Chapter 55

Qiao Sheng sighed as he looked through the three atlases that Li Muxin had opened. Although the quantity was small this time, fortunately none of them were duplicated. The first one was a hat. We would have to make it to know what it looked like, but seeing that the required material was cotton cloth, we could be sure it was not a straw hat. The

second one was actually a soup pot, which was a surprise. We would be able to use it soon, but the required material was the rare metal copper. Although it was a bit painful, it was really necessary in winter.

The third one was very ordinary compared to the previous two. It was a brazier, which also required copper, but it was a bit useless. They were currently using an iron pot to burn charcoal. This copper pot was not bad, but with a substitute, it seemed that it was not so necessary.

"It's OK. At least it's not duplicated, right? Even if it is duplicated, we don't have to worry. We have exchanged duplicated diagrams for supplies before. It's also good. As long as we can get the diagram, it's not a loss." Qiao Sheng directly learned three diagrams, and his hands were empty.

Li Mu took the materials and made two soup pots and a brazier. He mainly wanted to see what the difference was with the ones they were using now. He made a hat, which was a bit like a baseball cap in the real world, but the brim was not so long and not so stiff.

After looking at the properties, Li Mu took the materials and made another one. This hat will be a regular item in the future. The defense value of the straw hat made by Xia Beibei increased by 35%, and the defense value of their baseball cap actually increased by 50%. It feels that the brain is much safer.

Qiao Sheng tried wearing a baseball cap first, and then a rabbit fur hat he made himself, and it worked. It was warm and safe.

The two of them studied the hot water pot for a long time before they unfastened the lid. They were reluctant to use fresh water, so they fetched sea water from the bow, heated it in an iron pot in the kitchen, poured it into the hot water pot after it boiled, and carried it upstairs with a cloth pad.

"Isn't this a bit too hot? One hundred degrees of boiling water, won't it burn my quilt and rabbit fur mattress?" She tried to touch the hot water pot with her hand, and it was indeed a bit too hot.

Li Mu asked her to put it in after ten minutes, and in the future, she didn't have to boil it until it boiled, and could pour it in at sixty or seventy degrees. It was unbearable to be too hot, and the bedding couldn't stand it either.

When the temperature was about right, two soup cookers were put into the nest, one for each of them. When she came down, Li Mu had already replaced the iron basin for burning charcoal with a new copper basin.

The new brazier structure looked more reasonable. The floating board where they had placed the iron basin had been burned black because the bottom of the iron basin was directly in contact with the floating board. This copper basin was not a simple basin. It had small feet like a tripod underneath, which reduced the contact between the brazier and the floating board and raised the brazier. In this way, the floating board would not be burned again.

Li Mu had already put the coal in. While the copper basin was not too hot, he took it upstairs with a wooden board. The two of them would sleep upstairs at night, so they had to have a brazier so that they would not be too cold.

To be honest, they did not dare to light too many charcoal-burning basins, for fear that they would fall asleep and die. The cabin on the second floor was a bit big, and the beds of the two were placed against the wall on the left and right, far apart. In order to get closer to the brazier, the two discussed it, and Li Mu moved his bed from the wall to the middle of the cabin. There was still a certain distance between the two beds. After all, the brazier had to be placed in the middle. They also had to consider that if someone kicked the quilt while they were sleeping, the quilt would not touch the brazier when it fell. For safety reasons, all aspects had to be considered carefully.

Qiao Sheng even simulated the situation of items on the bed sliding down, and was assured that they would not touch the brazier. In such a cold day, the quilt would definitely not be kicked, but the rabbit fur blanket and cotton coat and trousers that pressed on the feet were not safe.

Li Mu deliberately opened the window he had placed on the side of the bed to ensure ventilation, and then they went into the bathroom to wash up. In this weather, they didn't need to take a shower for the time being. They used hot water to steam their feet before getting into the quilt comfortably. When I got up in

the morning, even the creaking sound of the bolts felt like they were frozen hard. I went downstairs and saw that the brazier in the first-floor cabin had been extinguished, and the wooden door was not closed tightly, so the cold wind rushed in.

Li Mu made a new copper brazier. He just looked at the deck upstairs that was in contact with the brazier. There were almost no black marks. It seemed much safer than the iron brazier they used before. It would be better to replace everything with this one. It was better than having the boat leaked one day.

He cooked corn for breakfast and also made a pot of fish soup. He had the strength to work after he was warm.

After eating and drinking, Li Mu stayed on the second floor to continue to work on the kang. Qiao Sheng went to the first floor. The fish he caught before going to bed the day before yesterday had not been cleaned up yet. If he didn't do it, it would go bad.

She did not go to the bow to do this work, it was too cold, she stayed in the cabin guarding the brazier, lifted the float a little, and when she took out the fish, she was a little confused. Usually the fish would be fresh for three days, but now two days have passed, and there are still eight days left. It seems that the cold weather also has its advantages, the food is fresher for longer.

Fortunately, these fish are not frozen hard. Qiao Sheng took the kitchen knife, left the fish roe, and threw the dirty insides into the wooden basin next to it. When it was full, he picked it up and poured it into the toilet to refresh it.

When fishing the day before yesterday, I wanted to dry the fish, so I caught a lot. I roughly counted and there were more than fifty. The water was too cold, Qiao Sheng would dry it for a while and roast it for a while. He couldn't wear gloves when cleaning the fish, so he could only endure it.

