In May, the pressure on the body increased further, the water problem did not change, and the five chickens and seven sheep consumed their food every day like a bottomless pit.

My food is declining rapidly, and more importantly, the grass is wilting and some of it is wilting, making feeding the sheep even harder!

First of all, the problem of chickens, without the dispersed firepower of green vegetables, the consumption of corn alone is unbearable for three catties a day, and it is reduced by nearly 100 catties in a month, plus I have to eat some of it myself.

In the past, they were fed corn mixed with some sweet potatoes and greens, and the food consumption was not obvious, but now there are no greens and sweet potatoes, and this situation suddenly becomes prominent.

Five big chickens eat a lot, and six small chickens are also the size of a fist, and the amount of food is slowly increasing, a bit like buying a car, you can afford it, you can't afford it!

I hesitated for three days about what to do with the chickens, and after three days I still didn't wait for the rain to come and lost my last patience and had to take very reluctant emergency measures!

The easiest thing to do is, of course, to prevent it from consuming any more food, which is to kill the chicken, which I did not expect to come to this point, and I would not want to do it if I were not desperate.

I thought that it took me so hard to catch a few chickens for half a month, but I didn't expect that half of them would be removed because of a big drought.

It's the same as during the Chinese New Year, I boiled two pots of water and then went into the chicken pen to catch the chickens, the difference is that this time I tied it with a rope, and now the weather is so dry, I don't want to go to the chickens again and run sweaty!

Of the five chickens, I chose the healthiest two of them to continue feeding, one male and one female, and the other three will be killed to make bacon.

This time it was not as ugly as killing chickens during the New Year, and the three chickens were dealt with smoothly, and the three balls of chicken in front of me should be very happy if it was under normal circumstances, but now I am very depressed to see them!

Six chicks are less than the size of a fist, and the appetite has not yet been fully developed, at this time three chicks can withstand the consumption of one big chicken.

With two big chickens and six small chickens, the daily corn needs have dropped from three or four catties to one and a half catties at present, and the consumption of corn in a month can finally drop to less than fifty catties.

It's worth being happy, but it's not worth being too happy, and the key to solving the problem in the end is to see when it can rain, and when the chicks grow up, the consumption will still rise again!

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The problem of sheep is even more complicated, three ewes have just given birth, and at this time four lambs have joined, and the size of the flock has increased to eleven, which is the largest number of sheep since the island, but it is the most difficult time!

But unlike chickens, they only need to drink water and grass, and if they don't give them food for a period of time, they just won't grow meat, and they won't have other big effects.

In the end, I decided to keep them first, and it didn't matter if I worked hard every day, as long as I survived this drought, the weeds on the ground would be revived two or three days after the rain, and there would be no shortage of grass!

I don't need to take care of the lambs, the three newborn ewes will take care of them wholeheartedly, but the ewes may not be able to keep up with the nutrition if they also eat grass with other sheep.

For this reason, in addition to ensuring a sufficient amount of grass every day, the three ewes will be given a fist-sized ball of moist cornmeal, which will be fed to them in their hands, and if the ewes have no milk, it will be difficult for the four lambs to survive!

The food of the seven big sheep is very difficult for me, there are no sweet potato leaves and greens, every day I will go to the distance to cut grass and collect some edible leaves, and the distance is getting farther and farther, and the neighborhood has been swept away by me......

Raising them is as difficult as feeding two cows, and every day I put the grass I cut for them and put them on my back, I guess I will be crushed and unable to stand up!

Recently, my daily work has become cooking, eating, cutting grass in the morning to feed the sheep, boiling seawater in the afternoon, and occasionally setting off to collect firewood.

Even the usual plan to patrol the island once in ten and a half days has been canceled, and it is not known how many ships have passed by at sea, but no matter how many have been missed.

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After more than a month of boiling water every day, two clay pots were also burned and scrapped, and it is worth mentioning that the iron pot obtained from the ship did not participate in the action of boiling water, because it itself is more valuable, and I do not want to waste its limited life like this.

The only harvest in this drought may be salt, and the steam has been boiled since the tenth day or so of the drought, and the coarse salt left every day is accumulating, and by this time there are twenty or thirty catties, which is not a problem for a year, and the quantity is still accumulating!

However, these coarse salts still need to be reprocessed, and they must be filtered after adding water and then boiled and dried.

There is not much left of the number of potatoes, and after removing a small part of the rotten and lost seeds and 100 catties of seeds, there is only thirty or fifty catties left, and soon there will be one less food again.

