Just as everyone was trying to find it, a white and powdered body entangled in fishing nets floated up on the shore of the lake, but the fins on both sides of the body revealed the identity of the other party, this is a fish!

The people next to Ding Qi raised the spear in their hands and wanted to attack, but he stopped them.

Slowly, the fish entangled in the water gradually flipped its body, its dorsal fin facing upwards, wagging its tail slightly, and without struggling, as if it did not feel fear of the humans in front of it.

Soon, the tail of the fish sank, and it was about to raise its head. Strangely, what emerged from the water was a flattened object, like a straightened trunk, and like a platypus's mouth had become longer.

And the part it lifted, I couldn't tell if it was the head or where, and I didn't see its eyes. Soon, though, its eyes emerged from beneath the water's surface, small and located at the base of the flattened object. Underneath is a wide mouth with a pair of short whiskers in front, like carp's whiskers, and plum blossom-shaped spots behind it.

Suddenly, Tinch's heart beat faster, and his hands shook uncontrollably.

"What do I see? What do I see? Is it a white sturgeon? Chinese white sturgeon? Giant pandas in the water that have disappeared once? ”

Ding Qi was very excited, he actually saw the national treasure of the Chinese nation, a creature that has lived on the earth for more than 100 million years.

Before coming to the primitive society, Ding Qi knew that the Chinese white sturgeon was officially declared extinct when it just entered 2020, which was very sad news. The living fossil-like creature disappeared into the Yangtze River system and never showed its head again. Perhaps, they are hiding in some unknown place, recuperating, until one day they appear in front of the world and announce the return of their race.

The white sturgeon is 2-3 meters long and weighs 200-300 kilograms, with the largest body length reaching 7.5 meters and weighing one ton. It is also known as the Chinese sturgeon, and belongs to the same species of the family of sturgeon as the sturgeon that lives in the Mississippi River. Also known as the Chinese swordfish, it is the largest freshwater fish in China. Because its snout is long like an elephant's trunk, it is also commonly known as an elephant fish.

"Plop!"

Ding Qi suddenly jumped into the water and made a large splash, startling the people around him. But they all jumped into the water without hesitation, for fear that Ding Qi would make a mistake, so they protected Ding Qi's sides.

Ding Qi stretched out his trembling hands and slowly touched the other party's body entangled in fishing nets. It is soft to the touch, a layer of slippery mucus covers the whole body, there are no scales, and the back is light purple-gray, which makes people want to touch it. Ding Qi could clearly feel a tremor in his body under the palm, but he quickly calmed down and let Ding Qi caress him. It knew that these humans were friendly to it, and that it was worthy of its bold decision to put its life on the line.

If Ding Qi knew what it thought, he would definitely give it a sentence: drive the wolf and gobble the tiger, you are so bold! I'm glad you ran into me, or you'd soon be the lunch of the tribe.

With the help of everyone, Ding Qi quickly removed the fishing nets that were wrapped around it and took it back to the shore to put it away. There are also other people who find another net, put it together with another net, and receive the sun's exposure.

Ding Qi turned his body to the head of the white sturgeon, and felt its snout like an elephant's trunk, the hard bone plate was like a long sword, extending from its snout, about a meter and a half long, and it really looked like a swordfish from the side.

Don't look at it at the moment

Usually docile, it is a full-footed carnivore, and its staple diet is a variety of fish. Of course, the big black fish doesn't count, that's its natural enemy.

The white sturgeon swayed its body, apparently sensing the restraints on its body being lifted by humans. It slowly shakes its fins in the water, opens its large retractable mouth, bares its fine teeth, and smoothly inhales the oxygen-rich water, calming its nervous heart and allowing its body to gradually adjust to the environment under human siege.

It gently touched the bodies of the humans around it with its body, and from time to time it raised its head, revealing its glass-like eyes to observe the humans who had saved its life, as if to record their appearance, as if to express gratitude to the humans.

On the shore, a child brought a foot-long whitebait, which was handed to Ding Qi by the tribesmen in the water. Tinchi brought the fish to the sturgeon's mouth, touched it with its plate-like snout, and after confirming that it was food, slowly opened its mouth wide, and with a light suck, it sucked the fish into its mouth full of fine teeth, leaving only some scales to float up and down the water in its mouth.

He also brought a few fish and fed the white sturgeon, which was more than three meters long. Everyone retreated to shore, leaving Ding Qi and the sturgeon alone.

The sturgeon touched Ding Qi's hand with his snout and swam gently around him, and after two laps, the sturgeon swam towards the deep water, raising its head as it swam as it seemed to say goodbye.

Ding Qi waved his hand, and a voice in his heart kept saying, he didn't want to say goodbye, but he still wanted to say goodbye.

Ding Qi doesn't know if the other party is male or female, but no matter which sex it is, it will create hundreds of millions of people, hoping that they will survive for a long time.

