In the evening, the females of the Luoshui tribe started hunting prey again when the water receded. Obviously, prey like big octopuses and whale sharks did not appear often. The prey they hunted today looked a bit like seals. Only about two meters big.
When Chen Qi went, he saw Ah Chu explaining with a few females wearing animal skins, while A Xu led a group of females trying to drive the seals closer to the shore. Because the animal skin clothes are dead and heavy after being wet, it is convenient to see the cloth clothes worn by Axu. Now the females of the Luoshui tribe will change into cloth clothes whenever they go hunting in the water. Those females who are still wearing animal skin clothes It should be from the Yanshan tribe.
The orcs' driving method is very simple and direct. It is the same as driving the whale shark back then. They stand on the driftwood and use a long wooden stick to slap the water surface and sometimes insert the wooden stick into the water to block the seal's advancing route. This method is used to deal with the huge body of the whale shark. The prey of the whale shark is better, but the seal is much smaller than the whale shark, and its movements are faster and more flexible. The long wooden sticks of the females can't hurt it at all.
Chen Qi observed for a while, and found that the seal rushed out of the crack while the orcs were exchanging attacks. After a while, it rushed into the deep water area and disappeared without a trace.
The orcs of the Luoshui tribe didn't have any disappointed expressions on their faces, but the orcs of the Yanshan tribe couldn't hide their frustration. The leader of the orcs seemed to have said something to Ah Chu, and Ah Chu slightly Frowning, nodded and shook his head again, the female sighed, Ah Chu patted him on the shoulder lightly, looked up and saw that several people from Qi Ze City had also come, Ah Chu confessed to the female Walk in the direction of Chen Qi.
The orcs of the Luoshui tribe have tasted the sweetness of using jars to catch octopuses in the past two days. Now is the season when octopuses are active. The orcs only need to put the jars in the water and wait for two or three hours to get something. Chen Qi suggested that they should not put the jars in the same place, and the orcs stretched the battle line, and the positions were completely different in the morning, noon and evening. Every time they picked up the jars, there would be an octopus crowded inside. Unfortunately, they can be used in the tribe There are not many jars for catching octopus, Ah Chu has already planned to send a team to Qi Ze City to exchange a batch of jars when Chen Qi and the others go back.
Seeing Ah Chu approaching, Chen Qi nodded slightly, "Is the hunting not going well?"
Achu spread his hands helplessly, "After all, it is the migration season, and there are not many large prey. It is a bit difficult to hunt enough prey for two tribes to eat." Before Chen Qi and the others learned how to eat mussels and catch octopus, Even the orcs of the Luoshui tribe had to eat wild fruits for one meal a day.
"The question now is is there no way to drive the prey ashore?"
Ah Chu nodded. They haven't learned how to swim yet, and the only one who swims better is A Xu, but the duration is not long, and Ah Chu dare not let him go directly into the deep water.
"Chen Qi, is there any way you can drive the prey to the shore?" Ah Chu asked a little embarrassedly, if it wasn't for people from the Yanshan tribe who came to ask for help, he didn't intend to continue to bother Chen Qi to teach them things. Qi has taught them too much, and their entire tribe can't exchange these things with suitable things.
The orcs are used to bartering, but now it feels like they are taking advantage of Qi Ze City for nothing, which makes Ah Chu feel very awkward.
Chen Qi propped his chin and thought for a while, "I don't know if it's okay to use a fishing net."
"Fishing nets?"
"Yeah." Chen Qi took his animal skin backpack from Aze, took out a paper and pen from the backpack, and now he would take his backpack with drawing tools as soon as he left the cave. With a quill pen dipped in some black fruit dye, Chen Qi thought about the general shape of the fishing net, and then began to draw it on the paper, "That's what it looks like, but the prey here seem to be stronger, you can Try making it with rope." Chen Qi handed the drawn paper to Ah Chu and said.
In the past two days, A Xu and A Shu have done painting for Achu Kepu, but it is a bit embarrassing for an orc who has never seen a painting to see the original appearance of things from a black and white draft. head, "Sorry, I don't quite understand what this thing looks like?"
Chen Qi smiled, "Then if you are free tonight, I will give you a demonstration."
Ah Chu's eyes lit up, he held Chen Qi's hand excitedly, and walked back while pulling him. What to say tonight, I will go to make this fishing net now, anyway, the hunting has failed, so I might be able to use it tomorrow if I finish it earlier.
Aze took a few steps forward, and calmly released Chen Qi's hand from Achu's thick palm. Achu didn't care, and called a few people from the Yanshan tribe, and then let those tribesmen who failed to hunt go Disbanded quickly, and the group returned to Axu's cave in a mighty manner.
Chen Qixian asked them to collect a batch of banyan tree roots. The root threads are much tougher than cocoon threads, and the twisted ropes also have a strong load-bearing capacity. If we use this kind of threads to weave fishing nets, they should be able to bear it. Like the impact of a seal of that size just now.
A Xu learned how to twist the rope in Qi Ze City, Chen Qi asked him to teach other people how to do it, and then he and A Xu studied how to make the fishing net stronger.
