Chapter 11: Fishing Battle
Sometimes, luck plays a joke on people. When I didn't want to provoke the snake before, I could see it, but now I want to catch the snake, but the snake is gone. Liu Qing was a little disappointed, the previous snake had long since disappeared, which made Liu Qing fall into passivity. However, he looked around, the vegetation here is so dense, there should be a lot of insects, but I don't know if the fish in the water will eat it if they use insects as bait?
So Liu Qing began to look for insects around the grass, moss, and tree roots. After looking for a while, although he caught a few, but none of them were ideal, he wanted caterpillars and other insects, but almost all of them were insects with thick carapaces, and he didn't know if this kind of insect fish could be eaten? When he was rummaging through the turf, he looked up suddenly, and he saw some pink things hanging on the trunk of a huge tree, and when he looked closer, he realized that this thing was the fruit of a vine, because the vine climbed on the trunk, so he would mistake it for the fruit of the tree.
I don't know if this thing can be eaten?Liu Qing thought as he stared at the pink and tempting fruit. It's useless to just think about it, so let's pick one and try it. The fruit bears relatively high, almost four or five meters high from the ground, and although there are a few of them, the color is all cyan, and it is not ripe at first glance. Liu Qing was skillful, pulled the vine with his hand to try, and found that the endurance was quite good, after all, he didn't know how many years he had grown around this giant tree.
With the sapper shovel behind his back, he pulled the vine with one hand and stepped on the corner of the vine with the other foot, and easily climbed to a height of more than five meters. The fruits in this position are not only dense, but also most of the colors are red and gorgeous, which is very attractive! Liu Qing pulled over a fruit, which looked very small from a distance, and when he grabbed it in his hand, he found that it was quite large, and he could hardly hold it with one hand, and it felt a little hard.
It would be great if it could be eaten, and I can't imagine that in this kind of place, you can grow a substitute for fruit. Liu Qing grabbed the vine with one hand, and kept pulling left and right with the other hand, and after a while, he picked more than a dozen fruits. Because the fruit is not small, there is no place to put it on his body, every time he picks one, he directly looks at the thick place of the turf on the ground and throws it down, because there is a buffer of the turf, the fruit is relatively strong, and it does not rot when it falls on the ground.
When his body climbed down more than two meters, Liu Qing let go of his hands, and gently kicked forward with both feet at the same time, and the whole person fell steadily from a height of two or three meters. He gathered up the fruit on the ground, took three of them, and took them to the side of the stream to wash. The color of the wet fruit was even brighter, and it was so delicate that Liu Qing almost couldn't help but bite it directly.
He had never seen this fruit before, let alone heard of it, and he didn't know which part to eat, so he thought about it, and for the sake of safety, he better taste it a little first. Take out the dagger and cut the fruit open, only then can I see clearly that the outer skin of this fruit is a hard shell, about less than a centimeter thick, and the inside should be the flesh, which looks fluffy and soft, and the juice seems to be very sufficient. There are three nodules in the innermost part, which should be seeds.
Liu Qing tried to lick the juice on his hand with his tongue, and suddenly felt that his tongue was like licking sugar water, which was unbelievably sweet, and in addition, there was a fruity fragrance that spread in his mouth, and this fragrance ...... Liu Qing thought about it, this fragrance made him feel very familiar, it seemed to be the fragrance of grapes!
In general, the fruit of poison tastes very bad, which is one of the ways to identify the edible fruit in the wild. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that some poisonous fruits also taste good, but they are only a minority after all. Liu Qing is using this method now, and in his judgment, this fruit must be edible!
With a judgment in his heart, the movements of his hands were not slow, so he put aside the cut fruit and the other two, took out the silk thread for fishing from the satchel he was carrying, and took a fishing hook and tied it. The water here is crystal clear, and it doesn't matter if it's floating or not.
Cut off a piece of flesh with a dagger, hang it on a fish hook, and hang it in front of you, the flesh is crystal clear, dewy, and a faint fruity fragrance snorts. "If I were a fish, I would definitely bite it without hesitation!" Liu Qingle thought.
I was going to use meat, but the "meat" ran away, and now I can only settle for the next best thing and replace it with pulp, hoping that the fish in the water will eat it!
The hook wrapped in the flesh was thrown into the water by Liu Qing, and because there was no fishing rod, it was not far away, only less than two meters from the shore. Liu Qing has never fished, and he doesn't know much about the precautions of fishing, the fishing line was originally a complete roll, he directly tied the hook to the head of the line, pulled a section and threw it into the stream, and the back was not cut off, and he planned to use a small reel wrapped around the fishing line to pull it.
Fishing requires patience, and Liu Qing was even prepared to wait for half an hour, and in order to prevent the fish from seeing him, he also deliberately hid behind the grass by the stream. But the fish came faster than he imagined! Less than two minutes after he dropped the hook, he felt the reel in his hand tighten violently, "A fish has been hooked!" Liu Qing was very happy.
