Chapter 79: Exploring the Yudai River
After the wall was built, the two of them rested for a day and ran to the Yudai River, which was called an outing. Mainly because the two of them are really tired enough and really need to rest, and Xu Qiang also wants to take advantage of this opportunity to go to the river to have a good look and see if there is anything good.
The weather is hot, the sun has always been very face-saving, and the shadow will be revealed every day. In those few square meters of vegetable field, the pepper seeds have already grown into seedlings, which may have the effect of artificial manure, and the growth is gratifying. Xu Qiang's body has also fully recovered, although there is still a little inconvenience, but it has not affected his daily life and work.
The two of them were fully dressed, wearing a Penny hat, a long bow on their shoulders, a quiver and a basket on their backs, a long knife at their waists, a bamboo spear in their hands, a straight knife tied to their legs, and camouflage uniforms.
The outfits of the two are no different from before, only Xu Qiang and Luo Fatzi's tops are different from before, the place where they were scratched by the black-backed brown wolf before has been covered with dense stitches, crooked, and the stitches are thick and thin, this is a stitch and thread when the two of them were fine a few nights ago, life was not easy in ancient times, not to mention relatively precious clothes, this is one of the only two coats they have.
The two of them made their way downstream along the stream, which was covered with rocks of various sizes and was a little slippery, but it did not affect their speed. In addition to the silverfish I had seen before, there were also some small fish that resembled small white stripes swimming around. There are also many aquatic plants found on the riverbank, not to mention calamus and saxifrage, as well as shallots, cattails, and water celery, and the discovery of water celery also made the two happy, because it increased the variety of vegetables they consumed.
"Brother Qiang, come and see, there's a snake here, such a big one!"
Luo Fatzi, who was walking in front, exclaimed, and kept using the bamboo spear in his hand to flick between the stones. Xu Qiang hurried two steps, stood next to Luo Fatzi, and looked between the stones, but there was a spotted snake with a length of nearly two meters and a thin arm, staring at Luo Fatzi with his head held high, but he did not react to Xu Qiang's arrival.
"Brother Qiang, I'll catch the snake with my hand, you take a bamboo spear and help me take a look, I'll cut a branch and come over." After speaking, he gave the bamboo spear in his hand to Xu Qiang, and the spotted snake immediately turned its head at Xu Qiang after seeing the bamboo spear in Xu Qiang's hand, feeling as if the snake and the bamboo spear were.
After a while, Luo Fatzi grabbed a Y-shaped branch with a forked end in his hand, stood behind the snake, gently grabbed the snake's tail with his left hand, and slowly pressed the snake's head down with the Y-shaped branch in his right hand until the snake's head lay flat on the ground, and the stick in his hand instantly used the top of the Y-shaped branch to fork the back of the snake's head.
The snake struggled violently, but the fat man did not loosen his hand, handed the stick in his hand to his left hand, and pulled out his right hand from his waist* and slashed down the stick, cutting off his head with a knife.
The successful Luo Fat Man carried the snake's tail and slipped up, and after draining the blood head-down, he threw the snake into the bamboo back basket behind him and continued to set off. This snake was an unexpected joy, and it looked like it was twenty pounds smaller, and the fat man of Ledeluo shouted, saying that there was snake soup to eat at night. And Xu Qiang had a creepy feeling, although he was not afraid of snakes, but thinking about its smooth appearance, he still felt a little chill behind him.
After packing up the snake and throwing it into the back basket behind them, the two continued to walk towards the Yudai River.
The Yudai River in front of me is calm as a virgin, the river water is clear, the current is not urgent, the big fish swim quickly in the water, and they don't panic when they see someone coming, they still play and chase in the water, but they are just a little away from the two. The river is five to seven meters wide and about one and a half to two meters deep.
And our foodie Luo Fatzi wanted to take a bamboo spear to catch two fish after seeing the fish in the water, but was stopped by Xu Qiang and signaled him to catch fish again on the return trip, anyway, there are many fish.
The two walked downstream along the Yudai River, where there were more stones, mostly pebbles, and a variety of different kinds of weeds and aquatic plants grew on both sides of the river.
The curved Yudai River gradually spreads to both sides as it approaches the mouth of the valley, forming a wide body of water, although it does not form a swamp, but it is also rich in aquatic grass, there are many fish, and there is even an animal similar to a bullfrog crawling around on the bank of the river, from time to time preying on insects on the grass stems, with two sharp horns on its head, and some pimples and spots on its body, like a toad, looking a little hideous, before determining whether this aquatic amphibian is poisonous or not, the two decided not to move it for now.
It was surrounded by a shallow beach, where some wading birds and unknown waterfowl were feeding, and soon a flock of birds flew from afar, and on closer inspection it turned out to be a duck-like animal, which quacked from time to time in the water, but it was seven or eight points similar to a duck.
After walking a kilometer further, the two found a large area of aquatic plants-reeds, which were about five or six acres long, growing a lot, and the vast wind and waves were swaying with the wind, rippling with green waves, during which various birds made all kinds of crisp chirping sounds in the reeds.
Seeing this piece of reed, Xu Qiang shouted that he had found a treasure, and the house that was about to take shape found a suitable roofing material.
After confirming the safety of the surrounding waters, the two took out the long knife at their waists and slashed at the reeds swaying in the water, and after half a day, they had collected enough reeds, all of which were dragged by the two to the grass on the shore to dry, ready to be dried and then transported back to make reed foil for building the roof.
The two of them were sweating profusely, but when they saw the harvest on the shore and the dozen or so bird eggs in front of them, their hearts were still happy.
Seeing that the time was about the same, the two were ready to go home, back to the confluence of the water stream and the river, and the two of them used the bamboo spear in their hands to fork two big fish and bring them back. These big fish resemble grass carp, but they have the whiskers on the carp's mouth, which are nearly one meter long and weigh twenty or thirty catties. If it weren't for the fact that these fish weren't too afraid of people, it is estimated that neither of them would have been able to catch them.
I went back along the creek and picked some tender green water celery along the way, ready to go back to cook and eat.
When they returned to the camp, the two of them who were hungry and croaking hurriedly set up a pot to boil water for cooking, and in less than half an hour, the smooth and delicious snake soup came out of the pot, and some mushroom powder was sprinkled in it to enhance the freshness and taste, but it could not erase the strong fishy smell of snake meat. The half of the fish that was grilled was meaty, and with only a little salt seasoning, the hungry Xu Qiang and the two filled all the food into their stomachs.