Chapter 62
Before going to sleep, the two boats were still floating side by side. Qiao Sheng closed her eyes. There was no one at the end of the bed. She stretched out her waist at the head of the bed without restraint, grinning, and even crawling in the dark. Suddenly, the door of the warm room opened. She was awkwardly stuck in a strange posture, facing the person who opened the door.
"I came in to get a hat. I was just washing my colon on the first floor. I didn't hear or see anything. You continue, hehe." He said so calmly. If it wasn't for the last "hehe", Qiao Sheng would have believed it.
Li Mu took the hat from the end of the kang and even closed the door for her. A small sound came from outside the door. Qiao Sheng inside the door could only wail. No matter how embarrassing it was, she had to get dressed and get up.
Just after she entered the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face, she heard Li Mu walking around upstairs. When he came out, he called her to eat. The breakfast was brown rice porridge with sweet potatoes, mixed with spicy radish strips and mustard greens. It tasted good.
After the meal, Qiao Sheng followed him downstairs. There were already three cleaned large intestines in Li Mu's wooden basin. I don't know what time he got up to work.
He took care of the work of washing the large intestines. He asked Qiao Sheng to prepare the meat stuffing for the sausage. He chopped a lot of fat and lean meat. He also went to the trading system to find an order to exchange water chestnuts. He exchanged five catties of wild boar meat for twenty catties of water chestnuts. It was still a good deal.
After Li Mu washed the intestines, the two of them worked together to stuff the meat into the pig intestines. Lunch was a simple matter. After stuffing two intestines, they sent them to Lin Haiyang. He also had a drying rack, so he let him dry them himself. They would be filled in a while, and the drying rack here would definitely not be enough.
It took most of the day to fill these few intestines. In the afternoon, the two of them took the water chestnuts and the wooden basin into the warm room, sat cross-legged on the kang and peeled the skin. The meatballs could not be fried today, so they had to do the preliminary preparations first.
Twenty pounds of water chestnuts, the two of them peeled them until the evening, and for dinner they showed off a pig face and steamed a few steamed buns. Most of the pig entrails made yesterday were eaten, leaving only some pig stomach. There was still some left in the pork, cabbage and vermicelli stew and sweet and sour pork ribs. Qiao Sheng thought it was troublesome, so he heated the sweet and sour pork ribs separately, and poured the pig stomach into the pork stew with vermicelli.
They mixed some cucumber, jellyfish and stir-fried mustard greens, which was good to have both meat and vegetables. Without Lin Haiyang, Li Mu's rice intake dropped sharply. According to the number of steamed buns they ate yesterday, Qiao Sheng steamed eight today, thinking that she could eat two and a half. Li Mu seemed to have eaten six yesterday.
Unexpectedly, after eating the third bun, Li Mu's hand never reached into the basket of steamed buns again. I didn't understand, so I asked him again when I was cleaning up the dishes. I made sure he didn't want to eat anymore, and then I took the food to the kitchen. The best thing about winter is that you don't have to worry about food being left over. It will freeze in the kitchen after a while, and you can continue to eat it after heating it up.
Before going to bed, the two of them finally peeled 20 kilograms of water chestnuts. Tomorrow, they only need to cut the meat and stuffing before they can start frying. It is easier to stew cabbage with meatballs than stewing meat every time.
The next morning, the sun was bright and beautiful. The two lit a brazier on the second floor and brought up the baby bear who was scrambling in the den, letting it crawl around on the floor. They peeled the steamed buns and soaked them in warm water. Qiao Sheng cut water chestnuts, and Li Mu cut meat, dicing the fat and cutting the lean meat. The
peeled steamed bun skins were thrown to the baby bear for a snack. The little guy picked up the steamed bun skins from the floor, ate a few bites, and then carried it downstairs. Qiao Sheng didn't understand, so he followed him downstairs and saw that the little bear was tied up and sent away. I don't know how these two guys cultivated their friendship. The stutterer couldn't forget each other.
Li Mu, who was upstairs and heard the hustle and bustle downstairs, also came to see what was going on. The tied-up cackled, and the cassock cub roared and cooed.
"Has the cassock cub been with the tied-up cub for too long? His language system is confused. Why is he making bird noises?" Qiao Sheng looked at the two guys interacting with disdain, and dragged Li Mu upstairs to continue chopping meat stuffing.
While the two were busy, the cassock cub climbed up the stairs again, picked up some steamed buns, and crawled away again, which made Qiao Sheng very happy. A little steamed buns was enough to make the little bear tired, and he was busy climbing up and down.
After the water chestnuts were chopped, Li Mu hadn't finished chopping the meat filling, mainly because the amount was too large. He had already started chopping with two knives, but he couldn't finish it. Qiao Sheng offered to help, but he was stopped.
It was not a good thing to be idle, so Qiao Sheng took out three wild boar heads, split them in the middle with a kitchen knife, and continued to brine the pig faces with yesterday's brine, remove the hair and brush the teeth. These two days were enough, but there was a little too much pig face, so he blanched it in two pots and finally put it in one pot for brine. After the pig ears were cleaned up, a piece of brine was thrown in.
The other brined meat pot was still empty, so Qiao Sheng took out the dozens of rabbit heads and quickly cleaned them up, adding the chopped rabbit meat from yesterday and putting them into the pot to brines.
