Chapter 96
After hearing about Jin Lan's situation, Qiao Sheng suddenly felt that it was good for the cassock cub sitting in the bear's den and eating cabbage stalks. At least she couldn't lock the bear that was getting fatter and fatter. After
hearing about Fang Yueyi and Xia Beibei's troubles, Qiao Sheng felt that the re-planning of the boat must be put on the agenda. A larger space would facilitate them to store more things.
The two discussed it, and Li Mu also took out a piece of wood and charcoal, studying and drawing.
Now the boat of the two is 20*10, with 200 floats on the first floor. According to the instructions of the driving equipment, this set alone requires about 160 floats, which directly occupies all the area of their cabin.
After doing the math, the two decided to change from the current 20*10 to 25*12, so the number of floats increased from 200 to 300, and the bow still had four rows, from the current 40 floats to 48, and the cabin increased from the original 160 to 252.
In this way, even if there are 160 floats to place the driving equipment, there are still more than 90 floats left for activities, so there is at least a place to shelter from the wind when fishing and collecting supplies in this cold winter.
The arrangement upstairs is also quite simple, with a terrace of 48 decks. The left side of the terrace is still the kitchen, and there is a stove on the right side, which is specially used to cook for the animals.
In order to avoid unnecessary damage, they only added the right side and the stern of the hull this time, so the kitchen and the kang on the left side did not need to be moved.
After the general planning was completed, while it was still light, the two of them took the materials and built the first layer of floating boards. This work was also fast, especially after they helped Qi Ye repair a boat in more than a day, adding a hundred floating boards would be even faster. Because
large objects will be added to the cabin later, the fishing nets also need to be moved. From the previous two rows on both sides of the hull, now all are hung outside the railings of the bow, put in two rows, 24, and there is no need to make new ones, the previous ones are enough.
When moving the wooden wall, the two decided to move one side first, dismantle the wooden wall on the right side of the hull, move two rows outward, and then go upstairs to add the two rows of decks.
Then move the stern, and when moving this time, it is necessary to dismantle the blank wooden wall on the second floor, because the wooden wall in the storage room on the first floor is used to hang storage boxes. Now the storage room needs to be moved to the second floor. In order to reduce the workload, it is much easier to simply replace the two layers of wooden walls.
Before dark, they finally finished the expansion of the first floor. When Qiao Sheng went to make dinner, Li Mu worked hard on his own for a while, expanding the wooden wall of the second floor and the deck of the third floor. Because the main structure remained unchanged and only some decks were added, this job was not difficult.
After dinner, they turned on the lights and worked together to finish the remaining small pieces of work, and went to bed early at night.
The next morning, after getting up and having breakfast, Qiao Sheng wrapped himself up tightly. His morning job was to build a cabin for the third floor, where planting pots and drying racks would be placed. In order to allow the drying racks to dry food better, they chose to use wooden walls when building the third floor, but the roof was replaced with glass instead of decks. The
third-floor roof is high, so even if it is made of glass, no one will notice it. Qiao Sheng had already unlocked the production of large pieces of glass, and Li Mu went to find minerals to make glass glue. Now the crossbeam on the top of the third floor serves as a support, and pieces of glass are laid on it.
Then use glass glue to seal the gaps between the glass, and finally add a few crossbeams on top to fix it.
The upper and lower layers of glass are fixed with two layers of crossbeams, and then the sliding roof with ridge made by Li Mu is installed. It is pushed open during the day to let the three-story cabin enjoy the sun, and pulled up at night to prevent too much snow from accumulating.
The exterior is basically completed, and Qiao Sheng also walked upstairs and downstairs. The construction work this time was completed quite well, with almost no flaws.
The next task is to move. First, move the planting pots of winter barley and snow red to the third-floor cabin. After putting them there, I found that it is quite empty. I can move other crops to dry them later. There is enough space and the number of drying racks can be doubled.
The production of planting pots is a bit low now, so I will add this in the spring.
Next, I will reinforce the wooden wall at the stern of the second floor, and put their storage boxes and cabinets all over the stern. Since this place is large, it is open.
The bamboo beds that the two had previously used were put away. The ladder that was previously against the wall was directly removed to avoid being in the way. Going up and down the stairs depends on the folding ladders on the terrace and the bow. There is no additional ladder space in the cabin.
The two toilets are located on the right terrace. The toilets were built larger because the space was larger before. Now the livestock area has to be reserved, so the space of the toilets has been compressed, but the facilities inside remain unchanged.
There are storage boxes for storing clothes, a half-cut bamboo table with a wooden basin on it for washing hands at any time, a toilet and a large wooden barrel for bathing.
Next to it is the rabbit nest. After a period of time, there are more and more rabbits. The first batch of pups born after boarding the ship are now pregnant again.
Even the Arctic rabbit had something in its belly. Qiao Sheng estimated that if they had no chance of escaping the prison, the Arctic rabbit must have something in its belly that belonged to a male wild rabbit. He didn't know what the yellow and white rabbit would look like.
