From tomorrow on, be a happy person; feed the horse, chop wood, and travel around the world;
From tomorrow on, take care of food and vegetables; I have a house facing the sea, with flowers blooming in spring.
Haizi's dream has now become Zhu Ping'an's life. Except for feeding horses and traveling around the world, everything else has become Zhu Ping'an's current life. There is a cave facing the sea, decorated with flowers and plants inside and outside the cave. A winding path paved with pebbles outside the cave has become a mansion facing the sea, and now it is spring and flowers are blooming.
Vegetables, wild fruits, fish and shrimps were collected every day. In addition to the daily consumption, Zhu Ping'an, Li Shu and Hua'er strung the surplus fish and shrimps together with vines and hung them outside the cave to dry them as dried fish and shrimps as reserve food.
Chopping wood is also essential.
Three days had passed on the island, and Zhu Ping'an and his two companions had almost adapted to life on the island. While trying to adapt to island life, Zhu Ping'an never gave up asking for help and saving himself.
Zhu Ping'an believed that there must be a rescue ship outside looking for the three of them. Even if Linhuai Hou gave up, he believed that Li Shu's family and his own family would not give up. The Li family had enough financial strength to search and rescue, and Emperor Jiajing had temporarily suspended the maritime ban some time ago, which provided a good opportunity.
If a ship came to search and rescue, how could people notice this island? How could people know that the three of them were on this island? This was a task that needed to be completed. The sea was vast, and there were countless islands, and many of them were not small in size. Even if there were hundreds of ships and hundreds of people scattered on the sea, searching and rescuing the three of them would not be much better than finding a needle in a haystack.
Therefore, the key is to make the search and rescue personnel outside pay attention to this island.
It's completely useless to display the SOS sign on the beach. There are no GPS, Beidou or helicopters here. The ships outside can't be seen at all if they are displayed.
In order to solve this problem, Zhu Ping'an thought of the ancient beacon tower, which was an important medium for alarm and transmission of military intelligence in ancient times. On this island, nothing could convey messages better than beacon fire.
Zhu Pingan built a beacon tower more than one meter high with stones in the open space outside the cave. Then he stored a lot of firewood, some of which were picked up by Li Shu and Baozi, the little maid, and some of which were chopped by Zhu Pingan with a simple stone axe.
During the day, damp firewood and wet grass were piled into the beacon tower to generate thick black smoke; at night, drier firewood was piled into the beacon tower to generate bright flames.
I believe that if there is a boat nearby, if you look carefully, you can see the fireworks on this island at any time of the day or night.
In addition, Zhu Ping'an jokingly appointed Li Shu as the chief commander of the Beacon Tower, and Baozi, the little maid, as the deputy commander of the Beacon Tower.
The little maidservant Baozi was jumping with excitement, but Li Shu rolled her eyes in disdain.
In addition to actively preparing to call for help, Zhu Pingan also worked hard to save himself, which simply meant making a raft.
This was a bit difficult. Zhu Ping'an's homemade stone axe was of very poor quality, and felling trees was very laborious. Zhu Ping'an found a tree trunk on the island and knocked it to check. He felt that it was too fragile. If it was left on the sea, it would be very dangerous. Even though it would be much slower to fell trees by himself, safety was the most important thing. Slow is better.
In Li Shu's eyes, such island life still has a lot of fun.
When she was making fish soup, Zhu Ping'an would often help out, add fuel to the fire, or tell a joke. For example, whenever Li Shu thought of the joke Zhu Ping'an told the day before yesterday, she would laugh and then complain in her heart, saying that burning the piano and cooking the crane really ruined the mood.
The day before yesterday, when making fish soup, Zhu Pingan was staring into the pot in a daze. I even laughed at him for having his eyeballs fall into the pot. Then, he looked up at me stupidly for a long time and told me a joke. Li Shu still remembers the scene clearly:
"They are chatting in the pot. Can't you hear it?" Zhu Ping'an said, pointing at the fish soup bubbling in the pot.
"How can they talk..." I curled my lips and rolled my eyes.
"Listen, the fish in the pot said, 'I keep my eyes open all the time because I don't want to leave you.'" Zhu Ping'an looked up at himself and said.
"What nonsense are you talking about..." My heart was beating so fast at that time.
"The fish said, well, listen, the water also spoke. The water said to the fish, 'I flow tirelessly all day long just to surround you and hold you up.'"
When I heard Zhu Ping'an looking at me and saying this, my heart almost jumped out of my chest. My face turned red and I was so nervous that I was at a loss. I thought it was this piece of wood... Then when I heard this stinky toad talking about the pot and saying "It's almost cooked but still so stubborn", I really wanted to throw this stinky toad into the pot and stew it...
Idiot, blockhead!!! It's really a waste of time and energy, it really ruins the mood!
But, thinking about it later, it was quite interesting.
In fact, during the few days on the island, there were many interesting things like this... For example, going to the west side of the island with Stinky Toad to catch birds, pick up bird eggs, catch lobsters, and pick up crabs.
The birds on this island are very stupid. Stinky Toad said it was because of the maritime ban. There has been no one on this island for a long time, probably about a hundred years. No one hunts here, and the birds here have never seen humans, so they are not afraid of humans at all and are very easy to catch.
There are many seabirds here, in groups, covering the sky and you can't count them, with black feathers and white heads. Fortunately, they don't look good, otherwise I wouldn't have the heart to eat them. However, although seabirds don't look good, they taste very good... ...
Every time, Stinky Toad would ask him and Huaer to stand aside with grass seeds in their hands to lure the birds, and then Stinky Toad would quickly catch the birds. He would succeed about three to five times out of ten.
"Little bird, don't be weird. You are a delicacy on earth. Go early this year and come back early next year."
He didn't dare to do it himself, so it was always the Stinky Toad who dealt with it. Zhu Ping'an would say this every time he dealt with a bird.
There are many seabirds and bird eggs here. They were discovered by Stinky Toad. There are some protruding sand dunes on the sunny beach. You can pick up several bird eggs by digging them up. You can pick up half of the eggs in a nest, and you can pick up dozens of bird eggs each time.
When the tide goes out, Zhu Ping'an will take himself and Hua'er to the beach to pick up crabs. The crabs here are very big, and sometimes you can also pick up lobsters. The lobsters here are particularly fat. Once he picked up a lobster as big as a duck.
... ...
Sometimes, I even think that it would be a happy thing for three people to live together for a lifetime on an island like this.
Sometimes, looking at the beacon tower that emits smoke during the day and fire at night, Li Shu has thought of extinguishing it several times...
Spring is here and flowers are blooming, I can’t bear to leave... (To be continued.)