Surviving Endless Disasters

Two days after the rice harvest, the sun was still so strong, just the right time to dry the rice.

Wen Zheng took out the bamboo mat he slept on, washed it and spread it on the beach, and then put the rice on it to dry.

The newly harvested rice contains a lot of water, and drying it can delay the storage time.

During the days of drying, Wen Zheng did not dare to leave too far, so he had to look after it and turn the rice over from time to time. If the sun was too strong, he had to put it away in time.

Wen Zheng always paid attention to the weather conditions. On the afternoon of the second day of drying the rice, the weather suddenly changed. He quickly but not panickedly took the rice back to the cave.

A few minutes after arriving at the cave, heavy rain fell from the sky, and the dense raindrops were connected into one piece, and there was a rustling sound in his ears.

If it was two days later, Wen Zheng would either give up the rice or cut the rice in the rain. Maybe he would get sick again because of the rain. Fortunately, he caught up.

When harvesting bamboo rice, Wen Zheng got a stone mortar for pounding rice. While it was raining outside, Wen Zheng stayed in the cave and started pounding rice.

The husk of the pounded rice is the rice bran, and the rice grains inside are the rice we often eat.

This kind of rice is a slender brown rice. The yield is not small, but I don’t know how it tastes. Looking at the pounded white slender rice grains, Wen Zheng’s mouth never fell.

After harvesting rice, Wen Zheng once again lived a happy life with staple food.

When the temperature on the island was not too low, it was a good time to plant rice. After resting for a few days, Wen Zheng asked the little wild boars in the pigpen to go out again. There were still a lot of rice stems and leaves left in the ground, which just attracted the wild boars to dig up the ground again.

Select the big and plump ones from the new harvest and plant them in the farmland as seeds again.

The original drift bottle was found in the cave. Wen Zheng still remembers the extreme excitement and excitement when he saw the seeds in the drift bottle, so he found a lot of plastic bottles and plastic bags in the cave, used plastic bags and ropes to protect some rice that could be used as seeds, and put them into plastic bottles.

Wen Zheng got a total of three drift bottles filled with rice, and took out the bamboo paper he made, used a burnt wooden stick as a charcoal pencil, and wrote a few words on it.

These few short sentences are his feelings during the days of survival on the deserted island. Maybe one day, this drift bottle will reach the hands of someone who needs it.

When the weather is suitable, Wen Zheng carefully observed the flow direction of the sea water and threw these drift bottles into the sea.

Address~Publish~Page~: W·W·W, 2·u·2·u·2·u, C-0-MHaving spent half a year on the deserted island, life is completely back on track. The remaining days are not long, and there is still barley to be harvested, so Wen Zheng eats rice without any scrimping.

Breakfast is all rice porridge made from rice. After being soaked in water, the rice absorbs a lot of water, and then it is stewed on the fire with water. The hard rice becomes soft, and all the nutrients in it flow into the water. When the pot is gurgling with hot steam, the rice porridge is almost cooked.

The boiled rice porridge is particularly soft and rotten, with steaming white mist, and has a sparkling light in the sun.

The extremely light white rice porridge, paired with pickled salted turtle eggs, the taste is simply too wonderful.

Pickling turtle eggs was a sudden idea for Wen Zheng. At that time, he got a lot of turtle eggs from the beach. Seeing that they were almost all egg yolks, Wen Zheng remembered the wonderful taste of pickled duck egg yolks, and he immediately wanted to try it.

The simplest way to pickle salted duck eggs is to put them in a container and add salty brine, and Grandpa Wen uses wood ash to pickle salted duck eggs every year.

Not many people have pickled sea turtle eggs, so Wen Zheng experimented with the method of pickling salted duck eggs.

Bring back some fine yellow mud from the beach, mix it with wood ash, water, and salt to make mud. Wen Zheng did not add too much salt, after all, the yellow mud dug from the beach itself contains salty seawater.

Every time Grandpa Wen pickled salted duck eggs, Wen Zheng would help and was very clear about the steps.

