Farming in Primitive Society

Chapter 129 Why Are You Arrested?

The entire lake in the forest, on the left is a forest full of thorns, and on the right is a field of cattail grass and reeds. The front end of the lake has a very long shoreline, and there is a river entrance about three to four meters on the left and right.

There is a forest four or five meters wide between the two rivers, beyond the range of the lake in the forest, and the other end is a forest that is not too dense and the trees are not too big. There are many stones and sand under the trees, so there are very few weeds and thorns. It's just that there are some bushes growing at most half a person's height. Looking at the condition of this forest, it should be part of the river long ago.

And look at the empty shells of aquatic organisms hanging on some shrubs. If it comes to the flood season, the water will flood into the woods, and the water will be deeper than the shrubs that are no more than half the height of a person.

The three of Mu Xiaohua walked into the woods along the river on the slanted right. The sun has been shining for a long time recently, but the river here should be very deep. You can see small groups of fish swimming in it, but these fish are all It's just some small fish roe, and there are green aquatic plants growing along the river, making the river look deeper.

After walking for about 100 meters, the river became wider and deeper, and after a while, a diversion appeared.Yu said: "The river in our tribe flows down from the confluence of two forest rivers. This is one of them, but there are several diversions after this diversion."

Mu Xiaohua nodded understandingly, and the three of them walked along the diversion. The water in this small river is not very deep. Although it is not too clear, you can still see the bottom. There are many rocks at the bottom, some of which are huge. On the surface of the river, there are aquatic plants growing around the stones, and there are also many aquatic plants growing beside the river.

Such an environment is very suitable for the survival of fish and shrimp, and there are not many fish in this river, but to Mu Xiaohua's surprise, the number of shrimp and crabs is beyond imagination.What made her even more happy was that the prawns were basically as big as two fingers, and some were as big as three fingers. Such big river prawns are quite rare.

The products here are very rich!Mu Xiaohua was very excited: "Let's go, let's go down to the river to catch shrimp."

"Catch shrimp?" Yu and Yutong looked at Mu Xiaohua strangely.

"Yes! Shrimp." Mu Xiaohua pointed into the river: "It's those shrimps, and those crabs."

It's summer now, and it's not the fattest season for crabs, but probably no one has ever caught them. The crabs here are very big, except for some small crabs that are about the size of a fist.

"Shrimp? Crab?" Yu and Yutong still looked puzzled: "Why did you catch it?"

Uh……

They don't even know shrimp and crab?Mu Xiaohua was very surprised and said: "Catch and eat, you can eat all of these."

"Can it be eaten?" Yu and Yutong were surprised, they only knew that fish could be eaten, so are these things also edible?Especially the one called crab, how can you eat it if it looks like that and has a hard shell?Is it not poisonous?
"It's delicious." Mu Xiaohua couldn't help drooling when she thought of spicy crayfish, spicy crab, and crab roe soup.

Since Mu Xiaohua said that it was delicious, Yu and Yutong naturally no longer questioned it, and first tested the depth with stones and wooden branches. If you have not been in a river, you must first measure the depth.Finding that the river was not really deep, the three of them went down the river. After all, some rivers may not look deep, but they are actually very deep. You will be deceived when you measure the depth of a river with your eyes.

This river is about three to four meters wide, and the river varies in depth. The shallow one on the side only reaches Mu Xiaohua's knees, and the deeper one in the middle reaches her thighs. Although there are many shrimps and crabs in the river, they are not easy to catch. It is also necessary to prevent being stabbed or caught. There are many natural enemies of shrimp and crabs in this river, so avoiding them is very flexible.

After struggling for a while, Mu Xiaohua didn't catch anything, but Yu and Yutong caught two crabs respectively.Under Mu Xiaohua's command, the crab's tongs were broken off, and then tied up and hung outside the basket.

Crabs like to hide under the crevices of rocks, and they like to be in relatively shallow areas. They are much easier to catch than shrimps. The three of them struggled for a while and caught five crabs, but only one shrimp.

"This shrimp is very difficult to catch. It runs fast and can sting people. It is too small to be forked." Yu shook his head and sighed.

Mu Xiaohua nodded with deep feeling: "This shrimp has a net." Then she looked at Yutong excitedly: "Let's make a net for prey, let's make another fishing net!"

"Fishing net?" Yu and Yutong heard something new again.

Mu Xiaohua began to explain to the two what fishing nets are, including the style of fishing nets, the advantages and importance of using them, and finally said.

"For example, if there are many shrimps and fish in the river and it is difficult to catch, use a net to net. Not only can you catch it, but you can also catch a lot of it at a time. You can also cast a net in the lake, cast the net down, and just leave it like that. , if there are a lot of fish in the lake, you can catch a lot of them. However, nets made of bark should not be used to cast nets, but it is completely possible to fish directly in the river like this.”

In the end, through the efforts of the three of them, they managed to catch about one catty of shrimp and about twenty crabs. Seeing that it was getting late, the three of them headed back home.

Go back to the fishing spot, cut a large bundle of cattail grass, and go home.

Although there were only two fish, the unexpected harvest of shrimp and crab filled the food portion.

Mu Xiaohua was in a particularly good mood. Yu and Yutong didn't know the taste of shrimp and crab, and couldn't understand the food value, so they didn't have any special feelings, but seeing Mu Xiaohua happy, they were also in a good mood.

When the three of them returned to the tribe, the sun had already set on the top of the mountain in the west. When they reached the millet field, they met Ah Xin who was pulling weeds in the field with his family.

The family just came home from work, and the two met at the end of the single-plank bridge and exchanged a simple greeting.

Mu Xiaohua found that Ah Xin, whose eyes would light up and quickly clung to Yu when she saw Yu, didn't pounce on Yu today, and she was a little cautious when greeting her.

"Are you guys going fishing in the forest lake? Sister Xiaohua, what are you carrying?"

"Yeah!" Jie also looked at the thing Mu Xiaohua was carrying in his hand in surprise, "Did you catch it in the lake? I saw it in the river. What did you use it for?"

Mu Xiaohua was carrying a crab tied with a rope twisted from reed leaves, Yu Tong was carrying cattail grass, Yu was carrying a pannier filled with cattail grass and duck eggs, a bucket containing two fish in one hand, and a bucket containing river shrimp in the other. The goal was to catch two full buckets of fish...

However, today's harvest is bigger than two barrels of fish.

"This is a crab, for eating." Mu Xiaohua smiled.

Ah Xin and her family were all shocked. Ah Xin looked at the crab in Mu Xiaohua's hand in horror, stared at her with wide eyes and said, "Is this ugly thing edible? Sister Xiaohua, why are you here?" Can you all eat it?"

This is right, Mu Xiaohua Heixian said, "It's not that I can eat everything here, but that these things can be eaten."

"Is it delicious?" Ah Xin looked disgusted and questioned.

Mu Xiaohua nodded: "Of course."

Ah Xin shook his head disapprovingly, turned his head to look at Yu, pursed his lips tightly, opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something but didn't dare to say it, with a tangled expression on his face.

Yu pursed his lower lip slightly and asked, "What's wrong?"

(End of this chapter)