Chapter 35
Moved to the second floor to sleep, the windows were closed. It had been almost a month since I started playing the game, and one night there was no wind. Qiao Sheng had always felt that one day his mouth and eyes would become crooked because of the wind when he slept. There
was no sunshine, nor was there any disturbance from the sea breeze. Qiao Sheng was woken up by Li Mu. He had already prepared breakfast, heated up the remaining buns in a pot, and caught a fish to make fish soup.
Qiao Sheng got up, still in a daze. He sat on the bed for a while before getting up and going to the bathroom on the second floor to wash up.
Li Mu called her from the kitchen on the second floor terrace. He watched her sit up with great effort, staring straight ahead with lifeless eyes. Her eyelids would occasionally close together, and then she would use her scalp to move her eyelids and try to open them. She sat for a while and then fell back into the quilt. She tried to get up again, and finally stretched out on the bed. She stood up and rubbed her eyes and went into the bathroom.
When she came out, she was immediately full of energy and thanked Li Mu for getting up early to make breakfast. While eating, Li Mu thought, so this is how girls get up? Although it takes a little effort, it's still pretty cute.
After breakfast, Li Mu collected all the food drying on the first floor, went to the first floor to feed the rabbits and chickens, and then moved a bamboo chair to sit near the kitchen on the second floor. Except for lunch and dinner, he was busy brewing wine there.
Qiao Sheng was busy with small tasks. He went downstairs to collect the crops in the planting pots, and went to the terrace on the first floor to check on the coconut trees. The trees had not grown yet. It seemed that the large planting pots would take longer to grow.
Ten planting pots were planted with cotton, cabbage, rice, wheat and corn. The harvested rice and wheat were covered with linen and spread on the second floor terrace. The clouds were getting thicker. They were working on the second floor. If it suddenly rained, they could quickly collect the crops.
Li Mu was puzzled when he saw her drying Panax notoginseng again. He was fine, so why was she drying so much Panax notoginseng? He remembered seeing a glass bottle of Panax notoginseng powder when he was packing up the storage box yesterday.
"It's better to take precautions. You don't know how I felt when you were lying there covered in blood and in tatters. I was the only one who was awake and didn't have any medicine. I don't want to feel helpless even if it was someone I knew, so I quickly stored more hemostatic medicine while the weather was good. Especially now that the novice protection period has passed, it's normal to have bumps and bruises." Qiao Sheng kept moving his hands and explained softly.
This made Li Mu silent. It was not appropriate to say thank you or sorry at this time.
"Li Mu, do you think apple trees can be grown from apple seeds? I planted watermelons before, but they were not as delicious as the ones we bought in the real world." After putting away the things that needed to be dried, Qiao Sheng took out the small stool for rubbing coconut flakes and the dried coconuts. Two clean wooden basins were placed at his feet, one for coconut water and the other for coconut flakes.
"If you want apples and watermelons to taste good, you may have to improve the varieties. When this wave of coconut trees mature, you can plant apples to try. As for improving the varieties of watermelons, you can only try. In this game, the production is two or three times a day. I don't know if it will succeed." Li Mu, who had been silent with his head down, heard Qiao Sheng's question and raised his head to reply.
While Qiao Sheng was rubbing the coconut, he also asked Li Mu, who was brewing wine in the kitchen, to boil some hot water. The iron pot that he used to boil cotton strips was scrubbed countless times and boiled bath water several times before it was allowed to be used normally. First,
make a pot of boiling water, and let it cool down before rubbing the coconut.
At lunch time, both iron pots were occupied, so Qiao Sheng used a clay pot to stew a pot of brown rice, and another clay pot to make kelp fish soup. Since there was no pot for cooking, he cut some radish and cabbage shreds, mixed them with vinegar and salt, and regarded them as a cold dish.
"Eating this dish... why do I feel like I'm almost like the rabbits downstairs? If I add salad dressing, it's too much like the diet meal I bought before. When I was losing weight and eating those vegetable salads, I thought it was a waste of money, but now I'm eating this voluntarily." Qiao Sheng suddenly remembered that when he was working, he ate light meals to lose weight.
Li Mu had seen this before, and he had also seen female teachers in the school cafeteria eating these with a bitter face. When it was Qiao Sheng's face, he thought it was funny. He always felt that she should be a carefree person who would not worry about her figure. He thought so in his mind and asked it out.
"You don't understand the involutionary behavior among women. Many of my colleagues are only 80 or 90 kilograms, but they still eat light meals and drink American slimming drinks every day. I am two times fatter than others, and I look decadent when I eat and drink lavishly next to them. 90% of the reason for my resignation is work, and the other 10% is because of the mental exhaustion of these beauties. I can't stand it. If I continue to work, I might go crazy at work." Qiao Sheng stuffed a big mouthful of vegetables and chewed fiercely.
Li Mu was amused by what she said, and asked her if this was the female competitive behavior mentioned on the Internet. Qiao Sheng was shocked. He didn't expect that he knew this word.
"I just seldom play games, but I also go online, and I usually come into contact with students. They always have some new words in their mouths. You will know them after listening to them more." Li Mu explained to her with a smile.
After dinner, they continued to work. Qiao Sheng boiled three pots of coconut oil that day, and only a little more than four bottles were poured into the glass bottles.
