome to enter the trading system to experience the joy of bartering.]
"Wait a minute, I want to ask how to upgrade to a level 3 ship?" Qiao Sheng already knew about the trading system from Xia Beibei, but Xia Beibei herself didn't understand how to upgrade to level 3. Now that the system has been released, she has to ask quickly.
[Build a two-story building. 】
"Is there a size requirement? Like a hundred floating boards?" Qiao Sheng pressed.
[No. ]
After getting the accurate answer, Qiao Sheng was relieved. This was not a big deal. She had planned to build it when she got the blueprints of the wooden walls and decks.
In the days when there was no roof over her head, it was not just a problem of being woken up by the sun every day. She was worried every day, afraid that it would suddenly rain at sea, and then both the things she was drying and herself would suffer.
After harvesting the crops in the planting pots, she planted all of them with the fruit and vegetable seeds that she had just exchanged with Xia Beibei. Tomorrow, she would be able to have her own fruits and vegetables. She was happy just thinking about it.
Sitting on a bamboo chair, pulling over a storage box and crossing her legs, Qiao Sheng leisurely flipped through the trading system.
Simply put, it's about posting a notice. For example, the one posted now is that player 457 uses 20 kilograms of fresh wild boar meat to exchange for a piece of rare metal steel, and player 99 uses two watermelons to exchange for 20 kilograms of salt.
The ratio is very psychedelic, and Qiao Sheng frowned when she saw it. 20 kilograms of fresh boar meat is not a small amount, why only exchange for a piece of rare metal? The watermelon makes her feel that it is really not worth 20 kilograms of salt. Even if there are seeds in the watermelon that can be planted, she doesn't understand. Not everyone in this game is a senior high school student who doesn't know how to make salt. They rely on the little salt produced by the water filter. They have to save it for cooking, not to mention exchanging for fruit.
After flipping through the list, I found that there was really something to exchange. At the end, I saw a player named No. 18 who was exchanging a piece of soap for a meal. The specification was two dishes and a soup. Qiao Sheng was interested when she saw this.
Fearing that someone else would take the order, Qiao Sheng took the order directly. Unfortunately, she couldn't communicate directly with the seller, otherwise she would definitely ask the other party what he wanted to eat.
There was still a lot of rabbit meat in the storage box. Qiao Sheng decided to simply stir-fry the rabbit meat cubes with peppers, stir-fry the cabbage with lard, and finally make a kelp fish soup.
After submitting the two dishes and one soup in the task list, she had an extra piece of soap in her hand. Finally, she had cleaning supplies. Qiao Sheng decided to expand the toilet immediately and put a wooden barrel in it as a bathtub. Today's bath must be taken immediately!
When Qiao Sheng was busy taking a bath, she didn't know that player No. 18 had already eaten the two dishes and one soup she made as a midnight snack. When eating the dishes, she felt very familiar. When drinking the soup, it was basically confirmed. No. 18 felt that she had been fishing with bait for so many days and finally caught the fish.