Volume 1 Chapter 7 Corn Seeds
It seems that you can't be so reckless in the future, it's really not worth losing your life for a bucket.
Although the process was thrilling and almost ended up being fish feed, the ultimate goal was achieved, and a half-used bucket became my personal belongings.
The bucket is one of the top three in all my permanent supplies, not only for water and fish, but also for canning boxes for cooking and boiling water.
The key is that it is still in a new condition, and after sanding off a small amount of rust on it with sand on the beach, a shiny bucket appears in front of my eyes.
It looks like the canning box will be honorably laid off tonight, and there is a better bucket to replace it.
It took me half an hour to rest on the beach before I finally regained some energy, and I couldn't rest when I came back.
Not only do you have to go up the mountain to fetch water, but you also have to smoke the fish after processing.
Unsurprisingly, dinner was grilled fish again, and while eating boring grilled fish, I remembered all the things in the past.
At this time, I thought of the experience of some barbecue restaurants using stone pots to grill fish and meat, and I thought that I could find a stone slab and try to grill food, and there should be room for improvement in taste.
On the eighth day on the island, it was no surprise that the breakfast was still fish, but today's method was different.
I picked two fat leaves, wrapped the fish and threw it into the fire, and after less than half an hour of waiting, when I took it out and opened the burnt leaves, a rich aroma instantly entered my nostrils.
The feeling in your mouth is also different from the usual grilled fish and boiled fish, because the aroma is still locked in the fish, so the aroma is particularly strong......
The grilled fish wrapped in leaves not only has a stronger flavor, but also does not burn and the meat is more tender, so it seems that this method should be used more in the future.
A delicious breakfast was not only filling, but also put me in a good mood!
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Today I want to continue to check the situation in the woods on the island, after all, the human way of life in the primitive stage was mainly based on land, and I am now a primitive human, and the difference is only that the knowledge is relatively rich.
As the saying goes, the sea eats the sea, and the sea is indeed richer in resources than the land, but it is also infinitely more dangerous, and the fish and seafood of the sea, even in my current situation, only want to use them as auxiliary food.
In addition to the reluctance to go overseas as an inland swimmer, there is also the danger of the sea and the fact that the temperature is low for nearly half a year in winter.
Therefore, the resources of the sea can be used as a supplement, but normally the main focus is still on land!
At present, about a third of the forest area has not been explored, and the forest walked is not detailed, only a cursory passing, because at this stage it is mainly to check the terrain and find ready-made food.
But this also leaves a big problem, and you may have to search carefully to find all kinds of plants, especially all kinds of food plants, when you have free time later.
After three hours of setting off to nothing, and with more than a handful of wild vegetables on my hand than when I went out, I felt a little worried about it as time passed.
There haven't been any major discoveries since I arrived on the island, except for a few cassava plants and greens, which is not good news for me!
I don't think it would be possible to survive here for a long time if we were only looking for the resources and varieties of food in the current conditions......
However, this situation gave me a little comfort after more than an hour, and two pheasants suddenly flew out of the grass next to me, which was startled at first, but after coming back to my senses, my reaction was only surprise!
Two pheasants don't mean much, and I believe they have nowhere else to go but to stay on a lonely island.
But it can be imagined that there is likely to be a population, and if there are dozens or hundreds of pheasants, it is also a very good source of food.
It's just that the difficult work of catching pheasants may be something that needs to be considered for a long time, and at present, it is mainly to improve the survival state in a short time, and there is no extra energy wasted on them.
Watching the two pheasants fly away from the grass, I couldn't help but wonder if there were any other pheasants in the grass, and if I could catch a small one, it would be a good solution, so I kept pulling the weeds they had just hidden.
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Surprisingly, however, the pheasant didn't notice it, but something more delicious caught my eye.
A nest of wild eggs!
The wild eggs were slightly smaller than normal, and there were only five eggs in this nest, but they still couldn't stop the joy in my heart, and I was already thinking about how to eat them at night.
The unexpected doesn't stop there......
Surprises sometimes come very suddenly, people are caught off guard for a while, just picked up the eggs only twenty minutes ago, and saw a corn plant in the woods!
Corn......
Finally, I found the first staple food that can be grown on a large scale, and it is extremely familiar corn!
