Chapter 53
"That is, as long as you are not killed instantly, the wounds can be healed quickly. I just went to get the Panax notoginseng powder, and now there is a prompt on it that it restores a small amount of health points. This newly boiled cod liver oil can now restore a medium amount of health points. It seems that there are medicines that can restore higher-level health points, but we haven't found them yet." Li Mu used a small spoon to stir the newly boiled cod liver oil in the coconut bowl.
"Does it mean that what we need most now is protective gear! Just like when we played shooting games in the past, we had to wear a level 3 helmet? Does our newly made cotton coat have a defensive level, but our T-shirts and linen pants made without a pattern do not." Qiao Sheng frowned, his mind was storming.
"So we have to get the T-shirt and pants patterns, make them and see if there are any defense levels, improve our ability to resist attacks, so that we can live longer in the game." Li Mu nodded in agreement.
At noon, Qiao Sheng used another stove to cook the hand-rolled noodles left over from the morning, and made a pot of tomato duck egg noodles, topped with shredded cucumber, stir-fried spicy rabbit meat, and cold mustard greens.
A bowl of noodles was sent to Xia Beibei. The little girl was very happy. After eating the noodles, she shyly asked Qiao Sheng for some hay. Qiao Sheng asked her to be more generous in the future, saying that it was not a valuable thing, so it was not worth the effort. It took three or four letters to explain it clearly.
The hay was sent with the letter, and soon Xia Beibei sent back a straw hat. Qiao Sheng laughed and asked if she was going to work in the fields. Why did she make such a big hat? He turned the hat over and saw something was wrong.
"This Xia Beibei is really a game jinx. She made a hat out of hay, which increased the defense value by 35% and the heat resistance value by 50%. It's too good to be true." Qiao Sheng handed the hat to Li Mu, got up and went into the storage room, took a lot of hay and sent it to Xia Beibei, asking her to help make another one.
From then on, in addition to raincoats and hats, two hats were hung on the wooden walls of the first floor of the cabin to protect the head.
Li Mu spent the whole afternoon cooking shark liver and fish bones, unlocking not only cod liver oil but also chondroitin, which is in powder form and can restore a moderate amount of health. Qiao Sheng complained about this game, saying that it should come out with a capsule, which is either oil or powder, and is inconvenient to carry and eat, which is really annoying.
Li Mu also had a sudden idea, adding a piece of pig skin when boiling fish bones, and unlocking the artificial skin film, which Qiao Sheng thought looked like a Band-Aid.
After processing the jellyfish, Qiao Sheng took the shark skin, cleaned and scaled it, and then hung it on the drying rack to dry. Together with the fish skin that had been dried before, it should be enough to make fish skin clothes.
I went downstairs to feed the animals at home, harvested the mustard I had planted that morning, and replanted it. I took enough mustard seeds and horseradish to the second-floor terrace to make yellow mustard and green mustard, adding two more seasonings.
After Li Mu made all the shark parts into medicines, he counted them. There were 20 bottles of animal fat, two bottles of cod liver oil, and an iron basin of chondroitin powder. To be honest, one shark can produce so many therapeutic medicines, which is really a lot.
Each person put a bottle of cod liver oil in a wrist bag, and the powdered chondroitin and Panax notoginseng were placed on the boat. It was not convenient to use them in an emergency. He also cut a few pieces of artificial skin film and put them in his bag. These are all things that need to be prepared when going out.
When changing the dressing for the cassock cub at night, we switched to chondroitin. We were reluctant to use the skin membrane, so we tied it up with a cotton strip.
Tonight, its dinner not only includes fruits and vegetables, but also half a piece of cooked shark meat. Qiao Sheng frowned as she watched it finish eating. If the cassock cub could not speak, she would have wanted to ask if it didn't smell bad, and how it tasted so good.
"I added tomatoes when I cooked it, which should remove some of the urea. The smell is not so strong now. Didn't you notice that the cassock cub is a little afraid of you when you look at it with such disgust?" Li Mu reached out and picked up the little thing that was rolling its eyes in the nest.
"It's eyes are moving like it has eight hundred minds, but it's actually a fool. It tastes so good even if it has urea." Qiao Sheng poked the back of the head of the cassock cub, teased the little black bear for a while, and then washed up and went to rest.
The days when I don't have to go to the island are repetitive and busy. Every day I work hard to stock up. Today's work also includes collecting supplies, all for those drifting bottles. I have never been so eager to open the map.
Today, two female rabbits gave birth to cubs. Qiao Sheng only found them when he brought them food. One was frantically roaming on the nest, and the other was lying in the corner motionless. If there was no bald little meat ball next to its leg, I wouldn't have noticed that one had been born.
Qiao Sheng, who had experienced a rabbit birth, was very calm. He calmly added water to the water basins in the two female rabbits' nests, and placed fresh lettuce and radish next to them to replenish their energy at any time. Then he did what he had to do. These were all wild rabbits, and no one had delivered them on the island before, but they still gave birth to many babies.
At noon, the two of them had a simple lunch, roasted corn, mixed mustard greens, and boiled a clay pot of tomato egg drop soup, which also had some cucumber slices in it, with a fresh fragrance.
