Chapter 40
Brine rabbit legs are also very fragrant. Qiao Sheng brined some wild boar meat with this pot of brining. Recently, three ducklings have laid three eggs every day. Some can be hatched, and some cannot.
The ducklings that cannot be hatched are stored in the storage box in the kitchen. I saw them when I took the pork. After cooking and cooling, I peeled off a piece of the shell and put it in the pot to brine. This pot of brining must be used repeatedly to the extreme before it goes bad. This is the last stubbornness of the poor ghost.
Every time she cooked, Qiao Sheng wanted to cook in different ways, for fear of getting bored. She also tried to collect the needs of Li Mu and Xia Beibei, but they gave the same answer, which was just two words: "whatever". Later, Qiao Sheng came to her senses and decided to cook whatever she wanted. If they didn't want to eat, they would naturally ask. If they didn't ask, they would just bear with it.
So she prepared pancakes, chopped brined pork and rabbit legs, added brined duck eggs, and fried cabbage with vinegar. There was more meat, so she made carrot soup.
After dinner, Li Mu kept turning his head to look at the kitchen.
"Don't look at it. I didn't make spicy rabbit heads tonight. Let's make another fifty tomorrow. You take care of the rabbit heads. So let's make pig heads tomorrow. It just so happens that the six heads are still there." Qiao Sheng put the pancake in front of him and asked him to roll the meat to eat.
"Well, what else needs to be washed and rinsed? I'll do it all tomorrow." Li Mu felt that since he entered this game, the biggest victory was to hold Qiao Sheng's thigh. Although the process was quite tortuous and he almost got killed, the result was quite satisfactory.
Hearing what he said, Qiao Sheng decided to continue grinding flour tomorrow and let him wash some more pig offal, including pig tails, pig trotters, and various internal organs. This time, nothing would be wasted. Li Mu asked what to do if she couldn't eat it all. She was very single. She would eat as much as she could. If she couldn't eat it all, she would put it on the trading system or auction system. Then she could continue to change various spices to form a cycle.
She planned to dry most of the roe deer meat, blanch the rest, and then blanch it a little. She would taste them all to see which one tasted better. After all, she had never eaten this before.
"Isn't this game more suitable for chef survival?" Qiao Sheng arranged tomorrow's tasks and sighed sincerely.
"It's useless to just know how to cook. You also have to know how to hunt and collect supplies. If you don't develop in all aspects, there is basically no way out in this game." After dinner, Li Mu peeled the fruit and washed the dishes before going downstairs to continue working on weapons.
After a few days of research, he has made bows and crossbows. Qiao Sheng's arm strength is not good for bows and arrows. She has tried several times but still can't shoot accurately. There is no other way, so Li Mu made crossbows. It doesn't require so much arm strength, so she uses it more easily.
Li Mu also made two quivers that can be hung on the body, each of which can hold twenty arrows. Qiao Sheng has to take time out every day to practice archery these days. She even broke a piece of the wooden wall. There is no other way, so Li Mu made a target and hung it on the wooden wall, at least it can reduce the damage to the hull.
However, Li Mu's archery skills impressed Qiao Sheng. How could he be so accurate? After asking, he found out that he had practiced before and had learned it a long time ago. He was a good student with strong athletic ability. Qiao Sheng really couldn't compare with others. If you compare people, you will die. If you compare goods, you will throw them away.
The fundamental reason for practicing archery is to go to the sea. Since you can't fight sharks at close range, is there a way to attract them with food, and then stand on the boat or on the shore to shoot them, including the wild animals in the forest. The most powerful one they encountered before was a wild boar. They often got injured when fighting with it at close range. If it was a bear or a tiger, they might not be able to come back.
Li Mu also considered this point, so he not only had long-range weapons, but also gunpowder, which was made of thin bamboo tubes. This was specially exchanged in the trading system. Qiao Sheng had only used the thick ones before, and never thought that he would need the thin ones now.
He put gunpowder in the thin bamboo tubes, left a fuse outside, and sealed it. This is a simplified version of gunpowder. In order to make it easier to carry, he also asked Qiao Sheng to make two cloth bags similar to ancient slings, with five gunpowder on the right and a fire starter on the left. If there is real danger, he can find a high ground, light it and throw it. Anyway, there is nothing between the beast and himself.
Qiao Sheng tried on this set of equipment, and when she put it on her own shoulders, she found it really heavy. Seeing her with all these odds and ends hanging on her body, Li Mu decided to make her a small bag. This bag contained all her weapons and tied it to her left wrist. She put everything she could hold, including her rifle, machete, crossbow, quiver, hunting net,
and gunpowder sling. This made it much more convenient. A shoulder bag and a small wrist bag solved everything. Li Mu also tried on his own. He would carry the crossbow and quiver with him, and put the machete and other things in the small bag.
The two fully armed people now felt that they only needed an island to practice.
