Chapter VI Fishing Plans
It is the habit of getting up early every day to be a top student, and if you can get a doctorate, Snow can be regarded as half a top student. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info so the sky was just slightly bright, and he opened his eyes dimly.
Sitting up from a makeshift bed made of long wooden benches, Snow took a few deep breaths. Perhaps it was yesterday's tiring journey, but instead of tossing and turning to this new world, he slept soundly this night.
Getting up and pouring a glass of water, moistening his throat, Snow looked in the mirror for the first time. The man in the mirror has dark brown curly hair, although he is not as handsome as Aker's bastard, but his facial features are still relatively upright, and compared to his previous appearance, he has risen several levels.
Snow breathed a sigh of relief, looked good, turned around and opened the door. Breakfast was already firmly placed on the steps in front of the door, and the wooden tray was covered with a thick linen cloth. Snow opened it to reveal three wheat cakes and a boiled potato. Wheat bread is the same food as the big guys, and potatoes are the mayor's special treatment.
I probed the back of my fingers, it was still hot, and I should have just put it down. Picking up the tray, Snow turned and entered the room, and walked lightly up to the second floor. At this time, no one knew that in his bedroom on the second floor, a beautiful witch was sleeping.
Arriving at the bedroom door, Snow raised his hand to knock on the door, but looked out the dark window and lowered his arm. Gently placed the tray next to the door, then picked up a piece of wheat cake and hung it in his mouth, and turned to go downstairs.
As soon as Snow walked on his front foot, the bedroom door opened. A neatly dressed Yalian walked out of the door, looking at the steaming food next to the door, completely relieved. Looking at the staircase with a slight smile, he picked up the tray and turned to enter the house.
Snowdo put on a coat and walked out of the room biting on a wheat cake. At this time, many residents of the town have already gotten up, and most of them are chopping firewood in front of their doors, which is stored for the winter. I thought I would enter the fortress, so I didn't have much firewood.
Along the way, everyone greeted Snow absentmindedly, and the atmosphere in the whole town was a little depressing. It can be seen that the residents have little confidence in the situation they will face in the future.
Snow filled his stomach with the unpalatable wheat cake, but Snow felt even hungrier.
"People are iron and rice are steel, it seems that we have to solve the problem of food first." Snow patted his stomach and muttered, although as the mayor of the town, he had more than the other residents in each meal. But don't forget, there is an extra mouth in his house now. If the food problem is not solved quickly, he should be the mayor of the town who will starve to death first.
"Where's Randolph?" Snow asked a resident not far away.
"Lord Randolph, Randolph has taken someone to the river to fish."
Snow nodded, and now at this time, the food can only fight the idea of the river. From memory, Snow walked towards the river. From a distance, I saw Randolph and a dozen residents, each about 10 meters apart, holding improvised fishing rods made of bamboo, quietly fishing.
"How's the harvest?" Snow stepped up behind Randolph, tightened his collar, and asked.
"Oh, it's early for the mayor." Randolph, who was concentrating on fishing, only found out about Snow's arrival at this time, hurriedly said hello, raised his hand to tilt the fishing basket beside him, and smiled bitterly, "It's been two hours, and there is only such a little harvest." ”
Snow looked at the lonely grass carp in the fish basket and frowned slightly, "That's it?" ”
"I'm not bad, many people haven't even caught a small shrimp." Randolph said with a bitter face: "The weather is getting colder and colder, and the fish at this time are not easy to catch. ”
Snow bent down and reached out to pry the river, which was cold and biting. He got up and nodded, although he didn't know much about fishing, but he knew that once the water temperature approached about four degrees, the fish in the river would not eat. It is in a semi-hibernating state, swimming slowly in deep water. If you don't eat, you won't bite the bait, so it's no wonder that you can have a good harvest.
"Why don't you cast your net?" Snow wiped his hands and asked.
"I just cast a few nets, and a few people are tired, but there is not a single fish, so it is not as cost-effective as fishing." Randolph pointed to a small boat moored on the riverside not far away, where several people were puffing in hot air and were packing up their nets.
"At this rate, the fish caught every day is not enough to feed the fishermen, which is not good." Snow frowned, and began to work with his advanced brain, which was unique in his time.
"The river will freeze in a few days, so I've had people make more rods to catch more fish before they freeze." Randolph sighed and said, "As for the future, leave it to God." ”
"If God were on our side, we should be drinking honey in the border fortress right now, instead of being frozen here, staring at the float with a sad face." Snow scoffed, looked at the nearly fifty-meter-wide river, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, "Randolph, you just said that you should fish more before the river freezes, right?" ”
"yes? What's wrong? Randolph asked.
