Chapter 85

On the way back, Qiao Sheng finally had time to ask what kind of agreement they had made. Before that, the two of them went to a corner to talk. She was standing far away and could only hear a few words of their whispered conversation, which could not form a complete sentence.

"Nothing much was said, just hiring him to work for us, and he had to give us all the tiger skins and bones he promised us before, and he had to give us all the mineral resources he dug starting tomorrow, except for the coal he could keep, and he had to cut down all the trees on the island with us, minus the part he needed to build his ship and for his daily life, and the rest would belong to us, of course, the premise is that the wood boards cut this time can only make up a quarter of his supply, if it exceeds, it will be a big deal, the size of the ship will depend on whether he has collected resources seriously after entering the game." Li Muti's conditions were actually quite reasonable.

"Then what should we give him?" Qiao Sheng picked up the branches blocking the road in front of her as she walked, these could all be used as firewood, she picked them up completely subconsciously.

"He came to us with the pig skin at night. He wanted a backpack, saying that it was more convenient to carry. I didn't mention the difference between our bags, so don't let it slip. The rest is what I promised him yesterday, food for the next few days and shipbuilding." Li Mu explained the obligations and responsibilities to her, and they would have to work together.

Qiao Sheng felt that it was a little harsh, but it was also reasonable. After all, if you want to get something, you have to pay for it. In the real world, if you want to be better than others in the game, you have to pay money and time. If you want to earn a salary, you have to work hard. It's all the same. Pie in the sky is just a dream. It's not your parents who come to the game to give you selfless dedication.

I walked from dawn to sunset before I saw my own boat, which was already covered with snow. It looked so pitiful from a distance. The second half of the boat, because of Li Muxin and the snow on the roof, fell into the sea along the slopes on both sides.

The bow, the second-level terrace and the front half of the third-level deck were in a terrible state. They had tilted and sank into the sea. Fortunately, the sea water on this shore was not deep, otherwise the boat would have sunk into the sea long ago.

The two walked quickly to the shore. They couldn't get on the boat, so they stood on the shore with shovels to shovel the snow on the bow. After shoveling off the first layer of snow, the bottom was frozen. Li Mu did the work of shoveling the ice. Qiao Sheng trembled and slipped into the cabin. He took two empty wooden barrels from the storage room, ignored the cackling of the small animals, and went upstairs in two steps.

After clearing the snow on the second-floor terrace, the bow was slowly lifted out of the sea. Li Mu shoveled off the first layer of ice and swept out the sea water. Then he took his friends to the third floor. With the roof blocking half of it, there was indeed a lot less snow on it.

Qiao Sheng shoveled for a while on the third floor, and then handed the job to Li Mu. She needed to go to the kitchen to make dinner first. The meat buns you had eaten at noon in the mine had been almost digested. If you don't replenish your food as soon as possible, the satiety bar of the two of you will not be able to hold up.

After saying goodbye to him, she went into the kitchen. It was cold, so she had to make some hot meals. She cooked rice in a clay pot, cooked a big pot of pickled cabbage and pork in an iron pot, and made a full pot of black fish meatball soup, adding some vermicelli and kelp.

Today, there was only one dish and one soup. It wasn't much, but the quantity was large, so Qi Ye didn't need to think about it. He would serve him a bowl of pickled cabbage and pork, two fish, and five sweet potatoes. He promised to give him food, but didn't promise to cook it. She didn't want to do this job. It would be nice to bring him a portion of cooked food at lunch.

Xia Beibei didn't eat much. This girl sent her a portion of good things recently, saying it was a reward for Sister Qiao's hard work in cooking. She was busy fishing and collecting supplies during this period and had no time to cook.

In fact, she is just lazy, and thinks her cooking is not tasty enough. She will never slack off if she has the chance to curry favor with someone. However, she is also slowly collecting seasonings for Lin Haiyang. The situation over there is that his cooking skills are good, but the supplies are not complete, so the food he makes is always a little bit lacking. He can only take down the east wall to fill the west wall, rely on Sister Qiao to eat and drink, and slowly cultivate Lin Haiyang, so that he can get a bite from this family and a meal from that family in the future. Otherwise, it is easy to be exposed if you just want to pluck the wool of a sheep.

In fact, it really doesn't matter to Qiao Sheng. She thinks that Xia Beibei is a girl with a sense of propriety. Sometimes you don't have to make such a clear distinction, but if you have someone else in your heart, it is still very different from just eating and drinking for free.

We haven't eaten sashimi recently, so Qiao Sheng cut a relatively large salmon and some king squid tentacles. If they eat sashimi like this, they can probably eat until the beginning of next spring, and then they have to find a way to consume it.

He packed some of both sashimi for Xia Beibei, packed up the rice, the dishes, and the soup and sent them away. The cooked meals were placed in the warm room, and the salmon and squid tentacles were placed in the kitchen in ice. They would not taste good if heated.

When they found Li Mu, he was rowing in the first-floor cabin. This was his new invention, a detachable one. By lifting up a float, they could fix it to several nearby floats, and then slide it in one direction.

