bookrebus Chapter 710
Chapter 710
Finally, just like setting up a seawater purification plant, the warship set up a small fish skin fuel processing plant on the island.
Several large rooms built of stone and iron sheets, with simple production lines transformed using various equipment.
Powered by a gasoline generator.
Then fish skins were collected on a large scale across the island and the campaign was officially launched.
For this task, the warships are purely providing voluntary service.
People bring the fish skins, which are weighed by a responsible team. After the fish skin fuel is processed, residents can come and take away 70% of the original weight based on a 30% loss rate.
The warship side does not charge any fees.
Because the temperature has now dropped to more than ten degrees below zero, in addition to filling your stomach, keeping warm is the most important task.
Although the military consumed some fuel, it ensured that people did not freeze to death in the sub-zero weather.
Because it is extremely cold, ice has formed on the sea surface, especially in the offshore areas near the coast, where a thick layer of ice has formed.
Fortunately, the ocean is vast, and even if it freezes, it will only cover areas near the coast or parts of the deep sea.
This also brings certain difficulties to fishing boats in catching fish.
The world is in darkness, and people have to be careful when sailing in the dark. They must not hit huge ice blocks, otherwise a big hole will be knocked in the boat and people may die.
Fish is easier to preserve when the weather is cold.
If placed outdoors, it will become a natural freezer and the fish will soon be frozen solid.
The weather is cold, the air is humid, and there is no sunshine, so it is difficult to make sweet sun-dried fish, so we can only make smoked fish.
The Zhou family could only use a small wooden house to smoke fish, and the air was filled with smoke and the aroma of smoked fish.
Zhou Shuwan wrapped her hair with a towel because she was afraid that a few drops of fish oil might fall from it.
She carefully pushed open the door of the fish smoking room, and the smoke immediately hit her face, choking her so much that she couldn't help coughing twice.
Zhong Tiyun was busy inside. When she saw her come in, she looked up with red eyes and warned: "Be careful, don't let the smoke hurt your eyes."
"Mom, the smoke is too thick. We need to think of a way." Zhou Shuwan said as he waved the smoke in front of him. "Otherwise, I'll be choked every time I come in."
Zhong Tiyun nodded, her hands still smoking the fish, and she coughed a few times: "Yes, we have to find a way to ventilate it, but it's cold, and if we open the window, I'm afraid the fish will freeze too quickly and moisture will come in, making it difficult to smoke."
Zhou Shuwan frowned and looked around.
The fish smoking room was full of fish being smoked, about a hundred of them, and this was the first batch of smoked fish.
Smoke slowly drifted out from the cracks in the roof.
She thought about it and suggested, "How about we build a chimney on the roof? That way the smoke can be discharged directly, and the house won't be so choking."
Zhong Tiyun's eyes lit up and she smiled, "That's a good idea. Let your dad and Mu Mu do it. It will be ready in two days."
Zhou Shuwan nodded, turned and walked out of the fish smoking room, and ran into Qi Mingyu who was carrying fish skins to the processing plant.
Seeing her face covered in soot, Qi Mingyu couldn't help but laugh and said, "Did you just crawl out of the stove?"
Zhou Shuwan couldn't help but wipe his face with his hands while smiling: "When we made sweet sun-dried fish before, we didn't seal and smoke it like this.
After you come back with the fish skins, let's discuss building a chimney for the wooden house, otherwise no one can enter the fish smoking room.
Mom has been in there all morning, and her eyes are red from the smoke."
Qi Mingyu straightened his face and said, "Okay, we'll discuss it when I get back."
In the afternoon, the Zhou family built a chimney with iron sheets and installed it on the wooden roof.
There is also a cover on the chimney. Open the cover during smoking to speed up ventilation.
When not smoking, cover the chimney to keep it warm.
The Zhou family put some of the fish outside to freeze, and then put the frozen fish into boxes made of wooden boards, and placed them at the entrance of the stone house, with twenty or thirty boxes neatly stacked.
The rest is made into smoked fish and dried fish.
In addition to the Zhou family, other families are also busy freezing and smoking fish to preserve food for as long as possible in response to the increasingly scarce fish resources.
The wooden house of Sun Xu's family next door was also filled with smoke all day long, and the couple was reluctant to stop.
Their family didn't dare to build a fire wall like the Zhou family did, so they only built a kang.
But they were reluctant to waste fuel on heating the kang, so the couple simply slept in a small kitchen separated from the stone house.
Likewise, fish is smoked in this small space.
The stove fire can cook, smoke fish and keep warm, it really kills three birds with one stone.
At night, the couple slept on a small open space next to the stove.
There is not enough space, so I need to sleep with my legs curled up.
In the middle of the night, the couple had to take turns getting up to add firewood to the stove.
The air in the entire small space smelled very bad, with a smokey, fishy smell, and the smell of being out of ventilation for a long time.
Living like this is really inconvenient, but in the face of extreme resource scarcity, people don’t even have the dignity to survive.
Every time the couple went out, they were covered in black, including their faces, with only a mouthful of incomplete teeth showing.
Yes, although the couple were only in their thirties, they had lost several teeth due to years of slavery and lack of nutrition.
There are many houses like theirs on the island.
Warships cannot solve this problem.
A few days ago, Zhou Shuwan heard Zhipeng say that the mother ship was going to the oil field to fill up the inventory.
Their fishing team will be ready to set off with the mother ship at that time.
With the mother ship leading the way, they can fish safely.
Zhou Shuwan had something hidden in his heart and told no one.
That morning, she went to find Zhipeng and Xue Tao and told them that she and Qi Mingyu had discovered krill in an area near the coast and wanted to ask them to go with them.
Both families have always been very concerned about the Zhou family's affairs.
Krill are the main source of protein for people living at sea. They like to move in groups and are suitable for large-scale fishing.
So Zhipeng and Xue Tao didn't ask anything and immediately got ready to set off.
Zhou Shuwan asked them to drive the medium-sized fishing boat out.
Although this boat does not belong to Zhipeng, he is the captain and can use it for private purposes.
Immediately, several young people set off together.
The fishing boat sailed for more than an hour and when it was more than a nautical mile away from the island, it really saw layers of cold blue or light green light emitting from the dark sea surface.
If you look more closely, you can see countless schools of krill moving densely on the ice.
Their food is the unique ice algae and plankton that live under or inside the ice.
The krill are now feeding, eating the ice algae in the ice.
As the fishing boat lowered its net, the more than ten-meter-long mid-layer trawl net dived into the water like a giant black python. The fluorescent decoy light at the mouth of the net flashed cold white light, echoing the searchlight on the fishing boat, and lured the shrimp into the belly of the net.