Chapter 80 Fishing
With the addition of the Muya tribe, brick movers have become more and more sufficient. In order to speed up the construction speed, Xu Chen regrouped and planned all personnel.
The trees cut are divided into two groups, and two people are specially arranged to make stone axes to make up for the consumption of tools.
The stone transporters were also divided into two groups, one group specifically went to the river beach to pick up stones, the other group followed the ancient learning and mud as an auxiliary, and the other was transferring a man who was laying bricks to build the wall.
Pulling mud bricks is the most tiring. Whether it is backing the mud or carrying mud, it is all heavy work. Moreover, the demand for mud bricks is extremely high, so all the arrangements are the strongest men, leaving only one man in the Ba tribe to lead the team.
Anyway, they have to provide food and accommodation, and also give pottery. Xu Chen caught these foreigners and arranged for them to do all the heavy and tiring tasks.
However, he did not take any work to eat or drink. He asked a group of women who cooked to ensure sufficient food supply every day. In order to strengthen nutrition, so as not to exhaust people. The Wu tribe and the Muya tribe were causing trouble for him at that time, he also made a simple fishing net with hemp ropes and rattan wood during rest time and spare time in the evening.
This kind of net is called a sinking net, not the kind of fishing net that spreads open.
The overall structure is like a large net bag.
First tie a square frame with a wooden stick, then tie the knotted net below, look half a meter deep in the center, and fix it with rattan and long wooden poles to make a handle.
When using it, throw some leftover bones or animal stomachs into the net and find a puddle to put it down. It does not need to sink the bottom, but just sink one or two feet to the entrance of the net, and then fix the long pole to a small tree or pile of stones on the shore.
This fixed sinking net is simple to use, far more convenient than casting nets, and it is also in line with the understanding ability and living conditions of a group of primitive people at present.
You just need to find a water hole when you go out to hunt and put it down. When you finish work and get it away, you will generally get some gains. Of course, you can also arrange two people to fish and find a water hole with a lot of fish to put it in the net. If you harvest a few more times a day, you will definitely get more harvests.
However, this is the first time I use it now, and Xu Chen is not very sure. So after doing it, he personally brought the fishing net, Hefeng and the others finished their breakfast and set off to try the pool at the valley entrance.
That pool is the place with the most fish in the valley, with many big fish inside, but bare hands and empty fists basically only sigh. Every time a group of hunters comes and goes, they will sigh at the groups of big fish swimming around inside.
Although the fish is fishy and has many thorns, the fish is rich in nutrients and is very soft and rotten after roasting. Compared with all other raw, cold, dry and hard foods, it is the most suitable food for the elderly, pregnant women and infants.
Especially for pregnant women and babies, when the mother has no milk, she needs to eat fish to replenish it, but it is difficult to get fish. Various tribes often starve to death due to lack of milk in milk. The smaller the tribe, the more likely it is to have this kind of thing.
For large tribes like the Wu tribe with hundreds of people, pregnant women have all year round and collective nurturing advantages, but for small tribes like the Ba tribe with only two or three pregnant women a year and have completely different birth dates, once the baby is born, it is almost a dead end.
Therefore, whenever a pregnant woman gives birth, fishing is a very important job for tribal men.
But fishing is the most difficult of all hunting activities.
Apart from small fish and shrimps, there is nothing to do with slightly larger fish.
There are three pregnant women in the Ba people at present, one of which is estimated to have a childbirth at most two months, and the other two will have a childbirth in the beginning of spring and summer.
And these two months are also the most difficult season to catch fish.
There are no fish in the shallow water, and there are no fish in the deep water.
Therefore, although Feng and others were suspicious of the strange fishing net made by Xu Chen, they were very excited and nervous.
Xu Chen carefully explained the fishing principle of fishing nets to them. Although they didn't understand it very much, they always felt that it was still very powerful.
A group of people carried this big net to the valley entrance.
The water drops further in winter. Most of the pool of water that was full of water has dried up now. After the water recedes, it looks like a concave pot. The sloping shores are filled with stones and pebbles of all sizes. At the waterfall where the mountain walls were hanging down, there is probably a small pool of water about twenty meters in diameter.
Although the water in the river has not yet stopped flowing, there is only a few meters wide river channel left, but the water in the calf is still flowing gurglingly.
