Chapter 389: The Ghost Ship
A typhoon has wiped out my efforts for more than half a year, but I will not cry like Su Ziqing, and when the typhoon passes, the sun appears, and the flood recedes, I silently clean up the mess.
The first thing to restore was my house, which had a lot of miscellaneous things, all brought by the wind, and I cleaned up the leaves and everything, and I looked at the house.
Fortunately, the damage was not very serious, and the hidden food, salt, sugar, oil, and dried wild fruits were still there, because they were well protected, and they were basically not destroyed.
However, the stove was broken by the girder, and Su Ziqing's bed, such a heavy girder was smashed down, and the fragile clay bricks couldn't bear it at all, and most of it was broken.
The pottery I burned by myself was basically useless, but the inner pot of the rice cooker was still there, and it was just another deflated piece, which did not affect the use, I picked it up and washed it, and made a meal for Su Ziqing.
"It's useless to work after eating, it's useless to be sad"
"Good"
Su Ziqing replied, after being sad, she also has to clean up her mood and resume her life, otherwise what else can she do, can she cry back?
"Do you know what to do?"
"I don't know, you say, I listen"
"Okay, the first thing, restore the water source, there were only three bottles of bottled water that were boiled before, the weather recovered after the typhoon, the sun will be very strong, we have to work, three bottles of water are not enough for our consumption for a day, wait a minute, follow me to the planing pool"
"Good"
"After the water source was restored, we restored the house, although the typhoon passed, but I don't know when it will rain, and the next typhoon will come, until October, it is the peak period of typhoons"
"Xuanji, can you make the house stronger, I'm afraid"
Su Ziqing replied, she was not afraid of working, afraid of getting the house right, and when the time came, a typhoon came and destroyed it, and she didn't want to experience that feeling of heartbreak a second time.
"I want to find a way, and when the time comes, we can plant some big trees in front of the house, tropical trees, which grow very quickly, maybe they can give us shelter from the wind and rain."
I nodded, in fact, I don't have any way, the rammed earth wall is strong enough, but it also has to be rammed, it needs a lot of tools, and the wall also needs to be thickened, this is a big project, and the time it may take is calculated in years.
It's just that Su Ziqing doesn't understand this, so let's stabilize her first, otherwise I won't be able to work if my mentality collapses.
After eating, I took Su Ziqing to the water source, fortunately, there was still water seeping out of the ground of the big tree, but after the heavy rain, the water quality became much worse.
We clean up all kinds of garbage, restore the pool, and wait until the sewage flow is clean, and all that is left is clean fresh water, which is not difficult, but how to repair the house.
The rammed earth wall is only one meter five, this height is too short, even Su Ziqing has more than one meter six, if you build a roof, it will be too depressing to live in.
"Rub the hemp rope, weave the back basket, I'll carry the clay, and then we will continue to ram the earth"
It's just that looking at Su Ziqing's sad eyes, I am also a little touched, so let's work.
Su Ziqing began to rub the hemp rope and weave the back basket, while I continued to carry the clay, which made our food consume quickly, but the food is not a problem, there is a lot of fish and meat, and the difficult thing is that the wild fruits and wild vegetables that can provide dietary fiber are all gone, and I don't know when I will be able to grow back.
After carrying the clay for three days, I began to build a wooden frame, on both sides of the wall, and then put on the wooden frame, standing on the wooden frame, and tamping the clay little by little.
"How long does it take to smash it with your hands like this?"
"A few months is the least, and building a house in the countryside for the older generation is a big thing, and it is not so easy to do"
"It's been so long, we can't hold on."
"I lack tools, otherwise it would be much easier to build a pulley set and smash it directly with a mallet, the height will go up, and the tools will not be able to keep up."
"What to do then"
"Smash it, it's like a workout"
I shook my head, I don't have tools, I'm not a craftsman, I really can't create tools, all I can do now is to use manpower to smash them little by little.
The three days of clay quickly ran out, I continued to carry it, Su Ziqing started the logistics work, and took the initiative to go to the beach to net fish.
"Xuanji, I feel so sorry for you, if only we could get some tools"
When eating again, Su Ziqing said, she saw how tiring things are these days, there is no ambiguous atmosphere at night, she goes to bed in a hurry as soon as it gets dark, and she gets up to work as soon as it is dawn, like an old scalper.
"I'll take a break these days, I'll figure it out"
I nodded, this is really not the way, I have to find a way, I think of leaving the soul, I have to go to the sea for a walk, in case there is a harvest.
In the evening, I told Su Ziqing that I was going to meditate and practice, and asked her not to disturb me, and then I forced out the Yin God again and flew to the sea.
