Chapter 1055 I have never seen such a money-obsessed person
Xiao Peng stared at Paula and Monserrate up and down, making the two of them feel uneasy.
The two women suddenly felt that they had made the wrong choice: Is Xiao Peng a pervert?
"Ahem!" Xiao Peng looked at the two women: "Did I hear you right? You really said: I can do anything. Staying with me will cost you a price!"
Paula and Montraser looked at each other and nodded with gritted teeth. Even if Xiao Peng was a pervert, they would accept it. What they had to admit was: in such an environment, the chances of surviving with Xiao Peng were higher!
After receiving confirmation from the two women, Xiao Peng laughed happily: "That's great! Now is your chance to show off!"
After hearing this, the two women looked at each other and nodded. As if they had made up their minds, they both untied their bikinis and stood in front of Xiao Peng. Montraser said, "Sir, you have to promise us that you will give us food and protect us..."
Xiao Peng scratched his head: "What are you doing?"
Montrase said, "Didn't you say there's a price to pay for us to stay?"
Xiao Peng said, "I did say you have to pay a price, but I didn't say you should take off your clothes! What are you thinking?"
As he spoke, he handed the stone axe in his hand to Montraser: "I mean you have to work, such as helping me chop trees or something. Of course, I'm not that cruel. Eat something first and then work!"
As he spoke, he pried open a giant shell and roasted it over the fire, shell and all. "What are you standing there for? Wrap those two little strips of cloth around yourselves first. It's better to have something than nothing. You'd better find something to use as clothing. Don't say I'm trying to scare you, but you're dressed like this in the sun here? Your life raft has a tent, so you can't feel it, but being out here in the sun all day? You're going to get your skin peeled off."
The two women looked at each other and sat by the campfire, neither of them reaching out. Xiao Peng took out two fish and handed them to them: "Eat this first, and there's also cassava. But you can't eat it now."
Xiao Peng confirmed that the cassava here is bitter cassava.
Although bitter cassava is more toxic, it is the main crop grown in Africa - after all, it is more resistant to diseases and pests than sweet cassava and has a higher yield.
But it’s really troublesome to eat.
Xiao Peng also ate cassava in West Africa. The most common way to prepare it is to boil water in a cast iron pot, sprinkle it with salt, add green peppers and tomatoes, and then add the cassava to cook. The green peppers and tomatoes are simply added whole. Cook for an hour and it's ready to eat.
By this time, the cassava had been cooked until very soft and could be eaten plain or blended into a paste. Cassava leaves could also be used as a vegetable there, but of course, they had to be cooked thoroughly. They devoured the food with gusto, but Xiao Peng found it difficult to swallow. Now, he had no choice. He needed the cassava for starch.
Originally, Xiao Peng didn't know what to do with the cassava, but now the compressed biscuit barrel on the life raft finally gave him a cooking tool that he could use to cook the cassava.
But Xiao Peng couldn't eat it right now: these bitter cassava seeds were a real pain to eat. To remove the poison, they had to be peeled and soaked in clean water for four to six days. On an isolated island like this, with so few doctors and medicine available, he couldn't take that risk.
Xiao Peng handed them two grilled fish and said, "Eat some fish first to fill your stomach."
After Paula took the fish and thanked him, she asked, "Sir, I'm Paula, and this is Montrasse. What's your name?"
"Just call me sir." Xiao Peng was looking at the shell meat in the shell. He thought of grilling oysters. Sprinkle some pickled peppers, minced garlic, minced ginger, and sauce on them and grill them. It would be as delicious as it could be. But what about now?
Oh, no, I have to find a way to go back!
"Sir, how did you get here?" Paula asked quickly.
Xiao Peng spread his hands and said, "Just like you guys, sailing, storm, and then we got here. What happened to you then?"
Paula explained: "We were both employees of a modeling agency in Uruguay. We were offered a job as escorts on a yacht, but we were caught in a storm. The boat sank quickly, and we boarded the lifeboat before it sank. I don't know if the rest of us made it out. We were the only two sisters who made it."
Xiao Peng shook his head after hearing this: "The sea is sometimes so ruthless."
What kind of employees of a model agency are they? Aren’t they just Js who provide door-to-door services?
He's seen too many people like this - Fabian always brings a lot of them to every party!
Xiao Peng stood up and went to the life raft to check it - with this life raft, it should be no problem to paddle out, right?
However, his idea was good, but the reality was: when the few people were dragging the life raft, they didn't know what they had scratched, and there was a scratch on the life raft, and it started to deflate!
How to fix the loophole here?
The traditional fire patching method does not have rubber to fill holes!
Xiao Peng was so disappointed, but after a short moment, he cheered up again: How many tools did these people give him? There were magnesium rods, daggers, elastic rubber, tents, and medicinal herbs. Oh, not to mention the biscuit barrel that can be used for cooking!
When you are in the wild, nothing can be wasted. Xiao Peng is reluctant to throw away a broken plastic bottle, let alone so many things?
Make use of them all!
Fortunately, he had spent so much time in Africa some time ago that he learned a lot of skills from the locals.
For example, the rubber hull of a life raft can be cut into circles of rubber rings, tied to the bottom of a spear made from a wooden stick and put on your hand to make a simple elastic harpoon - grab the front of the spear and pull it tight, and the spear will pop out as soon as you let go; for example, the tent on the life raft can be made into a natural sun protection garment by cutting off two squares, digging a round hole in the middle and putting your head in; as for the bottom of the life raft, if the four corners are pulled up, it becomes a rain shelter.
Having a biscuit barrel also means having hot water to drink: the only water you can drink here is filtered groundwater or rainwater, and no matter what kind of water you drink, it is not clean. Xiao Peng has dozens of large shells waiting to collect rainwater, and now you can boil it in a biscuit barrel before drinking it.
Paula and Montraser also showed Xiao Peng that women are not weak. During this period, they worked very hard, cutting trees, picking palm leaves and collecting bird eggs. Of course, their labor was rewarded: a few days later, when they ate the detoxified cassava, they almost cried: finally, they had something to fill their stomachs!
"Sir, why did you reject Mayer's offer?" Montrasse asked Xiao Peng as he grabbed a handful of mashed cassava and ate it. "His credibility is pretty good. I'll give you one million Uruguayan pesos when I get back. That's quite a sum!"
Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this. "It's not a small amount? I've never met such a money-hungry person! He'll have at least 100 million Uruguayan pesos when he returns, but he only gave me one million! This guy is definitely the most money-hungry person I've ever met!"
"Ah? Who gave him so much money?"
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