Chapter 9

"This kind of plant pot is great. I can put ten seeds in it at a time. I should be able to grow twenty crops in half a day, and it only consumes one bottle of fresh water. I will never be hungry in the future. If you need any supplies, you can make one for me later. The freshness of these sweet potatoes and potatoes is about 180 days. I can store more of them later. I will have food in my hands and I will not be worried. By the way, can the sweet potatoes and potatoes be further processed? Sweet potato slices and potato chips?" Qiao Sheng felt that this kind of plant pot was simply a treasure. With it, even if she was unlucky and couldn't reach the island for a long time in the future, she could still be self-sufficient.

"It should be possible to make sweet potato flour and potato flour, but all products depend on the condition of abundant fresh water. When we can achieve fresh water freedom, we can talk about deep processing." Li Mu waited for Qiao Sheng to successfully complete the experiment in the planting pot before going to the floating board to wash his hands in the sea water. After

everything was packed up, the two of them sat on the wooden table built yesterday and started to eat breakfast.

After the meal, Li Mu built a new toilet for her first. As soon as the toilet was in place, Qiao Sheng found a reason to send Li Mu back to his own floating board, then went into the toilet and turned around to block it with leaves. The movements were extremely fast and smooth. After all, he had not solved the three urgent problems since he returned to the floating board yesterday.

When Qiao Sheng came out of the toilet with ease, she saw Li Mu holding a machete and carrying a small leather bag, observing something in the sea.

"Take me with you, I'll go down and take a look too." Qiao Sheng thought that it would be best if she had the chance to go into the sea with Li Mu, otherwise when she was left alone, she might not dare to go down. Now that he was taking her down for a walk, it would be good to explore the situation in the sea.

Thinking of her lack of change of clothes, while Li Mu was still observing the sea water, Qiao Sheng took out the ramie and cotton that she was assigned. As expected, the black man's no-schema production was really useless. He failed three times with the linen pants and four times with the cotton T-shirt. The gap with the European emperor who succeeded once was too big.

Li Mu had already stopped observing the sea water when she failed. Seeing that she had failed so many times and looked distressed about the materials, he said that he would make a few planting pots after collecting materials from the sea, and then plant the cotton seeds in them. The waste at the beginning was nothing, and now it was successful. With the map, it would be economical to make more.

"Thank you, I feel comforted. Not being able to share the map is full of malice, and the ridicule towards black people like us is simply overwhelming." Qiao Sheng threw all the new clothes into the storage box, and just when she was about to tie the water and food around her body with a rope, Li Mu stopped her.

"The backpack is made. This morning I saw that the pig skin was ready for use, so I made it for you." Li Mu took out a backpack from the storage box and handed it to Qiao Sheng.

After taking the bag and looking it over for a while, Qiao Sheng began to put things in it. With this bag, she finally didn't have to tie herself up like a dumpling and carry the weight forward.

When carrying it, Qiao Sheng took into account the convenience of taking it, and she deliberately put the bag on her chest. In order to prevent the shoulder straps from slipping, she also took a rope and passed it through the two straps from behind her back and tied it a little. Now it's fine, strong and convenient.

Seeing her carrying it like this, Li Mu also realized that carrying it on the chest is indeed much more convenient than carrying it on the back, so he also followed Qiao Sheng's example and carried the small leather bag on his chest.

"As expected, one person's plan is short, two people's plan is long. This method is much easier. It's much better than me taking it off the back and putting things in it every time." Li Mu happily praised Qiao Sheng.

After packing everything, the two of them went into the sea one after another. After going down, Qiao Sheng first adapted for a while. The difference between diving in and floating on the water was too big. She had only doggy paddling in the swimming pool and had to let Li Mu lead her to swim for a while before she successfully dived down. Fortunately, the sea near the island was not very deep.

After swimming for a while, they saw rare metals, such as steel and copper, scattered on the seabed. There was no need to dig for these places. As long as they could see them, they could just reach out and move them into the bag.

After moving for a while in the sea, you have to float to the surface to breathe. If it is too deep

, you just need to dive in and quickly pick up a few things before you have to come up. Qiao Sheng, floating on the sea, was exhausted and panting. It was too tiring to do these trips again and again.

Although it was tiring, the harvest of this trip was too rich. Li Mu went down mainly to collect rare metals, and even dug up the mud and sand on the seabed. Qiao Sheng went down with a completely different goal from him. He first cut several rolls of kelp, and the rest of the seafood was also very delicious.

The return journey was also quite thrilling. Not only did the two of them encounter jellyfish, but they also saw a shark in the deep sea. They swam hard for a long time before they reacted. During the novice protection period, the shark did not attack them when they saw them, and the jellyfish did not take the initiative to hurt them.

