After these emperor crocodiles retreated, Ye Xi cast the net a few more times, and after seeing that the number of fish on the shore became scarce, he asked everyone to carry the barrel and go back first.

There are four large vats of fish harvested this time, which is enough to catch them all.

The crowd happily carried the catch back to the top of the hill and debated whether to eat it all.

In fact, don't look at the four big barrels of fish, there are so many people in the tribe, it is okay to eat them in one day. Not to mention that the fighters eat a lot, they really let go of their stomachs to eat, maybe those ordinary people haven't scored yet.

But everyone is reluctant, they are accustomed to saving all food in the rainy season, and only eat one meal a day, so as not to starve to death in the later part of the rainy season after they are full of food.

However, the fish is not easy to preserve, and the dead fish will spoil after a day or two, and now there is no sun, and the fish cannot be dried into dried fish. They were reluctant to eat the piranhas that had been stinging with fish bones, but when they ate them again after they had stinky them, they had diarrhea and even became sick in serious cases.

Ye Xi heard their discussion and persuaded: "It's better to eat them all today, the fish should come back tomorrow,"

But there are still thrifty clansmen who hesitate.

Seeing their appearance, Ye Xi smiled: "If you are really reluctant to eat them all, in this way, I have a way to preserve the fish." ”

"What is it?"

Everyone's eyes lit up and they asked eagerly.

Ye Xi always has a variety of ways to help the tribe solve unsolvable problems.

By now, they would no longer doubt any of Ye Xi's proposals, because no matter how strange the method may seem, it will always achieve its goal in the end.

Ye Xi pointed to the stone jars placed in front of each stone house: "Isn't it okay to put the fish that can't be eaten into the tank?"

These large tanks have been filled with water due to the continuous rain these days, and they are constantly overflowing with the rainwater that falls into the tanks.

Being reminded by Ye Xi like this, they suddenly realized. Yes, fish will die if they leave the water, so wouldn't it be okay to put them back in the water?

The reason why they didn't expect it was that of course stupidity was one reason, and the other reason was because there were not so many fish harvested by the thorn fish in the past, so everyone didn't pay much attention to this problem.

Ye Xi saw that everyone was about to pour fish into the water tank with wooden buckets, and reminded: "Don't pour all the fish into it, the big fish will eat all the small fish." ”

Don't think that only piranhas eat meat, most fish eat meat, from small fish, shrimp, water bugs, to the carcasses of large animals, everything is eaten.

Even when you are hungry, you can eat even your own kind.

Since it is to be kept in a tank, it is natural to try to avoid losses, so as not to raise fewer and fewer fish. The best way to do this is to get rid of the fish with the strongest attack power first.

After Ye Xi's reminder, everyone knew it in their hearts.

Without Ye Xi's help in judging, others can distinguish by themselves.

Everyone distinguishes one by one, and the particularly large fish are left directly in the bucket, the small ones are broken open to see their teeth, and the fish with particularly sharp teeth are left in the bucket.

The water in the stone tank was clear, and one fish after another was thrown into it.

Even if these fish have been starved of water for so long, they are still alive and kicking, and if they are not careful, they will slide away from their hands, and when they are released into the water, they will flick their tails and swim around actively.

These catches were mainly caught by Ye Xi, and of course he received the most, almost half of the amount.

Originally, Yong and they wanted to help Ye Xi sort the fish, but Ye Xi stopped them: "No need, there will be new fish caught tomorrow, the water tank is so big, it won't be able to raise it by then, it's better to eat them all now, let us eat enough." ”

felt that what Ye Xi said made sense, and the others simply put aside their scruples and didn't put their part of the fish in the tank, and everyone had a good time together.

Since then, Ye Xi has been fishing with seven or eight nets every day. Because the number of fish is too much, the fish in the water will be scarce, and it will be necessary to wait for the next day for the fish on the shore to increase again.

In the past few days, the fish in the stone tank have become more and more, and soon there are so many that they are about to overflow, and the fish do not even have room to swim in it, and there are often fish jumping out of the tank in the water.

And every day, a steady stream of fish is brought up from the foot of the mountain.

The tribesmen were very remorseful, because there were more than 50 stone jars in the tribe, but only 20 or so were moved.

Now there are so many fish, even if the clansmen are thrifty, they can't save in this situation.

If you don't eat fish, it will be bad, so you have to have a full meal and eat fish every day. Everyone eats grilled fish today, steamed fish tomorrow, and fried fish the day after tomorrow, and eats their bellies round one by one.

But the fish here is really delicious, the meat is fresh and tender, especially there is a kind of fat fish with yellow skin, which is particularly delicious, it tastes so fresh that you can swallow your tongue, and there are few spines, and you don't have to work hard to pick it.

Every day is a fish feast, no matter how much Ye Xi loves fish, he gets tired of eating it later, and sometimes changes the jerky to gnaw.

But the others didn't look tired at all, they still ate happily every day, and they looked impatient before every time they started eating, and they ate so clean every time that they didn't even let go of the meat at the fish head.

Everyone said that the rainy season never seemed to have such a good time, and they never dreamed that they would be able to eat enough without being hungry, and they felt that their stomachs were full of fat.

The stomach is full, even if you are trapped on the top of the mountain by the water and can't go anywhere, everyone still laughs all day long.

