wild trail

Chapter 172 Have a Bold Idea
Looking at the fish dragged ashore, Wang Lang reckoned that the weight was at least eight or nine hundred catties. The mesh of the fishing net woven with straw ropes was relatively large, and all the fish he caught were large fish weighing more than ten catties. This fish was enough for one person to eat two. It's over.

"Boss, I didn't expect there to be so many fish in this lake. If we come to catch them once a day, the problem of food won't be a problem at all!" Kong Yi said with a smile.

"How can we catch fish every day, just for a few days. We don't rely on this for a living. Besides, we eat fish every day. Can you still eat it?" Wang Lang shook his head and smiled.

"That's right, if you eat fish every day, you can smell fishy, ​​but if you catch it every few days, you can persist until the corn is harvested." Kong Yi said.

Wang Lang nodded and said, "Drag the raft up, and we'll go back after loading the fish."

For these newcomers to the tribe, they have never seen so many easy-to-get fish, and when they heard that they were going back, they worked harder than the elders of those tribes.

The two men carried a basket of fish with wooden sticks, and returned to the tribe happily. When they passed the thatched hut outside the tribe, those people who had nothing to do, suddenly seemed to have discovered some new land, and surrounded them all at once.

Looking at the baskets of big fish, each of them stretched their necks and swallowed fiercely. If they didn't know the rules in the tribe, they would have gone up to pick up a fish and ate it.

Seeing the fish-carrying team walk into the enclosure, the group felt as if a piece of flesh had been dropped from their bodies, and each of them felt heartbroken.

After carrying the fish into the tribe, Wang Lang organized the women to process the fish with salt or smoke. In the absence of ice, this is the only way to keep the meat from spoiling. The taste is not very good, but at least eating it has no effect on the body.

"It would be great if there was ice." Wang Lang murmured.

Although this is a tropical area, it is not impossible to make ice. When he was in school with the method of making ice with nitrate, Wang Lang had done experiments in this area. As long as there are raw materials, it is not difficult to make ice.

Although Wang Lang has heard of the method of making nitrate from manure, there is still too little human and animal manure at present, and there is no white hair in the latrine, so the hope of making ice is far away.

If nitrate can be made, then even gunpowder can be made. The ratio of one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal, which is familiar to students in school days, should be heard by anyone who has studied chemistry.

But even if the nitrate can be produced, the problem of sulfur cannot be solved. If you want to find natural sulfur, the best place is near the volcano. As for the volcano, Wang Lang has been in this world for so long, and he has never seen a volcano anywhere. The high mountain behind the nearby forest seems to be a volcano, but Wang Lang couldn't be sure. The place looked quite close, but he knew that it was not easy to get there. jungle is a daunting task.

After catching this batch of fish, the tribe's food can last for several days, and if they catch a few more times in the future, the tribe's food will become more abundant.

The fishing mission this time was successfully completed, and there was no danger encountered during this period, which made Wang Lang feel that his previous worries were a bit unnecessary, maybe there were no large predators there at all.

Now Wang Lang has classified that lake into his own fish pond. Such a large lake can never be fished out with such a small number of people in the tribe. Moreover, Wang Lang only catches big fish and spares small fish. The strategy of sustainable development is carried out to the end.

Sufficient manpower has greatly accelerated the progress of all work. The construction of the fourth brick kiln has already begun, and the three brick kilns that have been completed have started construction at the same time. According to the speed of one kiln every five days, it will be able to produce enough in less than a month. bricks.

There is also a busy large construction site on the bank of the river. The embankment is getting longer and longer, and it will be fully completed in a short time. As long as the river embankment is completed, even if there is a heavy rain in the rainy season, there is no need to worry about the flood. Everything is destroyed.

At noon, the women brought hot lunches to the workers. Looking at the delicious food and those who had no work, they salivated greedily. They all wanted to replace those people and go to work by themselves. Then these delicious treats are all to yourself.

But whenever they found their leader and wanted to apply for a job, they were ruthlessly rejected. Each of them worked for one day. This was the rule set by Wang Lang, and no one dared to violate it.

Although Wang Lang didn't want to do this, but before the food was sufficient, he could only distribute it reasonably to the maximum extent.

Women are not heavy manual laborers, just like those who do not work, including Fan Xing, now they can only eat one meal a day.

In the current tribe, everyone has tightened their belts to overcome the current difficulties together. If they want to end this frugal life, they can only wait for the new corn harvest in more than 20 days.

Despite the busy schedule, there was good news. On the second day after the first batch of fish was caught, several pregnant does gave birth to three cubs, and the cucumbers in the vegetable field had already begun to be harvested, and the fresh cucumbers were just picked Some of the points were given to the soldiers to try out the early adopters, which made the newcomers envious and jealous for a while.

After the cucumbers were picked, most of them were put into earthenware pots and salted. Wang Lang used to like to eat green onions dipped in sauce and drink porridge with pickles. Now he can eat the familiar pickled cucumbers immediately. So he was very excited.

For those that were not picked, Wang Lang planned to keep them as seeds, and when they were fully grown, he could start planting the next batch, and this time the planting scale would also be expanded a lot.

Under Wang Lang's guidance, the harvested cucumbers were pickled with salt, put into a clay pot, and placed under the dried fish.

The last time the fish was caught, the tribe had a lot more fish. The pickled and dried ones were almost all placed in the tribe, and the air was filled with bursts of fishy smell.

The expansion of the tribe has already begun. On the basis of the original tribe, Wang Lang plans to expand the tribe by about three times.

Nearly a hundred people took tools to dig the earthen pit where the wooden piles were buried. The new wall was not a brick structure. If it were made of bricks, the bricks consumed would be an astronomical figure for Wang Lang.

The inside of the wall is rammed earth, the outside is covered with bricks, and the middle is fixed with wood.

Although the three brick kilns are currently under construction at the same time, it cannot meet the consumption rate of bricks, and this is still the case that Linhe Village has not come to ask for supplies. If they are distributed to Linhe Village, the production of these things will not be enough at all. .

(End of this chapter)