Volume 2 Chapter 107 Return to Everyday Life
Fortunately, I came early, the little crocodile inside has basically formed, and there are still ten or eight days at most to break the shell, and it will be troublesome to solve them when the time comes.
It's hard to catch a baby crocodile, you can't catch it, you can't shoot it, I'm afraid you can only wait for a big bow and arrow to shoot, but at that time, it means that they become the climate, and the meaning will be completely different.
I don't have the slightest interest in eating crocodile eggs, but I just use an axe to break all the crocodile eggs, although it is a little cruel, but the aftermath is still instantly refreshing, and the few crocodiles left on the island are not a problem!
Even if I don't get a single crocodile meat, it doesn't matter if I can get rid of dozens of crocodiles that can pose a threat to me in the future......
After a long time of observation and searching, I also have a preliminary grasp of the number of crocodiles on the island, and there are 8 crocodiles that can be determined, and I can't be sure if there are more!
So far, I have hunted 3, and today's life and death are uncertain, and it is likely that he will not survive, and if the enemy is lenient, there are still 5 on the island.
The task is still very arduous, and with my current hunting speed, I will not be able to completely eliminate the crocodiles on the island until next year, especially since there is a huge handle here, and there should be a fierce battle!
In fact, solving the problem of crocodiles is a very contradictory problem, if it is just a simple pest removal without meat, it will only take a month at most to completely eliminate them!
However, a crocodile can provide at least 200 catties of high-quality meat, which is not a star, and pure 200 catties of meat need to be slaughtered at least four or five sheep to get it.
And after eating crocodile meat for a long time in recent months, I can clearly feel that my physical fitness is better than before, after all, its meat is more tonic than mutton, and I am worried that I will suddenly get a nosebleed one day.
Therefore, the claims in my heart have completely failed to reality, and I have to continue to live in their shadow for a while!
But it's okay, going to the sea is just forced to make a living, and there is no need to go to the sea with ready-made better meat in front of you, and it is not easy to move in the sea, and it is exhausting to go down one time.
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Just as I was about to return to the top of the mountain, I was frozen in the distance!
Originally, I turned my head to see if the crocodile would be exposed somewhere on the beach, and if I could find it again, it was likely that it would have been incapacitated, and it was completely meat waiting to be slaughtered.
When the time comes, as long as you drag it ashore, you can get two or three hundred catties of fresh meat, but the crocodile didn't notice it but saw a ship, a warship!
For someone who used to be a military enthusiast, the sight of a warship is undoubtedly quite exciting, especially the gun barrel on it is particularly powerful.
If we can successfully get the attention of the ship, I believe there is a good chance of getting out of here.
But even though I really wanted to get on this ship and go back to land, I didn't do anything, I knew it was too late!
I didn't bring fire with me during the hunt, which meant that if I wanted to light a cigarette and release the signal, I had to spend more than 10 minutes running to the house on the top of the hill, and then find the fire fold and run to the distant pyre and light it.
By the time the smoke rose to a height of several hundred meters and could be clearly seen, at least half an hour had passed, and this was still a fairly smooth process, and by then the ship would have been gone!
Half an hour at the speed of a warship at least ten nautical miles, that is, a distance of nearly twenty kilometers, the yellow flowers are cold......
Therefore, excitement is excitement, there is no need to do useless work in vain, it is better to save a little physical strength, sometimes the more impulsive the more there is no good result.
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When I get home, I'm going to be busy for a while, the peanuts are going to be harvested, the greens are almost ready to be transplanted, and all kinds of farm work will take up a while after me.
Similar to the situation of corn, the yield of peanuts has also increased slightly, and there are about 350 catties after drying, and then thinking of the sweet potatoes in the back, it is extremely satisfying.
Judging from the current situation, even if there is no harvest next year, the pressure to survive is not great, not to mention that the lack of harvest is just a metaphor and an impossible thing to happen.
Originally, only one of the vats where grain was stored was still filled with peanuts, one was filled with corn, and the rest were almost empty except for one mouthful of crocodile meat.
After the greens were transplanted into the ground, it was already October, and there were only three or four months left in the year, and I was not ready to hunt crocodiles in the past two days, mainly to solve the problem of peanuts.
When all the large containers at home are filled, there are still more than 100 catties of peanuts left and nowhere to put them, and sometimes there are too many things and I am worried.
In previous years, the peanut oil was squeezed out within a month before the year, and it seems that this work has to be completed in advance recently, otherwise these peanuts will be moldy and wasted outside.
So in the next two days, I could hear the sound of me breaking peanut shells with stones, so I simply took some out of the clay jar, made up almost 100 catties of peanuts, and finally squeezed out more than 20 catties of peanut oil.
