The girls cheered!

The first power-on was successful. Although the voltage was still a little unstable and the lights were shaking, we successfully turned on the lights through our own efforts. The sense of accomplishment is self-evident. In addition, many lights illuminated the entire space at once, making it transparent and clear, brighter than ever before. The light dispelled the darkness in an instant, which brought us a great shock.

The most important thing is that we generated electricity by ourselves on a deserted island, relying solely on our own knowledge and experience.

Now that the light is on, I can sleep more peacefully at night. Bailu looked at me specially and gave me a thumbs up!

"No one slept last night, so the battery may not have enough power tonight. We may need to stay up all night again. When the battery is fully charged tomorrow night, we can rest assured for the time being. I remember that most of the lamps we took out from the earthen tower were energy-saving lamps. The small one should be about 20W, and the big one about 36W. So, if we turn them all on, it's about 168W, or 0.168 kWh per hour. We can't estimate the charging speed now, but the bearing can rotate 20 to 40 times in one minute, so the charging speed is extremely slow. I estimate that the stored electricity will be just enough for a whole night's consumption by tomorrow night." I said.

"As long as I don't stay up late tomorrow, I don't care about anything else! Can I get some sleep now? I'm so sleepy, you can't torture me like this." Yingchun said.

"Of course you can, but I'd like to trouble everyone to move a bed downstairs. We may only be able to sleep downstairs in the future. We'll try not to have people live upstairs because there aren't enough electrical wires and resources. Please just make do with the conditions." I said.

"Brother Zhou Bo has thought it through carefully. There are many dark spaces upstairs, where scary things may happen easily. There are many bright places downstairs, so those dirty things hiding in the darkness won't attack easily. Besides, winter is approaching, and we'll be able to get through it better with the warm kang downstairs." Bai Lu said.

I smiled and said, "That's what I mean."

So the girls followed me and moved the beds down and placed them near the stove, where there was a blast furnace. It was cold in winter, and lighting a fire could keep them warm.

After staying up all night and working for most of the day, everyone was exhausted. After the beds were moved down, everyone went to lie down and rest. I couldn't stand it either, but I was afraid of oversleeping, so I just lay on the table and took a nap.

After that, we did as I said and stayed up all night, and made up for our sleep the next day. By the evening of the second day, the battery was fully charged, so we could turn on the lights at night, and suddenly it was as bright as day. I tried to fall asleep first, and fortunately, I didn't have any nightmares or bad dreams, so the crisis was temporarily resolved.

Electricity is consumed overnight, but the waterwheel in the yard is constantly turning, so it is storing electricity while consuming it. In addition, we turn off the output button on the battery during the day, so we can save electricity. In this way, the electricity on the third day is relatively sufficient, and the lights can be on all night. In this way, the output and stored electricity are basically equal, and the lights can be turned on at night. The mysterious substance in the darkness cannot invade our consciousness.

If they cannot invade, they cannot create illusions, and then it will not be easy to produce the effect of scaring us to death.

In this way, as long as we are careful, we can basically sleep soundly every night, and those horrible things will come to an end for the time being. Everyone starts to resume their previous daily lives and live our lives in peace. At the same time, we are also fully prepared to spend another winter on the deserted island.

As the saying goes, every autumn rain brings a chill. The days are starting to get colder, and most of our energy begins to shift towards this direction.

For a long time in the future, we have been making various active preparations. When we need to use the canal to irrigate the farmland, we only need to move the channel with a wooden stick, and the water in the waterwheel will flow into the channel and into the farmland. After the irrigation is completed, we can manually move the wooden channel to stop the irrigation. Therefore, watering is particularly convenient.

In addition, there is horse manure and deer manure outside. After Yingchun made the wooden barrel according to my requirements, I looked for fallen leaves and some wheat straw, mixed them together in the wooden barrel, stirred them evenly, and placed them outside the house (to avoid being too smelly) and waited for them to ferment. In about a week, fertilizer can be formed, and then these fertilizers are spread on the soil in the farmland to promote the growth of wheat fields next year.

In addition to the management of the wheat fields, we also cultivated a new batch of mycelium according to last year's method. The cellar is ventilated and kept at a constant temperature, so we can find a lot of wood, chisel holes in them, and put the cultivated mycelium in them, so we can produce more wood ear mushrooms. We have such a cellar this year, so we can put in large quantities, about three or four pieces of wood. After more than 20 days, when the wood ear mushrooms come out, they can be eaten every day for two or three weeks after being dried.

In addition, most of the flax was collected and planted one by one. The remaining flax seeds were pressed into oil and poured into clay jars, which could be eaten in cooking or noodles. The girls did not waste the flax stems, and made flax sheets, even flax carpets, flax tablecloths, and flax pillowcases. They put a lot of hay and bran in the flax pillowcases, which turned into extremely comfortable pillows.

I brought back a large number of jujubes, most of which were dried. They can be used to make soup, eaten dry, used as medicine, and added to flavors. They have many benefits. In addition, the jujube pits were also collected. After drying, they can be filled into pillows to replace hay. Girls love to play with them, and can also string them into bracelets and wear them on weekdays.

Finally, it's my job. Every day I still need to go outside to collect some wild vegetable roots, wild fruits and the like and bring them back. Autumn will pass soon, and once winter comes, all things will wither, and there will be nothing left. So I try to find some food during this time and bring back all the food that can be found. Bai Lu knows a lot, and for a batch of the wild fruits that I brought back, I relied on the cellar and specially brewed wine and hid it in the cellar, so that I can have wild fruit wine to drink next year.

As the days became dull, the girls also started to have their own little ideas. There were three rooms upstairs, and they each occupied one. They even wrote "Plum, Orchid, and Chrysanthemum" with charcoal on the doors of the three rooms as their own rooms. The "Plum" was Yunwen, who seemed to like plum blossoms, so she would sometimes arrange flowers in the room, sometimes daydream, and sometimes sharpen charcoal into points and use them as pencils, and go to the tunnel to get those useless books to draw and record.

The Lan one is Bailu. Her room is filled with all kinds of medicinal herbs, which are full of medicinal fragrance. There are also some herbs she grows herself, which are basically related to those. The Ju one is Yingchun's room. She made cabinets and chairs in it by herself, and she also carves some stones to pass the time. Basically, they are all her works.

As for me, I am a gentleman, a bamboo, but I call myself a gentleman, and I don't have a room. I spend most of my time studying the Golden Palace Sword under the house, and I never slack off in my training, and I never let go of any of my skills. As the saying goes, one must hold on to the green mountains and never let go, and persistence is the spirit of bamboo.

When everyone gets together, they occasionally talk about going home. When they talk about the past of their hometown, they will be silent for a long time. But after the topic, they will cherish everything in the present and be glad that they are still alive.

In the blink of an eye, two months have passed. The cold winter is approaching and the temperature has dropped sharply. Recently, everyone needs to wear animal skins. I wear a flying fish suit cloak to keep warm. The change in weather temperature also makes me alert to one thing.

That night, everyone gathered around the campfire and the horse was brought into the house for fear that it would freeze to death.

"Brother Zhou Bo, you asked us to stay awake and by the campfire. Is there something you want to say?" Bai Lu asked.

"There is something. Winter is coming soon, and the temperature will soon drop below zero. If the spring water freezes, the water wheel will not be able to operate. If the water wheel cannot operate, the stored electricity will not be enough, and then we won't be able to turn on the lights all night. Do you have any solution?" I asked uneasily.