Chapter 21: Harvesting Wheat
On this desert island, there's simply nothing better than canned food.
First of all, it has a long storage time, and it tastes quite good, and it can be eaten to a full meal.
Chen Le took down all these cans and lined them up, and there were dozens of bottles.
Canned fruits, canned meat, canned fish, all kinds of canned food, dazzling, everyone who saw it was quite happy, at least in a short time, everyone did not have to worry about the problem of food.
The sun is slowly setting, and the tide is about to fall on the seaside, so everyone hurries up to transport things.
Chen Le hurriedly went to the oil tank to search for a long time, and finally found several large barrels of oil and transported all these oils to the island.
After all, there is still too little oil in the rescue chamber, and the electricity generated with that oil can only last for a short time.
And with these fuels, the situation is very different.
After returning to the wooden house, Chen Le counted all the supplies and was quite satisfied.
This time, there are quite a lot of materials found on the ruins of the big ship, which can be used for a long time.
Of course, the most useless of these materials were some banknotes, and Chen Le rummaged through several suitcases inside, which were full of money.
Although these banknotes have been soaked in water, they can barely be used after the sun.
However, on this desert island, no matter how much money you have, it is just for nothing, because you can't trade with money, and in the end, Chen Le can only stuff the suitcase under the bed with regret, looking forward to one day being able to get out of the desert island.
By that time, maybe he'll be a rich man.
However, after collecting the materials, Chen Le still held a meeting and focused on criticizing Huang Linlin.
When he was transporting supplies before, he could see it clearly, although Huang Linlin looked like he was working, but in fact, he couldn't do anything, and he was stealing and cheating, which was a huge blow to morale.
On the second day, after Chen Le finished washing and eating breakfast, he picked up a backpack from the house, put a few cans in the backpack, held an iron bow, carried a quiver, and walked towards the forest with Zhong Mei.
Today they are going to gather the wheat back, and even if it is inedible, they are going to leave the seeds behind and plant them in the fall.
Although the situation is very good now, Chen Le likes to prepare for both hands no matter what he does.
As long as you plant wheat, you can save a lot of effort when the wheat is ripe.
When entering the forest, Chen Le was always cautious, and the bow and arrow in his hand were aimed in all directions, for fear of encountering another attack by wild wolves.
Fortunately, however, until they reached the wheat field, there was no sign of the wolf.
Chen Le walked up to the wheat and saw that the wheat was still surrounded by a fence.
In two days, the wheat was much browned, the ears were full, and the smell gave people the direction of wheat.
After Chen Le finished harvesting the wheat, he searched carefully around the forest for a long time, and sure enough, near a small stream, he found a large piece of wheat.
The range of these wheat is wider, as much as half an acre, and Chen Le and others cut it for a long time before harvesting the wheat.
The journey was safe, and soon, Chen Le and Zhong Mei returned to the base with Maizi.
Naturally, the two of them could not transport so much wheat back, so they pulled a few more people to transport it together, and after several successive trips, they brought back all the wheat.
For the next period of time, Chen Le spread the wheat on a flat ground in front of the wooden house.
There was no stone mill or threshing machine, so he made some sticks out of his axe, thin at the back and thick at the front, and tied a few rocks, and the people began to thresh the wheat.
I have to say that there are still a lot of these wheat, and there are two or three bags after they are dried in the sun.
Drying the wheat does not mean that it can be eaten immediately, it also needs to be ground into flour, this time it has become much more difficult, Chen Le found a few rocks, reluctantly made a stone mill, and grinded for a whole afternoon to grind out half a bag of flour.
But even so, everyone was still quite happy, and their faces were full of surprise.
With flour and rice, people will be able to eat more abundant food, and they will no longer eat and sleep in the open like before, but will be closer to human society.
Chen Le asked everyone who could make steamed buns, and everyone shook their heads, only Han Mengchen gently raised his palm, his cheeks were red, and he looked very shy.
Chen Le couldn't help but have some surprise in his heart, but also some joy, Han Mengchen was introverted and rarely spoke on the island, Chen Le had always been worried that she would be difficult to blend in.
And now the other party has taken the initiative to work, which is a good sign, at least it can be regarded as taking the initiative to integrate.
"I know how to make steamed buns, but we don't have yeast ......"
Han Mengchen's voice was low, slightly frustrated.
"It's okay, it's okay without yeast, with yeast it just tastes fluffier and tastes better, just make do on a desert island, and don't pay too much attention to it."
"Uh-huh!"
Han Mengchen nodded slightly, his face was full of determination, and he began to think about how to make steamed buns.
……
At noon, lunch was quite rich.
With a real iron pot and a variety of kitchenware seasonings, Chen Le cooked himself and steamed a pot of rice.
I used another iron pot to start the oven, stewed a pot of fish, another pot of pheasant stewed mushrooms, two dishes, a rice, and a fish soup.
It can be called the most lucrative lunch on the desert island that everyone has come to.
Everyone ate happily and had a full meal.
After all, everyone used stone bowls before, and although they were all cleaned, there were still some inconveniences.
Now, with these porcelain bowls, not only is it much easier, but even the atmosphere has become a little more relaxed.
Chen Le is a person who can't be idle, not to mention on a desert island, once idle, it means death.
After lunch, Chen Le pondered and continued to hunt in the forest, unlike before, this time he planned to capture him alive.
originally planned to take Li Xin with him, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still dispelled this idea.
Li Xin is a very calm person, staying in the base can guard his home well, and he can rest assured.
And this time it is to catch the prey alive, which is much more difficult than before, so it needs to be physically better.
As a lifeguard, Zhong Mei's physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary people, which is very suitable.
So, the two of them continued to walk towards the forest along the path they had opened up earlier.
Chen Le still held an iron bow and arrow clusters, while Zhong Mei held a sapper iron catalpa in his hand, which could be used as a weapon and dig traps.