Volume 1 Chapter 28 Chinese Herbal Medicine

The second room is not going to be built for the time being, at least it is going to be shelved for a period of time, I don't think it will be needed in the short term anyway, and the amount of food reserves has decreased, it is no longer allowed to spend nearly a month to build another house.

I spent the next five days fishing almost every afternoon, and I wanted to stock up on the number of fish as soon as possible, preferably to more than 100 catties.

Paving the way for the next construction work, the kitchen is already on the agenda.

On the sixth day, after a period of food preparation, I was preparing the materials for the kitchen, which would be much smaller than the room, about half the size of the room.

The reason why I don't want to build too big is of course to save time, but I also feel that there is no need, and I don't think it's necessary to build too little of my own stuff, no matter how big I build, I can't use its performance.

The construction process and appearance of the kitchen are no different from that of a house, except that the area is slightly smaller, and it took ten days from the collection of materials to the completion of the kitchen.

However, it is located about four meters away from the first room, and I have reserved the location of the second room in case it will be more troublesome to build it when there is a need in the future.

Unlike a toilet, a kitchen is not immediately ready for use.

In addition to leveling the floor and moving the water tank into the kitchen, an earthen stove was built, and the stove was built and air-dried before the kitchen was ready for use.

This should be the most successful and neat of the three stoves since the island, and it is also the largest one, its height is about one meter two, the width is 50 cm, and the top plane has two holes, one can just put a clay pot, and one can put a clay pot.

The completion of the kitchen also marks the end of the construction of the house, and the construction of the second room may not be delayed until next year.

There is still a lot to do, and we must free up time for big projects to do something looser but more important!

......

First of all, of course, I am preparing to give myself a vacation, I am very tired from building a toilet and kitchen recently, and I really want to rest for two days.

Of course, I can't be idle, and I went to the coconut tree to catch coconut crabs at dawn in the morning, and I was hungry again!

But maybe I did too much to offend them all, and they disappeared when I found that there were no coconuts on the ground.

It is expected that the coconut crab was not caught, it is impossible to think of anything to make it happen, as the saying goes, the west is not bright and the east is bright, the coconut crab was not caught but found other ingredients that can reluctantly replace it......

When I was walking through the woods, I saw the sound of "Xi Xi Suosuo" in the crack of the stone next to me, and at first I thought it was a snake, so I took a wooden stick and began to look for its traces.

However, after checking it, I found that it was just an ordinary crab, a false alarm, its size was not small, it was close to the size of a fist, and I didn't know what kind of species it was.

Although it is not as big as a coconut crab, I believe that there are still one or two meats, and the key is that in my eyes, mosquito legs are all meat now!

After catching the first crab, I felt that this activity was promising, and I began to expand the area to search, after all, a crab can't satisfy its cravings.

The longer the search took place, the results were not bad, and the fourth crab was caught two hours later, ending the activity.

In the future, you can do more such activities, increase the fun of life, and at the same time, improve the problem of food monotony!

Especially the taste, after steaming the crab at noon with a little oyster sauce, I whetted my appetite, and the taro and fish were eager to throw away......

In the afternoon, I originally planned to go to the beach to dig some bamboo leeches and other seafood, but the reality was that I went fishing in the afternoon, and I hadn't caught fish for a long time, which made my hands very itchy!

As a great contributor to the continuation of life--- fish loves and hates it, but when there are less than 20 catties of fish left in the fish pond, no matter how much hatred you have, you have to find a way to increase it, and you have to eat some hardships in order to survive!

Today's harvest is obviously not good, maybe after the weather turns cold, many fish have also burrowed into the cracks of the stones for the winter, or reduce the frequency of swimming, and only catch about five catties of fish in the whole afternoon.

Compared with the previous amount of more than ten catties in one afternoon, it has dropped by half, and it may also be related to luck, today's luck is not very good!

......

After two days of fishing, the results were mediocre, and on the third day I was ready to abandon the operation and clear the land.

In another month, spring will come, and many crops will be planted in the field, and now the top of the hill will be a wasteland.

Coupled with the efficiency of the tools, it is more secure to prepare in advance so as not to miss the best season.

In winter, there are more dead branches and leaves, which is a great benefit of clearing the wasteland, and there are still many dry weeds and small trees on the open space that needs to be cleared, and I am too lazy to clean them up one by one, so I directly scoop up a lot of dry leaves and light them in the ground.

This method is dangerous because it is possible to set up the whole forest, and I can be sure that the surrounding area is a certain distance from the trees, and its range will only extend forward in the ground!

Due to the lack of wind, the area of the first fire was not very large, only one or two hundred square meters!

But I think it's a good time to have no wind today, at least the fire won't be blown around by the wind and blow sparks into the woods, and if the whole island is set on fire, I'll be in danger......

