Volume II: Chapter 128: Sugar Cane

The houses on the island will become less and less useful in the future, but they are not useless, and even after the whole thing is moved, one or two rooms will still be left as a backup just in case.

If anything unexpected happens on Crocodile Island in the future, at least go back to the original island and have a ready-made residence.

So the second room was demolished beyond recognition, and the first room and kitchen will remain!

From the bottom of my heart, I don't want to be like this, and I feel a little reluctant to see the house I have worked so hard to build for a long time fall apart, but who makes me very anxious now.

It's just that transporting bricks is really not cost-effective, and it takes twenty or thirty times to transport bricks to reach 2,000 bricks, and I can make so many bricks in less than a week.

In view of the low efficiency, I decided to remake it honestly, and the transportation efficiency of the bricks is still not very cost-effective compared to reconstruction!

It is much less laborious to transport ready-made tiles than to make them from scratch, and nearly 200 pieces can be transported at a time, and more than ten times are enough for the number needed for the first room.

The rate of increase in various materials is not bad, and it may not be long before construction can begin, and as long as the first room is built, it will be much more safe here!

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The finished bricks and tiles are drying quickly, and the kiln must be dug out first.

The location conditions of the kiln are almost the same as before, they are all excavated at the edge of the open space and there is a slope, but the process is a little sad!

The first position was abandoned because the ground was too soft, the second position was forced to be abandoned because of the large rocks, and the third position was again because of the stones, and it was not until the fourth place was dug that it was finally qualified.

Although the first three together only wasted two days, the repeated change of position also made the people choked enough......

This brick kiln is smaller than the previous size, and only 2,000 bricks should be able to fill up, except for my laziness factor, mainly considering the actual situation.

First of all, such a size can save the time of digging the kiln, the kiln loading and discharging are faster and save firewood, the firing time will be shorter, and the probability of rain will be smaller.

Second, when the firing conditions and techniques are the same, the smaller kiln will produce less scrap products, just like stir-frying, and there must be a difference in the taste of the big pot dish and the small stove!

I have to say that time flies quickly, and it was already early December when the cave was dug, so I had to go back and dig out the sweet potatoes first anyway.

Compared with corn, the yield of sweet potatoes has been particularly stable, and this season is no exception, with a total output of more than 1,200 catties, and the staple food in the next three or four months will be replaced by sweet potatoes, and corn has been successfully laid off.

I just hate that the buoyancy of the ship is not enough, and I can't transport all the sweet potatoes at once, because the weather is getting colder and colder, and every trip to the sea below the legs will be drenched in the sea, which is very discordant!

It's a little better when it's empty, at least when the wind is calm and the upper raft is still above the sea, and it's almost not much higher than the sea level after loading the cargo, and a small wave can let me wash my feet for free.

At the end of the day, I think the most troublesome thing is the problem of chickens and sheep, and now that I want to move the chickens and sheep, then I don't have to suffer this at all.

At that time, you can go back to the island once in ten days and half a month, and you can arrange the time freely, instead of being forced to set off like now!

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There are still a few days before the bricks are completely air-dried, in addition to dealing with all kinds of trivial things these days, I am going to go to the beach to see, the continuous busyness really makes the body more repulsive, and then this is not the result I want, I don't want to be so busy and turn myself into a robot!

The combination of work and rest is my guiding point, and it seems that for a long time recently, there is only work, no leisure, and after figuring it out, I actually think that a few days late is not a big deal.

There are also crocodiles on the beach, so it's essential to carry a variety of weapons before you go, but safety is much higher here.

The beach on this island is larger, and the crocodile is like a grain of sand in the palm of my hand, which is very inconspicuous, as long as I walk around the crocodile, I can still do a lot, and I can pick up 80% of the garbage on the beach.

However, this terrain also brings a problem, unlike the terrain of the main island, it is difficult to have volley shooting terrain here, and if you want to hunt crocodiles, you can only shoot after getting close to it at a certain distance, and the chance of exposure increases several times.

In fact, it is equivalent to walking towards it with a big grin, if you are lucky enough to meet it to sleep, you will have a chance, as long as it is still awake, there is not much chance, and the terrain that is conducive to me is very rare.

Forget it, today is mainly to pick up things, for the time being, I won't fight it, there is a lot of garbage brought by the sea on the island that has never been inhabited, even if some was picked up during exploration some time ago, and there are places occupied by crocodiles that can't go.

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Most of the remaining lots were also quite affluent, and there was a sense of "treasure everywhere", and most of the garbage was piled up on the shore by me, and the items I could use were left in another pile without being packed in a basket.

