Chapter 539: The Yellow Sparrow is Behind (3rd Month Pass)
"Well, with a little effort, we can dig an ice cave here, and then find a lot of fresh meat and hot broth from this ice cave." Liu Gan smiled, he himself now wants to eat some barbecue, drink some broth, eat those compressed foods so that his mouth will fade out.
When he came out of the liaison station, Liu Qian found some very strong silk threads, and also took some wire from the wire bed and put some wire on his body, all of which came in handy at this time. He made a hook out of the wire, hooked it with the fat rabbit meat taken from the rabbit, threaded it all together with the silk thread, tied some small stones he had collected earlier to the front end of the line, and then put the small stones with the thread into the ice cave that had been dug and slowly hung down.
Several hooks are tied to a single silk line, so that fish can be caught at various depths under the ice.
As long as there is water, there are fish, and even if it is covered with snow and ice, there will still be unfrozen water under the lake. With such a large lake, there must be a lot of fish in the lake, and they are also hungry now, and they will definitely like the fat rabbit meat on the hook, which can provide a lot of energy to their bodies.
The water of the glacial lake was very deep, and the stones had not yet reached the end of the fishing line to pull all the fishing lines into it, so Liu Qian asked the team members to cut down some branches, and the other end of the rope was tied to a long branch, so that they did not have to worry about the fishing line being pulled away by the hooked fish inside.
"Can you catch a fish? Is there fish soup to drink right away? Guo Tian and Zhang Mengdi looked at the ice cave expectantly.
"Not so fast, we need to dig a lot of these ice caves to find enough food from inside. But now this ice cave is not finished. You also need to stuff some branches into the ice cave. Now it's snowing again. Ice caves are easy to refreeze and freeze. Once the ice cave re-freezes and the lines are frozen, we can't get any fish out. Liu Qian said as he shoved some leafy branches into the ice cave.
"I learned a lot of knowledge from Master Liu!" Guo Tian had a very convincing expression on his face, if it weren't for Liu Qian, he wouldn't have thought that he could find meat to eat here in this way.
After making the first ice cave for fishing, Liu Qian dug more than a dozen such ice caves at intervals of a few meters nearby, and a fishing line hung from each ice cave. Then he left with everyone. With so many hooks, it is impossible for too many fish to be hooked for a while, and there is no point in staying here.
Taking advantage of the fact that the wind and snow are not too big at this time, Liu Qian decided to go back to reorganize and strengthen the camp first, once the wind and snow are too big, the current snow shed of the camp may not be able to withstand the attack of the blizzard, and everyone will freeze tonight.
The reinforcement of the camp mainly took advantage of the nearby snow, built a thick snow wall around the camp, which was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and then cut down more branches and tied them firmly to the four trees around the camp with bark. Covered layer after layer, as long as the branches used for the canopy were not blown away by the storm. The people will not be exposed to the blizzard.
After all this, the wind and snow did not get bigger, but had a tendency to weaken, and just as Liu Qian was about to go to check if he had caught fish in the ice lake, two eagles appeared in the sky, hovering and chirping high in the sky.
"It seems that it is not only fish and meat that have been eaten today." Liu Qian couldn't help but be very happy when he looked up and saw the two eagles.
"Master Liu, is there a way to knock down those two eagles and eat them?" Guo Tian also looked at the two eagles above his head, and after hearing Liu Gan's words, he estimated that Liu Qian must have hit their mind.
"They flew too high, more than 100 meters above the ground, and I couldn't knock them down in Mr. He's not there." Liu Qian shook his head and continued to observe the two eagles above his head.
"Then Master Liu, why are you so happy?" Guo Tian asked Liu Qian a little strangely.
"They're circling and chirping above us, not to have fun here, but to look for food just like we do. Moreover, they fly so high, and the eagle's eyesight is also unusually good, and the chirp just now is clearly to find a suitable prey, and they are calling their companions to prepare for the hunt. As long as we pay attention to the direction in which they are flying and observing, we should be able to catch the prey they want to hunt before they do, and it must be a big meal. Liu Qian said and ran in a certain direction.
The others also ran over, everyone was idle, this was a great opportunity to learn snow hunting techniques from Liu Qian, who knows when they will be able to use it?
Following the flight trajectory of the two eagles and the direction in which they were observing, Liu Qian crossed the snow-covered woods, and finally found a line of less obvious footprints at the end of the woods, and it seemed that the two eagles in the sky were probably the owners of the footprints.
"It looks like the footprints of a snow wolf! If it doesn't mutate, catching it will be a great meal! The two eagles in the sky should not have their eyes on it, but the prey they are hunting. Liu Qian pointed to the footprints on the ground and analyzed them to Guo Tian and the others who followed.
"Haha, it's really a praying mantis catching cicadas now, and the yellow finch is behind...... No, it's Liu Ye who is behind, where Liu Ye is there, see who dares to compete with us for food! Guo Tian was very excited and happy.
"The snow wolf and the eagle are probably hunting a rabbit, but that rabbit is not enough for us to eat, what we need now is this snow wolf, as long as we catch it, we will have a big meal to eat today!" Liu Qian almost judged it.
"We should be able to find the snow wolf by following these footprints, right?" Guo Tian asked Liu Qian.
"Yes, but let's not talk anymore, lest we disturb it." Liu Qian made a silent gesture, and then followed the footprints and walked forward.
Ten minutes later, around a corner of a rock, Liu Qian saw the snow wolf at the end of the footprints. It was indeed an unmutated snow wolf, and the snow wolf was indeed catching a rabbit, but the rabbit was very clever and escaped and hid in a nearby snow cave. The snow wolf scratched the snow ground but couldn't get into the rabbit hole, and unwillingly stayed outside the rabbit hole, wanting to wait for the rabbit to come out.
Liu Qian originally planned to wait until the snow wolf caught the rabbit before making a move, and then he could get a rabbit for nothing, but after waiting for a few minutes, there was no movement in the rabbit hole, and the snow wolf was a little impatient and wanted to leave. (To be continued.) )