It's the third year I've spent on the island, and the idea that I'll be able to leave here soon has been disappointed, and it's completely unknown how long I'll stay here!

The mood is not very good, but life has to go on, not to mention that on such a festive day as the New Year, you should make yourself happy.

I woke up in the morning and saw that the weather was pretty good today, the sun had risen high and I could in the middle of winter. Enjoying the New Year in the sun has to be said to be a very enjoyable thing.

I just hope that the next few days will continue to be sunny and I will be able to take the opportunity to go fishing at the beach, which has been interrupted for so long that I almost forget my fishing skills!

After washing, I began to process the various ingredients I brought home yesterday, and looking at the large number of ingredients, I also knew that this year's Chinese New Year was much more abundant than last year, and it should be the most luxurious in these years.

After processing the ingredients, I started to light the fire and cook, and I couldn't wait to eat until noon......

This time, I still chose sweet potatoes as the staple food, and it stands to reason that the staple food every day is sweet potatoes, which should have been eaten for a long time, but I never thought that sweet potatoes would be greasy, and there was a tendency to like them more and more when I ate them.

Other dishes are: roasted chicken with taro, stewed lamb with kelp, fried vegetables, steamed large shells, two fried eggs, but unfortunately the potatoes are still about a month away from ripening, otherwise there should be another dish added to the addition of potatoes.

However, it is also quite good to have this now, not only is there more than last year, but it also excludes fish that has long been tired of eating, which was difficult to do before.

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A hearty lunch not only made me too full to walk, but it was enough to reflect the more and more abundant family background!

Almost every day has vegetables and meat, and there are a variety of choices, no matter how poor you are, you can eat enough, and your clothes are enough to keep warm, such a day is unimaginable at the beginning.

In addition to the annoying rainy season at the end of the year, which lasted for more than a month, it was generally a year of good weather and rain, especially since the magnitude of the two or three typhoons was not large, and the impact was very weak.

One of the most worrying things about living at sea for a long time is typhoons, which rank first in terms of destructive power, as long as there is no typhoon, there is no impact on life, and you can even live well!

In addition, the yields of various crops have basically met or exceeded expectations, and fortunately, the rainy season occurs in winter, and if it is two or three months earlier, it will inevitably reduce the yield of various crops on a large scale.

Now that the family finally has a certain amount of food in stock, and all the brick houses have been built in this year, except that they can't return to land, there is no problem with food, clothing and housing!

Although the brick house has not yet been tested by a typhoon, I believe that after a year of hard work and trust in its solidity, I am confident that the house will not fall off the chain in the event of a typhoon!

The past year has been quite smooth, and I just hope that next year, the year after that, and every year after that will be so smooth and everything will go well!

In that case, I can also be an idle person on the island and live a paradise-like life.....

After eating and drinking nonsense, I was so full that I didn't want to move, and I didn't even have the leftovers on the table, so I spread it out on the bed, although this way is quite bad for the body, but I can't manage so much now, and I want to sleep when I'm full.

When I woke up, it was already about two o'clock in the afternoon, and while I was cleaning up the pots and pans at noon, I boiled a pot of hot water to prepare for a shower in the afternoon, which is already the standard process every year.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, when it was still about three hours before dark, instead of being bored at home, I took out the fishing tools that had been idle for a long time from the corner of the house and started the entertainment that I had not done for a long time.

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The easiest place to fish at sea can be said to be bait, I used to dig earthworms in a fertile place when fishing in the river near my home, and often half an hour has passed, and my back hurts!

There is no need to think about this aspect of sea fishing, because most of the food of marine fish is very mixed, and there are countless carnivorous fish, and fishing with fish is the most worry-free way, and it will not be as troublesome and dirty as hanging earthworms.

Maybe I hadn't caught a fish for a long time, and the first two fish couldn't be pulled ashore because of unfamiliar technology, so I was so angry that I wanted to throw away the rod, but after more than an hour, the first fish finally came up, but it was just a common fish.

In the next hour, two more fish were pulled ashore one after another, but they were not big, and the average was only about one or two catties, after all, the big fish were in the deep water, and there were relatively few big fish above ten catties in the shallow water.

Seeing that the sun was already struggling on the horizon and waving goodbye to me, I was ready to go home for the last ten minutes of fishing, but I didn't expect another fish to be hooked in these last minutes!

Strange to say, at first the float was always up and down, I thought it was carried by the waves, but then I found out that the amplitude was irregular, and I guessed that there must be a suspicious fish on the other side.

