The so-called people rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and rely on the sea to eat the sea.
The people living on this island have only two abilities to support their families.
The first one is to go hunting in the forest in the center of the island, kill wild beasts, and obtain flesh and fur.
The flesh and blood are distributed to the villagers in the village, and the intact furs are sold to traveling merchants for money.
However, the environment in the mountain forest is complex, with many snakes, insects, beasts, jackals, tigers and leopards. If you encounter those bloodthirsty and cruel monsters, you will be dead.
Ordinary people go in alone and usually never come back.
Because dangers are everywhere, few people are willing to take risks.
Only during specific seasons, the village will organize hunting teams to hunt deep in the mountains.
As the saying goes, the more people gathering firewood, the higher the flames will be!
The sea outside the island is the villagers' favorite place to go.
Because the sea is rich in products, beautiful and fertile, it supports all kinds of marine fish. Not only that, but the depths of the seabed also breed a large amount of seafood such as kelp, seashells, and lobsters.
These are all good things that can be sold at a good price. For ordinary people, as long as they go out to sea to fish, they will get something. It is just a question of how much.
Therefore, the villagers live on this small island, close to the sea, and have no worries about food and clothing.
Although everyone's life is very peaceful, it is not as stable as imagined on other islands.
Because the outside of the village is close to the mountains, there are many powerful monsters hidden inside.
In order to prevent these monsters from descending from the mountain and invading the village, the clan leader arranges for clan members to take turns guarding every day to monitor the movements of the monsters in the mountains and forests.
The remaining villagers who have no tasks can go out to sea to catch fish, and half of the harvested prey belongs to the village, and the clan leader will make a reasonable distribution based on the contributions made by the clan members!
Today, Li Feng went to sea with his father Li Jiannan. This was the first time in his life that he went to sea to catch fish.
Because in the past days, he had been training and honing his sword skills and had no time to go to sea.
The vehicle they used to go out to sea was a fishing boat about five or six meters long. The entire hull was made of white oil wood from the island.
White oil wood is very light, full of toughness, waterproof and impermeable, and has great buoyancy in the water. The material is high-quality and strong, making it very suitable for building boats and able to withstand the general wind and waves at sea.
Before going to sea, they brought fishing nets, harpoons, and fish baskets with them!
These are all essential items for fishing in the sea.
The morning sun rises, and everything in the world wakes up from the dawn.
A round red ball slowly rises above the sea level, and the warm light spreads, rendering the sea in the distance majestic.
Seen from a distance, it looks like a beautiful landscape painting, extremely magnificent.
Li Feng took the fishing tools and ran enthusiastically onto an old fishing boat moored on the beach.
They were not the only ones going to sea, but many people had already gone out to sea. Otherwise, there would have been more than a dozen fishing boats similar to theirs moored on the beach at the moment.
His father was walking behind with a harpoon net on his back, looking at Li Feng's thin back with a smile.
Li Jiannan couldn't help but sigh: "My little devil has finally grown up!"
The sun is shining brightly today and there are no clouds in the sky. It is a good weather for fishing.
This is the most suitable day to go out to sea for fishing. As it is usually windy and rainy, ordinary villagers dare not go out to sea for fear of being caught in the huge waves.
The two father and son took a fishing boat, rocked the boat, and stirred the sea water vigorously. The water waves rippled gently on the sea surface, and the fishing boat slowly sailed toward the distance of the sea.
As time went by, they got further and further away from the island, and the surroundings became quieter and quieter, except for the sound of the flowing water in their ears.
When the fishing boat was about twenty or thirty nautical miles away from the island.
The island that Li Feng saw was only a small black dot in his sight, and his eyes suddenly showed a hint of wonder.
Turning around and looking at the endless sea in front of him, Li Feng couldn't help but feel a surge of heart as the sea breeze blew.
His father, Li Jiannan, was used to the calm conditions on the sea. When the fishing boat slid into the sea, he began to arrange the fishing net and prepare to cast the net.
"Father, let's start casting the net to catch fish now!" Li Feng stood on the fishing boat and looked at his father curiously.
The father smiled and said: "Well, of course!"
"Today is the first time you go out fishing with me today, but fishing is very particular, you have to learn it hard!"
