The morning sunlight filtered in through the crack in the hatch, just shining on Feng Shijie's eyes, which made him rub his eyes, and then looked up at the sky outside, and then got up from the hammock.

Feng Shijie is the surveyor in the fleet, and his status is only below Lu Wan, so he also enjoys some privileges on the ship, for example, he has his own separate cabin like Lu Wan, and in addition, in the distribution of food and drinking water, he is also more than the crew, but with the lack of food on the ship during this time, Lu Wan took the lead in canceling the privileges of food and water, so now Feng Shijie is treated the same as ordinary crew members.

Feng Shijie, who got up from the bed, felt a lot of sweat all over his body, sticky and very uncomfortable, this is still he sleeping shirtless, and the hammock is wet with a human shape, if he is wearing clothes, I am afraid it will be even more uncomfortable.

"It's so hot early in the morning, it's worse than the climate in Luzon!" Feng Shijie muttered, bent down to pick up his clothes and prepared to wear them, but what made him depressed, every piece of clothing exuded a strange smell, plus the weather was so hot, he finally thought about not wearing it, put on a big pants on his lower body, and then walked on the deck barefoot.

The sun had risen more than a foot high in the bow of the ship, and the crew who had been on duty last night had already had breakfast, and then went back to rest in twos and threes, and the crew who replaced them had already taken their place and started the busy day. Although Feng Shijie felt very hungry, he didn't rush to get his food, but took out a tool to measure the longitude and latitude of the fleet, and then went to the captain's room to record it in detail.

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

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

"Good!" Feng Shijie agreed, and then went to the material officer at the stern of the ship to receive breakfast for the two. Now they and the crew eat the same thing. For example, this breakfast is actually a piece of salted meat that is hard like a stone, and there is also a piece of dough that is a little bigger than the bacon but is harder, and finally a glass of water.

It's not much, but it's not a starvation thing, but since the reduction in food, the crew in the fleet seems to be a little scared, after all, if it goes on like this. When the only food left on the ship is eaten, then they will probably have to wait for death.

In fact, Feng Shijie was also a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, in the face of life and death, it would definitely be a lie if he said that he was not afraid, but when he promised Lu Wan to join the fleet, he already had this preparation in his heart, and the family had already been settled, plus if they really couldn't go back, with the generosity of His Royal 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 his heart because he didn't make it to America.

Back to the captain's quarters with breakfast. Lu Wan was already busy at this time, and he was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed and resting 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 two breakfasts that were harder than stones, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

I saw Feng Shijie sitting down opposite Lu Wan. Stretched out his hand and grabbed a sharp dagger from the side, and then chopped the bacon and dough little by little, looking at his hard look, it was almost the same as cutting wood, fortunately the bacon was newly made in the past two years, if it was put for a few more years, it was estimated that even the dagger could not be cut.

Then Feng Shijie put the chopped bacon and dough into a bowl, poured the water next to it, and after soaking for a while, Feng Shijie drank the bowl of black and yellow paste into his stomach. But to be honest, although the appearance of this thing looks disgusting, the taste is actually not bad, especially the water still has a smell of wine, which really hooks Feng Shijie's wine worm, but unfortunately the wine in the water is too light to be enjoyable at all.

There are two kinds of fresh water stored on their ship, one is ordinary fresh water, which is boiled in advance and loaded onto the ship, so that it can be stored for a long time, but if this water passes a certain period, it will still become muddy and smelly, so generally only the crew of short- and medium-distance transportation will use this kind of fresh water. As for the other kind of fresh water, it is actually similar to the first one, it is boiled water, but there is an additional process, that is, adding high spirits to the water, and then sealing and preserving, this kind of fresh water with alcohol can be stored for several months without deterioration, so as long as it is a long-distance boat, a lot of this light wine will be stored.

In addition to fresh water, a considerable amount of spirits will be stored on board, especially in Taiwan, where the production of sugarcane is getting higher and higher, and many people are already using sugarcane to make wine, which also makes the price of wine lower and lower. The crew is adrift at sea every day, bearing considerable mental pressure, and drinking alcohol is undoubtedly a good way to reduce pressure, and the captain often uses spirits as a reward for the crew, plus sometimes the storage of fresh water also needs to add spirits, so the crew has become another big customer of spirits sales.

Lu Wan didn't like to soak the food, but took a dagger to cut the bacon and dough into slices, and then sandwiched them together to eat, but this requires a good pair of teeth, otherwise the salted meat will not be bitten, and the big teeth will have to be pulled out.