The water in the pool is very clear. Standing on the stones on the shore, you can clearly see big black fish gathering at the bottom of the pit, some of which are shaking their heads and tails swimming.
There are some trees around the pool, but now they are a little far away from the pool, and only a lot of ancient vines hang down from the steep cliff on the side.
After Xu Chen arrived, he did not rush to get off the Internet.
This fish pit is his goal.
But if you want to successfully capture, you have to choose a location that is most suitable for downloading and closing the network.
Although big fish are easy to enter this kind of open sunken net, if the net is too slow to close, it will basically be empty according to the fish's agility speed in the water.
His net is aimed at large fish at least one foot, because the mesh is very big.
In this primitive and wilderness era, fish have no natural enemies, each one is bigger than each other.
Small fish are not delicious, only such big fish can be oily and watery.
In this natural and pollution-free primitive era, there must be few bacteria, viruses and parasites in this extremely clear river water. Maybe it is good to fish it out and make it a fish.
Fish-sustaining, actually called raw fish, is a traditional food in ancient China. It has been passed down for a long time. It was not until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that it gradually declined after the development of agricultural civilization, but it never left the Chinese dining table.
Chinese people mainly use freshwater fish, so most of the raw fish are naturally freshwater fish. The way to eat is very simple. Choose fat fish with fewer thorns, peel them, cut them into thin slices and dip them in sauce and eat them raw, which is called golden stew.
Golden ginger is a golden sauce, and the ingredients are nothing more than salt, green onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, mustard, etc. to remove fishy smell and enhance the flavor and improve freshness.
Jade sashimi refers to sashimi.
Xu Chen has eaten salmon sashimi, but has never eaten ordinary freshwater fish sashimi because the pollution is too serious.
The living environments of these fish are different now, maybe you can try it.
Of course, the salt and sauce are gone, and I don’t know if the taste can be swallowed. Perhaps it is also a good choice to dip it in vinegar wine sauce.
"Hiss~"
Although he hadn't caught a fish, Xu Chen had already started drooling.
Feng and a group of hunters couldn't help but follow him and shook his Adam's apple.
They have never eaten such a fat big fish. Given that Xu Chen is good at making various delicacies, the simple grilled river shrimp dipping sauce is extremely delicious, so this big fish is probably more delicious.
Xu Chen wiped his saliva and observed the pool several times, and finally chose the location to be close to the mountain wall. There were just a few ancient vines hanging by the edge of the pool.
Next, we directed a group of people to hang the net with ropes with a few ancient vines to form a lever, and then throw some leftover bones and stomach into the net and slowly sink into the pond.
Because the water in the pond is too clear, the fishing net can be seen clearly after it goes down. In order not to disturb the fish entering the net for food, a group of people temporarily hid behind the stones on the shore to observe.
Perhaps there is too little food in winter, or it may be that the smell of bones and animals' stomachs is full of temptation. Soon after the net sank, many more fish began to swim into the fishing net. After only ten minutes, you can clearly see seven or eight fish inside and more fish swimming around inside and outside the fishing net.
"Closing the net..."
A group of hunters were excited and shaking, and some people were trembling with nervousness.
At this time, everyone no longer doubted that Xu Chen's magical fishing net could catch fish.
Now, as long as the net is fast enough, you can harvest seven or eight big fish.
However, Xu Chen was not in a hurry.
If you are in a ditches and ponds with very turbid water, you will definitely be able to catch a few of them at the moment. However, not only can people see clearly in this kind of clear water, but the fish can see more clearly. As long as you move a little slower, you will run away.
Now the fishing net sinks half a meter deep under the water, and it takes several seconds to lift the net. This little time is enough for the fish to escape dozens of meters in the water.
Therefore, there is one most appropriate saying in fishing: the hand is fast and the hand is slow but not, all depends on the hand speed.
Xu Chen grew up in the countryside and still has some experience in fishing, so he gestured to comfort Feng and waited for others. After five or six minutes, there were more than a dozen fish in the net, and he felt that the time was ripe.
Because the fishing net is so big, there are too many fish entering for food, which has caused the fish in the pool to be disturbed, and many of them have started running out.
"Come on the Internet, hurry up!"
Xu Chen directed Feng and two young and strong men to grab the handle of the net and then issued the order to start the net.
"Crazy~"
Chapter completed!