Volume 1 Chapter 95 Fate hangs by a thread
The typhoon was not too unforgiving, and I later found out that in addition to causing some damage, at least a small fortune was left.
This is the coconut, a fruit I love and hate!
I love it because it saved me from danger in the first place, and it tastes so good.
Hate it because it's hard to get it usually, the general height of coconut trees is more than two floors, and its height can only be prohibitive!
Coconuts are always hard to come by, and the occasional bit of luck is a bit of a blast to pick up two, and it's especially maddening to be able to see it.
The typhoon fulfilled my wishes, and almost all the coconuts on the coconut trees were ruthlessly driven down from the trees and scattered all over the ground.
There are even a small number of coconut trees that have been broken from it, which is a pity!
Finding that there were a large number of coconuts to pick up, the work of the past few days has become to look around for coconut trees and look for fallen coconuts in a circle of dozens of meters below the trees.
If you miss this opportunity, it will be a long, long time before you can taste the coconut water, at least until the trees re-produce new coconuts to ripen!
The process was painful and happy, and in the woods blocked by the branches and trunks of the trees that fell to the ground, it was not easy to get in and out at all, and you would even be stuck in the middle of the branches and unable to move.
The size of the coconut is also very large, and I can only carry ten or eight of them home in one trip, which makes it difficult for me to collect it.
But the results have been fruitful, the number of coconuts in my house has increased dramatically from zero to more than 200, and it has become my main drink recently and for some time to come!
The process of finding the coconut is like a treasure hunt, not to mention that it is very interesting, but also mixed with the joy of harvesting.
What I didn't expect during the coconut picking was that there was another surprise waiting for me, it was dark and eerie under a dense branch, but the sound of Suo Suo caught my attention.
At first, I was very careful, worried that it was a poisonous snake lurking in it, but then I couldn't help but be curious and bold to use a long branch to pull it away, only to see that it was a coconut crab that was not small in the daytime and came out to steal food!
Normally, they go out at night, which may be hungry, or it is rare to encounter so many coconuts that they can't hold back their mood, and they don't care about coming out to forage for food in the middle of the day.
A big piece of pie smashed on my head again, and I could eat the coconut crab I hadn't seen for a long time!
There was no suspense in the process, and after a minute or two it became my trophy, a coconut crab of three or four pounds!
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At the same time as collecting coconuts, the green vegetable seedlings have a height of more than ten centimeters for transplanting, and the sweet potatoes will mature in about half a month at most, and the sweet potato vines that can still top a top will disappear, and the sheep will have to be cut every day.
Now I am occasionally mowing the grass, but at least I can cut it every other day, and replace it with sweet potato vines every day, and this benefit is about to disappear, so it is more urgent to let the green vegetables be used earlier.
This season's green vegetable area has increased a lot again, directly up is the area of one acre, I believe that the two or three months of the New Year do not need to mow the sheep anyway.
The potatoes are also ripe, which is the second ripening crop, and the harvest of both crops has made me less and less stressed about food for the rest of the day.
This year, due to the delay of drought, the potatoes themselves were planted late, missing the best planting time, and the potatoes that had been left for a long time also rotted to varying degrees, further reducing the yield.
Compared with last year's three or five hundred catties, this time it is only more than two hundred catties, not even three hundred catties!
However, as long as it can be harvested smoothly, it is a good thing, and this year's situation is special after all!
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I had to go to the sea again to stock up on enough ingredients for the winter, but last year, I went to the sea late before the temperature dropped, so it only took four or five days to collect the ingredients, and I didn't get much.
This year, because the food pressure is a bit greater, so the time is more than 10 days in advance, and I don't believe that we will not be able to collect a full pond of ingredients.
Optimistically, the food at home is relatively sufficient, there are 500 catties of corn, 200 catties of potatoes with seeds removed, plus peanuts in the field are estimated to be close to 400 catties, and sweet potatoes can have at least 600 catties without seeds.
The total amount looks like almost 2,000 catties, plus fish and seafood, kelp, and green vegetables, etc., but the potatoes and sweet potatoes can only be stored for three or four months, and half of them are removed at once.
Peanuts are also mainly used for oil extraction, at least 200 catties are deducted, corn has to be fed to chickens, and occasionally a little dry food is given to sheep, and it is conservatively estimated that 300 catties of various foods will be consumed in a month.
So looking at a lot of grain to last until the next corn harvest in ten months, the pressure is still not small!
The first ten days of the sea were relatively smooth, there were basically no emergencies, except for three days of rain, the temperature has not dropped significantly.
I am ready to stop going to the sea for two more days, there are already about 200 catties of fish in the fish pond, and there are dozens of catties of kelp after drying, and there will be sea fishing in winter, as if the problem is not big, these two days are mainly based on catching seafood!
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I was a little apprehensive before going to the sea, because the sea was a little wild today compared to normal, and the waves were about a third higher than usual.
I still went down to the sea with the courage, and there are only a few days left in the weather suitable for the sea, and I can't run in vain when I come at the same time!
As soon as I swam out of the sea and swam forward for only thirty or fifty meters, a huge wave hit me in the face and knocked me into the sea with my backpack, and I had the idea of going back.
