Chapter 56

After arranging the little animals, Qiao Sheng continued to cut the fish. It took him an entire afternoon to cut 30 fish. He finished when the sun was about to set. He flushed the fish by throwing all the dirt inside into the toilet.

The fish were divided into two batches and taken to the second floor to be hung up. When she passed by the greenhouse, Li Mu had already sealed the top of the kang. She went over to ask if it was solid. After all, they had originally said that the work would be finished tomorrow. Why did they suddenly speed up? It would be too embarrassing if the kang collapsed while she was sleeping.

For dinner, I cooked a braised fish. I picked the smallest fish. I took out half of the fish roe that I had cut open today and put it in. Fish can be made into dried fish, but the fish roe can’t be made. It’s better to cook it all at once. But the amount is a bit large and can’t fit in the pot. I can only cook half of it today and put the remaining half in the kitchen to cook tomorrow.

I stewed a clay pot of brown rice and made a kelp and pork rib soup. In this weather, cooking one more dish in the kitchen is disrespectful to the cold air. From now on, I will have one dish and one soup for dinner.

There are a lot of braised fish roe. Thinking that there will be a lot tomorrow, I mailed a bowl to Xia Beibei. When eating, Qiao Sheng picked out the fish bones first, so he only ate the fish roe.

"Hey, when you were little, did your parents tell you that you can't eat fish roe, or you won't know how to count when you grow up?" Qiao Sheng suddenly remembered this question while eating.

"No, my grandma always told me to eat more fish to nourish my brain." Li Mu shook his head and gave her the fish belly with big bones.

"You eat it, I'm just too lazy to find faults. Today, fish roe is delicious. When I was little, my family gave fish roe to my aunt. They all told me that fish roe can't count. It wasn't until I was in the fourth grade of elementary school that I realized they were fooling me. My aunt is an accountant! She deals with numbers every day! People still have to go to school. Kindergarten diplomas are too easy to fool." Qiao Sheng recalled that he also thought he was silly and cute when he was a child.

"It seems that the kindergarten does not give diplomas. My mother said that it will be difficult to lie to me and I will not be lovable after I learn to read." Li Mu also brought back a wave of memories.

Qiao Sheng curled his lips and asked him if he had been reading books all the time since he was a child. Then he asked him about some cartoons when he was a child. He actually had never watched any of them. He felt that he simply had no childhood.

After dinner, Li Mu washed the dishes and lit the stove in the kitchen. He added enough charcoal, sealed the mouth, and baked the kang to see if there would be any cracks.

Before going to bed, he boiled hot sea water as usual and poured it into the hot water pot. This time it was not so hot, so he could put it into the quilt after pouring it in. He brushed his teeth and washed his face, boiled his feet with hot water, and went to bed.

After waking up from a nap, Li Mu's body was still warm, but her face was cold. She struggled to get up. After washing up, she went to the greenhouse to check the kang that had been simmering all night. It was OK, nothing went wrong. She would keep it simmering for another day and it should be ready to live in at night. After

checking the hardness of the kang, Li Mu went downstairs and brought up two planting pots, planted cabbage seeds and mustard seeds in them, and saw if they could mature in the afternoon. These two were what Qiao Sheng asked her to plant, and she was going to pickle more vegetables.

After the greenhouse was completed, Li Mu went to the first deck to collect supplies with a colander during the day. Qiao Sheng made a few clay pots, washed the mustard greens that had been planted before, cut them in half, seasoned them with salt, poured water boiled with pepper and star anise on them, sealed the pots, and they were ready to eat after a while. The pepper was planted in a large planting pot, and the star anise was what she exchanged for the pepper in the trading system.

Li Mu had no objection to eating pickled cabbage, Qiao Sheng himself liked it very much, and Xia Beibei also showed a strong interest in pickled cabbage and pork, so he simply took out another water tank and pickled another one. This job was done well, except that he was not happy to touch cold water, everything else was fine.

At noon, she made a pickled fish. When she was eating it, the system reminded her that they should be able to drift to an island in the middle of the night. At this moment, it was detected that there were no players on the island, and there were no other players in the nearby sea.

"Going to the island in the middle of the night? Is there no growth on the island in this weather?" Qiao Sheng told Li Mu what the system broadcasted.

"It's very likely. Go to bed early tonight and go to the sea to take a look tomorrow morning. The sea should not be able to rain. The temperature is too low. We can't stand it. Let's refresh the trading system frequently in the next few days to see if there are players exchanging rare metals for things. If it's reasonable, exchange some." Hearing that he could go to the island again, Li Mu felt it was still good.

It's not long since winter began, and many plants are still there. It's better to collect as many as you can at this time. It won't hurt to store more because they don't know how long the winter will last. They dare not expand the boat for fear of not having enough fuel later.

After dinner, Li Mu started to collect supplies again. The pickles were all put into the jar. There was no other urgent work, so Qiao Sheng followed suit and used the colander to collect supplies.

After collecting for an afternoon, the most intuitive feeling Qiao Sheng had was that in winter, even the drifting bottles collected became less. If it was just her who had less, it could be said that it had darkened a lot, but even Li Mu didn't collect as many as before, which was very unreasonable.

Obviously, Li Mu, who was counting the bottles, also discovered this problem, and frowned when he piled the drifting bottles into a pile.

More than seventy drifting bottles, not to mention the map, not even a small critical hit, only three pieces of steel, five pieces of copper, twenty pieces of charcoal, and the rest were potatoes, sweet potatoes, and iron products.

