Chapter Thirty-Six: Enjoy Life

I should also brush my teeth after my haircut, I have never cleaned my teeth in all this time on the island, my dirty hair has been washed with seawater many times, and my teeth have never been cleaned.

However, cleaning my teeth is not difficult for me, I took a bamboo strip and smashed one end with a stone hammer, that is, the bamboo fiber is smashed apart, so that one end of the bamboo strip is fluffy, and it is quite good to use it as a toothbrush.

I took charcoal from the ashes and crushed it with a stone axe, then used the crushed charcoal instead of toothpaste, I used a homemade toothbrush toothpaste, which should be tooth powder and seawater, and started brushing my teeth.

At first, I thought that the charcoal would be very bitter, but after using it, I found that the charcoal has no taste and is quite smooth.

It has been said that charcoal has the ability to adsorb toxins, and a small amount of it can also relieve diarrhea and clean up the intestines.

The bamboo, seawater, wood, and charcoal three-in-one is quite comfortable to clean the mouth and teeth, and the bamboo salt toothpaste that people call is nothing more than that.

Haircuts, beard cutting, brushing teeth and bathing, more or less I also look a bit of a civilized person, now I feel very little relaxed, especially my head is much clearer, no longer thinking nonsense, but beginning to think about what to do next, how to improve my life.

Although my cottage can shelter from the wind and rain, it looks very basic, but there is nothing to make the cottage exquisite, neither the materials nor the tools are up to the standard.

But I can decorate it with shells and coral, and I made a wind chime out of all kinds of beautiful shells and cans, which may not sound good, but add some fun to the monotony of life.

Whenever the weather is cooler, I take my fishing rod to the sea, which of course is made of fine bamboo from the island.

When I was a child, I often took such a simple fishing rod and my friends to go fishing by the pond, but my fishing skills were really poor, and my friends were more or less full of loads at the end of the day, and I could only catch one or two, so I also became the object of ridicule of my friends, but I didn't think so when I was thick-skinned.

Now I find that my fishing skills have improved dramatically, and I have gained a lot of money every time I fish, but it is a pity that I can't show off in front of people.

During this time, I made a hat out of bamboo, a big tapered sunhat.

In order to weave this hat, I have repeatedly made it up several times, and I used two days to break the bamboo into bamboo pieces and bamboo wires, and it is much more difficult to weave the hat than to weave the fish cage.

Although the cool hat is very unsightly, but with it is not afraid of the scorching sun, with a diameter of more than half a meter of the cool hat I am very proud, those who live in the wild in the TV do not have this kind of craft.

There is an old Chinese saying that if you come to this island, you will be at peace, since the return to civilization on this island is far away and there is no expectation, it is better to settle down and live on the island, and I will do everything possible to make use of the existing resources on the island to survive.

In order to better live on the island, I started to organize the resources I had.

Some battered skins from life rafts, a pair of scissors, a broken sailor's knife, a tube of glue for repairs, two paddles, a thermal suit, a nitrogen cylinder, a sponge, a few flares, and some useless garbage.

I looked at the resources that were almost useless to my survival on the desert island, and it seemed that I had to rely on myself to survive.

However, the resources on the island are limited, the most important thing is that I have no tools available, the stone tools I make are too rough to work inefficiently, and everything is almost brute force, especially in this hot environment, chopping wood makes me miserable.

Because this small island belongs to the tropical climate, the four seasons are not very distinct, which also makes me unable to grasp the solar terms and can not judge the time, I now judge the date completely blind blind horse has no concept, but knows the sunrise and sunset, completely back to the primitive wild life.

I had to chop wet wood to dry before I could make a fire, but the stone axe was heavy and clumsy, and every time I chopped wood, it was the hardest time for me.

In order to save the amount of firewood, I also deliberately built a stove with stones, and made a barbecue grill out of bamboo, so that it is convenient and clean to grill fish and shellfish, but the bamboo grill needs to be replaced in a few days.

I also made a simple table and stool out of bamboo, so that I could look more civilized and feel at home when eating.

As the days go by, my heart has always been very calm, as quiet as the surface of the lake, and the uneasiness and loneliness of the past have dissipated with time.

Sometimes I would lie in my cabin and look out at the sea all day without thinking about anything.

Now I am far away from the civilized society, away from the crowd, away from the many temptations in the world, away from the intrigues between people in the society, away from the career and intrigues, away from all the troubles in the world, on the desert island I enjoy this comfortable life without ups and downs in my heart.

I don't have a sense of time here, the rights and wrongs of the world have nothing to do with me, and I don't have any constraints to completely let myself go, everything here is under my control.

But there are some things that I really can't control, and today the last iron canning box was burned by me, which means I can't boil water anymore

The fresh water I drink is collected rainwater, which is very unclean, and it will definitely be a problem to drink for a long time, and I have to boil the rainwater so that I don't get sick and live on a desert island for a long time.

But the last of the cans for boiling water had burned out, and I had to replace it with something else.

The first thing that came to mind was the can, and then it occurred to me that I had a great container for boiling water, which was the nitrogen tank that had been useless.