Chapter 149: Boat Hunting Crocodiles
Around the beginning of autumn, there are many fish in the swamps of the riverside ponds, and even if the crocodiles do not come ashore, they will hunt here, so they are relatively easy to catch. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoNow the river has just overflowed the pond, and the aquatic plants in it have not yet grown. Very few fish enter the pond, and crocodiles naturally do not come to these places.
Wang Chuan had taught them how to trap crocodiles, take some carrion to lure the crocodiles, and then put them into the net. But in the big river, the meat is washed away by the water as soon as it is dropped. Moreover, the bark and others only dared to stay by the river, and did not even dare to paddle. If you can get something, you will have a ghost.
In addition to fishing for a living, people in this era have a natural fear of water. The River tribe has just started fishing and is among them. Wang Chuan made a row and came out, unless everyone had to cross the river, otherwise no one would go up to play.
Wang Chuan said: "To solve the problem, you have to think about everything in your hand and find a solution from it." Have you thought about it all? ”
The bark thought about all the methods that Wang Chuan had taught before, scratched his head and said, "I've thought about it." Is there anything else you can do? ”
"I'm not talking about methods, I'm talking about things. Today I will teach you another truth, that is, the biggest difference between humans and beasts is that they will use various things to solve problems. Have you thought about it all? ”
"What else can you use to catch crocodiles besides nets and spears? Is it possible to use drums? ”
After the mountain god played the drums, the tribesmen were greatly inspired, and now from time to time they go to the distant forests to hunt in this way. Plus everyone uses bows and arrows and traps. Now the hunting party has only one-third of the tribe's population, and it feeds the entire tribe. Let others have their hands free to do things in the farm workshop or in the market opposite. The slaves were still being tamed, and now they had really opened a few roads on this side of the river to a meter wide. It hasn't produced yet, so it's considered that they are raising.
But the bark wants to use this to catch crocodiles......
Wang Chuan said he didn't want to pay attention to him. Human nature is cheap. If you want to know, dig up some dirt for him. Moreover, Wang Chuan is obviously deliberately making things difficult, and the requirements for digging the soil are relatively complicated. In front of the large dining hall, he drew a circle with two small wooden sticks tied to it, and then asked the bark to dig all the way down, and the earth turned out, until water came out. When digging to a depth of more than one meter, Wang Chuan asked people to nail two logs to the pit, install a cradle on it, and then went to the woodworking workshop to play with wood.
Digging a well was a plan that Wang Chuan had already had. He was going to dig two mouths on the cafeteria side and another on the house side. The well is kept for backup. It is also used to divert water from the creek outside the wall. Wang Chuan at the mouth of the well was going to build it up with stones, usually covering it to avoid any jumping incidents. Some cement might work better, and he knew how to mix calcined clay with quicklime to make cement. However, it is too labor-intensive to grind something, and such a small number of people in the tribe may not be enough to toss. Moreover, this kind of cement has poor frost resistance, and Wang Chuan has no confidence in it in the ice age.
In this era, I don't know if there are canoes, Wang Chuan is going to get a few out to fish for crocodiles. The canoe runs faster than a rower, and it is strong and not easy to fall apart, without this thing, Wang Chuan really does not dare to go down to the river to fish for crocodiles. Paddles can be carried, and crocodiles generally do not attack. However, if you want to fish for crocodiles, you may not be able to withstand the impact of two or three hundred pounds of crocodiles.
The canoes of the Stone Age were hollowed out by burning a layer of charcoal by fire, and now that the tribe has iron tools, there is no need for such trouble.
When cleaning the perimeter, a lot of wood was cut down with a diameter of one meter upward. Wang Chuan took the selection of a ten-meter-long one, drew lines with charcoal on it, and explained it to Ranbula. Then he led the men to dig up the wood with an axe and a chisel.
After starting to get it here, Wang Chuan ran to the blacksmithing room next to him and asked Kuan to give him a hook. Hooks aren't very technical. Hit a sharp iron bar of about 20 centimeters and bend it. The barbs are too complicated to make right now. Hit the tail smaller, bend it into a small circle and tie the rope is perfect.
Wang Chuan ran in three places and commanded in three places. When the first well was dug out, the first canoe was ready.