"Chief, why did you save this elephant fish? Sometimes we see them rounding up fish in swarms in the water, and they are fighting with us for survival food! ”

A member of the clan stepped forward and voiced his concerns.

"Is this called an elephant fish? It seems that the name has spread widely. In our country, they are called white sturgeons, a protected fish because they are so few in number. I also saved it in the hope that they would survive, because humans might lose their sights of elves like this. Only if we protect them, protect their territory, and protect the food they depend on for their survival, they will be able to live forever. ”

Since then, the entire tribe has spread the order of the Aragami that it is not allowed to harm and hunt white sturgeons, and those who violate it will not be killed. When you see white sturgeons, be sure to protect them.

Since there may be a large black fish lurking around that can eat people, Ding Qi asked everyone to stop fishing in the lake and encouraged everyone to use fishing rods. In addition, he assigned Jing and Cao two tasks to each of them, weaving nets and building fishing boats, which were used to expand the tribe's fishing range. Fishing in one place for a long time, sooner or later the fish will scare away.

Ding Qi was very happy, and he was proud and proud that he was able to contribute to the conservation of the Chinese white sturgeon.

For the white sturgeon!

When Tinch returned to the cabin, before his ass was hot, the horns came running and pulled Tinch to ask him what to do with the wool, and Tinch promised to teach him how to handle the wool.

Although Ding Qi knows how to make a sweater, he knows six out of seven and knows nothing about how to make wool. But he believes that this is not difficult for himself, or at least difficult

People.

In one of the counties under the jurisdiction of the city where Tinch lived, there was an economic pillar industry, the wool and sheepskin processing industry. There are a lot of people who are engaged in this industry, and almost every household does this.

Once he went on a business trip, passing by there, he heard an old man who had just gotten in the car introducing the shops on both sides of the road that processed wool and sheepskin, saying that the pollution here was particularly serious, and the merchants were using various potions to treat wool, which was harmful to groundwater. If the wool is treated with lime boiling in the past, the pollution will be greatly reduced, but when the wool is boiled in lime water, the smell is particularly unpleasant, and it will corrode the skin, and people nowadays can't bear that kind of suffering.

Yesterday, when talking about wool, Ding Qi recalled this incident and understood that wool could be washed by boiling it in lime. In addition, the wool is full of oil, and the wool is treated with alkaline substances.

Outside, Ding Qi asked the horns to make a fire, boiled water in a clay pot, and when the water boiled, he grabbed two handfuls of lime placed in the corner of the wall and threw them into the pot. These limes were specially sent by Ding Qi to the red deer this morning.

The boiling water quickly turned into boiling lime water, and Ding Qi put a handful of wool handed by the horn into the pot, stirring it back and forth with a wooden stick, and he was going to try to see if the wool could be washed out. Suddenly, a strong smell of mutton came from the smell, with a fishy smell, which rushed straight to Ding Qi's nose.

It smells terrible!

The horns around him hurriedly covered their noses and took a step back, lest the smell rush at them.

However, Ding Qi's face did not change and he could accept this taste. I've had the experience of soaking in a manure pit when I've been on a mission before, let alone this smell. The nose is automatically filtered and becomes numb directly, and the discomfort is quickly removed.

The handful of wool thrown into the pot is changing rapidly, and the original yellowish coat color gradually becomes white and tends to be white. The grease and impurities on it are quickly washed off by the boiling lime alkali water, and with the help of the tumbling water waves, it floats to the edge of the pot and slowly sticks to it.

Ding Qi was very happy to see that the wool had really changed, but on the surface it was still not too obvious, so as not to make the horns feel like they were washing wool for the first time. However, he glared at the horns fiercely, and motioned for him to come closer, not to be afraid of the smell, forbearance was gone.

The horns of the sheep were hindered by Ding Qi's orders and obscenity, no, the spirit of the overlord, it was not right, it was the power of the leader, and he slowly moved over and watched Ding Qi cook wool there.

After Ding Qi saw that the wool in the pot was no longer changing, he used a pair of chopsticks made of long wooden sticks to take out the wool and put it on the bamboo plaque prepared in advance to dry.

The dried wool was white and loose, except for a slight smell of sheep's flesh, and only some smell of lime water on it.

Seeing that the lime washed wool was effective, Ding Qi commanded the sheep horns to wash the wool, and he stood a little farther away, in the name of supervising the sheep horns, so as not to be lazy, but Ding Qi himself couldn't stand the smell of washing the wool.

The forbearant horns gradually increased the amount of wool washed each time according to Tinch's request, and when the wool occupied half of the entire clay pot, the tumbling wool was just enough to meet the requirements. If you put it again, it will take a little longer to cook.

An hour later, the washed wool was already filled with two large bamboo plaques.