Yan Mo asked the two people around him not to show up, but he didn't move. Now is not the best time to go out.
But even so, the frightened little mermaid waved to Big Eyes and Sa, and quickly slid from the shore into the lake.
"La Ruo, are you leaving?" Looking at the sky with big eyes, it was still early, and he didn't understand why the little mermaid would go back now. They used to play together until late every time, and the little mermaid would catch fish for them, while he He secretly hid the fish in a package and brought it back, rubbed it with salt and brought it to him. The one with the thick eyebrows and the sharp nose found it once, but he said he was caught in a nearby lake, so he believed it.
The little mermaid looked back at them, and then at the place where the voice came from, "I'll come back tomorrow." Tomorrow he brought his brother with him, so that he would not have to be afraid.
"Wait, I'll take someone with me tomorrow, can I?" Big Eyes shouted.
The little mermaid did not know whether he heard this, but he had slipped into the water.
Big eyes and Sa feel very sorry, big eyes are worried, how to deal with those thick eyebrows when they go back!
The two children probably felt bored, and went back after walking around the lake for a short time.
Yan Mo told the two warriors not to tell what they saw today.
The two warriors hurriedly agreed.
When he went back to his place of residence, Yan Mo acted as if he didn't know about it, instead of looking for the two brats, he started to make preparations.
Before dawn the next day, he called the two warriors, and before leaving the residence, he asked someone to inform the three children that they would be exempted from today's class.
This time when he rushed to the lake, he didn't let the two warriors approach, let them stay outside the woods, and told them not to approach the lake unless they heard his cry for help. But plans are worse than changes.
"It's cold, don't just stand around stupidly outside, do more activities, even light a fire."
"But..." the two warriors were grateful, but obviously worried.
"It's okay, I'll call you guys if there's anything to do." Yan Mo patted them and asked them to hand over the stone pot and slab that they had carried back to him. He brought these two mainly to do coolies.
The two warriors thought of how the priest dealt with the little monster last time, and thought that they were nearby, so they reluctantly agreed to let Yan Mo go to the lake alone.
Yan Mo turned around, "By the way, collect more dead branches and leaves for me, I will be useful."
Yan Mo walked through the woods with a stone pot on his head and a stone slab in his arms, and came to the lake, letting go of his burden first. He went back into the woods and collected the dead leaves and branches nearby with the two warriors. The three of them worked together and collected a lot in half an hour.
Yan Mo couldn't carry it himself, so he had to ask two warriors to help him send these to the lake shore. He didn't let anyone go away as soon as the things were put down. Build a windbreak, it's too windy by the lake!
The two warriors worked swiftly, and they shoveled out an open space in two or three strokes, exposing a piece of frozen land below.
Yan Mo piled up the dead leaves on the small open space, and the two warriors gathered the surrounding snow, beat them tightly, and made a temporary windbreak wall for Yan Mo.
The two warriors probably saw that Yan Mo was going to start a fire, so they picked up some stones for him and surrounded him with a fire pit.
"Thank you." Yan Mo expressed his gratitude sincerely. These two people are so useful, mainly because they have good eyesight, so they don't need to be ordered by him.
The two warriors smiled foolishly, and they were not polite. They wanted to help Yan Mo light the fire, but Yan Mo politely refused. The two warriors saw that they were not as busy as they were, so they left.
Yan Mo was indeed preparing to start a fire, he did not use ice cubes to light it so slowly, but untied a small stone pipe wrapped in animal skin from his waist.
If it wasn't for Yuan Zhan's ability to control stones, this small stone tube might not have been able to be made.
He unplugged the stone pipe, shook out the smoldering dry grass, blew out sparks, and put them on the gathered dead leaves, and the dead leaves burst into flames.
It's a pity that this simple Huozhezi stone tube is not airtight, and the smoldering hay inside will burn out in a short time, so it cannot be carried for a long time on the road, but it is basically no problem to support it for about an hour.
Yan Mo hurriedly put the dead branches he picked up one by one, paying attention to leaving gaps so that they could be fully burned. Now he is no stranger to the skill of making fire.
After the fire ignited, he put the stone pot on the rocks with great effort, dug snow with the wooden bowl and spoon he carried, and poured it into the stone pot.
If the little mermaid was greedy, he wouldn't believe it. With his skills, he couldn't compare to the two kids who only knew how to spread salt.
