Chapter 52
I have been so busy these days that I even kept my meals simple. Now that I have left Pei Hong’s fleet, I can improve my food.
I stir-fried the brine-cured rabbit meat and made spicy rabbit meat. I shredded mustard greens and fried peppercorns to bring out the spiciness. I added some salt and vinegar to mix the mustard greens. I stir-fried some lettuce with oyster sauce and finally stewed a pot of pork, cabbage and vermicelli. The staple food was brown rice. I didn’t make soup because I was lazy. The four dishes were already a good treat.
I sent some fresh lettuce and unmixed mustard greens to Xia Beibei and told her how to make them. Then I called Li Mu to come up for dinner. This dinner was really a rare leisurely one. I didn’t have to get up early tomorrow.
After dinner, Li Mu went to wash the dishes. The two of them moved the sofa on the second floor to the terrace, cut some fruit and put it on the kang table. They ate the fruit and blew the sea breeze. If it weren't for the quack downstairs, this kind of life would be really wonderful.
Qiao Sheng went downstairs with the unfinished fruit bowl. Li Mu moved the sofa back to the cabin and followed him down.
He was originally going to settle accounts with quacks. Why did he quack for no reason in the middle of the night? When he came down, he realized that he had mistaken for a duck. The one who caused the trouble was the monk's robe cub. Maybe his injury had healed and he could move. Now the whole bear has climbed out of the rattan basket, half of its body hanging outside the tea table, and it was about to fall onto the floating board.
He quickly picked up the cassock cub and put it back in the basket. This little bear was too dishonest. He lay down for a while and then crawled out again. When Li Mu came down, Qiao Sheng pointed at the cassock and complained.
This bear was a fraud. Before, he was sick and thought it was similar to the obedient one Pei Hong brought back. Now he could see it at a glance. It was the same type as Fang Yueyi's hyperactive cub. The joint name Jinlan cassock was really tailor-made for them.
Li Mu used wooden boards to make a higher nest for the cassock cub, and put dry grass inside to ensure that it could not climb out. It was not because he was afraid that it would run away, because it could not escape from the ship anyway. But it was a little small now, and it could be knocked over even if it was tied up, so it was better to keep it in the nest for a while.
They took out the materials in the fishing net and put them in the storage room. Without cleaning up, they boiled water, one went to the bathroom upstairs, and the other went to the bathroom downstairs. They each took a hot bath to relieve their fatigue and went to bed early.
Those who go to bed early get up earlier. It was still dark when Qiao Sheng got up. He climbed to the third deck just in time to catch the sunrise. The sun had just appeared above the sea level. He sat on the ground and stared at the sea level in a daze.
Li Mu immediately found that Qiao Sheng was not in his bed. He listened carefully and there was no sound of water in the bathroom. He got up and went downstairs to look around but there was no one. When he walked to the bow, he looked up and saw her sitting on the third deck. He
climbed to the third floor and wanted to ask her what was wrong. Qiao Sheng raised her index finger to her lips and pointed at the sea level to signal him to look. Li Mu had never been to the seaside to watch the sunrise, but he really thought it was beautiful. Sitting next to Qiao Sheng, the two of them watched the sun rising above the sea level in silence.
Not until the sun had completely risen did Qiao Sheng rub his eyes and look at the people around him: "It's so beautiful, have you ever seen a sunrise before?"
"No, I didn't have time. I was busy going to school when I was a student, and busy working after graduation. All my free time was spent in the library. I've never seen such a scenery." No longer looking directly at the sun, Li Mu stretched out his legs, propped his hands behind his back on the deck, and the slightly raised corners of his mouth showed his good mood at the moment.
"Thanks to nature for the gift, such a beautiful scenery, we can only see it in the game. I don't know what I was busy doing before. If I have the opportunity to go out in the future, I must stop and look at the beautiful scenery around me. Let's go and wash up. What do you want to eat for breakfast? How about you knead some noodles and we can have hand-rolled noodles?" After saying that, without waiting for Li Mu to answer, she stood up, patted her pants, and climbed down the ladder.
When she entered the bathroom, she vaguely heard Li Mu say something upstairs, but she didn't hear it clearly. She asked again, and Li Mu said loudly to go wash up first and go to the kitchen to knead noodles later.
While he was kneading the dough, Qiao Sheng went downstairs to harvest the crops in the planting pots. Looking at the bright red tomatoes, there must be tomato egg drop soup for lunch. If there are no eggs, duck eggs can be used. In the evening, cucumbers can be mixed with jellyfish. There happened to be five newly distributed jellyfish in the wooden basin. The
harvested mustard seeds will continue to be planted. Qiao Sheng plans to fry some and keep them for daily cold dishes. The rest will be pickled. This variety of mustard is just right.
Put all the remaining mustard seeds together. When there are more, make yellow mustard. It is suitable for blanched meat to dip in this to enhance the flavor. The wasabi can also be rubbed with some green mustard. At night, go fishing and eat some sashimi. The shellfish picked up yesterday can also be eaten raw.
After planting the crops, the animals were fed. Today's breakfast was lettuce, which was shredded and put in each den's food bowl. There were more than a dozen rabbits, five ducks, three chickens, and a bear cub, so four heads of lettuce were shredded. The consumption of vegetables was actually quite large.