At this time, it is very important to calm down, fishing generally only has one chance to succeed, too early to lift the rod can only be missed, just wait until three or five minutes later, floating and sinking.

After a second or two, the float came up again, and then sank again, and I couldn't hold my breath anymore, and in my previous experience, this situation had already bitten the hook.

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No longer hesitating, I immediately lifted the rod up to make the hook better embedded in the fish's mouth, and the heavy feel on my hand told me that there was indeed a fish on the hook!

All the movements are basically the same as when fishing, except that I am more curious about what the last fish of the day will be, and it also gives me the feeling that it is very rare, especially the process of biting the hook.

Later, the tug-of-war with the other end of the fishing rod began, this feeling is not as light as the first few fish, but very heavy, it is certain that the last one should be a big fish!

Its strength is very great, like a raging beast reacting violently in the water, and I can only hold on to the rod on the reef, and now the situation is "let it struggle, I will not move".

I was amazed by the feeling that a minute or two had passed, it was very powerful, but it didn't look like a big fish, if it was a big fish, it would have pulled me around, but because the sun was going down, I couldn't see what kind of monster it was under the water a few meters deep!

After three or five minutes, its strength weakened sharply, probably because it was tired from the struggle, and I was not ready to give it another chance to quickly drag it to the shore, at this time its movement was smaller, and my hand was finally more realistic.

This should be a fish that is not too big, at most about five catties.

After a second or twenty, I finally came out of the water, but the result was completely unexpected, it was a long monster, completely black, completely different from the usual sea fish!

It wasn't until I went ashore in front of me that I finally saw it clearly, this was a moray eel, with a body length of more than one meter, and its weight might be around five catties, and the error would not exceed one catty.

As soon as it landed on the shore, it struggled violently again, its head constantly shrinking back, its tail swinging forward, and its body constantly bending, almost exactly like an eel.

Even the fishing line was wrapped around its body several times, but because I was afraid that it was a kind of electric eel, I did not rashly touch it with my hands, but stepped on its head with my feet.

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Although it was still struggling, it was finally suppressed, and took out the dagger it carried with it and processed it directly on the spot, and if it continued like this, the whole line would be knotted because of its rolling!

Perhaps it is really related to the eel, except that its habits and movements are exactly the same, even the skin on its body is not much different, and it constantly secretes a sticky liquid that makes it difficult for the dagger to cut through its skin.

I was so angry that I couldn't get rid of it for three or four minutes, so I threw it on the shore with a fishing rod and smashed its head in three or five strokes of a rock on the beach, and finally stopped struggling!

Sometimes that's the case, non-violence and non-cooperation, you want to solve this matter with great effort for half a day in vain, and it may be smoother to solve it with brute force when you get angry.

The rest of the process is quite quick, but within a minute the guts of the fish are all cleaned out, leaving only the meat for pure consumption.

Originally, I was thinking about eating leftovers from noon in the evening, but I didn't expect a new meal to wait for me in the evening......

This is something I didn't expect, after all, I have never found an eel on the island for two or three years, but it is recognized as a "natural supplier of human calcium", which shows the high content of calcium!

Not only is the eel very nutritious, but the meat is also very delicious, especially the grilled eel is fatty and fragrant, it may be more like a catfish in the river than the meat of the sea fish!

I used to hear its name but didn't see it, but today I finally saw it, and it will become my dinner, which is very happy to think about.

Now that the temperature is low, it is good for preservation, so I didn't think about eating it all at once, and I was only going to eat half of it at night.

In order to experience more ways to eat, in addition to making the most classic grilled eel with half a catty, I also want to make it with a more homely method.

First of all, cut the eel meat into small pieces and boil it in water, then boil the oil in the pot and stir-fry it in the pot, and finally add water, salt and oyster sauce and simmer in the pot for half an hour until the thick soup is out of the pot.

This kind of taste is addictive, and it is several times more delicious than mutton, but it is a pity that there are no various condiments to enhance the taste, otherwise the deliciousness will rise countless levels.

Even if it tastes outstanding, the only regret now is that there is no rice on the island, otherwise I would have eaten three bowls without resting on rice!

I have to say that the biggest advantage of seafood is that there is no earthy smell, and the yellow eel is similar to the eel, and all other habits are similar, but the taste will be 108,000 miles away, at this time let me eat although I will not dislike, but it will definitely not be used to it, after all, its fishy smell is very strong.

I didn't expect this annual party to pass in such a big meal, and it is very reluctant to think about it!