Chapter 8 There are fish in the river

The next day, the villagers of Baibao Village got up earlier than usual, in fact, no one slept well that night, after getting up and looking north, the beacon smoke had disappeared, and there were good things out of the village to climb up to look at other places, and found that it was also very quiet, so everyone was relieved a lot.

"We have more than 100,000 troops in Datong, and there is the Great Wall in the north, this is an iron-clad country, and the Tartars can't get by!" Someone began to spit and pretend to understand.

The Zhu family's breakfast is the cake prepared for emergency yesterday, the cake is mixed with mixed noodles and bran bran, the taste is very poor, but the main meal is almost the same every day, during the meal, Zhu Da's parents have been exchanging glances, and finally the mother Zhu Wangshi said: "Xiaoda, the old man is not good to himself, and the whole family is killed, it is said that the family is still haunted, if you want to find him, you will be haunted by ghosts." ”

The words of demons and monsters are useful to scare children, but now Zhu Da doesn't care at all, hearing this, he can't help laughing there, this reaction makes his parents look at each other, and his mother Zhu Wang first said with disgust: "Your father's courage is not big, why are you so bold, Xiaoda, let's not learn martial arts, come back at night and my mother will give you soup and noodles to eat." ”

The noodle soup is made of pure grain, and some oil and salt must be added, for the Zhu family, that is, they have the opportunity to eat around the three festivals of the year, and it is harvest time now, and there is more surplus grain in their hands, otherwise they will have to borrow grain from outside.

"Mother, we don't have much food in our family, don't waste it for me, I still have to learn martial arts, those family members are so bullying, and there are Tartars coming, what's wrong with learning martial arts to strengthen your body." Zhu Da said calmly.

The house was suddenly quiet, Zhu Da's parents didn't know what to say, a twelve-year-old boy who had never been out of the village much, suddenly said such an insightful and organized word, which made people overwhelmed and didn't know how to refute.

"If you want to toss, you can toss, and you don't care at home!" Father Zhu Shishi ended this persuasion with a snort.

Angry is angry, when Zhu Shilin went to the field, he still deliberately told a few words, such as if there is any trouble, remember to run to the cellar first, don't make a sound inside, except for the father and mother to call others, no one should agree.

"The kid is older!" Before going out, my mother had such a sigh.

Like yesterday, Zhu Da simply cleaned up the house, and then went out to run to the old man's house, and the fields of the Xiang family were pawned to the people in the village, and Xiang Lao Han and Zhou Qingyun got up later than the villagers and came back earlier, so Zhu Da could catch up.

didn't wait long, and when he saw Xiang Yue Xiang Lao Han going out, Zhu Da hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, and asked in a solemn voice: "Uncle Xiang, I want to learn martial arts from you!" ”

Seeing Zhu Da appear, Xiang Lao Han and Zhou Qingyun, who was following him, were stunned, Xiang Lao Han frowned, and said in a sullen voice: "I don't know martial arts, and I can't teach you!" With that, he walked past Zhu Da.

Zhu Da thought of being rejected, but he didn't expect such an answer, and he said to the old man Xiang Yue very sincerely, not like looking for a reason to prevaricate, when Zhou Qingyun, who was carrying a bow, passed by him, he squatted down and said with a smile: "I don't know martial arts, you want to learn, there is a monkey in the bazaar, you can go and learn!" ”

Zhu Da didn't know how to answer this, just smiled bitterly, if it was really a twelve-year-old child, he should have lost his temper by this time, but Zhu Da was calm and could face it with a smile, his reaction made Zhou Qingyun stunned, and he greeted the old man over there, and quickly got up and followed, Zhu Da noticed that he carried a knife around the old man's waist, which was similar to the saber that entered the village that day.

"Uncle Xiang, I'll come over tomorrow, I must learn from you!" Zhu Da shouted loudly, he also replaced learning martial arts with learning skills, and the old man ignored it, and Zhou Qingyun didn't make a grimace when he turned around.

A few people in the village have already noticed this, and a closed village like Baibao Village lives the same life day after day, and Zhu Da's action makes everyone feel interesting and fresh, and there are two probes to see the excitement.

Going away to the family, the old and the young, Zhu Da also got up from the ground and walked towards the river, before learning martial arts skills, it was important to strengthen the body first, but with two meals a day, the supply of multigrain soup and little water, I am afraid that the body is not strong, but it is a bad foundation.

Zhu Da didn't jog this time, but just walked slowly, occasionally bending down to pick up a few grains of wheat that others had missed, and then walking towards the field where there was no farming, pulling up a few weeds from time to time.

After walking to the river, Zhu Da already had a handful of wild grass in his hand, and when the villagers in the field saw it, they all thought that it was a child playing blindly, and he was about to throw it away after playing for a while, but no one cared, but Zhu Da never lost it, went to the river and washed it in the river water, carefully placed it in a sheltered place on the stone, and then collected dry grass and dead branches, put it in a dry place on the bank, and pressed it with stones, he collected enough, and even surrounded it with stones.