Some radish strips and cabbage leaves were cut into the rabbits' bowls, and some corn kernels were broken into the ducks' and chickens' bowls. Finally, it was the cassock cub's turn. After it could move, it was obvious that eating some apples was not enough to satisfy its appetite. Its bowl had the most things, including apples, lettuce, and sweet potatoes. The little black bear sat in the den, eating with his face in the bowl.
After Li Mu finished rolling the noodles, he called her up to cook. The stronger she was, the more chewy the noodles were.
After eating the hand-rolled noodles, Qiao Sheng first took the rice and wheat she had planted to the third deck to dry them. The kelp she brought back yesterday was also hung on the drying rack. After Li Mu's instruction, she took a small stool, sat in front of the wooden basin, and started working on the jellyfish in the basin.
Li Mu took the shark parts he was given into the kitchen, occupied the stove, and took a clay pot to start trying.
Qiao Sheng also distractedly looked at the progress on his side. The shark they hunted yesterday was not small, and the internal organs taken out were quite a lot. However, during the experimental stage, Li Mu still carefully divided the shark liver into different sizes, and tried it one by one from small to large.
"What do you think this can do?" Qiao Sheng looked at Li Mu carefully cooking the smallest portion of liver in a clay pot and asked in wonder.
"Didn't you say before that because this is a game, I was so seriously injured, but I recovered in a very short time without leaving any scars. I was also curious about why Panax notoginseng is so magical. I thought about it, maybe it's not Panax notoginseng that is magical, but the setting of this game, which sets what effect each medicine can have." Li Mu said the question he had been thinking about recently.
"What do you mean? Medicine? That means we can make medicine to recover? Now that you mention it, I remember that I only paid attention to the satiety bar before. We also have a red heart health bar. I haven't been injured
much, so I haven't paid attention to this. Did you check your health bar the last time you were injured?" Qiao Sheng slapped his thigh and suddenly remembered his own data. "I was in that state at that time, how could I pay attention to so many things? I doubted my life after a few days of rest. Later, you fed me well every day and didn't think about the health bar. But wasn't I scratched by a wild boar a while ago? At that time, I saw that the heart value bar was indeed shorter." Li Mu stirred the shark liver in the earthenware jar.
"I see. That means Panax notoginseng powder acts as a medicine to restore blood volume. We already have Panax notoginseng powder. What are you doing now?" Qiao Sheng put down the jellyfish in his hand and walked into the stove.
Li Mu also brought up the piece of shark meat that was distributed to him before, and now placed it next to the stove, causing a strange smell when approaching.
"I don't want to eat this shark meat. Will it feel like boiling urine when it is cooked?" Qiao Sheng felt that the smell was too strong.
"I didn't want this piece of fish meat, but Pei Hong insisted on giving it to me. I took it because it was inappropriate. Didn't I tell you the solution yesterday? But we are both mentally uncomfortable with this now. Let's cook it and feed it to the cassock cub. It is a glutton anyway." Li Mu put the shark meat on the stove into the storage box next to it.
Qiao Sheng was very disgusted by his actions. That was the box where she kept the ingredients. Now a piece of meat with urine on it went in. Would it ruin her whole box of food?
Li Mu happened to see her frowning and staring at the storage box, and quickly said that there was definitely no problem, and he would deal with the shark meat after cooking the shark liver, and try to eat the dried kitchen waste of the cassock in the next two days.
"Then remember to take down the clay pot after cooking and use it as a water pot for the cassock, and make a new one. I don't want to use this one. When you cook a large piece of liver, don't use the iron pot I usually use for cooking. It's not expensive to replace the clay pot, but it's a bit of a waste to replace the iron pot." Qiao Sheng sat back and continued to deal with the jellyfish.
This morning, after processing five jellyfish, she cut a lot of mustard greens and fried some later. She loved the cold mustard greens. It was spicy and made her nose tingle. The more she ate, the more stimulating it became.
Li Mu also conducted four rounds of experiments. After cooking the first piece of liver, she actually got animal fat. She tried to put it in a metal wall lamp and it ignited without any problems. Qiao Sheng also went over to smell it and there was no strange smell. He poured out half a glass bottle, which was much faster than squeezing coconut oil.
The second larger piece of shark liver was cooked and a full bottle of animal fat was obtained. The third piece finally produced other products. Qiao Sheng looked at the oil at the bottom of the jar with curiosity. Li Mu poured it into the coconut bowl. It was just a thin bottom of the bowl, which was very different from the animal fat before.
"This output is not proportional. Before, such a small piece produced half a bottle of oil. This is 1.5 times larger, but the oil is less." Qiao Sheng felt that he couldn't understand this game more and more.
As Li Mu checked, the system on Qiao Sheng's side sounded a prompt.
[Congratulations to the player for obtaining the production of medicine: cod liver oil. The medicine library is unlocked and the medicine recovery value can be checked. 】
"If that person is shot in the head, can he still be saved? Can he recover by taking medicine?" Qiao Sheng immediately asked the system.
[Please remember that you only have one life. If you are killed instantly or shot in the head, you will disappear immediately. In this case, you will not have the opportunity to take medicine to recover! 】
Listening to the mechanical voice with a reply full of disgust, Qiao Sheng also wanted to roll her eyes. This broken system always jumps on her sensitive points, and it just can't hit her. So now she can only sulk by herself, take a deep breath, sigh, and tell Li Mu the new prompt she got.