Chapter 384: The Rest of the Desert Island
Under the scorching sun, I hid under a big tree to cool off, and under this scorching sun, I did not dare to go out to work again, otherwise I would have no medicine to treat myself if I suffered from heat stroke.
I don't know how long I've been on this desert island, but I know that about two months have passed, and if you convert it to the new calendar, it should be November.
The trees around the house have been almost destroyed by me, and a small wooden hut has been built, in which a large amount of firewood and some water are stored.
Since I was going to enrich my food, I searched the whole island again and found a variety of wild fruits to eat, so I learned from Shennong and tried it myself, and paid the heaviest price of three days.
I picked all the wild fruits that I could eat in one go, and salted them as a backup, so I went to the beach to pick up some plastic bottles, and I didn't know if I should thank the people who littered.
Of course, I was not satisfied with this, I found a tree on the road, the bark of which was very thick, and I peeled off the bark, and then tore it off little by little according to the veins of the fiber, and then kneaded it into a thread, and threaded it with a fishbone, and it took me a week to get another pair of fishing nets.
The net fish from the fishing net worked so well that I couldn't eat it myself, so I could marinate it into dried fish, but in this case, the salt consumption was too great, and I had to increase the amount of salt.
Originally, I wanted to study how to dry salt, but I didn't study it many times, but I just dried a lot of brine, and then used a basin to burn it, which reduced my consumption of some firewood.
In addition to all kinds of fish, I also picked up a lot of shellfish and other things, until one day, I had a flash of inspiration in my mind, and suddenly remembered that when I was studying in the past, my classmates once talked about how to make salt and make a fortune if you traveled back to ancient times, as if you need to add some limestone or plant ash to make refined salt.
There are complex chemical equation changes, which I naturally can't remember, but it doesn't matter if I can't remember, anyway, there is a lot of brine, and I can test it again and again.
After more than 30 more tests, I finally made a qualified refined salt, the process is in the brine stage, add burned shells and plant ashes, wait until a period of time to filter, and then burn, the crystallization is clean and meaningless refined salt, almost the same as the market bought, this result surprised me greatly.
With enough food in place, I feel like my weight loss has slowed down and I'm going on with my home-building business.
By the time I was in the third month of my exile, the three rammed earth walls had been laid, and I was ready to be lazy on the front side, not to fight, but to replace them with wooden doors.
At present, the wall is only about 1.5 meters high, which is completely insufficient, but at this height, if you continue to use rammed earth, the workload will be too great, and you have to build a wooden frame, which is too difficult for me to be alone.
So I have long planned to use clay bricks instead, knead the clay into the shape of bricks, and then dry and burn paper, which is clay bricks, this kind of brick is not strong, I can break three pieces with one punch, but I don't want bulletproof, I just need to shelter from the wind and rain, and that's enough.
It takes a lot of firewood to burn paper clay bricks, which makes me continue to plague the rest of the trees, and by the way, I looked for a main beam of the house, which is a big tree with a thick embrace, and I don't know what kind of precious tree species it is, not to mention the fragrance all over the body, but the key is that it can repel mosquitoes, which makes me extremely surprised.
In the past few months on the island, I have been harassed by mosquitoes, and even if I burned a lot of things, I couldn't get rid of them, after all, there was no wormwood on the island.
I peeled the bark of the tree with my dagger, and in a few days the tree began to wither, and after a week I brought it down, and in order to get it back, I first cut down all the branches of the tree, and then prepared a lot of sticks to put under it, and pushed the tree back little by little.
After working for more than half a month, the upper part of the earthen wall was also built with clay bricks, and the clay bricks were bonded with a kind of resin from trees, which was very sticky, and I used it as glue.
In the countryside at the foot of Dulong Mountain, Shangliang is definitely a big deal, and even Mr. has to be specially invited to calculate the auspicious day of the zodiac, but here, I did it alone.
After more than half a month of exposure to the sun, the big tree has basically dried out, but the weight is at least five or six hundred catties, and there is no such thing as a pulley set, all I can do is to carry it.
For this reason, I deliberately used my supernatural powers, this is the first time I have used them in several months, and the price is that I have been weak for three days, and the little gluttony almost went berserk, eating up all the food stored before calming the gluttony.
