Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 52 The Granary (1) (Proofreading)

The brick-making team re-dredged the drainage ditch, which had been shallow by the rain, and re-widened and deepened the drainage ditch again, reaching a total depth and width of half a meter.

This is not done in vain anyway, and the soil dug up is just used to make bricks.

The roof was then re-arranged, the wind-blown thatch was recompacted, and the three fence walls were reinforced.

After that, the brick-making team took out the tools and started the day's work, and the fishing team went downstream to find a suitable water depth and prepare for the fishing operation.

The 20 members of the fishing team, under the leadership of Wang Tian and Slender Toutuo, were divided into two groups.

One of the groups of 10 people, led by Slender Toutuo, crossed the river on a bamboo raft to the opposite side of the river.

Of the 10, 6 people will stay on the other side of the river and 4 on the raft.

Prior to this, in order to ensure safety, Wang Tian asked the tallest thin head of the entire tribe to test the depth of the water in this section of the water where the barrage was to be fished.

Due to last night's heavy rain, the water level has risen by about 30 to 50 centimeters overall.

Now it is impossible to stand in the middle of the river, which will affect the next fishing, more or less.

Slender Tou Tuo lowered his fishing nets as he walked across the river. On the wide side of the fishing net, a float made of hollow bamboo tubes is tied with straw ropes at intervals of one meter.

On the other side of the net, a long straw rope was tied to the two corners and in the middle.

When the fishing begins, people on both sides of the river drag the two corners of the nets forward, and the rope in the middle is tied to the bamboo raft.

The entire net that needs to be sunk to the bottom is tied to the edge of the net, which is made of straw rope, and the net pocket contains the stones used to press the net, which is not heavy, but it is enough to press the net to the bottom.

The fishing nets have been submerged, and except for the four people on the shore, the rest of the people who have entered the water have life jackets made of hollow bamboo poles tied to their chests and backs.

Due to the rapid rise of the river, the tribesmen who are not familiar with the nature of the water are still facing a certain danger. Protective measures must be taken well.

Another bamboo raft has also been launched, and there are eight people on the two rafts, two people use bamboo artemisia to control the raft, and the other two are responsible for setting up the net.

After the preparations were completed, Wang Tian was not in a hurry to start, but just asked everyone to practice skillfully on the side of the fishing net equipped with floats.

At this time, Wu also came to the river, and this time he wanted to see with his own eyes the process of creating miracles with fishing nets.

Under Wang Tian's command, the people in the drill repeated the operation of lifting and lowering the fishing net over and over again, until everyone was in unison.

The eight-person exercise on the two bamboo rafts did not go so smoothly, and after the net collection began, they needed to come to the center of the river to beat the bamboo raft horizontally.

Next, the two people on each bamboo raft should control one end of the bamboo raft to keep it horizontal, and the other two people should stand at both ends and be responsible for lifting the net.

For something that has never been done before. Everyone's movements seemed very unfamiliar, and Wang Tian didn't urge, letting everyone keep practicing.

Wang Tian was actually a little worried about Wu's arrival, he was worried that at the moment when the net was lifted, Wu saw the scene of the fish jumping around in the whole net, and happily forgot the danger and came to help.

In this regard, he told Wu to just stand on the shore and watch carefully, and never go into the water to help.

At the same time, he also instructed the people who operated, if there is a fish that misses the net, don't care about it, keep their posts, and don't lose a big one because of a small one.

In fact, Wang Tian was still worried about the tribe's cherishment and desire for food, and did things that he didn't care about.

Although everyone in the tribe unanimously agreed, Wang Tian kept repeating it three times. And he said cruelly that if anyone does not do what is required, he will be banned from participating in fishing forever.

The reason why he kept telling him so carefully was because he had seen the scene when the net was lifted: as the nets on both sides were constantly closed, the frightened fish in the nets kept jumping. The surface of the water is like boiling water.

It was a spectacular scene, and it was easy to lose your mind and chase for one or two fish that slipped through the net.

Two hours later, the eight people on the bamboo raft had been fighting many times, and after Wang Tian confirmed that everyone's actions were indeed ready for operation, the first barrage fishing operation of the Tianlong tribe officially began.

One bamboo raft docked first, and the other bamboo raft was driven quickly by a straw rope for a short distance before staying in the center of the river.

The side of the fishing net with the floating side was not needed at first, and only four people were needed to hold the two horns on the shore.

The remaining 12 people all went to the other side where the stones were hung to drag the fishing nets forward, while Wang Tian commanded in the center on the shore.

The crowd dragged the fishing nets across the river in a hurry, and on the side with the float, from time to time a fish jumped out of thin air.

As the length of the sweeping lake continued to expand, more and more fish jumped out of the water, and Wang Tian kept asking everyone to slow down.

The four people on the bamboo raft had a lot of effort at this time to control the rafting speed of the bamboo raft.

Wu and the others saw more and more fish jumping up in the nets, and their mood gradually became excited.

"Be calm, give me a little calm!" Wang Tian kept admonishing.

After sweeping another section of the river, on the side of the floating fishing net, there is already a dense layer of fish backs on the water, and fish continue to jump out of the water.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Wang Tian issued an order to stop advancing. Then another raft was launched into the middle of the river.

Wang Tian motioned to the bamboo raft downstream to lift the net slowly, and when the net was pulled out of the water, the stones hanging on the side of the net were thrown into the bamboo raft. The bamboo rafts upstream are also ready to set up nets.

At this time, the personnel movement began: the four corners of the fishing net were pulled by four people. The other four on either side quickly went into the water to lift the edge of the net and prepare to lift the net.

After instructing Wu not to move, Wang Tian swam into the water to the edge of the fishing net downstream, cut off all the stones hanging from the fishing net with a knife, and threw them on the bamboo raft.

Then he climbed onto the raft and began to direct the crowd to close the net.

The people on the water try to lift the net above their heads and close it slowly, and the four people who hold the four corners of the net first go down to the river, and then quickly close it, one person lifts the net with both hands, and the other person uses the rope on the four corners to quickly connect the edges of the fish bowl.

After the four corners were closed, the people on the water stopped approaching, and the fish kept jumping up from the water, and the sound of the water was loud.

After a while, the ends of the net were locked, and the whole net was tied into a large rectangular pocket.

"Hurry, hurry up and close," Wang Tian ordered with constant gestures.

As the distance between the two groups of people got closer and closer, the fish jumped more frequently, and some fish kept escaping through the nets.