After dinner, they continued to pick up the sieves and sit on the deck to start fishing. Time was tight and the task was heavy. As the main fishing team member, Li Mu kept his head down and kept fishing. Qiao Sheng would get up to check the rabbits that had been produced, and then put the piled up supplies into storage boxes, move them to the storage room for sorting, and then bring the empty boxes back.
The sun hadn't set yet, and the two were exhausted, especially Li Mu. Because he had been fishing with his head down, he felt dizzy when he sat up straight, and it felt like his cervical spondylosis was about to come back.
While Li Mu was lying on the deck to relax his cervical spine, Qiao Sheng went to see the rabbits that had been produced, and asked Li Mu to feed them when he was better. She went to the kitchen to make dinner.
I was so tired today that I cooked the last few rabbit heads for dinner. I fried some sweet and sour pork ribs and put all the vegetables and meat together to make a hot pot of spicy food.
When Li Mu came up, all the food was on the table. He washed his hands and ate.
Today, the two female rabbits gave birth to a total of 14 rabbits. There is still one pregnant at home. The first batch of rabbits have been weaned. Li Mu just put the male rabbit into the female rabbit's nest. The prosperity of the rabbit family in the future will depend on this hardworking little male rabbit. When feeding just now, he specially gave it a meal.
After dinner, the two of them went to the first floor to start opening the drifting bottles. I don't know if it was a matter of luck, but this time all the materials were opened. They picked up more than 150 drifting bottles in one day, but they actually opened five duplicated patterns. But if you say it's bad luck, there are a lot of critical materials.
"With the way we pick up things like this, we will have to expand the storage room soon." Qiao Sheng couldn't help but sigh when he put the materials into the storage box.
"It looks like a lot, but it's actually not forbidden. Most of it will be consumed when expanding the boat. This is false prosperity." Li Mu took the fish skin from the storage box and prepared to try to make fish skin clothes.
I have to say that his production without pattern is really reliable, and he can succeed in one go. Unfortunately, there is too little fish skin stored at home, and it is only enough to make one.
"It looks like we'll have a fish feast starting tomorrow, and it'll last for several days." Qiao Sheng touched the still soft fish skin clothes.
While it was not too late, he made a fishing rod and caught a lot of fish, which he put in the storage box, ready to pack up tomorrow morning.
The next morning, the two of them woke up from the cold. Li Mu got up and went straight to the storage room downstairs. He took out a cotton coat and put it on with Qiao Sheng. Only then did they feel their body temperature rise.
"This is too sudden. I could wear short sleeves yesterday, but after sleeping all night, I have to wear a cotton coat. This game is becoming less and less ethical." Qiao Sheng shivered and covered his legs with a quilt. His upper body was warm, but his lower body was still a little cold.
The two of them entered the storage room wrapped in quilts, took out the cotton stored before, and asked Li Mu to make cotton pants for them. They tried them on the boat. Although they were bulky and had no properties, they were warm.
Only after the body temperature slowed down did they feel like doing other things. For breakfast, Qiao Sheng cooked cornmeal porridge with some corn kernels in it. They had to eat something hot in this weather. They sat in the ventilated second-floor cabin, and the breeze was like a knife, scraping their faces.
After finishing the porridge, he took the planks and hammers to add walls and doors to the second-floor cabin. Two doors were left in the direction of the terrace. The wooden wall of the dining room separated from the kitchen was replaced with a wooden door. The kitchen was also sealed with a wooden wall, which was at least more airtight and could reduce the wind.
While Li Mu was busy sealing the cabin downstairs, Qiao Sheng took cotton and cotton cloth to start sewing quilts and mattresses. The mattress with thick cotton was covered with a blanket made of rabbit fur. It was soft and warm to sit on. In order to prevent cold at night, Qiao Sheng made a total of four rabbit fur blankets, two for cushioning and two for covering.
The bedding was upgraded immediately, and I should not be woken up by the cold tonight.
With the cotton coat and cotton pants, they did not make rabbit fur coats anymore, as they felt that they were not very useful. They would make it if the weather got colder. Rabbit fur was plentiful, so Qiao Sheng sewed two rabbit fur hats. When they were making
them, she also discussed with Li Mu whether the fur should face inward or outward. Li Mu was stunned by her question, and then told her that the fur should face outward and the fur should face inward. He could not explain the principle, but it had been done this way since ancient times. They could sew a fur collar on their cotton coats, and when they stood up, the fur would be against their necks and they would be a little warmer.
This reason was irrefutable, so Qiao Sheng first sewed two rabbit fur hats, with the fur facing outward. When Li Mu tried them on, he asked, "Would the fur be outside to let others know that I have a fur hat?"
"This... our ancestors wouldn't be so superficial." Li Mu asked her question without being sure. After all, she had read few books on this subject, and she hadn't had this question when she bought the hat.
The gloves were cut according to the size of the hand, slightly larger, and filled with rabbit fur, which made them warm to the touch. However, these cotton gloves were not suitable for work, as they got dirty too easily.
In the end, she cut some rabbit skin and made two pairs of leather gloves. Qiao Sheng knew that he had bought this before, with leather on the outside and fur on the inside.
When trying on leather gloves, Qiao Sheng still wanted to try a hat with the fur facing inside and the leather facing outside, just to see whether the ancestors did it for vanity or for practicality. In the end, the decreasing stock of rabbit skins stopped her from wasting money. After making so little, one-fifth of the stock was used up. She felt sorry for herself who had to work hard to peel the rabbit skins.