The weather is cool, and the footsteps of autumn are already on the way.

The next few days were spent picking chestnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, all kinds of edible mushrooms and fungus, frantically setting traps to catch small animals, skinning, baconing, and making skins, and the sable caught was almost enough for him to make a mink coat, and squirrel skin was enough to make two hats. There are also a lot of other skins, but some of them still need to be further nitrated. While digging deeper into the forest to collect mushrooms, Tinch discovered a delicacy: porcini mushrooms.

These porcini mushrooms grow on the edge of a woodland mixed with pine and poplar trees, which is not particularly dense, with leaf litter and dead branches under the trees. The porcini mushrooms are just under those trees, and they grow very attractively and beautifully, and the thick flesh of the mushrooms is yellowish-brown, and it can be recognized because of the rich knowledge learned during special warfare training. These porcini mushrooms don't grow much, and there can be fifty or sixty scattered around them. He took about forty of them, leaving some of the soon-to-mature and some of the most small ones so that they could continue to grow and expand the population.

Ding Qi took a big turn around, and found two more places where porcini mushrooms grow, not as large as the previous one, and a total of less than a hundred were collected before and after, and the back basket was already full. This made Ding Qi decide to bring an extra back basket out next time he came out, and when he found something good, he had to drag it back.

However, before eating porcini mushrooms, Ding Qi caught some small fish for poison testing, and left them for a day and a night, and there was no problem with the small fish, so he put his mind at ease. If such a delicious thing is poisonous and can be seen and eaten, Ding Qike will regret his intestines.

In addition to these things, Ding Qi is also constantly collecting and drying hay, and every time he goes out, he will bring back a large bundle of hay and drag it home. There were more and more domesticated animals, with four sheep and nearly thirty rabbits, while pheasants had the least number of six. These animals consume a lot of forage every day, and how long the winter lasts in the primitive society, Ding Qi is also blind, and can only do his best to hoard more. But if it can't meet their daily consumption, then only some of these animals can be killed to ensure the survival of some individuals.

In terms of food storage, Ding Qi fired seven or eight large clay jars, and made five or six bamboo baskets to pack the fruits and dried fruits that were picked up, as well as dried vegetables such as calamus, dandelion, and koji cabbage. Ququcai was found by Ding Qi in the meadow below the hillside, where there was a ditch where the grass grew little. He had rarely gone in that direction before, but this time he had a lot of gains, blanching it with water and drying it to increase a vitamin store. Like an industrious little bee, Tincchi travels back and forth between the house and the various food collection points, and every time he returns, the contents of the container are increased.

In his spare time, Ding Qi will also take an axe to chop wood and collect firewood for heating. He cut down the woods directly on the edge of the jungle, sawed them into small pieces, and then chopped them into small pieces with an axe. Some of them are dried in the same place, and some of them are burned into charcoal, and other branches are not wasted, and they are also collected together for use in winter.

On the surface of the lake, there are more and more different kinds of waterfowl, as big as swans and red-crowned cranes, and small ones as geese and wild ducks, flocks around the lake and swamps in search of food. The cries of various waterfowl come and go, and they are not very lively, mixed with the sound of a large splash of water in the deep water in the distance. The black fish is still moving around, preying on the unlucky ones who accidentally stepped into the deep water, replenishing the wear and tear of their bodies and accumulating more fat for the arrival of winter.

The taste of roast duck before made Ding Qi have a lot of aftertaste, so he thought about catching more and making smoked duck and goose, so that he could improve the taste in winter.

Since he was going to the lake to hunt waterfowl, Ding Qi had to be fully prepared, and while catching ducks, he could not be idle, but also catch some fish and shrimp, collect some reeds or cattails to weave mats. And the tools it prepared are relatively complete, including rope sleeves, bows and arrows, slingshots, and two self-woven nets, and it wears camouflage uniforms that have not been worn for a long time.

In addition to the three attendants, Ding Qi also took the three adult sheep to the lake. As for the lamb, it is now considered to be a grown up, and it is very familiar with the little cutie, and it can follow without leashing it. It's not easy to collect forage these days, and you can save a lot of time and energy on other things in a simple way.

Arriving at the lake, Tinche did not stop and walked towards the swamp instead. The water is shallow, safe, and there are all kinds of waterfowl moving there, so the chances of catching them are higher.

He first threw five or six fish cages into the water and fixed them, and there were many bait in the cages, which were enough to use for a day. Then he stepped into the water with a bundle of thin green bamboo and some sharpened inverted Y-shaped sticks, knee-deep, and the ground was soft under his feet, with only some mud covering the surface of his feet. Wading through the water, Tinche came to a two-square-meter high ground in the water, on which there were footprints of various birds, ducks and geese.

It was a great hunting ground he had discovered two days ago, and Tinch had set up five trigger-type traps around the high ground in a circle, and ducks and other waterfowl would be struck in either direction, with finger-long fish or shrimp hanging from the traps to trap them. In other places where aquatic plants are abundant, Ding Qi also set traps one by one, and even laid a rope nosel under the surface of the water, but Ding Qi can only pray that the bait will not be eaten by the fish.

