Chapter 51
The busy day ended with the three girls taking a walk. When Qiao Sheng and his team came back, the other teams had already come back to rest, and even set up a big pot on the shore to cook.
Fang Yueyi and the Zheng brothers and sisters joined the team. Qiao Sheng and Li Mu said hello and returned to their boats, where they simply made a spicy hot pot.
After dinner, they began to pack up the materials they had collected today. Because it was a team mission today, Pei Hong gave out materials based on their abilities, and the teams distributed them by themselves. The trees cut by the three men were counted as belonging to their respective boats, and the crops collected by Qiao Sheng and Zheng Xi and the animals hunted by Fang Yueyi were all divided equally among the three families.
Li Mu first planted the dried cucumber and tomato seeds into the planting pots. Yesterday, he also got some leek and mustard seeds, which he also planted. He will be able to harvest them tomorrow morning.
Qiao Sheng also turned out all the seeds he collected today, and he actually let them collect wasabi. They can try sashimi when they catch salmon in the future. What surprised them most was that they actually found a field of lettuce. They already got the seeds and got a lot of lettuce. It's
just a pity that this kind of vegetable can't be kept or pickled, so oyster sauce lettuce and hot pot will definitely be on the table in the next few days. The goal is to eat up the lettuce that was distributed. Fortunately, there are animals at home, so it shouldn't take long for the whole family to eat it all. In the future, they can just plant as they eat.
Qiao Sheng was sitting on the sofa packing up the supplies. In order to be quick, he just dragged out an empty storage box from the storage room and put all the stuff in. As the number of times increased, one box was not enough. Now there were three full storage boxes in front of the sofa.
How fast he put the stuff in, how much trouble it was to sort it out now. No one wanted the three headless snakes, so Li Mu put them in the bag with leaves. Now he had to do the job of skinning the snakes and selling the meat.
When he put the apples aside, the baby in the cassock lying in the basket began to hum. He cut the apples into pieces and threw them beside him. He immediately picked them up and started to chew them. It turned out that all creatures are the cutest when they are young.
After packing up all the supplies, the two of them washed up and went to bed early.
The supplies on the island have been collected almost completely. Taking advantage of the fact that there are many people and strong fighting power, Pei Hong discussed with Li Mu yesterday and wanted to go to the sea together. They don't have long-range attacks, and they can't deal with sharks, so they haven't gone to the sea since the novice protection period.
Qiao Sheng and his team are few in number, and they have collected a lot of rare metals before. In addition, there is a game bug like Xia Beibei, so they can give them some whenever they want, so it won't have much impact if they don't go to the sea.
But Pei Hong was affected too much. The machete that everyone needed was needed by all 20 members of the fleet. It was very expensive and in great demand. They had tried to go into the water before, but the sharks would follow them wherever they went. One member almost had his calf bitten off.
Fortunately, the other members attacked the shark and pulled him back, otherwise he would have died in the sea. After that, the entire team's medical resources were used to treat him. After that, the members who saw the terrible wound dared not go into the water.
Everyone got up early in the morning. Pei Hong spent half a day wandering along the coast early in the morning. Finally, he chose an area without reefs. Although it was unobstructed for sharks, it was also unobstructed for players to attack.
Everything was ready. Qiao Sheng and Li Mu, one holding a crossbow and the other holding a bow, stood in the shallow water ready. Fang Yueyi was not good at swimming, so she stood where she could step on the bottom with a machete ready at any time. Xu Ziyan and several team members who were familiar with water put on fish skin clothes and flippers and prepared to go deeper to attract sharks.
Qiao Sheng saw that their fish skin clothes were quite fresh. After asking, he found out that they were specially made by the team members. They put them on when they went into the sea, and they didn't have to change clothes every time they got wet.
When Xu Ziyan and his team went down, the people on the shore began to get nervous. After all, the wounds of the injured team members were still vivid in their minds, which was very scary. Qiao Sheng and Li Mu also walked to the deep water area and stopped at the place where the sea water was above their waists. They had never tried archery in the water, so it was difficult to grasp the range and speed. They tried to attack from the water surface.
After a while, they saw Xu Ziyan and his team rushing towards the shore, followed by a shark, whose fins were still exposed above the sea. When the distance was enough, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu started shooting. The shark felt the pain and began to attack indiscriminately in the water. Fortunately, they were familiar with the water and soon swam to the shallow water area.
Fang Yueyi's machete could also make a lot of cuts in the water. When the shark swam over, it was hit by two arrows and two knives on the face. Xu Ziyan rested on the shore for a while, and also took the machete to his girlfriend to cooperate. The four of them attacked frantically. After Qiao Sheng and his men ran out of arrows, they also went down with machetes. When the shark swam slower and slower, the people on the shore also came down to attack together, until the shark's head was chopped into a mess and turned white. After going
ashore for inspection, Fang Yueyi's palm was bleeding a little, because the machete had hit the shark's teeth several times, and one of the first team members who went into the sea to attract sharks was bitten by the shark on the calf. It was Xu Ziyan who turned around and stabbed the shark, and the shark let go of its mouth in pain.
The injured team members were sent back to the boat, bandaged with medicine and taken care of. Fang Yueyi also simply bandaged her mouth. Qiao Sheng and his team took back all the arrows from the shark.
