Chapter 30, Robinson Crusoe’s Lucky Day Robinson Crusoe, a native of Yorkshire, England, was born in 1632 and is now forty-two years old.
This year marks the fifteenth year since he left human civilization and landed on an uninhabited island in the Atlantic Ocean.
However, although he lived alone on the island, the tenacious Robinson was not a savage and never gave up on himself.
Even without the encouragement of his supervisor and the burden of his family, in order to survive and to make life on the desert island more comfortable, he would work tirelessly to complete whatever he had to do.
No matter how many times he failed, he would never give up.
Get discouraged and give up.
After the ship ran aground and all the sailors and companions were swept away by the waves, Robinson, the only survivor, first made a raft from the mast of the sunken ship, and transported the food, clothes, guns, ammunition, tools, etc. on the ship to the ship again and again.
On the shore, we set up tents on the edge of the hill and settled down.
Then, he used sharpened wooden stakes to build a fence around the tent, dug a hole behind the tent to live, hunted game for food, drank water from the stream, and overcame the initial difficulties he encountered.
Then, in order to make the cave more like a home, he used simple tools to make tables, chairs and other furniture, used animal skins to make clothes, and even made a foldable umbrella to keep out the rain and sun.
In fact, Robinson did not master so many diverse skills at first, and his craftsmanship could even be said to be very clumsy.
For example, in order to make a long shelf in the cave, it took him forty-two days to make a wooden board.
But after countless failures, he soon became more and more clever.
After initially settling down, he opened up several crop fields on the island, planted barley and rice, made his own wooden mortars, pestles, and sieves, processed flour, and baked rough bread and snacks made from rice and wheat.
Then he discovered a large natural orchard, built a hut and a farm there, and added oranges, lemons, fresh grapes and raisins to his diet.
In addition, in order to make life more convenient, he also made straw baskets and fired pottery.
In order to save precious ammunition, he also tried to capture and tame wild goats and built sheep pens to breed them, thus ensuring the supply of mutton, goat milk, cream and cheese.
During this period, he suffered from malaria and was cured by using tobacco leaves soaked in wine.
We encountered an earthquake, but we rebuilt our "home" after the earthquake.
At the same time, Robinson never gave up looking for a way to leave the island.
He once cut down a big tree and spent nearly half a year building a giant canoe that could seat 24 people.
However, the boat was too big and heavy to be dragged from the land to the sea, so he had to give up all his efforts.
But Robinson was not discouraged and built another boat.
He learned from the previous lessons and opened a canal for it in advance to facilitate the boat to the seaside.
Unfortunately, there were many rapids and dense reefs near this island.
Robinson almost died when he sailed out to sea for the first time, and he almost escaped death before returning to land.
After that, although he would sometimes ride a canoe for recreation, he never dared to go too far from the shore or venture to distant lands, for fear that he would be inadvertently swept away by rapids, strong winds or other accidents.
Or scrape it away, leaving you dead without a burial place.
As a result, his plan to build a boat to escape from the deserted island came to nothing, and he had to continue to live alone on the island with peace of mind.
Just like that, a long time passed by in a flash.
Robinson has lived on the island for fifteen years and has become very accustomed to the way of life in this place.
In the past, when he went hunting or exploring the environment on the island, he would feel miserable when he thought about his situation; when he thought about being trapped in the middle of these woods, valleys and beaches, in the uninhabited wilderness, he felt miserable.
He felt like a prisoner, and the vast sea was the iron bars of the prison, and he would never be released from prison.
Thinking of this, he was always worried.
Even when he was at his most peaceful, this thought would come over him suddenly like a storm, causing him to wring his hands and wail like a child.
Sometimes during labor, this thought would suddenly hit him, forcing him to sit down, sigh, stare at the ground, and not move for an hour or two, but it would be even more painful because, if he If you can cry or vent it in words, the distress will pass; after venting the sorrow, you will feel better.
If the situation continues like this, Mr.
Robinson may soon lose his mind and have a mental breakdown, but fortunately, as a Christian, he still has the Bible as his final spiritual comfort.
I don’t know when.
Robinson reads the Bible every day and finds comfort in relating what he reads to his current situation.
Then, he began to learn to look more at the bright side of his life and less at the dark side of life; to think more about the enjoyment he had received and less about the things he lacked.
Then, he realized how lucky he was.
Imagine that without God's blessing, he would have been buried at the bottom of the sea with his companions a long time ago, instead of living a life of food and clothing on this desert island.
Next, what if he does not receive God's blessing and fails to remove anything from the stranded sunken ship?
Without guns and axes, except for turtles and possibly poisonous wild fruits on the beach, he will Couldn't find any other food.
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Even if you don't starve to death, you will definitely have to live like a savage.