"These salted meats and pastries are spare food, and I didn't expect them to be useful one day, but they didn't taste very good." Lu Wan opened his mouth while chewing, but unfortunately he chewed for a long time, but he still didn't swallow it, and finally drank a saliva of water before putting it into his stomach.

Feng Shijie said with a wry smile after hearing this: "It's good to have something to eat, when we first started to go to sea, we can also guarantee that the fire will be raised once a day, and the crew can also eat a hot meal, but now the fuel on the ship is almost used up, and the rest is for emergency use, and even if the ordinary food is not eaten, the rest has deteriorated, only these salted meat, dry bread and other things are well preserved, but it doesn't seem to be much, it is estimated that in two days, we don't know what to eat?" ”

However, Lu Wan was very optimistic, and said with a smile: "In fact, there is a lot of fresh water on our ship, and there are also things to eat, such as in order to preserve these salted meats and pastries, in addition to removing water in advance, they also need to be stored in the bran, which can also be eaten, and there are also some things made of cow and sheepskin, such as boots, belts, etc., if you are hungry to eat, it can also save your life!" ”

Hearing Lu Wan's words, Feng Shijie immediately showed a wry smile on his face and said, "If it falls to the point of eating bran and gnawing on the belt, I would rather go to the sea to fish for sea vegetables to eat." ”

Seeing Feng Shijie's bitter face, Lu Wan laughed and said: "Shijie, in fact, it doesn't necessarily come to that point, maybe we will encounter a big fish, and then we will make a few more nets to make dried fish, although this thing is not very delicious, but at least it is much stronger than bran." ”

"I hope so!" Feng Shijie didn't seem to have much confidence. It's strange to say, I don't know if it's because of the ocean currents, or if it's their bad luck? During this time, I didn't encounter any fish at all, and every time I caught a very small harvest, I couldn't supply everyone at all, and now I think about the exploration in the South Seas back then, compared to now, it is like heaven.

After breakfast, Feng Shijie took a turn on the deck, and then returned to the cabin to lie down, mainly because of the lack of food, and it had already changed from three meals a day to two meals a day, as long as there was nothing to do, most of the crew would choose to rest. After Lu Wan dealt with the affairs of the ship, he climbed to the lookout 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 now, then most of their current food crisis could be solved.

However, Feng Shijie is not very optimistic about Lu Wan's move, because when the food crisis first occurred, Lu Wan stayed on the lookout every day to watch, but now half a month has passed, but there is still not a single island, which shows that the sea area where they are located is likely to have no island.

Sure enough, it was not until the evening that Lu Wan came down from the lookout in great disappointment, and at this time Feng Shijie had already received a dinner, which was more 'hearty' than a simple breakfast, the staple food was still dough, but it was sprinkled with some water, and it was no longer so hard, and there were more than a dozen sprouts of bean sprouts, two slices of canned meat, and a bowl of black sugar water.

Beans are a must-have for every sea ship, mainly used to sprout bean sprouts, I heard that this is proposed by His Royal Highness King Qi, eating bean sprouts can prevent some diseases. In addition, beans are rich in nutrients, so they are usually stored on the ship, and Lu Wan brought a lot of them with their fleet, and they haven't eaten them until now. In addition, there is cane sugar, which was originally used as a commodity to trade with the natives on the island, but now that food is scarce, it can only be used to save lives.

Lu Wan sandwiched the canned meat in the dough, then swallowed it in a few bites, picked up the bean sprouts one by one, and ate them carefully into their mouths, the vegetables on the sea were too precious, and the bean sprouts were the only vegetables they could eat. As for the bowl of sugar water at the end, Lu Wan sighed, the material demand officer even took out the traded goods, it seems that the food on the ship is really going to the point of exhaustion.

The next day, the food was a little worse than yesterday, the bacon and bread in the morning were smaller, and the canned meat in the evening changed from two slices to one piece. After breakfast, Lu Wan still climbed to the lookout platform and looked around with a telescope, but unfortunately in the evening, he still found nothing.

On the third day, the salted meat and dough cakes in the morning were smaller again, and in the evening the sugar water was replaced by a sweet and salty soup, which was said to be the leftover soup of the original pickled sweet cabbage, and then the soup was made with water, which tasted very strange.

On the fourth day, there was only a small piece of bread for breakfast, and there were already crew members in the fleet preparing suicide notes, and some crew members were very emotionally unstable, but it was on this day that Lu Wan on the lookout suddenly found a life-saving thing. (To be continued......)