Chapter 1085 Drifting to Brazil
There is a thing in the world called 'the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny'.
Xiao Peng originally wanted to go to the sea on a life raft, but the damn weather made people very speechless.
It's normal to have a few rains a day here.
Xiao Peng guessed based on the geographical environment here that it should be at the southern tip of the Caribbean Sea, near Venezuela or Trinidad and Tobago.
He had a reason to make this guess.
The Caribbean Sea is nowhere to be seen, but the climatic characteristics are clearly distributed: the western part is close to Mexico and receives little rainfall, but the central north often experiences hurricane season, and the southern part receives a lot of rain but rarely has hurricanes.
Hurricanes usually pass by this side and head north into the Stars and Stripesγγγγγγ
Xiao Peng's side encountered a passing hurricane, and then it should have blown to the southern end of the Caribbean Sea with the wind, and now they want to leave here, but they are in troubleγγγγγγ
If you want to go rafting, you can't go out without water and food, right? Water is easy to solve, just fill it with coconut, but what about food?
Xiao Peng was very genius to come up with a way to make Mexican-style banana cakes.
Speaking of which, this Mexican-style banana cake method is very simple, that is, the banana is pressed into a puree and then pressed in oil, not to mention the taste, it is easy to carry and preserve, it is not easy to spoil, and there are so many bananas on the island, it is really suitable to prepare this thing to go to sea to make food.
It's not without reason that Mexican cuisine claims to be the fifth largest cuisine in the worldγγγγγγ
In other words, there are three major cuisines in the world.
One is Chinese cuisine, including Huaxia, plastic surgery, Wa and some countries in Southeast Asia, represented by Chinese food, which is the most populous cuisine in the world.
The other is French cuisine, which includes Europe, America, Oceania and many other places, and is the most extensive cuisine, with Western food as the main body.
The third is Turkish cuisine, also known as halal cuisine, which includes Central Asian, West Asian, South Asian and some African countries.
This is the one of the three major cuisines recognized in the world, but later Russian cuisine was also very distinctive and widely distributed (the polar bear side was too big), so he called himself the fourth largest cuisine in the world. And then there are quite a few people who agree.
So who's the fifth? It's so hilarious, it's almost head-breaking.
In fact, the more agreeable statement is that Mexican cuisine has developed its own characteristics while having both Caribbean style, but some people are not happy------ it must be the largest plastic surgery country in the universe! They directly stood up and said that the food of their plastic surgery country is the fifth largest cuisine in the world, and even spent a lot of money to advertise in Times Square in New York, saying that their food is really the fifth largest cuisine in the world.
The people who eat melons are at a loss, what are the things? Isn't the food in your plastic surgery country part of the Chinese cuisine? Besides, is there anything else in your plastic surgery country besides kimchi? The kimchi is still invented in Huaxia more than 1,400 years ago, which makes you stinky and shameless to apply for cultural heritage (or the kind that is not a world cultural heritage, and Huaxia can also apply for it------ but there are too many things in Huaxia, and it is not the turn of a kimchi). Besides, more than 90% of the kimchi eaten in your country is imported from China, right?
As the most disgusted with plastic surgery, the Japanese people complained first: "Obviously belongs to the Chinese cuisine, but does not claim to be the fifth largest cuisine, isn't that a joke? Besides, the fifth largest cuisine in Asia is also our Japanese country, and it is not your turn!"
This is not wrong for the Japanese people, after all, now in the world, the development of Japanese cuisine is very good, and I don't know how many hundreds of streets have been dumped for plastic surgery. But people don't listen to this set of plastic surgery, and the cuisine of our universe country is not as good as that of your Japanese country? What are you kidding? So all kinds of war of words, and in the end, even the fact that most of the food in this Japanese country is raw to attack the Japanese country's human savageryγγγγγγ
The war of words between the two countries is happy in China, watching the excitement on the side, and watching rookies pecking each other is also quite interesting. But the result was good, and the people sat at home, and the pot came from heaven. The plastic surgery country quickly filmed a TV series, which contains all kinds of black Chinese food, in short, in a word, Chinese food is learned from our plastic surgery country, and Chinese food cannot be compared with plastic surgery national food.