Even if you try to kill a goat or a bird, you can't disembowel it, skin it and cut it into pieces.
You can only bite it with your teeth like a wild beast. , tore it off with his claws.
In short, after some thinking, he had a clear understanding of his situation and knew that he was living on this terrible desert island, far away from human habitation, with no hope of rescue.
But once you find out that you can still live, you won't starve to death, and you won't be in danger of turning into a savage.
All his worries disappeared.
He began to live a carefree life again, doing various jobs wholeheartedly to maintain his survival.
With the passage of time, Robinson has greatly improved his living situation compared with the downturn when he first came to the island.
Not only is life comfortable and there is no need to worry about starvation or cold, but the mood also becomes comfortable.
Even the thought of escaping from the desert island gradually faded away.
He wrote in his diary: "How merciful the Creator is to all the creatures He created.
Even if they are in desperate situations, He is still so merciful.
He can turn the suffering fate into sweetness.
Even if we are in prison, we must praise Him as my When I first came to this wilderness, I thought I would starve to death; but now, what a rich feast is in front of me.
I have never used any tools in my life.
However, over time, using my labor, diligence and inventive talents, I gradually discovered that I can do anything.
It can be done.
I read the Bible often and put it into practice seriously.
Coupled with God's grace on me, I gained a new understanding that I never had before.
The world is far away to me; I have no connection with it or any expectations of it.
It can be said that I have no desire in this world.
In short, I have nothing to do with the world anymore, and I will never have anything to do with it again.
So I see the world as we see it after we leave this world: This is where I once lived, but now am no longer here.
Everything I have is enough for me to enjoy.
I am the owner of this territory.
If I want, I can make the king and emperor of this land that I occupy.
I have no enemies or competitors to compete with me for power.
I can produce a whole boatload of food, but that's of no use to me.
I just need to produce enough food for me to eat.
I have a lot of turtles, but I only need to eat one or two occasionally.
I have enough wood to build a fleet of ships.
I have enough grapes to make wine or raisins, and when I have a fleet of ships I can fill every ship.
I can only use those things that work for me.
I have enough to eat, what else do I want?
If there is too much food, it will be eaten by dogs or insects; if there is too much food, it will become moldy if it is not eaten; if the trees are cut down and not used, they will lie there.
It will rot on the ground and have no use except as firewood for cooking food.
In short, knowledge and experience have made me understand that everything in the world is most valuable only when it is useful.
If you accumulate a lot of anything, you should give it to others; the most we can enjoy is the part we can use, and more is useless.
Even the most greedy, penniless money slave in the world, in my current position, would be cured of his greediness, because I am so rich now that I simply don’t know what to do with my wealth.
I no longer have any greedy desires in my heart.
I would rather spend the rest of my life here until the last moment of my life, just like my old dog.
The only thing I lack is that there is no one to associate with.
I lack nothing else."
Living on an island far away from the crowd and isolated from the world, Robinson eventually became a hermit who believed in God.
Since ancient times, human beings have been social creatures.
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When a human being has to be isolated from the world for some reason, he will naturally try to imagine that some supernatural force is protecting him and taking care of him, so as to avoid The shepherds in the remote wilderness whose minds were destroyed by the terrible loneliness believe in God far more than the urban residents.
The Tibetans on the plateau believe in the Buddha surprisingly devoutly.
It is all for this reason.
Loneliness and turmoil are excellent catalysts for the rise of religion.
If the isolation of this isolated island from the world continues, Robinson may really be like those "sitting" hermits and prophets, calmly ending his life in the midst of his understanding of life and praise to God. life.
However, at this moment, his life changed.
As mentioned before, Robinson built a small boat on the island, but due to the lack of suitable wood in the seaside cave, the boat was not located in his seaside cave, but anchored at the other end of the island.
He tried several times to bring the boat over, but was frightened back by the rapids and wind and waves.
So every time he went to sea for recreation or fishing, he had to travel long distances to the boat docking place.
However, one day at noon in the fifteenth year after he landed on the desert island, Robinson was walking along the beach to the other end of the island to see his ship, when he suddenly found a person's footprints on the beach: that was a Barefoot footprints are clearly imprinted on the beach This frightened Robinson.
He had lived on this island for fifteen years, but he had never seen a human being.
So, looking at the footprints, he stood there blankly, as if he had been hit by a bolt from the blue, or as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
He first listened carefully and then looked around, but he heard nothing and saw nothing.
Then I ran to the high ground, looked into the distance, and ran back and forth to the beach several times, but still to no avail.
He ran to the footprints to see if it was his imagination.
However, a footprint is a footprint, and there is just one, there is no doubt about it.
The toes and heels are a complete footprint.
But how did this footprints stay here?
