In February, after more than 20 days of recuperation and recovery, the sprain on the foot is no longer a big problem, and as long as you don't use the force of your left foot, the use of stone grinding is not a problem.

I also have to grind some cornmeal, the fish pond is empty, the cassava dug up is also exhausted after holding on for so many days, and a hundred catties of sweet potatoes are reluctant to eat at all, and it seems that it has reached the stage of poverty again!

Although my life was busy, I tried my best to keep the reserves of various ingredients at a passing level.

However, this sprain not only brought most of the work to a halt, causing great damage to the body, but also consumed a lot of various ingredients, especially the fish.

This time, I spent two days grinding nearly 40 catties of cornmeal and storing it in a clay pot, which can guarantee that I will not starve to death for the time being, but it is foreseeable that life will not be too good for a period of time in the future, and the ingredients are relatively scarce.

There is still a week before the Chinese New Year, during which there is no good plan for a while, the difficulty of making bricks and tiles is still a bit high, I am afraid that the force of stepping on the mud and the squeezing of the soil will cause the foot injury to recur, and I found pottery when I was thinking about what to do.

The pottery bowl pots made a month or two ago have already dried out, and I am worried that they will crack and scrap if they are left for too long, and secondly, they are also to free up the space they occupy and can be put into use as soon as possible!

Due to the large size of the bowls, the pottery was fired in two parts, but the bad news was that the success rate of one kiln was only half, and the scrap of the other kiln meant that I only got about two-thirds of the total.

The success rate of the clay pot is the highest, the clay pot is second, the pottery bowl is more miserable, a total of five on the success of two, the rest are waste, and can only comfort themselves than no stronger, it is a renewable product, when you have free time can also make some more.

The loss of three pottery bowls was something I didn't expect, and I originally had high hopes for them, and I was still thinking about the boring idea of how many catties of corn could be held in five pottery bowls.

With the new high-capacity pottery, it was finally possible to empty one of the two pots for a water tank.

I used to be used to the existence of a water tank, but the lack of it for three or four months made me very uncomfortable, and every time I turned around and wanted to scoop water, I realized that the water tank was still filled with peanuts!

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The child is looking forward to the New Year, but I found that I am also a little looking forward to the meaning of the New Year, I don't know whether it is the rejuvenation of the youth, or the environment on the island has made people's minds immature!

Two days before the Chinese New Year, I set out to look around for the ingredients for the New Year, and now that the house is almost unable to open the pot, it is estimated that the New Year will not need a table, and I will eat the rice with my hand, so that the New Year I have been looking forward to for a long time will become no expectation.

At present, the few ingredients I can think of and catch are mainly crabs and seafood by the beach, and I can actually find time to fish after my feet can barely walk, but after my foot injury is a little better, I am entangled in all kinds of things, and I don't have any extra time to waste!

As soon as dawn came, I set off to check out the coconut crab near the coconut trees, its huge size can make me eat twice with just one of them, and with a good taste, it is really the first choice among several rare ingredients.

If it weren't for the fact that capturing it too diligently would destroy its size and that it would take a lot of time to find it, I would have loved to come every day......

After nearly two hours of searching and finding nothing, my enthusiasm was extinguished by the ruthlessness of reality, and I began to turn to the rocks and various crevices in all directions.

Maybe it's because the temperature is low in winter, and even the crabs want to be lazy and sleep at home, and they only find three after two or three hours of groping, but fortunately, the effort is not in vain, at least to ensure that this dish can be served smoothly during the New Year.

Unintentionally planted willows and willows, crabs did not catch a few, but found other good things, when I first went to the island to save my life of the coconut has not been drunk for a long time, today I was lucky to find four, it seems that the New Year's drink is also available!

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In the afternoon, there is no place for fish and meat for the Chinese New Year this year, but it is still necessary for seafood to exist, although there is a feeling of chilling in the sea breeze blowing on the beach, but my heart is on fire.

I dug two catties of bamboo leeches, three or four catties of conch, and I excluded oysters, and I had to use them to make oyster sauce after a while, and their number was still relatively small.

What is surprising is that in the process of looking for the conch, I also picked up a brush on the beach, it does not sell very well, it can only be counted as two percent new, not a very valuable thing, but I have a feeling of love when I get it.

In the past, I couldn't wash my clothes cleanly, I couldn't get rid of the dirt on them, and it was also very troublesome to wash sweet potatoes and cassava, but now it will be very easy to have it!

Another discovery is that when washing clothes, due to the lack of modern decontamination products such as laundry detergent, when looking for alternatives, it was found that the effect of plant ash can be used to remove stains, even if the effect is very general, but it is much stronger than washing with water.

I have to say that after going to the island, the grass and wood ash is really an all-round helper, and all kinds of things are indispensable.

On the morning of the previous day, I wanted to squeeze a few more bottles of peanut oil, and the last two or three catties of peanut oil had bottomed out after a hundred days of use.

After a whole month of recuperation, the foot injury finally recovered intact, except for some pain in some cases, it was basically the same as the normal time before, and it was a piece of cake to move twenty or thirty pounds of stones.

At first, I was worried about the rest of my life because I thought it might take two or three months to recover, but now that I got better, I completely abandoned it.

I also did a lot of chores during the foot injury, and peanut shelling is also one of them, so today is one of the most time-consuming steps, otherwise I may not be able to squeeze out a few catties of oil in a morning.

Directly put the peeled peanuts in advance into an iron pot and stir-fry until they are seven or eight ripe, and then grind them into peanut noodles.

I got up at dawn in the morning and began to toss until the afternoon, squeezed out less than 30 catties of peanuts, about 6 catties of oil, although the output has not increased much, but it can ensure that there is no shortage of oil within three or five months!

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Killing sheep on the last afternoon of the year, this is almost a standard matter since last year's New Year, killing sheep too early will make the meat not fresh, in order to eat fresh mutton for the New Year, I am also heartbroken!

Two of the four ewes had lambs in their bellies from their former adult lambs, and two of the three lambs I brought home last year may have to wait a few months before they have their first litter.

The four ewes are more important, so I have to make up my mind with the ram.

After both ewes are pregnant, it seems redundant to raise two rams, so the butcher knife has to reach for the rams again, and I also know that this batch of rams is miserable, the first three rams were all slaughtered!

However, after the next batch of ewes give birth, the number of sheep will be further expanded, and then the ewes will be slaughtered in order to control the number, and the living rams will be able to breathe a sigh of relief!

The two rams are fat and thin, and for me to eat meat, there must be more meat, and this choice is not difficult, so the fat one has become my food supplier.

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Although the law of survival that is full of the whole world is that the law of the jungle is the law of the jungle, as a crappy butcher who kills in order to survive, every time he kills a sheep, he will still feel a little unbearable!

A snow-white sheep looks silly, especially the little lamb that grew up since childhood is still a little cute, every time I kill a sheep, I have to make a lot of determination, but every time I can only bow to reality.

After the first two slaughters, the skills are much more mature, and I have begun to pay attention to speed and precision, trying to make it lose consciousness quickly in a few seconds to alleviate the pain, which is also a common humane method used in modern society when slaughtering animals.

This sheep should be the heaviest of the three sheep slaughtered, and there should be about 45 to 50 catties of pure meat after removing the excess.

It may also be that captivity is longer than free-range meat, and every day in addition to eating and sleeping, even if the last few months have always been accompanied by food shortages and food shortages, I have not been disappointed!

After the lamb is cooled, it is still cut into long strips as usual, evenly smeared with a layer of salt and placed in a clay pot for marinating.

After two days, I took it out of the clay pot and cleaned it again, and then put it on a fire without an open flame and smoked it, which not only lasts longer to make smoked meat, but also I feel that the taste is better, especially the smell is much less.

Thanks to the supplies and salt sent by the fishing boats, my life would have been much more difficult than it is now if it weren't for these supplies, especially the large quantities of iron tools, during my most difficult period!

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When all the preparations are over, it means that it is the day of the Chinese New Year, which is the second year on the island, and the time on the island is about a year and a half!

I'm usually busy and don't have much time to rest, but when I look back and find that a year and a half have passed like this, I suddenly have a feeling that time flies so fast!!

As a rule, I don't do anything other than eat today, no matter how busy I am, this is a valid excuse for me to be lazy.

I got up early, I began to prepare a hearty lunch at noon, yesterday there was a large piece of fresh mutton, I made a large taro stewed mutton, the taro that has not been dug for a long time has a certain recovery, a little digging does not affect the overall quantity.

Corn tortillas are usually tired of eating, and there is no fresh fish, the rest is a steamed crab, a stir-fried conch meat, the staple food is a sweet potato that I have made a lot of determination to dig back in the field, and the sweet sweet potato is a food that I can't get tired of.

The three-course meal is a bit less, but the conditions themselves are limited, and the delay of more than a month of holiday before the year is also a no-brainer.

The last train of the greens did not catch up, and the greens in the field were already old, so they could only be used to feed the sheep, and in ten days or eight days, they would have to go to the woods every day to cut grass for the sheep......

In silence, this year has passed, looking back on this year, it can be said to be a very miserable year, not only suffered a typhoon to destroy the house, but also suffered a lot, and because of the fall injury idle for nearly a month.

I just hope that the next vintage will be smooth and rainy, and if I can get lucky enough to leave this island, it will be even better!