Chapter 75
Chu Wanyou and Wen Yizhou were busy for most of the night. When Qiao Sheng and the others woke up in the morning, they saw that the boat on the left had disappeared. Unused floating boards, decks and wooden walls were placed on the shore. The two boats on the left had changed a lot.
Wen Yizhou's boat on the far right was bigger. It was built with a hundred floating boards before, but now it has doubled. Especially Chu Wanyou's boat, the second floor was also built. There was no bow on the first floor, but a terrace was left on the second floor.
Grandma Chu climbed up to the second floor and called them to come over for dinner. Qiao Sheng had already prepared the food, so he didn't go over. Wen Yizhou had just woken up and wanted to cook it himself, but then he saw that Grandma Chu had indeed prepared too much. If there were any leftovers, the grandma and grandson would not have a chance to eat anything else for the whole day, and would only have the leftover breakfast
. They went to Grandma Chu's boat with the ingredients. Fang Ya was already ready, but Wen Yizhou was quite nervous and didn't let her move. He took the breakfast from Grandma Chu and sent it back to her, and even specially cooked rice porridge for the little girl. After
everyone was full, they began to go into the forest to collect. The main combat team this time was Li Mu, Chu Wanyou and Wen Yizhou. Qiao Sheng and Grandma Chu were logistics personnel, and their main task was to deliver hot water and carry back supplies.
After delivering two trips, they stopped Grandma Chu from running around and let her concentrate on heating water at home. Qiao Sheng started to work as a courier. He would go with the wild animals when they caught up with them. He would usually deliver bags back and water to the forest.
When delivering bags back, they would deliver their own bags to the boat, where Ji Ya and Grandma Chu would receive them. Qiao Sheng would pour his own things into the cabin on the first floor, then go to each boat to collect bags, and finally carry the hot water prepared by Grandma Chu back to the forest.
Each person cut down wood planks and other things, and put all the animals he caught in a piece in Qiao Sheng's bag first, and share them when he returned at night.
The harvest from the cooperation of many people was not much different for Qiao Sheng and his team, and they usually did the same thing. For the other two families, it was much more than usual.
At noon, everyone stopped working and went back to Grandma Chu's boat to have lunch. When everyone worked together, they should not think too much. When distributing animals in the evening, they could give Chu Wanyou more as compensation.
The island was not big, and the four people were quite crazy. They cut down half of the trees on the island like bulldozers. Qiao Sheng estimated that if they came again tomorrow, the island would be completely barren.
In the evening, the three bulldozers could not lift their arms after dinner, which made Grandma Chu happy enough. Ji Ya settled the maiden and came to help Grandma Chu cook dinner.
The people on the three boats added each other as friends, so that they could keep in touch in the future. Qiao Sheng's arm was fine, but his legs hurt because he had been running back and forth too many times. They agreed to get up early tomorrow morning to continue exploring the remaining half of the island. Grandma Chu kept asking them to take it easy. Although they were young, they couldn't really treat themselves like animals.
Back on their own boat, Qiao Sheng first filled two bathtubs with hot water. She changed her routine now. She wasn't afraid of wasting time taking a bath because she used sea water instead. She used sea water when taking a bath, and then used the rain water collected before to rinse again after the bath. It was simply perfect. After
taking a bath, Li Mu's arms felt better. The two of them helped each other massage the sore areas, one in front and one behind.
Qiao Sheng started by sitting on the kang, stretching her legs in front of her for Li Mu to massage. Then an awkward scene happened. Ms. Qiao's upper body was not long enough, so she could not use force when she was sitting and massaging the shoulders of the person in front of her. Finally, she put a rabbit fur blanket on the kang table, and then she could use force when she was sitting on the table .
"It's because your arms are sore and my legs are sore. If my whole arms were sore, we would be wrestling if we massaged each other." Qiao Sheng massaged her shoulders, then her back, and then her arms.
After loosening their muscles, they went to bed early. They were too tired today and fell asleep in seconds when they lay on the bed.
In the morning, they were awakened by the creaking sound of being tied up. When Qiao Sheng got up, he still felt a sense of soreness from overexerting himself. Thinking that he would be busy all day today, he must take a good nap and rest tomorrow. No one can stand such a high-intensity workload.
The appointment was quite early. After breakfast, Qiao Sheng went ashore first and took out the animals caught yesterday from two wrist bags. The three of them really did a lot of work yesterday. They caught half of the trees on the island plus the animals in two wrist bags. They took out
a list and counted them. There were fifteen rabbits, eight wild boars, ten sheep, five roe deer and a bunch of bird eggs. They didn't notice the bird eggs at first. It was when Wen Yizhou was chopping trees that an egg suddenly hit him on the head. Then they noticed it. Later, when they saw a bird nest while chopping trees, they would go up and take a look. No one thought that the best tree climbers among the four people were Qiao Sheng and Chu Wanyou.
When it came time to divide the spoils, Qiao Sheng did it in a normal way. Five rabbits went to each family. Three wild boars went to Wen Yizhou and Chu Wanyou, and they got two. Four sheep went to Chu Wanyou, and three went to the other two families. One roe deer went to Qiao Sheng and his family, and two went to the other two families. Qiao Sheng didn't want any bird eggs, because they couldn't finish all the duck eggs at home, and the chickens would start laying soon, so they didn't need any more. So he divided them equally.
Chu Wanyou and Wen Yizhou came out and saw the three piles of spoils they had divided. Obviously, Qiao Sheng's pile was much smaller, so he tried to push his own pile over.