Alas, anyone who sees Asian faces in China and eats is more ugly than a dog, and they don't even need to ask----- they must be plastic surgery Chinese. Did they eat such good things at home?
So, this plastic surgery national meal is said to be the fifth largest cuisine in the world? That's a joke, exactly like everything else in their countryγγγγγγ
But if Mexican cuisine is said to be the fifth largest cuisine in the world, Xiao Peng is still more supportive. At least it's much better than the kimchi of the plastic surgery country!
It's easy to decide to make Mexican-style banana frittas, but the question is: where does the oil come from?
This is not difficult for Xiao Peng, there are black beans on the island. Black beans are all too common in the Caribbean. They all belong to the people's staple food level, and the black beans on the island are piled up in piles. The Chinese people extracted oil from plants that is really ancient, and there was a method of 'pounding oil' from the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the oil at that time was mostly used for lighting and waterproofing.
At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, vegetable oil was widely consumed, as Zhuang Xuan of the Song Dynasty said: "Frying coke and pressing can produce oil", which is similar to the modern oil extraction process.
In fact, the method is not difficult, that is, when the beans are copied to the state of being crispy on the outside and crispy on the inside, the fried black beans are crushed into flour, and then pressed into cakes!
In order to extract vegetable oil, Xiao Peng also deliberately cut down a big tree, hollowed out the trunk and made a simple oil press, and let Yang Meng use a wedge to smash the oil.
The plan is very plump, but the reality is very skinny.
The ghost weather here is really speechless, it can rain several times a day, just now the sun was shining, and suddenly it was rainy, and then it was a downpour, and it was not pleasant to squeeze oil?
Xiao Peng was also ruthless, and he cut down the bamboo wildly and directly built a big bamboo house! This problem was finally solved, but it took nearly a week to build this bamboo houseγγγγγγ When the oil is fried and the banana cake is ready, more than half a month has passedγγγγγγ
Now their inflatable life rafts are working again, filled with coconut and banana cakes. The next thing that greeted them was the biggest difficulty------ how to get out of the island.
There is a problem with such an uninhabited island, that is, around the island, because the island blocks the flow of seawater, there are great currents and waves------ it is no exaggeration to say that if you really fall on the island, you want to leave the island by rowing by manpower by setting up a raft, it is simply an impossible task for ordinary people! The wave height of three or four meters around the island is drizzle!
But fortunately, Xiao Peng and Yang Meng are not ordinary people. The physical fitness of the two of them is in Marvel Comics, even if they can't catch up with the Hulk, at least they are 'Colosses', right? The two oars on the boat were in Yang Meng's hands, and they rowed quickly! The small life raft climbed up along the huge waves and easily entered the open sea.
"Brother Peng, where are we going next?" Yang Meng complained: "It's so hot!"
No wonder he complained that the life raft was like a tent, sealed with a canvas shed, so that the people in the life raft could be protected in the event of strong winds and waves. Just like when they crashed that day, if it weren't for this canvas shed, Yang Meng wouldn't have known where to throw itγγγγγγ
But if the weather is bad, this shed is still very good, but in the case of direct sunlight like now, it will be sinful in the shed.
Xiao Peng lay there fanning a fan made of palm leaves: "Young man, what are you doing in such a hurry? β
Yang Meng was speechless: "Big brother, can I calm down!
Xiao Peng laughed, pointed to the compass in the life raft and said: "Although I don't know where we are now, but we must be in the Caribbean, right?
"If you go southwest, you will encounter land?" Yang Meng was puzzled.
"How did you learn geography? The Caribbean Sea is also an inland sea, with continents on three sides, Stars and Stripes to the north, Mexico to the west, and Venezuela to the south.
When Yang Meng heard this, he took off his clothes after determining the course, and the oars rowed fast!
"Hey, what are you doing?" Xiao Peng was originally there with his eyes closed, but he felt that the speed of the life raft was not moving at the right speed, so he opened his eyes and asked, "What are you doing in such a hurry? Wouldn't it be better to float for a few days and feel a relaxed life? Didn't you say that you haven't had a good rest all these years? What a good rest time now?"
