With the addition of the Muya clan, there were more brick-moving workers. In order to speed up the construction, Xu Chen regrouped and planned all the personnel.
Those who cut down trees were divided into two groups, and two people were specially assigned to make stone axes to make up for the consumption of tools.
The stone movers were also divided into two groups. One group went to the river beach to pick up stones, and the other group learned to knead mud from Gu as an assistant. The other group transferred a man who was laying out bricks to build the footing of the wall.
Rolling out mud bricks is the most tiring job. Whether it is carrying soil, stepping on the mud or carrying mud, it is all heavy work, and the demand for mud bricks is huge, so all the strongest men are arranged, leaving only one man from the Ba ethnic group to lead the team.
Anyway, they were provided with food, shelter, and pottery. Xu Chen caught these foreigners very hard and arranged for them to do all the heavy and tiring work.
However, work is work, and he did not skimp on food and drink. He asked a group of women to cook to ensure a sufficient supply of food every day. In order to enhance nutrition and avoid exhausting people to death, the Wu and Muya tribes would find
He was so troublesome that he used his rest time and free evenings to make a simple fishing net out of hemp rope and rattan wood.
This kind of net is called a sinking net, not the kind of fishing net that is spread out.
The overall structure is like a big net bag.
First tie a square frame with wooden sticks, and then tie the knotted net underneath, with the center recessed half a meter deep. The top is fixed with rattan and long wooden poles to make a handle.
When using it, just throw some leftover bones or animal intestines into the net, find a puddle and put it down. You don't need to sink it to the bottom, but just sink the mouth of the net a foot or two, and then put the long pole
Just fix it on a small tree or pile of rocks on the shore.
This fixed sinking net is simple to use, far more convenient than casting a net, and it is also in line with the understanding and living conditions of a group of primitive people today.
You just need to find a puddle to put it down when you go out hunting, and put it away when you get home. Generally speaking, you will get some harvest. Of course, you can also arrange for two people to fish and look for puddles with many fish to set the net.
If you harvest more times a day, you will definitely gain more.
However, it was still the first time to use it, and Xu Chen was not too sure, so after finishing it, he personally brought the fishing net, and Hefeng and the others set off after breakfast to try the water pool at the mouth of the valley.
That pool is the place with the most fish in the valley, and there are a lot of big fish in it, but with bare hands you can basically just stare at the ocean and sigh. On weekdays, a group of hunters will stare at the big fish swimming in groups and sigh every time they come and go.
Although fish meat is light fishy and has many thorns, it is rich in nutrients and is very soft after being grilled. Compared with all other raw, cold, dry and hard foods, it is the most suitable food for the elderly, pregnant women and infants.
Especially pregnant women and babies. When the mother has no milk, she needs to eat fish to supplement it, but fish is difficult to get. In various tribes, babies starve to death due to lack of milk from mothers. The smaller the tribe, the more likely it is to happen.
This kind of thing.
For a large tribe like the Uu ethnic group with hundreds of people, pregnant women are available all year round, so collective feeding has great advantages, but for small groups like the Ba ethnic group, there are only two or three pregnant women a year, and the delivery dates are completely different.
For tribes, once a baby is born without milk, 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.
Except for small fish and shrimps, there is nothing that can be done about slightly larger fish.
There are three pregnant women among the lower-class people right now, one of whom is expected to give birth in two months at most, and the other two will give birth around the beginning of spring and summer.
These two months also happen to be the most difficult seasons for fishing.
There are no fish in the shallow water, and you can’t get them in the deep water.
Therefore, although Feng and others were skeptical about the strange fishing net made by Xu Chen, they were also very excited and nervous.
Xu Chen carefully explained to them the fishing principles of fishing nets. Although they didn't understand much, they still felt it was very powerful.
A group of people carried the big net to the entrance of the valley.
The water dropped further in winter. Most of the pool that was full at first has dried up. After the water receded, it looked like a sunken pot. The sloping shore was filled with large and small stones and pebbles. But at the beginning, it looked like a sunken pot.
Where the waterfall hangs down from the mountain wall, there is a small pool about twenty meters in diameter.
Although the water in the small river has not stopped flowing, it is only a few meters wide, and the water is still flowing gurglingly up to the calf.
The water in the pool is very clear. Standing on the rocks on the shore, you can clearly see the large fish gathering at the bottom of the pit, and some of them are swimming with their heads and tails wagging.
