At the same time, Zhang Ran also suddenly "remembered" some of the past events, and some things about Xiaoqinghe also appeared clearly in Zhang Ran's mind.

First of all, the Qingshui River is a tributary of the nearby Linshui, which in turn is a tributary of the Weishui (Wei River), which is a tributary of the river (Yellow River).

Therefore, although the river does not seem to be very large, it will eventually merge into the Yellow River. And according to the memory of the original "Zhang Ran", there is no doubt that there are fish in this river. Many of the pictures in Zhang Ran's memory are the scenes of "himself" going into the water to catch fish not far downstream of the river.

However, after all, the Qingshui River is only five or six meters wide, and the flow of the river is limited, so its products are naturally not very rich. According to Zhang Ran's previous memory, there are some fish and shrimp in this river, but the number is too small compared to the surrounding big rivers such as the Ba River, Chan River, and Wei River.

As a direct result, there are no professional fishermen in the villages around the Qingshui River, which in turn leads to a serious lack of fishing experience and necessary fishing tools for the residents of nearby Liting. I can only look at the river and sigh, at most, I can only use the slack time to go down to the river to touch a few fish and fight tooth sacrifices!

As the saying goes, "Fishing and shrimp starves the whole family". Although this is a joke, in a way, it also reflects the negative effects of the uncertainty of obtaining food in an inefficient way.

In terms of the flow of the Xiaoqing River, it cannot even feed a few fishermen who make a living from fishing, let alone the needs of thousands of people in the villages near the river.

Moreover, since the Chinese civilization entered the agricultural era, this backward way of life based on fishing, hunting and gathering has long been abandoned by the intelligent Chinese people. Compared to fishing and hunting, which cannot have a stable output, an agricultural civilization that can feed a larger population is naturally superior.

Coupled with the heavy tax burden in ancient times, ordinary people are still too busy to farm, how can they have extra energy to think about fishing and other things!

So, it's not that they don't want to eat fish, it's that they don't want to spend time or money to make special fishing tools, so that they can do this kind of thing with great uncertainty.

It's good to say that you can catch fish every day, but if you return home in one day, won't the whole family go hungry? Therefore, although the food of farming is a little worse, the stability is extremely high, which makes it almost impossible to see people around the Qingshui River who are specially casting nets to catch fish.

However, in this way, it gave Zhang Ran more hope. Because there is not much artificial fishing happening, with the flow rate of the Qingshui River is four or five meters wide, there must be a lot of fish in the river.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but touch his chin, and said thoughtfully: "As long as there are fish in the river, with my ability and many experiences from later generations, I will definitely be able to catch a few to satisfy my cravings!" ”

After putting aside some distractions, Zhang Ran began to seriously think about how to catch these cunning fish smoothly. Combined with some knowledge of his later generations, Zhang Ran knew that if he wanted to fish in the wild, there were actually many ways, whether it was casting nets to fish, fishing on the beach, fishing or spearfishing, and even arranging fishing traps and many other methods, in fact, they could achieve the goal.

However, considering the limitations of his own conditions and the natural environment of the Qingshui River, Zhang Ran first excluded the method of casting nets and enclosing beaches.

The reason why the two most efficient methods were excluded in the first place was mainly because Zhang Ran's family was too poor, and in his family's current situation, it was obvious that he could not afford to buy a fishing net. Moreover, now Zhang Ran's health is too poor, and the danger and difficulty of wanting to be on the waist-deep Qingshui River beach are too great, and these two methods are obviously not suitable for Zhang Ran.

In desperation, Zhang Ran could only consider the remaining methods, and after thinking about it, Zhang Ran finally decided to use the simplest and most practical trap fishing method.

Although whether this method can catch fish depends on personal luck, at least Zhang Ran does not have to risk his life to go down the river, and the trap fishing method is also one of the easiest fishing methods, which does not need to take up too much time and energy of Zhang Ran himself. Just get the trap and wait for the moment.

After making up his mind, Zhang Ran turned around and returned to his sister Zhang Sui'er, and said to her: "Let's go, let's go back first, get something, and come back later to try and see if we can catch a fish!" ”

After speaking, Zhang Ran took his confused sister together, returned to the big willow tree, picked up the clay pot used to hold water, and returned the same way in the direction he came.

After returning to the ridge near his field, Zhang Ran found the hoe for weeding and the basket for weeding that he brought in the morning, and took these two things with him, Zhang Ran took his sister Zhang Sui'er, who was becoming more and more confused, to the river again.

Influenced by the survival videos that became popular on major online platforms in later generations, Zhang Ran is naturally no stranger to making fishing traps, a necessary skill for survival in the wild, and also has a little understanding of how to make fishing traps and the principles of their production.

Therefore, Zhang Ran planned to use local materials, use the only basket in his hand now, make a fishing trap similar to a fish cage, and use it to try fishing.

Zhang Ran first walked around the river bank a few times, found some vines the thickness of chopsticks, and tore off dozens of thin branches from a large willow tree by the river, and then used a thinner vine to tie these branches together with the vines.

Carrying these things, I returned to the big tree from before, and then took the basket that had previously held the weeds and began to renovate it.

Since the basket brought by Zhang Ran did not have a lid, if he wanted to make the rattan basket similar to a fish cage, Zhang Ran first had to block the opening on the basket.

To this end, Zhang Ran took the willow branches and vines he picked up as the basis, used the sturdy vines as the skeleton, supplemented by willow branches, densely woven together, and sealed the mouth of the basket little by little, so as to ensure that once the fish entered the basket, they would not escape easily.

Then, Zhang Ran found a sharp wooden stick from nearby and poked four or five big holes in the basket wall, but fortunately, Zhang Ran's basket was woven with thin wicker, otherwise Zhang Ran really couldn't poke it.

Because the wooden stick is poked from the outside to the inside, so the basket around the inward formation of several sizes of "inverted figure-eight" opening, so that the fish into the easier to enter, when out of the difficult to come, the principle is similar to the perennial cage in later generations, but it is too simple.

Then, Zhang Ran mixed several sturdy rattans together, fixed them on the edge of the basket mouth, and tied the other end of the rattan to a stone weighing about three catties.

In this way, a very rudimentary fishing trap converted from a basket was ready.

"Can this thing catch a fish?"