Chapter 35: Catching Fish

Lu Ning really couldn't think of a good solution to this problem in a short period of time.

But he remembered that Ye Rang Qin Ke seemed to have some metal utensils in his hand, such as the bronze knife he used for self-defense.

I don't know if he has any other metal tools, maybe I can exchange some resources for him when he returns.

After taking a bath, Lu Ning came out of the bathtub, put on animal skin clothes, and cautiously walked over the pile of bottles and cans on the ground, as well as a pile of vegetables and meat.

Lu Ning felt more and more that his little mud hut was a little crowded.

Since he needed to do alchemy experiments, there was an additional cauldron in the house, which was used to refine medicinal herbs.

At the same time, there are a large number of containers for all kinds of successful and unsuccessful samples that have been brewed.

There's also a lot of food piled up here.

Plus two bathtubs, one large and one small.

There were also two large wooden stakes for him to sit on and read and do problems.

As a result, his small mud hut now has almost no place to put his feet, and even several rows of cans are placed on the kang, and he does not dare to turn over when he sleeps at night.

Lu Ning has been thinking about whether to build two more rooms for bathing, studying, and researching alchemy.

What's more, he also has a blueprint of the Alchemy Workshop in his hand, which was left for him before the manufacturing station entered the updated and upgraded state.

Of course, this matter will be urgent for a while, and there is a very urgent problem.

Due to the change of weather, it is okay to keep the vegetables and berries in the cellar, and the meat of these beasts is miserable.

The temperature fluctuated in the past two days, warm for a while and cold for a while, and the flesh of the beast melted and frozen, over and over again.

Lu Ning flipped through the beast meat in the jar, it seemed that the color was not very fresh, and he could faintly smell a strange smell when he smelled it.

"Looks like it's gone a little bad......"

Seeing Lu Ning's movements, the flatbread also came up and sniffed it, and then pushed the jar away in disgust.

"Still picky eaters."

Lu Ning patted the head of the flatbread, but he was also very worried about these spoiled beast meats.

"Now that I'm healthy, I'll be back hunting from tomorrow...... I don't know if there has been any regression in the work in hand.

"The meat has to be processed a little bit......

"If only there was salt, it would be nice to make cured meats and store them a little longer.

"But there is no good way now, it should be better to take it outside to dry and let the wind blow."

Lu Ning went out with the jar, found a few clean stone slabs and moved them to a cool and ventilated place, and then spread the meat on them.

Without marinating, even if the meat is air-dried, it can't actually extend the shelf life much, but there is no way to do it.

When the seasons change, there will always be troublesome problems of one kind or another.

"Wait a minute, speaking of which, now that the river is civilized, maybe you can go down the mountain to catch some fish or something......

Lu Ning was drying the meat while diverging his thoughts.

As the weather warms up, food storage becomes a big problem.

It's not like winter, as long as you don't have the ultra-low temperatures and snowstorms that come with cold waves, you don't have to worry about food being thrown out and frozen.

Therefore, compared with "storage", the idea of warm season should be closer to the direction of "acquisition".

It's almost the difference between a single large amount and a small amount of more than one take.

From this perspective, hunting was not actually a good option.

Because the amount of a single harvest cannot be determined, it may be possible to catch nothing for several days in a row, or it may be possible to harvest a large number of crops at one outing.

If you don't get a lot of harvest, you may go hungry for a long time.

If the harvest is large, the meat is difficult to store, so it must be eaten quickly within a few days.

And whether to continue hunting during this period is another question.

Therefore, farming on your own is definitely a perfect solution, and fishing with a relatively fixed harvest every day is also a good option.

So while Lu Ning was drying the meat, he quickly determined the course of action for the next few days.

Hunt first, wait for the vegetable fields to ripen, and try to catch fish at the same time.

However, there is still a big difference between the plan that has been conceived in advance and the actual development of reality.

As the saying goes, the plan can't keep up with the change: as the days passed quickly, Lu Ning didn't catch a single fish, but the harvest from the hunt was beyond imagination.

I don't know if it's because the cold winter has passed, and the recent wild monsters have been unusually active.

Lu Ning went out on a trip, and he couldn't go far before he encountered four or five waves of wild monster groups.

Lu Ning now eats meat every day, what is frying, cooking, boiling, boiling, steaming, grilling, boiling......

Well, it's not that many tricks, after all, the materials are limited.

But Lu Ning had already tried his best to change the dishes.

But in the end, he and the flatbread felt greasy when they saw the meat.

"Why can't you catch a fish?"

Lu Ning was very puzzled by this.

Although he couldn't swim since he was a child, he never went down to the river, never crossed the sea, never picked up birds' eggs, and never caught crickets......

But can it be so hard to catch a fish?

Lu Ning also used a spear to spear the fish, but even though he could be regarded as quite quick by now, the fish was stunned and couldn't hit any of them.

The flatbread squatted on the stones, watching Lu Ning jump around like a monkey in the river all morning, but the clay pot he had brought to hold the fish was still empty.

Flatbread looked at him, and Lu Ning looked at Flatbread.

"By the way, I've heard that animals generally have the ability to catch fish, so you should know how to catch flatbread, right?"

Lu Ning asked.

The flatbread raised its head.

Oh, just catch fish.

Stupid human, let me show you what this bread is capable of, and shock you well.

The flatbread jumped down from the boulder, majestic and high-spirited, with the posture of a lupine scarf, and walked towards the river in all directions.

Then Lu Ning watched as the cargo fell into the river with a thud.

The flatbread fluttered for a long time before he grabbed a piece of ice floe, collapsed on it panting, and floated away along the water.

Lu Ning: ......

Oh.

Forget that this thing can't swim at all.

But he Lu Ning forgot it, even if he forgot it, how could he forget the flatbread himself.

This guy definitely got the wrong baby.

It must have a common language with a creature called Erha in that original world.

Lu Ning sighed. I can't count on this thing, so I still have to rely on myself.

Catching fish requires not only experience and skill, but also a very important factor, which is tools.

Grasping it with his bare hands, Lu Ning doesn't have that ability.

Using a stone spear as a harpoon to spear fish, after testing, it doesn't seem to be very operable.

The gap between the harpoon and the spear is still a bit large.

So what more convenient fishing gear could be?

Generally speaking, the only two types of fishing rods and nets that are slightly simpler and more operable should remain.

But it's a pity that Lu Ning can't do anything.

Not to mention doing it, in fact, he had never even seen these two things except in some places like TV or comics.

Especially fishing rods.

His biggest impression of the fishing rod should be the fishing line on the fishing rod that can be used to create countless killing methods, and is called the three heroes of the murder line along with the piano line and kite line......