Chapter 77

After dinner, while it was still light, the two of them moved the shark that had been on the bow for several days into the cabin. The weather was too cold, and it was too uncomfortable to work in an open-air environment.

Fortunately, the cabin was large enough to release this shark that was more than three meters long. It had been kept in a temperature below zero, and the shark had long been frozen hard.

The outdoors is now like a natural refrigerator. Many ingredients do not need to be air-dried, but can be left outside to freeze, and the freshness will not be shortened.

It was a bit difficult to cut the hard shark, mainly because it was difficult to cut. After a few cuts, the two decided to cut the wild boar first. After all, the carcass was not that hard. The shark had to be thawed before the next step.

Li Mu took on the responsibility of butcher and started to skin and bone the wild boar.

"Do you think we really need to prepare so much food? The current stock should be enough to last us through the winter." Qiao Sheng brought out a bamboo chair, took out a fishing rod from the tool cabinet, opened two floating boards, and started fishing.

"It's better to be prepared. Food is one thing, and it can be considered as hard currency. If we want to survive in this survival game, we need a lot of things, such as minerals. If we can't get them, we can exchange them with others for food. People will always have unexpected things and bad luck. I don't believe that this game will just let us survive the whole winter so easily." Li Mu cut the wild boar one by one. He was very skilled at this job and it was effortless to cut it.

Qiao Sheng pulled up a fish and put it in the wooden barrel next to him. What Li Mu said made sense. This game might be confusing players from the beginning of autumn, starting from the easiest season, and the rainy season test in the second half of autumn urged players to build ships. The more I thought about it, the more I felt it made sense.

Now that I have made up my mind, I will seize the time to do more. The fish that were collected a few days ago were not dried at home, but were placed in the storage box. I worked on this job until dark.

Qiao Sheng looked at the bucket and counted them. There were more than 20 fish in it. There were also seven or eight rolls of kelp on the float. The harvest was quite good. Li Mu had also disassembled the three wild boars and put each part in a pile, which was very neat. I

was woken up in the afternoon because I felt that I didn’t get enough sleep. After being busy for several hours, the two of us were a little tired. Before going to bed, Qiao Sheng went to roast a sweet potato and each of us ate half as a midnight snack. It would be embarrassing if I fell asleep halfway and the value bar was reset to zero.

The next morning, Qiao Sheng got up early. It was good to be young. No matter how tired you were, you could recover your strength after a good sleep. Li Mu was still sleeping, so she quietly got dressed and went out of the warm room to wash up.

It was rare to get up early today, so she could make a richer breakfast. Thinking about the hard work of the past few days, Qiao Sheng decided to have something fresh for breakfast. She had no energy to eat roasted corn, boiled corn, roasted sweet potatoes, boiled sweet potatoes, cornmeal porridge, and brown rice porridge every day.

While Li Mu was still asleep, I didn't have enough time to make wontons. I thought of some fish balls left from the previous day, so I cooked some fish ball soup and made some steamed buns. I had some salted pork at home, so I took it out, heated it up, and chopped it to make a meat bun. I boiled the duck eggs directly, cut them in half, and put them in the bun. Finally, I washed a few lettuce leaves and put them in. The combination of meat and vegetables was quite good.

I made eight meat buns, put them in a small iron basin, and secretly put them on the kang in the greenhouse. Just by the smell, I knew that Li Mu would soon wake up.

After putting breakfast in the greenhouse, Qiao Sheng went downstairs to feed the small animals at home. He went to the stove at the bow to cook some shark meat for the empty cassock cub. The responsibility of eliminating the shark meat at home fell on him alone, which was not easy.

He turned around and saw that the snow red and winter barley planted in the planting area yesterday had matured. It seemed that there were really different varieties. Cold-resistant plants could still grow. He collected the mature crops and planted barley again. He should be able to harvest another round in the afternoon.

After doing all this, he went to the storage room to get a cotton cloth, covered his mouth and nose with it, went to the kitchen to get a tomato, and started to cook shark meat for the cassock cub with a clay pot.

Normally, Li Mu would cut the meat into puree, then roll it into shark meatballs and cook it. Qiao Sheng thought it was too much effort, so he cut it into the size that matched the baby cassock, threw it all into a clay pot and boiled it with tomato juice.

When the baby cassock finally ate the shark meat with saliva, Li Mu came downstairs to wash up.

"Is your arm still hurting?" Qiao Sheng was feeding the baby cassock. He turned around and saw Li Mu rubbing his shoulder and going downstairs.

"Much better, but it's still a little sore. It's not a big deal. It will be fine in two days." Li Mu did two chest expansion exercises, shook his arms a few times, and went into the bathroom.

The two of them had a really amazing breakfast. Qiao Sheng ate three and a half meat buns and a bowl of fish ball soup, while Li Mu ate four and a half and all the remaining fish ball soup.

"With the amount of food we eat, we should really store more supplies. Why do I feel like my appetite has been increasing since I entered the game? I can understand that you are always hungry, it should be a problem with the value bar, but I don't understand why you eat so much." Looking at the empty kang table, Qiao Sheng was terrified that he had accidentally become a big eater.

"As for the problem of large amount of activity, you should do more in winter and store some fat so that you are not so afraid of the cold. This is good. Anyway, I don't think you are that fat." Li Mu looked at her seriously and said.

"I almost believed it. Even if there is no mirror, I still have no hands! Look at my bulging stomach and double chin. Please don't look at me so seriously when you are fooling people! Go downstairs to work. Only labor can alleviate my guilt!" Qiao Sheng touched his bulging stomach and pulled his chin, then put on his cotton coat, opened the door and put on his shoes, ready to go downstairs to work.

Li Mu took the dishes and went to wash them first. When he went downstairs, Qiao Sheng had already started her fishing career. When she was fishing yesterday afternoon, she felt that the time seemed to have been extended a lot. Today, she calculated the time and found that it took five and a half minutes to catch a fish instead of five minutes before.

No matter how long it takes, the work has to be done. Li Mu sharpened the kitchen knife on a stone and began to cut up the shark that he had thawed yesterday afternoon.

After an afternoon and a night, the shark was finally no longer hard, and the sharpened kitchen knife was still very smooth to cut. He chopped off the head, peeled the skin, dug out the internal organs, removed the fascia, and shaved the bones. The work was not difficult, but it was too big, so he had to walk every step.

By the time he had completely cut up the shark, it was already past lunch time. Fortunately, the two of them had a good breakfast, so they didn't feel hungry yet.

Qiao Sheng's wooden barrel was also filled with fish. Including the 20 or 30 fish he caught yesterday, he laid them all out on the floating board and counted them. There were 58 fish in total