27 Discover the treasure
It's been almost two months since I was last trapped, and I haven't been to the wreck because I don't think there's anything there, except rotting shells and oil, rotting wood-like planks, which I don't want to see anymore.
I heard Shen Yao shouting excitedly, I looked at the sea in a daze on the study house, recently I like this kind of meditation, I guess the ancient philosophers were really nothing to do after solving the problem of food and clothing, so they would come up with so many "big truths." ”
"Uncle Yi,,Uncle Yi"
Her voice was a little excited, and I poked my head out of the treehouse to look down, and she was holding a string of pink things in her hand, and the human monkey was standing around her and bouncing around her, and they had been together every day lately, like a little girl with her pet.
"What did you take?"
I guessed it was probably a bunch of grapes, but I couldn't believe it, because I had traveled almost all within a ten kilometer radius of this island dwelling, and I had never seen it, maybe it was the seeds of some vines, but I had seen some, black or purple fruits, bunches of grapes, but they were poisonous.
"Come down and see for yourself!"
She beckoned to me and asked me to come down, I have been a little fat recently, why, because this time may be the ocean current to the vicinity of the island, last month lasted for half a month, every night there were tons of herring washed ashore to run aground, Shen Yao and I worked for a week, until we almost filled the Japanese burrow with dried herring, which was at least enough for the two of us to eat for several years, the smell of the cave wafting out of the cave was vaguely smelled hundreds of meters away, but the dried herring tasted good. Of course, it took a lot of effort to maintain the dried fish, so I had to take the dried herring out in batches and re-dry it, and re-apply the seal oil to it, and speaking of the seal, it was an unlucky egg that came with the currents, it may have been bitten by a shark or a killer whale, and when I found it, it was dead. Although it is very laborious to get busy, at least you don't have to eat those turtle eggs that are too high in hormones and ketones.
I thought that it would be a poisonous fruit, and while jumping down, I asked Shen Yao if she had eaten it, she smiled and didn't speak, and she beat Shen Yao and the human monkey to rescue me from the cabin, I felt that I had to listen to Shen Yao's advice more, it was not a bad thing, I may have been hit, and I was too lazy to turn around after I came back, and my idea of escaping was frustrated, or I understood that it was impossible to escape by myself, and put all my hope on the rescue team to find us as soon as possible.
During this time, the treehouse was remodeled by me and Shen Yao, because if we gave up escaping, we naturally tried to find a way to make the environment in which we lived more comfortable, and the treehouse was transformed into a small attic on the second floor, and Shen Yao was on the upper floor, although it was a little smaller, but it was drier. I sometimes sleep with people monkeys on the lower level, which is more spacious. A few coconut trees grow from one root and grow in different directions, they are our foundation, just enough for us to build a treehouse in the middle of several trees, and with the dog-legged saber, I can pack up some of the tougher bark and rattan, and with a little time, they are no less strong than wire bars, and even more resistant to sea water and moisture. The treehouse, after being reinforced, will no longer be crumbling in the wind.
"You taste it. ”
Shen Yao put one in my mouth, I promise I have never eaten such a delicious thing, it is a grape, extremely moist and sweet, the sweet taste extends from the tip of the tongue to the throat, it is simply refreshing, not exaggerated at all.
"You..."
I was so excited that I couldn't speak, and I wanted to say, how did you find out, where did you find out? Take me to see something like that.
Shen Yao immediately saw what I meant from my facial expression, grabbed my hand and ran up the mountain, running only a few hundred meters away, bypassing the Japanese cave found before, passing the back of another red mountain stone, in the middle of a small piece of wasteland, several huge grapevines spread up along the mountain rock, and when I got closer, the green side was covered with the red mountain rock, and when I leaned over and looked up along the mountain rock, the strings of grapes grew very well, and the pink and red were very gratifying.
I guess there must be a lot of iron under this rock, which is why this rock has a slight red color, probably similar to the color of rust.
I couldn't help but hug Shen Yao, and the two of us danced like this, excited for a while.
Each of these vines is the thickness of a wrist, which is not a year or two to grow, at least a few decades, and there are no tall trees around the ground under their feet, so it is clear that someone chose this piece of land and cut down the surrounding trees so that the vines can get enough sunlight. Nine out of ten of them were planted by the Japanese, they may have been out of pleasure, or they wanted to fight a protracted war with the Americans, self-sufficient, and now there is no way to verify, obviously although the grapes are native to the United States, but the American GIs should not be desperate with others, and take the time to plant a few vines. Whoever it was, they didn't wait for the harvest, but they cheapened us.
I've never eaten so many grapes at once, and the burps are all the taste of wine, and eating too many grapes will get drunk, which not only makes me think another thing.
Shen Yao also ate a lot, but obviously not as much as me, she spent more time looking at these vines before and after, she hadn't been so energetic for a long time, she looked like she was showing off her strengths, we have been together for so long, and have formed a certain tacit understanding, no matter who we find the food, the other person has the right to share, but there is no right to dispose of it, that is to say, the grapevines found by Shen Yao, I only have to eat, and how to dispose of them, I can only listen to Shen Yao, I know that her little head is full of big things.
She told me that when she was in kindergarten, the class had a plot of land of their own, and each person had a few bean seedlings of their own, and she took good care of them until the harvest in the fall, when she had the most pods. Although the bean sprouts are different from the vines, I can tell that she wants to transform the land and grow more grapes, I agree with her idea, but I don't think it's so easy, seeing her so excited, I didn't pour cold water on her, I just said, I will do my best to help, to thank her for inviting me to eat such delicious grapes.
In the days that followed, I regretted this promise a little, and I became a hard-working old scalper, and she was the landlord's wife, I weed, loosened the soil, and then cuttings and carried water. The most tiring thing is to carry water, there has been no rain in the recent period, I can only use diesel barrels to fetch water from a stream a kilometer away, and the sea water cannot be used for irrigation, which I reminded her, and the results are really mixed.
About half a month, the survival rate of the vines from cuttings is very high, maybe next year or the year after, they can also produce bunches of grapes, Shen Yao's daily work even if I urge me to hurry up and build a shelf for these newly sprouted grape seedlings, the problem is that they are only a handful. And the grapes we picked really couldn't be eaten, so they had to be stored in the cave, but it still didn't work, the grapes began to mold and rot, except for some cold grapes, there were still a few hundred catties left, and finally I found a stone trough and poured the rest of the grapes into it, and then I asked Shen Yao to jump in and trample all the grapes, she refused at first, and when she saw that I was going to do it myself, she stopped me and jumped down by herself, and as a result, I stepped on my own jam, and I had a lot of fun, and the monkey saw that I wanted to jump down, and I caught it.
After that, I removed the broken door of the emergency room, covered it with a stone trough, and spread some leaves on it to keep it warm, and all I had to do was pray for God's mercy. Because Shen Yao said that if she couldn't see the wine I promised, she would ask me to give her grapes for a burial.