As for whether the little mermaid would run away when she came out and saw him, Yan Mo was not very worried.
If the little mermaid is not afraid of the big eyes and Sa who is about twelve years old, his body is only fourteen or five years old, and he has a simple, honest and kind face, how can he not scare the little mermaid from coming out
Rubbing his head, since Jiufeng fell asleep, he didn't have to worry about his hair, and he didn't shave it again, and now he has grown another layer of stubble.
Speaking of which, the growth of his hair seems to be affected by his mood. At the beginning, Jiufeng always liked to peck his hair, and there were many lice on his head. He thought in his heart that the hair that was pecked off would not grow back again. The ones didn't grow very long, and this time he thought that the hair on his head was finally free from birds, and the lice on his body were almost solved with medicine and hair removal, and the weather was cold, and he could always look warmer with hair, As a result, all the hair grows out, although the speed is not very fast.
In order to leave a good impression on the little mermaid, Yan Mo specially cleaned himself up before going out. His face was washed clean, and some homemade simple antifreeze cream was applied. The cloak that Yuan Zhan had snatched for him was also carefully wiped clean, and the fur on the outside was also tidied.
But because Yan Mo is afraid of the cold, even though he cleaned himself up, he still looks like a ball from a distance and up close. Coupled with his head with only a little stubble, it looks like a big gray prickly prickly pear from a distance. A small prickly pear.
Pull a goat leg from the herb bag. Because of its various nourishing effects, mutton is accepted by the herbal medicine bag, but it is only limited to fresh meat that is slaughtered immediately. If the meat is left for a little longer, as long as there is a little deterioration, the herbal medicine bag will reject that piece of mutton.
He didn't know if the mermaid would eat mutton, but if the mermaid didn't eat it, he could eat it. It would be a good thing if he could have a pot of delicious mutton stew on a cold day.
Put the mutton cut off with a scalpel into the pot in order to remove the mutton and add various herbs for flavor and taste. Yan Mo didn't care about the pot anymore, there was enough snow water in it, and he wasn't afraid to burn the pot to dryness soon.
He picked up a long branch with a fork at the top that he broke off when he was picking up dead branches just now. With his eyes wide open, he stepped on the stones on the shore of the lake and approached the boundary line where the ice layer meets the lake water, and finally landed on a big stone. stop.
Then he took a ball of twine from his pocket. This is one of the finished products presented to him by the Awu tribe before he left.
This ball of twine was a bit thick, but it was just right for fishing, so it wouldn't be snapped.
Yes, this guy is going to fish, and he has prepared everything before he comes, thinking how a salted fish that has been dead for a long time can compare to fresh grilled fish and fish soup.
He directly used a gold needle to make the fishing hook. Although he felt distressed, he couldn't find a suitable substitute, so he had to use a gold needle instead. Fortunately, he has a total of 72 gold needles, and the missing ones can be remade if suitable materials are found in the future.
The twine was tied to the forked end of the branch, and the fishhook was tightly tied to the twine. On the hook, he pinched a small piece of roasted meat as bait.
Raising his hand, the twine was thrown out, and the hook fell into the water.
The two handsome mermaids who were in charge of patrolling the shore of the lake stood behind the big rock in the distance and looked at the human boy, feeling strange.
"Simon, what do you think that kid is doing?"
Simon observed for a while and shook his head, "I can't see it."
"It seems that our new neighbor has a lot of cubs." The mermaid baby ran out to play with the human children for so many days, it was impossible for them not to notice, but seeing that there were only two cubs. There was no malice, just to be on guard, and did not stop them from coming and going, and the leader knew this.
"Devon, what do you think the leader means? Is he planning to expel these humans?" Long before they found the two children, they found the Awu people who came to collect firewood in the woods by the lake bank. However, no humans have ever lived here, and they don't know what these humans are like, so the leader didn't immediately issue an order to expel them.
"I don't know either. La Ruo seems to like the fish brought by the two human cubs very much. I don't know if there is something on the fish."
"I smelled a strange smell, as if it came from behind that snow wall. What did that kid do behind that snow wall?" Because of the angle, they couldn't see very clearly.
"what?"
"how?"
"The fish is getting close to the strange thing hanging in the water."
"Shall we go and have a look?"
"Okay, be careful, don't let him find out!" the two fish said and submerged into the lake.
