Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 454 Decomposable Fish Cage

Chapter 450 The Fifth Decomposable Fish Cage
Back in the bamboo forest, Li Junge sawed off several large bamboo tubes from the moso bamboo, together with rattan poles and a few thick bamboos, picked up a few pieces of dead bamboo by the way, and went back to the bushes to find A Yin.

A Yin had already collected a large pile of firewood, and the two of them tied the firewood into two large bundles. Li Junge collected another pile of moss at the bottom of the bushes, and they returned to the camp together.

The first thing is to make a fire. Li Junge found the dead bamboo, scraped a lot of thin bamboo shavings from the inside of the dead bamboo with the tip of the hand saw, and then sawed out the outer skin with the hand saw in the middle of a four-finger-wide dry bamboo. A small opening, deep enough to just penetrate the bamboo, leaving a small eye with a thin nail and a big point.

Put the bamboo shavings on the inside of the dry bamboo slices, piled just above the small eyes, and then took a few thin bamboo slices and pressed them on the shavings to clamp them. Li Junge took another piece of dry bamboo and pressed it against his chest. The opening is stuck into the sharp edge of the dead bamboo, and it starts to rub up and down quickly.

A Yin had already built a firepit with stones and a small firewood pile with twigs, and then came to watch Li Junge make a fire.

Li Junge raised his head and said with a smile: "Uncle Orion kept it hidden. This time SWAT came and followed him into the mountains to learn his skills. Hmph! I used to have to drill wood to make fire, so this method is the most convenient way. "

Ayin smiled and said, "Only you take this as a treasure, Uncle Orion is too lazy to teach you, right? Who still uses this method to make fire now, how convenient is a lighter?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Yi Duo is not overwhelmed, don't you think this will come in handy?"

While talking, the edge of the piece of dry bamboo began to carbonize and turn black, and sparks were constantly being blown into the small eye of the piece of dry bamboo moving up and down, causing the shavings around the small eye to start to smoke.

Seeing that it was almost done, Li Junge took off the shavings and began to blow air into them.

After three or five strokes, a small flame suddenly appeared on the wood shavings.

Ayin shouted excitedly: "Success! Erpi, you are amazing!"

Li Junge moved the fire into the firepit, added fine firewood first, and then added dry firewood, and the firepit burned.

Li Junge smiled and said: "OK, the simplest thing is done, Ayin, you are in charge of burning a big fire and getting carbon, and I will make the bamboo trough."

Take a large moso bamboo tube with knots left at both ends, saw off a third along the inside of the bamboo joint, and make two slits.

Then find a piece of chisel-shaped flint, knock out the tip at one end, and take a wooden stick to chisel in from the edge of the gap on the bamboo tube to make a side gap. After breaking it apart, a bamboo groove is obtained.

After finishing two bamboo troughs, Li Junge began to change a bamboo pole into bamboo slices.

This is simple, first saw a groove at one end, saw a piece of dry wood into a wedge, and then take the wedge and knock it into the groove sawed on the top of the bamboo pole, and the bamboo will split in half along its own fiber direction.

Then divide it into two quarters, four quarters, eight, and bend the bamboo strips and bamboo core outwards and the bamboo skin inwards. The fibers of the bamboo core will break, and the bamboo core will be torn from both sides to separate the bamboo flesh from the bamboo skin.

Then the bamboo skin is hammered and torn apart, and a lot of bamboo skin threads are obtained.

With bamboo silk and thin rattan poles, Li Junge can make fish cages.

This Li Junge is a proficient hand. First weaved a small fish cage for the eel, which was used as the bottom cover, and then weaved a funnel-shaped fish cage with a big mouth and a small bottom.

The size of the bottom is just enough to be stuck on the mouth of the small fish cage.On the edge of the opening is a circle of sharp bamboo needles extending obliquely inward, which is the second layer of the fish cage.

