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Chapter 136 Summer Harvest



As we enter the end of April, the weather slowly undergoes some different changes.

The rainstorms have become much less frequent, only occurring every two or three days, and the rains are relatively brief and concentrated. The rainfall is not as fierce as it was in April, and it seems to have entered a relatively stable state.

This may be related to atmospheric circulation.

At the beginning of summer, it is the time when hot and cold air meet strongly here, so there is abundant rainfall. As the cold air is completely dissipated, the rain moves further to the northwest.

Although it was just his speculation, the changes in the river seemed to confirm this conclusion.

At the end of April, the river water in the valley no longer fluctuates between high and low, and the water volume has subsided a lot. It has entered a relatively abundant but stable period of the year. Hunters can already wade out of the valley mouth to reach the big river beach.

At this time, Dahe had completely changed its appearance, completely different from the situation he saw twice in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The turbid flood tide leveled both sides of the river, almost completely submerging the vast riverbank where wild animals usually feed. In many places, it even submerged directly to the foot of the mountain. The road leading to the Uzu has been completely cut off.

In the rushing river, from time to time you can see huge trees floating down the river, and you can even see many drowned beasts drifting with the current and being swept away to the southeast by the flood.

Xu Chen stood at the mouth of the valley, watching the formerly peaceful and peaceful river turn into such a violent appearance, and couldn't help but feel a chill.

It's not that he has never seen big rivers. He has seen the Yangtze River, Yellow River, and Pearl River during the flood season. He has also seen floods. But the current water volume of this river is definitely not smaller than that of the Yangtze River. The turbid waves are mighty.

The water rushes down, roaring like thunder under the strong sunlight, and the sound shakes the world.

Looking at the large trees and animal carcasses floating in the water as if they were on a field, he could imagine what kind of catastrophe the upstream was experiencing under the horrific heavy rain.

The river beach outside the valley where the Uighur people live downstream is estimated to have been flooded.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but make a big move.

If you don't know, if you really build a city there, it will probably be razed to the ground overnight.

At the same time, he also began to understand why the primitive people of this era liked to live on the mountainside.

It is not mainly to prevent wild beasts and insects and snakes, but mainly for safety.

The climate of this era was completely different from the era he knew, far beyond what humans could change and resist.

He even had some faint fears. He built a house at the foot of the mountain before he understood the situation. Fortunately, the valley was small and the river flow in it was not large. Otherwise, he was afraid that the house would collapse this time and he would have to move back to the mountain to sleep in a cave and become a savage.

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Floods like this are just the norm.

He shuddered even more when he thought about the legend of floods that destroyed the world in the history of the earth.

Because the water in the big river surged, the water in the small river looked extremely clear and calm.

The intersection of the two rivers forms a clear dividing line.

A large number of fish enter the small river from the big river, thus attracting countless wild birds.

Therefore, at the mouth of the river, what you can see is a scene of thousands of birds flying in the sky in search of food.

Wild ducks, wild geese, swans, cormorants, white cranes, gray storks, herons, long-legged and short-legged, sharp-billed and flat-billed, thousands of colorful birds gathered together, overwhelming and breathtaking.

And even higher in the sky, there are hundreds of goshawks circling.

This is a paradise for common animals and plants, and even more so for birds.

There are countless species of wild birds that live here, and their numbers are even more immeasurable.

Xu Chen's mouth overflowed when he saw it.

But all I can do is look at the ocean and sigh.

The water is too big to get close to.

Besides, he didn't plan to catch birds today.

Yesterday, Feng waited for a group of hunters to come for fishing and hunting, and brought back a kind of grape-like berry, which tasted very good. He heard that it was in the low jungle near the foot of the mountain outside the river mouth, so he planned to come and see if he could pick more.

go back.

All the vine fruit wine brewed in the autumn and winter last year has been eaten. The tribe members never forget it, and he also never forgets it.

Now is the time when a large number of berries are ripe. If we can successfully brew another fruit wine, it will greatly improve the quality of life.

I'm used to having a few sips of fruit wine every day, but when it suddenly stops, I always feel it tastes bad.

Several hunters began to set nets at the mouth of the river to catch fish.

Xu Chen followed Feng and the three men to search among the trees.

Among the thick weeds and thorns, there were piles of snakes, rats, insects and ants, all driven up from the riverbank by the rising water.

The increase in insects and snakes has also attracted a large number of carnivores, such as weasels, ferrets, minks, badgers, foxes, leopards, lynxes, and a large number of unknown small animals, which are among the grass, thorns and woods.

