Three days later, the bruises on my body are still there, but fortunately, after a few days of recuperation, most of the pain has been eliminated, and I have finally regained some mobility, and I can also clean up the salt stains on my body, as if I have carried many fleas on my body these days.

A few years ago, I didn't plan to go to the sea again, and once I was bitten by a snake, I have a slight fear of the sea recently!

Maybe only time will dilute the fear, and although there will be lingering palpitations next summer, I will definitely dare to try to go into the sea.

This crisis is mainly to blame yourself for being lucky, but also greed, even if you retreat five minutes early, you can return to the shore smoothly!

As the saying goes, "eat a trench and grow a wisdom", maybe only if you have really experienced it will know the danger of a thing, this incident may teach me a lesson, I will believe in my first judgment more in the future!

Now that it has happened, and I'm still alive, I don't want to do so much, and the lesson has been kept in mind.

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The only crop this year that is about the same as last year's harvest is probably sweet potatoes, and after harvesting it, all that is left is peanuts, and other herbs and ginger are usually processed when they have time, and most of them are dried and preserved.

This year is also the year with the most emergencies, and if it weren't for my quick wit and ability to deal with crises, I might have lost my sweet potato seeds, even if I didn't lose my crops.

If the drought had been left unchecked, the situation would have been at least several times worse than it is now!

I didn't expect that the one or two hundred sweet potatoes saved at the beginning made the planting area more than half of last year, and the yield was also saved by more than half, more than 600 catties.

However, the yield per plant is lower, and I think that drought has no effect on the transplanted sweet potatoes, so another important reason for the yield is the fertility of the land.

Within a few years, the fertility starts to decline due to continuous planting, and without the replenishment of chemical fertilizers, this phenomenon will become more and more serious!

It seems that the fertilizer for the next season should be heavier, at least all the stored sheep manure and manure should be splashed into the ground, and the amount of plant ash should be more than doubled, otherwise the next season's yield will only be more ugly.

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The days in December were a bit boring, and the rainy season had stuck me in my room all day with a sad face, and I was worried that it would turn out to be the same as last year's rainy season.

But fortunately, the rain only stopped after ten days, and there was no need to frown anymore, and if it rained for thirty or forty days at a time like last year, it would make people crazy......

After the rain, the sky is a little idle, and there is no problem in all aspects, and the winter is like this, and it is relatively idle without worrying about the crops.

That's why the Chinese New Year is set to come in winter, just because everyone is relatively idle!

I simply adjusted the mud again to make bricks and tiles, a typhoon left little tile in the house stock, and timely replenishment is the wisest choice.

It is not a problem to put the burned tiles for decades, I just hope that they will not be used all the time, rather than being used again after a while, which proves that the house has been destroyed again!

The number of kilns made this time is only about half a kiln, 1,000 bricks, 1,000 tiles, and it seems that they will not be in great demand without expansion, and some are just in case.

I also don't believe that if I encounter a typhoon as violent as this one every year, then I consider myself unlucky......

Intermittently finishing the planned quantity, the day was already late December, and while the bricks were drying, I began to lay a layer of bricks in the chicken pen.

There are still thousands of bricks left over from last time, and I can use three or five hundred pieces to renovate the chicken pen to a certain extent, and I can go in and pick up eggs more comfortably.

The last peanut is finally ripe, and the last crop harvest means that the task in the field is over.

Peanut yields, as I expected, were not ideal, or even historically low.

The area is half an acre as in previous years, and the number of harvests is less than 100 catties.

It seems that we should prepare to open up some more land, and it is best to plant several plots of land in rotation, and plant the same plot of land every two or three years.

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At the beginning of January, this year's farm work finally came to an end, and the following days were a lot of idleness, sleeping late in the morning, and only taking care of the chickens and sheep during the day, as well as solving their own two meals a day.

This kind of day lasts until the middle of January, when there are only twenty or thirty days before the Chinese New Year, and the original idle life becomes busy again, making all kinds of items that are usually needed to last for a year.

The first thing to solve is the bark used in papermaking, and this time a lot of eucalyptus bark was used, accounting for half of the weight, and if nothing else, the final paper should be able to improve both the material and the yield.

The second solution is the air-dried bricks and tiles, the number of each 1,000 pieces is only half of the kiln, the whole process can be described as easy compared to the previous full kiln, and the kiln firing time is also reduced by about half a day.

At the same time, there are also things such as grinding cornmeal and squeezing peanut oil, and in previous years, salt had to be boiled at this time, but now there is no more salt than enough, and it saves a chore.

