After being stranded on a deserted island, they all plotted against me

On TV, skinning animals is as easy as eating a banana. Half the skin is gone in a flash.

But if Zhang Liu did it himself, he would need to carefully cut a gap with a metal sheet and then pull hard to take off a piece.

Cut open another slit and pull hard again.

The stomach and back are relatively easy to handle.

After making several cuts in the skin at the distal joint of the lamb's leg, he simply made a circular cut around the calf, bypassing the hoof.

Fortunately, the sheep was hung in the air by the "hanging cutting rack" made by Anya, and he was able to exert his strength easily with the help of two girls.

So there is enough space to deal with it. If there is only one person, Zhang Liu really doubts whether he can finish peeling it by evening.

"Huh..." He pushed the sheepskin off his tail, took a long breath, and couldn't help but smile happily on his face.

In his opinion, this is not just a sheepskin, but also one of the important equipment for tomorrow's exploration.

However, the feeling of holding the sheepskin in the hand is not as soft as the sheepskin jackets my parents bought for me when I was a child. Instead, it feels like grabbing a layer of thick and tough rubber.

Can this thing really be used as a backpack?

Although he was a little hesitant, Zhang Liu didn't have time to think about it at this moment.

He knew that rather than dealing with the skinned sheep, he should prioritize dealing with the mutton that was completely exposed to the hot air.

Chapter 54: If you have the guts, don’t come back to spend the night!

Zhang Liu didn't know how much the sheep weighed.

After all, there are no weighing tools at the moment.

But he was sure that there was plenty of meat to eat.

There were four legs of meat, meat from the sheep's chest, belly meat that Anya specified to be kept for skewers later, and a whole spine with meat, as well as other parts of the meat that felt very tender when you scratched them with a knife.

One shortcoming is that there is not much fat on the sheep's body. Based on Anya's professional understanding of eating steak, it does not sizzle when grilled.

Qin Ruoshuang couldn't bear the sight of her muscles and fat being cut and torn apart by the knife, so she took the initiative to search for wood not far away.

Anya and Zhang Liu enthusiastically began to discuss how to eat meat.

"There's no problem with smoking these meats!" Pointing at the butt meat that Zhang Liu had cut off from the lamb leg, Anya, whose family ran a cattle farm, said confidently, "There's still a lot of fat in it, so it won't spoil easily!"

"Oh!" Zhang Liu carefully placed the butt meat on a large leaf and nodded, saying, "Then I'll cut it into strips later so that you can take some away tomorrow."

Then he pointed at his belly and asked, "Will you take care of this yourself later? You really don't need my help?"

"Of course!" Anya nodded, then rolled her eyes at Zhang Liu and said sarcastically, "You think you are superhuman. You can handle lamb legs and grill skewers."

"Ahem... I'm just worried that you'll get tired." Zhang Liu said sincerely, "After all, I'm a boy, so I should do more work."

He said this sincerely.

Because compared to herself who was only slightly out of breath after processing the sheep's body, Anya was obviously sweating all over, and her red sportswear was completely wet.

"Tsk, you should worry more about Qin Ruoshuang!" Hearing that the other party cared about her, Anya felt sweet in her heart, but she also realized that the sour words she just blurted out were wrong, so she quickly added: "Be careful, she is a girl after all, don't keep staring at her chest!"

"what?"

Zhang Liu, who was inexplicably blamed, looked confused, but he did not stop what he was doing.

Place the lamb legs, lamb spine, and lamb ribs on two racks in order, then shake them twice to make sure the racks will not collapse.

Then they started a small fire underneath, and when it was burning well, they covered it with a layer of wet branches soaked in sea water.

Along with a sizzling sound, a thick smoke rose up and began to burn the meat.

"Cough cough cough..." The smoke spread quickly. Zhang Liu, who was standing next to the fire, was choked and coughed several times. Anya, who was not far away, was also smoked so much that she grabbed two pieces of meat as long as her arms and ran away.

At the same time, the smoke also successfully drove away many flies that were attracted by the smell of blood near the cave.

The annoying buzzing noise that had been there for a while disappeared almost instantly.

"I'm going to deal with the stone pit in the back. I'll leave this to you." Zhang Liu took a sip of water to moisten his throat, which was a little sour. Then he said to Anya who was sharpening thin wooden sticks with a piece of metal: "Try to persuade Qin Ruoshuang to sit on it later to get used to the bloody scene. She can take her time. There's no need to force herself."