Qiao Sheng came down and also took a paddle, compared it with Li Mu's direction and posture, and started rowing after it was fixed. She

even asked if the direction was okay, because she had not paid attention to the direction more than once, and rowed against Li Mu. They were both sweating while rowing, and when they got out of the cabin, they found that they had not moved.

Now she has learned to be smart, and every time she fixes the paddle, she will first gesture, install it, and get the posture right, and then ask again to make sure there is no problem before rowing.

The two of them worked hard in one direction, along the edge of the island, looking for the narrow path that Qi Ye had mentioned.

It was also a coincidence that the wind seemed to be favorable at this time, and they were now very skilled in rowing. When they walked there, they took a straight line, which took two hours. This time they made a big circle, and it only took two hours.

The narrow path was easy to identify, because Qi Ye was holding a torch and found a stone to sit on. In the dark night, it was particularly obvious, especially when he saw their boat rowing towards this side, holding a torch in one hand and waving it wildly with the other.

Qiao Sheng took a look at him from the bow and said, "How foolish!" He turned around and went to the kitchen on the second floor to get the dinner for him. When he went downstairs, he couldn't bear it and served him another bowl of black fish meatball soup. It was so bad. He had said that he would be tougher, but seeing the way he waved his hands at them just now, he really couldn't bear it.

After taking the food to the first floor and putting it on the tea table, Qiao Sheng helped Li Mu row the boat. Qi Ye was outside like a parking lot janitor, shouting "steer left", "steer right", and finally shouting "turn upside down" a few times, which made Qiao Sheng want to go down and hit him on the head with the oar.

It was quite dark, and everyone was very tired. After delivering the food, everyone went back to their homes. Qi Ye was very happy about this sumptuous dinner. Qiao Sheng gave a lot, so he ate all the vegetables and soup. He was reluctant to touch the two fish, and ate one of the roasted sweet potatoes.

He would eat one of the remaining four tomorrow morning, and keep the rest as backup food. What he regretted most was that he was not more diligent in the fall, went fishing more, hunted more, and was not more frugal when eating, which made him feel awkward now. If he hadn't met Qiao Sheng and Li Mu, he might have starved to death in this cave.

After mooring the boat and making sure the surrounding environment was safe and that the strange rocks nearby showed no signs of falling, the two returned to the greenhouse for dinner. The sashimi that had been chilled in the kitchen was still covered in ice, so they made a dipping sauce with vinegar, soy sauce and wasabi. The rice looked like a lot, but after eating it all, only the black fish meatball soup was left.

The rest was not wasted. She took it directly to the kitchen, the second-floor terrace. The temperature there was low, just like putting it in the refrigerator. After a short break, she let Li Mu go to knead the dough. Tomorrow morning, she would make some hand-rolled noodles to eat in for breakfast. It would be filling and warm.

She even thought about the lunch for tomorrow. She would make a big pot of stewed vegetables with meat and vegetables, bake a few big pancakes, cut some pickled mustard greens, mix some spicy radish strips, and put them in the pancakes. For the soup, she would add some bone and corn soup that she had cooked before, and some raw wontons. She would add some pickled winter vegetables, and finally sprinkle some pepper powder. Each person would have a big bowl. After drinking it, they would feel warm immediately.

The job of a miner is not easy. Whether it is dangerous or not is not a good thing. You need to work hard to shovel out the ore. She also tried to touch it lightly, but there was no movement at all. It seems that even in the game, being a miner is a hard job.

After preparing the dough for tomorrow, the two of you went to the storage room and began to count the ores you dug today. There are many kinds of ores. When digging, the two of you put them into your bags and exchanged the same ores. At first, you put them in your own bags and exchanged them when they were almost full. Later, you felt it was too troublesome, so you just sorted them and put them on the ground after digging.

Then, they collected the minerals on the ground according to the types in their own bags, and only in this way could they bring back all the mineral resources they dug. This job is not difficult, but it is not difficult. It is really hard work. If you think about

it this way, it is quite a good deal to hire a miner to help make a backpack. After laying them all out, they found that coal actually accounted for half of the proportion. Li Mu looked at the number and felt that something was wrong, because he almost produced one piece of coal for every five shovels, so how could it account for 50% of the total.

"One piece of coal in five times? How come I only produced one piece of other ore in five times, and the remaining four pieces were all coal?" Qiao Sheng was dumbfounded when he heard him say that. What was going on? He was in a bad mood because of selling his labor, so why was he singled out by the game and beaten up again?

Li Mu did not dare to answer her. He asked her if she wanted some barley tea. He was exhausted after rummaging through the ore for a long time. He stood up and went upstairs to pour tea without waiting for her reply. He hesitated for a while before coming down.

Qiao Sheng, who was angry, should not be provoked. He let her vent her anger on the pile of ore and the empty ore. If he answered her at this time, the ore, the game system and he might all be in trouble.

Sure enough, when he brought the barley tea into the storage room, Qiao Sheng had calmed down. Some of the coal on the ground had turned into coal slag, but the others were still fine. It seemed that she was not very angry and could just vent it.

"You run pretty fast, Mr. Li, the European Emperor. Your 20% coal ratio is better than my 80% non-African. Look at the color of the coal. Does it look like my face?" Qiao Sheng drank tea and looked up at Li Mu standing at the door of the storage room.