All kinds of trivial work are not only many, but also very troublesome, and the first one takes three to five days to reach the required quantity.

I was busy until the beginning of February, and there are only a few days left before the Chinese New Year!

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Today I am going to go to the beach to find some ingredients, and by the way, I will also go on a tour of the island, and the frequency of patrolling the island during this time is relatively even, maintaining the frequency of about once every ten days, but there have been no items worth mentioning.

Wearing a thick sheepskin coat, even the sea breeze on the beach did not cause any harm to me, and my body was still hot, and I wore sheepskin on my body for the first winter on the island, which was simply a happy death!

I rarely pick up conch seashores because I think it's something I have nothing to do, but well, I really don't have much to do lately!

While picking up garbage, I also picked up conch near some reefs with complex terrain, until I already had a small half basket in my back basket, and I also pry a lot of oysters, conservatively estimated that there are three or five catties, and I can cook two or three bottles of oyster sauce.

What I never expected was that I saw a ship again!

As I turned around the corner, a giant steamer suddenly appeared in front of me, only five to ten kilometers away, and it was quite impressive to watch.

It was a huge freighter about three hundred meters long, full of containers, and its bow had left me, and only the hull and stern could be seen.

I know that all this is just a feast for the eyes, it is impossible to get on the ship, there are two parallel lines between us, and there is no possibility of intersection!

I didn't make any action except to watch it go away calmly, because the result could only be in vain!

But it aroused my fantasies again, and the mood that had been dull for a long time shook a little wave......

After more than ten minutes, it completely left my sight, and I was out of my fantasy and continued to move forward.

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In addition to conch and oysters, I also dug a few catties of bamboo leeches, and after not lacking salt, it was like playing to clean it up, and four or five catties jumped into the back basket in an hour, and today several kinds of seafood are almost full of the back basket.

The garbage on the beach is not bad, and it is very suitable to find a wooden board with a length of sixty or seventy centimeters and a width to make a small table, along with a large handful of rope and a piece of cloth.

It's been a long time since I found this relatively rare item, maybe it's a New Year's gift from the sea!

In particular, the fabric is the material I need very much, and the supply rate is far from keeping up with the consumption rate, and only one of the remaining three or five clothes is still in good condition, and the others are all tattered.

If it weren't for the large enough sheepskins to solve the problem of a large number of places that need fabric, I'm afraid I would have to be a wild man using leaves to keep warm!

Occasionally, the fabrics found are more used for life, and it is not suitable for making clothes, whether it is the material or the degree of toughness, it is much worse, and some fabrics will crack as soon as they are pulled.

I didn't dwell too much on this, I continued to look for ingredients, this time I wanted to catch some crabs, without coconut, coconut crabs are becoming more and more rare, I can only find ordinary crabs in the cracks of the rocks.

Compared to before, the difficulty is now higher, a few rocks are blocked by fallen branches, and it is more difficult to catch crabs after finding them, because there are more debris on the ground in the woods, and only three were caught in half a day, which means that it is enough!

This year's Chinese New Year may be more abundant than last year's, even if the crops in the field are not very good due to the climate, but with the variety of ingredients I have found, the variety is more complete.

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The two sheep killed during the drought looked quite a lot, but they only lasted until October and ate them all, if it weren't for the fact that one would be slaughtered two months before the Chinese New Year.

This quota has been postponed until now, and this year's four lambs have almost grown into big sheep, and the number of nine sheep is simply unaffordable if it is not an acre of green vegetables.

After killing one for the New Year, there are still 8 sheep left in the sheepfold, and there will be three ewes giving birth in three or five months, and then the number of more than ten can be maintained, there is nothing to worry about, eight sheep is enough for me to worry about!

The staple food is still sweet potatoes, and the number of dishes is more than last year, including a dish of steamed crab, braised conch meat, fried vegetables, lamb skewers, a plate of peanuts, and still a lamb stewed kelp.

This table is even tougher than last year's Chinese New Year, which is a bit inconsistent with the theme of this year's calamities, but now that I've found so many ingredients, I certainly hope to make this year even happier!

The past year has been the most abnormal year in the three or four years on the island, and it has also been an extremely bumpy year, especially in terms of crops.

And last year, I forcibly turned my thousands of catties of grain into less than half of the original, especially the corn was only a quarter of the original!

What is even more worrying is whether this situation will happen again in the new year, no matter how well I am mentally prepared, I have not improved my ability to cope, my resistance to natural disasters is almost zero, and there is no way except to rebuild after the disaster!

I can only pray that the new year will be as good as the year before......