Smoked meat is famous for cypress branches, and in addition to cypress branches, various fruit trees are also a good choice, and the aroma is also very unique.

I have been working hard for the next few days to make bacon, and the meat I made this time will definitely taste better by one or two grades, and it may be more economical when eating, unlike the usual casual handling and eating sweet potatoes, which is not taken seriously at all.

Hunting this crocodile can also make people feel tired, especially when it comes to handling fish, and they almost want to die later.

So I won't have the idea of fighting crocodiles for at least two months, and even the storage conditions at home won't allow me to do that!

All the containers were full, and the peanuts had to be put out in a large clay pot to hold all the fish, and the containers had to be emptied for a while.

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In late January, I started to make routine preparations for the next year, such as paper making and cornmeal grinding, and after more than four years of running-in, everything seemed to be in order.

There is no need to make salt and extract oil, things are relatively easy, and it has been quite idle lately, but it is annoying to need to filter fresh water and go to the sea to fetch water every once in a while.

I started patrolling the island again after a hiatus of nearly a year, and I have to say that I became more and more bold, and when I saw the crocodiles in front of me, I only made a detour, and after so many encounters, I had little fear left for them, and more of a vigilance.

In the two rounds of the island, only two crocodiles were found, and the fish that was shot and escaped was not seen again, which indirectly confirmed that the operation was partially successful and should have been solved!

There are only two left on the island, and one of them is less than three meters long, and it is not difficult to solve it even if it is a small one.

The difficult one is another, a giant of about four meters and five, which is also the carrying handle of the crocodile group, which is half a meter longer than the previous one, and has more visual impact.

However, the two visits to the island did not yield anything, and the biggest gain may be to find out that there are only two crocodiles left on the island, and they have not received new supplies for too long.

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It's February, and it's the fifth year I've spent here, so I'd be doing well now, but I'm pretty much fed.

Everything else is not a little worse, the house can barely ensure safety, and the clothes are made of sheepskin in winter, and you can wear whatever you want in summer.

On the surface, it looks okay, but various threats and crises always make people's daily psychological activities extremely active, in short, "tired"!

All kinds of troubles one after another, before the typhoon hit, then there was an earthquake hard palate, then there were crocodiles and water crises, and there were few times when I was bored, and every day was busy.

I wonder if I'll be able to go back in the next five years?

If I can't go back, what will I become, I shouldn't go crazy, anyway, it's desperate to think about!

It's a little sad to think about, I had to throw away this emotion and start killing sheep, and the sheep that have been delayed because of crocodile meat can finally solve two, and there are still ten.

I don't know what the idea is supporting me to keep the scale of 10 until now, maybe I just want to eat two bites of fresh lamb on New Year's Day.

If the time could be adjusted by a year, I would definitely limit the number of sheep to five or six to cope with the large increase in crocodile meat this year, which is a bit difficult to ride a tiger now.

Fortunately, a lot of the stored meat has been consumed in this month or so, and two clay pots have been vacated, otherwise the preservation of mutton will be a very big problem.

There are four or five hundred catties of meat at home, and if you live normally like the beginning, there may be a surplus until next year's New Year, even if I consume it now, it can at least support it until the second half of next year, not to mention two crocodiles.

Therefore, the number control of the flock is particularly important, and the two disposed of this time are ewes, which makes the next year's calf only two ewes, and the pressure is much less.

These eight sheep don't know how long to stay, it's worrying to think about it, I just hate that my appetite is too small, if I can adjust it, I want to be big when I want to be big, and I can save food when I want to be small.

In the first half of the year, I was thinking that I would eat chicken for the Chinese New Year this year, but too much meat directly caused the chickens to escape, and I also wanted to increase the number of chickens The plan was aborted.

After last year's number was reduced to six, there were no more chicks hatched last winter, and this year I still have no plans to increase them, six chickens is enough for me alone, one or two eggs a day.

There are too many kinds of meat, and there are enough sheep, and increasing the number of chickens is just a burden on me, and it is not beneficial!

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Of course, the New Year is still indispensable for a hearty lunch, this time there is also dinner, if you don't eat and drink a few meals, I'm really sorry for the food piled up at home, and the meat will taste worse if it is left for too long.

It is a very sad story that the reunion dinner cannot be reunited, and what comforts me is the dishes on this large table, including a kebab, a stewed crocodile meat, a bowl of steamed eggs, a fried greens, a potato stewed mutton, and a staple sweet potato.

This year, fish and seafood were completely eliminated, and corn was excluded, but it took longer, and it was already early afternoon when it was made, but this table was definitely tough enough.