After the trap in the swamp was set, Tinch turned around and came to the edge of the swamp, where some small streams flowed into the swamp, but the water was very small, and only a thin layer of water flowed into the swamp on top of the sludge, which was covered with the footprints of all kinds of water birds, especially ducks and geese. Ducks like to filter feed on plankton, especially in this creek, so it becomes a feeding place for them. It's just that they all flew away when they saw Tinch coming, but they will definitely come back.

At the entrance of these streams, Ding Qi set up a row of sleeves every two or three meters, and hung eight sets on each row of sleeves, which were placed horizontally on the stream, just blocking the way up the stream, as long as the ducks wanted to come, they would be hit.

After arranging five or six of these streams, Ding Qi walked towards a small forest closer to the lake, and threaded the last eight bamboo poles into two nets, each of which was tied with seven or eight stones weighing about three catties, so that the two nets could fall quickly from the air.

That's right, Tinch is going to set up two net-type trigger traps in this grove, a thin rope is tied to the middle of the net and hung up, and then attached to the tripwire under the net by a clip, as long as an animal touches the triprope, the funnel-shaped net above will quickly fall down, trapping the animal below. Weighing up to 100 catties, some animals such as sheep or fawns can't run out, so they can only stay where they are and be caught by Ding Qi. However, if you catch some larger animals such as wild boars or leopards, you may be run away by them.

When everything was arranged, Tinche broke off some grass and leaves from the weeds and bushes around him and made a hat to put on his head, covering his hair and face, and smearing some mud on his face and hands to prevent some mosquito bites, and then he came to the reed, took out his bow and arrows, and sat down on a piece of wood, like a bush, motionless.

As for the cutie and the three of them, they were left by Ding Qi with the four sheep, observing the surrounding situation.

On the lake in the distance, there was a loud noise, the black strange fish flew over the geese and ducks on the predatory water, using the flying fish falling goose style, looking at the momentum, as well as the big mouth full of sharp teeth, seeing that the wild goose was swallowed into its mouth without even having the strength to struggle, Ding Qi was also afraid and glad for a while, that guy's mouth was more powerful than a guillotine.

Just as Ding Qi looked at the strange fish and pondered, a group of ducks scared away by the strange fish flew to the swamp in front of Ding Qi's eyes, quacking and scattering, and the cheerful cries echoed around him.

Sou!

A trap was triggered, and a duck was strangled by its neck and bounced into the air, and before it could even make a quack, it was blocked in its throat, but it opened its mouth in vain, its wings flapped, and after a while, its eyes were black and it suffocated. The other ducks around hurried away, watching curiously at the swinging companion in the air, and after a while they dispersed to continue their search for food.

Suddenly, the whoosh sound continued to sound. The frightened ducks around them stepped on the water, flapping their wings and flying forward, the sound of the water splashing mixed with the swishing and whining of some bamboo poles quickly cutting through the air and the muffled cries of the ducks holding their voices in their throats, and they could only flapp their wings weakly, following in the footsteps of the other dead ducks.

Just before the duck took off, the bow and arrow in Ding Qi's hand also made a swishing sound, and the swift bamboo arrow nailed the duck that was about to take off to the water. Ding Qi didn't care about the result, and quickly shot arrows again, killing several stupid ducks one by one.

The ducks flew away, and chose a seemingly safe place to fall down and continue to feed there, and they did not even glance at their lost companions, and seized all the time to fill their stomachs, until they could not eat at all, and then ran to the side to take a nap, or to comb their feathers with their own flat beaks, or to help their little friends to comb their feathers. They need to use this short period before winter to replenish their body's needs and accumulate more fat to combat the harsh winter.

Tinch got up from his hiding place, and happily rushed into the swamp, plucking the ducks hanging from the nooses, especially the trap set under the water, and even caught a duck. The little cuties lying on guard in the distance also jumped in excitedly when they saw Ding Qi rushing into the water, followed Ding Qi, and helped him carry some uncontrollable ducks to the shore one by one.

After picking up the ducks in the water, he picked up the ducks that had been caught by the row at the mouth of the creek, and even caught a wild goose, a particularly fat one. There was no movement in the grove for the time being, and Ding Qi didn't care about it, but sat on the grass and drank a few sips of water before taking out the fish cage in the water.

In each fish cage, there were more than a dozen or twenty whitebait about a foot long, and these whitebait, which were as thick as a wrist, were thrown into a bamboo basket by Ding Qi, ready to be cleaned by the water's edge.

Ding Qi counted it, and the wild duck caught nineteen, one wild goose, and nearly a hundred, so many prey was enough for Ding Qi to clean up for a long time.

There was still some time before noon, Ding Qi stood by a clean lake, humming Li Zongsheng's song "The Hills", washing and peeling off the whitebait. The three pets each held a whitebait in their arms and gnawed in the grass, humming excitedly.

Suddenly, a miserable lamb crowed, followed by three adult sheep bleating in one direction, except for the lamb, and the sound of flickering wings faintly came from the grass.