Li Feng nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
"First of all, there are three most commonly used tools for catching fish!" Li Jiannan said slowly.
"They are fishing nets, harpoons, and fishing baskets. They each have their own uses. Let me explain to you in detail!"
"The first-choice fishing net is divided into large-eye net and small-eye net. It is woven from the silk of golden spider and is very tough! We adults are caught in it and cannot break free, so don't doubt the durability of this fishing net.
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"The big-eye net is specially used to catch big fish, while the small-eye net is suitable for catching big and small fish. Do you see any holes in this fishing net?"
"The mesh of this mesh is about the size of a fist. Small fish can leak out of the mesh, and in the end only a few big fish are left. This is the big mesh!"
"The weather is good today, so there will definitely be a lot of big fish, so we will use this big mesh net!"
"The harpoon is specially used to catch those ferocious big fish. Needless to say, I don't need to explain the role of the fish basket!" Li Jiannan said with a grin, his face full of simplicity.
"Yes!" Li Feng listened carefully, not daring to miss a single detail.
Living on the sea, catching fish is a skill that every villager must learn.
"Be careful while rowing, don't make any big noise, and draw a circle along the sea surface!" Li Jiannan patiently taught Li Feng, with a sense of accomplishment that there would be successors flashing through his heart.
Li Feng nodded, like a chicken pecking at rice: "Yeah!"
"If you want to catch fish in the sea, you have to cast the net over a large area." Li Jiannan said with a smile on his face.
"Xiao Feng, you row the boat, and I'll cast the net, and try to get a good harvest before dark!"
The two father and son rowed the fishing boat slowly on the sea, making a circle and casting a huge fishing net within a radius of 100 meters.
After the fishing nets are cast, the next step is to quietly wait for the harvest.
At noon, the sea is calm and the sun is shining brightly.
Li Feng and his father hid in the inner cabin of the fishing boat, enjoying the lunch prepared by his mother.
Fortunately, this is an offshore area, and those dangerous water monsters were eliminated by the Ziyou Army hundreds of years ago.
Time passed bit by bit, and the sun slowly moved from the top of the head to the west. When the dazzling golden light turned into a soft afterglow, three or four hours had passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Feng curled up tiredly in the cabin and fell asleep comfortably.
His father collected the net twice while he was resting, but they were all ordinary fish and shrimp, and the harvest was quite good.
At this moment, the fishing boat shook violently.
"Xiao Feng, get up quickly, there's a big fish!" A shout of surprise suddenly woke Li Feng up from his sleep.
When Li Feng heard the sudden shouting, he crawled out of the cabin and saw his father standing at the bow of the boat, struggling to pull the fishing net up to the boat with an excited look on his face.
"Father, let me help you!" Li Feng saw this scene and knew that there was a good harvest. He quickly ran over, helped his father grab the fishing net, and pulled it hard to the boat.
Wow!
In the deep and vast sea, a certain mysterious big fish in the sea was angered by the pulling of the fishing net, and its huge body suddenly began to struggle violently.
Wow!
Wow!
The waves surged, white waves undulated, and a large amount of water splashed on the sea surface, soaking the entire clothes of the father and son!
The big fish in the fishing net is an unknown species, and its strength is astonishing. It looks like a crazy bull. Standing on the boat and looking towards the bottom of the sea, it seems that there is a mysterious red light swimming desperately.
The two father and son struggled for a long time but failed to pull it up. Instead, it dragged the fishing boat around, and even almost dragged the two father and son down.
As the fishing net continued to be dragged, the big fish in the sea gradually emerged from the water. After a lot of effort, Li Feng and his son finally saw clearly the prey in the fishing net.
This is a giant fish about two meters long. Its whole body is covered with shiny blood-red scales, like pieces of gemstones inlaid on its surface. Under the refraction of the sun, it shines with a moving red light!
Li Jiannan looked at the big fish in front of him in shock and couldn't help but take a breath: "This fish has a spindle-shaped body and a thick appearance. The snout is conical and the mouth is large."
"On the back, there are a series of triangular dorsal fins. The body surface is covered with a layer of small red round scales, and the scales on the chest are extremely large, forming a breastplate."
"The caudal fin is crescent-shaped, the back is blue-black, the abdomen is silver-white, and the raised crest of the caudal peduncle is black!"