After eating, Yun Chao took the stone and set off again.
The target is still Wolong Valley.
This time, the two of them each brought a piece of bamboo. Under Yun Chao's guidance, Shitou quickly made a cross bamboo spear.
Let the rocks go upstream to break the ice, and Yun Chao continued spearing fish through the holes in the ice that he had made in the morning.
Wolong Village is located in the Huanghuai River Basin of Qilu. Although the winter is relatively cold, it has not yet reached the level where dripping water can form ice. At noon, the holes in the ice that were made in the morning have not yet frozen.
By the time the stone smashed a hole in the ice a hundred meters upstream, Yun Chao had already speared two more big fish.
"Stone, come here, I'll teach you how to spear a fish."
Shitou was very happy to hear that Yun Chao wanted to teach him how to spear fish. But he heard from his mother that Yun Chao's ability to spear fish was a secret skill that could be passed down from generation to generation. If he could learn it, he would not be hungry for the rest of his life!
"Stone, you have to remember that the trick to spearing a fish is not to spear the fish, but to spear it underneath..."
Yun Chao didn't tell Shi Shi anything about the reflection and refraction of light. For a person who didn't even know his own name, that stuff was too profound, and Yun Chao didn't intend to train Shi Shi to be a scientist, as long as he could apply it in practice.
Shitou was confused and didn't understand why he had to spear the fish under it.
It's so weird to try to stab such a big fish but miss it when you stab it directly.
However, there is an advantage to being honest. You don’t think about things you don’t understand. Since Yun Chao’s method works, you just need to learn it.
He is used to farm work and has a strong ability to manipulate stones. He only succeeded after two failures. When he speared a grass harpoon, his jaw almost dropped with joy!
After watching the stone succeed twice more, Yun Chao went upstream with his bamboo spear and speared fish in the ice hole that the stone had just smashed.
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When they returned home in the evening, the two people's baskets were filled with big fish. No one had caught them for a long time. There were too many fish in Wolong Valley.
"Yun Er, Shitou, are you going to catch fish again?"
As soon as they entered the village, some villagers noticed them.
The fishy smell of both of them could be smelled from afar.
"Yun Er, I heard that you had fish for lunch. Was it delicious?"
"Yun Er, can you let me see the fish you caught?"
Yun Chao did not shy away. If someone wanted to see it, he would let them see it openly.
"Wow, so many fish!"
"Boy, these fish are so big!"
"Hey, why are these fish so rotten?"
"..."
After being watched by a group of villagers for a long time, Yun Chao and Shitou returned home.
Before entering the door, Lin Youniang and Aunt Wang came out of the house to welcome her.
"Oh, there are so many fish, how can we eat them!"
The two women, one big and one small, were shocked. They had thought that two people could catch fish, but they had never thought that they could catch so many fish.
The fish is delicious, but no matter how delicious it is, you can't eat so much. It would be a pity if it goes bad!
Yun Chao was very calm: "It doesn't matter. Clean it up, put some salt on it, make it into salted fish and put it away. It won't go bad."
"Second brother, where can we find so much salt?"
"Well……"
Only then did Yun Chao remember that this was not the era of abundant supplies in his previous life. The salt and iron in the Wu Dynasty were exclusively sold by the government. Not to mention its own value, the high additional taxes and fees alone were not something that ordinary people could afford.
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Ordinary people, when they cook, they can at most have a salty taste, and sometimes they are even reluctant to put salt in. They don't have to worry about high blood pressure caused by eating too much salt.
"It doesn't matter. The weather is cold now. Even if there is no salt, it can be kept frozen for a while. When the snow melts in a few days, I will go to the city to see if I can sell it."
People in rural areas don't eat fish, and people in cities don't know whether to eat fish or not. Yunchao plans to find time to go to the city to broaden his horizons, but just staying in the countryside with limited information is not enough.
"Brother Chao, you'd better not go into the city. I heard there are a lot of bad people in the city. If you can't, just go to the town and have a look!"
Hearing Yun Chao say that he wanted to go to the city to sell fish, Aunt Wang seemed to have thought of something terrible. For ordinary people like them, the city was simply not a place they could go.
Yun Chao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It seemed that the knowledge of the people around him still needed to be improved.
According to the memory of the original owner, most people in Wolong Village have never been to the city. At most, they only go to the town to attend a fair or the like. They are both yearning for and afraid of the city.
"It doesn't matter, my eldest brother and I have been to the city. The city is not as scary as the legend says..."
Yun Chao is really not bragging this time. In the memory of the original owner, he actually followed his cheap brother into the city. However, the original owner was still young at that time. He only remembered that there were many delicious food in the city, and so on.
Didn't even remember it.
"By the way, Aunt Wang, could you please call the person who rescued me yesterday? I want to treat everyone to fish."
Since he had forked so many fish, Yun Chao was not stingy. Although his life was not rich, he could still treat everyone to a meal.
Aunt Wang did not persuade Yun Chao. Food is precious, but nostalgia is even more precious. These days, if the poor do not help each other, they will not be able to survive at all.
Someone saved Yun Chao's life. It was normal for Yun Chao to treat others to dinner, and there was nothing to feel sorry for.
As a result, three more families in Wolong Village ate fresh fish pot stickers made by Yun Chao himself.
"Oh, I can't help it, I can't help it. I'm going to die. It turns out that fish can be so delicious!"
"Yeah, I've lived half my life in vain. I didn't know the fish in our Wolong Valley was so delicious!"
"Brother Chao, where did you learn your skills? Did your elder brother teach you?"
"..."
They were all honest people, and they did not repay their kindness for saving Yun Chao's life. On the contrary, they kept expressing their gratitude to Yun Chao for having a delicious meal.
While everyone was eating enthusiastically and enjoying themselves, suddenly, a drake's voice came from outside the door.
"Quack, Yun Er, come out and see how many birds I have caught!"
The iconic voice must be Lai Zhicheng’s second son Lai Shouyi.
"It's okay. Let's continue eating. Lai Xiaoer must have caught a bird and came here to show off. Don't pay attention to him and let him freeze outside."
How could Yun Chao have the time to argue with a little scoundrel? Instead of wasting his time, he might as well eat more and seize the time to improve the physical condition of this body.
Yun Chao guessed right, Lai Shouyi was here to show off.
The two brothers, plus a few gangsters who followed the Lai family, spent a whole day at the foot of Beishan and finally caught twenty or thirty birds.
Thinking that he had been humiliated in front of Yun Chao in the past two days, Lai Shouyi became extremely angry. He carried the bird and went straight to Yun's house. He wanted to see Yun Laoer's unlucky behavior after he saw that he had caught the bird.
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However, after shouting for a long time, Yun Chao was not seen, which almost made Lai Shouyi's nose twist.
"Yun Er, are you coming out? If you don't come out, I can go in... Well, what is it? Why does it smell so good?"