The eldest daughter of the emperor, she began to build a city wildly

Chapter 19 Fishing
The plump fish in the Yanyun River are in groups, and it would be a pity if they were not caught and eaten to solve the problem of lack of food.

Yingyue noticed that Su Tang was staring at the fish in the river with bright eyes, "Master, you are not talking about fish, are you?"

"Why can't it be a fish?" Su Tang squatted on the bank to watch the carp puff up, and the clear river water lined the fish school more and more attractive.

Yingyue followed Su Tang's appearance and squatted by the river, biting the wild fruit in her hand, almost making her teeth go sour, "Master, don't tell me, I want to drool just looking at these fish."

Xiao Li was holding two bowls of wild vegetable soup. From a distance, he could see the two of them squatting by the river and looking at something intently. Jump into the river.

"Village Master, no matter how poor our village is, we won't jump into the river." Xiao Li carefully persuaded the two people who couldn't think about it.

Su Tang turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw the young man who was rowing the boat looking at her worriedly, and quickly got up, "I didn't jump into the river, I was just thinking, since we are short of food, why don't we catch fish?"

"So I was thinking about this." Xiao Li breathed a sigh of relief, and handed the vegetable soup in his hand to Yingyue, "The main reason is that catching fish is too time-consuming and laborious. Sometimes I can't catch a few fish in the morning, so it's better to have more." Dig some wild vegetables to fill your stomach."

"How did you catch the fish?" Su Tang took a sip of the vegetable soup, frowning slightly, except for a little bit of salty and grassy taste, there was nothing else.

"Use a harpoon, or a net made of hemp rope, but you can't catch too many." Xiao Li said, in fact, they also tried to catch these fish, but it's useless if they can't eat them.

Su Tang thought it should be that the terrain here is mostly mountains, there are few big rivers and the like, all fisheries are not developed, and the people have relatively little experience in this area.

"Can you find some people to help chop some bamboo?" Su Tang said.

"There is a bamboo forest not far away. I don't know what to do with the main bamboo in the village?" Xiao Li was puzzled.

"If you want to weave something, there should be people in our village who can weave things with bamboo?"

"Yes, I made those baskets. Since the village owner needs it, I'll go right away." Xiao Li ran away after finishing speaking.

Fishing boats and nets are really hard to get, but you can make some fish baskets and cages and put them in the water, and put some bait in them. You only need to check whether there are any fish getting in every morning and evening, so you won’t waste too much time.

Until noon, Xiao Li brought several young people to the outside of Su Tang's yard carrying bundles of bamboo.

Looking for a shaded place, Su Tang told them about the appearance of the fish basket and the fish cage. It is not difficult to make, it is similar to the back basket, only need to do some special treatment on the position of the mouth, as long as the fish swims in, it will come out. Not coming.

From time to time, people come to watch, not knowing what they are doing. They look weird, some are round, and some are long. There are openings not far away, and they can't hold things.

It was not until the evening that with the efforts of Xiao Li and the others, ten of them were made.

Su Tang asked someone who knew water skills to put some animal offal or earthworms in the fish cage, and then find a place with a lot of aquatic plants and put them in the aquatic plants.

"Master, what are you doing?" Wu Chong, who came back from hunting, watched them tossing by the river curiously.

"Master said he wants to catch fish." Yingyue replied.

"With just a few baskets, you can catch fish?" Wu Chong looked at it for a long time and thought it was impossible. Fish are not stupid, how could they go into the basket by themselves.

"I also don't think the fish is stupid. I go to the basket and wait to be eaten by myself." Yingyue shook her head, doubting, but also felt that the fish was not stupid, and the master was not stupid. She should have a reason for doing so.

"I'll find out tomorrow morning." Su Tang said.

In fact, Su Tang was not sure, so he could only try first, but there were so many fish in this river, no matter how hard he tried, he could catch a few. Anyway, it didn't take much effort, and it was better to catch a few than nothing.

When the people onlookers heard what she said, they all went home with curiosity. The next morning, they ran faster than anyone else, and they didn't care about digging. They wanted to see if the fish baskets worked or not. .

When Su Tang finished exercising and went to the place where the fish basket was placed, there were already quite a few people around. Xiao Li saw her coming and asked expectantly, "Village Master, can you fish it now?"

"Get it." Su Tang smiled, sure enough no one would be indifferent to what they ate.

Xiao Li plunged down, and when he stretched out his head out of the water, he had a fish reel in his hand, held it high above the water, and shouted happily, "Village Master, there are fish."

When the person on the case heard it, his face was full of disbelief, "There are really fish, so why would the fish go in and be caught by themselves?"

"I heard that the village owner had someone put some meat and worms in it, so the fish would go in and eat it."

"Not to mention, this method is really good."

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The people on the shore stared and waited expectantly for Xiao Li to come ashore and pour out the fish in the basket. Two carp weighing six to seven catties writhed on the ground.

The eyes of the villagers widened. It is not easy to catch such a big fish.

With the ten fish cages brought ashore, only two or three fish cages weighing more than ten kilograms, and six or seven fish cages weighing about seven kilograms, as well as many small fish and shrimps, can be said to be a good harvest.

The fish in this river are seldom caught by people in this deep mountain and old forest, and each of them grows to a huge size. As long as they can be caught, there will be endless fish.

"I didn't expect that this kind of fish could really catch fish. Some fish were so stupid that they went into the cage by themselves." An old woman looked at this scene in amazement.

Yingyue pouted disapprovingly, and said, "I haven't seen a fish so stupid as to bump into your harpoon before. Where is the fish stupid? Obviously, the master is smart enough to think of a good way to catch the fish."

"Miss Yingyue said so." Xiao Li went on to say, "It's the village owner who modified the fish baskets and put some bugs as bait. As long as the fish go in, they can't come out. That's how we can catch so many fish."

Those onlookers fell silent when they heard this. It was obvious that the village owner had come up with a good way to catch fish. If he could make a few of them himself, he would only have to fish the cages sooner or later to have fish to eat.

Those villagers who thought Su Tang could not take care of the whole village with one woman before became more active at this moment.

A woman walked forward with her five or six-year-old child, showing embarrassment, "Master, I wonder if you can tell us the method, so that our mother and I can find a way to have a stutter in the future."

Su Tang remembered her. This woman was the mother and son who had lost their daughter and their husband died under the knife of bandits.

Yesterday they were angry and felt that she, the new village owner, was useless and unable to help them. They didn't expect to ask the village owner about fishing skills today. What if the village owner didn't want to tell them? Do it, feeling uneasy for a while.

"This fishing method is to solve the food problem in the village. If anyone wants to learn, just ask Xiao Li and the others to teach you." Su Tang laughed, not taking what happened yesterday in his heart.

"Thank you, Zhaizhu."

"The village master is magnanimous."

After hearing this, the villagers praised one by one, forgetting what they said yesterday.

Seeing that his prestige had risen by dozens of points, Su Tang summoned Wu Chong, "With these fish, you can hunt more easily. Let's go into the mountains tomorrow, and we can't delay any longer."

(End of this chapter)