Fisherman Fubao made his fortune by fishing

The stacked ice bricks are not strong enough to hold each other together and need to be frozen by pouring water on them. Even if the igloo is built, the ice walls need to be reinforced every once in a while.

There are some techniques for splashing water on the ice wall. You can't just splash it randomly. The amount and location of the water spray must be appropriate.

Li Yuer scooped some snow with a wooden shovel, sprinkled the snow along the cracks in the ice bricks, and then slowly poured in water in small amounts.

The weather was so cold that the water that seeped into the snow froze before it had time to melt the snow.

In the Northeast of my previous life, when it was the coldest, any saliva I spit out would freeze into ice when it hit the ground, but if I licked a telephone pole with my tongue, it would stick to it.

When I was in school, there was a male college student who didn't believe it and tried it. The result was amazing.

"It's a bad meal!"

Old Mrs. Cai shouted at the top of her lungs in the direction of Qiantan, but even with her high voice, the sound was quickly blown away by the gust of wind.

Fortunately, Li Lao Da and his son had already returned with two full loads of ice bricks.

After a tiring day, the Li family members sitting around the dinner table were so hungry that their eyes turned blue.

"It's so fragrant!"

The whale meat fried in whale oil is tender and fatty. One bite will fill your mouth with oil, which makes those who haven't eaten meat for half a year almost cry.

"It would be nice if I could eat meat every day! No! It would be nice if I could eat meat once every ten days." Li Erlang puffed out his cheeks with emotion.

There was a lot of whale meat, and Mrs. Cai was not reluctant to cook it. She cooked it with enough meat and plenty of whale oil.

Old Madam Cai rolled her eyes at him and said, "You still eat meat every day. The emperor's life is no more than this."

Li Erlang said unconvincedly: "Grandma, just brag. You have never seen the emperor, so how do you know? The storytellers all said that the emperor lives in a house made of gold, which is bigger than our village, and he can eat as much meat as he wants."

"Even meat can't stop your mouth! How can you talk to your grandma?"

Old man Li tapped his grandson on the head with chopsticks, neither too hard nor too lightly.

Li Erlang didn't feel any pain either, he dodged to the side and continued fighting with the meat in the bowl.

After dinner, Mrs. Cai began to arrange accommodation.

Li Yuer's family sold their boat, and temporarily both families were squeezed on Li Lao Da's boat.

The cabin was divided into three rooms by wooden curtains. One room was originally occupied by Old Man Li and his wife, one was occupied by Old Master Li and his wife, and the last was occupied by Li Mei'er. As for the three half-grown boys, Li Laosan, Li Dalang and Li Erlang, they could only live in the bottom warehouse used to load fish from the sea, which was fishy and dark.

Now it's easy. Men can have a big bunk bed and women can have a big bunk bed with a curtain in the middle.

There is no sound insulation between the cabins, and the old man Li next door is snoring loudly.

Li Yuer thought she couldn't sleep, but as soon as she touched the pillow, she fell asleep in a daze and slept until dawn.

Thinking about how miserable she was when she slept in her previous life, she once changed her dormitory because her roommate snored when she was in college, despite the contemptuous looks from others.

Perhaps he fell asleep because he was too tired, but this would not work for long. The cold and damp cabin would make him sick sooner or later.

Li Yuer had already started thinking about how to encourage Old Mrs. Cai to build a house after the whale meat was sold.

She estimated that the stranded sperm whale was not big, but it weighed about ten tons. After removing the unusable parts, at least ten thousand kilograms of whale meat could be obtained.

If one catty is still calculated at twenty wen, it would be a full two hundred taels of silver.

Old man Li and his family have saved money for several lifetimes, but when the time comes to use it, the total amount of cash they have is only a few hundred taels of silver. The assets of other islanders on Rabbit Island are almost the same.

Two hundred taels is an astronomical figure for fishermen who are barely making ends meet.

Li Yuer curved the corners of her mouth as she faced the orange-red morning sun. The more she thought about it, the better her mood became.

Early in the morning, Old Man Li would lead his children and grandchildren to carry loads across the sea to sell meat in the town.

Li Yuer insisted on going with them. Yesterday was too busy, so today she had to pester the old couple to buy some things for the house.

It's so cold that even polar bears can freeze to death. We need quilts and cotton clothes. We've sold half of our food, so we need to buy food. My dear mother has no milk to feed me, so we need to buy refined rice. And...

Old man Li wanted to refuse, but Old Mrs. Cai made the final decision and took Li Yuer with her.

If it weren't for this girl's cleverness yesterday, the whale meat would not have been sold so smoothly and at such a high price.

At the critical moment, the two old men were not as brave as the girl. She despised herself for her performance yesterday. She was really like a piece of wood.

Li Erlang glanced at the older sister who was not even as tall as his waist, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He felt that even this little girl had a higher status than him in front of his grandparents.

However, he didn't dare to say anything sarcastic at this time. This was an opportunity to go to the best restaurant in town. If he angered grandma and didn't let him go, it would be a waste of time.

It snowed again last night, and the sea became even harder to walk on, with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Several men were still carrying heavy loads. Today they carried three loads of whale meat, weighing over 300 kilograms. People didn't dare to walk too close to the ice for fear of it collapsing.

Old Mrs. Cai held Li Yuer's hand tightly and carried a wooden stick on her shoulder, not daring to be careless at all.

"Look!" Li Yuer shouted, pointing at a footprint on the snow.

Everyone was startled and looked towards her.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Li Yuer regretted shouting and quickly explained, "Look! There's something under the ice!"

Several people's hearts skipped a beat and their faces changed.

In order to make it easier for Old Lady Cai and Li Yuer behind them to walk, Old Man Li and his companions deliberately rubbed their soles against each other when they walked, so as to kick away some of the snow.

The ice surface appeared at the bottom of the footprints, and a duck-like creature was frozen underwater.

"Wild duck?" Li Dalang identified the creature under the ice.

"It seems like it." Seeing that he was fine, Old Man Li breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I wonder how long he has been frozen in there?"

The unknown bird or beast frozen in the ice still maintains its last movements before death, with its eyes open, wings flapping, and mouth slightly open, looking lifelike.

Li Erlang said happily: "Dig it out and eat the meat!"

My family has been really lucky recently. My younger sister saw a whale when she went out for a stroll, and she even saw a frozen duck on the butcher's street.

Rabbit Island is surrounded by the sea, with a rising mountain range in the middle. The mountains are deep and forested, and there are many wild animals. No matter how greedy the villagers are, they dare not go into the mountains easily.

In the past, some villagers wanted to hunt wild animals in the mountains, so they went into the mountains to hunt, but they ended up missing. When the villagers collectively tried to find them, they had been eaten beyond recognition by wild animals.

After that, no one dared to enter the mountain anymore.

"What are you eating? You're the only one who's greedy. There's not enough meat at home for you, right? Hurry up and get going!"

Old Mrs. Cai scolded that the ice seemed solid on the surface, but actually contained many dangers.

The sea is different from rivers and lakes in that the thickness of the ice surface is different. Many frozen sea surfaces have hidden undercurrents where the water flows fast under the ice and the ice layer is thin. If you step on it carelessly, it can be fatal.

The duck is nice, but it’s not worth exchanging your life for.

Besides, selling meat is important. With the money you make, you can buy all kinds of meat, such as chicken, duck and barn meat.

Holding back her heartache, Old Lady Cai urged the group to get back on the road.

Li Yuer broke off a section of the branch in his hand and inserted it as a mark, hoping that he would have a chance to dig it out later.