Yang Meng's eyes widened: "What you said is easy! I can stand this Nima who doesn't eat meat for a day or two, I haven't eaten meat for more than half a month! Such a big island, I can't find a snake to eat! You still won't let me eat a turtle after catching a turtle! I didn't evolve to the top of the biological chain to be a vegetarian!"
"Isn't there seafood?" Xiao Peng said lightly: "Besides, it's for your good if you don't let you eat turtles, what kind of turtle is that? Atlantic loggerhead sea turtles, an endangered species in the IUCN, you can eat them?
Yang Meng sighed: "I can see it, this day big fish and big meat are the same as eating bran and vegetables every day." I'm tired of eating seafood every day, and I don't want to eat lobster in half a year nowγγγγγγ β
Xiao Peng laughed: "Why are you so beaten by this? If people have a choice, would they rather eat big fish and meat every day or eat bran vegetables?"
Yang Meng said: "I mean I have to adjust it! Anyway, I want to eat meat now!"
"Okay, just watch the toss. But I'll tell you, if you break the oars, we won't be able to cry. That's a dead end!" Xiao Peng warned.
Many people encounter wind and waves at sea, and the first thing they think of is to get on the lifeboat, in fact, the lifeboat is the last means of self-protection, and the probability of survival on the lifeboat is very low.
After all, lifeboats are too small, and generally speaking, the shipwrecks are either strong winds and waves, or in the middle of the ocean. Like Xiao Peng, this time when they fell into the water, if it weren't for Xiao Peng, ordinary people would have been buried at the bottom of the sea.
And like the Titanic, it is safer to get on the lifeboat in the case of a shipwreck, but how long does it take for the rescue to arrive? What should I do if something happens before the rescue comes? The boat is so small in the deep sea, like leaves, and there are not a few life rafts that are overturned by the wind and waves when waiting for rescue, which is considered lucky, and the small space of the life raft means that there are few resources, and it is not uncommon for people to die of hunger and thirst before the rescue arrives.
Xiao Peng's oars on their life raft are made of hard plastic with wooden handles, according to Yang Meng's rowing method, even if they are made of steel, they can bend it, if the oars are really broken, the two of them can really only float by relying on itγγγγγγ
After listening to Xiao Peng's words, Yang Meng didn't go crazy anymore, and rowed the boat little by little.
The two of them were lucky, they floated on the sea for more than ten days, although it often rained, but there was really no big wind and waves, and the rain also added a lot of fresh water to the two, plus the damn banana cake, the two were not hungry, but γγγγγγ Eating banana cakes every day, Xiao Peng himself is about to become a banana.
What's more, Yang Meng, who has no meat and no joy, once he saw a gray whale, this guy was going down to play with it with an axe. Xiao Peng, who was frightened, hurriedly stopped him------ this guy is crazy, but even he is afraid of himself.
Just when Xiao Peng himself wanted to cheat and take out some delicious food and drink to stop suffering this crime, the two were finally saved------ a Maple Leaf National research ship conducting biological research work in the Caribbean found the two of them.
Well, in fact, it doesn't matter if they don't find the two, Xiao Peng and the others have already arrived at a place dozens of nautical miles away from the mainland, and they will be able to go ashore in another day at most.
But I can't add the enthusiasm of the Maple Leaf people on the ship------ at least an hour.
However, when Xiao Peng and the others ate their rations for a week, a boatload of people couldn't laugh. What kind of monster are these two rescued?
"Thatγγγγγγ Hello, I'm Professor McGill of the University of Toronto, Maple Leaf Country, and these are our students. We are here to study biological studies in the North Atlantic and Amazon basins. How did you get here?" said a white-haired old man to the two of them very kindly.
Yang Meng was still playing with the steak there, and Xiao Peng was also stunned when he heard it: "The North Atlantic and the Amazon Basin?
"Oh, you're in Brazil now! We're done here, and we're going to Macapa to change ships. You wouldn't mind coming with us to Brazil, would you?"
Well, is this Xiao Peng and the others regarded as stowaways? But which Chinese smuggled them to Brazil!