It was obvious that the island was not so easy to come by. The rainy season was about to pass. Although it would still rain, there would always be sunny days. Every time when it was sunny, he would take out the things that needed to be exposed
to the sun and dry them. When it rained, he would move them back to the cabin. After catching a sunny day, Li Mu made a new water tank. Qiao Sheng boiled it with boiling water, wiped it clean and put it in the sun to dry. He washed twenty cut cabbages with boiled water and pickled them with salt. The salt was the coarse salt specially made by Li Mu. After arranging them, he found a clean stone, boiled it with boiling water, wiped it clean and pressed it on the cabbage. Finally, he covered it with a wooden board. In a few days, the pickled cabbage would be ready.
The first batch of rabbits born in the rabbit nest can already start to nibble on carrots and cabbage leaves. The two of them reallocated the nests for them, dividing the male and female dormitories according to gender, and prohibiting inbreeding. The three newly captured pregnant female rabbits have not given birth yet, but their bellies are already very big.
The male rabbit has been put into the nest of the female rabbit that has given birth. The busiest one in the coming period will be this male rabbit, with four wives and a bunch of children.
The mallards are very strange. According to Li Mu, the duck eggs also need to be incubated for a month, but it has not even been ten days, and the dozen ducklings have already crawled out of the eggshells.
Qiao Sheng thought about it. Although she had raised the pregnant female rabbit for a while before giving birth, no one knew when it became pregnant, including the three new rabbits.
They watched the duck eggs hatch and hatch. It should be the same as drying things on the boat. The time of these animals and plants will be accelerated, so the duck eggs will hatch earlier, and the rabbits will be born and grow faster. In their
opinion, there are both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the materials are produced faster, and duck eggs, duck feathers and rabbit down can be collected faster. If the rabbits are mass-produced in the future, there will be no shortage of fur and meat.
The disadvantage is that they cannot predict the production and growth of these animals, but it is not a big deal and can be accepted.
Shuanzhu didn't care about the children. Every day he was keen to inform Qiao Sheng where the ducks had laid their eggs. His purpose was to get some food and drink. So among the five ducks, he was the fattest and looked very smooth. His size always made Qiao Sheng want to eat some beer duck.
One day, when they were drifting on the sea, they heard someone shouting outside the cabin. At that time, Qiao Sheng was fiddling with the food in the planting pots in the cabin. She was addicted to hoarding food recently and was very busy. Li Mu was cutting rubber near the large planting pots at the bow. When she heard the sound, she looked up.
They didn't know when another third-level ship was floating side by side with their ship. This ship was larger than theirs. Qiao Sheng's ship was a rectangle, while the other ship was a real ship.
When Qiao Sheng came out, Li Mu had already started chatting with someone. Fortunately, he was standing far away from the other party. It seems that the old saying is still true. Every failure makes a wiser person. At least he was not as excited as when he first met him.
From the conversation between the two, I learned that there were actually five people in the boat next to them. The one who was talking was the captain, Pei Hong, 45 years old. The people in the suit were all his brothers in real life. Usually, the five of them liked to play together. That day, the game was going well. They were about to win when they reached the high ground. All five of them were stunned.
When they were conscious again, they all entered the game. Fortunately, the distance where the five of them refreshed was not too far. They put the five floating boards together and started their drifting life.
As for why this boat looks so professional, it is entirely because there is a graduate of Ocean University in the team, and he happens to be a ship and marine engineering graduate, so it is easy for him to design the appearance of the boat. However, he has graduated for many years and is not in this industry, so their boat is also drifting with the wind, and they have to rely on manpower to move in any direction.
Qiao Sheng listened to what the big brother opposite him said, and wondered how such a person could drift here for so long and not be robbed. In this state, he was as enthusiastic as Li Mu in the past.
Li Mu is now on guard and curious. The big brother opposite him did not treat him as an outsider, so he did not feel burdened to ask questions, and directly asked him if he had ever met a bad guy.
Pei Hong sighed and said that he had encountered quite a few of them. Many people wanted to get something for nothing and took advantage of the situation. They relied on their large numbers and high martial arts to survive until now. Qiao
Sheng was still wondering if it was just an exaggeration. Even if there were many people, how high could their martial arts be?
Then he saw a tall and strong man coming out of the cabin, bringing a glass of water to Pei Hong, nodding to Qiao Sheng and the others, and then going back.
The way he came out to greet them seemed to be a deliberate show, which was to intimidate them a little.
Qiao Sheng looked at the man who was about two meters tall with broad and thick shoulders, holding the bamboo tube cup like a toy, and instantly believed what Pei Hong said about his high martial arts. He didn't even need to do anything, he could scare a lot of people just by standing there.
"Look at my brother, his figure, his condition. He used to learn Sanda, but now he's old and fat, otherwise his muscles would be great." Pei Hong's words always sounded a bit boastful.
Li Mu responded with a smile, and was still chatting with the other party. If someone who was not familiar with him, they would not be able to tell what was wrong with his answers.
But people like Qiao Sheng who lived with him every day knew that every truth and every answer from Teacher Li were ambiguous. He didn't let out any of his own information, and he didn't miss any of the other party's information. Sure enough,
Li Mu did change, but he didn't change when he closed the door at home.
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