Chapter 69: Transplantation

When Mia wakes up in the morning, she finds a drop of blood from yesterday on the bilge. Only then did I remember that Xingyu's palm was cut by a knife yesterday. Miya thought suspiciously: "When Xingyu learned to cast the net yesterday, didn't his palms hurt?" ”

Mia looked back and saw that Heungwoo had already sat up, looking at her palms with a heavy face. Mia, who felt strange in her heart, also looked at Xingyu's palm. Miya was surprised to see Xingyu's palm, and there were no traces of cuts at all. Mia, who is shocked, suspects that she has misremembered Heungwoo's injured hand. Miya reached out and grabbed Xingyu's other hand, which was also unscathed. After Xingyu saw that his other hand was not injured, he looked at Miya suspiciously, and asked, "Am I dreaming?" ”

Confused, Xingyu stood up and walked to get a knife. Xingyu picked up the knife and wanted to cut it in the palm of his hand. After Miya saw Xingyu's movements, she rushed over in fright and grabbed Xingyu's hand holding the knife, and scolded angrily: "You are stupid! The two who couldn't figure it out had to temporarily let go of the confusion in their hearts.

After breakfast, Heungwoo and Mia stepped into the lifeboat again. Before going to bed last night, Xingyu had already figured out how to convert the cabin of the lifeboat into a planting cabin. After Xingyu looked at several places in the cabin, he was sure that his idea was feasible.

Heungwoo and Mia move all the plants into the lifeboat. Then the little soil left over from the previous potato planting was also moved into the lifeboat. Xingyu first unpotted the pepper tree and transplanted it to the Styrofoam box. Xingyu put the pepper tree on one side of the Styrofoam box, and on the other side prepared to plant another pepper tree. Although they are not used to eating chili peppers, they have to learn to eat spicy because of the rich vitamin C in chili peppers.

Xingyu then opened a U-shaped hole on both sides of the styrofoam lid, so that the lid could pass through the main stem of the pepper tree. After Heungwoo closed the lid of the box, he sprinkled the pepper seeds in another U-shaped hole. Xingyu plans to plant old trees on one side and new trees on the other, and take turns planting pepper trees on the left and right. This ensures that they have a long-term pepper harvest.

Xingyu and Mia used the same method to transplant small tomato trees and potato seedlings. However, the potato seedlings are still maintained in batches. In their previous experience on a raft, the harvest of eight potato seedlings was enough to eat a cycle. So there is no need to separate old and new seedlings.

After the plants were transplanted, Heung-woo and Mia brought the sticks from the cabin of the drift ship. Xingyu tied the wooden strips into a net-like base frame. The sides of the wooden strips were tied with harnesses on the inner wall of the lifeboat. The Styrofoam box is then placed in the mesh of the wooden mesh and tied with a rope along with the lid. This ensures that the box does not tumble in big waves. It also ensures that plants and dirt do not fall out of the box when the lifeboat is flipped over.

The only thing that worries Xingyu is the sunshine problem. The lifeboat has four sealed round windows, two hatches and a viewing hatch at the top. Xingyu was not sure, after the three hatches were opened, the sunlight shining into the cabin was not enough for the plants to photosynthesize. When there is no such thing as the best of both worlds, it is most important to protect your plants. So that's the only way to try.

When Heungwoo and Mia returned to the platform of the drifting ship, they immediately felt that the platform was spacious. When you are full of plants before, you should be careful when walking. Heung-woo looked at the lifeboat that was being pulled by a rope. Xingyu's heart was worried that all their plants were in the lifeboat. If a violent storm breaks the rope connecting the drifting boat to the lifeboat. Then they will lose a lot. The loss of plants is still a small matter, there are peppers, small tomatoes and potatoes in the drifting boat, and where there are fruits, there are seeds. So the problem with the seeds is not big, the trouble is the soil. They are no longer out of dirt. So make sure that the rope pulling the lifeboat doesn't break. The lifeboat was supposed to be pulled with a steel cable to be safe, but they no longer had a steel cable.

Xingyu immediately thought of the cabin, and there were still two cables that the observation station had used to pull the drifting ship into the sea. After Xingyu took out the cable, he wanted to replace the two steel cables in front of the boat that pulled the pole with the cable. When the boat is sailing, the force is applied by the two steel cables behind the boat that pull the poles. The two steel cables in front of the boat are just to fix the pole, and it is enough to pull them with cables.

Heungwoo looked at the top of the pole and suddenly realized that he had made another mistake. The drifting boat did not have a lightning rod. When it rained before, they all sheltered from the rain in the insulated cabins. Therefore, Xingyu has not noticed the problem of lightning rods. Xingyu is glad that the two cables are still there, and the best material for modifying the lightning rod is brass.

Xingyu first removed about 30 centimeters of the gum cladding at one end of the two cables, and about one meter off the gum skin at the other end. The cable at the 30-centimeter-tale end was then tied to the top of the pole, while the one-metre-tarened end was thrown into the sea. This is a simple lightning rod. It's much easier than installing a lightning rod on a raft before.

They already run out of cables and steel cables left. I had to continue to pull the lifeboat with a rope. But if you pull it with a rope, there is a real danger of breaking the rope. So Heung-woo decided to tie the lifeboat to the back of the drifting boat. This avoids the rope breaking caused by long-distance pulling, and it is also enough to tie the rope a few more times.

For the next week, both of them paid attention to the plants in the lifeboats. The two were worried about the lack of sunlight in the boat, so they carefully observed the leaves of each plant every day. After a week, they saw that the leaves were still green. Only then did I let go of my worries. However, they soon discovered that the peppers and tomatoes in the harvest had become smaller. But it was still within the range they could accept, so they decided to plant like this.

One morning, as soon as Xingyu and Mia climbed onto the platform, they saw three boats floating in the distance. Curiously, the two set sail for the three ships. As they approached, Xingyu saw three sand barges ahead. They stood on the platform of the drifting boat and saw that there was nothing inside the empty barge. In front of me were three empty barges. Such barges resemble large iron boxes without a roof. If it rains, no one pumps the water out of the boat. A few more rains like this, and the barge will sink to the brim. So Xingyu wondered, how could these three barges float on the sea and not sink.

Mia noticed that there was a room that looked like a cockpit at the back of the barge, so she asked Xingyu, "That one seems to be a cockpit, should we go over and have a look?" Xingyu laughed and replied, "The barge doesn't have a cockpit!" The barge had no engine and no rudder. So there is no need for a cockpit, that is the observation room, a room for the barge crew to observe and rest. Xingyu thought for a moment, and then said, "It's okay to go over and take a look, and see what's inside." ”

When they entered the observation room, they were disappointed. There was only a stack of canvas and a chair inside. Mia wailed in disappointment: "How can there be nothing? Xingyu explained: "This is a small barge. I'm afraid that this observation room is all a fictitious one, and there are no staff standing guard at all. It is usually used as a storeroom. Xingyu teasingly continued: "No, there is a stack of canvases." How it didn't rain, you don't need to pull the canvas. I'm afraid no one has come back here. ”

Heungwoo and Mia were helpless. They don't need these three barges that can't stand the wind and waves. In the end, he only took a stack of canvases and left. After watching the three barges gradually move away, Miya turned to look at the canvas placed on the walkway in front of the boat, and teased Xingyu: "You don't go back empty-handed when you enter Baoshan!" It's good to grab a stack of canvases! ”