Chapter 67
Li Mu took a short break and quickly replaced Qiao Sheng who was prying the can in fancy ways. It was tiring enough for him to do it himself, and it was even more tiring to see her doing it, especially since she had to be careful of the flying can at all times.
Qiao Sheng had just found her feeling and was about to be replaced. He thought that if they worked together, they could finish faster. But Li Mu said that they had to leave a pressure array on the boat, otherwise they would both fall off, which was very dangerous. So he went ashore and moved a chair to sit on the bow to supervise.
This sea turtle was also very obedient. Li Mu pried and pried it so hard, but it didn't move at all. Qiao Sheng even saw that a piece of the hard membrane on the surface of the turtle's shell was taken off, but it still didn't move.
The two of them were forced to eat lunch while drinking cold water. This sea turtle was simply a spirit, and it would never allow the two of them to disappear in front of it at the same time. When Qiao Sheng went upstairs to make lunch, it did not react. When Li Mu jumped off its back and wanted to go upstairs to eat, it repeated its old trick and put its big head on the floating board at the bow, causing the whole boat to tilt again.
If Qiao Sheng, who was in the kitchen, had not reacted quickly, the iron pot on the stove would have almost flown out. She took a horse stance to stabilize her body. The iron pot was too hot, and she did not dare to reach out to press it. She used a wooden shovel to hold the pot and asked Li Mu loudly what was wrong.
Li Mu, who was halfway up the stairs, was forced to come down and walk back to the bow. Only then did the sea turtle retract its head.
"It's okay. It's just afraid that we'll both run away. It will be back to normal when I come down, so it may not be able to come into the house to eat." Li Mu sighed. Sometimes it's not good for animals to be too smart.
Qiao Sheng took the spicy potato shreds out of the pot and came out of the kitchen. Standing on the second-floor terrace, the sea turtle glanced at her sideways, turned around and continued to float on the sea.
Forced by the situation, the menu had to be changed. The brown rice that was originally prepared could be left alone. In this weather, the rice was cold before it even entered her mouth.
They baked a few pancakes, put spicy rabbit meat, halved pork, shredded pig ears, and freshly fried spicy potato shreds in them, and finally washed a few slices of lettuce, it was perfect, and then used a coconut bowl to serve a bowl of hot and sour soup with a lot of ginger and pepper.
As long as they ate fast enough, they could fight against the low temperature. In order to keep warm, Qiao Sheng rolled four large pancakes to wrap everything, put two of them in the wrist bag first, and put the remaining two in the pot to keep warm, and went downstairs with two bowls of soup.
Li Mu went into the cabin and took out a chair. The two of them ate and drank with a roll in one hand and a bowl in the other. The turtle was originally lying on its side, but seeing that they were eating so happily, it simply turned half a circle and faced them with its butt.
"Isn't this thing impolite? Is this the attitude of asking for favors? The benefactor is eating, but it faces its butt towards us?" If he couldn't beat it, Qiao Sheng would have kicked it in the butt.
Li Mu told her not to be angry, because the roll would be cold soon, so she should eat quickly and serve the big man in front after she is full. The most important thing is to send him away quickly.
"Hey, brother turtle in front, move your butt away. I will catch fish for you later. Looking at your butt will affect your appetite a little." This was Qiao Sheng's venting cry.
Unexpectedly, the sea turtle really slowly turned sideways and raised its big head upwards, as if to tell her to keep her word, otherwise it would come to the bow of her boat and press it again.
"It really took it seriously. After eating, I will continue to pry the rattan pot, and you can sit on the chair and fish for the sea turtle." Li Mu really wanted to laugh. "
This is unreasonable. What's the difference between what I caught and it swimming down to eat now? Why do I have to make a trip?" Qiao Sheng said that he didn't understand.
Li Mu thought that the sea turtle was afraid that they would escape, so it didn't dare to swim down to hunt, and could only stare at the two of them.
"You said it's not afraid of finding a bad guy, not only not giving it a rattan pot, but also stewing it to make turtle soup." Qiao Sheng looked at the turtle on the bow with disdain. The other party heard her words and turned to look at her with disdain, making her so angry that she yelled and dug her eyes.
"First of all, the turtle is not a turtle, it can't be made into turtle soup. Secondly, it's not stupid. If someone wants to do something bad, it can just throw the person off. It's really hard to say who will live and die. Did you see the shark in the distance? It's reasonable to suspect that the two may have partnered to commit the crime." Li Mu felt that this conspiracy theory was valid.
After finishing a large roll, Qiao Sheng asked if he wanted another one. A total of four were made. Li Mu asked her where she put them, and then took two empty bowls upstairs to the kitchen.
