Chapter 26 Full of Harvest
Xia Weiwei didn't know that her actions hit Qingmei's already blamed her. She covered her animal skin and thought about it carefully, but she didn't expect that due to physical reasons, she fell asleep in a daze shortly after lying down. She didn't expect that Qingmei, who came in to exchange for cooked lotus roots, found that she was sleeping so quickly, and she was even more guilty.
So Qingmei, who had not closed her eyes all night, couldn't sleep even more. She hugged the child, her eyes were so astringent that it hurt, and she didn't close for a moment.
Before I knew it, I survived one night again, and the sound of careful conversations from the men outside the tent came.
"Huh~" After a heavy breath, she simply got up and followed the men's footsteps.
The men usually got up very early, but today, they got up earlier after not sleeping all night. It was still gray that day, so everyone went down the lotus pond.
Huh, huh, there was a lot of fun in the lotus pond.
"Ha!" Turning around to see how many azure trees everyone had dug, the woman who unexpectedly caught her eyes was stunned. Then, when the woman heard the sound, she saw the woman's bloodshot eyes, her excessively black eyelids and her extremely haggard face.
···When the migration, the man didn't sleep for several days, it was not as exaggerated as her.
It is indeed worth being happy that women are as worried as they are, but women's bodies are no more than men's.
Looking at Qingmei's appearance that she couldn't even hold her eyelids, Qingmu didn't know whether to be angry or laughed: "I told you that with lotus roots, we are not afraid of fishing in the fish basket."
I didn't explain that I was not worried about not being able to eat or sleep, nor did I say anything to Aoki not to worry about her. Aomei just bent down and continued.
Shaking her head, probably she couldn't sleep even if she asked her to go back to sleep now. Aoki could only let her look around and shouted loudly after determining the number of lotus roots: "It's almost done."
If it weren't for the best catch, men would never dig lotus roots here, but for the catch, it was already the limit of their patience that they could tolerate.
If you come together, everyone clean the lotus root and send it back to the center of the tent, and then go to the water while eating.
When Xia Weiwei woke up, the sun was rising. Not to mention men, even women and children were gone.
I didn't bother with Qingmei's mother why she didn't call herself? Xia Weiwei turned around to check if the lotus roots roasted the day before yesterday could still be eaten. Then, after confirming that the lotus roots had not deteriorated, she moved them all behind the tent.
At that time, she thought about the amount of food for the four of them to eat a day, and also thought that there was more lotus roots. When the Aoki family could eat more, they should eat more and bake more.
I didn’t expect that they had a meal yesterday, so even though they took the initiative to get cooked lotus root this morning, there is still a meal left.
She has no habit of wasting her food, and she can't throw away the food she can't do, but she wants to catch everyone earlier and let everyone accept cooked food, so the remaining lotus roots can only be used for experiments.
Dried lotus roots are not only easy to carry, but also easier to store. If they can be successfully dried, everyone can bring some to the next year for the need for emergencies.
Compared with raw lotus roots that will oxidize and turn black after cutting, this cooked lotus root is not only not to worry about this problem. It also loses a lot of moisture when stewing and roasting, and it has much advantage over raw lotus roots when drying.
After picking the taro leaves, Xia Weiwei cut them, ate them and dried them. After she finished cutting them, she was full.
I thought to myself that if this lotus root can be successfully dried, I don’t have to worry too much about migration next year. She compared the lotus pond and the open space outside the tribal fish pond.
Although she is now asking for an empty fish pond from the tribe and there shouldn't be many people in the tribe oppose it, she doesn't want to ask for help for this little thing.
Although the water of these uncleaned lotus ponds is not deep, it is not shallow, and it is more than enough to raise her to eat fish alone.
Xia Weiwei, who had no choice but to ask for help, walked around the area outside the fish pond for a long time, and finally chose an area located on the east side of the tent and a hundred meters away from the tent circle.
After roughly planning the narrow and long open space located between three lotus ponds of different sizes and an area of only 200 square meters, Xia Weiwei left with a smile.
She didn't go to join in the tribe's fun, and with a stone knife and axe on her back, she stepped into the grass with few footprints, clearing the thorns and weeds while walking towards the trap position.
She had to come back with a fish today. According to the previous way of walking to the water and heading towards the trap, she had to walk at least four or five hundred meters more back and forth, so she had to clear a trail for herself and avoid some detours every day.
After a long period of hard work, Xia Weiwei finally arrived at the waterside. She did not pick up the fish as soon as possible. Instead, she looked at several traps one after another and confirmed that the harvest today was much greater than yesterday. She pulled the water plants to plug the trap passage. Then, she ran to the mountain bag not far away with her stone axe.
After a whole day, the fish dried on the mountain buns had dried their skin regardless of size. Of course, compared with small fish with palm size, the dehydration level of those "big fish" with a length of more than ten centimeters was obviously not good.
"This climate is really suitable for drying, and it can dry thoroughly in at most three days." As expected, Xia Weiwei also checked carefully. After confirming that there were no traces of thousands of fish that should not exist, the smell of things and smells, she finally cut down the branches with confidence.
Combining the branches and straw ropes of different lengths and shapes, she weaves a simple backpack, and then after picking taro leaves and placing them on the bottom and around, Xia Weiwei began the most important fish-taking work today.
It is obvious that fish prefer to eat meat, so the amount of fish in the trap today is at least one-third more than yesterday.
When the aquatic plants covering the surface of the trap were pressed down by her, she could not feel much space. When she pushed her palm and dozens of fish were taken out of the trap by her, she actually had the urge to expand the trap.
"Baobabababababababababa..."
Splashes splashed everywhere and fish scales flew.
Xia Weiwei did not pick up the fish in the basket, but chose the big, fat, and scaled ones. The small and scaleless ones were sent to the west in one go.
First, scaleless fish are much more convenient to handle. Second, scaleless fish are mostly catfish species. Most of these fish are nocturnal and much more cruel than other fish species. With the help of their unparalleled mouth, anything smaller than them will become their food.
She didn't want to strictly classify the breed and size like a tribe, so she could only fundamentally kill them, leaving them with no possibility of catching other fish.
"Bah!" After spitting out the imported fish scales, Xia Weiwei cleaned the trap roughly, threw the fresh fish gills, covered them with fresh aquatic plants, and pulled off the aquatic plants that blocked the water hole.
Chapter completed!