Seeing the twine floating, Yan Mo immediately picked up the fishing rod, but...it was empty, nothing. Pull the fishhook over again to see that the meat grains on it are gone.
Yan Mo didn't expect to catch fish once or twice. He is not a novice fisherman. In the original world, one of his entertainments was fishing. When he was upset or wanted to rest, he would feel much better if he went out to fish for a day.
If it wasn't for the fact that the lake was too cold and he had too many things to do, he would have thought of going fishing to enjoy himself.
He grabbed another piece of meat and stuck it on the hook, and threw the twine into the lake again.
But once, twice, three times, he saw the hook move every time, but when he lifted the fishing rod up, he saw only an empty hook.
What's going on? Why are the fish in this lake so smart
It stands to reason that it is not difficult to catch a fish that has never been tricked by anyone with bait, not to mention that there are not many fish in this lake. He has already seen a lot of ripples under the water surface, and there are obviously fish gathering.
It's a pity that there is ice floe on the surface of the lake, and he threw the hook farther away. Because of the depth and the aquatic plants floating under the lake surface, even if the lake water is clear, the visibility is not very high.
Devon took the meat off the hook and stuffed it into his mouth, smashing it into his mouth, "It tastes good, but it's a bit lacking. This kid is too stingy."
"That's right, since you are feeding the fish, then throw a big piece of meat down, such a small one, you can't even taste much." Simon complained, and said hurriedly: "It's my turn next time."
"However, human beings are so smart that they came up with this method to catch fish." Devin commented. Seeing the curved hook, they naturally guessed its efficacy after fishing for a living all year round.
"The material of this thing is a bit strange."
"Hmm, maybe we can give him better ingredients to exchange for his meat?"
"Hey? Do you think he wants to leave?" Simon was in a hurry. He only ate two meatballs, one less than Devon. "Hurry up, grab a fish and put him in that thing."
This time, Yan Mo was a little impatient, and he couldn't stay still because of the cold.
Fish for the last time, if it doesn't work, forget it.
Yan Mo threw down the hook again.
Simon grabbed the hook, hurriedly took off the meat on it and stuffed it into his mouth, and then quickly hung the fish that Devon caught just now on the hook, "Okay."
On the stone, Yan Mo felt the weight.
This time for sure! Yan Mo was a little excited, and quickly picked up the fishing rod.
A fish was lifted out of the water by him with its tail flicking.
Throwing the fat fish about a foot long and looking like grass carp onto the snow on the lake bank, Yan Mo is not worried that someone will steal his fish, nor is he afraid that the fish will escape. In such a cold day, once the fish leaves The water will freeze quickly.
With the result, he naturally didn't want to leave immediately, Yan Mo planned to throw the hook a few more times to see, he set a number of ten times for himself, no matter how much he caught, he would go ashore.
This time he inserted a piece of meat that was twice as big as before. He felt that the previous piece of meat might be too small, but the fish in this lake are bigger. Ran.
"Here we come!" The handsome two-man fish was excited.
"It's bigger this time! It really has to be fish."
"Quick, eat three and exchange one for him."
The handsome two-man fish under the lake was happy to eat, and Yan Mo on the lake was also very happy to fish. This time, he could catch one by throwing the hook three times, and the bigger the meat, the bigger the fish. To the back, he put a thumb-sized piece of meat directly on the hook.
At the bottom of the lake, a slender mermaid with a silver fish tail cut through the water and quickly approached Devin and Simon, "What are you doing?"
In the lake water, mermaids don't talk with voice, but use another way of communication.
"Ramon!" When the handsome mermaid saw another strong mermaid swimming towards him, he felt flustered and embarrassed as if he had been caught doing something bad.
"Did you smell anything strange?" Ramon asked suddenly without waiting for the two to explain.
On the lake, Yan Mo, who fishes so much that he forgets the cold, has a sense of accomplishment.
Counting, he has caught four fish, and one is fatter than the other! Even if he doesn't know how to hunt, he can't starve himself to death by fishing! Wow haha! Wait, what's this smell
what! His lamb stew!
Yan Mo finally remembered the pot of stewed mutton he cooked on the shore of the lake. He was so happy fishing that he completely forgot about the pot of meat.
Yan Mo didn't care about fishing anymore, and hurried back to the shore stepping on the rocks.
