Surviving Endless Disasters

Compared to the wild boar that was unlikely to be caught, this edible berry was obviously more attractive. Wen Zheng turned around and walked towards that place.

The sound of pushing aside the bushes with his hands was not small. The birds were startled and flew away from several meters away.

Tuan Tuan flew out of the bamboo basket anxiously. The hard bird beak was not afraid of the small sharp thorns. It pecked a red fruit with one peck.

Wen Zheng did not take the red fruit that Tuan Tuan picked out, and let Tuan Tuan eat it himself.

He did not want to challenge the sharpness of the thorns with his fingers, but took out a thin wooden stick and bamboo tube from the bamboo basket. With a light touch of the wooden stick, the red fruit fell into the bamboo tube.

He poured one into the palm of his hand, wiped it casually, and threw it. The juice broke through the thin skin and burst into his mouth.

The tongue conveyed the taste of the berry to his mind. Wen Zheng was a little unbelievable. He picked three more red fruits to taste together. This time he was completely sure.

The taste of the red berry is sweet, a bit like the taste of blueberries.

It has been a long time since I have eaten such sweet fruits, and Wen Zheng wanted to eat a few more.

However, the few red fruits were eaten, and only the green fruits that had not turned red were left on the shrub.

Instead of coming here to pick them, it is better to dig out two trees and take them back to plant outside the cave.

Not only can they be picked at any time after they are ripe, but they can also be used as decorations to add a color to the outside of the cave.

Wen Zheng had thought of taking the sour fruit shrubs back to plant before, but the roots of the sour fruit shrubs growing in patches were connected underground. Digging them out would hurt the roots and they would not survive, so Wen Zheng gave up the idea.

This time, the sweet fruit shrubs did not gather together, so Wen Zheng picked up the branches and started digging.

The soil here is very soft, and Wen Zheng easily dug a half-meter deep pit, and most of the roots of the low shrubs were dug out.

After working hard to dig out two shrubs with sweet fruits, Wen Zheng pulled them and prepared to go home. Suddenly, he patted his head, leaving a mud mark on his forehead. He remembered that he had not seen the last trap yet.

Since he was here, of course he had to take a look. He walked past the lush bushes and took two steps. The sight of those trees could not block his sight, and Wen Zheng's footsteps paused.

Surprise and joy surged in his heart at the same time, overwhelming the disappointment of the traps. The third trap actually had a harvest.

On the tree tied with a rope, there was a little wild boar hanging on it, with its four legs swinging weakly in the air. After smelling Wen Zheng's scent, it began to make a low humming sound from its mouth.

The body length of this wild boar was less than half a meter, and it was still a wild boar cub.

Wen Zheng put it down from the tree and saw that the wild boar cub did not attack him at all, but just lay on the ground, and kept digging the ground with its mouth.

How long has it been hungry! Obviously, this wild boar was not just trapped, but was too hungry to move. It had been hanging on the tree for a few days. Its digging posture gave people a silly and cute feeling.

This also made it convenient for Wen Zheng. He tied the wild boar with ropes and blocked its mouth, so that it could not eat to restore its strength.

On the fifth and sixth days of surviving on the deserted island, Wen Zheng captured a living wild boar. After starting the planting business, he started the breeding business.

The wild boar was tied firmly to the stone outside the cave with several ropes.

As soon as its mouth was freed, the wild boar began to dig the ground, eating weeds, grass seeds and insects on the ground.

Wen Zheng ignored the wild boar. After sitting and resting for a while, he began to plant the two shrubs he brought back.

When he was resting yesterday, Wen Zheng made a few bamboo baskets, spread the bottom with wide banana leaves, filled them with fertile soil from the mountains and forests, mixed them with plant ash, and planted the shrubs in them.

After planting, Wen Zheng patted the dirt on his hands and turned to look at the little wild boar. The hungry little wild boar dug up all the ground it could touch, with an efficiency comparable to that of an excavator.