Running and fighting, there were occasionally many predatory birds. Sometimes they swooped down from the big trees, picked up snakes, rats or small animals and flew away in the air.

Xu Chen followed four hunters holding bows, arrows and spears, constantly disturbing the thorns and weeds, listening to the popping sounds of strings coming from all directions, and carefully searching in the jungle.

"There's Ga here!"

The hunter exploring the path in front stopped with a face full of joy and pointed with his spear at a clump of vines wrapped around thorns not far in front of him.

Xu Chen went up to take a look, and sure enough, there were clusters of grape-like fruits growing on the dense leaves and vines.

This kind of fruit is not a grape, because there are no grape-like seeds in it. Instead, it looks a bit like an oversized wolfberry or a miniaturized tomato. It is about the size of half a finger and has colors ranging from green, yellow, red, and purple. The green one is very sour.

Yellow is slightly sour, red is ripe, and purple is completely ripe.

Many birds were pecking on it, and when they saw people coming, they all flew away with a huff and a puff.

Several people approached the vines and picked some nearby. They picked them off and ate them first, and then started to put them into the baskets they brought.

There are very few purple ones, and most of them have been eaten by birds, or fallen directly into the grass and are no longer edible. Therefore, Xu Chen reminds you to pick red fruits as much as possible, and don't pick yellow ones yet.

This kind of wild fruit that has not been domesticated basically has no fixed ripening time.

Some of the vines are still blooming and some are already mature, so picking them is a bit troublesome.

In fact, what is more troublesome is that this kind of vine climbs on the thorn bushes. There are overgrown weeds below, and there are thorns everywhere on the top. There is almost no place to stand. You can only use some forked branches to hook it down and pick it slowly.

The only thing that made Xu Chen more satisfied was that there seemed to be a lot of these fruits along the river at the foot of the mountain. He saw two more places not far away, and the vines seemed to be larger in size.

The advantage of having fewer people is that you can find delicious food without anyone trying to compete with you.

Xu Chen remembered that every time he found some edible wild fruits when he was a child, he basically snatched them all up in one go.

A few hours passed by while picking and eating, and at about four o'clock in the afternoon, several people picked two full baskets and came out with purple-red juice in their mouths, like a group of vampires who had sucked blood.

Savage and terrifying.

The few hunters who fished also had a good harvest, carrying several heavy baskets of fish and shrimps, which looked like they weighed seventy or eighty kilograms.

Summer and autumn are the seasons when food is most abundant.

Especially now in the middle of summer.

After the rivers and rivers have swollen, wading into the water with many fish can knock people over, but if you don't have the right tools, it's not easy to catch them.

However, since Xu Chen invented the fishing net, fish has gradually become the most stable source of meat. It can be caught in spring, summer, autumn and winter, it just depends on the quantity.

Now is the golden time for fishing.

Almost every net fails.

Xu Chen believes that the other five neighboring tribes, including the Uzbek tribe, will also eat a lot of fish this year.

As the saying goes, those who rely on mountains and rivers eat water. At present, the habitats of several tribes rely on both mountains and water, which means that mountains and rivers eat all.

If the sown farmland in the valley can also increase harvests, then the tribe's food will become more and more abundant.

It's a pity that there is no salt. Otherwise, these fish can be slaughtered and pickled and dried to become salted fish, which can be eaten slowly in winter and spring. In addition, some bacon can be smoked, and various fresh and tender wild vegetables can also be pickled and dried to preserve them for a longer period of time.

As the sun set, a group of people returned home with a full load.

After returning home, the women had already started cooking, while the men took out the fish and shrimps, cut them open and cleaned them, and built and mended the nets.

Xu Chen took out the wine jar and took a group of children to clean the rotten fruit and impurities in the wild fruits before crushing them and putting them in. Of course, a group of children also had to have a feast.

In the next few days, Xu Chen followed a group of hunters who went out early and returned late, picking wild fruits at the foot of the mountain beside the river every day.

In fact, there are many kinds of berries at the moment, but this kind is the most abundant. It can be seen everywhere in the jungle at the foot of the mountain near the mouth of the creek, within a radius of two or three miles.

However, because the environment was too harsh, we could only get some in some easy-to-pick places, and we only got five jars in seven or eight days.

In fact, the number picked was much more than Wutan, but Xu Chen was not sure that these berries could actually be made into fruit wine, so after bringing them back every day, the adults and children ate a lot.

In addition, he also made two jars of mixed fruit wine, which were mixed together with different mixed fruits. The effect was even more uncertain, so he could only put them aside and let nature take its course.


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