In addition to the few catties left at home, it is more than enough to use until next year's New Year, and the remaining peanuts are mainly for my daily consumption except for some spare ones.
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The rest of the time was a bit idle, just collected a lot of dry firewood to the kitchen, which made me want to set out to hunt crocodiles again, after all, idle is idle, and one can solve one!
The search process was normal, and the next day I found a crocodile basking in the sun, slowly approached it, and quickly attacked it after making sure that there was no other danger around.
The process is very smooth, there are too many mistakes in the last hunt, so I usually find time to practice archery at home, although a period of practice can not do the arrow without missing shots, 100 shots, but there is also a small strengthening.
Today's arrow finally hit its vital part, even if it was still rolling on the ground, I knew that it was not a big problem, and it would be completely solved in two or three minutes with the spear.
The body shape of this crocodile should also be the smallest of the eight found, only about two meters in length, and the complete weight is probably missing two hundred catties, and the pure meat is more likely to be only one hundred catties.
After breaking it down and moving it home in three round-trips, the hunting plan from the previous year may be over, and I plan to solve the remaining four next year!
The reason for this is that there is already a lot of meat at home, and the sheep have to deal with two or three, and the amount of various foods is sufficient, so much that I am worried, and it is obviously not a wise choice to keep increasing the amount of meat.
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At the beginning of November, sweet potatoes are also harvested, and this year's wind and rain have made all kinds of crops have normal yields, and sweet potatoes are no exception, more than 1,500 catties.
After a long time, the staple food can say goodbye to crocodile meat, and a few months of crocodile meat are still a little greasy, and blindly eating too much meat is not good for the body, and meat and vegetarian matching is the king.
Still follow the old method before, more than 1,000 catties are directly filled in the ground, there are only four or five hundred catties stored at home, in addition to daily consumption, and two jars of dried sweet potatoes are made.
I think I am still relatively industrious, not only planting all kinds of crops to make life worry-free, but also making a lot of products that can be processed by fruits, but limited to the types of raw materials, and the varieties are still very limited.
I am happy with the yield of sweet potatoes, but as the lambs grow day by day, the eleven sheep can only be supported by sweet potatoes, but now they can only mow the grass every day.
This is a big problem, even if the green vegetables are planted for two seasons a year, there is always a break of three or five months every year, even if the sweet potato vines can top two or three months, they will mow the grass by themselves for at least two months or more.
I had to wait until the next month when the greens began to grow to relieve this pressure, and I began to dislike the number and amount of food in the flock, and I wasted too much energy on them, as if I had lost money in business.
They have really become a huge burden for me when there is a lot of crocodile meat, and this situation will not be alleviated next year, because the hunting of crocodiles will not stop next year.
There are still about two or three months left before the Chinese New Year, and I don't want to delay it for so long, so that these eleven will be completely until the New Year, then I will be crazy.
Today I decided to solve one first, at this time each reduction can make me a little easier, eleven sheep are so many that it is like raising three or four cows, this is not the key, the key is that the cattle can be free-range, and they can find grass on their own wherever they are tied.
The characteristics of sheep can only be raised in captivity completely depend on me to mow the grass, which is more troublesome than feeding three or four cows, and it is only strange that this year's earthquake has allowed crocodiles to go to the island, and the large number of crocodile meat has occupied all the space of mutton, and it has also disrupted the rhythm of sheep breeding.
After all, I only have one mouth, and I can only consume a certain amount of food every year, and the difference will not be too great.
But this year's surge of more than 500 catties of meat is more than the fish and seafood caught in previous years, not only is it difficult to consume it for a while, the number of sheep is not even less, and the lambs are also all raised, which is even more troublesome!
Under normal circumstances without crocodiles, two sheep would have been slaughtered at the beginning of the year, and there would be about 9 left in the sheepfold, although it was still stressful, but it was much better than now.
Initially I planned to raise 10 to 15 sheep without crocodiles, but after thinking about it for so long I realized that I had a bit of a big heart, even though 11 sheep now spend at least four or five hours a day mowing the grass!
Obviously contrary to my original intentions, and I also hated this life of mowing the grass for half a day every day, even if there were no crocodiles, I wanted to reduce the number by a third, preferably in the range of 8 to 12 individuals.
There are three or four lambs among them, so my burden will be much lighter, and it is perfectly sufficient to slaughter two or three sheep a year plus other meat, which is extremely unhealthy to eat big fish and meat like now!
There are still several crocodiles that have not been solved, and their meat has accumulated close to a thousand catties, and sometimes I am very obsessive-compulsive thinking about when I will eat so much meat, I am so sad!