Wen Zheng's eyes lit up, and he suddenly had a whimsical idea: could he use this wild boar to reduce his work?

Since he thought of it, he tried it. Wen Zheng found the thickest branch from the pile of wood outside the cave, which was thicker than his arm.

He dragged the stick to the middle of the farmland, smashed the wood into the ground with a stone, and then moved the wild boar here and tied it up, using a long rope this time.

All the plants in the farmland were burned clean. Wen Zheng cut some fresh wild grass and put it on the ground relatively close to watch the performance of the wild boar.

The wild boar made a wheezing sound, and while eating the wild grass on the ground, it really dug up the surrounding ground! Wen Zheng looked at the wild boar with an especially enthusiastic look. He could work as a laborer in the fields and also be slaughtered and eaten. Why hadn't he thought of it before?

After discovering a new way to cultivate the land, Wen Zheng watched the wild boar's movements with a smile on his face. Needless to say, the wild boar looked much cuter this way.

Seeing that the newly released wild grass was about to be eaten up, Wen Zheng took a bamboo knife to cut the grass again, and began to think about other wild boars.

That day, the little wild boar lived a hardworking life. He was tied up every day and worked hard to dig the ground to get food into his mouth.

Wen Zheng was also afraid of tiring himself too much. In addition to various green grasses, he would also sprinkle some banana kings, clam meat and the like on the ground, which were more popular with omnivores like wild boars than green grass.

However, not all wild boars have fangs. Even if there are species with fangs, the ones with long fangs are male wild boars. The teeth of female wild boars are relatively short and are usually wrapped in their lips.

The wild boar that Wen Zheng caught was probably a female wild boar. It used its mouth to dig the ground, but it didn't dig too deep.

If the wild boar leader could be caught, the effect of tilling the soil would be better.

After confirming that the wild boar cub could not break free from the rope, Wen Zheng went to the mountains and forests to set traps for the next few days. He also put some sweet fruits and banana slices as bait at the location where the wild boar was caught on the first day.

Three days later, Wen Zheng caught the second one, which was also a female wild boar cub.

It seemed that he found that the wild boar cub was missing. Wen Zheng hid in the distance and observed that the large wild boars became more cautious. The remaining wild boars did not leave the team honestly, and there was no harvest in the next few days.

The two wild boar cubs first dug the ground several times, and Wen Zheng used a wooden plow to deep plow, and the work suddenly became much easier.

It took a total of five days to reclaim the two wastelands.

Wen Zheng stood at the edge of the field and pinched a piece of soil with his hand. There were no large clods of soil on the ground.

And those small clods of soil turned into powder with a light pinch of his hand and leaked through the gaps between his fingers.

Wen Zheng took out all the seeds in the drift bottle, and two different seeds were placed in two bamboo tubes.

Some time ago, Wen Zheng tried soaking them in water, and took out soil particles from each seed for experiment. In the end, all the two soil particles successfully germinated.

Of course, Wen Zheng did not discard the two soil particles. He dug a few holes outside the cave and sprinkled the seeds.

Now, several days have passed since the sowing. Wen Zheng found some tender sprouts in the field where the seeds were sown. He didn't know whether they were sprouts of crops or weeds.

Wen Zheng would rather believe that those were crops that grew successfully, which would give him more confidence.

Of the two types of seeds, barley can be sown directly on dry land, and as for rice, it is usually rice that needs to be planted in paddy fields, but in fact there is also dry rice that can be planted in dry land.

Wen Zheng was still worried at first. What should I do if there is no fresh water to grow rice? I can't use seawater for irrigation.

When he saw the seeds for the experiment grow seedlings, he finally stopped worrying and decided to plant them in dry land.

Although he wanted to harvest these seeds, it was too difficult to create a paddy field filled with fresh water on a deserted island with plenty of sunshine.

Sprinkle the seeds on the tilled farmland and use a hoe to gently cover the loose soil next to it.

After sowing the seeds on both farmlands, Wen Zheng still had a lot of seeds left.

He planned to keep them and see how the crops grew.