Chapter 5 Food in the Water (Please add to favorites and recommend)
The leader's body was placed in the open space in front of the cave and temporarily covered with grass. In Luo Chong's memory, the dead in this tribe were usually cremated. Maybe they had buried bodies before, but if they were buried shallowly, they would still be dug out and eaten by wild animals. It was better to burn them cleanly.
However, the funeral had to wait until the evening when the tribesmen came back and burned them together. The two adults had gone out to collect firewood.
No one paid attention to them for the time being. The friends were still surrounding the moa to visit. Several women were still studying how to decompose the moa. They had never dealt with such a large prey.
Luo Chong also thought about it. It was impossible to remove the feathers with hot water like a chicken. There was no pot that big to boil water. He simply peeled the skin directly. Luo Chong told them to leave the feathers for him and let them do the rest themselves.
The feathers were not for making feather crowns. Maybe they would be used when making bows and arrows in the future. Anyway, they were saved for now. Now they were so poor that they were bleeding. They must learn to live and collect some materials to make their own equipment in the future.
Now the danger is over, everyone is working, watching, and Luo Chong continues to weave his baskets.
For some reason, Luo Chong always feels that time here is passing very slowly. He has experienced so many things today, but the sun has just risen to the middle. He always feels that a day here is longer than a day before. This is an intuition. You know, he used to complete his missions in the army by the hour, which directly led to his sensitive biological clock.
"Damn it, maybe this is not the earth. The rotation time is different from that of the earth. God knows where this place is."
Without the energy to continue thinking about these, Luo Chong started to weave baskets seriously. Now the most important thing is to store food. He doesn't want to live a life of eating one meal every two days.
After about another hour, Luo Chong had woven two baskets and twisted some straw ropes, which were the grass pulled by his friends. The vines were not used up, and it was estimated that he could weave three more. The main reason was that the baskets Luo Chong wove were all used for fishing, so the gaps were relatively large, so less material was used.
Luo Chong put the viscera of the moa in a basket and went to the river. They were all inedible things. Except for the heart and liver, the rest had to be thrown away. The stomach could not be eaten either. It was estimated that there was still the meat of the leader in it. The intestines could also be kept. After washing and drying, they could be used as ropes. The rest were all taken away by Luo Chong. He planned to use these viscera as bait later.
The stream was just to the north of the cave, less than one kilometer away. A woman saw Luo Chong going to the river alone and pulled him to stop him, but Luo Chong was very persistent. The woman had no choice but to follow him.
However, she also held a stone basin. It was the only container for water in the entire tribe. I don’t know how many years it took to make it. Since she was going to the river, she would take a basin of water. If she wanted to drink water at night after the cave was sealed, she could only drink from the basin.
In her heart, she thought that Luo Chong was a very powerful child, and she must keep an eye on him and not let him fall into the river. The two boys who had just recognized Luo Chong as their leader immediately followed him when they saw him making another strange thing and was about to go out.
The four of them arrived at the river. The woman filled a basin of water and waited by the side. She didn't know what Luo Chong was going to do.
Luo Chong stood alone on the shore and observed for a while. He couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, which instantly reminded him of his junior high school textbook.
Fish is what I want, and I am what the fish want. I can't have both, so I'll give up me and take the fish.
Ahem, this is of course not the original text. The reason why I said this is because he found carnivorous fish in this river. He stood on the shore for five minutes, and within his sight, three murders of big fish eating small fish occurred. If he fell into the river, it would be hard to say who would eat whom.
Although this place is so poor that one can't help but urinate blood, one has to admit that the ecological environment here is really good. The water in the stream is very clear, and one can see the bottom of the water at a glance. The shallow part of the river is probably only about one meter deep. There are also many fish in it. Although it is not densely packed, you can see a few fish within your sight if you look at any place. This density can be said to be very large, at least more than the fish in the Amazon River.
After choosing a good location, first take out the moa's offal and smash it, then put the basket into the river. There are three straw ropes tied to the upper edge of the basket, and then they are combined into one in the middle, so that it is convenient to pull it up.
Seeing that Luo Chong had no intention of going down to the river, the woman ignored him and stood aside silently to watch him fiddle with the basket. She was full of questions in her heart, "Are you going to wash the basket, boy?"
It's useless to say anything now. We must first catch the fish and tell them that this thing is edible, so that they will pay attention to it and reduce their fear of the river.
The basket Luo Chong made was about 50 centimeters high, which was just a little longer than the distance from the middle finger to the elbow when the palm was stretched out. He chose a gentle slope near the river. The river was about one meter deep, and the basket was slightly tilted when it sank to the bottom, so that the mouth of the basket could be lower, making it easier for fish to get in.
He threw a handful of smashed viscera bait into the basket, and the smell of meat quickly spread in the water. The fish within a radius of 20 meters were all agitated and swam towards the center of the smell.
The first five fish that swam over were about 40 centimeters long. They all got into the basket and started to snatch the viscera and debris, muddying the water in the basket.
Luo Chong was quick-witted and pulled the rope to drag the basket out of the water. In the chaos, one fish escaped, and only four were caught. But this was still impressive. Four fish were caught in one basket, and the fish in the river not only did not escape, but also gathered below to fight for the bait. It instantly made him feel like he was feeding koi in the park, throwing a handful of fish food and a group of fish were fighting for it.
"Fuck, these fish don't have brains? They can't even see such a simple trap, hahaha." Luo Chong laughed so hard that his eyes could hardly open. This scene immediately gave him a sense of pleasure that crushed his IQ across the ages. He was probably the first person in the world to fish. The fish had never seen such fun.
The two friends and the adult woman were very surprised. They put that strange thing in the water and pulled it up, and they could get the legless thing out of the water, but they still didn't understand why they got it out.
Luo Chong dumped the four fish on the ground. The fish on the shore were still jumping on the ground. The woman and the two children came over to touch them. When the fish jumped up, they were so scared that they quickly retracted their hands.
How can you be afraid of fish? You have to eat this thing in the future.
Luo Chong took a stone from the shore to knock the fish unconscious, and then broke a pebble. He found a sharp piece of broken stone as a stone knife, scraped the scales, picked the gills, and cut open the belly to take out the internal organs. His movements were extremely skillful. Although this was his first time to kill fish here, he had done this job a lot in his previous life. He
picked the gills of the fish and washed it in the river, then put it on a big stone, cut off a piece of sashimi with a stone knife and stuffed it into his mouth.
Looking at the bright red blood flowing out of the fish's belly and the way Luo Chong chewed the sashimi, even a fool could see that fish is food that can be eaten. The woman and the two children watched eagerly beside him.
Luo Chong didn't mean to make them greedy. In fact, eating sashimi like this without any seasoning is not delicious at all. He did this just to tell them that fish is edible.
Luo Chong cut a piece of fish for each of them. Several people tasted it. They were very happy to eat it. Because they had never tasted the taste of seasoning, they would not think about it. In their opinion, as long as it is edible, they are not picky. They have eaten tree roots when they are very hungry, not to mention that this is meat.
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