Volume 1 Chapter 29 Stealing a few days of leisure

There is no need to open up wasteland, there is no need to build a house, there is no big project to squeeze the time, and the days suddenly seem much more leisurely, and you can spend the whole day improving the food.

The breakfast in the morning was two boiled eggs, and the long-lost eggs were hard to eat the feeling of big fish and meat for the New Year.

Although wild eggs are smaller, they taste the same as domestic eggs!

Recently, food has become more and more scarce, so I picked up a few eggs to give me a little comfort, and in the past month or two I have been busy every day, and the main food is taro and fish.

I'm going to give myself a good vacation, and how long it will be depends on how much food is left at home......

In addition to the small ones that can't solve the problem, the other large ones are basically consumed, and the live fish in the fish pond are only about 20 catties, and the dried fish are basically exhausted, and it is time to reserve food.

So I'm afraid that the holiday I am referring to has become an action to find ingredients again, as long as you don't go to the sea, it can be regarded as a holiday......

After breakfast, I took my tools and set off to the beach to dig oysters and leeches, the sea breeze was light today, and the temperature was good after the sun came out, which was a good opportunity to dig seafood.

It is worth mentioning that since there were no buckets for the dug seafood, I used a clay pot as a container for the seafood in order to prevent it from being left for several hours after landing.

The method is also very simple, tie two ropes to the neck of the tank body to facilitate hand-carrying, in addition to its weight is larger than the bucket and afraid of bumping, it also has the same function as it.

First of all, I went to the reef farther away, where there were more oysters, but after a closer look, they were in an awkward position, and it took a lot of effort to pry them down by hanging the rope, and finally gave up.

I went back to the nearby beach to dig up the leeches, this time with salt with me, and I could already imagine the leeches looking at me with disgust and spitting bubbles at me, but that didn't let me go.

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As the saying goes, one thing descends one thing, and my harvest today is destined to be extraordinary!

Compared with the previous painstaking digging, it only needed a large ball of salt from peanuts to be sprinkled accurately into the hole where it was, and within a few seconds it obediently surrendered to me, and when it reached the beach of three to five hundred meters near the back, it was dug until it could hardly find anything new.

The day passed in a flash, the harvest was very expected, and it could even be said that it was a bumper harvest, and when I returned in the afternoon, the clay pot was basically full, and I estimated that there were about fifteen to twenty catties of bamboo leeches.

It's just that harvesting often means paying, using up more than a pound of salt, but this exchange ratio is still very cost-effective, and I don't suffer!

I didn't plan to eat the leeches when I got back, and of course I couldn't eat them in one or two meals, so I filled my clay pot with seawater to try to keep them alive for a few more days!

The more I thought about it after I returned, the more wrong it became, if they were creatures in the sea, why would they live in the beach for a long time, I was a little unsure if they would die under the pure sea!

So I went back to the beach again, loaded half a basket of sand, and poured them back into two large clay pots, plus some of the seawater to simulate the environment of the beach, and then poured them into two clay pots.

Every ingredient obtained so far needs to be kept as long as possible to solve the current food crisis.

Without the support of taro, if I rely on marine fish alone, not only is it lacking in nutrition, but it also takes at least about five catties of marine fish a day to ensure the amount of food consumed by me, a big stomach.

This is still the result of saving, because a fish not only has to remove the head, bones and wings, but also after removing the internal organs, the five catties of fish can eat less than three catties in the stomach!

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The next day I didn't go to the beach again, but went to the woods, and the eggs from the first two days were still unforgettable, and I was looking forward to this kind of good thing......

It's just that good luck doesn't always come in, and there is no particularly significant harvest, but I accidentally planted willows in the shade and found something that surprised me very much.

Except for a few dandelions and a little fluff from the white grass root used to treat trauma, the biggest accident was catching a coconut crab the size of a basketball under a coconut tree.

Maybe they were a little panicked after the coconut was picked up by me, a coconut that had just fallen to the ground was a little impatient, and it couldn't take care of it after a long time of not finding a new target, and now it is daytime to eat directly under the tree!

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Generally speaking, crabs are relatively stupid animals, and when they find a threat, they usually find a rock and hide under the stone, and coconut crabs are the best among them, not only stupid, but also slow!

To my eyes, it looks like a glossy piece of fat, waiting for me to pick it up.

Of course, it's not that simple, its cave is just five meters away, and I can already see it from afar, which can be said to be a challenge, meaning that I have to be three to five meters close to it before I can move.

The gentle blowing of the sea breeze hides my tracks, it drives the plants in the woods to shake slightly, you don't have to worry about the sound under your feet to arouse its alertness, as long as it is not discovered, there is an eighty percent chance of success!