Robinson had no way of knowing, and there was no way to guess.
This made him upset, like a mentally disturbed person, his mind was full of random thoughts, and then he ran to his cave on the seaside, running all the way without his feet touching the ground, but he was extremely frightened, and he ran three steps at a time.
He turned around to see if anyone was catching up behind him.
Even a clump of small trees or a dead tree trunk in the distance would make him suspicious, thinking it was a human being.
Along the way, he was really frightened, and all kinds of hallucinations appeared in his mind.
In the hallucinations, all kinds of absurd ideas and countless bizarre delusions appeared, which are simply difficult to describe.
Finally, Robinson got into his cave under the cliff by the sea.
It seemed as if someone was really chasing him.
He was extremely frightened.
A frightened hare escaped into his hay nest, and a fox escaped into the cave.
There was no one in his own crypt who was as worried and uneasy as he was.
So much so that he was so frightened that he trembled all over, as if he had malaria.
Robinson thought about this unexpected discovery for a long time, and he didn't close his eyes all night.
He thought: Since this island has pleasant scenery, rich products, and is not far from the American continent, it cannot be as he imagined before.
That way, it has never been left untouched since ancient times.
Although there are no residents on the island, it is entirely possible for ships from the opposite mainland to come to the island from time to time.
So, does this footprint mean that someone has invaded his island?
Are they European sailors in distress or nearby American natives?
Have they discovered their boats and farms?
Will they come to attack this place and take away all his grain?
Destroyed and robbed all his tame goats, he finally had to starve to death until the morning sun rose again.
Due to excessive thinking and mental exhaustion, he fell asleep.
Alas, the unpredictable fate makes life seem so bizarre.
Under different circumstances, how unpredictable are people's feelings?
What some people love today is often what they will hate tomorrow; what they pursue today , is often what we will avoid tomorrow; what we hope for today is often what we will be afraid of tomorrow, and even make us tremble with fear.
And now Robinson is a vivid example.
In the past, he felt that his greatest pain was being abandoned by human society, being alone, surrounded by the ocean, isolated from the world, being demoted and living a lonely life.
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It was as if God had decided that he was not good enough to associate with human beings or interact with other people.
He felt at that time that if he could see someone, it would be no less than coming back from the dead to him.
It would be the greatest happiness that God could give him.
This happiness was second only to God's forgiveness of his sins in the world.
His sins brought him to heaven.
But now, whenever he suspected that he might see someone, he would shudder; whenever he saw a human figure, and saw someone's footprints lying silently on the island, he wished there was a hole in the ground for him to Drill down, maybe this is the so-called "island syndrome" He would just speculate and think wildly, become suspicious, and then reflect and meditate.
Suddenly one day, Mr.
Robinson's mind opened up and he felt that maybe all this was his imagination.
That footprint may have been left on the beach by himself when he disembarked from the boat.
This idea made Robinson a little happy, and he felt more settled than ever before, and tried his best to convince himself that it was indeed his hallucination, and that it was just the footprints he left.
Because, since he can get on the boat from there, he can also get off the boat and go ashore from there.
What's more, he himself couldn't determine where he had walked and where he had never walked.
If it turns out that they are just his own footprints, wouldn't he become a big fool, like those fools who make up horror stories about ghosts and ghosts, but instead of frightening others, they frighten themselves.
Next, Robinson plucked up the courage and wanted to go outside to see.
He had not left the cave for three days and three nights.
The family was running out of food and only had some barley cakes and water.
In addition, the goats in the sheepfold should also be fed and milked.
This work has always been his pastime in the evening.
Please imagine this based on the previous experience of A Xu's classmate.
It is said that there was a time in ancient Britain.
Quite common.
Even so, on the way to feed the goats and milk the goats, Robinson was still always worried.
He looked back behind him every step of the way, always ready to drop the basket and run for his life.
However, he ran to the sheepfold for two or three days in a row and saw nothing, so he became a little more courageous and thought that maybe nothing special happened this year, it was all his imagination.
But he still couldn't convince himself that what he saw on that beach must be his own footprints, unless he went to the beach again to see the footprints in person and compare them with his own feet.
Is it the same size?
Only in this way can he truly feel at ease.
Therefore, after a lot of fighting between heaven and man in his heart, Robinson finally put on his flintlock gun, carefully left his cave under the seaside cliff, and walked along the old road again.
I was deeply shocked: What did he see on the beach where human footprints had been found a few days ago?
one person a caucasian woman A dark-haired Caucasian woman A beautiful brunette caucasian woman A beautiful black-haired white woman naked from head to toe, like Eve in the Garden of Eden.
As a result, Robinson suddenly felt a stream of heat rushing from his crotch to his temples, and his mind seemed to explode with a "buzz" oshow7: