Chapter 64
"Don't use this. I just checked and it's not that much blood has been lost. Make me some ginseng chicken soup tonight. Add some Panax notoginseng powder to replenish the blood. I'm not afraid of hardship." Li Mu smiled brilliantly. If there wasn't a piece of artificial skin film on his head, it would be hard to tell that he was the one injured.
Qiao Sheng stretched out his hand and poked the edge of the film, telling him to get up and clean up the boat if he was okay. In the past ten minutes, the boat was in a mess, and it was unknown what the situation was like outside.
Li Mu corrected her. The earth-shaking lasted less than three minutes. She was exaggerating. Qiao Sheng still didn't believe it and felt that the time was too long.
After making sure that Li Mu had no other external injuries, the two stood up and went out of the cabin to check the situation outside. The bow was almost completely gone. Qiao Sheng opened the door and prepared to go out. If Li Mu hadn't been quick to grab her collar, she would have fallen into the sea. Without
the bow, they couldn't see the situation outside clearly, so the two decided to go to the second floor and stand on the terrace on the second floor to see more clearly.
Standing on the terrace on the second floor, the two were stunned. Their ship had now changed from the shape of a staircase to a rectangular box, and the small island they had just hit in the distance was actually spraying water.
Most of the drying racks on the second floor terrace were gone, and the rest were all tilted. Fortunately, the doors and windows in the kitchen were closed, but the kitchen utensils were flying everywhere. Even the not-so-clean bottom of the pot that Qiao Sheng had cooked had been thrown onto the wooden wall. It was a mess.
Li Mu stared at the island and soon found the problem. He dragged Qiao Sheng downstairs and started to cut the planks. While cutting, he thought that the semi-automatic oars must be prepared. It was too embarrassing to escape by cutting the planks.
Qiao Sheng didn't understand. While cutting, he even had time to greet Sanlian. What happened? What happened? What was that?
Li Mu's answer was simple. He said that the so-called island was not an island at all, but a whale. Those strange rocks were vines living on his body. When he touched it just now, he found that it was not an island but the skin of a fish. As for now, they were busy escaping, and the whale was swimming. The bow of
their boat had been cut off. If it was split in the middle, they would fall into the sea. Even if the boat was split in half, they might still survive if they were lucky. If they were split in half, they would definitely die.
After hearing what he said, Qiao Sheng stretched out his arms and started paddling. They could feel the boat moving, but there were wooden walls on all sides and they couldn't see clearly what was happening outside. After paddling for a while, Qiao Sheng urged Li Mu to go outside to see if the whale was still following.
Li Mu came back several times and said that the distance was still quite close, so they had to continue paddling until Qiao Sheng couldn't lift his arms and lay on the ground in a mess, refusing to get up.
After resting for a while and getting up, Qiao Sheng dragged Li Mu to the second-floor terrace, and they saw the whale just diagonally in front of them. The distance was actually a bit far. According to the current direction and speed of the boat, it should not hit the whale and just drift past it.
It was getting dark at this time, and the two decided to leave it to fate. This job was really not doable and it was exhausting. They
went downstairs to clean up the poultry area first. Little rabbits were scattered everywhere. Qiao Sheng counted them and picked them up. Only ten survived, and four of them had become rabbit cakes.
One was crushed by the moving sofa, two died of internal bleeding after hitting the wooden wall, and the last one was crushed against the wooden wall. It must have flown to the wooden wall first, and before it could fall down, it was wedged into the wall by something. It was quite difficult to dig this rabbit mud, and it was shoveled down bit by bit.
The three chickens were fine. At that time, the chicken coop happened to be knocked down, and these three were shaken like dice.
There was nothing wrong with the big rabbits, but the only pregnant rabbit might have had a miscarriage and was having a difficult birth. Li Mu quickly helped build a rabbit nest, padded it with thick straw, put the rabbit in, and put fresh cabbage leaves, radish strips and water beside it, and let it work on its own. The
other rabbits were fine, so they were all stuffed into one nest first. The two of them didn't have the strength to build so many nests now.
The mallards were still there, but the dozen or so eggs that were being hatched and laid today were scattered all over the floor. Some of them were even fully grown ducklings, but now they were gone. The worst thing was that they were tied up. Because they were tied up, they didn't have any serious injuries on their bodies, but because their necks were tied, they were almost strangled. Now they could only open their mouths weakly, and couldn't even quack. They no longer had the arrogance of the leader duck.
The cassock duckling had been knocked unconscious by the fall, and now it lay near its nest with a look of having survived a disaster. Qiao Sheng didn't want to pick it up at all. To be honest, its fur was covered with duck shit, and its fur that was wet by the duck's bath water was still wet. Its two black bean eyes stared at her aggrievedly, but Qiao Sheng didn't feel any sympathy at all.
