Chapter 109: Finding joy in suffering
Back at the camp, Jiang Hao and Martha gathered all the equipment together and knew what they had. This was crucial to survival in the wild. Martha counted carefully:
"A backpack, a sleeping bag, an aluminum pot, three kettles, three knives, a bundle of half ropes, three dried smoked fish, and a dozen coconuts, we have only that." Martha spread her hands.
Originally, more than a dozen dried smoked fish were enough for two of them to eat for four or five days, but now it is only a day's amount.
Fortunately, there is only one sleeping bag, and sleeping at night is a big problem.
Jiang Hao clapped his hands, "Okay, it doesn't look that bad. All we have to do now is prepare food for tomorrow. In fact, it's time to change the recipe. And we also found tamsui, which is the biggest gain today."
Maintaining an optimistic attitude is crucial to survival in the wild.
"Let's go hunting together in the sea. This time I will also catch a fish as big as yours." Martha said.
The two of them came to the beach. Jiang Hao took off his clothes and only had a pair of shorts. In fact, if Martha was not there, he could have been naked. Martha was also very relaxed, leaving only a pair of underwear and a small vest, and her figure was undoubtedly revealed.
Firm wheat-colored skin, plump upper body, faint fish-man threads can be seen on the waist, perky buttocks, and a height of 1.7 meters. It is a perfect figure. Her short chestnut hair makes women look delicate and beautiful, and Jiang Hao has the urge to whistle.
Martha looked at Jiang Hao sideways and said, "Let's play to see who caught more prey and how about it."
"OK."
"Do you want to bet something?" Martha smiled sly.
"I'm with you, what do you want to bet on?"
"Just bet, the belonging of the sleeping bag at night."
"no problem."
Each of them held a spear tied with a dagger in their hands and dived into the sea together. Martha was in the water like a mermaid returning home. She swung her body lightly and quickly swam forward with a graceful figure. Only then did Jiang Hao remember that this girl used to practice swimming and crushed herself in this regard.
However, when she was swimming, because she was not a special swimsuit, she only wore shorts and a small vest. When she was swimming, the small vest swayed with the waves from time to time, revealing more charm.
Jiang Hao obviously had no luck as before. He used up in one breath and did not see any suitable prey. He quickly came up to breathe. Just as he was about to dive for the second time, Martha came out of the water and saw Jiang Haohuan screaming, "Look at what I caught."
I raised the dagger and spear and saw a big lobster with an arm-sized weight on the spear. What a good guy, it probably weighs four or five pounds.
“It’s amazing, we can eat lobsters at night.”
In the next half an hour, Martha harvested another lobster and a sea cucumber. Jiang Hao only got a three or four pound fish fork. I don’t know what it was called. Martha won the game perfectly in the two.
The two of them returned to their garrison with their harvest, and after a while they started to have dinner. Naturally, the chef was still Jiang Hao.
After dinner was ready, Jiang Hao asked Martha to sit down, took out a wide rubber leaf and placed it on the ground, and placed a grilled lobster on it. The back of the lobster was shaved open, revealing the white and tender shrimp meat inside.
"Welcome to the Coast Restaurant for dinner. Today's main meal is charcoal-grilled lobster. In order to keep the lobster authentic, I did not add any extra seasonings. The charcoal fire is slightly grilled, and the lobster meat is mixed with the charcoal fire, which has a unique flavor."
As he said that, he cut off a piece of lobster meat with a knife, put it in a clean rubber leaf, and put it in front of Martha, "Please taste the beautiful Miss Martha."
Martha was already overjoyed, but she still tried to hold back her smile and nodded to Jiang Hao: "Thank you, Mr. Chef."
He picked up the lobster meat with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully, Martha couldn't help but nod, "The taste is really great."
There are no professional tableware, and in the wild, chopsticks are actually the simplest and most convenient. Jiang Hao taught Martha for two days, and now she can basically pick up large pieces of things with chopsticks.
Jiang Hao took out two more conchs and used this leftover soup, "Miss Martha, please taste the sea cucumber cauliflower soup."
In addition to sea cucumbers, there were some purple seaweed and white vegetables in the soup. Martha asked curiously: "What are these? Can you eat them?"
"Of course, purple is a kind of seaweed. There are hundreds of species of seaweed in the ocean. Most of them are non-toxic and are often eaten by humans. This is just one of them, which can supplement the trace elements we need."
"As for these white dishes, they are the core of the palm tree."
Martha asked in surprise: "Can palm cores be eaten?"
"Of course, although it is a little bitter, it can cool down and detoxify and supplement the various vitamins we need, which are all necessary for the body." Jiang Hao said.
Martha held the soup and suddenly said to Jiang Hao: "I found that you know a lot. I used to think you were a novice outdoors, but now I find that I am a rookie. I really chose you right."
Jiang Hao smiled: "These are not the knowledge learned outdoors, but the knowledge of chefs. You must know that China is a big country in food, and the range of ingredients is beyond the imagination of you foreigners. Well, sometimes they are beyond the imagination of our Chinese people."
It is really hard to count how many ingredients there are in China.
Is there anything else that cannot be eaten on earth?
It seems that China only has two ways to divide animals and plants, which can be eaten and cannot be eaten.
After dinner, the two came to the beach for a walk. The sunset left their footprints. For the wild survivors, walking is a luxury. They have to endure hunger and preserve their energy. They are probably the only two of them who are as leisurely as Jiang Hao and Martha.
At night, naturally, Martha used a sleeping bag, Jiang Hao was lying beside her in clothes, and the two chatted for a long time before going to bed.
It is tropical here, and the temperature is around 23 or 4 degrees at night, and it is not cold. When Jiang Hao woke up, he just wanted to get up, but found that Martha's head was pressed against his shoulders, just like his girlfriend snuggling in her arms.
Jiang Hao smiled faintly, got up gently, took three kettles, and went to the water point to make three kettles of water. After he came back, he found that Martha had already gotten up and was making breakfast. He used an aluminum pot to cook the remaining sea cucumber soup last night, and put some dried smoked fish in it.
To be honest, the grilled lobster I made last night was pretty good. This sea cucumber cauliflower soup can be described as undesirable. However, survival in the wild is already the last taste. It can fill your stomach, replenish your energy, and replenish the vitamins needed by the body, which is already considered a good thing.
The two drank half a pot of dried fish sea cucumber soup, and Martha suggested to see if they could find their backpacks and sleeping bags. The damn Brooke threw their sleeping bags into the sea. Jiang Hao slept in the open air last night, and Martha was a little sad.
"How to find out if you are thrown into the sea?" Jiang Hao said.
"What if the waves are washed back?" Martha said.
Chapter completed!