Chapter 24: Netization
Lin Ji went back to the tribe in the morning and at noon to see the progress of the weaving net. He had calculated before that if four women weave a net at the same time, it will only take more than ten hours to weave it. Now I also add a few girls such as Caiyu.,Plus the front has already knitted some more.,A day should be able to complete.。
At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Ji was impatient to stay in the river, and went directly back to the tribe, and at this time the net was finally almost woven.
Lin Ji took down the net basket one by one, tied the small stone pendant that had been broken and polished, and tied a ten-meter-long rope at the center of the net.
Cast the net complete!
Lin Ji tied the rope to his wrist and put away the net one by one. At the end of receipt, you can see that the network port is basically flush. That's pretty good.
The stone pendant is larger than the lead pendant of later generations, but it should not affect the effect. The pendant should have the appearance of six or seven catties, and Lin Ji felt that he should be more suitable to use it.
Once the net is knotted, let's go down to the river and try the effect.
Lin Ji walked to the river with a net, followed by a long man. Daihime, the mother, the old man and the children are all there. Many people want to know how the net was used after Lin Ji dismantled the basket.
Bear Paw followed, his face cloudy. Bet that the net that is made in eight days will come out in five days. Although he didn't seem to have anything to lose, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.
Lin Ji walked to the river, and the red monkey hurriedly got on the raft pole. Lin Ji waved his hand to indicate that he did not need to. I haven't cast a net much, so let's familiarize myself with it on the shore first, in case it gets planted in the water on the raft, so many people can't afford to lose people.
The forest trail chose a section of the river with more grass and less shrubs, and faintly saw traces of fish spitting bubbles in the middle of the river. Although this place has been plagued by Lin Ji and others with nets and other things for several days, there are still some fish that live leisurely under the water.
Lin Ji hung half of the net on his left hand, and half of his right hand shook it loose, twisted his waist to get used to it, and threw the net out hard.
The six-meter net was cast into an oval in the air and thrown into the water with a click. Behind him, a group of people stared at the river, trying to see the flowers from the river.
"Hey, that's throwing the net? Will the river god bring the fish? Someone didn't see the rope in Lin Ji's hand, and he was full of wonder.
"I was screamed, and I had a rope tied to my hand."
Lin Ji carefully pulled up the net, and some fish in the river seemed to be white.
"There are fish, there are fish."
The children standing on the side saw it and began to shout. Zhu Monkey and several other children saw more clearly on the raft and became more excited.
Even Shi Beak, who is usually relatively calm, has become acute, and when he saw Lin Ji's slow rope, he pulled it twice.
"Tap, tap, it's hanged." Lin Ji pulled a few times and found that the weight of the net was wrong, and he knew that it was easy to hang the branches and debris in the water, but it was two points slower.
The stone beak was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, but he didn't dare to use his strength: "If you slow down, the fish will run!" ”
When he pulled the net, Lin Ji felt a strange vibration coming from the net, as if he was hanging, and couldn't help but spend a little more effort pulling out. I saw that in the fishing net, the white flowers were full of fish, and many of them were still falling down the net.
"I'll go." I never thought that there would be so much to gain from one net. The forest trail slipped, and the net fell back a little.
"Help pull." Lin Ji hurriedly said to the stone beak.
Stone Beak reacted, and the two of them worked together to drag the net to the shore.
As soon as the net came ashore, I saw a large bag of fish struggling desperately in the net of the grass, and the white fish belly made people dizzy. The old men and women who were watching were all dumbfounded.
"That's all the fish?" Beside Da Ji, there was an old man trembling and trembling. I've never seen hunting so easy, and the old heart can't stand it.
Da Ji had a bigger heart, and looked at the fish and said, "The trace boy said that this net can go, but the fish can't, so he caught it." It's that big...... That's why I catch a lot of fish. ”
Bear Paw's face finally darkened. Sure enough, this kid has a net, and the others don't have to hunt at all, and they can all drive out of the tribe. Baimu, that fool, why didn't he burn this net?
