Chapter 50: Salted Fish Comes Out
The entire Qingque tribe was stimulated by the fish cage, and the next morning, the senior brother got up, rubbing his hands with the rest of the hunting team to look at Han Cheng and the fish cage enshrined in front of the totem pole.
They wanted to see for themselves the beauty of fishing in the cages that the gods had given them.
Han Cheng knew what they were thinking, so he took the fish cage and walked out, but it turned out that all the other people in the cave had to follow to see the miracle.
Even the most stable witches are no exception.
Today's luck was not too good, and when I came back from the small river, I only caught eight fish.
However, this was enough to shock the senior brothers, because it was still early, and they hadn't even used up half a morning's time.
And after the fish cage was launched, one of the wives of the eldest brother who was the most good at spearfish in the tribe, under the arrangement of the senior brother, took a simple harpoon and moved twenty meters away.
In the same amount of time, she only forked three fish!
The advantages of the fish cage are vividly reflected after the comparison!
After collecting the fish cage, without Han Cheng's orders, the senior brother who was already in a state of fanaticism took other people who were similar, fanatical, to find a suitable wooden stick.
The rest of the people in the cave were rubbing the grass rope with rope grass.
After the materials were complete, Han Cheng began to make fish cages again, and chose three of the more ingenious people in the tribe to teach, among which there was a lameness.
At night, the Qingque tribe came out with four more fish cages, plus the original one, there were five in total!
The usefulness of the fish cage is far beyond Wu's imagination.
Because Han Cheng weaved a net at the mouth of the fish cage that could be entered and exited, after the fish entered the fish cage, there was no need to pull it out in a hurry, and the fish could not run away.
So one doesn't have to keep a fish cage completely.
One person can take care of three or even four fish cages, and you can be busy.
The keeper of the cage simply stays on shore and pulls the cage out of the water one by one every once in a while, takes the fish out of the water, and then puts the cage back into the water.
Moreover, because of the long time that the fish cage is placed in the water in this way, sometimes the fish cage can be pulled out of the cage and there can be two or even three fish in it!
One person guards the fish cage and sends two people to transport fish to the tribe, and at the end of the day, the tribe of fish caught can't eat it for two days!
The food problem that has been pressing on everyone's hearts and making people dare not relax in the slightest has been solved by these small fish cages and the minors in the three tribes!
This......
This is truly a miracle!
Looking at the fish piled up in the cave and the fish cages neatly placed in the most conspicuous places of the tribe, everyone had a heartfelt smile on their faces.
They don't have to be busy all day long, and they don't have to worry about not having enough food!
These are gifts from God and His Son!
With the advent of the fish cage, Han Cheng's prestige within the tribe was even higher, far surpassing that of the senior brother as the leader, and even higher than the wise man Wu in the tribe.
However, Han Chengzhi was not proud of anything, because in his opinion, it was not something to be proud of.
He was still the same as he always was to Wu and the others, and he should be respectful or respectful, and he should be approachable or approachable.
But the respect for him from the people in the tribe came from the bones.
Now that the weather is hot, there are too many fish caught every day, and if you can't eat them, they will spoil.
However, Han Cheng still did not reduce the number of fish cages in the water.
But unlike in the past, the fish are not transported directly back to the hole, but are cleaned on the spot by the small river, and then rubbed with salt and dried on the sandy beach by the river, on the cleared flat ground, and in the idle pottery burning area.
This is to make salted dried fish.
In charge of doing this are the minors of the tribe who are able to do light work, the weaker women, and, of course, the lame.
Han Cheng did not let them throw the fish entrails and fish scales at will, but dug some pits twenty meters from the river bank and close to the downstream, and threw the entrails that were cleaned up every day into these pits.
After leveling out one pit and replacing it with another.
Han Cheng: Of course, this is not a useless work.
In this way, it can protect the environment, so that the river will not be covered with fish guts, and secondly, it can be used for fertilizer.
In the autumn, he was going to plant a stubble of rapeseed, and now that he has the opportunity, he naturally has to make some preparations for this in advance.
The construction of the wall is a huge project for the tribe today, and Han Cheng roughly calculated the amount of work, even in the autumn, it can't be all built.
And autumn is the season for storing food, in order to avoid the problem of storing food in time, which greatly affects the construction of the wall, so Han Chengcheng took advantage of the hot weather now to dry some dried fish.
In the place that was specially used to store food in the tribe, it was circled out by thirteen large vats, and in the open space circled, under the guidance of Han Cheng, a layer of mud embryos that had been made first and dried in the shade were laid, and a layer of broken animal skins was laid on top of the mud embryos, and a thick layer of hay was on top of the animal skins.
This is where the dried fish is kept.
With these three layers of protection, it is not as easy as the dried fish that the tide wants to rise from the ground and make the tide!
As for the empty jars around them, they are also used to store food.
Underneath these jars, too, are padded with adobe.
Storing food in this way not only has a good moisture-proof effect, but also saves a lot of space.
After not having to worry about food every day, the wall that Han Cheng had planned was also put on the agenda.
Han Cheng didn't want to build a small wall, because after building the wall, he also wanted to build a house inside the wall, build some pens for raising livestock, and at the same time leave enough places for the people in the tribe to rest and play in peace.
It is precisely because it is not easy to build the wall that Han Cheng wants to build it well, otherwise it will take a lot of effort now, and it will not be able to keep up with the situation in a few years, and then push it to re-expand, it will be a big loss!
He has been wandering around the tribe for the past two days, and on the premise of taking care of the terrain, he can basically build the wall to a scale that is 300 meters wide from north to south and 500 meters long from east to west.
Because the northernmost side of the wall is the wall where the tribe cave is located, this side of the wall is high enough that there is no need to build a wall.
In other words, you only need to build two 300-meter walls and one 500-meter wall to create a safe space for the tribe!