The next day, I walked to the other side of the beach in a similar situation, and the harvest of the two days allowed my family property to be quite replenished, and I directly upgraded from a small beggar to the level of a beggar elder......

First of all, there are two towels of good condition, three pieces of clothes that can barely be worn, one or twenty plastic bottles and glass bottles of various sizes in good condition, iron utensils scraped from various utensils, and iron containers, at least more than ten catties.

Several pieces of fabric with an area of more than half a square meter, three slippers, two ropes, and a pair of fishing nets, I just want to say one thing when I see this large pile: picking up rags makes me happy, makes me happy!

A temporary decision to come to the beach, far from expecting to make a windfall, sure enough, people are not rich without windfalls......

I was quite satisfied with the harvest on the beach, but then I was going to go around the woods, in addition to wanting to have a more intuitive understanding of the island's topography, and also wondering if I could find other crops by dog poop.

Maybe people do have bad luck and lucky times, but the luck of the past is simply unstoppable, and the day after going to the woods, there was a huge surprise, which is hard to believe.

I discovered a new crop--- sugarcane.

There are not many of them in a single cane, perhaps because of the topography here, which limits its development, only about twenty, and unlike the common red cane, this is a green cane, much smaller in diameter.

It seems that for so many years, there has never been a new crop that has the scale of patches when it is discovered, and the patches are basically useless, and it is a very good result to have twenty crops!

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I really wanted to punch myself twice, I was just blind at the beginning, I passed in front of it once or twice when I went to explore the island, and I didn't react at all!

I didn't pay attention to the fact that I didn't pay attention to the reed-like plant at the time, but I didn't know when I would have found it again, because after spring it would all rot and sprout again.

I didn't know much about the classification of sugarcane until now, but it seems that it is a very popular fruit, and it seems that it is not wrong to say that it is an industrial raw material.

It is a very important sugar material, and a large part of the brown sugar is refined from the juice it squeezes.

The discovery of sugar cane will not only allow me to increase the variety of fruits, but also solve the problem of lack of sugar since I came to the island, but it will take time.

If you want to expand the scale, you must take out at least 15 and transplant them into the ground, so that you can get hundreds of sugarcane next year, otherwise you will be fishing for the best of your ability!

In addition, it is also a kind of snack after tea and dinner, which has a considerable effect on replenishing physical strength and water, but this year, don't be delusional, pick three or five to beat the tooth sacrifice for a long time before making up your mind.

The temperature is low now, which is not the best time to plant sugarcane, so except for the two that I carried home, the others are still in place, and they will only be cut down when they are transplanted.

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In mid-December, after more than 20 days of air drying, 2,000 bricks were finally ready for firing, and it was almost impossible to see them put into use.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and living in a grass hut at night is almost freezing to death, even if you bring a few sheepskins and a blanket, you will still be moved by the cold when the wind is open at night!

It is not uncommon to wake up at night, so it will take at least a month for the first room to be built, but yesterday I surrounded all the sides of the hut with large leaves, and the quality of sleep at night improved to a certain extent.

But this is not a long-term solution after all, the cold has accelerated my urgency, so that I treat all work with the most focused attitude every day, and the progress is not bad.

It only took three and a half days to fire a kiln of bricks, and with the bricks and tiles that had been shipped before, it was ready to start......

How nostalgic the open space at the top of the hill is, how disgusting the open space is now, and the foundation of the house must be level, otherwise it will be difficult to build the building process and live in the house in the future.

This creates a considerable problem, the ground is uneven, and there are many remaining tree stumps on the ground, which is an essential process before leveling the foundation, and it is also a problem that I am distressed by.

Fresh stumps have developed roots, and it is more difficult to dig them out, and if you are unlucky, you may not be able to dig one for half a day, but the ground of twenty or thirty square meters needed for the first room has nearly ten stumps, which is simply untemperable.

Distress is distress, things still have to be done, just like going to work, and what must be done must be done with tears......

Fortunately, there are no stumps with a diameter of more than twenty or thirty centimeters, most of them are only more than ten centimeters, and three of them are cleaned up in one day, and it should be completed in three or four days of hard work.

As for the process, it is really difficult to describe, for example, it is no less difficult than digging up a wild ginseng, its roots are not only complicated, but there are also many left.

A stump must be dug down at least half a meter or more and the roots of the tree can be successfully dug up, even if it is troublesome, physical strength is the biggest obstacle, digging out a tree can make people sweat profusely!