novelden Chapter 122 Coconut Bowl
Chapter 122 Coconut Bowl
Lin Jiaojiao couldn't hold on any longer after digging for an hour. Her feet were numb from squatting. She stopped after looking at the small bucket full of clams.
She stood up, shook her sore arms, and looked at Fu Qi not far away.
"Fu Qi, how about taking a break? I'm going to open a coconut, do you want to?"
Fu Qi's legs became numb from squatting, but he continued digging. Later he got a bench and sat on it to dig. It was indeed much more comfortable.
"I want to dig for a while longer. Sister Jiaojiao, go take a rest first. I just drank some water and I'm not thirsty now."
"Row."
She walked to the side of the boat and picked up the coconut at the stern, and then picked up the machete at the threshold of the boat house.
She walked to the stove, sat down and started to process the coconuts. Maybe the noise was a little too loud, so a little kid nearby looked up and stared at her. He was the youngest child.
She processed the coconut skin, cracked the coconut shell and drank directly from it.
If you have a recliner with sunglasses, it would be more comfortable to lie on it and bask in the sun.
While she was still sighing, the little fellow had already put down the bone shovel, stood up, and then ran to the coconut tree in front and climbed up the tree barefoot in front of her astonished gaze.
She didn't close her mouth until she threw the coconuts from the coconut tree one by one onto the beach. It was amazing.
After the little guy came down, he picked up a coconut and walked straight to her, put the coconut on the ground, then made a chopping motion with his hands and picked it up again and handed it to her.
She understood instantly, took the coconut and picked up the machete to process it, and finally cracked off the coconut shell and handed it to the little guy.
The little guy took it with a smile, turned around and shouted to the other two children who had been watching this side nervously.
The other two children also put down their work, stood up, wiped their muddy hands with their skirts, walked over, picked up the coconut that the little boy had just picked, and handed it to her.
She had no choice but to take the job and open the coconuts for them. They thanked her and took it. Although she couldn't understand what they said, she was sure they meant thank you.
The two older children on the other side of the reef saw that everyone was gathered together. Since they were far away and couldn't see clearly, they were afraid something might happen, so they ran over quickly. When they got closer, they found that they were opening coconuts.
When Lin Jiaojiao saw the two children coming, she waved to them and handed them the processed coconuts.
The two children were a little shy, but they couldn't resist their dry mouth and stepped forward to thank him and started drinking.
They can open the coconuts themselves, but it takes them a long time to open one each time. They didn't expect this foreign businessman to be so nice.
Fu Qi also stopped what he was doing and looked up at them. It turned out that Sister Jiaojiao loved children so much. He must give birth to many children for her.
After drinking the coconut water, the children went back to their busy work. The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and Fu Qi couldn't stand it anymore, so he went to sit next to Lin Jiaojiao under the shade of the tree.
"Sister Jiaojiao, aren't they afraid of getting heatstroke?"
She looked over and said, "I shouldn't be afraid. It's only the morning sun, not the scorching sun at noon."
Seeing that the stove was also in the sun, she had to get up and find some stones in the shade nearby and rebuild it.
After Fu Qi finished drinking the coconut water, he also looked for dry branches and leaves nearby to use as firewood.
She piled up the firewood for the stove and went to collect firewood. After all, she would need a lot of firewood to prepare a meal at lunch and dinner, and maybe a midnight snack and take a bath.
She went to the boat, got a bamboo basket and put it on her back. She took a machete and went into the woods with Fu Qi to collect firewood. But they didn't dare go too deep, so they picked up a bamboo basket from the outside. Both of them held a bundle in their hands. It was a full harvest.
Fu Qi also saw some berries and mushrooms, but she didn't recognize them or pick any because she had never seen them before.
She also scattered some seeds as she walked, and whether they could survive depended on their luck.
I threw the firewood next to the stove and saw that it was almost time to cook lunch. The children had not gone home yet and were still fishing.
Because of the children around, she couldn't cook any other dishes. She originally wanted to steam some sea urchin and steamed egg.
Now she had to continue with the spicy flower crab and spicy clams, but this time she couldn’t put the clams in the hot pot base.
She was cooking while five children were sitting on the ground in the shade nearby, looking at her in unison, smelling the fragrance and swallowing their saliva from time to time.
One of the children took out shrimp cakes wrapped in banana leaves from the straw bag he was carrying on his shoulder and distributed them to the others.
They smelled the fragrance while eating the shrimp cakes, and suddenly they felt that the shrimp cakes tasted much better.
Fu Qi felt sorry for the children who had been busy all morning and only had one shrimp cake to eat, but he did not let his sympathy get the better of him and took his own food to give away.
Lin Jiaojiao thought the same. After frying the crabs and clams, she took Fu Qi to eat them at the dinner table. This thing is really delicious and you can never get tired of it.
The portions were just right, and the two of them finished both plates. Because they were both seafood, they only scooped half a bowl of porridge each, and now there was half a pot of seafood porridge left. At this time, the child with the backpack handed her half a bucket of clams and pointed to the remaining porridge in the pot.
She nodded and asked Fu Qi to take the wooden barrel and pour it into the barrel where clams were kept at the stern. Then she gestured with the empty bowl after eating.
The children directly took the coconut shells that they had used to drink water from. Seeing that the mouth of the coconut was so small, she took the machete and cut it open again.
Some of them had sand or ants crawling inside, so she had to rinse them again with water from the kettle.
Then she sat in front of the stove, holding a coconut bowl in one hand and a soup spoon in the other, and made seafood porridge for them.
The children also lined up one after another, holding bowls filled with coconut porridge, and couldn't wait to drink it.
When he took the first sip, his eyes widened with surprise, then he drank it quickly, and after finishing it, he held the coconut bowl and licked it with relish.
After they licked the coconut bowl, they looked at her eagerly again. She had no choice but to show them the remaining porridge in the pot, and then raised her index finger to indicate that she could only scoop one bowl of the remaining porridge.
Finally, they pushed the youngest one out, and the little one came over happily holding the coconut bowl.
After the porridge was distributed, Lin Jiaojiao went to the beach to fetch a basin of sea water and put the pots and bowls in it to wash.
The children went into the woods, picked a leaf that looked like a lotus leaf, put it on their heads, and continued to go fishing.
Seeing how diligent they were, Fu Qi also wanted to continue digging clams, but she woke up early in the morning and was already feeling sleepy after eating.
He first took a basin to fill with sea water, returned to the stern, sat on the doorstep of the boathouse facing the sea, took off his straw sandals, put them away, and put his feet covered with mud and sand into the basin to wash.
After wiping his feet with a foot towel, he retreated back into the boat house. At this time, Lin Jiaojiao also returned to the boat to put her things away.
"Sister Jiaojiao, would you like to take a nap?"
"No, you go get some sleep first, I'll look after these kids."
She picked up the basin he had just used to wash his feet, poured out the water and put it away, then took out another bucket, filled it with clean water and put it in the house.
"Give me your changed clothes later. I have washed and hung out the clothes from the past few days."