Setting up the blocking net is not a simple matter. The blocking net that Erikson moved onto the boat was originally from his family's Red Sea Shark ocean fishing boat. It was used at sea. It was piled up in the warehouse and was just in need of repair and repair.
Reconnect. After all, at sea, fishing nets are the most easily damaged fishing gear. They can be scratched by rocks, swept away by wind and waves, washed away by large fish, etc.
In this era, there was no acrylic and petrochemical industry. Most of the materials for weaving fish nets were hemp rope and leather. The better ones added animal tendons, horsetails, and human hair. These materials were mixed together and twisted into thin ropes.
Then apply the cooked fish glue on it and wait for it to dry naturally, and finally weave it into a net. Fishing line is also made of this material.
Blocking nets used at sea are generally more than ten or tens of meters long, and the Ericson family's blocking net was damaged at sea. The complete blockage now intercepted is still more than six meters long, but it is not
It has a width of 3.7 meters, which means that it needs to be placed in a place with a water depth of more than four meters to be suitable. The water depth of this small river bay is only a little more than two meters. As a result, everyone was dumbfounded.
Seeing half of the block floating on the water, Erikson had no choice but to ask everyone to put the block away, row the boat again to the middle of the lake, find a place more than four meters deep, and throw the block down.
If there is no harvest, we just have to let nature take its course. Because this is a block net used at sea, the mesh is relatively large, and most of the fish in the lake are smaller than those in the sea. Such a large mesh will be easy to pass through. This is only after the block net is put down.
Thought of it.
After all this trouble, it was almost dusk when the fishing boat was rowed into the small river again, and the sky began to get dark. The boat was parked, the anchor was dropped, and the cable was tied to a thick mulberry tree on the shore. The four people hurriedly
After unloading the luggage from the boat, the most urgent thing now is to set up a camping site. If you move slowly, you won't be able to see clearly when it gets dark.
On the boat, Erikson was the one who made the decision. Now on shore, it was Viricolo who was in charge. He often went hunting in the mountains with his father, and among the four of them, he had the most experience in camping in the wild.
"This is it." Verricro said. The place he was looking for was only about twenty meters away from the small river, but about seven or eight meters above the water. It was a small flat land on the hillside, covered with weeds.
Grass and small bushes.
"Let's cut down the grass and shrubs first and clear the ground so that we can set up tents. Wait, Boa, don't go there!" Verricro shouted loudly.
Bockaar was a little confused: "Didn't you say you were the one who cut the grass?"
"First take this stick and hit it in the grass and bushes."
"It's too troublesome, can't we just chop it down?" Bock'ar didn't expect that he only knocked a few times in the weeds and bushes with his stick, and heard a lot of pattering sounds, including four-legged lizards, red-eyed spiders, scorpions, grasshoppers and other small things.
Animals and insects escaped from it, startling him.
"Oh, there's a green snake here..." Bockaar now understood why Vericero told him not to cut the grass directly. He might be bitten by something accidentally. It's not poisonous, it just hurts a little.
, if it is poisonous, you have to deal with it, and you also need to bring a bottle of antidote.
"Why not just use fire to create an open space? It would be faster and the ground would dry out." Claude asked.
Verricro shook his head and said: "We can't burn it now. The weeds and shrubs have a lot of moisture, unless we pour kerosene on them, but we only brought a small bottle of kerosene."
However, the four people cleaned up this small open space very quickly, clearing away the weeds and bushes in less than half an hour.
"Boa, divide these shrubs and use them to build bonfires at night. Don't use the ones that are too green. If they are too moist, they will become smoke. Ike, find out the lime powder and sulfur powder. Sprinkle the lime powder on the ground.
Some, sprinkle sulfur powder in a circle around the perimeter to prevent poisonous insects from approaching. Claude, you and I will bring machetes and axes and go around to see if we can find a dead tree to chop down for firewood." Viricolo.
Assign tasks to everyone in an orderly manner.
"Take it." Vericro handed Claude the stick that Boquear had just used. It was also used to knock on the grass. Claude still knew the principle of alerting the snake.
With good luck, he found a half-fallen dead tree not far away. Verricro knocked on the trunk and expressed his satisfaction: "This is it."
Claude did not move. He became curious about the ground. It was a huge gray rock with a very flat top. The roots of this dead tree grew in the cracks of the flat limestone, and the limestone was also
A large piece of it was broken off in one corner.
"What's the matter?" Viricolo asked.
Claude pointed to the gray rock: "Why is this rock so flat..."
Viricolo laughed: "It's not surprising. This was originally a mountain road. If you go a little above and below, you will see more rocks like this. It's just that it's been too long, and many of the rocks have cracked and decomposed.
Trees and weeds and stuff took over.”
"No way," Claude exclaimed: "Is this a rock road? But this rock is too big, it is more than three meters long and one meter wide. How much effort will it take to polish the rock?
If it’s like this, do you still have to carry it up the mountain?”
"Haha..." Viricolo laughed and pointed to the mountain: "Have you ever heard of the ruins of a magic tower on Bailuzhou Mountain? In fact, this road leads there. We can follow this mountain road tomorrow.
Go up the mountain to see the ruins of the magic tower. If you are brave enough, we will camp there at night.
As for paving such a rocky mountain road, I guess this is the work of those magicians. I think it is impossible to do it manually. Because even now, we have to pave such a rocky mountain road and polish the rocks into such a
To carry such a large piece up the mountain would be a huge project requiring countless manpower and expense, and it would have been impossible to do hundreds of years ago."
