Chapter 78
Li Mu moved all the shark meat to the storage box at the bow. The meat from the two sharks was placed here. The two planned to ask Fang Yueyi and Pei Hong in a few days if they needed to give the little bear spirit at home a snack. If they only gave the cub, the cassock cub, this pile of shark meat would probably make the cub vomit.
The shark bones and internal organs were put in a basin and taken to the kitchen upstairs. Li Mu spent the whole afternoon making medicine in it. When Qiao Sheng went upstairs to drink water and eat something to replenish his value bar, he said that he was just like an old wizard, stirring with a wooden stick, and then scooping out a little to look at the sunlight. It always felt a little too mysterious.
As for Qiao Sheng, her job this afternoon was to clean up the fifty-eight newly caught fish, gutting them, throwing away the entrails, leaving the fish roe, and scraping the fascia clean. She worked
without stopping, and finally finished cleaning up all the fish before the sun went down. She carried the wooden basin containing the fish entrails into the bathroom, poured all of them into the toilet to flush, put down the basin and began to wash her hands with soap. After washing three times, she still felt that she had a fishy smell.
This afternoon, while cleaning up the fish, she was also eyeing the barley in the planting area. In the fall, she could only plant four rounds a day. This winter, she planted when she got up in the morning, and could only harvest before the sun went down, so she could only harvest two rounds a day.
Thinking about what Li Mu said about stockpiling food like crazy, these planting pots cannot be left empty. The four planting pots on the kang are used to grow either grain or vegetables every day. In addition to being busy, they can only harvest two or three rounds a day, and the amount of stock is increasing day by day.
For dinner, they had hand-rolled noodles and a pot of soup with pork shanks and chicken. The soup was really delicious. Qiao Sheng even reserved some noodles on purpose, preparing to chop stuffing and make some wontons after dinner. Tomorrow morning, he will cook wontons with soup and make eggs. He can't think about it, he's greedy now.
After dinner, Li Mu continued to boil cod liver oil in the kitchen with a light on. The two sharks this time were completely different from the ones they caught before. The liver was several times larger than the previous one.
"After working all afternoon today, I've already mastered the routine. No one will need to stay by the pot tomorrow. I just need to put the ingredients in the pot, pour out the cod liver oil when the time comes, and replace the liver. We've hunted a lot of prey these days, so we still have to put them all away. Those that need to be dried should be dried, and those that need to be frozen should be frozen." Li Mu stirred the clay pot with a small wooden stick.
"Okay, I'll go get supplies tomorrow. We need to make a few more drying racks. We didn't have much left when we encountered whales before. We just hung the fish we collected on the racks. Now there's no place to hang anything else. I've spread the kelp on three decks and pressed it down with wooden boards. But I'm still a little worried that it will be blown away by a gust of wind. It's safer to hang it on the drying rack." Qiao Sheng sat next to him and chopped the meat stuffing in preparation for tomorrow's breakfast.
Before going to bed, Li Mu was still counting the bottles he had filled today. He got more than 30 bottles of animal fat and 5 bottles of cod liver oil. He spent the afternoon boiling shark liver and didn't have time to make chondroitin and artificial skin film.
Qiao Sheng looked at the more than 30 bottles of animal fats and felt that they were really good for making medicines, and the accompanying fats. Recently, there was no need to make coconut oil. If the leftovers at home were simply used to make mixed vegetables, they could last for a long time.
She now clearly divided the use of each type of oil. Coconut oil was used to make cold mixed vegetables, lard was used to stir-fry vegetables, and animal fat was used as lamp oil. Each type had its own effect.
After waking up from a nap, the two got up early. There was still a lot of work to do today. When Li Mu went to the bow to cook shark meatballs for the cassock, Qiao Sheng went to the kitchen on the second floor and started to cook the wontons that had been wrapped last night.
All these things were placed on the terrace on the second floor, in a sieve and covered with a piece of cotton cloth. They had already been frozen hard. It was really useful to use this natural refrigerator. I could make more dumplings and buns and freeze them later. I could cook or steam them whenever I wanted. It would also save time and allow me to do other things.
I was busy searching for supplies on the island a few days ago and didn't send Xia Beibei food by mail. Now I finally had time to eat on the boat, so I brought her some.
Breakfast was wontons with meat buns. After eating warm and full, the two of us started another day of hard work.
Li Mu washed the dishes in the kitchen, and then continued his work as a pharmacist. Qiao Sheng first moved the planting pots into the greenhouse. When eating wontons, she felt that there seemed to be a lack of winter vegetables, so she decided to plant more cabbage in the planting pots on the kang today. Half of the planting pots downstairs were planted with barley, and the other half were changed to snow red, which can also be used to pickle winter vegetables.
After arranging all the chores at home, Qiao Sheng began to sit in the first-floor cabin to collect supplies. Just yesterday, Li Mu used the glass bottle. She felt that she had to collect more drift bottles, otherwise the existing hundreds would not be enough.
She had been collecting for a while when Li Mu came down. The animals that had been brought back before still needed to be skinned and deboned, as well as sheep, pigs, roe deer, and rabbits.
The two of them were really busy and fulfilled when they were working. Qiao Sheng just focused on collecting, and when Li Mu went upstairs to check the shark liver on the stove, he would take the supplies she had brought up. Except for the drifting bottles, all the other supplies would be sorted and put into the storage room . While collecting, he also found that there were indeed not many drifting bottles.
After using the colander to collect, he only caught 3 drifting bottles, which almost refreshed Qiao Sheng's black ghost debuff, and she was so angry that she opened the three bottles on the spot.