"Boat, there is a boat"
I didn't go far before I was shocked, I really saw the ship, I immediately flew over, but when I landed on the deck, I realized that it was a ghost ship.
When I was setting up a stall in Yangcheng before, I heard that there are a lot of ghost ships on the sea, and these ships are not really ghosts, but those ownerless ships with no people, floating on the sea.
There are many reasons for the displacement, such as a landing, a storm, or a variety of reasons, the seafarers at that time abandoned the ship, but the ship did not remain silent, but drifted around the world with the currents.
According to the rules of the sea, whoever finds this kind of ownerless ship is whoever, even if the real owner finds it, it needs to spend a lot of money to redeem it, so some foreign companies are also looking for this kind of ship.
Of course, ordinary crew members may not dare to touch this kind of thing, because some ships are really weird, and there are many evil things on it, and they are all respectful of it.
I am not afraid, naturally it doesn't matter so much, I entered the cockpit and found a lot of scattered documents on the ground, it looks like some years, glanced at it, they are all words I don't know, not just what text, anyway, not Chinese and English, but I saw a few points in time, almost ten years.
I then went to the engine room, there were some rooms under the cabin, which was supposed to be the accommodation of the crew, and I found a few books in English, and a bunch of clothes, which had been more than ten years, and some of the clothes had been weathered almost, but they were kept slightly better in the cabinet and could still be worn.
Later, I went to the repair room, and I saw all kinds of tools, such as various types of wrenches, hammers, etc., which made me very happy, it would be easy to have these things.
I can't bring these things back, I'm in a Yin God state now, if I want to bring these things back, my consumption will be too great, and it will even make my soul collapse directly.
I chose only two pieces of clothing, a kitchen knife, a hammer, and some nails, weighing no more than ten pounds in total, and then I flew back to the desert island.
Su Ziqing didn't sleep at all, and when she saw her clothes floating in front of her, she was dumbfounded and speechless.
"It's me"
"Mystery, you, you,···"
"It's not dead, it's not a yin ghost, it's a yin god, you don't understand it, we're going to develop this time, I found a ghost ship"
"Ghost ship?"
"Yes, I'll go back to my body first, and tomorrow we'll build a raft and go haul things."
I replied, and then I went back to my body and told me about the ghost ship, Shiso was shocked, but the exhaustion hit me, I didn't say anything, and quickly went to sleep.
Desert islands have this benefit, there is no nightlife, they all go to bed early, even if they go out for a walk, they sleep for more than seven hours, and they wake up the next day without much fatigue.
We took the knife to cut the wood, regardless of whether the wood was wet or not, the hemp rope was tied into a raft, and there were nails to fix it, which looked very strong, and then we found those coconut shells that Su Ziqing had hidden and tied them to the raft to increase buoyancy.
Originally, I wanted to get two sails, but it seemed that we didn't know how to control the sails, and we didn't have the materials, so we gave up.
"For the sake of insurance, this time my physical body will also go with me, if I can't find it, then I will leave the soul again, you have to protect my physical body, otherwise I will really die"
"Okay, don't worry"
"Nothing to say, let's go"
It took a day to set up the raft, and the next morning, I dragged the raft to the beach, and then the two of us paddled the raft in the direction of the sea.
I had memorized the route back the night before, but the ghost ship was not so easy to find, it was mobile, and no one could guarantee that it would be found.
At noon, I still had to leave the soul to find it, the sun during the day was very harmful to the Yin God, I could go out for half an hour at most, but fortunately, the ghost ship was not far from us, I found it smoothly, and pointed the way, and we soon reached the ghost ship.
"It's a fishing boat, it's really a fishing boat, we have been saved, we can go back, Xuanji, we don't want to go back to the island, let's go back to civilized society."
Seeing this product of civilized society, Su Ziqing cried with joy, with the boat, they could go back, not back to the island.
"Su Ziqing, I have to hit you, we may not be able to go back if there is a ship, will you drive the ship, do you know how to drive the main engine, this ship has been floating at sea for at least ten years, is there still oil in the cabin, is the machine open, there are too many problems"
I couldn't help but hit Su Ziqing, it's useless to have a boat, according to what I heard from those crew members, this kind of ship needs at least three or five people to start, and this is not counting the rotating personnel.
It's been more than ten years, what about the oil, has it been shining, even if there is oil, what about the machine, how to repair it if it rusts, will it be repaired, even if these are not problems, what about the route, where to go? There are so many problems that I don't dare to have hope at all.
Su Ziqing listened to my words, the light in her eyes slowly dimmed, and she also knew that she couldn't drive back to this ship with two people.