On the night of the first anniversary of landing on the island, I seemed to realize that I seem to be much more comfortable now than in the past, although this island is exhausted for me, but it makes me so comfortable and worry-free, it can even be said that this island is changing me, changing my interests, changing my pursuit, compared with the previous Wu Luoyin, now I have experienced a unique happiness.

In this thought, I began my second year on the island, and I had already harvested the grains I had planted once this spring, and the yield was mediocre, because I had not been able to distinguish what was a seed and had planted it in a hurry, but it had also allowed me to harvest at least a pound of new seeds, and I had tested a small part of them to see if they could be ground into flour, and the results were gratifying, while the rest was planted again by me in the field.

I remember that the eve of the harvest was not smooth at all, the hares invaded my crops in waves, and gnawed the young seedlings that had just emerged day and night, and then flocks of birds circled around the crops, and if I was not careful, I would swoop down and take away a grain of wheat, and finally I was so ruthless that I shot a few shots at the flock, and I thought that as soon as the birds rang, thirty or forty birds immediately fluttered out of the crops, and I did not feel their presence at all before.

From this, we can see how hard-won the pound of seeds I harvested, right?

Later, I also learned a lot more fiercely, and I simply nailed the wings to the scarecrow's arm with a nail, and from a distance it looked as terrible as a person carrying a few dried dead birds, this trick was how I learned to deal with cockroaches from my mother, but I didn't expect them to work, and since then, I have never seen birds steal my crops, and even they dare not come near the hill where I am.

That harvest also made me tired and bent over, because I had no tools, I could only use a dagger to cut the ears of grain, and then use a pair of gloves to wear clothes to rub those ears into grains, that experience was worse than death, fortunately there was not much planted at that time, but this season's harvest has reached the imminent time, in two months I will have to go through another harvest battle like the last one, and the number has increased by four or five times, every time I think of this, I realize more and more the importance of tools to me, but I can't make iron at all, I had to use local materials, which upset me.

It wasn't until half a month later when I was cleaning the fireplace that I was surprised to find that the charcoal in the fireplace was mixed with a fragment of clay pottery, which was as hard as a rock and as red as a monkey's butt.

This discovery made me think that if I could still make clay of this texture,+ then not only would I have the tools for harvesting, but I would even be able to make a few clay pots for boiling the water, not just the situation where I had to stop boiling when the water reached thirty or forty degrees.

So I began to study what made this clay pottery so hard, and even rebuilt a pottery kiln in imitation of the environment in the fireplace, replacing the firewood fire with charcoal fire, and replacing the fireplace with a semi-enclosed environment, until the clay pots were burned red on the charcoal fire, and continued to burn for four or five hours, but I never thought that they actually began to collapse and melt downward...... and later, they actually became a substance like glass......

So the second experiment in the red I did not insist on such a long time of continuous charcoal burning, but gradually reduce the temperature of the fire, the color of the surface of the clay pottery slowly changed from red to gray, and then to the color of black and gray, that night, I did not sleep all night with the kiln waiting for the charcoal fire, I know in my heart how important this kind of thing is to me now, the final result is that I got two styles very similar to the pot of the molding works, one of which may be burned a little too hard, the surface also produced an indescribable glaze......

I couldn't wait to put this black glazed "pot" on the fire to boil water, and after the water boiled, I threw in a dozen pieces of dried meat and young leaves, smelled the fragrant aroma, and drank a sip of the thick broth, the feeling of returning to civilization was overflowing and satisfying, and even enough to sweep away the bad luck of more than a year on this island.

It is undeniable that after having a pot, I once again lived a civilized life.

I turned the sleeves of those ladies' silk skirts into sleeves, and changed into a fresh uniform, Xiao Nei has been worn out in the past year, and I simply don't wear it, after all, the feeling of being surrounded by silk as Xiao Nei really makes me feel impermeable, simply hollow! I even burned a very simple little mirror and placed it next to the bed, and although it only reflected my face very, very vaguely, it was better than nothing.