The bottom of the stone pot has been burnt, and some of the mutton and herbs are stuck on the bottom of the pot. But fortunately, because no one added firewood to the fire below, the fire was already very small after burning, otherwise the things in the pot would have turned to charcoal.
Yan Mo hurriedly added snow water, stirred the bottom of the pot, and then added dead branches to the fire, breaking out in a sweat.
"Hey, human cub."
Startled, Yan Mo immediately raised his head and saw three harpoons with sharp fronts pointed at him.
"What are you doing here? Can you understand our words?" Ramon stretched out his long fingertips to poke the boy's head. He was more curious about how the hair on the head was so short. Then I really want to rub it twice.
Yan Mo was stunned for a moment. He originally wanted to pretend to be scared, but considering that his identity as a priest would definitely be exposed in the future, he slowly smiled kindly after being stunned for a moment.
"Who are you? My name is Yan Mo."
Hearing that Yan Mo can speak their words and is not afraid of them, the three mermaids are very happy.
"I, Ramon. This is Simon and Devon. We are Mermaid Longtails, and we live in this lake." Perhaps the young man is more pleasing to the eye. Ramon is not very wary of Yan Mo, and they have few foreign enemies. , and the vigilance is not high.
Long tail? Does that mean there are short tails? Do mermaids have their own clans and tribes like humans? Yan Mo guessed.
"I'm from the Jiuyuan tribe. Our tribe's residence is some distance away from here. I came here to fish." Yan Mo made a shy expression of embarrassment, "This lake is very big, bigger than other lakes. , I think there must be a lot of fish here."
"How many people are in your tribe?" Ramon asked.
Yan Mo's thoughts turned, if there were less, would it make them think that they could invade and drive them away? If they say too much, will they regard them as imaginary enemies
But their focus now is to make their powerful neighbors not see them as a threat. It may not be wise to show strength now, because they are not really powerful. It's better to let the fish feel that their new neighbors are more friendly and bring them benefits than aggressive.
"Not much." Yan Mo said honestly: "We just moved here, and we can't live in the original place."
"Hey? Why do you want to migrate? Have you encountered a beast?" There are also powerful beasts in the water, and mermaids are not invincible in the water.
Yan Mo nodded, "We encountered a group of short human-like monsters, only this tall, but they were very ferocious and cannibalized. They hunted us as prey. Although we killed them, we didn't know they were still there. How many ethnic groups can only migrate, because we have many children, women and old people who have no fighting power."
The three of Ramon looked at each other. They didn't think that a boy who looked like a teenager would lie, they only thought that what he said was true.
Simon couldn't bear it for a long time. Hearing this, he quickly interrupted: "Yan Mo, what are you doing? Are you making food?" The taste is very strange, but he couldn't help but want to taste it.
Devon and Ramon were also very curious. They didn't come here to frighten this little human cub, but they were mainly attracted by this strange smell.
When Yan Mo heard them ask about the food, he laughed immediately, "This is a mutton pot, and the mutton is boiled in it? Do you want some?"
The three of Ramon nodded vigorously. Anyway, whether to expel these humans or not depends on the leader's intention in the end. They don't need to confront the human cubs now, and the cubs feeding the fish with meat are quite cute.
At the same time, in the original place of the Awu people.
Meng and the Awu people were packing up. Yuan Zhan left him a road map, and they agreed to migrate there together 30 days after Yuan Zhan set off.
Most of the Awu women and children are busy collecting flax fibers and spinning them into threads with spindles. There are still a few old people who are tanning animal skins. Even if the weather is dripping and freezing, they still sit by the frozen lake, rubbing the skins with snow to remove the residue on them.
"Master Meng." Patriarch Awu came to Meng, with a troubled look on his face.
"What?" asked him fiercely.
"That woman... was crying again, and she wouldn't eat what was given to her."
Meng waved his hand indifferently, "If she doesn't eat, don't give it to her, don't worry about her." When he was very hungry, he took the meat, and the woman was willing to sleep with him.
"But..." Patriarch Awu was very embarrassed, "The clan witch said that she might also be a priest of the gods, and no one can touch her body, and she can still..."
"What did she do?" Meng finally looked squarely at it.
Patriarch Awu gritted his teeth, "She put her hand on Hei Pi who was in charge of guarding her last night. Hei Pi's limped leg will be able to walk this morning!"