When she came out again, she was holding two bowls of soup in her hands. She gave her the soup first, and then took out a roll from her wrist bag and handed it to her. Qiao Sheng felt that it seemed a bit difficult to eat so much, so he prepared to go upstairs to cut it in half and eat the rest at night.
"There are more things in the roll this time. I estimated that you can't eat two whole portions, so I just cut one portion." Li Mu told her not to move, took out half of the portion from her wrist bag, and exchanged it for the whole portion in her hand.
"You're quite smart. Why didn't you give me the half portion at first? I've been bothering you for more. The cake is getting cold." Qiao Sheng asked after taking half of the roll.
"What if you can finish it? If I give you half, it won't be enough. This way you can have whatever you want. You can eat the whole portion and I can eat two half portions." Li Mu explained to her.
Qiao Sheng had to praise her captain for being more and more considerate. He was the best companion on the journey. She made a fortune by picking him up.
Li Mu was so happy to be praised by her that he ate too much all of a sudden. Qiao Sheng ate half a roll and two bowls of soup. He felt that he could not sit still any longer. He went into the storage room to get a fishing rod and stood at the bow to fish. Li Mu ate the remaining half of the roll. Now he felt that he could not bend down even when standing on the sea turtle.
Qiao Sheng had never fed sea turtles before, but she was familiar with fishing. Judging from the size of the sea turtle, it should eat a lot. She first made two fishing rods and took a lot of materials for making fishing rods and put them in her wrist bag. She must feed the big guy well today to prevent it from trying to overturn the boat if it disagrees with her.
When fishing, Qiao Sheng also kept some tricks. She kept the delicious black fish, salmon, hairtail, and yellow croaker to one side, and asked her to throw the remaining ones with many bones and strong fishy smell to the sea turtle's head.
At first, the sea turtle didn't pay attention and ate whatever she threw. As it was eating, it may have felt something was wrong. It turned around and saw Qiao Sheng was smuggling something. It was angry and wanted to turn around and use its head to crush the boat. The sudden movement scared Li Mu who was working on it, and he quickly stabilized his body.
Qiao Sheng quickly threw the yellow croaker and salmon in her hand to its head, shouting "Don't move, don't move, all for you". The sea turtle glared at her before stopping.
"You are really smart. You are so picky when eating. I just left the ones with less thorns. You are not afraid of getting stuck. What's wrong with eating some with more thorns?" After that, Qiao Sheng kept two or three out of ten. Once she exceeded this amount, the turtles began to scan her.
She was so angry that she said she was on a pirate ship. This guy was more shameless than Zhou Baopi and worse than Huang Shiren. Li Mu advised her to forget it and go fishing when she wanted to eat fish. Qiao Sheng said he didn't understand. The ones left were all black fish and hairtail, and a small number of salmon. The rest of the unwanted ones could be given to the turtles.
If they fished by themselves, there would be all kinds of fish, whether they wanted to eat them or not. They couldn't just throw away the ones with too many bones. Poor people really wouldn't do such a thing. It wasn't
until Qiao Sheng broke ten fishing rods and caught twelve big black fish, six hairtails, and four salmon that the sea turtle was full. The way to tell when it was full was also very simple. If you threw it to him again, he would not eat a single bite. It was easier than feeding a child.
Of course, Qiao Sheng's catch was much more than these 22 fish. There were also three shoe basins, eight rolls of kelp, a rusty clock and a porcelain vase. When the latter two items were caught, they were stunned. They had only seen modern things on the Ghost Cruise. This was the first time they had caught such a thing.
What was even funnier was that when they looked into the porcelain vase, they found a rather large octopus inside. It made her laugh. Was this a vase or an octopus? There was a hint of rationality in the irrationality. She couldn't understand it.
Qiao Sheng was reluctant to throw away the rusty clock. She put it aside and waited for the omnipotent technician Li to have time to try to repair it. It was too difficult for them to tell the time by looking at the sun every day.
Qiao Sheng even asked Li Mu if he could make a sundial on the boat, so that he could at least see something. Li Mu also considered this problem, but he never put it into practice because he couldn't find a suitable big stone. Polishing the stone was a bit arduous, and they might not be able to complete it at this stage.
The fishing spoils were placed in the box in the storage room for unprocessed ingredients. These foods were only placed in the storage box in the second-floor kitchen after rough processing, and the division was very clear.
The kelp was brought upstairs and hung on the drying rack on the second-floor terrace. Standing on it, one could see Li Mu's cleaning progress more clearly. Half of the turtle had been cleaned, starting from the shell on the neck. At this rate, it might not be completely cleaned before dark. The large wooden barrel containing rattan pots was almost full.
Qiao Sheng came down from the second floor, went into the storage room to get a machete, squatted on the edge of the deck, reached for the rattan pots that he could touch, and after filling the large wooden barrel, he went into the cabin to get a new large wooden barrel.