Everyone was eager to try, but after hearing Qiao Yu's warning, they were startled. Looking at the ice surface was as if they were seeing a flood or a beast. The thoughts that had just arisen in their minds immediately disappeared.
"Yes, we remember it." Everyone responded solemnly.
Qiao Yu stretched a thick branch over the stone and tapped it. After she had broken the ice and swept it aside, she carefully walked over and stood on the stone.
Everyone else was worried about her, and Shu even wanted to call her back, telling her not to take risks for the people of the Stone Tribe. But at the last moment, he held back.
After being a team leader for a while, Shu now knows that responsibility is proportional to status. As a leader, Yu has things she must do, even if it means danger.
After Qiao Yu stood firm, he took out the bone spur, squatted down, and smashed down hard on the ice in front of the stone. Soon, a big hole was dug out.
After smashing the hole, Qiao Yu quickly lowered a fishing net into the hole.
It would be difficult for an average person to cast a net into a hole of this size. However, as a psychic, Qiao Yu's control of power was extremely precise. The net she cast just covered the hole without getting caught on the ice nearby.
After casting the net, Qiao Yu decided to leave it alone and look for another place to cast another net. Unexpectedly, before she left, she saw fish swimming towards the hole underwater, some even poking their heads out of the water.
Man and the others were far away, but the fish was so big that they still saw it and almost screamed. Fortunately, Qiao Yu had warned them in advance, so everyone covered their mouths in time.
Qiao Yu was not in a hurry to collect the net. He walked for a while and found another place to dig a hole and lower the net.
After she lowered the net, she came back to where she had been and put the net away.
Suddenly, she pulled out more than a dozen big fish from the hole, alive and kicking. The smallest one weighed six or seven kilograms.
"Oh my god!" Everyone was stunned by the scene. "So many fish!"
Qiao Yu finished collecting the net and threw it over with the fish. He told everyone, "Pick all the fish out of the net and put them in the rattan basket."
When they came, everyone carried wicker baskets as she instructed.
Because of the practicality of rattan baskets, when Qiao Yu and his friends went to the trade fair, the women made a lot more of them, and there were enough rattan baskets for every household.
Everyone started to catch fish clumsily. Either they got splashed with icy water in their faces, or their hands were pricked by the spines on the fish's fins, or they couldn't catch the jumping fish, causing them to jump to the ground and be chased around.
Qiao Yu took a few glances, shook his head, went to the second net, saw five or six fish heads floating on the water, and immediately put away the net.
After Shu and the others had picked up all the fish from the net, Qiao Yu threw another net of fish over.
Ah Hua and her daughter had woven six nets. Qiao Yu had originally planned to make six holes in the nets to cast more nets and catch more fish. However, she had underestimated the number of fish in the river. Just these two holes, taking turns casting nets, were enough for her and the others to keep busy.
Before it got dark, the wicker baskets everyone brought were filled with fish.
"Let's go back." Qiao Yu picked up the net and carried a basket of fish on his back.
Each of the group returned to the tribe carrying a wicker basket of fish.
The news that Qiao Yu was going to take the team leader to go fishing spread throughout the tribe in the morning.
Seeing them come back, everyone gathered around curiously. They looked inside and were stunned by the fish in the baskets: "So many?"
"This big?"
“Is this fish really edible?”
Qiao Yu just smiled without saying anything. He walked to the open space next to the fire hall, took out a bone knife, picked up a half-frozen fish, and deftly removed the scales, peeled the fish, and took out the internal organs.
All the men and women in the tribe who had no tasks at the moment gathered around to see how Qiao Yu handled the fish.
"You men, move aside and let us in. Aren't we going to be the ones to cook the fish? What's the point of you watching?" The women outside couldn't squeeze in and started yelling immediately.
The men had no choice but to let them in.
Qiao Yu ignored them. As he peeled the fish, he explained loudly to everyone, "When we hunt wild animals, we know to remove the internal organs from their stomachs and throw them away. The same goes for fish. If we don't remove the internal organs, the fish will taste fishy, smelly, and bitter, and it will taste very bad."
"And these gills need to be removed. And this black membrane under the flesh needs to be scraped off, too."
Qiao Yu cleaned the fish neatly and looked up at everyone, saying, "Don't just stand there. Anyone with a boning knife, get your hands on one. Each of you take a fish and cook it as I teach you."
There are six big baskets of fish. How long will it take her to finish them all by herself?
Everyone was stunned and immediately rushed to the place where the fish were released, trying to grab a fish first.
The power of cooking for one family was revealed at this time. The women not only snatched the fish from their men, but also their bone knives.
The entire open space was filled with people clumsily handling fish. If someone peeled a fish poorly or didn't do it according to Qiao Yu's instructions, the people next to them would take the initiative to give them instructions.
Strength lies in numbers. In a short while, all the fish in the six baskets were processed.
The mountain stream had long since dried up, so everyone used melted snow as water. Qiao Yu didn't ask anyone to clean the fish, but simply placed them in a snowdrift in the corner and had the men cover them with snow to freeze them.
Seeing everyone put the fish away, Qiao Yu said loudly, "Each family should send a woman over here to watch carefully. I will teach you how to make fish soup."
The women quickly gathered around.
Earlier, under Qiao Yu's instructions, Ah Hua filled a clay pot with water and put it on the stove to boil.
Qiao Yu filleted the two big fish into fish slices and marinated them with salt.
Seeing that the water in the ceramic pot had boiled, she first put two slices of ginger and a little salt into the water, and then put the fish head in. When she saw the fish head change color, float up and sink again with the rolling of the boiling water, she put the fish fillets into the boiling water one by one.
Frying the fish head in oil would have made the soup more fragrant, delicious, and milky. But the primitive tribe, which primarily relied on barbecue, had no oil at all. Qiao Yu was too busy to explore the food scene, and she couldn't produce any oil immediately, so she had to make do with this.
The fish fillets she sliced were already very thin, and they changed color and curled up when exposed to water.
After waiting for a while, Qiao Yu said, "Alright. Each of you should have a scoop of soup and two slices of fish."
The fish she caught were big to begin with, and this pot of soup used two big fish, which was more than enough for everyone.
Although everyone was eager, they did not dare to fight for the soup in front of Qiao Yu. They took turns queuing up for the soup.
After everyone drank the fish soup, they were all stunned.
"How is it? Is it hard to drink?"
The onlookers saw that every one of them was stunned after drinking the soup, scratching their heads and ears anxiously, wishing they could snatch their bowls and have a taste themselves.
How bad must it be to make everyone look like this after drinking it?
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