Continuing on, the bottom of the third floor is as big as the opening of the second floor, but the cage grid is sparser, and the opening is also covered with bamboo needles, so that the funnel becomes even bigger when connected.

If such layers are layered one after the other, it can even be made into a huge monster in the end, and large fish weighing hundreds of catties can be packed in, then there will be another name, called fish bowl.

Today's time is relatively tight, Li Junge only has three floors, the radius of the fish cage opening is about one meter, and the length is two meters.

This kind of fish cage can catch fish weighing less than five or six catties, and the bigger ones will generally not go in.

Looking at the rough fish cage, Li Junge curled his lips: "Ayin, this is not my craft. The main reason is that I don't have a knife and can't control the thickness of the bamboo thread, otherwise I will weave it beautifully."

Ayin's little face was flushed red from the fire, and she smiled and said, "I know, you should hurry up and arrange what to do next."

Li Junge said with a smile: "I'll get out of the cage first, and I'll depend on it for food in the future. The fire can't be extinguished. You go and saw some palm leaves first, and pile them up for me to move. I'll get out of the cage first to get water. Find something to eat by the way, let's deal with it for lunch today."

I also took two large moso bamboo tubes, drilled a hole with a hand saw in the horizontal piece inside the bamboo joint, weaved the two bamboo tubes side by side with rattan, pulled out four rattans from top to bottom to make tendons, and then took the rattan Weave back and forth between the two to form two straps.

Putting the bamboo tube on his back, Li Junge walked towards the lake with the disassembled fish cage.

He came to the lake and put down his tools. Looking at the fish stars rising and falling in the lake, Li Junge slammed his mouth and said, "It's amazing, there are more fish than Lao Tzu's Lijiagou!"

The next step is to smear the fish cage with mud.

Of course, smearing blood would be the best, but Li Junge didn't have such a thing, so he could only give up.

After smearing the mud, connect the fish cages layer by layer with bamboo wires. In the last layer of eel cages, Li Junge threw some smashed snail and mussel meat into it, closed the opening with bamboo wires, and put the fish cages under To the edge of the reeds.

The placement of fish cages depends on the direction of the water. Fish swim against the current, so the mouth of the cage should face the direction of the current and be parallel to the lake shore.

After securing the cage, the next step is to fetch water.

Li Junge had suffered a lot when fetching water from the lake. He had been beaten twice by roundworms and beaten once, only then did he know that only the water in the well was clean.

If there was no well, one was built, and Li Junge found a sandy place by the lake, and began to dig a hole.

This is a foolish force, but fortunately, he has plenty of strength, and the sand by the lake is also soft. After a while, a large puddle with a diameter of one and a half meters and a depth of one meter was dug out.

Then the water pit was repaired, and stones and flakes were found to cover the surrounding and bottom of the water pit. The well immediately became smaller, but Li Junge didn't care, and started to dig out the thin mud and sand paddles.

After pouring the mud and mortar out of the well, it was hopeless to drink the well water immediately. Li Junge took two tubes of water from the lake and prepared to boil it before drinking it.

After doing this, Li Junge began to walk along the lake in search of food.

Li Junge also discovered a ginger plant before, and found that the taste is not like ginger or Yehanshu, but it tastes like the galangal in the box lunch these days.

No matter what kind of ginger it is, as long as it can suppress the fishy smell, with this, the snail, river and mussel meat can be eaten, and there is no need to wash other meat.

After getting a bunch of mussels and snails, Li Junge continued to search in the swamp by the water, picking ear roots, wild water chestnuts, cattails, water celery, shepherd's purse, and a kind of lotus, but I don't know if there are lotus roots underneath.

I picked some ear roots at random, and I can drink a little water to clear away heat and prevent colds.

Folded two lotus leaves, smashed open the shells of the snails and river mussels, washed the meat and washed them clean.Putting the ears and roots of the snails and mussels in one place, Li Junge returned to the camp with the bamboo tube on his back.