"Oh, the luck value is full, huh? I got 500 rare metals, 300 charcoal, and this atlas. Oh, Li Mu, this is a prescription! But what is Baibaodan?" Qiao Sheng handed the prescription to Li Mu who was cutting mutton.
After wiping his hands, he took the prescription. The writing on it was not very clear. There was only a name, Baibaodan, and it was marked that it could restore a medium amount of health. It didn't even say what other herbs were needed.
After learning this prescription, I clicked on the game's medicine library panel to see the herbs. I only needed Panax notoginseng. Seeing that the requirements were so simple, Qiao Sheng went to the storage room to take out the Panax notoginseng that had not been ground into powder and dried it, and started making it. One piece of Panax notoginseng root can make two small bottles of Baibaodan.
After opening a bottle and pouring it out, it was no different from Panax notoginseng powder. They were both gray-brown powders. There was only about three or four grams of this small bottle. When a small reddish-brown pill was pulled out of the powder, Qiao Sheng was stunned. This thing looked so familiar.
"It's Yunnan Baiyao. It should be a safety. The recipe of this game is also simple enough. Yunnan Baiyao's recipe requires a lot of medicinal materials, but this one has only one main ingredient, Panax notoginseng, to solve all problems." Li Mu picked up the safety and checked it. "
In fact, this prescription is still good. First of all, it improves the recovery effect of Panax notoginseng. Secondly, it is easy and quick to make. In the future, you don't have to grind Panax notoginseng powder anymore. It is much more convenient to apply it externally than the previous Panax notoginseng powder." Qiao Sheng poured the Baibao Pill back into the small bottle.
I went back to the storage room and took out all the Panax notoginseng, some dried, some not dried, and some ground Panax notoginseng powder. There was quite a lot of it. I made all the Panax notoginseng into Baibao Pills, and then I was surprised to find that I didn't need to dry them! Fresh Panax notoginseng can be made with a click, but it's a pity that the ones that have been ground into powder can't be made.
I gave a batch of Panax notoginseng I planted before to Fang Yueyi, and later gave some to Chu Wanyou and Wen Yizhou, and some to treat sea turtles and killer whales. In fact, there is not much left. Because the treatment effect is not as good as cod liver oil and chondroitin, Qiao Sheng has not planted it recently.
Therefore, the existing Panax notoginseng was used up to produce 28 bottles of Baibaodan. There were still three bottles of Panax notoginseng powder left, which Qiao Sheng mailed to Fang Yueyi, Xia Beibei and Lin Haiyang respectively. Since then, there were no low-grade medicines on the ship, and it has completely entered the middle-class era.
In order to celebrate the transfer, they had a seafood feast at noon, and they cooked all the seafood at home.
After a short period of happiness, they still had to be busy, but Qiao Sheng's enthusiasm was fully mobilized, and the movement of shaking the sieve was no longer weak, but full of energy. Li Mu wanted to laugh when he saw her excited look.
Throughout the day, Li Mu cut up four sheep, a roe deer and three wild boars. Qiao Sheng only caught 10 drifting bottles in the afternoon, but she didn't dare to open them. Although the wave in the morning made her excited, it seemed that she still had a certain understanding of herself. She should first collect supplies and fish to improve her luck. When playing games, she decided not to go with the flow, otherwise she would easily suffer retribution.
When she went to the kitchen to cook dinner, Qiao Sheng suddenly found that it started to snow. She quickly ran to the third deck to roll up the kelp that had been drying for a day and put it in the storage box in the kitchen. Li Mu also collected the fish that were drying on the second terrace and moved the drying rack into the cabin.
The sudden snow caught the two of them off guard. It felt like the temperature had dropped a lot. Li Mu hurried to the storage room to get the cotton clothes he had made before. The weather was the best time to sell cotton clothes. He
put three cotton clothes in the trading system. The orders were one cotton clothes for 200 kilograms of saltpeter, 250 kilograms of saltpeter, and 300 kilograms of saltpeter. These three clothes were basically just to test the waters. The bulk of the money would still be put in the auction system.
These three clothes were sold out in seconds, which made Li Mu wonder if he had set the order too low. After exchanging these three clothes, he soon received a lot of fixed-point orders, which were specifically placed for him. The things he exchanged were also very diverse, with everything. Some shameless people even wanted to exchange them for a few kilograms of pork.
There were also those who wanted to spend a lot of money to exchange. Li Mu picked out the reliable ones in the order and exchanged for one that met his psychological price range, and got 300 rare metals.
This is still quite useful for them who can't go to the sea now. Going to the sea in this weather is basically like committing suicide. It's cold and there are sharks waiting for you. Why joke with your life?
He exchanged four cotton clothes and took two more to the auction system. He just looked around in the trading system. The attributes of the cotton clothes he sold are generally much higher than those of others. In this game, there are always some people who get rich first. Many people are willing to use their excess materials to exchange for their basic needs.
For dinner, Qiao Sheng grilled some lamb chops. Since there was no cumin, he added some chili powder and salt. It smelled good. When Li Mu browsed the trading system these days, he asked him to pay attention to whether there were any orders for cumin. Lamb always felt a little lacking without it.
He also made a lamb hotpot. He cut the lamb into pieces and added various vegetables. He cooked a full pot and filled a small iron basin for Xia Beibei. There was still a lot left.
As soon as she saw the snow, she thought it was time to eat mutton hotpot. But it was a little late today, and it was troublesome to cut the lamb slices. It was better to just cook a simple lamb hotpot.
She even thought about tomorrow's menu. In a while, she would drag Li Mu to wash the sheep's internal organs, make a lamb offal soup, and bake some pancakes in the evening.