I didn't dare to relax in my hands, so I grabbed the reel of the line and started a tug-of-war with the fish in the water. But in this way, the fish are still in the water, and if you don't put away the string, you won't be able to catch the fish! Liu Qing tugged for a while, thinking about this problem. What can I do?
With his feel, this fish should not be small, the pulling force is very large, and the whole fishing line is stretched like a steel wire! Because he doesn't know how to fish, so Liu Qing suffers, he wants to take some of the line back, so that the fish can be pulled to the shore, at least it can also shorten the distance between himself and the fish. So he grabbed the taut fishing line with his hand, trying to retract some and wrap it around the reel.
It doesn't matter if you pull it, the second section of your index finger is directly strangled into the flesh by the fishing line, and blood comes out when you land. Liu Qing, who felt the pain, let go of his right hand to grasp the fishing line, and grabbed the reel of the line with his left hand. Even so, the fish in the water won, and at once the line was torn off the reels several times.
"!" Liu Qing scolded, this is too powerful! Just pull it gently, and the hand is cut, and the wound is so deep! Fortunately, I put my hand quickly, otherwise I am afraid that my fingers will not be saved, Liu Qing can't help but be a little afraid, this can be regarded as eating a trench and growing wise.
The fish in the stream were still struggling, Liu Qing couldn't care about the pain in his hands, seeing the lush grass by the stream, he was in a hurry, and quickly put some lines, and the silk lines flew out of several meters, almost didn't catch the lines, but fortunately, the stream was not wide, and after a few meters, the line was slightly loosened, Liu Qing hurriedly hugged a handful of grass and quickly wrapped the fishing line on it. After just two coils, the rope suddenly tightened again.
The leaves of the grass were suddenly cut off a lot, but the grass stems were tough enough to hold on. Liu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that he still has to make a branch to use as a fishing pole! The wound on the index finger of his right hand is very deep, and the bleeding is not stopping at this moment, the pain is secondary, and the blood has flowed so much, it is strange and terrifying. Liu Qing saw that the fish could not break free, so he put the thread wheel on the ground, stepped on it with his foot, and freed up his left hand to help press the wound.
After about five minutes of touching, he let go of his hand, the blood flow from the wound was not so bad, Liu Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and took out a first-aid kit from his shoulder bag, which contained a roll of bandages, which was also a necessary thing in the war preparation materials, but there was only one copy, which contained a fixed triangular scarf, a roll of bandages, a tourniquet, a small bottle of alcohol, and a pack of cotton swabs.
Tear off a bandage, wrap the wound well, and give it a little try, but it doesn't affect the activity much. The fish in the creek are still struggling, and the fishing line is constantly making a sizzling sound, which makes people think that this fish is probably not small!
Liu Qing stood up straight and looked into the stream, only to see that in the stream, a big fish more than a foot long was constantly pulling the fishing line up and down, jumping from time to time, and splashing big waves on the water surface. Liu Qing looked around, but he couldn't find anything suitable, he wanted to get the fish up, if he let it make a fuss like this, the ghost knows how long it could last, and he had to get it to the edge of the stream as soon as possible.
"Damn, if you can get to the shore, you can just take the sapper shovel and knock it to death at once!" Liu Qing thought to himself, and then slapped his head, why didn't he think of it earlier!
Liu Qing quickly took off the sapper shovel from behind, stepped on the bundle of tightened grass, and then put the wooden handle handle of the sapper shovel under the fishing line, turned his wrist, and the spade handle turned around the fishing line from the bottom to the top, and then the spade handle was horizontal, and the fishing line was wrapped around the spade handle, turned around, and continued to concoct the same method, and soon, the fishing line was wrapped around the spade handle, and the big fish was getting closer and closer to the shore!
Although this method was slow, it was very effective, and in less than half an hour, the distance between the fish and Liu Qing was pulled to within one meter. It was also at this time that Liu Qing was fortunate to see the true face of this fish.
It was unlike anything he had seen before, and although it had scales, it was not the kind of shiny scales, but black, one after the other, without overlapping. The appearance is also very strange, it seems to be the appearance of a fish-headed beast body, the forelimbs can be said to be fish fins, and the back is not a fish fin at all, more like vestigial feet, flattened, and with a few toes, splashing and splashing. The tail doesn't look like a fish tail, it feels more like cutting off a crocodile's tail and smashing it flat, which is weird and fun to look at.
Liu Qing continued to work hard and finally got the fish to the shore. When he was about to reach out to catch the fish, the fish suddenly turned its head and glared at Liu Qing viciously, before Liu Qing's hand approached it, it had already taken the lead, the boss with a big mouth open, slapped the water with its hind limbs hard, jumped up, and bit down on Liu Qing's left hand!