"I'm not going to tell you." The action of cutting wood suddenly stopped. Anya raised her head and pouted her lips in dissatisfaction and said, "If you want to tell me, go and tell me yourself!"

"No, I'm a boy. If I show too much concern for her, in this special environment, I will be suspected of taking advantage of her." Zhang Liu looked at Anya sincerely and said, "So please, Anya, can you?"

"Since you care about me so much, aren't you afraid of someone taking advantage of you?" With a slight turn of his eyes, Zhang Liu's self-defense made Anya feel very comfortable. At the same time, he blushed and said, "Last time, you told me that I could be lazy about anything..."

"Ah... aren't you bullying me?" Zhang Liu's eyes widened instantly.

In that previous "sprained ankle" incident, wasn't Anya preparing to bully me?

Looking at Anya, his expression began to become complicated, and he also began to recall the strange words Anya had shouted before.

"I'm ready to clamp your waist..."

"You have to be responsible for me..."

"Upgrading your rank..."

After a long silence, Zhang Liu stammered, "Student An Ya, you are not being so harsh on me because of the suspension bridge effect...Ahhhhhhhh!"

He screamed and dodged the sharp wooden stick that Anya was pointing at his chest.

Zhang Liu fished out a spark of fire and ran away quickly.

"If you have the guts, don't come back!" Anya stood there and shouted angrily while watching Zhang Liu running away in panic.

Then she squatted there with her face covered and didn't say anything.

Feelings of shyness kept coming back to me.

Zhang Liu does this, does it mean he already knows what I am thinking?

This thought suddenly popped up in Anya's mind, and at the same time she began to curse the other person in her heart as a blockhead.

I just understand it now!

"What happened?" After hearing the loud noise, Qin Ruoshuang ran back with a pile of wood. Then she saw Anya, whose face was flushed, squatting on the spot and covering her face. There was some surprise in her voice.

"It's okay, Zhang Liu just teased me!" Anya casually said something that Qin Ruoshuang could not easily ignore. She pointed at the cave and said, "Qin Ruoshuang, go up first after you finish collecting firewood. You don't have to force yourself to overcome the fear in your heart now!"

"But..." Qin Ruoshuang looked at the mutton that was "dismembered" by Zhang Liu and Anya not far away. Her face suddenly turned pale and her steps became unsteady.

"Qin Ruoshuang, you don't want Zhang Liu to see you squirting, do you?" Folding her arms across her chest, Anya said, "If that happens, your image as an iceberg beauty will be completely ruined."

"Where did this iceberg beauty come from?" Qin Ruoshuang couldn't help but smile bitterly when she heard the nickname given to her by other students in the school.

"Isn't that what everyone calls her? Your sister is called the Volcano Explosion Girl?" After finding several sticks suitable for skewering lamb in the pile of firewood in Qin Ruoshuang's arms, Anya said while peeling the bark, "By the way, what was her original name?"

"Qin Ruoyan, originally it was the word 'Yan' in fireworks, but later my mother asked me to change my name."

After a brief chat with Anya, Qin Ruoshuang, whose worries were brought to mind, sighed slightly, then stood up and continued to collect firewood outside.

Feeling that the other party had little desire to talk, Anya stopped trying to make herself bored and continued to work hard.

Try to eat lamb kebabs at noon and roasted lamb legs at night to supplement your protein!

Thinking of the hot and greasy meat, she couldn't help but run to the giant clam shell where the internal organs were still being stewed, scooped up a piece of the internal organs and put it in her mouth.

This is not stealing, but the most primitive way to judge whether the meat is stewed well.

To Anya's disappointment, after chewing the hot offal repeatedly, it still had a tough texture, which was very different from the mutton offal soup she had imagined.

She stretched her neck hard and swallowed the innards whole, she let out a long breath, and then continued to cut the skewers.

It’s better to eat lamb skewers first!

Anya thought painfully as she felt the unpleasant taste of the sheep's innards slowly sliding down her esophagus into her stomach.

Chapter 55: Big sister, you are scolding several people.

While Qin Ruoshuang and Anya were busy with their own things, Zhang Liu was dealing with the stone pit.

