Volume 1 Chapter 10 Cold
Of course, accurate forecasts need to be changed appropriately with the change of seasons, because the time of summer and winter will be very different, for example, the daylight in winter is shorter, it will be dark around seven o'clock, and in summer it will be after eight o'clock!
It is feasible to solve the time problem in the first place with this method, but when it is rainy and cloudy, the time can only be determined by the hunch in the heart, but this effect is small.
In general, the island has plenty of sunlight, and there should be nearly 300 days a year.
Besides, you don't need to be too precise here, you can know the approximate time every day, after all, you don't have to go to work and leave work at the end of the day......
After a full meal, I have to go up the mountain with various plastic bottles to fetch water, and now fetching water has become a fixed task every day, but it is still good to be able to pick a few mangoes by the way!
Although I felt a little bit of a problem before going to bed last night, it was not serious, and this symptom was obvious in the morning.
I didn't wake up naturally in the morning, but I was awakened by the runny nose coming out!
The moment I woke up, I hurriedly wiped a handful on my nose and checked what color it was, because I thought it was a nosebleed, and finally saw that the liquid on my hand was not red, and my nervous heart was relaxed!
After coming so early in the morning, I couldn't sleep well, and seeing that the sky was already bright, I went down to the ground to prepare breakfast.
It's a good thing that you don't have a nosebleed, but a runny nose isn't necessarily a good thing, plus you have a slight pain in your throat, so it's clear that a cold has come to your door!
I've been busy with my livelihood and neglected my health problems since I came to the island, which I think is the main cause of colds.
These days, not only is the food completely different from the previous system, but the night is almost considered to be sleeping naked.
There are also many factors such as going into the sea, taking cold showers, and absorbing the moisture from the ground in the cave, so it is not strange to have a cold, but it is strange not to have a cold......
As far as the human body itself is concerned, most of the diseases are not subjectively controlled, and all that can be done is the treatment after the disease occurs.
It's just that my treatment method is so pale and weak, just put a few dandelions in a bucket of water to boil before cooking.
For the time being, there is only this medicinal material, and I don't know if it will be useful!
Dandelion is sweet and slightly bitter, it is a good medicine to clear heat and detoxify, and the treatment of colds is also one of its many effects, there should be a lot of medicinal materials in the woods, but I only know a very small number of more popular, this is a problem that cannot be solved!
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It's important to me in general, and I've been thinking about increasing the size of the dandelions a little bit for a while, and occasionally finding two in the forest isn't all that reliable.
Although the specific understanding of herbal medicine is still very rudimentary, as a rural person, there is still the necessary knowledge, especially when I was a child, there were vendors nearby to buy medicinal materials, and I would often follow the adults to collect some herbs and dry them and sell them to the vendors.
I still have a certain understanding of some common medicinal materials, and when I was poor when I was a child, I often had a problem or a cold, and my family would dig up some symptomatic herbs and come back to boil water.
These experiences have given me a certain understanding of basic common herbs, so I will subconsciously collect some in the woods, which can be regarded as unintentionally planting willows and willows......
Of course, the total number of herbs you may know will not exceed thirty or fifty, which is really not worth mentioning compared to the tens of thousands of herbs in nature!
But this time it reminded me that the next time I went to the woods to look for food, I should also be looking for herbs more carefully.
In this environment, if you don't have a certain amount of herbs in stock, I think it will be a big challenge to stay healthy and live for a long time!
Although the cold has a negative impact on the body, fortunately, the symptoms are not too serious, but it does not affect the ability to move and delay going out.
So I went to the woods with a basket on my back and a stick, and before I had a fixed source of food, I searched for all kinds of food to ensure my daily needs, which was basically the main job of the day!
I've pretty much walked through all the woods, and I've found a lot of good things, but I think I might have missed more......
From today onwards, we will mainly push from near to far to find slowly, after all, except for fruit trees and large plants, most of the ingredients on the table are not too large, and there is a high risk of being submerged in weeds.
The detailed search is even more troublesome, and in the past, only the road was selected, but now it can only be viewed next to each other, and many relatively unsafe areas and steep slopes cannot be missed.
However, at the end of the day, the harvest was obviously lower than expected, except for a few herbs and wild vegetables, there was only one cassava plant that could be called harvested, and only about three or four catties were obtained after digging it hard!
By the time I returned to the cave, it was already four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and I had several wounds on my body, and I was so tired that I didn't want to get up again when I sat down, but I wanted to sleep like this forever.
