Chapter 39
After brunch, the two of them started to get busy. It rained again outside today, so they put out all the empty wooden buckets that they had used in the past two days. They were reluctant to take a bath unless it rained. Maybe after the rainy season, they would have to make a few more filters, and then take a bath with sea water, and then rinse with a small amount of fresh water.
After the actual use of the bathtubs in the past few days, Li Mu also improved them. They were all placed against the wooden wall, and then a hole was dug next to the bucket. The corresponding position on the nearby wall was also drilled, and a relatively thin bamboo tube was used to connect them. A plug was also made to block the wooden bucket.
Before, it was very tiring to clean up the water every time I took a bath. This time, it was better. After taking a bath, I pulled out the plug and the water automatically drained into the sea, which was quite labor-saving.
The wooden bucket was set up. Since it was raining heavily outside, they moved the rabbit skinning location to the cabin. Considering the visual impact on the rabbits, they turned their backs to the rabbit nest, dismantled two floating boards, and started working in the sea water.
It didn't take long for them to find something foreign under the boat, but the size of the two floating boards made it difficult to see what was under the boat. Li Mu threw some rabbit entrails into the sea, and the foreign object that almost blocked the sea water really slowed down.
When it put its head on the empty floating board, the two of them could see clearly what it was.
"A sea turtle? Why are there so many bumps on its body? Are its head and tortoise shells in good shape? Why is it so big?" Qiao Sheng looked at the head of the sea turtle and couldn't help but ask. "
This should be a leatherback turtle, the largest turtle in the ocean. I seem to have seen a news report before, saying that the largest one was two meters long and weighed nearly a ton." Li Mu looked sideways at the leatherback turtle's tortoise shell to confirm.
"Wow, it's so big, it won't suddenly flip our boat over, right?" Qiao Sheng knew that the boat was a safe house, and they wouldn't be attacked inside, but it was hard to say whether the safe house would be attacked.
"It shouldn't be. This creature is relatively docile. With it following, other creatures probably won't follow. It has a huge appetite. Let's throw all the viscera to it. We should be more careful in the future and try to pick it up by the floating board. It's not safe to throw animal viscera in the cabin." Li Mu was also a little scared. What if their boat really capsized?
There were less than a hundred rabbits. The two of them were used to doing assembly line work. They finished in a few hours. All the rabbit viscera were fed to leatherback turtles. It seems that turtles don't like rabbit ribs very much. Li Mu packed them with banana leaves and put them aside. If he saw a shark, he would feed it. If not, he would throw it into the toilet at night.
Qiao Sheng laughed and asked if he wanted to feed the shark until it was cooked, but even if this kind of animal was
fed until it was cooked, it would not stop it from eating living people. "Look at it, I always feel that many animals in this game are very smart. It's hard to say what will happen in the future. What if we kill it and cook it? You can eat shark meat after feeding it." Li Mu pointed at the duck that was throwing the female duck in the plastic bucket.
"Maybe this stupid duck is an exception." Hearing Qiao Sheng talking about the stupid duck, the duck stopped throwing the opposite sex swimming beside it and quacked at Qiao Sheng, which made Qiao Sheng couldn't help asking Li Mu if it was protesting.
The wooden barrels outside for collecting rainwater were full, so Li Mu put them all in the storage box and replaced them with new wooden barrels to continue collecting rainwater.
Then he opened the trading system and checked the snake meat that was put up for auction the night before. Sure enough, there were still curious people. He glanced at the items to be exchanged and discussed with Qiao Sheng. The two of them finally selected some seeds and minerals. When Li Mu wanted to choose saltpeter, Qiao Sheng remembered that Xia Beibei had given her some before.
After Li Mu rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and found them, he looked at the quantity and decided to exchange for some more. Making ice is one aspect, and making some explosives is also necessary.
The five snake meats were finally auctioned off. Qiao Sheng was still very happy with the result. They were all useless things, and it was good to exchange them for what he needed.
With charcoal and saltpeter, Li Mu began to look for sulfur in the trading system again, but unfortunately he couldn't find it after searching for a long time.
Seeing that it was still early, Qiao Sheng prepared to cut up the remaining five wild boars and roe deer. When they were almost done, he took the freshly cut pork belly and spare ribs to the second-floor kitchen.
He made sweet and sour spare ribs and braised pork. Considering that Xia Beibei was also there, he made more. There was no time to make dumplings today, so he would talk about everything tomorrow.
Before the radish soup came out of the pot, Li Mu came up with the cut pork strips and tied them all to the drying rack to dry slowly.
After dinner, Qiao Sheng went to peel and grind the sun-dried wheat, while Li Mu went to study how to plant sugarcane. Facts proved that the game should not be too complicated. Just cut a section of sugarcane and bury it horizontally in the planting pot. Moreover, a section of sugarcane seems to be able to grow several roots. The planting pot with ten pits was full after only burying two sections of sugarcane.
Considering the height of the sugarcane, Li Mu also moved the two planting pots for planting sugarcane to the bow, so that they can grow freely. Otherwise, if they are placed in the cabin, the deck may be leaking when they wake up tomorrow.
After doing all this, I boiled water and took a hot bath, and then I went to sleep peacefully.