If in terms of quality alone, this meal should be the most luxurious meal on the island for more than four years, and the previous years of the New Year are far from comparable, even if last year was more abundant, it is not as hard as this time!

While eating a big meal, I was also thinking about the experience of the past year!

Although there were new challenges and crises in this year, on the whole it was relatively stable, and the grain harvest was unprecedentedly bumper, especially since there was no decent typhoon to return to normal in all aspects, especially the grain did not suffer losses.

Although it is a little less interesting to not be able to go into the sea to fish and eat delicious seafood, it also makes up for the lack of meat by hunting crocodiles, and even far exceeds the demand!

In the new year, the crocodile crisis is basically over, and the last two are not a problem, and from the time I dealt with the first crocodile, I knew that the crocodile was not much of a threat to me.

The problem of the well will be even greater, from a few months ago to a week's water consumption, to the recent rain can only ensure one or two days of water, only a line away from drying up, and it is difficult to say that the flow will be completely cut off one day.

It's not been a day or two since I've been studying the well, and I don't seem to have a way to solve its problems, I can't go all the way along the cracks in the flowing water to the leaky position, that's not realistic, and I don't have the ability to do it.

If it can't be solved, it will be the biggest crisis since the island, more serious than the house being blown down by the typhoon and the lack of food in the first place!

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The lack of fresh water is indeed a serious waste of my time, except for preparing food for the sheep every day, which is a fixed and more troublesome thing, and now solving the problem of fresh water has become the first trouble.

The sheep's food can still be freed from the vegetables after they are ripe, and the water problem can only be filtered slowly.

It takes one to two hours a day to produce enough fresh water for people and livestock, and that's when there is enough fresh water in a swimming pool, especially in a drought.

After each rain, the swimming pool can be filled with almost half of the pool, and in some cases it can even be filled, and when it rains, I collect some directly, filter it and then put it into a clay jar to solve the problem of fresh water for three to five days.

Given that the process of filtering fresh water was so slow, it was maddeningly slow, but I couldn't leave a single step, leaving meant no new water added, and the filtration was suspended, so I had to think about making a larger unit for filtering fresh water, and two or three at the same time.

The filtration device is relatively simple, I don't know how many times I have done it until now, and the steps of changing the material are almost the same every time, this time I chose a three-pound bottle.

But it's not that simple, and I want to free up as much time as possible, rather than having to wait and add water every time I filter.

This is too troublesome, and at the same time, after discovering a more trouble-free method, I suddenly thought that it was simply a primitive man's method before, and I was a pig brain!

This eliminated the idea of making several filtration devices, and concentrated on making the structure required for the new method.

The first step of the new method was to erect a wooden stake on the side of the kitchen, which was relatively strong, and I chose a log with the thickness of a calf and drove it deep into the ground.

Then cut off the bottom of a large oil bottle with a capacity of 20 catties and tie it to a height of 1.5 meters on a wooden stake, of course, the bottle mouth is downward, and the bottle body can not be deflated too hard.

The cap cannot be thrown away, it plays a vital role, piercing a small hole in the center of the bottle, so that the water in the bottle can flow down like a silk thread and into the filter device below.

That's right, the filter is placed directly below it and tied to a wooden stake, and a clay pot is placed at the bottom to receive the filtered fresh water, the whole process is similar to the usual steps, but it is very different to me.

Every time I can pour in close to twenty catties of water and let it filter slowly, it doesn't waste my time at all, I can concentrate on the side, and add another pot when I come back once in a while, and so on.

I don't have to worry about forgetting or not being at home, I spend a lot of time at home every day, morning and evening, cooking and eating, so this method is quite convenient, as long as there is water in the pool.

In this way, I only need to filter five or six pots of water every day, which is completely enough for me to use, and the drinking water of chickens and sheep does not need to be filtered at all, especially for sheep, which is a large water consumer.

They are animals that eat raw food and drink raw water, and their bodies do not need to be as hygienic as humans at all, which also indirectly saves me a lot of work.

The water quality in the pool is not turbid after precipitation, but relatively clear, and the filtered water quality can barely reach the quality of normal water, but it cannot be directly drunk.

The filtration speed is several times higher than the efficiency of boiling seawater, and I would never have thought that the well would fail, but the swimming pool has become a big help to solve my crisis!

However, without the replenishment of well water, the pool will generally dry up naturally in about a week, and if I use it at a high intensity like my current one, it will bottom out in three to five days, so this is a problem, and it is not a solution to do it all the time.