Li Mu also prepared hot water upstairs, and brought a cup every now and then, which was convenient for drinking or warming hands. It was already noon when twenty fish were cut open.

Qiao Sheng carried the wooden basin with twenty fish upstairs, tied ropes around the gills and mouths of the fish, and hung them all on the drying rack on the second-floor terrace.

After washing his hands in the bathroom, he went to see the progress of Li Mu's work. I have to say that Technician Li's bricklaying work is also good, and the kang in the entire greenhouse has begun to take shape.

"You designed this, so you get on the kang as soon as you enter the door? There is no room to turn around in this greenhouse." Qiao Sheng pointed to the kang base that was as big as the greenhouse and asked.

"Isn't this a place to sleep at night? I'll nail a small table on the kang later so we can eat here. We still have to move around somewhere else at other times." Li Mu didn't look up and continued to paste homemade mud bricks on the kang.

"If the temperature is high enough, is it possible to continue growing in the plant pots?" Qiao Sheng suddenly remembered that there seemed to be such a thing as a greenhouse.

Li Mu nodded and said that he could try it. If it can be grown, he would put it in the greenhouse when he went to bed at night. Plant two pots. It doesn't cost to just build a charcoal-burning greenhouse for them. Unless the two of them really have no food to eat, they can only consume supplies to exchange for food.

Qiao Sheng thought, don't bother, the food they have stored now is basically enough to last through the winter. There are hundreds of cabbages neatly stacked on the terrace, covered with straw mats. They were previously placed in the first cabin, but now they have to light a brazier in the cabin, so they moved them outside and covered them with straw mats to prevent them from freezing. There is a

jar of brown rice and flour, and there are a lot of dried but unpeeled wild boar meat in the storage box. She has made dried pork jerky, and the sausage and rabbit meat she made before into air-dried spicy rabbit meat. The rabbit head is gone, but there is still a lot of seafood. To sum up, there are indeed a lot of food ingredients at home.

For lunch, I made sauerkraut and pork stewed with vermicelli and boiled a big pot of pork rib soup. The staple food was steamed buns. I made more sauerkraut and gave a bowl to Xia Beibei. It was getting cold and I didn't know how the little girl was doing.

Xia Beibei was quite relaxed surrounded by the fire pot, but the food was not very good. She had to eat fish every day. The weather suddenly turned cold, and it was difficult to exchange other ingredients in the trading system.

Of course, the water filter was the biggest headache for her. How could it freeze? She did store a few buckets of fresh water, but she couldn't survive this state of eating up all the water.

While eating, Qiao Sheng also asked about Xia Beibei's situation. Although he felt that the physique of the game koi would not collapse, she still had to get used to it.

[Sister Qiao, why did the weather suddenly turn cold? We all thought about winter before, so I really stored a lot of food and even charcoal, but who would have thought that the seawater that can be used at any time can't be filtered because of the cold weather. This worries me to death.] Xia Beibei's email came, and Qiao Sheng felt that she was resentful enough.

"It seems that Jinli is not good at everything. It seems that she opened the map directly and opened an automatic water filter. She has never experienced a simple water filter that needs to burn fuel. So it seems that there are advantages to being black. Won't it be used this winter?" After talking to Li Mu, Qiao Sheng prepared to make two simple water filters after dinner and send them to the little girl.

"I didn't have a simple grill before I met you. I ate boiled fish for two days in a row, and the reviews said it was terrible." Li Mu thought back to the days when he first entered the game. It seemed that he had a miserable life before meeting Qiao Sheng. After

dinner, Li Mu continued to squat in the warm room to make a kang. According to this progress, it will be finished tomorrow night, and then he will burn a fire all day and roast this kang, and he can move in the night after tomorrow.

Qiao Sheng first went to the storage room to get the materials, made two simple water filters and sent them to Xia Beibei, and also sent her some wind-dried spicy rabbit meat with the letter.

The reply he received was a series of kisses and boobs from Xia Beibei, and she also said that Sister Qiao's thighs were so thick, and she wanted to hug them tightly. Qiao Sheng wanted to pry open her little head to see if such thick legs were a good description for a woman!

Before he could reply to this letter, the next one came. Xia Beibei emphasized that the thick legs were used to describe big men, not that Sister Qiao's legs were really thick. Sister Qiao had a well-proportioned figure with curves in all the right places, and was simply a beauty on earth. Qiao Sheng got goosebumps when he saw it, and replied to tell her that if her Chinese was not good, she should use fewer adjectives, otherwise both sides would be embarrassed.

[It's over. I've been seen through. I've been struggling to pass the Chinese test for years, and my composition score is the worst. You don't know Sister Qiao. I've been worried about my Chinese score in this college entrance examination. Whether I can get into the university of my choice depends entirely on my Chinese score.]

Qiao Sheng didn't reply, otherwise this girl would keep talking. I didn't have anything else to do in the afternoon, I just replied to her letter.

The animals in the livestock area were fed and watered. The fourteen little rabbits were checked. They were fine. They were not frozen to death and were still alive. The tied duck was very active and pointed out to Qiao Sheng where the mother duck laid eggs. The cassock cub was not quiet at all. It climbed the wooden planks in the nest nailed by the wooden planks. When it was tired, it lay lazily on the dry grass to rest. It came back and continued to climb. The wooden planks in the nest were all torn and tattered by its claws.

"Don't bears hibernate in winter? Why don't you sleep?" Qiao Sheng pushed the cassock cub's head with his fingers and pulled it off the wooden planks.