It turned out that this mountain road leads to the ruins of the magic tower, and Claude felt happy for a while. Vericro's words hit his mark: "Okay, I will camp at the ruins of the magic tower tomorrow night. I want to see it."
, are the legends about Bailuzhou in the town true?"
Verricro shook his head while taking the ax from Claude's hand and said: "You may also believe those legends. My father and I came here twice during the annual vacation, and each time we camped in that ruins. There was nothing, not even ghosts.
I couldn’t even see one, and we spent five or six days there every time..."
"Is that magic tower ruins very big?"
"It's very big." Viricero cut the dead tree into three sections, spit in his hand, and picked up the ax to cut the trunk into long strips: "Let's put it this way, I estimate that its diameter is as large as yours.
That big red brick house is so long. But the upper parts have collapsed, and now only the broken walls on the bottom floor remain."
Claude quickly calculated in his mind. Normally, he really didn't notice how long his big red brick house was. The four large suites, plus the corridor and stairwell, were about forty or fifty meters long. But the length of his big red brick house was about forty or fifty meters.
The length of a big red brick house is the length, and the diameter of the magic tower ruins means that the bottom plane of the magic tower is more than 1,600 square meters, or more than 2,000 square meters, which is large enough.
After cutting twice, Viricero stopped and said, "By the way, do you know why I just said that the rocky mountain road on the ground is the work of those magicians? Because the wall of the magic tower ruins and this rock are the same.
Exactly the same. When I first came here, I asked my father how it was possible to build a tower with such a large rock block. My father's answer was that no one could do it except a magician."
Claude stood the cut tree trunk up on the rock and tried to use a machete to see if it could be chopped into firewood strips. Fortunately, the dead tree was very loose. Although using a machete is not as fast as an axe, it can still be done.
It can be cut down.
The two of them cut down very quickly together, finishing three sections of tree trunks in less than half an hour. Verricro said enough, found two vines and tied up the scattered firewood. Each person carried a large trunk on his back.
Returned to the camp.
Bockaar and Erikson have already cleared the open space and sprinkled medicinal powder on the camp. Two tents have also been set up. The tent Vericro brought from home is larger and made of animal skins.
It can sleep two people. The tent used on the deck that Erikson brought from his own boat is for a single person and is about one-third smaller than the animal skin tent next to it.
But it doesn't matter. When camping in the wild, one person needs to watch the camp overnight to prevent the campfire from going out or any accidents. Two tents can sleep three people, leaving just one spot free to take turns guarding the camp overnight.
This time Bockaar and Erikson were lighting a bonfire in front of the tent. However, although the shrubs had been selected, the smoke was still too big and the flames were very small. They lay on their stomachs and blew for a long time, but the fire did not get bigger.
But it was smoked black.
"Okay, you two go get some water and wash your faces first. What's going on? By the way, don't go to the river. Go over there. There is a broken mountain road, and there is a creek a little further.
The water over there is cleaner, so bring back two buckets of water." Verricro pointed to the direction where he and Claude came back from chopping wood.
Claude thought for a moment, and he vaguely heard the sound of running water when he was chopping wood. Vericro had come here twice with his father, so he probably remembered the location. However, it was winter when they came, and the stream was not frozen or frozen at that time.
Is it a cutoff?
Verricro seemed to know what Claude was thinking: "When I was cutting down the tree just now, I remembered that the stream was less than ten meters away from the mountain road, and it was still hot in winter. My father took me to fetch water, but it was
The fish in the stream are very small, there are no big fish.”
Firewood was used instead of bushes, and the fire quickly started burning.
Claude accompanied Vericro to cut two forks from a nearby tree and made a stand on the campfire. Now they are waiting for Bockar and the others to get the water back, so that they can hang the iron pot on the campfire.
Cook something to eat.
"Claude, you watch the fire. When the firewood below is half burnt to char, take it out and put another piece of firewood in. The firewood you take out will be piled next to it for use at night."
"What's the use?" Claude was a little strange.
Verricro pointed around the camp: "At night, we need to put a few piles around the camp to smolder the fire. This will prevent wild animals from approaching. Secondly, if something goes wrong, just pick up the firewood and it will light an open fire, which can give us
With a little time to adapt, you can still see clearly..."
Understood, Claude nodded, these are all experiences. Vericro has been hunting in the mountains with his father since he was a child, and he was really thoughtful about letting him take charge of the camping.
At this time, Bockaar and Erikson came back with a bucket of water each, and then it was Claude's turn to show off his skills. Bockaar had never entered the kitchen at home, and Viricero and Erikson just
Cooking things well enough to fill your stomach, but if you want to say they taste delicious, it depends on Claude. He was a housewife in his previous life, and later he was taken by the boss to become a veteran driver. With his cooking skills, he also added some extra ingredients in the process of picking up girls.
Quite a few points.
Flour, wax meat, dried fish and salt, as well as a few apples, these are the ingredients and the most basic seasonings that the four people brought from home. There was also a bag of honey buns, which Bokhar brought from home.
But when we were on the boat in the afternoon, everyone got hungry, so we all shared the food.
It seems that the only way to make a batter is to boil the water in the pot, add flour and stir, cut the wax meat into small pieces, then crush the dried fish and put it in, add some salt, it tastes delicious, but it's a pity that it's not fresh.
Meat and bones, otherwise it would taste better.
"Don't worry, we will ambush by the creek at night. There should be many animals there to drink water. I think we should have a good harvest at night." Verricro said confidently, patting the musket in his arms.