Chapter 38
In the morning, the creaking sound of the tether woke Qiao Sheng up again. He sat up and opened the window to look at the sky. It was already very dark. Li Mu in the other bed was gone.
Other people's chickens crowed to wake them up in the morning, and she also called her duck in the morning. If it clucked randomly in the middle of the night, it would be a beer duck sooner or later.
When she got up, washed up, and prepared to go to the kitchen to make breakfast, she found sweet potatoes on the simple grill. Li Mu, although he couldn't cook, never missed anything within his ability. Since he recovered from his injury, Qiao Sheng had never made such a simple breakfast.
She used to be responsible for three meals a day, but now she only needs to cook dinner when she is on the island. If she is drifting on the sea, she can add lunch at most. This is a good captain, with good eyesight, theoretical knowledge, and good hands-on ability. Qiao Sheng thinks that picking him up is definitely a burst of luck.
Standing on the terrace and looking at the shore, Li Mu is busy in the charcoal kiln. After calling him up to eat breakfast, he went down to the charcoal kiln again. Qiao Sheng washed the dishes and went to the first floor to feed the animals and plant crops. After everything was put in place, Li Mu's charcoal kiln was sealed and charcoal was steamed.
The two of them took their equipment, went ashore and entered the forest. They discussed as they walked. They decided to walk around for another day to collect supplies. When they woke up in the morning, they felt that the weather was not very good. The rain that had stopped for two or three days might start again at any time.
They came here for wood today and would definitely not provoke others, unless there were those who were blind and tried to get in. They didn't even walk too far into the forest before they started to cut wood with machetes.
Since they unlocked the large planting pots, there is a chance that seeds will drop when they cut down trees. Before going out, Qiao Sheng sewed a lot of small cloth bags specifically for storing seeds. Li Mu also marked the types on them with charcoal. When they collected them, they would put them in the small cloth bags. Because there wouldn't be too much and they were very light, they could just hang them on their bodies and didn't have to put them in their waist bags to take up space.
When felling trees, there are many kinds of things that fall, and the backpacks fill up quickly. The two of them started to carry back the items when they were full, and they would catch a few animals in the process. They
kept going back and forth like this until dark, and the supplies they brought back today filled several lockers.
Back on the floating board, Qiao Sheng started to cook dinner. Thinking that she would have to skin the rabbit later, she made one dish, without even soup, pork, cabbage, potatoes and vermicelli stewed in a slow iron pot. She was not going to eat the staple food, as the vermicelli and potatoes in the dish were enough. Instead, she asked Li Mu what staple food he wanted to eat.
Li Mu, who was carrying charcoal to the cabin, asked for two roasted corns. After carrying the charcoal, he returned to the boat for dinner. He planned to burn another kiln of charcoal after dinner. He would leave the island tomorrow morning after collecting the charcoal. He didn't dare to go to the sea. There was still a lot of mud and sand in the box. It was not enough. He went to the nearby trading system to see if he could exchange it. There would always be people with great skills and courage. Anyway, they were not worthy now.
The sea breeze was quite cool. The two of them moved the dining table to the terrace on the second floor. They were eating happily when they heard someone talking next to them.
"This ship is so big. It can even plant trees. What smells so good?" Qiao Sheng stood up and saw a woman talking to the man next to her.
After just one look, he decided to leave tonight. He didn't even rush to eat. Qiao Sheng sat down and whispered to Li Mu that these were the couple who took advantage of his situation and stole his backpack at sea.
"Do you want to take the backpack back?" These two people are really bad people.
"No, it's just a pig skin bag. Didn't you say they couldn't open it? Maybe they had thrown it away long ago. There's no need to conflict with such people. Now I'll go down and push the charcoal kiln, and then untie the rope on the shore. You shake the anchor, and we'll leave now." Li Mu put down his chopsticks, took the machete and went downstairs.
Qiao Sheng followed closely, went downstairs and ran straight to the anchor. As soon as he shook it, Li Mu had already jumped on the boat. Due to the wind direction, the boat drifted away from the shore.
I could still hear the couple on the boat next to me discussing how they left. When they were leaving, the man pushed something. Was there only one person on the boat? They should have gone to him to "borrow" some supplies. Judging from his clothes, he was a well-off person.
"It's a good thing we left. These two people are really stubborn. Seeing that you got off the boat alone, they actually wanted to take advantage of the situation to rob you. With such a bad character, they will be punished sooner or later." Qiao Sheng washed his hands, picked up the coconut bowl and continued to show off the vermicelli.
"Don't let them affect your mood. If they don't hit us in the face, just dodge. If they really hit us, don't be soft." Li Mu broke off half a roasted corn and handed it to her.
Qiao Sheng took the corn and ate it row by row, picking up the corn kernels. The scum was far away, so there was no need to think too much. Instead, it would be better to think about the work after the meal.
"We didn't kill the pigs on the shore! These two annoying things seriously affect our plan. What about the six pigs? If we butcher the wild boars on the boat, will the blood seep down and attract sharks or something?" Qiao Sheng suddenly remembered the difficult task. "
It seems that when we were drifting on the sea, we really didn't see any large creatures. Let's try it later. Each of us put a wooden board in hand. If there are really attacking animals following us, we will try our best. It's just right for an experiment. This boat is an absolute safe house for players, but it is still unknown whether this boat is safe for those animals on the seabed." Li Mu raised this question. Thinking about it this way, they really haven't encountered an attack on the boat while drifting on the sea. It's not impossible to attract some blood this time.
