Not long after Shao Xuan returned home, Lang Ga came to inform him of his participation in the patrol. Each hunting team had a responsible area, and three groups of people took turns to guard it.
Participating in the defense does not necessarily lead to dangerous things, but only plays a preventive role. After all, there are too many unknown factors in this big river, and it is always good to be on guard.
"Mai and the others will start patrolling tonight. You and I will replace them tomorrow morning," Lang Ga said.
"Okay, I see, what do I need to bring?" Shao Xuan asked.
"You don't need to bring too much, just the stone tools you weigh in your hands. It takes half a day each time." Lang Ga pointed to a place at the bottom of the mountain, "It's there, by the river, not far from where you used to fish."
"You may not know that you stayed in the cave last year. After the rainy season, the river level will rise a lot, probably to... there." Lang Ga pointed to Shao Xuan.
There, there is a line surrounded by stones, and there is no house below this stone line.
Therefore, the people living at the bottom of the tribe are only near the foot of the mountain, but they do not build houses directly at the foot of the mountain, which is the reason for the rising water in the rainy season. The people who were temporarily stationed by the river for fishing have all been evacuated, and they will not be near the river until the rainy season ends.
Thinking that Shao Xuan may not know what will happen in the rainy season, Lang Ga also specifically told Shao Xuan about what happened in previous years. When the rain outside was a little less, Lang Ga took Shao Xuan for a circle. Recognizing the ground also gave Shao Xuan a mental preparation. Although the place they are guarding will not have much difficulty, they still need to pay more attention.
"In other words, the hunting team won't leave to hunt until the rainy season ends?" Shao Xuan asked.
He thought that he was only staying in the tribe for a while, and if there was no trouble, he would go hunting, but according to Lang Ga, does this mean that he has to stay in the tribe throughout the rainy season? What does the undernourished eat? !
"There's no way to do this. The tribe has such a rule. Like many people on the mountain, they stock up a lot of goods, and the level of their prey is also high. If they can survive, they will be in trouble. Even if they stock up some, the level of animal meat is not high. High, the energy provided is limited, and most of the time you will still be hungry, but!" Lang Ga smiled: "This is much better than winter, because during the rainy season, there will be some things that we can pick up and eat."
"Things?" Shao Xuan frowned when he thought of the various bugs that came out of the training ground. If he really had nothing to eat, he could only use them to open a knife.
"You'll know when the time comes." Lang Ga said too much, "I won't starve to death anyway."
Um
Shao Xuan is really curious now. Listening to Lang Ga's words, it's not the kind of bug that came out of training, but something else
"It's only once a year, although there may be danger, but be careful, it's alright, don't worry." Lang Ga clenched his fist and hammered Shao Xuan's shoulder to show encouragement.
Shao Xuan rubbed his shoulders and looked at the river in the rain.
From time to time on the river in the distance, the overlords of the river appear. After observing the feared river beasts, Shao Xuan had a doubt. The overlords in the river seemed to be moving in one direction, as can be seen from their jumping movements. It's okay to say in individual cases, but all the feared river beasts that have exposed the surface of the water are all facing the same direction, there is no exception!
"Is that the upstream or downstream of the river?" Shao Xuan asked Lang Ga, pointing to the direction he was afraid of when the river beast jumped up.
"Upstream and downstream? I don't know, I haven't been there, it's too far." Lang Ga said indifferently. For him, it made no difference whether it was upstream or downstream, and he didn't think too much about it.
Shao Xuan looked in that direction, thinking and guessing where it was and why the overlords in the river would head over there. The river is already big enough. If it wasn't for fresh water, at first glance, he thought it was the sea... ocean? !
Could it be that this is a river into the sea? !
Shao Xuan recalled the two times he went out with the hunting team, speculated about the orientation and terrain, and came to a conclusion that the current direction of the overlords in the river is mostly the lower reaches of this big river, and if this river really enters the Haihe River , then, the overlords of the river, why do they swim toward the sea in the rainy season
Many fish will cause periodic directional back-and-forth swimming due to many factors such as reproduction, food or wintering, which is the so-called migratory feature. So, are the overlords in these rivers also carrying out similar migratory behavior
Shao Xuan shook his head, everything was just speculation. Ask Lang Ga and they won't get a result, because they don't even know what the sea is.
Regardless of whether the overlords in the river are directional swimming in the rainy season, for the current Shao Xuan, there is nothing they can do. However, after going back later, Shao Xuan will record these observations in his "notebook".
Shao Xuan had already cleaned out some animal skins suitable for recording, which were used to record things, including those paintings he saw in the cave before, which Shao Xuan also drew and hidden from memory. If the animal skin cannot be kept for too long, it will be re-engraved with slate at that time.
Looking back from the giant beasts who could not see their figures in the distance, and staying on the beach for a while, Shao Xuan suddenly said: "Lang Ga, you say, make a few fish gates here, okay?"
Lang Ga, who was thinking about how much food he could get in the rainy season this year, was pulled back to his senses by Shao Xuan's words, and asked suspiciously, "Fish grid? What is that?"
"It's a kind of thing made of wooden sticks and nets to catch fish." Shao Xuan gave a rough description, and then continued: "I thought to see if I could use such a fish grid as a simple trap."
"Trap?" Lang Ga's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Actually a very simple thing..." Shao Xuan took out the stone knife he carried with him and drew on the ground.
As Lang Ga, who also uses trap-setting skills, once he sees what Shao Xuan told, and then contacts the drawings on the ground, he can infer what Shao Xuan means.
Afraid to pat his head, Lang Ga said regretfully, "Why didn't I think of it before!"
What Shao Xuan wants to do is a simple fish trap, which is not difficult, and does not require other more sophisticated settings. It is just like setting up a fish fence, using wood or stone pillars to make a fence. Inside rolls, but some are round inside rolls, while others are square inside rolls. Shao Xuan wants to see the difference between these two types. The only opening of this simple fish grid trap is in the direction of the river.
Or use a fish fence to make a pocket, such as the larger letter omega "Ω". Unlike the former, this kind of opening faces the river, so that when the tide is low, the fish that swim in will be trapped inside.
Unless the IQ of the fish swimming in is very high, generally speaking, it can still be trapped. Shao Xuan tried it in his previous life.
However, because Shao Xuan had not participated in the patrolling of the tribe during the rainy season, he did not know if he could add such a setting at this time, so he asked Lang Ga.
"Yes, yes! No problem at all!" Lang Ga looked at the river that had not yet begun to rise, and called to Shao Xuan, "Let's go to find the stones, and set up this set before the river rises!"
Because some things in the river will eat wood, if you set up a fish fence, you can't use wood, only stone. However, when you don't pay attention to stone, the stone pillars used to make the fish fence are relatively easy to make.
So, when Mai brought the first group of people over to start patrolling, he saw Shao Xuan and Lang Ga busy on the river bank. There is a fish gate in the distance.
Because the time is too short, and the beauty is not important, the thickness of the stone pillars is not uniform. Some stone pillars are even as thick as thighs, and people can stand on them steadily.