The girder went up, and the rest was easy to do, and the wooden sticks that had been prepared long ago were put up, fixed with wooden nails, and then found thatch to lay on them, and after laying a layer of thatch, they cut the lifeboat and laid another layer of thatch on top of it, so that there would be no leakage.
With the roof in place, I already had a sheltered home, which filled me with pride, and after a day or two of rest, I got the door done.
It is not difficult to make a simple door, first find a large tree that is thick enough, measure the length after getting it down, cut off a section, then plane it open, wait until it is dry, dig a groove in the middle of the trunk on both sides, put half of it under the roof as an eaves, and the other half as a threshold, and then find a wooden stick with the thickness of a small arm, cut the two sides and get stuck in the groove of the two trunks, and half of the immovable door is completed.
As for the other half, it was to be movable, so I found two stones and slowly grinded a pit in the middle, so that the sticks could stand on that side and move left and right.
In order to make this door, I spent another half a month, and if I counted carefully, I should have been on a desert island for more than four months, the new calendar year has passed, and the lunar year is almost here.
I continued to make clay bricks, then spread the bricks at the foot of the house, sat on a simple bed, and spread the clothes that I had taken off a long time ago, and it was a happy bed.
In order to improve my quality of life, I made a simple stove in the house, and a simple toilet, which was limited to urinating and discharged to a distance along with the sewage.
As for the table and stool, it was replaced by wooden piers and large stones, which took me a lot of time and effort to get a big stone in.
When the shark visited the desert island beach again, I went down and slaughtered it again, this time with great effort, for my dagger was not as sharp as before.
This short sword should be called a sword, after all, it is a meeting gift given to me by a top master sword idiot, but after tossing for the past few months, this sword has almost been scrapped, there are a lot of collapses, and it is almost a saw, but it is my Heavenly Master Sword, which is not willing to be used, and it is well preserved.
Drag the shark to the house and slowly divide the oil refining, the oil that existed before has long been used up, and it can't be stored for long in the hot weather, so it must be used up as soon as possible.
The biggest advantage of this desert island should be that there is no shortage of food here, and the wild fruits that were picked before have risen back, and then it is still hot here at this time, I guess my location should be in the tropics, I don't know if it is the southern hemisphere or the northern hemisphere.
In fact, this is all predictable, you can roughly determine your own position through some of the sun's movements, but it's a pity that I don't have this knowledge reserve, junior high school geography knowledge has long been returned to the teacher, and I haven't learned these skills of watching the sky at night, and I have been trying my best to improve my cultivation in the past few years, resulting in some of my remaining foundations are too weak.
But I don't care, my state of mind is very peaceful, through the busy work of the past few months, I have laid the foundation for survival here, and it is enough to improve my cultivation in the future.
After a few months, I went on retreat and meditated again, but the result was unexpectedly smooth, and I even felt the feeling of my cultivation soaring, just like the previous drug use.
This reminds me of what Kou Jing said to me before, before the Southeast Asian operation, I knocked a lot of pills to improve my cultivation, and what Kou Jing told me at that time was that after the action, it was best for me not to rush to improve my cultivation within three years, let alone continue to take drugs, otherwise the foundation would be vain and would be very harmful to the future.
But after staying on the island for a few months, I should have drained all the medicinal residues in my body, and these few months of boring and tiring life have made my mind calmer, so it is not surprising that my cultivation has increased significantly.
There are many benefits brought by the cultivation of the big rise, such as the various physical limits have been improved, I can even hold it for more than ten minutes in one breath, the breath is endless, the body is not affected, there is no problem at all to dive into the sea area tens of meters deep in one breath, and it is even more brisk on the mountain road of the island.
As a result, my food grew more and more abundant, until one day I stumbled upon the sweet rhizome of one of the island's plants, and I thought I could get sugar bars again.
I took those rhizomes, smashed them with stones, squeezed out the juice, and boiled them dry, leaving behind some sweet crystals, which naturally could not compare to white sugar, not even the coarsest brown sugar, which made me happy again.
I have salt, sugar, oil, and some edible wild vegetables, and I can stir-fry them, and if I am given some beans or something, I think I can even make soy sauce.
Soy sauce is impossible, I don't dare to think, I am already very satisfied with my current life, there are enough supplies to eat, there is a house that can shelter from the wind and rain, what more can I ask for, but this peaceful life was broken by a person who appeared on the beach one day.