Sometimes, when a snail with a particularly beautiful shell comes up, the women are reluctant to throw it away, so they eat the meat inside and put the shell in the house.

Ye Xi saw that the water pattern was like this, so he mentioned that these large and small snail shells can be strung into wind chimes.

The women's eyes lit up when they listened to Ye Xi's words.

Perhaps women are born with an intuition for beauty, and the wind chimes made later are very good-looking even from Ye Xi's eyes.

During the day, when the slate is removed, when the wind blows into the house, there is a crisp sound of crashing between the shells, which is very pleasant.

This conch shell wind chime is so good, the women discussed, if Kurosawa holds a trade fair in the coming year, they can use it as their special commodity Tushan, and they can also exchange some things when the time comes.

As the days passed, the water became deeper and deeper as the rain continued to fall.

On this day, the clansmen who went down the mountain to fish as usual found that the group of emperor crocodiles on the river suddenly disappeared, disappeared cleanly, and there was not a single one left.

Seeing this scene, the chieftain who was originally smiling and following the clansmen disappeared all of a sudden.

The faces of the clansmen also became ugly.

The chief sighed, "So the water is already so deep. ”

At some point, the water had already submerged half of the jungle, and now only the canopy of the towering trees was exposed.

Ye Xi turned his head to look at the chief.

The chief stared at the surface of the water with a solemn face: "In such deep water, I'm afraid a big guy has crawled out." ”

As he said this, a powerful churning suddenly appeared on the surface of the water, and a huge black figure flashed. The hydrosphere is extremely large in diameter, and it ripples in circles.

"Now that even the big crocodiles are gone, and apparently there are even more terrible monsters in the water, monsters that they all fear. ”

Although everyone was frustrated, they couldn't think of a way, and the days of a full meal were over, and everyone became frugal again. I often lie next to the stone tank, counting the fish inside, but I am reluctant to catch one.

But Jiaojiao still wanted to go into the water.

Ye Xi was worried about Jiaojiao and stopped it, but Jiaojiao was very firm and insisted on going into the water, Ye Xi had no choice but to believe that it let it go.

Fortunately, Jiaojiao can come back safely every time, and every time he comes back, his body will bulge out, and he doesn't know what he ate in the water.

Jiaojiao also often brought back prey to Ye Xi.

There are all kinds of aquatic creatures, from strange creatures that look like they have been skinned to mud, to large black turtles that spew water, and to huge crabs that are so vicious that they can walk upright.

But as the water got deeper and deeper, Jiaojiao no longer came back intact, and its body gradually became scarred.

The most serious one, the whole body was full of deep bite marks, the skin and flesh were cracked, and the bite marks very close to the head were especially deep, almost a little deeper, and Jiaojiao would not come back.

That time, Jiaojiao lay in the house and recuperated for several days, and after the injury was healed, the water at the foot of the mountain was deep again.

Jiaojiao lingered on the water's edge, hesitated for a long time, and finally returned to the top of the mountain.

Mountaintop.

Ye Xi stood on a boulder protruding from the edge of the cliff and looked into the distance.

The wind mixed with the torrential rain kept coming, and the hat on Ye Xi's head was almost blown down, and he had to hold the brim of his hat tightly with his hands.

Jiaojiao accompanied Ye Xi, it coiled up its huge body, the python's head was erected, and its scarlet eyes also followed Ye Xi's line of sight, looking at the waters ahead.

By this time, the water had completely flooded the jungle.

Looking ahead, the vast water area is no longer even visible from the tops of the trees, and the land has completely turned into a vast ocean. Only the mountain peaks are silently exposed to the water, as if they are isolated islands in the vast sea.

The overcast sky darkened the water.

In the rainstorm, huge water beasts leap up from the dim water surface, splashing huge water splashes, and dark red huge aquatic insects churn over the water surface, faintly revealing their hideous arthropods and tentacles.

Seeing something, Ye Xi's pupils suddenly shrank.

I saw a water surface in the distance, and I don't know when a dark brown hill appeared!

He was sure that he had never seen this hill before! How did it come from? Could it be some kind of creature? If so, what kind of creature was it? Was it aggressive? It was too big!

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of breaking water from under my feet.

I saw a huge dinosaur head skull actually appear in front of me, looking at myself!

Ye Xi immediately took a big step back in shock, and his hand reached for the dagger hanging from his waist.

It is an aquatic dinosaur with an extra-long neck, blue-gray skin, a red umbrella-shaped sarcoma on the top of its head, and jet-black eyes shaped like almonds, without a trace of whites, and looks innocent.

But no matter how innocent he is, he can't stand it, and one eye is bigger than his whole person!

And this dinosaur's neck has grown to such an extent that it can suddenly reach out of the water to the edge of the cliff, and look at itself standing on the top of the mountain!

What is the situation!! Ye Xi shouted in his heart.

If he had hair like a cat, he would have blown up his hair by now.

Jiaojiao was also startled, and instinctively drove it to flee back, but Ye Xi was still here, so it raised its neck high, opened its mouth to reveal four sharp long teeth, and silently threatened it.

And this giant beast didn't pay attention to Jiaojiao, just tilted its huge head and stared at Ye Xi with a pair of big black eyes.