The morning sunlight penetrated through the gap in the cabin door and just hit Feng Shijie's eyes. This made him rub his eyes, then looked up at the sky outside, and then stood up from the hammock.

Feng Shijie is the surveyor of the fleet, and his status is just below Lu Wan, so he also enjoys some privileges on the ship. For example, like Lu Wan, he has his own separate cabin. In addition, he has better distribution of food and drinking water than Lu Wan.

There need to be more crew members, but with the lack of food on the ship during this period, Lu Wan took the lead in canceling the privileges of food and drinking water, so now Feng Shijie and ordinary crew members are treated the same

Feng Shijie stood up from the bed and felt a lot of sweat all over his body. It was sticky and uncomfortable. This was because he was sleeping shirtless. There was a human figure wet on the hammock. It would have been even more uncomfortable if he had been wearing clothes.

"It's so hot so early in the morning, it's worse than the climate in Luzon!" Feng Shijie muttered, bent down and picked up his clothes to wear, but what made him depressed was that every piece of clothing exuded a strange smell.

It was so hot last night that I decided not to wear any clothes at all. I wore a pair of big pants and walked barefoot on the deck.

The sun has already risen more than ten feet high on the bow of the ship. The crew members who were on duty last night had already had breakfast, and then went back to rest in twos and threes. The crew members who replaced them had also taken up their positions and started a busy day. Although Feng Shijie felt that his stomach was full,

I was very hungry, but I didn’t rush to get my food. Instead, I took out a tool to measure the longitude and latitude of the fleet, and then went to the captain’s cabin to record it in detail.

"Captain, have you eaten?" After Feng Shijie finished recording, he looked at Lu Wan who was drawing a chart and then asked

"No, please help me bring the things!" Lu Wan said without raising his head, holding a ruler and charcoal pen in both hands and drawing on the white silk.

"Okay!" Feng Shijie agreed, and then went to the cargo officer at the stern of the ship to get breakfast for the two of them. Now they and the crew all eat the same thing. For example, taking this breakfast as an example, it is actually a piece of food as hard as a rock.

Bacon, and a piece of dough that's a little bigger than the bacon, but harder, and finally a glass of water.

Although this is not a lot of food, it is not enough to starve anyone to death. However, since the diet was reduced, the crew members in the fleet seemed a little panicked. After all, if this continues, they will probably only be able to eat up the remaining food on the ship.

I can wait to die

In fact, Feng Shijie was also a little worried. After all, when faced with life and death, it would be a lie to say he was not afraid. But when he agreed to Lu Wan to join the fleet, he had already made this preparation in his heart, and had already arranged it at home.

Appropriate, and if they really can't go back, His Highness King Qi will definitely take care of their families, so Feng Shijie has no regrets in his heart, but he still has some regrets in not being able to reach America.

Returning to the captain's room with breakfast, Lu Wan had finished his work and was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed to rest. When Feng Shijie came in, Lu Wan opened his eyes and glanced at him, then reached out to take his breakfast, but when he saw

When I saw two pieces of breakfast that were harder than rocks, I couldn't help but smile bitterly.

I saw Feng Shijie sitting down opposite Lu Wan, reaching out and grabbing a sharp dagger from the side, and then chopped the bacon and pancakes bit by bit. Looking at him struggling, it was almost like cutting wood. Fortunately, the bacon was

It was newly made in the past two years. If it had been kept for a few more years, it would not even be able to be cut with a dagger.

Then Feng Shijie put the chopped bacon and flour cakes into a bowl, and poured in the water next to it. After soaking for a while, Feng Shijie drank the bowl of black and yellow paste into his stomach.

To be honest, although this thing looks disgusting, it actually tastes pretty good, especially the smell of alcohol in the water, which really brought out Feng Shijie’s alcohol bug. Unfortunately, the alcohol smell in the water is too weak and does not taste good at all.

Enjoyable

There are two types of fresh water stored by Lu Wan and others on the ship. One is ordinary fresh water, which is boiled in advance and loaded on the ship. This way it can be stored for a long time. However, if this kind of water passes a certain period, it will still become muddy.

It stinks, so generally only crew members who transport short and medium distances use this fresh water.

The other kind of fresh water is actually similar to the first one. It is boiled water, but it has an additional process, which is to add high-strength liquor to the water and then seal it for storage. This kind of fresh water with alcohol added can be stored for several years.

It does not deteriorate for months, so any ship that travels long distances will store a lot of this kind of light wine.

In addition, in addition to fresh water, a considerable amount of spirits will be stored on the ship. Especially as the sugar cane production in Taiwan is getting higher and higher, many people are already using sugar cane to make wine. This also makes the price of wine lower and lower, and the crew members every day

Wandering at sea, you are under a lot of mental pressure, and drinking is undoubtedly a good way to reduce stress. The captain often uses spirits as a reward for the crew. In addition, sometimes spirits need to be added to store fresh water, so

Crews have become another big customer for spirits sales

Lu Wan didn't like to soak the food. Instead, he took the dagger and cut the bacon and pancakes into slices, and then sandwiched them together to eat. However, this requires a pair of good teeth, otherwise the bacon would not be chewed into pieces, and the teeth would be very big.