Before going to bed, Li Mu also took out three bottles of beer, saying that he was testing the waters with wheat and preparing to brew rice wine tomorrow. Qiao Sheng didn't pay attention to the rice wine issue. Her mind was full of beer duck and beer chicken wings. She would go to the trading system tomorrow to see if there were any orders to exchange ducks.
Unfortunately, her dream of beer duck did not come true the next day. When she woke up, she heard the sound of the deck hitting the rocks. She was startled and quickly ran to the second-floor terrace to check the situation. Li Mu had already tied ropes on the shore to secure the boat.
While brushing her teeth and washing her face, Qiao Sheng habitually asked the system if there were any players in the nearby seas and islands. The system replied that there were no players. After seeing Li Mu's injuries and the wreckage of the ship she had seen before, she was now more careful with other players.
Li Mu also upgraded the stone anchor to one with rollers. He removed a floating board from the cabin on the first floor to place the anchor. In the past, Qiao Sheng had to pull it up manually, but this time it was much easier. There was a handle, similar to a well. When you shook the handle, the rope would bring the big stone up. It was not that they had not considered changing it to a metal anchor, but it really required too much metal, and they were not worthy of it after they had just upgraded their ships.
For breakfast, each of them had two corns and heated up the pork chop vermicelli soup left over from last night. They each had a small bag filled with food and water. They also took a bottle of Panax notoginseng powder and a piece of cotton cloth and put them in the bag. Li Mu held a machete in his hand, while Qiao Sheng had a machete in his bag and a rifle in his hand. The purpose of this trip to the island was very clear: to sweep the island and leave nothing behind.
The two chose to enter from the left side of the forest. When Qiao Sheng was holding a rope to tie up the trees, Li Mu asked her what she was going to do.
"I don't know the way, so I relied on these ropes to get back to the boat." Qiao Sheng looked at him and explained.
Li Mu asked her to follow him, saying that he didn't need to tie her up, as he could find the way. Qiao Sheng was secretly happy that this dog had the function of a guide dog, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. Li Mu looked back and saw her guilty expression, and knew that she must be secretly criticizing him.
Qiao Sheng was going to catch hares with fur this time, and Li Mu made her a hunting net, which was very primitive and practical. It was a net woven with hemp rope, and then heavy objects such as small stones were tied to the four corners. When thrown out, it would open. She practiced several times before she mastered the rules. Not to say that she could hit the target like a rifle, but at least she could hit nine out of ten.
The purpose of live capture is to find male rabbits. This job is simple. The male rabbits are kept alive, the pregnant female rabbits are kept, and the non-pregnant rabbits are cut by the neck and put into the bag.
With this job, 32 rabbits were caught, and only one male rabbit was caught. Three pregnant female rabbits were caught. Later, it was easier. There was no need for hunting nets. It was safer and easier to shoot with a gun.
On the way to catch rabbits, they encountered a sugarcane field. Seeing this Qiao Sheng made her happy, which meant that sugar was also free. She would not do it, but she had Li Mu. Even if Li Mu did not do it, she still had the omnipotent senior high school student Xia Beibei.
So for her now, finding supplies is the most important thing. There will always be someone who can solve the subsequent problems.
While Qiao Sheng was happily poking the hare, Li Mu was busy collecting various crops that she could not see, the peppers on the pepper trees, and the weeds on the ground that she saw were wild onions. A
harmonious environment always has discordant factors. There are always some snakes, insects, rats and ants in the forest. When Qiao Sheng saw them, she threw the iron gun, but she did not dare to pick them up after throwing them. Li Mu also prepared herself mentally on the spot. After confirming that the snake was dead, she dug a lot of soil and put it on the snake's head, and then pressed it with a wooden board. She stepped on the wooden board, chopped off the snake's head with a machete, took a leaf to cushion her hands, rolled up the snake and put it in her waist bag.
"What kind of touch is that? Is it disgusting? Go back and wash your hands. I've agreed that I can't make snake soup. I'm afraid of all the five immortals except hedgehogs." Qiao Sheng deliberately moved to his left side, away from the right hand that was touching the snake.
"To be honest, I'm afraid too, but I have to keep the snake skin. I'll make a glove when I get back. I'll skin it. We can't enjoy the snake meat. We'll decide whether to bury it or feed it to sharks later." Li Mu sighed and shook his right hand in disgust.
When they met the wild boar, the two of them were like wild horses that had broken free of their reins. Each of them held a machete and circled around the wild boar, making the wild boar confused.
Some scratches are unavoidable in close combat. Li Mu's forearm, which had just grown skin, was scratched by the wild boar's fangs. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and stepped back a few steps in time. The wound was only a shallow scratch.
Qiao Sheng took Panax notoginseng powder and cotton strips and bandaged it with skillful movements.
"Actually, there's no need. This wound may heal tonight. It's just that the skin here is a little tender. If it's somewhere else, it may not bleed." Li Mu couldn't help but say as he watched her skillfully tie the bow.
"If it gets infected, tie it up first. Your two arms are too tender. How about tying them both up and using them as arm guards?" Qiao Sheng asked uncertainly, looking at his other white arm.
Li Mu immediately stopped trying to stop him from tying the bow, and silently moved his other hand holding the machete behind his back. His refusal was obvious. Qiao Sheng just wanted him to shut up and was just threatening him. If he really tied him up with cotton strips, his movements would be restricted and he might be more vulnerable to injury.