Chapter 330: Catching Loaches

Chapter 330: Catching Loaches

How to dispel worries? Only with delicious food!

During this period, Han Cheng, thinking about metal ores so much that his head was spinning, decided to soothe his injured soul with a hearty meal.

He made this decision partly because he was feeling a bit down and partly because, while the group responsible for digging drainage ditches kept digging all the way to the riverbank, they spotted some loaches.

Upon hearing the news, Han Cheng decided he wanted to catch some loaches to eat.

Upon hearing the master's request, the person in charge of using fish traps to catch fish, along with the others digging the water channels, felt quite hesitant. This was because loaches were extremely slippery and difficult to catch. Sometimes, they could be caught by chance while fishing, but they would still slip out of the gaps in the fish traps. (The gaps between the fish traps of the Green Sparrow Tribe were relatively large, aiming to catch fewer small fish.)

Loaches were too slippery to catch?

After hearing what everyone said, Han Cheng chuckled. It seemed like he had to do it himself.

Before he could act, Lame patted his chest, saying he had a way and was guaranteed to catch loaches for the master.

Han Cheng was quite curious about what idea Lame had come up with.

Loaches spent most of their time hiding in the mud, making them difficult to catch. With Lame's confidence, could it be that he used conditioner?

Lame's method was simple: weaving a finer fish trap with thinner branches.

This way, once the loaches entered the fish trap, they could not escape.

After hearing this, Han Cheng shook his head. It was a method, but its efficiency would not be too high.

Because loaches, unlike fish, didn't like swimming in the water. It was not easy to get them into the fish trap.

Seeing his method rejected by the Divine Child, Lame scratched his head.

If this method didn't work, then he really couldn't think of a better one.

Should he use a bone shovel to dig by the river? That would be more trouble than using fish traps.

In his puzzlement, Han Cheng brought stone knives, bone knives, and the bamboo pole he had cut in the bamboo forest before, which he would use as a pole.

He used the stone knife and bone knife to split two sections of bamboo and carefully made some bamboo splints a few millimeters thick.Finnd new chapters at novelhall.com

Making bamboo splints wasn't easy without sharp metal tools. Although Han Cheng was cautious, he couldn't make very thin and uniform bamboo splints.

The cards inserted into the water weren't very conspicuous. Without careful observation, they could easily be overlooked.

Time was tight today, so they hurriedly made the cards. Later, they could tie feathers to the tops of the cards so that when it was time to collect them, they could easily see where the cards were and avoid losing them.

Looking at the line of cards extending along the riverbank, a smile appeared on Han Cheng's face.

"Big Brother Cheng, are we going back now?"

Bai Xue looked at the cards in the river and asked with confusion.

The others also looked at Han Cheng with puzzlement.

Han Cheng reached out and twiddled Bai Xue's braids, smiling and nodding. "Let's go back to eat. We'll harvest a lot of loaches tomorrow morning."

Following Han Cheng, everyone walked back, occasionally looking back at the riverbank. They couldn't figure out how these simple sticks could catch the slippery loaches.

But Lame, who was walking behind, showed a thoughtful expression.

"Another one!"

The sun had not yet risen, and on the grass, with dewdrops and a light mist gently enveloping the riverbank, Bai Xue's cheerful voice rang out with surprise.

She was holding a card that had just been pulled out of the muddy water by the riverbank. At the bottom of the card hung a loach.

The usually slippery loach had become extremely docile now.

Its mucous couldn't save it from misfortune anymore because the stretched bamboo splint firmly held its mouth open, making it unable to escape.

"There's another one here!"

Xing also shouted happily. All the usually elusive loaches were now obediently caught, making them overjoyed.

For a moment, the riverbank was full of the joy of the harvest.

Watching this scene, Han Cheng also smiled, feeling as if he had returned to his childhood days of catching loaches under harvested rice fields...

" Brother Cheng, what's that?"