After eating, the two of them took a wild boar out of the storage box, peeled it, and cut it in half. Each of them took a kitchen knife and chopped the pig half. After splitting it, they found a problem. Before they brought the wild boar back, it seemed that it had bled a lot in the forest. Now that the pig blood seeped into the sea on the floating board, not much pig blood was found. Now
that the family is well-off, the dirty internal organs can finally be left behind. Later, they can use flour and cornmeal to scrub the large intestine. Then they can try to fill it with some bacon and hang it up. It is actually quite boring to wind-dry pork all the time.
"When can you use the wine you brewed before? Do you eat pig's entrails?" This time, she has more seasonings, so she can try to make some fried pork liver or something.
"Whatever you cook, I eat. I have no restrictions and I am not picky about food." Li Mu helped to pick out what Qiao Sheng needed from the entrails, and packed the rest and threw it into the toilet.
"I didn't realize it, it's easy to raise. You know what, since I started cooking, I finally know why my mother always taught me to be picky when I was a child. She also set an example by saying that she was never picky and asked me to learn from her. Later, I realized that who can buy dishes that they don't like to cook? It's a pity that I couldn't change my mind and let my mother fool me for so many years." Qiao Sheng was cutting pork fat with a kitchen knife. These were all to be boiled into pork fat.
After chopping a pig, the effect was not great, so the two changed their target to wild rabbits. There were more than 150 of them, so they would peel more skins when they had time.
The rabbit didn't have much blood left, so it threw its entrails into the sea, throwing a little every now and then. After a while, it really saw shark fins swimming around their boat, which made Qiao Sheng quite nervous.
Li Mu also held a wooden board in one hand and a machete in the other, ready to take action if the situation got bad.
But the shark just followed their boat at a steady speed, and had no intention of attacking the boat or jumping onto the boat.
"Is it waiting for us to feed it? How about throwing all this entrails into it?" Qiao Sheng plucked up his courage and looked into the sea while holding the large planting pot.
Li Mu made sure that the shark would not hit the boat, and then he threw the rabbit's entrails into the sea. Qiao Sheng was watching, and suddenly saw the shark's big mouth open, showing off the rabbit's entrails that Li Mu threw down. Its teeth were still as scary as the last time.
Using his hands and feet, he crawled back to the middle of the terrace in a daze, and began to cut open the rabbit's belly with a kitchen knife. Li Mu squatted a little further out, peeled the skin and threw the entrails into the sea. Qiao Sheng kept reminding him not to stretch his hands out, or he would be bitten.
One person can peel rabbit skins very slowly, but two people can work together quickly. Qiao Sheng felt that they were almost working on an assembly line. The rabbit carcass was placed next to her. After opening the belly, Li Mu took it away, peeled the skin, dug out the internal organs and threw them back. Qiao Sheng then removed the rabbit head and the meaty parts, and piled the ribs without meat aside. When Li Mu was done with what he was doing, he would throw them into the sea.
"Is it full?" The two stopped until the sharks following them swam away. Qiao Sheng asked uncertainly. Li Mu counted the rabbit skins in his hand, 55.
"Is this a shark? This is a trough, even if the rabbit's internal organs and ribs are not too big, 55 are not a small number. This is a big appetite." Qiao Sheng curled his lips and put the peeled rabbit skins back into the storage box. There was not enough space in one compartment, so two storage compartments were occupied, a total of 145 pieces.
There were not many rabbits left, less than 100. When the time comes, it will be a big project to clean and dry these more than 200 rabbit skins.
Li Mu looked up at the sky and asked Qiao Sheng to move all the things drying on the terrace into the cabin. The first layer was drying chili peppers and various grains, the second layer was a drying rack, and the third layer was filled with grains covering the entire platform.
They were both very tired these past few days. They planned to sleep a little longer tomorrow and prepare in advance in case it rains, so they would not be in a rush. They
slept really soundly this time. They did not even hear the sound of rain outside, until a loud thunder woke them up at the same time.
They did not know how long they slept. It was raining outside the cabin and there was no sun. Li Mu checked his value bar and told Qiao Sheng to get up. It should be noon. If they continued to sleep, they would starve to death in bed.
After brushing their teeth and washing their faces, each of them ate half an apple to cushion their stomachs. Qiao Sheng went to the kitchen to cook. Li Mu went downstairs to feed the animals. They did not start to quack until he went downstairs and tied them up. The chicks also squeaked louder.
While cutting vegetables, Qiao Sheng was thinking, the duck was smart, otherwise she would have woken him up and plucked its feathers to make beer duck sooner or later! It
was too late to make the rabbit head at this time, so Qiao Sheng diced the rabbit meat and asked Li Mu to take it with him to see if the pepper trees were ripe and if he could pick some peppers to make spicy rabbit meat cubes with dried chili peppers. He also made pork stewed with vermicelli, stir-fried Chinese cabbage and spicy potato shreds, and boiled a pot of pork ribs and kelp soup.
When eating, Li Mu was stunned when he saw the four dishes and one soup. He didn't expect that Qiao Sheng was in a good mood to make so many dishes when their hunger levels were almost at the bottom.
"We've been so tired these past few days, we have to treat ourselves to a good meal. What do you want to eat tonight? How about making some buns? We'll be very busy in the next few days, so eating buns is a lot easier. We can just steam them up." Qiao Sheng asked.