Chapter 70
If this email system can send emoticons, Qiao Sheng would roll her eyes. As for that, for her, it’s just moving the planting pots into the greenhouse and planting a few rounds of chili peppers, but it’s a bit more difficult to plant peppers and Sichuan peppercorns.
That one is planted in a large planting pot, and this tree can’t grow on the kang. If it’s the same as an ordinary planting pot, it can be planted several rounds a day. This thing can be done. At most, we can remove a few pieces of the deck on the greenhouse to make it higher and leave room for growth. But it will take two or three days for it to grow. If the big pot is placed in the greenhouse, people will have no place to sleep.
I sent some of the existing peppers and Sichuan peppercorns to Fang Yueyi first, and then condemned the behavior of being awkward. It’s not necessary for such a small amount of spices.
We have to wait for the peppers. She will plant them soon and may be able to send a batch tonight. As for other spices, she may not have seeds for some of them, so she may not be able to get them.
Fang Yueyi's reply was "Thank you dear", and there were several packets of seeds in the letter. It seems that this guy is very well prepared. After that, Fang Yueyi complained about her boyfriend, saying that he couldn't even make a kang. He was too stupid. If I didn't need him to warm the bed, I would definitely kick him to sleep on the ground.
After getting the seeds, Qiao Sheng didn't continue chatting with Fang Yueyi. He said hello to Li Mu, went to the planting area, took two planting pots, put them in his wrist bag, and took them upstairs. There were two more planting pots at the door of the greenhouse.
Roll up the sleeping blanket and put it in the corner, move the small kang table out, put four planting pots in it, plant seeds and water them, and wait for the harvest in the evening.
After that, the two divided the work and cooperated with each other. Li Mu went to sort out the materials collected in the morning and put them in the storage room. The drift bottles were all put in the wrist bag and opened together in the evening.
Then he followed Qiao Sheng to dissect the fish. There were more than 50 fish in total, including those secretly taken from the turtle lunch and those caught this morning. The kelp was directly placed on the drying rack on the second floor to dry, and the squid and octopus were placed in the kitchen. In the evening, we made teppanyaki squid and octopus sashimi to try.
"Then let's make a seafood feast tonight. I'll roll out some noodles and make seafood noodles. Or we can make salmon noodles. It will definitely taste great." Qiao Sheng was cleaning the salmon in his hands and muttering.
Li Mu must be able to eat anything. He is not picky at all. He even took the initiative to go upstairs to knead the noodles and wait for him to roll the noodles in the evening.
In order to prepare for the seafood feast in the evening, Qiao Sheng started now and cleaned the internal organs of several salmon. The salmon roe obtained this time will finally not be wasted. He can eat salmon roe rice tomorrow.
He moved the dining table down from upstairs, took a kitchen knife and a chopping board, and Li Mu sat on a small stool and killed the fish one by one. Qiao Sheng prepared all the ingredients needed for the evening first.
We both have big appetites, so we used two salmons, half of which was cut into sashimi, and the other half into fish strips. We marinated them with raw marinade early, and there was no need to put them in the refrigerator. In this weather, we covered the iron basin with a wooden board and put it on the terrace. It was just right to eat in the evening.
There were too many ingredients, so we only cut two of the six. We will put them on the grill later. The octopus was simple. We removed the head, washed it, sliced it, and dipped it in green mustard.
We also chopped the black fish meat into meatballs, and made them into balls. It was also very fragrant when boiled in fish ball soup with noodles.
The two were busy preparing dinner, and they were working hard when the boat hit something again. Li Mu was sitting down, but the boat tilted. Qiao Sheng stumbled while standing. If she hadn't leaned over to talk to Li Mu just now, with one hand on the table, she would have fallen.
"It must be that big turtle again. The system didn't even report that there was an island. It's just that. Does it think we are repairing it? It sends disabled people here every day. It's just that!" Qiao Sheng was very angry. Most of the work in the past few days was delayed by the sea turtle. It was not easy to find time to salvage supplies, but it came to mess up again.
When she opened the cabin door, she saw that she had mistaken the big turtle. This time it was not the one blocking the boat.
Looking at the creature in front of them, which was black-backed and white-bellied, and extremely smooth, Qiao Sheng asked Li Mu in a low voice what the fish was called. Li Mu took a closer look and confirmed that it was a killer whale, and there were more than one, but three or four of them were parked at the bow of their boat.
"They are not trying to attack us, are they?" Qiao Sheng asked uncertainly.
The two of them silently took out machetes from their wrist bags and waited for them. Unexpectedly, the killer whales in the sea did not attack the boat when they saw them, but the killer whales behind threw a large shark to the bow of the boat, and then showed them one by one where they needed help.
The first and second fish were in an awkward situation. The same fishing net was entangled on their tails. No one knew how the net was made. It was actually very thin. Li Mu touched it and said that it was made of the same material as fishing line, which was why they couldn't get away. No one knew how long the net had been entangled. There were deep marks on their tails.
The third and fourth fish were injured. Some were injured in the head and some in the abdomen.
The thank-you gifts were thrown on the boat, and they couldn't just ignore it. They resigned themselves to going in and getting the wound medicine and artificial skin film.