I started to pick up some leaves and fan the wind and ignite the ghost fire, and for a while, the smoke was everywhere, and it looked like a blockbuster scene in a TV series.

Although the results were not much in half a day, at least ten acres of land were cleared, and the entire vacant land closest to the house was vacated.

Although you may not be able to take care of an acre with a wooden shovel, at least the surroundings look much more refreshing after cleaning!

The land on the top of the mountain is more advantageous than the vegetable patch in the cave, and the plant ash can also be used as fertilizer to nourish the land after the fire, which is definitely more suitable for growth.

It's just a pity that a large area of fine land can't be cultivated on a large scale under the current conditions, and it seems a bit too wasteful.

......

Faith is a good thing, but I don't have it, and in the first phase, I only planned to loosen up half an acre of land first.

Because I roughly estimated in my heart, I only need half an acre to an acre at most in the next season, and too much loose soil is also a waste.

Among them, there is slightly more corn, there are relatively few sweet potatoes and greens, cassava will be planted in the vegetable fields of caves, ginger and herbs are only used in a few square meters, which is almost negligible.

The soil at the top of the mountain is harder than that of the cave, and it is even more difficult to open up the wasteland, and it took half a day to open up an area of less than 10 square meters, which is not good news for me.

Although it can be considered that the soil will loosen up faster after the rain, you can't just wait for the time after the rain to open up the wasteland, and then wait until next year!

On the third day of land reclamation, the laborious and high-intensity excavation made people sore and had a few blood blisters on my hands, so I was going to stop for a day and do some light recuperation.

The first is to collect a few more bales of hay, I was frozen and woke up in the middle of the night last night, and it wasn't exactly last night, I was frozen and woke up almost every night, but last night was more serious and I didn't sleep warm up almost the whole night!

How much I want to have a quilt now, even if I want to exchange all the fish in the fish pond, sleeping on hay at night is not only easy to scratch but also leaks, it is a very bad experience......

The next day, I still hadn't done it, I hadn't been to the woods for a long time, and I was going to go around.

The winter woods are much more lush than the summer ones, most of the leaves have withered and fallen off, and most of the usually dense weeds on the ground have turned yellow and withered and fallen to the ground.

But don't worry, they are just accumulating strength for the next new life, just wait another two months, and the whole island will become islandy and peaceful again......

The cold of winter makes poisonous insects and snakes hide underground and hibern, so walking in it is much easier than before, and you don't have to worry about being attacked by poisonous snakes or poisonous insects at any time, and the speed is much faster.

The discovery can be said to be very impressive, in the past they were not found at all when they were covered by grass in the summer, but in this season they are so abrupt and clear at a glance!

......

The first thing I found was a nest of wild eggs, there were ten of them, and I was thrilled to find it alone.

I haven't tasted eggs for months, and I haven't missed them during this time, but when I got them, I remembered the deliciousness of them again.

The pheasant is still nowhere to be found, and even if it is here, I am reluctant to hurt it, and I have only seen a few pheasants escaping in the woods since I came to the island, and it is estimated that there will not be too many of them.

I took eight of them, leaving the remaining two in the nest to comfort him, so that the pheasant would not move the nest when he found out that there were still eggs in the nest, even if he was angry at the eight eggs he had lost!

The discovery of the eggs made me more cautious when walking, for fear of breaking them as I walked.

Good fortune has just begun, and when I thought there would be no new harvest today, there was another surprise an hour later.

This great discovery is to find a plant covered by grass andrographis, also known as spring lotus autumn willow, a commonly used Chinese medicinal material, has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, reducing swelling and relieving pain.

Although its function partially overlaps with dandelion, it is also an important medicinal material for me to have almost no medicines at present, and I need it more at present!

Due to its poor geographical location, it is almost impossible to get out of the weeds, and its growth can only be described as miserable.

The light and nutrition are not sufficient, and it is a miracle to be able to survive with difficulty!

Andrographis is a sun-loving crop, the more fertile the land, the better, and the greater the sun, the more comfortable it is, so I have prepared a luxury villa for it on the top of the mountain, which will definitely make it grow happily......

Since its rhizome is very deep in the ground, it took half an hour to dig it out of the ground, as if it were digging up a ginseng plant, for fear of damaging it in the slightest.

After returning home, it was planted in a small piece of land that had just opened, and its area would not expand too much, basically similar to dandelions, with only three to five square meters of indicators, after all, the demand for a year would not be too much!

Today's trip to the woods has made me a small fortune again, and it is undoubtedly more comfortable to explore at this time, not only to warm my body, but also to make it more likely to find many plants and resources that are usually hidden by the grass.

I'm planning to spend another two days in the woods to check more closely, so as not to miss the other plants, and missing one is a huge loss!