After putting the things away, poured water into two bamboo troughs and boiled them up. Li Junge took the pole and went to the woods to look for Ayin.

A large pile of palm leaves had been piled up beside A Yin, as tall as she was sitting. She was sitting under the palm tree herself, tearing the palm leaves from the bottom of the leaves, splitting them into two halves.

Li Junge tied up the leaves and picked them back and forth twice before finishing.

The water was already boiled, Li Junge tied a bamboo horse, moved a tank of boiling water to the bamboo horse to cool down, then took a piece of galangal and smashed it into another tank, and pulled the clam meat on the stone with the back of a hand saw, Throw it into the bamboo tank together with the snails and cook.

That's lunch.

The bamboo stick picked up the boiled mussel and snail meat and ate some indiscriminately to deal with it. Li Junge saw off two bamboo tubes to make straws, drank some water with A Yin, found a shade to rest, and then started Build a shed.

Before building the shed, Li Junge found a dry bamboo tube, and used a handsaw to pull out some small holes in the bamboo tube, then used mud to paste the outside of the bamboo tube, picked out all the holes with a thin bamboo stick, and then cleaned and dried the bamboo tube Put the moss into the bamboo tube, take a wooden stick and pestle it as tightly as possible, finally use the wooden stick to seal the opening of the bamboo tube, and burn the bamboo tube on the charcoal fire.

A Yin said, "Erpi, what are you doing?"

Li Junge said: "To make fire charcoal, even if the moss is compacted, the interior of the moss is very loose after dehydration. After carbonization, there is a lot of air in it. You only need to use a hand saw and small sparks from flint to spark fire on it. As long as you keep Just dry."

Watching the small hole in the bamboo tube start to emit steam, Li Junge smiled and said, "Okay, don't worry about it, let's build a shed."

The sheds are simple. Li Junge used to build some corn stalks every year, but now it is no problem to build a bamboo frame and palm leaves. The two chatted and worked. After a while, a big green palm shed was built. up.

After setting up the hut, Li Junge found another palm-width piece of dry moso bamboo, ground a shovel on the stone, and started digging the drainage ditches.

After finishing everything, Li Junge moved the burnt moss to the shed for storage.

Looking at the ground in the shed, he said to A Yin: "It's not okay to sleep on the ground like this, there is still time, why don't we make a cool board?"

The cold board is a bamboo bed, and the method is actually very simple. Cut the bamboo into three-finger-wide bamboo slices, scrape off the edge burrs on the back of the hand saw, clamp the two ends with slotted bamboo tubes, and then saw out on the big moso bamboo. At the opening of the hole, nail the extra parts left at both ends of the bamboo tube into the moso bamboo tube, and a simple cooling bed is ready.

Of course, this alone is not enough. The middle of the big moso bamboo must be sawed out, and the pointed bamboo boards at both ends shall be inserted as beams, so that it will not collapse when people sleep on it.

But now they are all green bamboos, even if there are beams, the hardness is still not up to the requirement. Originally, two bamboo horses are enough, Li Junge can only make a few more, prop them off the ground, and spread hay, this is how to achieve the goal. The degree to which people can lie down.

He went to the bamboo bed to test the comfort. Li Junge felt that there was nothing wrong with it. He patted the empty space beside him and said to A Yin: "Today's big work is over. Come, A Yin, lie down and rest for a while."

Ayin lay gently beside him and said, "Erpi, I think it's a bit difficult to live like this for fifty days..."

Li Junge smiled and said, "Ayin, this is only the first day. Do you think what we have done? We have fire, water, shelter, meat, vegetables, fruits, bamboo, rattan ..."

"The climate here is 27 degrees Celsius during the day and around [-] degrees Celsius at night. It's a paradise. You don't need to find a quilt."

"The basic living security is already in place, and the next step is to work hard to live well. You just arrived in a new environment and feel nervous. It will be fine after two days to get used to it."

(End of this chapter)