There are some trees around the pool, but they are all far away from the pool at the moment. There are only many ancient vines hanging down from the steep cliffs on the sides.
After Xu Chen arrived, he was not in a hurry to get off the net.
This trap is his target.
But if you want to capture successfully, you have to choose a location that is most suitable for lowering and closing the net.
Although it is easy for big fish to enter this kind of open sinking net, if the net is closed too slowly, it will basically be empty based on the agility of the fish in the water.
His net is aimed at big fish that are at least one foot tall because the mesh is very large.
In this primitive and barbaric era, fish had no natural enemies and each fish was bigger than the last.
Small fish are not tasty, only big fish like this are oily and watery enough.
And in this natural and pollution-free primitive era, the fish in this extremely clear river water must have very few bacteria, viruses and parasites. Maybe it would be good to catch them and make fish.
Yusheng, actually called raw fish, is a traditional food in ancient China. It has been passed down for a long time. It gradually declined with the development of agricultural civilization during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it has never left the Chinese dining table.
Chinese people mainly eat freshwater fish, so naturally most of the fish are freshwater fish. The way to eat it is very simple. Choose fatty fish with few spines, peel them and cut them into thin slices and eat them raw with dipping sauce. It is called golden fish and jade fish.
Jinyu is a kind of golden sauce. The ingredients are nothing more than salt, onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, mustard and other seasonings to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor.
Yuyu refers to sashimi.
Xu Chen has eaten salmon sashimi before, but not ordinary freshwater fish sashimi because the pollution is too serious.
Now these fish live in a different environment, maybe you can give it a try.
Of course, there is no salt and sauce, and I don’t know if the taste is palatable. Maybe eating it with vine fruit wine sauce is also a good choice.
"Hiss~"
Although he hasn't caught a fish yet, Xu Chen has already started drooling.
Feng and a group of other hunters couldn't help but shrug their Adam's apples along with them.
They have never eaten such a fat fish. Since Xu Chen is good at making various delicacies, and simple grilled river shrimps with dipping sauce are delicious, this kind of big fish will be even more enjoyable to eat.
Xu Chen wiped his saliva and walked back and forth around the pool to observe several times, and finally chose a location against the mountain wall, where there happened to be a few ancient vines hanging down from the edge of the pool.
The next step is to instruct a group of people to use a few ancient vines to hang the fishing net with ropes to form a lever, and then throw the prepared leftover bones and intestines into the net and slowly sink it into the pool.
Because the water in the pond is so clear, you can see clearly after the fishing net is lowered. In order not to disturb the fish entering the net to look for food, a group of people temporarily hid behind the rocks on the shore to observe.
Maybe it was because there was too little food in winter, or maybe the smell of bones and animal intestines was so tempting. Not long after the net sank, I saw many more fish beginning to swim into the net. It only took about ten minutes, and you could clearly see inside.
There were already seven or eight fish, and there were more fish swimming inside and outside the fishing net.
"Close the net, quack..."
A group of hunters were swaying excitedly, and some were so nervous that their hands and feet were trembling.
At this time, no one doubted that Xu Chen's magical fishing net could catch fish.
Right now, as long as the net is raised fast enough, seven or eight big fish can be harvested.
But Xu Chen was not in a hurry.
If you are in a ditch and pond with very turbid water, you will definitely be able to catch a few fish if you set up the net now, but in this kind of clear water, not only people can see clearly, but the fish can see even more clearly. As long as you move a little slower, they will all disappear.
The fishing net is currently sinking half a meter into the water. It takes several seconds to lift the net up. This time is enough for the fish to escape dozens of meters into the water.
Therefore, the most appropriate saying for fishing is: there are fast hands and slow hands, but it all depends on hand speed.
Xu Chen grew up in the countryside and had some experience in fishing, so he gestured to appease Feng and others and continued to wait. After another five or six minutes, there were already more than ten fish in the net, and he also felt that the time was ripe.
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Because the fishing net is so big, too many fish enter and compete for food, causing the fish in the pool to be disturbed, and many of them start to run away.
"Get the net up, hurry up!"
Xu Chen directed Feng and two young and strong men to grab the handle of the net, and then gave the order to raise the net.
"Wow~"
The heavy fishing net was quickly lifted up from the pool by three pairs of thick arms. As the fishing net quickly surfaced, the fish inside really began to snap and run away. However, because there were too many fish in it and it was too confusing, there were still a few in the end.
The fish did not escape, but was wrapped in a fishing net and raised out of the water.