At the same time, Zhang Ran suddenly "remembered" some past events, and some things about Xiaoqinghe appeared clearly in Zhang Ran's mind.

First of all, Qingshui River is a tributary near the water, and Linshui is a tributary of the Wei River (Wei River), and Wei River is a tributary of the river (Yellow River).

Therefore, although this river does not seem to be very big, it will eventually merge into the Yellow River. And according to the original body "Zhang Ran"'s previous memory, there is no doubt that there are fish in this river. Many of the scenes in Zhang Ran's memory are the scenes of "self" catching fish not far downstream of the river.

However, Qingshui River is only five or six meters wide after all, and the flow of the river is limited, so its products are naturally not very rich. According to Zhang Ran’s previous memory, there are some fish and shrimp in the river, but the number is too small compared to the surrounding Ba River, Wu River, Wei River and other major rivers.

This directly caused that there were no fishermen who specialize in fishing in the villages around Qingshui River, which led to the serious lack of fishing experience and necessary fishing tools in the nearby Liting. You can only sigh at the river, and at most you can only use the slack season to go down the river to get a few fish to make a tooth sacrifice!

As the saying goes, "Fishing and shrimping to starve the whole family to death." Although this is just a joke, to some extent, it also reflects the negative effects of obtaining food by low productivity methods.

As for the flow of Xiaoqing River, it cannot even support several fishermen who make a living by fishing, and it is even more impossible to meet the needs of thousands of people in the villages near the coast.

Moreover, since the Chinese civilization entered the farming era, this backward lifestyle, which mainly focuses on fishing, hunting and gathering, has long been abandoned by the intelligent Chinese people. Compared with fishing and hunting that cannot have stable output, the farming civilization that can feed more people is naturally better.

In addition to the heavy tax burden in ancient times, ordinary people were too busy to farm, so they had no extra energy to consider fishing and other things!

So, it’s not that they don’t want to eat fish, but that they are unwilling to spend time or money to make special fishing tools to do such a hugely uncertain thing.

It would be fine if you could catch fish every day, but if you return empty-handed one day, wouldn’t the whole family go hungry? Therefore, although the farming is a little poor, the stability is extremely high, which makes it almost impossible to see anyone casting nets around Qingshui River to catch fish.

However, this gave Zhang Ran more hope. Because there was not much artificial fishing, with the flow of Qingshui River four or five meters wide, there must be a lot of fish in the river.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but touch his chin and said thoughtfully: "As long as there are fish in the river, with my ability and many experiences from later generations, I will definitely be able to catch a few to satisfy my cravings!"

After putting aside some distractions, Zhang Ran began to seriously think about how to successfully catch these cunning fish. Combined with some of his later knowledge, Zhang Ran knew that there were actually many ways to fish in the wild, whether it was casting nets, fishing around the beach, fishing, fishing with spear, or even setting up fishing traps, etc., which could actually achieve the goal.

However, considering the limitations of his own conditions and the natural environment of Qingshui River, Zhang Ran first ruled out the method of casting nets and surrounding the beach.

The reason why the two most efficient methods are eliminated first is that Zhang Ran’s family is too poor. In his current situation, he obviously cannot afford a fishing net. Moreover, Zhang Ran’s health is too poor now, and it is too dangerous and difficult to surround the beach in Qingshui River, which is waist-deep. These two methods are obviously not suitable for Zhang Ran.

In desperation, Zhang Ran could only consider the remaining methods. After thinking about it, Zhang Ran finally decided to use the simplest and most practical trap fishing method.

Although whether this method can catch fish depends on personal luck, at least Zhang Ran doesn't have to risk his life to go down the river. Moreover, trap fishing is also one of the most relaxed fishing methods, and does not need to take up too much time and energy for Zhang Ran himself. Just get the trap and wait for it with peace of mind.

After making up his mind, Zhang Ran turned around and returned to his sister Zhang Suier and said to her: "Let's go, let's go back first, get some things, and try it back later to see if you can catch the fish!"

After saying that, Zhang Ran pulled his confused sister back to the big willow tree, picked up the pottery jar used to hold water, and returned along the direction of the time he came.

After returning to the ridges near his own fields, Zhang Ran found the hoe used to weed and the basket for grass that he brought in the morning. With these only two things, Zhang Ran brought his increasingly confused sister Zhang Sui'er to the river again.

Influenced by the survival videos that were popular among major online platforms in later generations, Zhang Ran is naturally not unfamiliar with the essential skills of creating fishing traps in the wild, and also has a little understanding of how to create fishing traps and their production principles.

So Zhang Ran planned to use the only basket in his hand to make a fishing trap similar to a fish cage, and use it to try fishing.

Zhang Ran first walked around the river bank for a few times, found some vines as thick as chopsticks, and pulled off dozens of thin branches from a large willow tree by the river, and then tied the branches with the vines with a thinner vine.

Carrying these things, I returned to the big tree I had before, and then took the basket that had been filled with weeds and started the transformation work.

Since the basket brought by Zhang Ran has no lid, if you want to make the vine basket into something similar to a fish cage, Zhang Ran first has to block the hole on the basket.

To this end, Zhang Ran used strong vines as the skeleton based on the willow branches and vines he picked up, and used willow branches to wove them densely together, sealing the mouth of the basket bit by bit to ensure that once the fish enter the basket, they will not easily escape.

Then, Zhang Ran found a sharp wooden stick nearby and poked four or five big holes in the wall of the basket. Fortunately, the basket at Zhang Ran’s house was woven with fine willow branches, otherwise Zhang Ran would not be able to poke it.

Since the wooden sticks are poked from the outside to the inside, several "inverted eight-shaped" gaps of varying sizes are formed around the basket, which makes it easier for the fish to enter and difficult when it comes out. The principle is similar to the ground cages that have been in the past many years, but they are too simple.

Then, Zhang Ran knitted several strong rattans together and fixed them on the edge of the basket, and tied a stone weighing about three kilograms to the other end of the rattan.

In this way, an extremely simple fishing trap modified from a basket was ready.
Chapter completed!