"It's so scary. How can there be sharks in the sea? How can we live here? The jellyfish just floated towards me, which was scary enough. What if I'm out of the novice protection period?" Qiao Shenghun sat on the floating board, his body wet and paralyzed. He swam too hard when he was escaping just now, and he swam back to the floating board with all his strength. "

Maybe I need to upgrade my weapons. If the damage is higher, I should be able to beat them. Then I won't have to run for my life like this." Li Mu took out a bottle of fresh water from the storage box and drank it.

"Killing a shark? It's hard to say who will be the dinner for whom. With such a big shark, one of you or it will be full anyway." Qiao Sheng found a handful of bananas from the box, threw half of them in front of Li Mu, and broke off another one, peeled it and started to eat. Although he

was quite full, he just swam so fast that he couldn't help but want to eat something sweet. After showing off two bananas in a row, Qiao Sheng had time to check his values. Sure enough, the icon of the small clothes was now wet, and the value bar kept going back.

People who lacked medical care and medicine did not dare to delay, and quickly took the newly made clothes to the toilet to change.

After coming out in dry clothes and looking at the values ​​again, the wet icon has returned to normal, and the value bar that had lost more than half of its value has changed from slowly retreating to slowly advancing.

Finally, he can put his heart at ease. Li Mu also went to the toilet to change his clothes. He hung the clothes he changed on the drying rack where he had previously dried rabbit skins and pig skins. Seeing that Qiao Sheng didn't have a drying rack, he came over to help her set up two. Usually, two racks are convenient for drying dried fish, kelp, etc.

Li Mu checked for leaks and made up for the gaps on the two floating boards, fiddling with this one for a while, and then picking at that one, moving things back and forth between the two floating boards and having a lot of fun.

Qiao Sheng sat on the floating board and began to pack her small leather bag. This time, she and Li Mu had a clear division of labor. She was responsible for various seafood, and Li Mu was looking for various materials that could be used.

First, she took out the kelp and hung it on the newly made drying rack. Then, the seafood she took out was more diverse. She also picked up a lot of seafood on a platform on the seabed, including oysters, conchs, sea cucumbers, and a few abalones. There were many kinds.

The funniest thing was that they didn't know how this game was set up. They also found a few jars on the seabed. Qiao Sheng looked over and found that there were octopuses in them. It happened that Li Mu was also picking up rare metals nearby at that time. When she called him, he immediately came over to take a look.

Before the octopus sprayed ink, Li Mu quickly poked each jar with a machete, and Qiao Sheng followed behind to pick up the jars.

At this time, they took them out and counted them. There were quite a lot of them, dozens of oysters, a few conchs and sea cucumbers, and six or seven octopuses that had been stabbed to death.

Fresh water is limited, so they can't be picky. Qiao Sheng used a large iron pot to collect seawater to wash the seafood. Li Mu was amused by her operation and asked her why she used the water from her hometown to wash the seafood since they were caught from the sea.

Qiao Sheng was also stunned by his question. She sighed and said that it was a psychological effect. If you don't wash it, you always feel that it is not clean. It's the same as you can't drink tap water, you can't eat dirty apples, but apples washed with tap water taste delicious.

After washing the seafood, they kept two octopuses and prepared to fry them later. The others were hung on Li Mu's drying rack. Without seasoning, they could only use the simplest cooking methods for other seafood. Anyway, they either boiled or grilled them. There was nothing else they could do.

"Do you want to try making oyster sauce with these oysters? You can take them away when the time comes. If you come across green leafy vegetables in the future, add some coconut oil and oyster sauce and stir-fry them to make a dish. But it's a bit embarrassing that we don't have sugar and can't stir-fry sugar color, so the oyster sauce we make may be a little worse in color and taste, but it will definitely have a savory taste, after all, ours are real ingredients." Qiao Sheng was a little undecided about the dozens of oysters on the ground, and always felt that it would be a bit of a waste to cook them directly.

"It's all right, you decide, I'm just confused when it comes to kitchen matters, just tell me what you need me to do, it's a pity that there's no sugarcane on this island, otherwise we can try to make some brown sugar." Li Mu, who was filling the soil in the planting pot, raised his head and said.

"Okay, let's make oyster sauce. Once you've prepared the planting pots, come over and help pry out the raw oyster meat. It's not easy to pry it out, so be careful not to hurt your hands. I'll make some sweet potato flour with the sweet potatoes first, otherwise it won't be called oyster sauce, it can only be considered oyster juice." Qiao Sheng took two sweet potatoes from the storage box for ingredients and prepared to start working. It's not that she didn't want to make more, but the limited fresh water seriously affected her performance.

Li Mu made three more planting pots, two of which were placed on his own floating board, and one was moved to Qiao Sheng's floating board. He also thoughtfully planted crops in all three planting pots. His own planting pot was planted with sweet potatoes and potatoes from Qiao Sheng, and Qiao Sheng's was planted with cotton and ramie.

When he went to pry the oyster meat, Qiao Sheng had already sat on the rocks on the shore and started to crush the sweet potatoes. She thought that she could wash them with water after crushing them, but it took a lot of effort to do it.