The weaving method of the fishing net is very simple. In fact, it is similar to the weaving method of the orcs, except that the gaps are made a little bigger. The two of them studied for a while and weaved one piece. One side was in charge of twisting the rope and the other was in charge of weaving. Not long after the sun went down, a fishing net about five or six meters long and three meters high was woven.
Chen Qi tied long wooden sticks on both sides of the fishing net, stretched it straight, let A Le jump up and down a few times, and there was no sign of falling off the rope, so he nodded in satisfaction.
"If you want to lengthen this fishing net, you just need to weave another piece and tie it to the outermost wooden stick." Chen Qi put away the fishing net and handed it to Ah Chu.
Ah Chu took it carefully, as if he was afraid that his rough actions would break the fishing net.
Chen Qi looked at his movements with a smile, thought for a while and continued: "The driftwood you are using now has too little standing area, and it is easy to slip. Why don't you try to make a raft." Chen Qi has seen orcs fall into the water more than once, and fortunately they are all tied with vines and driftwood, otherwise, because the orcs can't swim, they would have drowned a long time ago.
"Raft?" Ah Chu looked at Chen Qi in surprise. Although he didn't know what this thing looked like, since Chen Qi proposed it, it was naturally useful. After getting in touch with him in the past few days, Chen Qi, a male, would only give it to him time and time again. He offers surprises.
Chen Qi nodded, but rejected Ah Chu's idea of building a raft right away. Ah Xu's cave is located halfway up the mountain. Even if the females are strong, Chen Qi feels that it is not worthwhile to do it here. It is better to wait until tomorrow Move the materials to the lake in the morning, and they can be pushed into the water when they are ready for use, so why bother.
Ah Chu suppressed the idea of directly pulling Chen Qi to the river, and silently wrote down the materials Chen Qi needed to make a raft, and then made two more fishing nets, and the crowd dispersed.
The next day, Ah Chu ran over before dawn. Even though he could vaguely see a trace of dark circles under the corners of his eyes, he didn't feel tired at all. It might be better to say that he was still very excited. Everyone woke up.
A Ze looked at Chen Qi who reluctantly got up from the bed, rubbing his brows, and looked at A Chu with a sullen face, thinking whether to throw him out of the cave.
After everyone washed up and had breakfast, the sky became slightly brighter. When Chen Qi went to Luoshui Lake, he found that there were many orcs waiting there, and there were piles of thick bamboos as high as hills beside him. Chen Qi couldn't help it. He couldn't help but wonder if Ah Chu led someone to cut down the whole bamboo forest.
Since the material is bamboo, we can only make bamboo rafts. The production of bamboo rafts is also very simple. Just make a hole at both ends of the bamboo, connect the bamboos in series with a long wooden stick, and then tie them with ropes. The raft was too long and spread out, and a few wooden sticks were added in the middle as beams to fix it.
After being pushed into the water, even if several people sit on it, there is no sign of sinking, and the range of activities of the females is much larger, no longer need to attack the prey and worry about slipping and falling into the water as before.
Chen Qi taught them how to use fishing nets according to the fishing methods of the fishermen he had seen before, because it was also his first time fishing, and having theoretical knowledge does not mean that he can practice well. The comparison between A Ze and A Xu People who knew him fumbled how to use the fishing net after he pointed it out a few times, and finally caught the fish after several failures.
The gaps in the fishing nets are wide, so the fish caught are not too small. Although the people of the Luoshui tribe eat all kinds of fish in Luoshui Lake, most of what they eat are octopus and the like. Molluscs or huge creatures like whale sharks, these prey have a characteristic, boneless or few bones.
In the past two days, when Axu and the orcs from Qi Ze City occasionally go to the small river outside the tribe to wash, they will catch some fish and come back. The orcs from the Luoshui tribe have already eaten food made of fish, and they know that these things have been taken care of. There will be no danger. Seeing that the fishing net woven with that rope easily caught a bunch of fish, everyone was surprised. Even A Xu who helped pull the fishing net was stunned and forgot to close the net. Let many fish take the opportunity to escape.
"Ah Xu, pull the net." Ah Xu, who was also in charge of pulling the net on the other side, called out to him. A Xu quickly regained his senses and worked together with Ah Xu to drag the fish he caught back to the shore.
Because the fish itself is relatively large, it suddenly seems that there are a lot of them, but when counted, there are only about ten or so.
To Chen Qi's surprise, he saw one of the lobsters, which was more than half a meter long. He pointed to the lobster and asked Ah Chu, "Ah Chu, can you give me that lobster?"
Ah Chu picked up the lobster, and before Chen Qi could stop him, the other party broke off the lobster's two huge claws that could hurt people, and then handed it to Chen Qi, "Take whatever you want. Go." Without Chen Qi, they would not have caught their prey so easily.
Heartbroken, Chen Qi picked up the two huge pliers that Ah Chu had thrown aside. Ah Chu had snapped them off, and there was still a lot of tender meat in the pliers, which Chen Qi could not bear to waste.