Later, Li Mu finished cleaning the rabbit nest and came over. He also pinched the fur on the back of the monk's neck with his index finger and thumb with a little disgust and took him to the bathroom on the first floor.
Thankfully, the toilet in the bathroom was set to flush at any time, otherwise there would be shit and urine flying everywhere. Between using his own bathtub and the wooden basin for washing feet, Li Mu chose to go to the toilet, walked to the floating board that had not been covered yet, and used the sea water to scrub the monk.
The seawater was icy cold, and I didn't know if the monk's robe felt cold or not. Anyway, Li Mu felt his hands were quite cold, so he took it out and rinsed it again with fresh water. Since he didn't have a hair dryer, he used a piece of cotton cloth to repeatedly absorb the moisture from its hair. That was it.
Qiao Sheng poked the monk's robe on the head only after it was completely clean, and said that he didn't want to get close to it in the past few days, and told it to stay in the nest. Of course, the reason he gave was quite reasonable, because he had to repair the boat and couldn't play with it, and he was determined not to say that he was disgusted with it because it was covered in shit.
After cleaning up the livestock area, the two decided to go up to the kitchen and greenhouse first. She only ate half of her lunch, and she couldn't imagine it. She was particularly distressed about the spicy rabbit heads and rabbit meat. Before she had eaten a few bites, she ran into a whale.
Li Mu opened the door of the greenhouse. Qiao Sheng really couldn't do it. She didn't want to be hit immediately. She stood at the back. Although she couldn't see it, the spicy smell coming out was still very obvious. She stuck her head out from the back and sighed. How should we clean it up?
I never thought there was anything wrong with eating and making soup, but at this moment, their beddings were all wet, with kelp from the pork ribs and kelp soup hanging on them, and the spicy rabbit head was flying everywhere, on the wall, on the deck above their heads, and on the kang, all covered with soup.
There was no other way, the two were forced to go in with a wet rag to wipe it. Before wiping, Qiao Sheng asked him if he could accept the spicy rabbit head and rabbit meat in the quilt. Facing Li Mu's puzzled look, she said it was a pity to throw it away, otherwise why not wash it and fry it again, the taste should not be bad, but she was afraid that he would feel uncomfortable.
Li Mu didn't answer. He turned and went to the kitchen, took out the wooden basin he usually used to wash vegetables, picked up the rabbit head on Qiao Sheng's quilt, and put it in the basin. The two of them divided the work and worked quite fast. Qiao Sheng was responsible for shaking out the quilt and shaking out the food inside, and Li Mu was responsible for picking up the food at the back.
After shaking the quilt, they threw it onto the deck outside, picked up all the food and put it into the wooden basin. Then they stood on the kang and started to wipe the wooden wall and the deck above. After wiping it three times, there was still a faint spicy smell. Qiao Sheng felt that her arms were too much today. They were either bent to row or lifted to wipe the wall. It was really tiring.
"Let's do this for now. The smell has to go away. Wiping alone is useless. We can do it for a few nights. Open the ventilator during the day and sleep at night. In this weather, without a kang, we will be frozen into popsicles, especially when the quilts are all gone." Qiao Sheng decided to give up and leave the smell to time and air.
After cleaning the kang, the bedding became a big problem. Qiao Sheng squatted in the cabin and looked through it. All of them had to be taken apart and cleaned. There was no other way. Some of them might have been soaked in oil.
She pulled a bamboo chair and sat on it. She took apart the bedding first. The cotton was directly stuffed inside at the beginning. She didn't make a cotton cover. Now it was easy to pick out the cotton soaked in oil after taking it apart. The rest of the ones that were fine would be taken to the third deck to dry tomorrow.
She also asked Li Mu if he could think of a way to make a tool that could fluff the cotton. She could fluff the cotton and make it softer. She could make a cotton cover so that it would be easy to take apart and wash in the future.
The clean cotton was put aside, and the rabbit fur mattress and blanket were all dirty. They didn't know how to wash fur, so they could only brush it with a pig hair brush and hang it on the only remaining drying rack.
Li Mu took the quilt and the back to the bathroom on the first floor, put them in his bathtub, put soap on the oily places, and then soaked them in water. I don't know how much can be washed. If it can't be washed clean, I will use cotton cloth to make a quilt cover. There is always a way to solve it.
After solving the cleaning problem of the lid, the two went into the kitchen again. Li Mu checked the stove and chimney to make sure there was no problem. He picked up an iron pot and cleaned it. Qiao Sheng used the iron pot to stir-fry spicy potato shreds, pickled cabbage and pork, cut two pig ears, and scalded the steamed buns left over from a few days ago. He didn't dare to make soup or any oily dishes.