It was easy to deal with the ones entangled in the fishing net. Just use a knife to break the net and untie them. The wounds on the tails have healed long ago, but they look miserable, with pits and holes, which shows how deep the wounds were.
For the wound on the head, they stretched their heads over, sprinkled some Panax notoginseng powder on them, and applied a skin film. They fed them some cod liver oil, and the rest was up to them to grow on their own.
The wound on the abdomen was a bit more difficult. The bow of their boat was too small, and it was impossible for the killer whale to lie on it and go into the sea to help heal the wound. With the killer whale here, the sharks in the distance were not a big deal, but in this weather, they really didn't have the courage to jump down.
In the end, they had to try to communicate with the killer whale with words, turn it over, and then approach the bow of the boat and climb onto its belly to treat it.
It was not known whether the first communication would be successful. The killer whale turned over obediently, but it was hard to say whether there would be any problems if people went up there. The hemp rope had to be tied, and the two people got tangled up. Qiao Sheng said that she had to do this job. If the killer whale really flipped over for her, Li Mujin was big, and he might not fall into the sea and could be pulled back.
This reason successfully convinced him. After tying the hemp rope around Qiao Sheng's waist, he focused on Qiao Sheng and the killer whale, ready to pull it back quickly if something went wrong.
Facts proved that they underestimated the intelligence of the killer whale. Since Qiao Sheng went up there to start the treatment, the killer whale did not move.
Because the wound had been injured for too long and she had been soaking in the sea, the piece of rotten meat on her smooth white belly was too obvious. After telling the killer whale, Qiao Sheng took a knife and began to remove the rotten meat. This
job had to be quick, accurate and ruthless. It would only hurt a few times and then be done. If you hesitated, the pain would last longer. Qiao Sheng had practiced on Li Mu before, so she was very good at removing rotten meat. Li Mu didn't understand how she could do it.
She cleaned the rotten meat, sprinkled it with Panax notoginseng powder, and applied a skin film. As soon as she stood up, Li Mu pulled her back to the boat by the hemp rope. At that moment, Qiao Sheng thought she could fly.
This one was seriously injured, so I fed it a little more cod liver oil. We didn't have much cod liver oil at home to begin with, and now it was even less.
The four killer whales were cured, and they did not stay for long, swimming away happily, leaving the two people in the wind to worry about this shark that was not much smaller than the four-meter shark yesterday.
"Do you think these sea animals can communicate across species? Are they treating us as a rescue station? Is it because we feed them cod liver oil that they throw a whale to us every time? Are they too smart? They treat us as a perpetual motion machine? In order to use it for our own medicine in the future, we must boil cod liver oil. They come to seek help, and we can't just ignore it. Let them eat the cod liver oil, and then they will send sharks to boil cod liver oil for us." Qiao Sheng was a little confused after he finished talking.
"Well, it's a perfect closed loop. We've been calculated clearly." Li Mu also thought the current situation was funny. The two humans at the top of the food chain were arranged by marine animals.
Qiao Sheng wailed. How can he live like this? He hasn't even given away half of the shark meat from the last one, and here comes another one. The group of cassock babies may not be able to eat vegetables for a long time in the future. They have to feast on sharks every day.
The dead shark was placed on the bow. The two decided to go back to the cabin to clean up the fish that could be used as ingredients. The shark would be dealt with tomorrow. It wouldn't go bad if it was left outside in this weather. There were too few people at home and too much work. Everyone was exhausted.
The two people busy in the cabin didn't know that the shark on the bow, which was more than three meters but less than four meters long, had the effect of frightening the thugs. There were two boats in the distance. When they saw that they only had one boat, they were ready to row over to rob them. However, when they saw the shark on the bow on the way close, they dared not act rashly.
In this weather, with a shark of this size, it was not something that one or two people could do. There might be dozens of people in the cabin. Anyone who could afford to support so many people must be a tough guy. In this way, the shark on the bow persuaded the robbers to retreat.
At this time, Qiao Sheng was forcing Fang Yueyi to mail shark meat. Looking at the extra fifty kilograms of shark meat in the mail, Fang Yueyi was very confused. Did Qiao Sheng suddenly become rich? He had just given her a lot before, so why did he send it again? It couldn't be a duplicate mail.
This question was incredible. Qiao Sheng started to complain endlessly. After listening to her recent experience, Fang Yueyi was amused enough. The name of the Marine Animal Rescue Station was firmly in her mind. These days, she was either prying rattan pots or treating animals. Her life was really fulfilling.
As for Fang Yueyi, everyone was quite depressed since a large number of team members were injured last time. In addition, they have not encountered any islands since then. Many boats can only survive by eating fish. There are too many people, and the consumption is high. Although there are many animals hunted on weekdays, they eat a lot, so now there is almost no food left.
Qiao Sheng didn't understand. Didn't they plant crops? They could plant several rounds of wheat and rice a day, so there was no way they could be short of food.
Fang Yueyi explained that they collected these seeds relatively late, and it was already the rainy season, and they couldn't dry them after planting, so no one paid attention to this problem.
Normally, we can save seeds of potatoes and sweet potatoes, but we eat them as soon as they are planted, and we don’t store them at all. In winter, we can’t grow anything in the planting pots, so we are all panicked.