Chapter 10 News of Fishing and Salt Mines
Wang Lang brought two nets four or five meters long and two meters wide, the mesh is a little thick, each rope has the thickness of a little finger, this kind of simple fishing net is definitely not good for catching small fish, but for Wang Lang this is enough.
Wang Lang had no previous fishing experience, but there were many fish and shrimp in the river, and there were many unknown small amphibians, Wang Lang's idea was to set up a net in the lower reaches of the river, and nail three sticks to the center of the river, fix the net there, and the bottom was compacted with stones to prevent the fish from slipping away from the bottom.
Then Wang Lang took three men a hundred meters upstream of the river, holding another net with wooden sticks tied to the bottom and stones tied to drive the fish downstream from the upstream.
After erecting the purse seine net downstream, Wang Lang took Jianya and two other young men to the upstream with the net.
Because the fishing net itself is relatively heavy, after putting it in the river, although the mesh is relatively large, but there is still a lot of resistance, four men in groups of two wrap the ropes on both sides of the net corner around their waists, drag the slightly heavy net along the current and slowly walk downstream.
This is never the case in this world, the creatures in the river have found danger, and the schools of fish that have been startled in a panic are scurrying around, and the smaller fish have escaped through the mesh and have fled their tragic fate, and those who cannot swim past have struggled in vain, and they have turned around and fled frantically downstream, and from time to time a few fish leap out of the water and make a splash.
Seeing this scene, Wang Lang couldn't help but smile, feeling that today's receipt would definitely surprise everyone.
The people waiting on the riverbank, looking at the figure gradually approaching in the river, everyone's mood became nervous, and they didn't know whether they could catch fish in this fishing method they had never heard of.
But their fears were soon extinguished by a churning splash not far away.
"Fish, lots of fish"
A child cheers as he points to a school of fish swimming fast.
Fanxing looked at the excited clansmen, and couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, why did he have such a strange mood Fanxing was very puzzled.
"You are mine, since you entered this door, you can't have children with other people, you can only have children that belong to me." Fanxing thought about what Wang Lang said to him before, and Fanxing still didn't understand Wang Lang's thoughts.
The previous clansmen reproduced offspring, and the men of each tribe went to another tribe and waited until the woman became pregnant before returning to the tribe, and Fanxing had seen the women of the clan and the men of other tribes doing those things that gave birth to children, and the women would do that with different men, this is something that has been recognized by everyone for a long time, why Wang Lang seems to be disgusted by this matter.
Although he couldn't figure it out, in Fanxing's heart, Wang Lang was the wisest person he had ever met, and what he said was definitely right. It doesn't seem wrong to have children with her alone.
The old patriarch told them that the birth of children of the same clan would be punished by the gods, so that every child born would be disabled, and that this would lead the tribe to perish, and the old patriarch took this matter very seriously, and if anyone violated it would be expelled.
With the cheers of the crowd, Fanxing came back to his senses from his thoughts, looking at the figure of Wang Lang gradually approaching in the river, Fanxing touched his stomach that had not reacted so far, and couldn't help but feel a little lost, but when he heard Wang Lang calling himself, Fanxing hurriedly retracted his mind.
"Fanxing, you tell them to take a small net and fish out these fish!"
Hearing Wang Lang's words, Fanxing hurriedly translated Wang Lang's words to the excited people on the shore.
The child was left on the shore, and the woman and the three remaining men scrambled to grab their nets and jump into the water.
The space, which is more than one meter wide and four meters long, is crowded with schools of fish jumping in panic, and Wang Lang estimates that there are at least a hundred fish in it.
The clansmen took the fishing net and fished seven or eight fish of ten catties were fished up, and the two people struggled to drag the net ashore, looking at the fish churning in the net, everyone felt that they were dreaming, even if they were dreaming, it was impossible to dream of what was happening in front of them.
A few children ran over and stretched out their hands to catch the fish in the net, but they were scolded by the adults, and they stood aside unwillingly, watching the adults throw the fish into the bamboo basket.
After most of the busy day, Wang Lang and his team caught a total of four or five hundred catties of fish, and also caught more than a dozen turtles and amphibians similar to baby fish.
The clansmen looked at the more than a dozen baskets of fish in front of them, and knelt on the ground to bow to the sky, Wang Lang asked the stars to know that they were grateful for the gift given by the gods.
Although Wang Lang scoffed at this kind of behavior in his heart, but talking about atheism with the people of the primitive tribe is to make himself uncomfortable, not to mention that Wang Lang also feels that having faith is not necessarily a bad thing, in this wild and harsh living conditions, at least the gods in their hearts can make them have more expectations in their hearts when they are in difficulty.
After the ceremony of blessing the gods was completed, the men carried the poles, and the women and children carried large and small bamboo baskets, and returned to the tribe in high spirits.
"Lang, we caught so many fish, but we can't finish it, if we leave it for a long time, we won't be able to eat the meat." Jianya sat beside Wang Lang and said with some concern, he couldn't finish eating too much food, this was a situation he had never encountered before, and wasting food made him feel that it was an extremely painful thing.
Although Wang Lang's language talent is not good, but the language of Fanxing and their people is not as complicated as the previous world, after this period of hard study, although he can't understand all the meaning, but he can also understand a general idea, although it sounds a little stumbling, but with Fanxing's translation, there is no obstacle to communication.
Wang Lang looked at this young man who was about the same age as himself, and felt that this young man had his own ideas, and he could see farther than others, and if he didn't have himself, he should be a good leader.
"It's a real problem, and now that there is no salt, we have to smoke the fish like bacon first, so that the fish will not spoil for at least a while."
"What is salt?" Jianya asked suspiciously.
Wang Lang was stunned, now including Wang Lang's own replenishment of the body's salt can only rely on drinking animal blood, it is indeed a little difficult to let Wang Lang explain what salt is, not to mention Fanxing's current language ability, and he may not be able to fully translate his own words.
Wang Lang thought about it carefully and said: "Eating salt can give us strength, just like we usually drink blood, and salt can keep the meat from spoiling" Speaking of this, Wang Lang suddenly remembered something, and asked: "By the way, have you ever seen a large number of animals gathered in one place in this neighborhood before, licking stones or soil. If there is, there is probably salt there."
Jianya frowned and thought carefully for a while, his eyes lit up, patted his head, and said, "I remember, there is such a place for a day walking from here in the direction of sunset."
"Really? Are you sure?"