Within ten days, the food was only supported by corn and cassava from the cave vegetable fields, and the rest was either in the field or dispensable, such as the amount of taro, which could be omitted.

Happily, the temperature in May is not low, coupled with the long period of sunny weather, the temperature has risen more significantly, and the sea water is still a little cold, but it is no longer biting!

The fish pond has long been in a dry state, and now the purpose of going to the sea is mainly to enrich the variety of food, and there is no plan to catch and feed for the time being.

It takes at least a day or two to fill the pond with water again, not to mention that after a long drought, the bottom of the pond cracks obviously, and the water in it is like a hole in the bottom of the bucket at first.

First, I am troublesome, and secondly, the daily schedule is very tight, and there is not so much time at all, so the fish caught will be dried for storage for the time being.

The harvest of the first day of going to the sea was modest, the harvest was almost more than ten catties, and the second day was about twenty catties again, but it didn't make me happy, and it seems that the only thing that can make me completely happy is the rain!

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On the forty-fifth day of the drought, the weather changed again, and a heavy rain was coming......

I was very depressed after being released last time, and I am sure that this will not happen again, and the dark clouds in the sky seem to be more like that than last time, because it is starting to thunder!

It's just that although today's black clouds are thick, they look more like a short-term thunderstorm, and the clouds don't look big, and I'm worried that something like last time will happen again!

The thunder was getting closer and closer, and the wind began to howl as if it had heard the call of thunder, rolling up the leaves and dust on the ground, and although everything looked like a scene of a heavy rain, I was always skeptical!

Now I didn't think about finally waiting for you, but fortunately I didn't give up, but I didn't think of the phrase "thunder is loud, rain is small" for some reason, and I don't know what it means......

Ten minutes later, the heavy rain came as promised, and I finally heard the sound of rain after a long absence, which sounded so pleasant and beautiful at this time!

However, the ground will be completely wet in three to five minutes, and as long as this strength is guaranteed for another half an hour, the whole forest will come to life, and in three or five hours, there will be new water in the well again, and my crisis will be lifted!

Merely......

God didn't match my thoughts, and the rain only ended hastily after half an hour, and the only good news for me was that the plants in the woods came to life, and it would be easier to mow the sheep.

The situation in the well is expected to be dry, and this rain has left no water in the ditch, so there is no excess water to soak into the well from the mountain at a height of one or two hundred meters, and my hope is disappointed again!

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In mid-May, the drought had been going on for almost 50 days, and I couldn't figure out why there was such a persistent drought at sea, and the drought lasted longer than I could accept.

As the days passed, it was especially difficult, my patience was exhausted, and the grass was getting harder and harder to find.

Even after the rain a few days ago, the improvement was not as great as I expected, and there was almost no grass to cut within a few hundred meters of the neighborhood.

I began to feel that the number of sheep was a huge burden, too big for me to bear, and that I would have to spend at least half of my daily time on the sheep.

This situation was something I didn't expect and a result I didn't want, and I had to think about reducing the number of sheep in order to deal with this crisis, and killing chickens gave me a good inspiration.

Although it was very painful to kill chickens at that time, I felt less pressure in the following days, even at the cost of reducing the number of animals, and I was tired of this life of mowing grass for sheep for half a day every day!

On the first day, I killed one of last year's ewes and processed it for salting, and the next day I reduced it by one again, and the remaining sheep were reduced from seven to five at once.

Although it was very painful to kill the sheep, when I was mowing the grass later, I realized that this should have been done a long time ago, and the time spent on mowing the grass every day was reduced by one-third, and the extra time was enough for me to boil half a bucket of fresh water, and the reduction was easier.

Eating fresh mutton for two or three days is quite luxurious in this season, but the mutton is really fragrant!

The first thing I do when I wake up every day is to check if it's raining outside, or if it's changing, and sometimes I can even dream of it at night......

This mood lasted for a long time, but the actual situation was that God disappointed me again and again, the loss of crop death is not the greatest, after all, it can be replanted when it rains later.

The loss of sweet potatoes and potatoes is the greatest, not to mention sweet potatoes, potatoes have also begun to rot and deteriorate now, and 100 catties are missing.

Their yields are indeed unparalleled, but the fact that the seeds are not preserved for a long time is a very big flaw, and it is destined that even if the harvest is a few months later, it will not be the same as last year's harvest.

The mood is complicated, watching the number of delicious sweet potatoes and potatoes continue to decrease, but there is nothing you can do about it!