When moving the pig nest, Qiao Sheng was patient and patient, but he still discussed it with Li Mu. The duck nest, pig nest and chicken nest were not easy to clean, so they should be left on the first floor. Of course, the main point was that they were too noisy. The little rooster was now tied up and started crowing at dawn every day.
Qiao Sheng also threatened the little rooster, but it was obvious that the little rooster had a low IQ. No matter what Qiao Sheng said to it, it always had an expression that the corn kernels were really delicious today. Qiao Sheng also joked with Li Mu that it was no wonder that the former morning eight people could understand the rooster. When she woke up in the morning, she just wanted to scream. But she was not an early eight people now. If it wasn't for hatching chicks, she would have stewed the little rooster.
In the end, it was decided to separate the animals. The quiet and clean ones were put upstairs, and the dirty, smelly, and talkative ones were put downstairs.
The cassock cub and the Arctic fox were ordered to go downstairs to poop in the future, or go to Li Mu's bathroom to use the toilet. Whoever dared to poop anywhere other than the toilet on the second floor would be punished.
There is no need to worry about the snowy owl, as it solves problems while flying in the sky on patrol. It has never been seen that it poops on the boat.
After settling all the animals, Qiao Sheng moved the dining table and sofa to the side of the greenhouse, and also moved the coffee table and sofa on the first floor. The cabin looked quite spacious, and it was full even if things were stuffed in.
The sail was still placed on the third-floor deck, just in front of the glass-top cabin. This thing was actually installed to deceive people. They immediately prepared to make the driving equipment, and the sail, an ancient driving tool, could only be used as a decoration.
In the following days, Qiao Sheng was busy cutting up the previous fish and collecting supplies with a colander. She didn't want to go fishing anymore, mainly because it was becoming increasingly difficult to fish, so she might as well do something else.
The main purpose of collecting supplies was to collect drifting bottles. Later, they found that it was too difficult to hit rare metals. This way was not feasible, so they decided to save the country in a roundabout way. Every day in the greenhouse, except for the time they slept, they planted cotton non-stop. Arctic cotton was also planted in the three-story cabin.
After the harvest, all was made into cotton shoes and cotton clothes. In order not to affect Li Mu's high-end quality and exchange for better things, Qiao Sheng is now doing it. The attributes are lower, so he specializes in exchanging rare metals and iron products. This business is doing well.
All the materials exchanged were used to reinforce the ship. Previously, they only wanted to reinforce the storage box and the first floor where the drive equipment would be placed, but later they felt that it was not good-looking. The reinforced wooden boards and floating boards would have a layer of metallic luster. The reinforcement here and there made the ship look mottled.
In the end, they decided that except for the deck in the cabin, all the other exposed parts must be reinforced. One-third of the existing rare metals and iron products must be reserved, and the rest can be used for reinforcement.
Strictly follow the plan, stop work when materials are running out, put on order, and continue work when materials are exchanged.
During this period, Li Mu also made the driving equipment. When Qiao Sheng saw this big thing, she realized why Xia Beibei couldn't assemble it. There were too many small parts in it. It couldn't be started by just putting it on the boat. The equipment had to be assembled first and then installed on the boat.
Qiao Sheng didn't understand how to use it. Li Mu explained to her that this was still a thing that burned coal or other fuels. With this, they officially entered the steam age.
"Steam age? I seem to have heard of this, the Industrial Revolution, right? I don't remember anything else. I returned everything to the teacher after graduating from high school. I am a very honest person, without any private thoughts, and I don't remember anything." Qiao Sheng was quite happy when he mentioned this.
It took Li Mu more than ten days to install this equipment. When the snow stopped outside, their drive equipment could finally be officially put into operation.
Throw the coal in to burn, and as soon as the equipment was turned on, the boat moved forward in a flash. Qiao Sheng was a little uncomfortable at first, no longer relying on the wind to drift.
But this boiler is really good. There is no need to put a brazier on the first floor. Once the boiler is lit, the temperature of the entire cabin will rise. Qiao Sheng felt a little hot when squatting on the open space to cut fish.
Li Mu looked at the big pot that was constantly radiating heat, his brows wrinkled. Before he had time to ask him what was wrong, Qiao Sheng received a system reminder for the ship upgrade.
[Congratulations to players 38 and 18 for being the first to use the driving device. The world channel is now unlocked for all servers. Players can communicate freely with each other. Players are rewarded for unlocking the ship time flow rate. It can only be adjusted once a day and is not effective for the players themselves. ]
"Li Mu has unlocked the world channel. We have also unlocked the ship time flow rate. Check your panel to see if it is there." As soon as the system broadcast ended, Qiao Sheng quickly notified Li Mu.
"I also have a reminder here. It's not your system voice, but six blood-red characters suddenly appeared in front of me: Unlock the world channel." Li Mu rubbed his forehead and felt that the simple and unpretentious notification method of this game was a bit scary.
Qiao Sheng couldn't wait to open the world channel. Sure enough, all the players were notified at the same time. The channel was very lively, with people constantly sending messages. The screen rotated so fast that she could hardly see clearly.