The children were afraid that the fish in the net would run away, so they pounced and hugged them and wanted to pull them out, but Lin Ji hurriedly stopped them: "Don't move, stop, stop." This one has to be taken like this. ”
The forest trail blasted the children open, turned the net upside down, and took out the fish one by one. According to the children's method, this net can only catch fish once.
It took five minutes to pick up the fish, and everyone took a look at the fish basket. Okay, the small half basket of fish is here, and everyone will not be hungry today.
Everyone looked at Lin Ji with blazing eyes, hoping that he could do this again.
Lin Ji saw their expectations, and said, "It's impossible to have so many on the Internet." It's also a matter of luck. There were so many nets just now, it is estimated that the fish are not prepared now, and we were caught off guard. ”
Da Ji and the old people didn't care, they just let the forest track go to the net.
Lin Ji walked a few steps forward, saw that there were no obvious branches in the river, and lowered the net again.
There was a suspicion that the net was deliberately released, but there were still four or five fish in the net.
After that, I cast a few nets in a row, and the harvest was not as much as the first net, but there were still fish in the nets......
Da Ji and a few old men seemed to have seen through the effect of this net, and they smiled back.
Lin Ji began to cast his net at about five o'clock, walked two or three hundred meters to the riverbank, and cast his net less than 30 times, and caught four baskets full of fish before the sun set.
This is an unprecedented harvest, and the shock to the tribe is self-evident.
The mothers and the children who helped weave the nets held their heads up with pride. It's as if you built a pyramid with your own hands.
The women came back from picking chestnuts and looked around the four baskets, full of awe that they wanted to touch but did not dare to touch the net that was drying.
On this day, the men were also quite competitive, they did not hide outside and did not come back, although they did not hunt large beasts, and they also got a lot of birds and birds and small beasts back, and it is estimated that each person can eat a piece of meat the size of a child's palm. They are proving that they are not useless.
They stepped on the afterglow of the setting sun and returned, and they also walked with their waists straight. Because in the past, they had gained enough to be praised by the women of the tribe for a while.
Then they saw four baskets full of catches. The ringing in my ears was the net that the stone beak and the forest trail had to work together to pull up.
Da Ji really didn't give these men a good look, but in the end, she still allocated enough meat to everyone to eat. In addition to this food, three wolf cubs became food today. Two of them were killed by Bai Mu, and the other one was injured by a fall, and Lin Ji felt that he couldn't raise them well, so he also slaughtered them together.
With so much food, it's easy to spoil if you don't eat it. And Daiki expects that there may be so many more fish tomorrow. So it's generous to the men.
After everyone had a complicated meal, Lin Ji took Caiyu and a few others to slowly smoke the leftover fish.
At the moment there is no salt, so you can't make salted fish, air-dried fish or anything. If you want to save the fish, you can only choose to smoke. However, the practice of smoked fish in later generations was made with salt. Lin Ji didn't know if he could keep the fish smoked out without salt, so he only tried it on a small scale with colored feathers.
Da Ji saw that Lin Ji was still grilling fish, but he didn't care much. Today, the forest traces have made great contributions, and it is also appropriate to eat more. However, she saw that Caiyu and other children were also roasting, so she couldn't stand it.
When she got closer, she noticed that the method of grilling fish such as Saiwa seemed to be a little different from usual, and she couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?" ”
Lin Ji said: "We want to try to dry the fish and let it sit for a few more days." This may allow us to save the meat for the winter. ”
"Smoke it dry and save it?" Daiki seems to see a new door being opened.
Lin Ji explained: "I guessed too. I think the chestnuts will not spoil if they dry out after drying, and the fish should be fine if they are dried. However, if the fish was to be dried, it would stink before it was dried, so I thought of smoking, so that the fish could be smoked before it became stinky. ”
"Then why are you only doing this?" Behind Da Ji, there are still two baskets of fish that I haven't eaten.
Lin Ji said: "That's the case, I don't know if this method has any effect, we just want to try it first." In addition, we don't want to go down the river tomorrow, and we'll keep the fish for tomorrow and eat them ourselves. ”
"What?"