Chapter 23
Before going to bed at night, lying on the boat, Qiao Sheng used the trading system as a mobile phone to browse, and sure enough, she saw the order of player No. 18 again. This time, she did not exchange soap for rice, but ten kilograms of peeled brown rice and a bag of rice seeds.
This aroused her interest. She had not eaten a mouthful of rice for more than ten days. She did not eat carbohydrates when she was losing weight before, but now she could not eat gluttony .
"How can this No. 18 always come up with something very attractive?" Qiao Sheng frowned and took the order, but considering that it was already very late, she decided to submit the order tomorrow morning.
Thinking that she might be able to eat rice for dinner tomorrow, she could even smell the fragrance of rice in her dreams.
Qiao Sheng dragged the bed to the bow. Although there was a deck above her head, there was no wooden wall on the bow. She woke up as soon as the sun shone. She got up much earlier today than yesterday.
After a simple tidying up, Qiao Sheng began to make breakfast. If she were alone, she would definitely just roast some corn or sweet potatoes, but the ten kilograms of brown rice and rice seeds were tempting her, and this meal must be prepared.
The scarcity of ingredients determined the simplicity of Qiao Sheng's dishes. Yesterday, she made sweet potato vermicelli, and today she stewed it with potatoes and wild boar. Because there was no sugar, she couldn't stir-fry sugar color, and the color in the pot was weird. Qiao Sheng soaked some kelp, cut it into sections, tied it with a buckle, and put it in to stew.
The soup was simply fish soup, and finally some fried cabbage. Two dishes and one soup were complete. Thinking that the food this time was better, Qiao Sheng grilled two rabbit legs on the grill and traded them all.
I was a little excited when I got the brown rice. It was different from the rice I had eaten in the pot before. It was not so white. I heard that the taste was not very good. Qiao Sheng felt that he could tolerate it. It was better than nothing. As for
the bag of rice seeds, I harvested the crops in the planting pots and planted them all. Sooner or later, I would realize rice freedom.
After breakfast, I moved out the stone mill that I had made on the island before. There was no window in the cabin and it was dark, so I moved it to the bow where there was no deck. I would grind flour later, and it would not be good to lift it up in a closed space.
Comparing the height of the bamboo chair, Qiao Sheng first made a frame for the stone mill, which was just right for sitting on the chair to turn the stone mill conveniently. The protruding end of the millstone was facing her, and a wooden barrel of suitable height was placed in the middle. This barrel would be used to store flour in the future. When the rice was planted, another one would be made to store brown rice. This is how the family business was built up little by little.
When her left hand was tired, she turned with her right hand. When turning the stone mill, Qiao Sheng hoped to have a donkey. This was not ordinary tiredness. With more than 30 kilograms of wheat, she planned to grind only 10 kilograms a day, except for the seeds she saved. She couldn't stand more.
After grinding 10 kilograms of flour, she moved the wooden barrel into the room and covered it with linen cloth to prevent dust from falling in.
When I went into the cabin to clean up, I realized that I had a brain stunner. I didn't even move the two water purifiers out. The sun had been up for so long, and the sunlight was wasted. No fresh water was filtered out.
I carefully moved the two water filters out first, and only moved one of the plant pots because I didn't know if it needed sunlight. If the pots in the house didn't grow well, I would move them all out in the afternoon. It seemed that the bow was a little small, and too many things needed to be placed in a sunny place. I
planned it carefully again. I put the water filter on one side of the bow and the drying rack on the other side. The plant pots are still unknown now. I will see the specific situation in the afternoon. If they need to be moved out, they must be close to the water filter, so that it is convenient to water them.
Standing at the bow facing the cabin, the bathroom is on the left hand side at the back, and the storage room is on the right. It is full of her storage boxes. Those that can be hung on the wall are hung on the wall, and those that cannot be hung are placed on the ground.
The wooden wall at the toilet position has no windows. When using the toilet, close the door. If you feel stuffy when taking a shower, open the door. Anyway, it is at the back and no one can see it.
The storage room needs light, so the wooden walls in that row need to be made of wooden windows. Originally, she wanted to put the dining room and kitchen in the storage room, but considering cooking every day, if the stove is really placed in the closed cabin, the fumes cannot be dispersed, and the cabin will be useless.
Finally, we decided to move the storage room inward, and place the stove and kitchen behind the drying rack. We removed two sections of the wooden wall, and left the deck above our heads unchanged. The wooden wall was moved between the dining room and the kitchen, parallel to the bow. This way, the stove is outside the cabin, so the fumes can't get in. There's also a deck above our heads, so there's no need to worry about wind or rain. The dining room is inside the cabin, so if the weather is good and we want to enjoy the sea breeze, we can just move the tables and chairs out, which isn't a big deal.
As for her bedroom, it was placed next to the water filter. The sun can shine in when it rises higher, and it is not afraid of wind and rain. After moving it, standing on the bow and looking inside, Qiao Sheng felt that it was empty. She was alone, and this boat with 104 floating boards was indeed a bit too big for her. It was terribly empty.
"Don't blame the boat for being too big. I'm incompetent. The materials I collected are still too few. Sooner or later I can fill them all up." Qiao Sheng rubbed his nose and walked towards the storage room.
