After waiting for a year for the mango to finally ripen, and at the same time, on the way to pick up the mango, I picked up two coconuts under a coconut tree, which made me even happier when I was in a good mood.

There is only one mango tree on the island, which is considered to be the pillar, and the others are either small seedlings that were planted last spring, or small trees that have not yet fully grown, and there is not much fruit on the tree, and the yield of this mango tree last year was very low, so I did not enjoy it at all.

This year's situation is much better, there is no typhoon impact, there are no plants around it to compete for nutrients, and the rare hanging fruit exceeds 100.

It's just that the ripe situation is not the same, which adds some trouble, and it takes many times to go back and forth to harvest it all!

Mangoes and coconuts are my benefactors, if I didn't have them, it would have been difficult for me to survive in the early days of the island, and they are also rare fruit resources on the island, each one is so precious.

Pure wild mangoes are really rare and delicious, and while tasting this deliciousness, I also found that it is difficult to preserve at this temperature, and without pesticides and refrigerators, the freshly picked fruits can only be stored for about two days before they deteriorate quickly.

The only way to make some of it into dried mangoes will not only prevent the loss, but also make the flavor last longer.

The taste of dried mango is sweet and sour, sweet but not greasy, not only as food, but also as a rare snack, which is even more feeling than eating fresh mango!

There is also a little bit of attention to the selection of materials when making, extremely ripe mangoes will feel soft, not suitable for dried mangoes, because it is almost difficult to form when sliced, and this part can only be eaten as fruit.

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Those fruits that are just ripe but still have a hard feel are the best choice, which may surprise many people.

Peel the selected mango and cut it into slices three to four millimeters thick, and then cook the slices in a pot before drying.

It's just a pity that there is no sugar, otherwise the taste is similar to the dried mangoes you usually buy, and even because of the pure natural fruit, the taste may be better.

In the absence of sugar and sugar substitutes, you can only use a small amount of salt when cooking mango slices, although the taste may be a little weird, but it should not be too bad, after all, the foundation is good.

Normally, the dried mangoes we eat are not dried for a long time, generally kept for about a day, so the dried mangoes made are moderately soft and hard, and the taste is excellent, if the time is too long, it will be hard, but I have dried it for two or three days in order to keep it longer.

The final product is a little toothy, but it tastes good if you taste it carefully, but because it hasn't been soaked in syrup, the sweetness is slightly lacking!

But it's also the first real snack I've ever had on the island, and I'm happy to be able to do it to this extent, and if I can find the raw materials for the sugar, this problem will be solved.

In addition, the new season of greens must also be bred, otherwise there will be at least three or four months of interruption in breeding after the end of this season's greens, and what awaits me will be the days of mowing the grass every day, which is unacceptable!

Along with the green vegetable seeds, there are potatoes, the area of this season is about 100 square meters, if everything goes well, the next season can also harvest two or three hundred catties.

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It has been two years since I went to the island in a blink of an eye, and two years are just a flick of a finger, but the living conditions have been greatly improved, from the very beginning of starvation, lack of food and clothing to the current barely maintaining life, it is already a very good achievement!

What's more important is that now not only is it engaged in planting, but also animal husbandry, although all this belongs to the existence of sheep and pheasants on the island, but at least I seized this opportunity!

Although the process has been very bumpy along the way, and there have been many life-threatening situations, but when I look back, it is generally relatively smooth, and it is an eye-opener for a person who has never survived in the wild.

It's just that compared to the enthusiasm for leaving the island at the beginning, the expectation of leaving is lower after two years of fading, and I even worry about whether I will be trapped on this island for the rest of my life!

Forget it, I don't want to do it so much, otherwise I will increase the damage on the way......

A heavy rain finally brought down the hot weather, after the rain I took advantage of the cool weather to go to the beach to patrol the island, this project has been interrupted for a long time, I can't remember the specific time, but it is estimated that there will be about a month.

The original plan was to check once a week to ten days, but this frequency was completely useless in the summer, and the temperature was too high for me to be vetoed immediately when I had the idea of going out, so the frequency was lowered again and again!

However, I don't think it's necessary to go too often in summer, because the temperature is too high to bear, and I also feel that even if there is a stranded fish on the beach, it will spoil in one day, and I don't think I have the luck to just run into a stranded fish.

I haven't been to the seaside garbage for a long time and there is indeed a lot more, and I once again classified all kinds of garbage into a pile, but I found that the harvest is not very big, of course, this is also related to the improvement of the horizon after the family property is abundant, and many things that used to be treasures have been disdained!