Now it is struggling to grow, and it has a height close to mine, but it is blocked by large trees that affect the light, and there are many weeds on the ground that continue to grab nutrients from the land, so its development is not very good.
At first glance, I didn't care about it, but I was thinking about why it only had this one?!
After thinking about it for a long time, I finally came to the conclusion that the corn kernels carried in the bird's dung took root and sprouted after falling into the ground with the island dung.
This possibility is the most probable and convincing, otherwise it would never have been the island that came to life out of thin air!
Whether I can leave this island or not is actually bottomless, but there are ready-made corn seeds in front of me, and if I let it go, then I am a pig!
Now it should be the top priority until harvest, but first of all, it is necessary to change its environment appropriately, and the current growing environment is really not good.
I started to remove all the weeds and branches that were blocking the sun within two meters of it, and it would be much more productive to have a more comfortable environment, after all, corn is a sun-loving crop, and the more sunlight there is, the better it will grow.
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The removal of the weeds was only a preliminary work, and I divided it into two layers with six thumb-thick branches and fixed them on the corn stalks, because the island was often accompanied by sea breezes and relatively strong winds, which were easily blown off.
This corn plant is very important to me, and if I can't leave the island in a short period of time, its results will directly affect whether I can grow it on a large scale in the future, and then affect my survival status.
If I am unlucky enough to be blown off, then I may have to choose cassava as my staple food, but the main disadvantage of cassava is that the growth cycle is too long, and it is far less suitable than corn.
If you stick to it for a month or so, this corn will be harvested, and it will become a staple food like rice and wheat, and I will go back to my old business as a farmer and expand it on a larger scale.
In the afternoon, considering the extremely high temperature in the woods and my already hungry belly, I returned to the cave.
The difference today is that the speed of return is much faster than usual, and the thought of having delicious eggs to eat immediately makes me so anxious that my saliva is about to flow out, so I unconsciously speed up......
A few eggs are very precious to me, so I didn't eat them all at once, but only boiled two of them, which were more of a snack to supplement some of the protein needed by the body.
Maybe this is the thrifty nature of human beings, and they will cherish good things, let alone in this environment of survival in the wild.
If you solve everything good at the first time, you will only overeat when you are lucky, and starve to death when you are unlucky!
Eating a long-lost taste can always make people linger for a long time, and wild eggs do taste better than feed eggs is also one of the reasons, and the more important thing may be the feeling of eating.
In the afternoon, I went to the nearby woods to collect some long vines with chopsticks, I can't say what they are called, but they are very strong, and I plan to make a basket or basket for things.
It's really inconvenient to hold all kinds of things up and down the hill purely by hand, and it's too late to react when you encounter danger!
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After removing the leaves and forks from it, I began to weave a basket in the form of a basket in my memory, and finally cut it off with a one- or two-meter-long rope and disassembled it into two shoulder straps.
Between the basket and the basket, I still think that walking in the woods is more practical, and I have been used to it since I was a child!
It's just that the back basket at home used to be a little beautiful, and no matter how bad it is, there are rules at all, and I really ......
Hehe, miserable!
Not to mention the appearance, the key hole can be closed with two fingers to pass through, and the decoration of the small east and west has to pad the leaves to ensure that it does not leak to the ground, but as a beginner's first work, I am already more satisfied.
It's a bit desperate to go to the island for so many days and not see any ships passing by nearby, these days should be the best time for search and rescue!
The absence of ships does not mean that I should relax, on the contrary, if I want to leave the island, I need to be prepared.
In the afternoon I picked up a lot of dry branches and leaves and piled them up in the clearing at the top of the hill to form a hill, and if there were boats passing by nearby, all they had to do was light the pyre, and there was a chance that they would find someone on the island, although it would take luck to win the lottery!
After sorting out the idea of this process, I felt that it would be very difficult, first of all, to be able to find the ship and quickly light the fire, and at the same time, the people on the boat could see the wolf smoke, and then drive the boat to the island without hesitation, and finally send me back to China, all the conditions must be met before the final goal can be achieved.
You can imagine how difficult it will be, but there is always hope that there will be if it happens!
One of the biggest troubles belongs to me, I am busy with life every day, and I rarely have time on the beach so chanced to encounter passing boats, and I can't find that there is no series of developments behind nature.