In the third month of autumn, the day is still hot, but it is already cold in the morning and evening.

The pace of winter is getting closer and closer, and the people of the Mang tribe seize every opportunity to hoard more food as much as possible to survive the cold winter of lack of food and clothing.

Chenbei spends a lot of time every day to clean up the threatening beasts around the tribe as much as possible.

After he cleared a forest, women and children in the tribe would go to pick wild fruits and wild vegetables.

Wild vegetables that are not resistant to preservation will be eaten as soon as possible, while nuts, edible plant tuber and other preservation-resistant foods will be stored and kept for winter.

The men in the tribe tried hard to fish, hunt small beasts, and build stronger houses to prepare for the winter.

Fortunately, with the improvement of fishing technology and fish basket weaving technology, the number of fish catches has increased sharply, and fish surplus has appeared in the tribe.

However, they immediately faced a serious problem - the fish cannot be preserved for a long time.

It is not winter yet. Without salt, even if the fish is dried, it will attract many insects and will smell bad soon.

Early this morning, the captain of the Mang Tribe Fishing Team, a middle-aged man named "Lie", came to the wooden house where Chenbei lived with a smelly fish, with an anxious expression on his face.

Chenbei lives in a wooden house that is better than others, at least it looks like a house, and it uses thick trees. Although it is not good-looking, it is better to be strong.

"Lie, is there anything wrong?"

Chen Bei had just woken up and as soon as he left the door, he saw a smell of smell of stinky fish.

Lie picked up the smelly fish and said, "Chief, think of a solution. We have caught a lot of fish recently, but after catching them, they soon smelled and couldn't stay until winter. I asked the elder, but he had no choice but to come to you, so I can only come to find you."

Chen Bei stared at the smelly fish and frowned. How to preserve the fish meat is indeed a big problem.

If it is a previous life, just marinate it with salt and then dry it into dried fish.

But this is a primitive tribe, and salt is something that is harder to get than fish. Since the establishment of the Mang tribe, Chenbei has never eaten salt. He can only rely on the poor salt in the beast's flesh and blood to maintain the body's needs.

When he was in the insect tribe, he heard his parents say that salt is very precious and often requires a large amount of prey's flesh, teeth, etc. to go to the large tribe to exchange for a small amount of salt.

Given the current situation of the Mang tribe, it is almost impossible to find those large tribes to exchange for salt. Because the Mang tribe is too poor at present.

How to preserve fish caught without salt?

For a moment, Chen Bei fell into deep thought.

Dried smoked fish?

Smoke is indeed stored a little longer than sun-sun dried fish, but it doesn't last much longer.

Smoked meat also needs to be added with a lot of salt to be preserved for a long time.

After thinking about it, Chen Bei didn't think of any good method, so he decided to go to the place where they handled the fish and meat to take a look.

"Take me to the place where you dried fish to see."

"Okay, please come with me, leader."

Lie led the way in front and led Chenbei through the wooden houses of all sizes in the tribe and came to the front of a simple shed.

In the shed, three tribes were killing fish.

They knocked the fish they had just caught with a wooden stick, then used a stone knife to clear the fish's belly, remove the internal organs, and finally hang it on a straw rope to dry it.

The steps are basically correct, but there is no salt. The weather is hot now, and there are too many mosquito bites, causing the fish to deteriorate quickly.

"Chief, look, many of the fish caught some time ago have smelled."

Lie took out many fish from the shed, and basically it broke before it was completely dried.

The pungent smell made Chenbei frown even deeper.

He was counting on these fish to let the tribe spend this winter, what should we do now?

Chen Bei pondered for a moment. Since the dried fish cannot be preserved for a long time, he had to dig a pond and save the live fish.

"I thought of a solution."

"Great, leader, what should we do?"

Lie looked excited. He couldn't even sleep well because of this incident these two days, and he didn't expect the leader to have a solution so soon.

Chen Bei looked at Lie and said, "Dig a pond!"

"What is a pond?" Lie looked confused. He had never heard of this word before.

"It's just dig a pit like a lake, without digging too deep, and then bringing in the stream, and the fish caught can be directly raised inside."

"Wait until winter, then fish out the fish from the pond and eat it whenever you want."

"Even if it snows and freezes, you won't be afraid, because the pond is not deep. As long as you find the location of the fish and chisel the ice, you can easily catch the fish."

This is the most reliable method Chen Bei can think of at present.

Not only does it solve the current problem, but after digging the pond, you can continue to raise fish in winter, and the pond can continue to provide fish to the tribe.

"The leader is so smart! This is a good method, so I will organize people to dig a pond."

The most exciting thing is Lie. As the fishing captain, it is extremely painful to watch the fish break down. Now that I am fine, there is finally a solution.

Chen Bei also had a smile on his face. He thought for a while and said, "If you want to dig, dig a few more, you can't just dig one."

"It is not possible to raise different types of fish together. For example, if the fish that eats meat and the fish that eats grass together, the fish that eats grass will be eaten by the fish that eats meat."

"So, we need to dig a few more ponds and raise different types of fish separately, so that there will be no loss."

"Okay, leader, I will definitely dig a few more ponds."

Lie immediately remembered what Chen Bei said.

At the same time, Lie's recognition of Chenbei has increased a lot.

He thought to himself: No wonder others can be the leader. Not only are they strong, but their brains are much better than them.

On that day, the fishing team left only five people to fish, and the rest, as well as the tribe who built houses in the tribe, all joined the major event of digging the pond.

After all, these fish are food for winter. If there is no food for winter, they will all starve to death.

Tribes will dig pits because when hunting, you often need to dig some traps to deal with cunning prey.

With the efforts of everyone, I spent three or four days digging three large ponds next to the tribe, in a relatively low-lying place, and then digging a small ditch to bring the stream into the pond.

If all three ponds can be filled with fish, you don’t have to worry about food this winter.

Afterwards, except for the fish that the fish caught by the fishing team ate that day, the other fish will be divided into carnivorous and herbivorous, and will be kept in the pond separately, so there is no need to worry about the fish breaking down.
Chapter completed!