The canoe was made to look like a flat-bottomed, pointed, wide-bellied, and a belly half a meter deep was pulled out of it. Theoretically, it can carry one or two thousand pounds of things. The canoe was first carried into the waterhole of the creek and tried. Five adults didn't sink much when they stood up. Wang Chuan retains a relatively thick shell, which should also be relatively strong and safe. Because the hull is relatively wide, the possibility of rolling over is also relatively small.
The hook had already been laid, and a few oars were nailed out with a long stick, and Wang Chuan was ready to take people to the river to try.
Before getting on the boat, Wang Chuan also asked people to prepare a bundle of wooden stakes with a thickness of an arm, a sturdy large net bag and a large net. Prepare to show the bark once what it means to use all the tools.
Wang Chuan put Bark and another person into a canoe and taught them to paddle. The canoe drove fast on the river, and it didn't take long for the river to go back and forth for a hundred meters.
When the boat was almost tried, Wang Chuan found a bay more than a meter deep in the still water by the river, and let the bark nail down the wooden stakes. Wooden stakes are nailed at intervals of about ten centimeters, and a fence that is no more than half a meter wide and three meters long is nailed out at one end.
After the bark was nailed, Wang Chuan put down a small piece of fishy beef wrapped in grass balls in the middle of the entrance and inside of the entrance.
In another place, Wang Chuan also let the bark nail some wooden stakes. However, the stakes were nailed into a sealed semicircle, and large nets were hung in the openings of the semicircles. Then throw the meat inside and leave again.
In another place, after Wang Chuan sprinkled some minced meat into the river, he looked at the reaction in the river, and put down the hook with the bamboo tube buoy. The fishy beef is the crocodile's favorite, so I put some minced meat, and there are water ripples in the river, which should be the crocodile.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the buoy to sink and float, and the bark quickly put away the rope. He's kind of insightful. Wang Chuan really used what he had in front of him to come up with these methods of hunting crocodiles. Like fences and large nets, he understood them at a glance, but he didn't know why he didn't remember them before. Nowadays this iron hook is also the same, once the crocodile bites, it will be hooked. He didn't think of such a simple solution.
Seeing the crocodile take the bait, he tried his best to lift the rope. Sure enough, he saw a crocodile being pulled out of the water by him.
As soon as he was excited, he used three more points of strength. I don't know if it was because of its strength or something else, but the crocodile suddenly pounced on the water, revealing its bloody jaws and biting the people on the boat.
The bark retreated in surprise, but Wang Chuan had already expected this, and the spear in his hand stabbed out of the crocodile's mouth.
The crocodile's mouth ached and quickly closed its mouth. Wang Chuan couldn't retract the spear, and the spear was bitten by the crocodile, and it was immediately taken out of Wang Chuan's hand. The crocodile pounced so high that half of its body threw itself into the boat, knocking it violently.
Wang Chuan sat down and pointed at the crocodile: "Don't be afraid, hold down!" ”
Another person on the boat was hesitant to pick up the crocodile with a net, but when he heard Wang Chuan's order, he subconsciously pounced and pressed half of the crocodile's body on the boat. The bark also reacted, and simply used the rope in his hand to roll it and tie it twice around the crocodile's mouth. The crocodile flicked its tail and struggled violently, and Wang Chuan took out a dagger and handed it to the bark. The bark pressed the crocodile's head with one hand, and with a wave of the other, it almost pierced the crocodile's head, and the crocodile died softly.
The crocodile was afraid of two or three hundred pounds, and the three of them worked together to drag the crocodile onto the boat, and they had already exhausted all their strength.
Seeing Wang Chuan open his mouth, the bark hurriedly spoke first: "I know, I can't be so impulsive next time." ”
Wang Chuan pursed his lips, but said in his heart: It is difficult for a twenty-year-old hairy boy to be stable.
After resting here for a while, the three of them rowed back to the position of the stake they had nailed earlier, and found that they had all gained. A crocodile was also netted in the large semi-circular net, but it was smaller. In the wooden fence of the opening, a herring of more than 100 catties was trapped, and the water was splashing all over the place.
This time he had experience, and Bark stabbed both of them with a spear before pulling them aboard.
The game was collected and put onto the boat, and there were rows floating in the river in the distance. But it was Bihu who came back from the bazaar with people. (To be continued.) )