Today's lunch is to eat a mango in the woods, obviously it can't be called lunch, it can only be counted as a snack, and there is no fundamental change in food for ten days on the island!
Due to the lack of food and the consideration of saving time, I plan to change from three meals a day to two meals a day.
And except for dinner, which is a fixed meal, breakfast and lunch are not fixed, because there can only be one between the two, and there is no lunch if there is breakfast!
This arrangement may continue for a long time, except when food is plentiful and more leisurely.
Although I don't have enough to eat every day, and now two meals will make my life even more miserable, but there is no other better way to think of the pressure of survival, and if you can't open the source, you can only throttle!
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In the afternoon, in addition to going up the mountain to fetch water, I also prepared to continue to clean up the trees that had not been cleared in the previous two days on the vacant land, and the planting work will start soon.
I have to say that the container is still too little, a load of more than ten catties of fresh water can not keep up with the rhythm of use, can be used for a day or two is already a province and province, even the pot is washed with a mouthful of water for washing.
The amount of water in the well is not bad, more than enough than my water consumption, but if you have to run two or three times a day to fetch water, it will obviously affect the time allocated for other things, and you may have to endure it in a short time!
Logging was suspended before dark, and after clearing the clearing again, except for four or five trees with the thinnest legs, the whole clearing was empty.
I believe that it will take another day or two for the vacant land to become an empty space in the true sense!
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When I was worried about whether the cold would worsen and affect my travel, the cold on the second day was somewhat improved, and I have to say that the body is indeed the biggest capital, and the recovery speed of young people is very fast!
But even if there is a better and want to go to the sea, it is still unlikely, and when the condition recurs, it is to harm yourself, and it is also responsible for yourself to be cautious.
In the morning, I set out again to patrol the beach after barely having enough to eat, and at the moment there are only three main things to do every day: to find food, to find all kinds of tools and containers that can facilitate life, and to improve living conditions.
These three things look very easy, and I also feel that as long as there are various tools and materials, it will not take more than a month to solve these problems, but unfortunately I am now empty-handed, so this is like three mountains pressing me out of breath!
Compared with the previous times, today's harvest is much less, and I only found a three-pound large plastic bottle, which is the most unfulfilled of these times.
But no one can be blamed, after all, the garbage on the beach is also limited, and there must be a difference between what you can get once a week and once every two days, and the sum up is that I come too often!
I couldn't go back empty-handed without getting anything, and I didn't have much food left, so I went to the reef to dig some oysters, and finally settled the night's rations.
I haven't forgotten the slate barbecue that I thought of a few days ago, but I have not found a suitable one and put it on hold, but today I found a relatively suitable slate by the sea.
It is an irregular stone slab about 30 centimeters long and wide and about 3 centimeters thick.
I've been thinking about finding a slate for grilling meat for many days, and today it has finally become a reality, and its appearance has added a new kind of --- to my cooking method in addition to roasting and boiling!
The way of frying in several ways may taste better, and the process is similar to stir-frying, otherwise there would not be so many merchants who open slate barbecue, and the business is quite good.
The slabs that had just been fished up from the sea were irregular, and they had to be shaped and finely polished before they could be put into use, and I didn't want to eat the food in my mouth mixed with stones and stone powder.
Finally, the middle of the slate is polished to a concave shape, so that the baked grease will not flow to the ground and be wasted.
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The weather in the afternoon changed a little, making me feel very stuffy, combined with my limited knowledge I felt like a precursor to rain, I had to stop my work and pick up a lot of firewood piled up in the cave, and now it is a daily operation to stock up on firewood for a day or two to prevent rain.
The expected rain didn't come the next day, and the sun was still strong, so it didn't rain enough to allow me to do things more fully.
I didn't feel safe thinking that many of the crops I had recently discovered would need to be grown on my own to expand the scale, and that I would have to grow them freely in the woods, so it became urgent to prioritize clearing the vacant land.
There are still a few large trees standing in the clearing, but I'm still going to let them go before I take a slow step, and it's imperative to loosen a small piece of land first.
It's a pity that the idea is good, but the tools are very restrictive to me, I don't have a hoe!
In desperation, I used a stone axe to sharpen and flatten the ends of a wooden stick about 1.5 meters long with an arm's thickness, and used it as a tool for loosening the soil.
However, the idea was good, and when I took action, I found that things were not so simple, there were many stones in this field, and the stumps left by the freshly cut down trees were difficult to remove, which greatly hindered the progress of the matter.