Then Zhu Da walked slowly along the river, and stopped at one place after a few steps, first moved a pile of stones from the surrounding area, and a flat almost stone slab was picked out and thrown on the bank, and then he dug a very shallow puddle in the shallow water by the river with his hands, and then used stones to surround the edge of the puddle, and used large and small stones to enclose the raised edge as much as possible, and the water flow at the shallow bank was gentle, and there was no need to worry about it collapsing.

After the foundation was completed, Zhu Da began to dig the puddle with his hands, and after the center was about a foot and a half deep, Zhu Da put the prepared small boulders in the puddle and covered the bottom of the pit as much as possible.

At this time, the river is already very cold, Zhu Da dug for a while and went ashore to trot for a while, or rubbed his legs by himself to maintain the temperature of his body, and the children in the village generally play by the river when it is hot, and no one comes to the river at this time, and the adults are busy with farm work, but no one comes to disturb them.

After these things were done, Zhu Da went to the shore and pulled out a lot of long and tough reeds in the field, tied these reeds to small stones, and stuck them at the bottom of the pit one by one, and was busy for more than an hour.

The puddle dug out was originally very muddy, the river water communicated, and slowly became clear, Zhu Da looked at the river, pondered for a moment, and then took out a small piece of cake from his arms, which he left from breakfast, Zhu Da went to the pile of weeds he picked again, checked a few times, took out a dozen and kneaded them, coated the grass clippings and juice on the cake, and then kneaded and mixed them thoroughly, and then divided the crumbs of the cake and the weeds into two parts, one sprinkled around the puddle, and the other was put into the puddle, and these debris were stopped by the reeds and floated in the pit.

Only then did Zhu Da leave the water, jumped for a while, threw off the droplets as much as possible, and then wiped the water dry with his jacket, the water was very cold, his body was very weak, he had to do it, but while doing it, he also had to avoid colds as much as possible, in this era, colds can kill people.

Regardless of whether he felt hungry or not, Juda began to jog towards the village, which had nothing to do with this exercise, but to keep his body warm so as not to catch a cold.

After arriving home, Zhu Da went directly to the stove, buried a branch in the ashes of the stove pit, he pulled out the branch, the front end of the branch has been burned red, but there is no open flame, it is not easy to start a fire this year, the fire at home is buried in the ashes, and when cooking and boiling water, open it and add the fire and firewood, and then bury it when it is used up, and repeat, Zhu Da borrows the fire like this.

Tossing back and forth, Zhu Da's body and clothes were already dry, and on the way back to the river, he kept blowing on the branches, for fear that the charcoal fire would be extinguished.

When he arrived at the shore, Zhu Da took the branch and went to press the dry grass and the dry branch first, and stretched the branch into the front section of the charcoal, and it didn't take long for the smoke to come out of it, and after a while, the open flame was ignited, Zhu Da hurriedly added the dead branch, the fire was already burning, and he found a two-finger-thick dry branch and put it in the fire.

After doing this, Zhu Da walked towards the puddle, back and forth, tossing the fire, half an hour is also in the past, according to the experience of the year, it should be harvested, slowly approaching the past, Zhu Da couldn't help but breathe lightly, and was actually a little nervous.

There are fish! There are a few fish in the puddle!

In those more than 20 years of life, the knowledge of wilderness travel and wilderness survival has been very complete and systematic, and professionals and poor and boring people have constantly tried and expanded, and have come up with systematic experience and methods, which are obviously modern societies with abundant materials, but imitate the conditions of primitive societies to live, and this kind of knowledge based on insecurity has brought a lot of fun, but only violent institutions have practical uses.

Zhu Da studied these back then, on the one hand, because of the insecurity in his heart, and on the other hand, because of his interest, but he never thought that that knowledge would be used here, and it was just to eat enough and supplement protein.

At that time, human beings did not develop and utilize, there were very few places that did not set foot in, and animals everywhere were already afraid of people, and they had already developed some instincts and habits, such as avoiding people and running when they saw people, many rivers could not see big fish, and many fish in the water system would not be caught easily.

The method of digging pits in the water and burying grass to catch fish was taught by a senior of Zhu Da's travelers, but it was also explained at the time that this method could only be used in inaccessible places, and the probability of success was not high.

But this era is different, the people in northern Shanxi do not even have the habit of eating fish, Zhu Da remembers very clearly, the people in Yansui and Yulin eat fish without internal organs, and directly put it in millet porridge to cook, the taste can be imagined.

No one eats, no one catches, the fish in the river naturally grow fat, there is no threat of natural enemies, and naturally there is no instinct to defend against those means of luring fish and catching fish, and this fishing trap can naturally exert the greatest effect.

Zhu Da got excited, took off his clothes and waded close to the puddle, reached in to catch the fish and threw it to the shore, one, two, the more he caught, the more excited he was, he couldn't help laughing, this is the first joy after coming to this era, this is the happiness of harvest, these fish, are all protein, are nutrition, are their own physical strength!