At night, the two took out the planting pots on the kang. Sure enough, as long as the temperature was high, the planting pots could still grow crops. Li Mu put away the ripe vegetables in the pots.

Qiao Sheng had already started to move bedding into the greenhouse, a thick cotton mattress, a layer of rabbit fur on top, a folded quilt on top, and finally a layer of rabbit fur blanket. After she finished packing, Li Mu also moved his own bedding in.

The two of them had discussed it before, and let Qiao Sheng sleep at the head of the kang, which was warmer, and Li Mu slept at the end of the kang, with a small kang table in the middle. It was not that the two of them minded sleeping on the same bed, but it was very likely that they would be thirsty at night when sleeping on the heated kang. When Master Li built the warm room, he did not consider putting a larger bedside cabinet or something, so he had to put a small kang table in the middle and put a water cup on it.

They didn't even need a hot water machine to sleep that night. The kang was burning all day, and the bedding was warm after being placed on it for a while.

The next morning, Qiao Sheng was awakened by the boat hitting the rocks on the shore. She took off her clothes before going to bed and put them at the head of the bed. Now she put them on and they were still warm. These days, her face was cold every time she woke up, but today it was rare that she still felt warm when she woke up.

The only bad thing about this kang is that it gets hotter the more you sleep, and you have to get up in the middle of the night to drink water because you are thirsty. But between getting up to drink water and freezing your face, she still chose the former. It has only been a few days in this winter and it might be hard to live without this kang in the future.

After getting up and washing up, Li Mu had already prepared the roasted corn for breakfast. Qiao Sheng went in and cooked some cornmeal porridge and mixed it with some mustard greens.

Before eating, I took a look at the situation on the island. Most of the trees have no leaves. They are bare and there is no longer the lush and green scene that they saw a few days ago.

After eating, the two of them took fresh water and roasted corn and went to the island. After walking for a while, Qiao Sheng found that there was not even a wild rabbit along the way. Could it be that rabbits are not rampant on this island? There were not many animals, not even rabbits, and no wild boars at all.

Many crops had withered, and except for the potatoes and sweet potatoes that could be dug out of the ground, nothing else could be harvested.

"This means that even if we encounter an island in the future, we may not be able to find food on the island. If this person only eats fish, can he survive a winter?" Qiao Sheng asked as he put the potatoes he had just dug into his backpack. "

Anyway, he won't starve to death, but I'm not sure if he will develop any illness. After all, the human body needs all kinds of vitamins. If he only eats fish, it won't meet the body's needs and he may get sick." Li Mu thought about it and thought that this might be the biggest problem.

"Fortunately, we saved a lot of vegetables and fruits before. By the way, let's go back and clean up those fruits, slice them and dry them. I think they were not fresh enough yesterday. They should be able to be stored longer after being air-dried." Qiao Sheng suddenly remembered that the apples at home were going to go bad.

The two of them walked around the island and saw nothing except wooden boards, potatoes and sweet potatoes, so they decided to go back to the boat and have lunch before going out. The main reason was that the temperature on the island was too low. Even if they wore cotton clothes and pants and rabbit fur hats, they still felt a little cold after a long time. In

order to quickly restore body temperature, they had hot pot for lunch, which was spicy and warm. After a short rest, Qiao Sheng wanted to continue to the island. Li Mu told her that if she wanted to catch rabbits, she had to go to the island at night, otherwise the two of them would have to dig rabbit nests.

Between wandering around in the middle of the night and raiding the house, Qiao Sheng decisively chose the latter. It was so cold that he just wanted to sleep at night. Besides, it was so dark that there would be more than just rabbits out foraging. What if there were other beasts? It would be easy to fight a wild boar during the day, but if it was dark and he couldn't see it, he might be knocked away by its big fangs.

So if they couldn't find the rabbit's nest, they might as well chop some wood and leave. No activities at night were allowed.

Qiao Sheng boiled hot water and poured it into a glass bottle. He put it in his backpack and thought about sewing a cotton cover for them at night to keep them warm. Otherwise, if they just put them in the bag, they would get cold in no time. When they drank it, their teeth would be frozen, as if they had been iced.

This time, the two of them went in a different direction and continued to cut wood all the way. Li Mu had been paying attention to the traces of the rabbit nests, and he really found them. However, after digging, he found that there were many holes in the hole, and there was no rabbit at all.

"It's said that a cunning rabbit has three burrows. We've been digging like this, and we can't find any rabbits even if we die of exhaustion." Qiao Sheng sighed as he looked at the empty rabbit nests he had just dug out.

"Another way is to use smoke. Find a few rabbit nests, block them all, and leave one hole for smoke. It shouldn't be long before the rabbit runs out." Li Mu thought of another way.

Qiao Sheng said that the method was good, and he would still cut trees honestly today, and he could try to catch rabbits with this method tomorrow.

The two of them chopped as they walked. After walking all afternoon, they saw no crops except trees.

When they returned, Qiao Sheng was still complaining that this was the poorest island she had ever encountered since entering the game. Not only was there nothing, but it was also so cold. Before

dark, they walked to the shore where the boat was docked. They suddenly found that there was another boat not far from their own boat. The two of them quickly got on the boat first. After all, in Qiao Sheng's mind, this boat was like a safe house. As long as he was on the boat, no one else could get on without his permission.