But greed made me move forward, thinking that an hour was still fast, and in the blink of an eye, the momentary decision made me continue to swim forward until the shallow sea, where I usually catch seafood!
Because of the shallow water depth, the impact of the waves has slowed down, but compared to the free play in the past, there is always a feeling of being tied down today, which also makes me think of a quick solution again!
Even though the first half hour was difficult, I finally made my backpack more than half of it, and I also felt extremely tired, today because of the fast flow of the sea, half an hour's physical strength is equivalent to the usual hour, and it may be exceeded.
I was going to look for about ten minutes before I went back, and the uneasiness in my heart was even more obvious!
After three minutes, the speed of the water at the bottom of the sea increased, which made me even more restrained inside, and when I floated to the surface, I found that the waves on the surface of the sea had become extremely wild, already a meter or two high.
I couldn't care about catching seafood anymore, so I started paddling quickly towards the beach, which I usually could reach in two or three minutes, becoming quite far away, and sometimes being pushed into the sea by the huge waves behind me.
Not only was my direction disrupted, but I choked on several mouthfuls of seawater, and now my nose and eyes are quite uncomfortable, but the reality makes me unable to take care of these things, and it is important to save my life!
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I regret the decision I made before going to sea, and it was irresponsible to put myself in danger by a momentary fluke!
Even if you wake up in time and turn back when you just go to the sea, this moment of crisis will not happen......
After five minutes I was a little out of strength, and I was only about a hundred meters away from the beach, and the speed of the water increased even more, and I was even more unable to paddle in it.
I feel like I'm stuck in the mud right now, but luckily the waves are pushing me closer to the shore, and if I had my own strength, I'd only be getting farther and farther away from the beach!
It's just that my body is getting more and more sore, and I am almost running out of strength, and I found that I was very lucky, and I encountered a rare ocean current!
In order to go ashore more smoothly, I had to throw away my backpack and the seafood in it so that the dry stump would have more buoyancy and give myself a better chance of success.
At this time, there is no question of pity or pity, only whether you can live or not, and if you die, there will be nothing!
Fifty meters from the sea, the beach seemed to be within reach, but it was also out of reach, and another huge wave pushed me into the sea and choked on the sea again.
At this time, the state is a bit like when you were desperate to pick up a stainless steel bucket, and it is difficult to have a more effective movement when your physical strength is exhausted, even if this distance only takes a minute to reach in normal times!
I clearly knew that I was clinging to the stump, and that my body had been in close contact with the stump countless times under the strong impact of the waves, and I estimated that many parts would be injured when I went ashore.
Thanks to the waves, as I get closer to the sea, the force of the currents is slowly weakening, and as long as I hold on to the stakes, the waves should be able to wash me ashore smoothly.
I was very weak from choking on a lot of water and lack of physical strength, but the desire for life and willpower made me persevere, and occasionally I could kick two feet in the water to shorten the distance.
The distance of a few hundred meters was not smooth, there were countless corrections in the middle, and now it was even more fateful, but the protagonist's aura was always in play, and after three or five minutes, I was successfully washed by the waves to a distance of about five meters from the shore, and I threw away the stake and rushed up with the last of my strength.
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Not surprisingly, I finally crawled to the shore, and a feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe suddenly spread throughout my body!
But the reality didn't make me sigh, just after the pause, a wave hit me again, almost made me lose my breath, so I continued to climb forward for another one or two meters before leaving the nasty sea!
I'm alive!
That's the only emotion I can make right now......
When I was in the sea, my body was very tired, but my mind was repeatedly deducing what the chances of being alive were, but most of the results were that today was in danger, and the trip to the desert island was coming to an end......
I didn't expect that in the end, it was the conclusion that the probability of lessness prevailed, fortunately I am still alive, I can have everything when I am alive, and there is nothing when I die!
After lying on the beach and resting for half an hour, I was finally able to get back on my feet, and I was ready to go back, not wanting to see the sea again for the time being.
Then the moment I stood up, I almost fell to the ground again in pain, my whole body was sore, and there was no doubt that my whole body was sore, but there were all kinds of pain on my body, and there were multiple bruises from my chest to my thighs where I had just touched the stake.
I thought of this situation when I was in the sea, but I didn't expect it to be so serious!
At least two palm-sized areas turned blue, and the pain was unbearable when the fingers were touched, especially the thighs, which were most severely impacted with the stakes.
This made the process of getting home especially difficult for me, and I almost had to pause once to walk a few steps up the hill empty-handed.
I had to find two thumb-thick branches to support me with a crutch to finally feel better, and even then it was more than an hour before I got home.
In addition to the pain, it may have left me with little mobility for the rest of the day.
I don't have any effective treatment for bruises, I only know that eucalyptus oil has the effect of relieving muscle fatigue, so I applied eucalyptus oil all over my body at the same time, and also focused on the location of the bruises!
Of course, the process is quite sour, the pain is so painful that it is almost grinning, it seems that the salt stains on this body can only be eliminated after the body improves, and there is nothing that can be done about the discomfort in the past few days.