Chapter Thirty-Eight: Good Things Are Happening

When I was a child, there was a kiln factory near Jiajia, and the factory often fired our local clay pottery, which was all bottles and jars and large water tanks, and then sold everywhere.

When I was a child, I often ran to the kiln factory to play, and the children were curious about everything, and often watched the work of the workers.

Wouldn't it be very easy to cook pottery on this small island?

If you want to make pottery, you have to have clay, so I started looking for clay on the island to make pottery.

I searched for clay on a desert island with great hope, and I knew that I couldn't find high-quality clay here, but I could make pottery as long as it was the standard for playing with mud as a child.

But I searched every inch of the island, but I couldn't find any clay or mud to work on.

The soil on this small island is mostly sandy and the viscosity is very low, and it is difficult to store even rainwater, but the sand contains a lot of corrosive material to barely retain water, and there is a lot of rainfall here, so plants can grow, but the vegetation on the island is not very lush, which is likely to be because of the soil viscosity on the island can not store water.

Since there was no suitable clay and mud for firing pottery on the island, I would have to find another way.

I remember when I was in elementary school, my nature teacher did an experiment, that is, an experiment of boiling water with a matchbox, and I thought it was incredible, how could a carton boil water.

Later, the teacher said that most of the heat is absorbed by water, because the boiling point of water under normal pressure is only 100 degrees, so the temperature reaches 100 degrees after heating the water boils, and the temperature will not rise again if it is heated and remains at 100 degrees. However, the ignition point of the paper is higher than 100 degrees, so no matter how the heating temperature is, it will not reach the ignition point of the paper, and the paper will not be ignited!

There is no clay or even mud on this small island where you can use to make pottery, and there are no cardboard boxes, but there is something on the island that is several times better than a cardboard box.

That's the coconut shell,,,,,

There are a lot of coconut islands, I found a relatively large coconut and carefully cut it, took out a whole coconut shell, and carefully knocked along the quarter of the coconut shell, and then cleaned the coconut meat inside, so that a coconut shell pot is made, no matter what it looks like a bowl.

Finally, I made four small holes in the coconut shell, threaded it with bamboo thread, added seawater, water and some seafood, and hung it above the fire to start my first test cooking.

As planned, the pot made of coconut shells was a success, and soon the water in the pot was boiling, and the smell of salty seafood floated in the air, and it was really mouth-watering to watch the milky soup and fatty seafood.

I couldn't wait to remove the coir pot from the fire, it's hot and I need to put it down before I can eat it.

After a while, the seafood soup was not yet cold, so I picked up the coconut shell and began to taste this pot of seafood soup, which was so delicious that I would not use any beautiful adjectives to describe the deliciousness of the soup, but could only summarize it in one sentence.

It's so fucking delicious,,,,,,

The solar cooker I made is not very efficient, its reflectivity is not very strong and it is not large enough, only in the middle of the day when the sun is full and the temperature is high to boil the water, and it can also be used to stew seafood soup, but it takes a little longer.

Although I now have a sun stove and a pot made of coconut shells, I found that the sea of seafood is grilled and delicious, as for the cancer that people say often eats barbecue, no matter what kind of cancer it is, human beings have eaten barbecue food in the first place, and it has been hundreds of thousands of years and what is terrible.

Even now, I still use grilled food as the main food, and the stewed seafood is secondary, and it is delicious with each other.

With the solar cooker, I have reduced my firewood consumption by almost half, so I am much more relaxed and have free time.

After a day of barbecue and seafood soup, I was resting in my hut, and it was boring to have nothing to do, so it occurred to me that I had been on the island for about a year, and I had never fully explored the island.

If you have enough time lately, you might as well explore this small island carefully to see if there are any resources available.

I took two coconuts and a few small dried fish with me and started my real exploration of the island once I went to the island.

In fact, the resources on the island are very limited, and I have never looked carefully, today I am going to come to a carpet to see if there are no resources found on the island.

The island is of course very small, this time I measured it accurately, the island is about 450 meters from east to west, about 850 meters from north to south, 50 meters more than the first measurement, the island is still high in the east and low in the west, the average altitude of the whole island is only 3 meters, but the highest point is about 7 meters, the soil on the island is mostly sandy soil structure, it is difficult to store fresh water, and the plant cover is medium density, mainly palm trees, coconut trees, bamboo and some unknown shrubs.

After two days of exploration, I found two wild lemon trees, and full of green lemons, this wild lemon is very sour, but I know that lemons are a good thing, it has a lot of vitamins and can also give food freshness, and there is also a sterilization operation, which is the best to clean the mouth and improve immunity.

I also found an unknown plant, I don't know how to use it, don't touch it, if it's a poisonous plant, it's troublesome, the first element of survival in the wild is that you will have a strong will with food, but there is another point is not to touch those animals and plants that you are not familiar with, so as not to have terrible consequences, that is, poisoning, if poisoning is called in this place called heaven and earth, you will die.

But another unfortunate discovery I made was that there was a lot of plastic waste on the island.