Can't be dropped

"These bacon and pancakes are just spare food. I didn't expect that they would actually be used one day, but they don't taste very good." Lu Wan said while chewing. Unfortunately, after chewing for a long time, he still couldn't swallow it, so he finally drank it.

Take your saliva and put it into your stomach

After hearing this, Feng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "It's good to have something to eat. When we first went to sea, we could make sure that the fire was lit once a day and the crew could have a hot meal. But now the fuel on the ship is almost used up."

It's over. The rest is for emergency use. In addition, even if the ordinary food has not been eaten, the rest has gone bad. Only these bacon, dry noodles and other things are well preserved, but there doesn't seem to be much left, I guess.

In two days, we still don’t know what to eat?”

However, Lu Wan seemed very optimistic and said with a smile: "Actually, we still have a lot of fresh water on the ship, and we also have food to eat. For example, in order to preserve these bacon and pancakes, in addition to removing the water in advance, we also need to preserve them.

Among the bran, these brans can also be eaten, and there are also some things made of cow and sheep skin, such as boots and belts. If you are very hungry, eating them can also save your life!"

After hearing Lu Wan's words, Feng Shijie immediately showed a wry smile and said: "If it comes to eating bran or chewing leather belts, I would rather go to the sea to fish for sea vegetables."

Seeing Feng Shijie's grimace, Lu Wan laughed loudly and said: "Shi Jie, actually it may not necessarily end up in that situation. Maybe we will encounter a large fishing group and we can catch a few more fish."

The net is made into dried fish. Although this stuff is not very tasty, it is at least much stronger than bran."

"I hope so!" Feng Shijie said without any confidence. It's strange to say it. I don't know if it was the ocean current or their bad luck? They didn't encounter any schools of fish at all during this period, and every time they hit, they were rewarded.

They are very few and cannot supply everyone. Now thinking about the exploration in Nanyang back then, it is like paradise compared to now.

After breakfast, Feng Shijie walked around on the deck, and then went back to the cabin to lie down. This was mainly because of lack of food, and he had already changed his meal from three meals a day to two meals a day. As long as he had nothing to do,

At this time, most of the crew members would choose to rest and Lu Wan

After handling the affairs on the ship, he climbed to the observation deck on the mast with his telescope, and then looked around, for fear of passing by some unknown island. After all, as long as they could find an island, their current food crisis would be

That can solve most of the problem

However, Feng Shijie was not very optimistic about Lu Wan's actions, because when the food crisis first occurred, Lu Wan stayed at the observation deck every day to watch, but now half a month has passed, and there is still no island.

Seeing this means that there is probably no island in the sea area where they are located.

Sure enough, it was only in the evening that Lu Wan came down from the observation deck in great disappointment. At this time, Feng Shijie had already received a dinner. Compared with the simple breakfast, this dinner was more 'rich'. The staple food was still noodles, but

But some water was sprinkled on it, so it was no longer so hard. In addition, there were a dozen sprouts that sprouted, two pieces of canned meat, and a bowl of dark sugar water.

Beans are a must-have for every sea-going ship. They are mainly used to grow bean sprouts. I heard that this was proposed by His Highness King Qi. Eating bean sprouts can prevent some diseases. In addition, beans are rich in nutrients, so there are usually many stored on ships. Lu

Wan and their fleet brought a lot, which they haven't finished yet. There is also cane sugar, which was originally used as a commodity for trading with the natives on the island, but now that food is scarce, they can only bring it.

Help

Lu Wan put the canned meat in the pancake, then swallowed it in a few mouthfuls, then picked up the bean sprouts one by one, and carefully ate them into his mouth. The vegetables on the sea were really precious, and the bean sprouts were the only thing they could

The only vegetables he ate were vegetables. As for the last bowl of sugar water, Lu Wan sighed. The commodity officer even took out the traded goods. It seemed that the food on the ship was really going to be exhausted.

The next day, the food was a little worse than yesterday. The bacon and pancakes in the morning were a bit smaller, and the canned meat in the evening was reduced from two pieces to one. After breakfast, Lu Wan still climbed to the observation deck.

, holding up the telescope and looking around, but unfortunately at night, still found nothing

On the third day, the bacon and pancakes in the morning were smaller again, and the sugar water was replaced with a sweet and salty soup in the evening. I heard that it was the leftover soup from the original pickled sweet cabbage, and then added water.

The soup made tastes weird

On the fourth day, there was only a small piece of bread for breakfast. Some crew members in the fleet were already preparing suicide notes, and some crew members were very emotionally unstable. However, on this day, Lu Wan on the observation deck suddenly discovered a life-saving thing.
Chapter completed!