He stuffed a lot of firewood into the stove, closed the door to the terrace, opened the door to the greenhouse, and with the brazier under their feet, the cabin soon became warm. Li Mu was sweating a little while chopping the meat stuffing in his cotton coat. After
the meat stuffing was chopped, he started to season it. He first mixed the lean meat and fat, added steamed buns and water chestnuts, and didn't need any other seasonings, just salt. It was a pity that there were no eggs, so he beat a dozen duck eggs into it, but he didn't know if it would taste right.
Two people carried the meat stuffing pot into the kitchen, and placed it on the floor parallel to the stove. Qiao Sheng prepared a bowl of starch water and asked Li Mu to choose between making meatballs in a round shape or cutting meatballs from the pot. After demonstrating the two jobs, Li Mu silently chose cutting meatballs from the pot. He was really not good at making meatballs in a round shape, and he didn't know how the meat stuffing got around in Qiao Sheng's hands, and it became a circle in a short while.
The two of them were frying meatballs in the kitchen with the door closed, and soon they heard the sound of someone scratching wood.
"Are there rats? We are at sea, how can there be rats?" Qiao Sheng's scalp went numb when he heard the sound of nails scratching wood.
"It should be the cassock cub. I'll go put it in." Li Mu knew it was this guy as soon as he heard it. He opened the door and put it in. The little thing started to act cute next to their legs.
Qiao Sheng remembered the scalp-numbing sound just now and nudged it with the tip of her shoe. The cassock cub rolled on the ground in confusion, climbed up and hugged her thighs to act cute.
They took a few fried meatballs from the coconut bowl to feed it. After the cassock cub finished eating, it performed acrobatics next to their legs in an attempt to exchange meatballs for it. However, Qiao Sheng did not give it too much. Later, he asked Li Mu to take steamed buns from the basket, heat them up in the pot for a while, and feed them to it. The bear did not mind it. It ate the meat and the steamed buns.
Frying meatballs is a time-consuming job. The two chatted at first, but then fell silent. They were too tired to chat at all. When Qiao Sheng had dug half of the pot of meat stuffing, he received Fang Yueyi's message for help. He was startled and asked Li Mu to finish frying the meat in the pot and take the oil pan away.
Afraid that the cassock cub would run around and jump into the oil pan, she said something to Li Mu, wiped her hands with a rag, picked up the cassock cub and ran downstairs.
The cassock cub, who was eating the steamed bun, felt his body lighten and returned to his nest when he landed. He was stunned for a while, communicated with the tied outside in his bear language, and then continued to eat.
Qiao Sheng entered the storage room and started rummaging around. The boxes containing medicines were packed by Li Mu. She found them according to the words engraved on the outside of the boxes. She first took a bottle of Panax notoginseng powder, then an artificial skin film. The amount of cod liver oil was too little, so she didn't take any. She also put some chondroitin in a coconut bowl and sent them all over. Thinking that she still had some ginseng at home, she didn't dare to give it all away, so she took some and cut a few slices and sent them over.
The rest was beyond her ability to help. Before Li Mu had even put the pot away, Qiao Sheng came back, went to the bathroom to get water to wash his hands, and then went into the kitchen.
"I don't know what happened. I sent her some Panax notoginseng powder, chondroitin, and skin membrane, and reminded her to use Panax notoginseng powder for minor injuries and chondroitin for serious injuries. She said Xu Ziyan was also injured, so I cut a few slices of ginseng for her. She didn't explain it clearly, but said that the fleet was attacked, many people were seriously injured, and medicine was urgently needed." Sitting in front of the stove, Qiao Sheng picked up a spoon and made meatballs urgently.
"Don't worry, we have done our best, right? We didn't just stand by and watch. When we encounter such a thing, we should do our best and leave it to fate. So, I will go downstairs and bring up a few planting pots, plant all the Panax notoginseng seeds at home, and then put them on the kang. We can harvest another wave in the evening, so you don't have to worry too much." Li Mu put down his chopsticks, told her not to plant the meatballs first, and went into the cabin to plant Panax notoginseng.
After finishing all this, he washed his hands and came back, and saw Qiao Sheng put a few meatballs in, picked up the chopsticks and fried them, without stopping at all, and handed the chopsticks to him when he saw him come back.
"It's just that something happened to an acquaintance of mine, and I'm a bit upset. How could they be attacked when they have such a large fleet of 22 people, and Fang Yueyi and Xu Ziyan are very strong?" Qiao Sheng sighed.
It was normal for Li Mu to comfort him. In reality, misfortunes can happen at any time. In the game, there are just more crises, just like he got into trouble last time. It's okay, everything will be fine.
What they can do now is to help with the logistics work, and prepare some ginseng chicken soup for Fang Yueyi in the evening, and add more Panax notoginseng powder to it. When she takes over, she will definitely assure them that she is safe.
Qiao Sheng was comforted by him. In between making meatballs, he entered the trading system and exchanged four or five pheasants at once. It seemed that he was going to stew one a day.
She also asked Li Mu to remind her to make another pot of pig liver soup in the evening. Xu Ziyan must have been bleeding from his injuries, so drinking some pig liver soup would help replenish his blood