The sun rises and the moon sets, and time flies by. Before you know it, Jin Feng, Bei Qianxun, and Tang Xiaobei have been trapped here for almost three months.
When the three of them first arrived, it was still the scorching dog days of summer, but now the mornings and evenings have become cooler, and the nights are still a bit cold.
These three months were the most leisurely three months for Jin Feng after he came to Dakang. Apart from fishing, there was nothing else to do every day.
With nothing to do, Jin Feng cut down some small trees on the island, used the small saw brought on the lifeboat to cut off the branches, and tied the trunks with rattan to make a raft.
Jin Feng is not the type to sit back and wait for death. He would not mind if he came to the island voluntarily to escape from the world, but if he was plotted and ended up on the island, he must go back and find out.
The biggest reason why he ended up on the island was that the lifeboat had no anchor.
When the west wind blows, even if the sail is furled, the boat will still be blown eastward by the wind.
Another point is that the emergency supplies on the lifeboat were almost exhausted at that time. If they continued to drift on the sea, they would probably starve to death.
Jin Feng planned to collect as much supplies as possible during his stay on the island, and then made two rafts to carry the supplies.
He was also preparing to make another anchor out of stones and rattan. Once the anchor was ready, they could set off again.
Bei Qianxun and Tang Xiaobei have not been idle these past few months.
Kita Qianhiro collected a lot of rattan, first soaked it in sea water, and then extracted the coarse fiber and used it to make fishing nets.
At the same time, she had to keep a lookout from a high place to prevent search and rescue ships from passing by without them noticing.
Tang Xiaobei's job is fishing.
The dry food on the lifeboat had long been eaten up. Apart from a few pear trees, there was also a patch of millet on the island. It might have been grown by the people who lived in the stone houses. However, no one had taken care of it for so many years, and the millet was almost buried by weeds.
The ears of grain are pitifully small.
Moreover, when Jin Feng and others went to the island, the millet had already passed the maturity stage, and most of the millet had fallen off automatically. Bei Qianxun and Tang Xiaobei went to pick one by one. It took them a long time to collect less than five kilograms of millet.
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How can five pounds of millet be enough for three people?
What's more, Jin Feng couldn't guarantee that he would be able to leave this year. To be on the safe side, the three of them decided to keep the millet after discussion. If they didn't go back next year, the millet would be the seeds.
Fortunately, Tang Xiaobei found small fish on the rocky beach on the north side of the island, which can be used as bait for fishing.
However, there are too many uncertain factors in fishing. Sometimes you are lucky and can catch dozens of kilograms in a day, and sometimes you are unlucky and you can’t catch even one fish for several days.
None of the three knew how to dry fish in the summer. Sometimes Tang Xiaobei fished too much and the three of them couldn't finish the food, so they could only watch it stink.
Therefore, in the first month, the three of them were often full for one day and hungry for two days.
Later, Jin Feng felt that continuing like this was not an option, so he dug a puddle near the rocky beach, and then dug a small canal to bring in seawater during high tide.
After that, if Tang Xiaobei catches more fish than three people can eat, Jin Feng will eat the big fish and put the small fish in the fish pond to raise.
That is to say, after having the fish pond, the lives of the three finally became a little more stable, and they would not be constantly hungry.
It was the same day as usual. Jin Feng was cutting trees and building rafts at the foot of the hillside, Tang Xiaobei was fishing on the rocky beach not far away, and Bei Qianxun was weaving fishing nets high up, looking up from time to time to look around.
This situation has been going on for several months, and Kita Chihiro no longer has much hope.
Raising your head is just a subconscious action.
When she looked up again, she found a white wave appearing on the horizon.
"Sir, Xiaobei, look what's over there?"
Kita Qianxun asked, pointing into the distance.
Jin Feng thought Bei Qianxun had discovered the search and rescue ship, so he quickly dropped the engineer shovel in his hand and ran to the high ground.
Tang Xiaobei also quickly tied the fishing rod to the stone.
In recent months, Tang Xiaobei's main job has been fishing.
Any interest will soon lose its fun once it becomes work.
On the way to the East China Sea, Tang Xiaobei couldn't wait to fish all day long. During her time on the island, she was completely satisfied.
She fishes at the beach for at least eight hours every day, and now she feels like vomiting when she sees the fishing rod.
But there was no way, the three of them had to rely on her fishing for a living, so she could only keep fishing.
If the search and rescue ship is found, this boring life of fishing every day can be ended.
Thinking of this, Tang Xiaobei ran up to the high ground in a hurry.
But to her disappointment, there were no ships in the direction Kitakihiro pointed, only waves.
"Qianxun, it's just a wave, what's the fuss about?"
Tang Xiaobei was a little disappointed.
"There is no wind now, and there are no rocks over there. How can waves appear out of thin air?" Kita Qianxun said, "There must be something going on."
"That's not waves, it's a tide of fish!" Jin Feng put down the telescope and said excitedly: "Qianxun, Xiaobei, prepare your fishing nets quickly, we are going to make a fortune!"
Migratory birds and many animals on land migrate during certain seasons, and many fish in the ocean also migrate with ocean currents.
Whenever this time is the harvest season for fishermen.
“What is a fish tide?”
Tang Xiaobei asked in confusion.
"Stop asking, go and prepare the fishing net. You will know later."
Jin Feng said as he ran down the mountain.
Although Kita Chihiro didn't understand what the fish tide was, she could see that Jin Feng wasn't talking nonsense, so she used her body skills to jump down from the high ground and arrived at the hut before Jin Feng.
Now the hut has been divided into three rooms, one of which is specially used for storing sundries.
In fact, they don't have many sundries. The most abundant things in this hut are the various fishing nets that Kita Chihiro has made over the past few months.
There are those with big eyes and those with small eyes.
Jin Feng picked up a roll of fishing net and ran away.
Without saying a word, Bei Qianxun picked up a roll of fishing net with one hand and ran to the beach with Jin Feng.
Tang Xiaobei moved the slowest. By the time she was carrying a roll of fishing net to the beach with difficulty, Jin Feng and Bei Qianxun had already dragged the lifeboat from the beach into the sea.
"Xiaobei, hurry up!"
Bei Qianxun rushed over, picked up Tang Xiaobei and the fishing net, and rushed to the lifeboat.
The three of them took turns paddling and quickly approached the wave.
As the wave got closer and closer, Tang Xiaobei could see it more and more clearly.
She finally knew what the fish tide meant, and finally understood why Jin Feng said he was getting rich.
The white fish are like waves, with no head visible at a glance, and every wave is a fish.
What is it if it’s not a fish tide?
"Don't be stunned, hurry up and prepare the net!"
While Jin Feng was sorting out the fishing nets, he took the time to knock Tang Xiaobei on the head.
Tang Xiaobei came to his senses and quickly helped organize the fishing nets.
The fish tide was getting closer and closer, Jin Feng propped up the fishing net and threw it into the sea.
In fact, Jin Feng's net-casting action was not standard. Under normal circumstances, he might not have been able to catch a single fish. However, the fish school was so dense at this time that when he closed the net, he still caught a full net.