The plan he had thought of last night was very easy and simple. He would throw a thick layer of weeds on the fallen leaves and then set them on fire.

The next step is to wait.

Finally, the ashes that have been cooled down after burning are used as moisture absorbents to dry and sterilize the cave.

I jumped down to clean it up, and it was expected to be finished in the afternoon, and then I started to make "Nangkeng Roasted Lamb"

I successfully ate lamb legs in the evening, and if nothing goes wrong I can bring some lamb on the road tomorrow.

But it's really just a thought.

In actual operation, Zhang Liu felt troubled at the first stage.

The first is combustion efficiency.

Since there is no air inlet under the pit, the weeds inside are all selected and dry, which in theory makes them very suitable for burning.

But in fact, the combustion is not complete. Even after the outermost layer is burned out, there is no movement below.

This forced him to stand by with a long stick and poke away the outer layer of ash that isolated the oxygen to help the burning.

This can be considered to have barely solved the problem of combustion efficiency.

But a new problem arose. Below the cave pit was a muddy humus layer about five centimeters deep, and there was still some black liquid in it.

Just poke it lightly with the stick and the burning weeds will come into contact with it.

It would be fine if it just made a hissing sound and then went out.

The key is that the smoke is very thick and very black.

There is much more smoke than the smoked lamb just now.

"Cough cough cough..." Zhang Liu was standing nearby. He didn't know what his appearance had become from the smoke, but he kept coughing.

At the same time, the efforts to remove the weeds in the pit did not stop.

After Zhang Liu's persistent efforts of adding weeds, fiddling with the fire to increase the burning efficiency, and coughing madly, he was finally burned so badly that he could not stand next to the stone.

After leaving this empty rocky area awkwardly, Zhang Liu had no choice but to run back to the cave to help Anya. As for the pit, he could only wait for it to cool down before coming back to check the situation.

However, the combustion efficiency has been significantly improved.

After the water in the pit is evaporated, the withered, yellow and black leaves will also become combustion aids.

The originally thick and large black smoke has gradually become smaller. This is a sign that the moisture inside has been completely dried out and it has begun to enter a smoldering state.

Before leaving, Zhang Liu, following the old saying, the more firewood, the higher the flame, and stuffed several handfuls of dry weeds into the fire.

And place the stirring stick in the center as a path for air circulation.

At the same time, somewhere on the island, a girl looked up at the smoke that had been floating in the sky for a long time and was gradually disappearing, with an excited look on her face.

Her appearance and dress were almost exactly the same as Qin Ruoshuang, who was bending over to pick up firewood near the cave.

The only difference is the stockings wrapped around her legs. Qin Ruoshuang's are black.

Her silk was white, but it had turned a little yellow due to the journey over the past few days.

"I hope it's rescue!" The girl muttered to herself, looking at the forest in front of her where the howling of wolves could be heard at night, and gritted her teeth.

Running outside to the beach, she began to move in the direction where the smoke was coming from.

Like Zhang Liu, the girl would rather take a detour through the beach than step into the forest at will.

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"Mutton skewers, mutton skewers, three for one dollar!"

Near the cave, Anya was shouting hard.

Zhang Liu and Qin Ruoshuang were sitting nearby, laughing.

With sufficient food as a support, the mental state of the three people also rose several levels.

After laughing, Zhang Liu looked at Qin Ruoshuang beside him helplessly. Anya's funny behavior at this moment was instigated by her.

She said she wanted to put on a performance, so Anya volunteered to imitate "Mutton Kebab", and the performance was really good.

"Why are you looking at me?" Qin Ruoshuang's face flushed slightly. She lowered her head and used a sharp flint to scrape a piece of coconut meat from the coconut shell. She directly picked it up and handed it to Zhang Liu's mouth, saying, "Are you hungry?"

"No..." Zhang Liu shook his head helplessly. He didn't know what to say. He just reached out to take the coconut meat handed to him by Qin Ruoshuang, then put it in his mouth and chewed it. The taste was still bland.

However, the lunch for the three of them was high in protein.

After Anya finished grilling the last three skewers of lamb in her hand, the meal had already begun.

Each person gets three skewers of lamb, a coconut, a large bowl of lamb soup, and two egg yolk fruits.

Just from the appearance, it looks pretty good and can be considered rich.