Because they didn't know if there were other sharks nearby, Xu Ziyan continued to lead the team into the sea. After searching for a while and making sure there was no danger, he let the others go into the sea to collect.
Qiao Sheng and his team didn't grab any rare metals. Li Mu focused on digging a lot of mud and sand. It was a rare opportunity to go out to sea next time, so he would bring as much as he could.
Qiao Sheng was still playing with seafood. Fang Yueyi went to the sea with her. The two of them moved in sync and gestured. Soon, they had harvested most of the kelp nearby. They also saw a few creatures that they didn't know whether they were jellyfish or medusa. They called Li Mu to confirm that they were jellyfish.
Fang Yueyi wanted to catch them, but Li Mu stopped her. She went back to the boat to get a wooden basin and made a simple scoop to scoop up the two jellyfish. With this scoop, she caught 30 jellyfish in the vicinity.
When Li Mu and Xu Ziyan were catching jellyfish, Qiao Sheng and Fang Yueyi went to the seabed for the shells and snails. When they were catching, Zheng Xi also came down with them, holding a small bag and following them. The little girl was much better at swimming than Qiao Sheng and the others. Her brother warned her that she could only swim behind her two sisters, which made the little girl feel very uncomfortable.
The three of them worked together to pick up the jellyfish, and soon they filled a bag. They sent it back to the boat and continued to pick up. Not long after noon, Pei Hong called everyone to finish their work. It was almost time to pack up and leave the island. The supplies near the island had been collected almost completely. If they floated up as soon as possible, they could find the next island as soon as possible.
The seafood that Qiao Sheng and her friends picked up was theirs. Li Mu and Xu Ziyan kept five jellyfish each, and the remaining twenty were given to Pei Hong, who distributed them to the team members. It was not easy to preserve them for a long time, so it was better for everyone to share them. Li Mu also reminded him that it was poisonous, so he should be careful not to get stung when handling it.
The distribution of sharks was also simple. Qiao Sheng and Fang Yueyi's two boats took the lion's share, and the team members who participated in attracting sharks in the sea also needed to get more. Fang Yueyi and her friends still took shark meat, and Pei Hong also decided to give them a few shark fins. Fang Yueyi was worried about the shark fins, as they didn't know how to make them.
"High-end ingredients must be cooked in the simplest way, so that they appear to be close to the people. Yueyi, throw it in the pot and cook it. If it doesn't taste good, put it in the hot pot. If anyone says you are wasting food, let them kill the shark themselves. You decide on your shark fins and eat them however you want." Qiao Sheng is also a bachelor. He always cooks according to his mood. Only Li Mu and Xia Beibei think it tastes great.
Li Mu did not want shark meat, but chose shark entrails, bones and skin. He did not tell the reason. Qiao Sheng knew that he must have his own ideas. Now there are so many people that he can't say it. When he returns to the boat, he will naturally say it. In the end, he was still divided into a piece of shark meat. Pei Hong felt that he wanted only scraps, so at least he had a piece of meat to taste.
After getting the shark meat, Qiao Sheng always felt that it smelled strange. Fang Yueyi also came to her side. The two girls bent down and smelled for a long time, and finally figured out what the smell was. Why did the shark meat smell like a toilet?
It was Li Mu who told them that shark meat originally had too high urea. In the past, people only cut the shark fins when hunting, and did not want the fish meat. Later, they found that lemon juice and tomato juice could remove the urea, so people started eating shark meat. It happened that they were given tomatoes the day before yesterday, and they could also look for lemons in the trading system in the future.
They came very quickly and returned to the boat with the things they were given. Qiao Sheng and Li Mu collected the anchors and untied the rope tied to the stone. Their boat was the first to float up. Before leaving, they exchanged IDs with Zheng Xi and Fang Yueyi. Zheng Xi and his sister's boat was originally level 3, so they were added directly. Fang Yueyi's boat was still level 2, so she left her ID first and added it as a friend after it was upgraded to level 3.
The four days on the island made them exhausted. On the first day, they fought with black bears and couriers, on the second and third days, they collected like crazy, and on the fourth day, they fought with sharks. There was not a single day of leisure. When the boat floated up, the two of them collapsed on the sofa to rest, and no one wanted to move.
While resting, Li Mu was not idle. He told her why he chose shark viscera and bones. The liver can be used to extract fat and cod liver oil. Seeing the therapeutic effect of Panax notoginseng, he thought it was worth a try. He thought about whether shark bones could be used to make chondroitin. Shark skin was even simpler. Who wouldn't want to see Pei Hong's waterproof fish skin suit?
The two of them rested until the sun was about to set before they stood up to work, mainly because they were hungry. Qiao Sheng went into the kitchen, and Li Mu was busy in the planting area and animal husbandry area on the first floor. In between, he had to change the medicine and feed the sleeping monk.
The cassock cub was quite reluctant to be woken up, and only started to eat the apple slices after they were stuffed into its mouth. However, Li Mu still felt that he saw disgust on its little black face, so he reached out and poked it down. It looked like a turtle that had turned over. It pupated for a long time before it climbed up and continued to eat the apple. Sometimes bullying the weak can be quite pleasant.