First roll the sea turtle eggs in the stirred mud, then roll them in the wood ash, and finally put them in a sealed container.

Usually, the container for pickling salted duck eggs is a pottery jar. In fact, it is not so particular. Just seal the processed eggs and keep them away from air.

Metal products that react with salt cannot be used. Even plastic bags can be used as containers for pickled eggs.

Wen Zheng uses a thick bamboo tube. After putting the processed turtle eggs in it, he seals the entire bamboo tube with yellow mud. After the yellow mud is transparent, the bamboo tube is perfectly isolated from the outside world. Then it is placed in a cool corner of the cave, which can block air and sunlight.

Turtle eggs are always different from salted duck eggs. Wen Zheng often worries about whether the production will fail.

When the rice is finally ready after the rice is harvested, Wen Zheng takes out the bamboo tube sealed with yellow mud, knocks it open gently, and takes out the salted turtle eggs wrapped in black ash from it.

After washing, first stew two salted turtle eggs in water. Wen Zheng waits long enough, takes them out of the water and cuts them gently with a bamboo knife. The bright golden color is revealed, and a little bit of beautiful red is revealed.

After being pickled, the turtle eggs undergo a wonderful chemical reaction, and the egg yolks inside are all solidified. When you cut them open after stewing, you can clearly smell the tempting salty and fragrant aroma.

The egg white is just a thin layer, and the egg yolk looks similar to the duck egg yolk, with the same fine texture, but no oil can flow out when poked with chopsticks.

Half is placed in front of Tuan Tuan, and the other half is left for himself. He picks up the solidified egg yolk with bamboo chopsticks and puts it in his mouth. The sandy taste is transmitted from the tip of the tongue to the brain. It is salty, fragrant and delicate, and has a taste that is not inferior to duck egg yolk.

After cooking all the salted turtle eggs in a bamboo tube, Wen Zheng and Tuan Tuan sit face to face on both sides of the bamboo table. In front of them is a bowl of white rice porridge, and six salted turtle eggs are cooked in the middle. Rice porridge and salted duck eggs are a perfect match. Without salted duck eggs, salted turtle eggs are also a good match.

Wen Zheng took the salted turtle egg, gently knocked a small hole, peeled off the small eggshell, put the chopsticks in it and stirred it quickly, and then poured the stirred turtle eggs into the white porridge. This is how Wen Zheng eats salted duck eggs.

When I was a child, I always liked to eat the duck egg yolk inside the salted duck eggs, but I didn't like to eat the duck egg white that was too salty outside. When I mixed them together and poured them into the porridge, the egg white also became very delicious, and the egg shell was broken with a small hole, and it could be used to make other things.

In fact, this method is not needed for salted turtle eggs, because there is not much egg white in the turtle eggs that needs to be mixed. When I was a child, I always wondered why the salted duck eggs could not be all egg yolk. Now I can finally eat salted eggs that are almost all egg yolk.

The salty and fragrant salted turtle eggs and the light white porridge blend together, and the taste is just right. Just eating a bowl like this, don't mention how satisfied you are.

Looking at the round turtle egg shells the size of a ping-pong ball, there is only a small hole on it. After Wen Zheng washed these turtle egg shells, the turtle egg shells kept rolling on the bracelet and could not be fixed. Wen Zheng took out the resin, heated and melted it, and stuck the turtle egg shells on the table, poured stone chestnut oil into it, and then put in the rubbed wicks. After lighting it, it became a beautiful eggshell lamp.

Covered with a transparent plastic bottle cap, it looks better than the oil lamp made of cans.

After harvesting the rice, Wen Zheng tried every means to make all kinds of delicious food, such as bamboo tube rice, egg fried rice, stewed rice, rice paste, popcorn, rice cake, rice noodles, etc. Some of them were successful, but more failed. As long as they were not harmful to the body or were particularly unpalatable, Wen Zheng would fill his stomach with the failed works.