Prepare to take some bamboo and make some furniture. Since the materials are not enough, put some other things to fill the space and make the window of the storage room.
As soon as I walked nearby, I heard a strange noise. I was alone on the boat and didn't touch anything. Where did the sound come from? The sun couldn't shine into the cabin, and it was a bit dim.
Between going forward to investigate the truth and retreating to a safe distance, Qiao Sheng chose to light a torch, as light could give her a sense of security.
Walking deeper into the cabin with the torch, the strange noises became louder and louder, and more and more frequent, like the sound of a hard object hitting a wooden board.
Qiao Sheng held a torch in his left hand and a thinner bamboo pole in his right hand, ready to suppress it by force if he found anything wrong.
The source of the sound came from behind the storage box, and his brain was working frantically. He first ruled out cockroaches, as they were too small to make such a loud noise. It also didn't seem like rats grinding their teeth, as he had no idea where rats came from on the sea.
After a long time of mental preparation, she stretched the torch and bamboo pole to the back of the storage box, and pulled the bamboo
pole. The thing that made the noise was finally pulled out. When she shone the torch, Qiao Sheng was relieved. Fortunately, it was not a mouse, otherwise she might not dare to catch it. In front of her were two chicks, which should have just broken out of their shells. One had tender yellow fur, and the other was black and yellow. It was probably hungry, and one was pecking at the storage box.
She caught the two chicks, found a plastic box, put a layer of cotton at the bottom, a piece of linen on top, and two layers of large leaves on the top, and then put the two chicks in.
As for raising chickens, which child hasn't raised one when they were young? Qiao's mother couldn't stand Qiao Sheng's nagging at first, and bought two chickens. They lived for a week, and then both died. Since then, Qiao Sheng has not complained about raising animals, but she remembered it and asked a classmate who raised chickens for advice.
Now I can still remember it. First of all, you have to keep them warm. Chickens are too small and afraid of cold. Second, you have to feed them. Chickens are too young to eat on their own. After hearing what her classmate said, Qiao Sheng understood how the two chickens at home died. They were hungry and cold. It's really tragic to think about it.
Now that she had experience, she solved the chicken coop first. She chopped up some corn kernels to eat, but she was reluctant to use the brown rice and wheat at home. People didn’t have enough to eat, so how could she feed the chickens?
After making arrangements for the two little guys, she remembered where the chickens came from. She had never touched pheasant eggs.
After thinking for a long time, she finally remembered the great auk that had left its children on her boat. The great auk had not come since then, and the eggs seemed to have been stuffed into a storage box by her.
She found the box where the eggs were kept, opened it, and sure enough, there were only a pile of broken eggshells left in that compartment.
"That's not right. How can there be two chickens in three eggshells?" Looking at the broken eggshells in her hand and the two chicks in the chicken coop, the number didn't match.
Holding a torch, he searched behind each storage box, and found a yellow and black chick in the corner.
"Are you stupid? You don't stand with your brother, but stand separately. If I hadn't remembered that there were three eggs, you would have died tonight." Qiao Sheng poked the wilted chick, stuffed a lot of corn crumbs into its mouth, found a larger piece of iron, and broke it with his bare hands for a long time before breaking it into the shape of a small bowl. He added warm water and put it in the chicken nest.
The chicken nest was placed on the dining table. Qiao Sheng sat on a bamboo chair and poked the chick's head. He couldn't help laughing. He originally thought that the great auk gave its child to her, but he didn't expect that it stole other people's children. The color was different. Could it be that it stole from several families?
It hasn't appeared recently. Could it be that the three parents have beaten it up? Qiao Sheng was very happy when he thought of this possibility.
The species on the ship are becoming more and more abundant, with three chicks and a female rabbit about to give birth. She arranged the rabbit nest in the open space between the restaurant and the storage room. Except that no one can talk to her, it is really lively.
After settling the chicks, Qiao Sheng cleaned up the rabbit nest and touched the rabbit's belly. It has been so many days, and there is no movement in such a big belly.
Before making lunch, Qiao Sheng habitually opened the trading system. This time, the top two orders were from familiar people. One was player No. 18, who was going to exchange a box of tooth powder for two dishes and a soup. This one couldn't be refused. Why did this person always take out some of the most needed things to exchange for food, and no one rushed to grab the order, which was weird.
The other order was actually player No. 66, who she knew very well. It was the game Jinli, the beautiful girl Xia Beibei. She had previously carved her ID and name with watermelon rinds and left her with them. She memorized them and was waiting to add them to her child when the ship was upgraded to level three.
This order was to exchange half a pound of brown sugar for a portion of stir-fried cabbage and a portion of stir-fried rabbit meat with peppers. Qiao Sheng took both orders without hesitation. When preparing the ingredients, she finally knew where the sense of incongruity was.
Xia Beibei's order was obviously directed to her. As for why no one else accepted it, it was probably because she could issue orders to designated players, and only she could see the order.
As for why she only discovered it now, she had only been accepting orders from the beginning to the end, and had never issued any orders.
With this in mind, there was a big problem with player No. 18. Why did he repeatedly issue designated orders to her with the things she needed?
After all, the first transaction must have been random. She was sure that this was just an order she took at random. Could it be that her cooking skills were so good that she deeply attracted No. 18?