The next morning, after breakfast, Qiao Sheng arranged a new job for the two of them, washing pig intestines. I thought she ground so much wheat yesterday for making dumplings, but she mixed the dough for dumplings and took the remaining flour. Each of them had a wooden basin and started washing pig intestines. The amount was not much, only five in total, but the taste and feel were amazing.
"After doing this, I feel like we may not be able to eat rotten intestines anymore." Qiao Sheng covered his mouth and nose with cotton cloth and carefully rubbed the pig intestines with flour.
"Probably not. When we're done, we may not remember what we're doing now." Li Mu got up, poured all the water in the wooden basins into the toilet, replaced the water, added flour and salt to the pig intestines and continued to rub them.
Before Qiao Sheng made dumplings in the afternoon, he watched Li Mu wash his hands ten times with soap. Before entering the kitchen, they both smelled each other's hands to make sure there was no peculiar smell before they started to chop the stuffing.
After the first batch of dumplings came out of the pot, Qiao Sheng gave ten to Xia Beibei first, and then asked her in an uncertain tone how it tasted, which Xia Beibei praised.
"Okay, it should be fine. I was just worried that our noses were used to it and we couldn't smell the peculiar smell. Xia Beibei said it was delicious, so we can rest assured." Qiao Sheng brought the remaining dumplings to the table and steamed the second batch while eating.
After dinner, Li Mu made two large chopping boards, and each of them used a kitchen knife to chop the meat. The pig's large intestine was already placed on the gap of the drying rack. The meat was cut today, and the intestines could be stuffed tomorrow.
However, the two of them had only eaten it but never cooked it, so they cut the meat into two kinds: one was to cut it into small pieces, some fat and some lean, and the other was to chop it into stuffing, which would be stuffed into pig intestines. They didn't make much, just two strips first, and tasted them after
they were dried. Whichever tasted better would be the one they would cook in the future. The days drifting on the sea passed quickly and were busy, but fortunately, the two of them worked together, which was much faster than Qiao Sheng's work at the beginning, and with Li Mu's ability to do things by hand, their living standards really improved a lot.
The Sichuan pepper trees and the Sichuan pepper trees have matured, and a large amount of Sichuan pepper and Sichuan pepper have been picked. When Li Mu was cutting down the trees, he deliberately cut down all the branches first, and then cut down the trunks. The cut branches are still branches and can be used to make charcoal later, but the trunks can be turned into planks directly after being cut down.
After the pepper and shiso were dried, a lot of seeds were harvested. Li Mu replanted rubber trees in the emptied large planting pots. When they matured, they could be harvested. When he asked me to wash the pig intestines two days ago, I felt that rubber gloves must be arranged. It was not scary to touch the intestines. Later, Qiao Sheng watched him wash his hands, which was too difficult. He felt that he was almost bald.
Rabbit heads are delicious, but the quantity is too large, so Qiao Sheng took fifty rabbit heads for the first time. The first step of removing the hair made Qiao Sheng angry. In the end, Li Mu put the rabbit meat on the stove to burn off the hair. Qiao Sheng also asked him to make a brush with pig hair and brush each rabbit head in all directions, even the rabbit teeth were not spared.
First soak the rabbit head in clean water, then put it in a pot with cold water, add the previously brewed beer to remove the fishy smell, boil it for five minutes, take it out, and cut it with scissors. Remove the ears, remove the places with hard hair, cut the throat, and even pull out the rabbit tongue to scrape the tongue coating.
Li Mu felt that it was so troublesome that he might as well not do it. There was no shortage of meat at home, so why bother with a little rabbit head? Qiao Sheng told him to wait for the law of true fragrance.
Qiao Sheng also got all kinds of spices by soaking in the trading system for a whole day. He salinated the rabbit head for an hour, waited for it to cool naturally, took it out, split it in half, fried it first and then stir-fried it. When it was out of the pot, Li Mu thought it was very fragrant before he ate it.
Qiao Sheng picked ten rabbit heads and packed them for Xia Beibei. The little foodie would definitely like them.
Li Mu was a little reluctant before eating them. After all, they were heads. He also witnessed Qiao Sheng's series of production processes. It must be said that it made sense for the hotel's back kitchen to not allow customers to enter. Many people would not be able to eat after seeing the raw materials.
However, seeing Qiao Sheng sitting opposite him chewing on the red oil, he decided to try it. He tasted the flavor. There were forty rabbit heads left, and the two of them ate them all. In the end, it didn't matter about the value bar anymore. It was just a simple feast.
Xia Beibei also sent a message in surprise, thanking her sister Qiao for always thinking of her and giving her her favorite spicy rabbit head. I have no way to repay her, but I am willing to repay her with my body.
Qiao Shengle was so surprised that she read the message. Li Mu's first reaction was to refuse. He was determined not to let another foodie in the family, otherwise his position as captain would be unstable. Later, he thought that the sea was so big and there was no coordinate, so it would be difficult to meet someone.
Originally, I thought 250 rabbit heads were a bit too much, and I wanted to exchange some in the trading system to avoid wasting them when they were no longer fresh. However, after this meal, the two decided not to exchange them. There were only 200 rabbit heads, and with Xia Beibei and three people, it might not be enough.
When Qiao Sheng put the rabbit legs into the brine, he decided to continue to eliminate pests for the people and hunt rabbits more often. Of course, the purpose is to get rabbit skins and prepare for winter. Rabbit heads are also incidental. They are so easy to keep. Eating some rabbit heads is a meal.