"What do you mean, in previous years, as long as the river froze, you wouldn't have fished, right?" Snow asked again.
Randolph was a little puzzled, but he still nodded, "That's right, once the river here freezes, the carriage can walk on it, and the hammer is difficult to break. If you want to fish and cast your nets, you will definitely not be able to. ”
Snow's eyes lit up slightly, he had a roommate in college, his hometown was in the far north, and the main source of the family was fishing. He often told Snow about his hometown fishing in winter, because the fish in winter tasted the most delicious. In order to survive the long winter, the fish will eat a lot of food before the winter to store fat, so the fish meat is particularly fatty.
The most important point is that the fish can be stored in winter. With temperatures of minus ten degrees, the fish can be frozen overnight, so they always catch fish in winter, and now this also satisfies Snow's needs.
"Mayor, what's wrong?" Randolph looked at Snow with a frown on his brows and asked suspiciously.
"Wait, wait, wait." Snow waved his hand, closed his eyes and tried to remember what he had heard about the winter netting method in the dormitory.
"Randolph, how long will it take for this lake to freeze?" After a while, Snow opened his eyes and asked.
"The further the temperature drops, the faster it will drop, and in ten days at most, the lake will be covered in abominable ice." "So we have to hurry up and catch as many fish as we can in these ten days and store them......," Randolph said.
"Stop fishing, let all the inhabitants who know how to fish and weave gather in the center of town, I have something to say." Snow interrupted Randolph and said in an anxious tone, "By the way, and the people you sent to make fishing rods are also called back, and I have other arrangements." ”
"But ......"
"Nothing, believe me, if this method can be successful, the food problem can be completely solved." After Snow finished speaking, he turned and ran towards the town, leaving Randolph with a surprised expression.
Back in town, Snow hurried to the door of his residence, opened it and stepped inside.
"Is something wrong?" As soon as Snow entered the room and walked towards the table, he heard someone behind him ask questions.
Snow couldn't help but slap a spirit, turned his head to look at Yalian standing behind the door, and patted his chest, "Scared me to death you, when did you get up?" ”
"I'm sorry, I thought it was another resident." Yalian quietly put away the dagger she was clenching behind her back, "Is something wrong with such a panic?" ”
"No, it's just that some ideas need to be jot down as soon as possible." Snow came to the table, picked up parchment paper and a pen, and quickly wrote down the methods and matters that needed attention in his memory.
"What are you drawing?" Arlene came to Snow's side, looked at the square words on the parchment, and asked curiously.
"I almost forgot if you didn't ask." Snow scratched his head, but fortunately he was also familiar with the words of this era in his memory, and Snow translated another copy in the current text. However, there are many words that Yalian has never seen before, and she still can't understand them at all.
"It's a winter fishing method." Snow took the initiative to explain.
"Can you fish in the winter?" Yalian asked suspiciously.
"Of course, and it's more efficient than spring, summer and autumn." Snow drew a few more sketches, picked them up and put them in his arms, turned his head to Yalian and said, "You still have injuries on your body, pay attention to rest, and I will make up for you in a bowl of fish soup in a while." With that, he walked out of the room.
In a short time, Randolph gathered the fishing and weaving inhabitants to the middle of the town, in front of Snow's residence, and there were more than thirty people.
"Mayor Town, everyone's here." Randolph stepped forward and said to Snow, who was looking at the parchment in his hand and thinking.
"Oh, good." Snow put away the parchment, looked at the crowd gathered in front of him, and cleared his throat, "Everyone, I have summoned the big guys here today, and there are several tasks to announce. ”
"Before I make the announcement, let me say something that the big guys are known for, and that is that we have been abandoned by the border fortresses and God. If we want to survive now, we have to rely on ourselves. And if we want to survive, we face two major problems. The first is food, and the second is the walls that can defend against wild beasts. ”
Focusing everyone's attention, Snow gathered his thoughts for a moment and continued, "Let's talk about food first, I think everyone knows that we can still have food for ten days, and the only food we can get during these ten days is the fish in the river. ”
"But I just inquired and found that we couldn't get enough fish just by fishing, so I wanted to change the way I fished." Snow said in as reliable a tone as possible: "Please stand on my left hand side for those who can weave, and stand on my right hand side for those who can fish." ”
No one knew what medicine was in Snow's gourd, but the mayor's words had to be followed. Everyone has set their own positions according to their own strengths.
"You may not understand the next task, but don't doubt it. I can guarantee that as long as everyone does what I ask, we will be able to solve the food problem. Snow gave the crowd a vaccination, and now he doesn't have time to explain to the residents how net fishing works, he wants to do it unconditionally.