The reason why I am so cautious is that in addition to catching it, I also want to make sure that I catch it alive, preferably for a while.

When it was only six or seven meters away from it, because of one of my carelessness, the weeds at its feet made a noise, and it began to run away decisively after noticing, which proved that its alertness was still very high during the day!

I was in a hurry when I saw it running away, and seeing that the fat in my mouth would not be allowed to fly away, I rushed towards it with an arrow and inserted the stick I had with me into the cave it was about to enter.

Hehe, your door is locked by me, look how you run! ......

When it was about to turn back and run in the other direction, I pulled out the stick and pressed it on its body, of course, in order to avoid getting it to fall directly, but pressed relatively gently on its shell.

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Although it was not convinced, but its skills were not as good as others, it could only be suppressed and unable to move, and the victory already belonged to me.

I relaxed a little while the stick was pressed down and two small branches were used to induce its two large pincers to bite the branches.

Begin to hold down its two large pincers with your knees and tie it up with the prepared rope, and by this time everything is already doomed.

The crab's two small eyes "dripped" around, and it was very joyful to look at, and for a while it was even reluctant to use it as food.

But selling cuteness and begging for mercy has no effect, so in order to keep it from being idle and bored, I brought back the coconut it was eating by the way.

After coming back, I had to untie it at the same time as I tied it to the stump, at least untie a large tong to eat, otherwise I could only wait for death, and it was more troublesome to feed it, so I gave up the urge to catch crabs to feed later, at least feeding seafood and fish is simpler and rougher!

In addition, I saw a flock of sheep again today, and all five sheep are still there, and they are all in good condition.

In the next three days, I took the fishing rod to the beach again, but the sea fishing results were quite unstable, and the harvest of fishing was only one aspect, and the important thing was the process.

Nothing was gained on the first day, and there was a big surprise on the second day, a giant grouper that was close to ten pounds!

A total of 40 catties of fresh marine fish were caught in three days, and the food crisis was temporarily alleviated!

The calculation time should now be January 1 of the new year, that is, New Year's Day.

In a sense, it is also the beginning of a new year, but on the first day of the new year, I am still worried about the rest of my life!

I have to say that I don't have any extravagant hopes of returning to the land and the city now, and I am very disappointed that I have not even seen a boat in the months since I went to the island.

The only thing I can do is to live and use my own hands to make life more fulfilling, richer, and not starving!

Today I still continue to take a holiday, take a shower, and take care of my long beard and hair, my hair has changed from the inch when I first arrived on the island to the long hair that reaches my ears, and sometimes I even obstruct my vision!

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Without the deep cleaning of modern detergents, coupled with the frequency of being difficult to wash once every few days, the head is already "oily" and shiny, and it is a chicken nest......

While boiling the hot water, I began to take care of my hair, and the beard was very simple, and I took a little flame and burned it all short.

Hair is a bit more troublesome, but in the absence of scissors, you can only use fire to cut hair, grasp it with your hand, and then the flame keeps approaching from the top, and then grab the next one and start again after feeling that it is the right size to burn off a section.

The final look can only be described as "miserable" anyway, but anyway, there is no one on the island, let alone beautiful women, so it doesn't matter if it's good or not!

After taking a bath, the whole person was refreshed, and the good harvest of these two days also made me rarely have a good mood, these days should be the most relaxed days on the island.

At noon, I am going to cook some delicious food to reward myself, and the ingredients are quite abundant these days.

I fried two wild eggs, very heart-wrenching half of the coconut crab and stir-fried wild vegetables, this may be the most luxurious meal in a long time, and it is rare for me to eat again!

In the past one or two months, the climate has been relatively mild, almost smooth, and several plants such as corn and peanuts have grown relatively well, but they have not been taken care of for a while, and there are many weeds in the field.

And after the weeds were cleared, I stopped by and looked down at the cave and the hut, and what I feared happened again.

There are about three or four hundred catties of soil in the cave, it seems that it is an absolutely correct decision to move away, and no one wants to live in fear every day!

The cave didn't do much anymore, it was only used to store some dry firewood, so the fallen dirt took time to clear it out so as not to affect the storage of firewood.

In addition, I collected some dry firewood nearby and put it inside, although I didn't come to get the firewood after putting it inside, but it was good as an emergency.

No one knows if there will be ten days and a half of mildew rain in a row, and the weather at sea can change, so it's always right to be well prepared.

There is no problem with the grass hut at all, but it has not been taken care of for a long time, and if it is not repaired at ordinary times, it will decay and lose its effect after a period of time.