During that time, I always had an unreliable idea in my mind, so unreliable that even I knew that it would be a joke to gamble with my own life, and I was going to look at the land across the sea as far as my eyes could see, even if there was only one percent hope, I wanted to see it, and if it was really the land that connected the motherland, I would never have to worry about dying alone here, even though even I was telling myself that it would never be land!

This idea has been in my head for too long, in fact, I was planning to do it when I first climbed the mountain and saw the fast land, but I never had the courage to practice it for more than a year, because I didn't have a boat.

The raft that was first built still lies on the edge of the forest deep in the sand, the result of the storm and the waves. It was so rough that it took me a little time to build a new raft, and the idea of building a new raft took me three weeks to build a brand new raft three meters long and two meters wide, and to make the forest deep on the beach completely bare and barren.

Wherever humanity goes, any progress is based on destruction, and that's what Shakespeare said, so I don't feel so guilty about destroying this natural landscape.

But in the end, it backfired, and I don't believe you can imagine that even such a large and sturdy raft was washed away by the waves near the shoreline in a few rounds, leaving me scattered in all directions, and I was sent back to the original beach by the waves, and I was extremely embarrassed.

This failure did not neutralize my interest in the land, in fact, it was even exacerbated, and I thought it might be my competitive spirit.

I blame the raft for this loss, and although it is heavy and strong, it is unable to break through the resistance caused by the complex water ripples in the shallow sea due to the flat nature of the raft, and it would have been better if I had built a canoe like a kayak like the South Americans? In other words, there should be no other way to do it at the moment.

When I thought of this, I felt the urge to give up, because I knew that the kind of canoe that could be made would be like a heaven.

I had to use tools to knock down a huge old tree, I had to cut off the section I needed, and then I had to carve out an inner compartment in the middle.

In fact, the real job is much more complicated than I thought! I didn't even think about how to drag the boat I built from the deep forest to the seashore and then I started to move, my heart was only full of this one thought: "If you build it, if you think so much, you won't even be able to make a fart, and the boat will naturally go straight to the forest!" ”。

Stunned by impulse, I used a small axe and a specially found sharp stone to put a big cypress tree to the ground, the tree was very large, more than 1.8 meters in diameter, from the beginning of the cut to the cutting off of the branches, it took me 65 days, unbelievable to persist like this! And this is only the first step in a long march.

The second step of the shipbuilding project took me almost four months, during which I did almost nothing, let the crops grow in the field, I only had to make sure that the drying of the dried meat did not stop and replenish the wild fruits in due course, and I did not bother with the rest, I believe that God will not die of hunger, and will use the rain to help me irrigate the crops, and in fact his old man did not disappoint me in this matter.

One day, four months later, I finally scraped the bottom of the boat and smoothed every nook and cranny of the canoe's inner cabin, and the final product was a large boat that could hold ten people up! If I had ridden on my own, I would have been able to take all my belongings in the cave with me in the inner compartment.

At this point, it is a good example of how little strategic vision I had before I did this.

After the excitement of looking at the results of the victory, I sat on the stake of the tree that had been cut down, and I was stunned with my head in my hands.

This ship seems to be a little different from what I originally envisioned, and I seem to have built it bigger~

This woodland is more than 100 meters away from the coast, and there are a few small trees in between!

I returned to the cave, and the depression in my heart made me no longer want to see the broken ship that had taken me a lot of effort and more than half a year to build, and lay on the bed and pondered, the work still had to be carried on, otherwise Lao Tzu would cut down the few small trees in front of me, and then dig a small canal to bring in the seawater, so that the boat would not float up by the natural buoyancy of the seawater?

I ran back into the woods, and went back to the beach and the woodland several times to do the surveying, for half a day, and then I lay down in the cave with a sad face, for, according to the measurements, it would have taken me at least twenty years to dig through that little canal by myself!

I was annoyed by my stupidity and lack of planning, and in more than half a year, I actually did such a bad thing, and the final result was of no use at all, just an ornamental object, and completely became a souvenir and mascot on the island!