"We really don't need anything. Look at the shark on the bow. We haven't had time to clean it up yet. We won't be polite if you are short of food and drink. It would be a waste to leave too much. You have an elderly family and the other family has a pregnant woman and an injured child. They all need to eat better. Don't worry too much about it. Besides, what we have eaten these two days is all the food cooked by Grandma Chu. It's our food expenses." Qiao Sheng smiled and waved his hand, calling Li Mu to carry his things back to the boat.
In view of the fact that their two families did not have much food, they were not polite and took the things back to their own boat. Wen Yizhou also told his wife to remember to take more ingredients from their own boat when they went to eat on Grandma Chu's boat at noon and in the evening. It was not easy for the grandmother and grandson.
Ji Ya told him to hurry up. He didn't need to tell her these things. When she went there yesterday, she carried five catties of rice and bacon. She would definitely not let Grandma Chu and the others suffer any loss. Wen Yizhou took advantage of his wife's inattention and kissed her, saying that his wife was the most considerate.
"Dad is so shameless. He secretly kissed Mom again. Mom, Ning Ning wants a kiss too." Little Wen Ning's first words after she closed her eyes for more than a day made her father blush.
After checking the girl's wound, he changed the Panax notoginseng powder again and applied artificial skin film before gathering with empty bags and machetes to go out to work.
"Mom, why do I feel my head is cold? Is there water dripping on it?" Little Wen Ning rolled his eyes to see what was going on.
He even raised his hands, but Ji Ya pushed them back. He also talked about this and that for a while, making the little girl completely forget that her head was cold.
He heated up the rice porridge that Grandma Chu cooked in the morning, fed it to Wen Ning, and coaxed her to continue sleeping. He waited until she fell asleep before he breathed a sigh of relief. Now he couldn't let the little girl know that he was bald. With her narcissism, she would cry herself to death.
Qiao Sheng and the others walked to the place where they left yesterday and continued to chop trees like crazy. When they saw something that needed to be collected, Qiao Sheng stopped to collect it. In this weather, there were not many crops that could grow, except for potatoes and sweet potatoes. Qiao Sheng dug them very fast, and they had to share them equally.
Today was luckier than yesterday, and they came across a bamboo forest. Chu Wanyou and Wen Yizhou had never come across a bamboo forest before, so they followed Li Mu to learn how to dig bamboo shoots. Qiao Sheng went to help cut bamboo after harvesting the sweet potato and potato fields. Digging bamboo shoots required many people, and they didn't dig much until noon.
Grandma Chu brought lunch over. Several people did fine work. Qiao Sheng sent a bag back this morning. Seeing that it was time for lunch, Grandma Chu was worried and brought the food over.
The old lady made meat-stuffed steamed buns for this meal. There was half a bird's egg in each bun. Considering that the four of them ate a lot, she brought 20 buns. It was not easy to bring soup, so she brought them hot tea. Fearing that they would get cold, the old lady wrapped the steamed buns in a quilt and stuffed them into her clothes. She hurried all the way here, and her hair was wet.
Li Mu just dug a bamboo shoot and looked up when he saw Grandma Chu. When he went to help her, he saw that she was sweating all over. He even took off his rabbit fur hat and put it on the old lady's head. The two of them had a fight over the hat. Grandma Chu said that he was sweating while working and couldn't be exposed to the wind. Li Mu said that Grandma Chu was sweating when she came to deliver meals, and she would catch a cold
if she went back. In the end, Qiao Sheng told Grandma Chu to carry it with her and bring it back when she went back to deliver the goods. He also took out a piece of cotton cloth from his wrist bag and rubbed it on Li Mu's head to wipe away the sweat on it.
"It's all right, Grandma Chu. He's a big man, strong and healthy. Don't be afraid. I'll get you some ginger later. You can make some ginger tea. We can drink some to sweat at night. It will be all right." Qiao Sheng originally wanted to say that we are young and healthy, but then he thought that he couldn't say that. Who would like to be told that they are old and weak? After
eating a lot, Grandma Chu returned to the boat with a small quilt and an empty water bottle. Qiao Sheng asked the system from time to time if there were any players nearby. Fortunately, the news was that there were no players, otherwise she would not dare to leave the old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant on the shore.
This afternoon, several people worked hard in the bamboo forest. There were too many bamboo shoots and novices were slow to dig them. Qiao Sheng was the most efficient at cutting bamboo. After cutting, he planted all the bamboo shoots he picked. After winter, new bamboos should be able to grow.
When it got dark, several people did not rush back, but chose to continue to move forward into the forest. They just discussed that they did not want to waste more time on this island, so they could do more tonight.
Qiao Sheng had already gone back to get dinner and lanterns, and emptied his bags. He also had to tell Grandma Chu and Ji Ya who stayed behind not to worry, go to bed early, and not get off the boat no matter what.
With the empty bag, several lanterns and torches, Qiao Sheng hurried back to the forest and built a bonfire at the place where they were going to cut wood.
Li Mu and his men were chopping trees frantically, while Qiao Sheng stood by with a crossbow as a warning. Li Mu saw a thick branch, carved a groove on it, tied it to her back, and hung the lantern on it. It was hard to see far away, but it was very clear near.
With the light of the lantern on her back, Qiao Sheng caught a lot of rabbits nearby. These rabbits that came out to forage at night would never have thought that there were still four hawks that did not go back to rest, but squatted at the door of their homes.