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In the end, I only found three or four plastic bottles and a decent slipper, and I'm really sorry that I made such a big determination to come once.

I went to the woods early the next morning, and I picked up two coconuts at the same time as picking mangoes two days ago, and I wanted to take advantage of the dawn to see if there were any coconut crabs and coconuts, and at the same time pick a new batch of ripe mangoes.

The sight in the woods is not very clear at dawn, but this is a good time to catch coconut crabs, if you can go to the woods in the middle of the night to look for the probability of finding it will be greater, but unfortunately I don't have a flashlight!

The first thing I found when I stumbled through the woods were two coconuts, which would have been worth my appearance fee even if there were no coconut crabs today.

There are a lot of coconut trees on the island, I have been looking for 20 and I have not found one, but the coconut has filled the back basket, and I have not come out for a long time to look for coconuts, it turns out that there are so many fallen on the ground.

As time went by, the sky had brightened, and my obsession with coconut crabs had not yet dissipated, so I put down my backpack and continued to search, and this time I found five more trees, and finally saw a greedy one still eating a large piece under the tree!

The battle, however, began without any fancy, for I was swaggering through the woods and had no hidden movements.

When I saw it, it also spotted me, and it was so alert that it wanted to run away for a moment, and the speed was very surprising, when did it react so quickly......

Without the slightest hesitation, I rushed forward with the long knife in my hand, even if it had more legs, but my long legs were not vegetarian!

More than ten seconds of running at a high speed made people a little breathless, but I also managed to catch up with it, and seeing that it was about to burrow into the hole and fall short, I crossed the cave mouth in front of it with a knife, and stepped lightly on its body with my foot, and won completely.

At this point, this not a thrilling battle is over, and the size of the crabs caught can only be considered medium, about three or four catties, but one or two full meals are enough.

When I returned to the basket full of coconuts, I stumbled upon another piece of copper ore, and my mentality was completely different from when I got the first piece of copper ore, and I even disdained it at this time.

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Because when applied to metal products in life, iron will be more suitable than copper, and it is more suitable for its chemical industry, especially in the field of electricity, but I have no technology to make it at all.

So even taking it home feels like a waste of energy, so let it continue to stay in the wild!

Taking advantage of the fact that there was still plenty of water two days after the rain, I started to make a new round of bricks and tiles, and the second room was still to be made.

And I have a hunch that corn and various crops will be harvested in many large pottery containers, and the room is now expected to be crowded again.

People are like this, when you get used to a rich life and then go back to live a poor life, it must be difficult to adapt, I am now used to living a spacious life,

It's not so happy to be in a crowded room again......

Making bricks again is extremely boring and reluctant, but I think that as long as the second room is built, I can basically wave goodbye to the bricks, and I am full of energy, as long as I work hard, it is still very fast to build a room.

In this complicated mood, it was again six or seven hours a day, and a week to make a thousand bricks and tiles, and this work could only be stopped for a moment to make way for corn.

Corn grows every day, and my worries have been with me almost every day since it was transplanted into the ground, and I am always afraid that a strong wind or a typhoon will knock the whole field to the ground, and finally the grain will not be harvested!

It took a lot of effort to grow corn here, and I even went to bed at night worrying about the corn in the field, and when the wind was slightly strong, I was thinking about whether the corn was still there, but fortunately my worst fear did not happen!

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Now that the corn is ripe, I can finally put my heart in my stomach and sleep peacefully at night, but harvesting corn is also hard work......

The corn in the field is broken off with the husk and thrown into the back basket and carried back to the drying field, and the thin shell that wraps the innermost layers of the corn cob is very soft, and it is also a good material for making the inner core of the pillow.

The mixture of flocculent and flower collected in the past has been crushed like a brick, and it would be much better to replace it with the inner shell of corn.

Thanks to this year's good weather and rain, the wet corn cob of half an acre of land should be 1,500 to 2,000 catties, and it can be guaranteed to be at least about 700 catties after drying and threshing, which is a remarkable yield on this island!

Last year, the harvest of only about 400 catties made my pressure plummet, and this year's quantity can almost guarantee the main food supply for me and a few chickens for a year.

There are also a lot of corn, potatoes and peanuts, as well as fish, seafood, and kelp......

The only thing that made people unhappy was the trouble of harvesting, it took two days to tear all the corn off the stalk and carry it home, and another day to peel the cob out of the shell.