Chapter 95 The Emperor Crocodile Disappears

After the king crocodiles had retreated, Ye Xi cast the net several times. Seeing that the number of fish on the shore had become scarce, he asked everyone to go back first with wooden barrels.

There are four big buckets of fish harvested this time, which is enough, there is no need to catch them all.

Everyone happily carried the catch back to the top of the mountain, and heatedly discussed whether to eat all the fish.

In fact, regardless of the large number of fish in the four buckets, there are so many people in the tribe, it is okay to eat them all in one day. Not to mention that the warriors eat a lot, and they really open their stomachs to eat, maybe those ordinary people haven't scored yet.

But everyone is reluctant. They are used to saving all food in the rainy season, and only eat one meal a day, so as not to starve to death in the latter part of the rainy season after eating enough food.

But the fish is not easy to preserve. The dead fish will be broken after a day or two, and there is no sun now, and the fish cannot be dried into dried fish. They were reluctant to eat those piranhas that had been stabbed by the fish, but when they ate them after they were stinky, they actually suffered from diarrhea, and even fell ill.

Hearing their discussion, Ye Xi persuaded: "It's better to eat all of today's, the fish should come back tomorrow."

But there are still thrifty clansmen who hesitate.

Seeing their appearance, Ye Xi smiled: "If you are really reluctant to eat them all, then I have a way to save the fish."

"What is it?"

Everyone's eyes lit up and asked eagerly.

Ye Xi always has a variety of ways to help the tribe to solve the unsolvable problems.

By now, they would no longer doubt any of Ye Xi's proposals, because no matter how strange the method seemed, it would always achieve its goal in the end.

Ye Xi pointed to the stone tanks placed in front of each stone house: "Isn't it enough to put the uneatable fish into the tank?"

These large water tanks have been filled with water because of the continuous rain these days, and they kept overflowing with the rain that fell into the tanks.

After being reminded by Ye Xi, they suddenly realized. Yes, the fish will die when they leave the water, so will they be fine if they are put back in the water?

The reason why they didn't think of it, is of course stupidity for one reason, and another reason, because there were not so many fish harvested by stickleback in the past, so everyone didn't pay much attention to this issue.

Ye Xi saw that everyone was carrying the wooden buckets and was about to pour fish into the water tank, and reminded: "Don't pour all the fish in, the big fish will eat all the small fish."

Don't think that only piranhas eat meat, most fish eat meat, from small fish, small shrimp, water worms, to the corpses of large animals, they eat everything.

Even if you get hungry, you can eat it together with the class.

Since it is to be kept in a tank, it is natural to avoid losses as much as possible, lest the fish be raised more and less. The best way is to kill the most aggressive fish first.

After Ye Xi reminded, everyone knew it.

Without Ye Xi's help in judging, others can tell by themselves.

Everyone can distinguish them one by one. The very large fish are left directly in the bucket, the small ones are opened to see their teeth, and the fish with extremely sharp teeth are left in the bucket.

The water in the stone tank was clear, and one fish after another was thrown into it.

Even though these fish have been short of water for so long, they are still alive and kicking. If they are not careful, they will slip out of their hands. When they are released into the water, they will slam their tails and swim around actively.

These catches were mainly caught by Ye Xi, and of course he got the most, almost half of them.

Originally, Yong and the others wanted to help Ye Xi sort the fish, but Ye Xi stopped them: "No need, new fish will be caught tomorrow, the tank is so big that it won't be able to keep them at that time, why don't you just keep them now? Let's eat it all, let's eat enough."

Feeling that what Ye Xi said made sense, the others simply put aside their scruples and didn't put their fish in the tank, and everyone had a good time together.

Since then, Ye Xi will catch seven or eight nets every day.

Because the more the number of times, the fewer fish in the water, and the next day, the fish on the shore will be more abundant.

After so many days of fishing, there are more and more fish in the stone tank, and soon they are overflowing. There is no room for the fish to swim in it, and there are often fish jumping in the water and jumping out. outside the cylinder.

And every day there is a steady stream of fish sent up from the foot of the mountain.

The tribesmen are very regretful, because there are more than 50 stone jars in the tribe, but only a dozen or so are brought up. Knowing that this stone jar is so useful, they will bring up more.

Now that there are so many fish, even the clansmen who save more will not be able to save in this situation.

If you don't eat fish, it will go bad. You have to eat a full meal and eat fish every day in different ways. Everyone eats grilled fish today, steamed fish tomorrow, and fried fish the day after tomorrow, all of which make your belly round.

But the fish here is really delicious, the meat is fresh and tender, especially the fat big fish with a yellow skin, which is very delicious. .

Every day is a feast of fish and meat. No matter how much Ye Xi likes to eat fish, he will get tired of eating it later, and sometimes he will eat meat instead.

But the others didn't look tired at all. They still eat happily every day. Before every meal, they look like they can't wait, and every time they eat very cleanly, they don't even put the meat in the fish head. Pass.

Everyone said that the rainy season seems to have never been so enjoyable. I never dreamed that I would be able to eat all at once without going hungry, and I felt that my stomach was full of fat.

My stomach is full, even if I am trapped by the flood and cannot go anywhere on the top of the mountain, everyone still laughs all day long.

Sometimes a snail with an exceptionally beautiful shell is caught, and the women are reluctant to throw it away, so they eat the snail meat and put the shell in the house.

Ye Xi saw that the water pattern and the others were like this, so he mentioned that he could string these large and small conch shells into wind chimes.

The women's eyes lit up when they heard Ye Xi's words.

Maybe women are born with an intuition for beauty, and the wind chimes made later are very beautiful even from Ye Xi's eyes.

Remove the slate during the day, and when the wind blows into the house, there is a crisp crashing sound between the shells, which is very pleasant.

This snail-shell wind chime is so good, the women discussed that if Kurosawa holds a trade fair in the coming year, they can use it as their special product in Tushan, and they can also exchange some things at that time.

The days passed by like this, and with the continuous heavy rain, the stagnant water became deeper and deeper unconsciously.

On this day, the clansmen who went down the mountain to fish as usual found that the group of emperor crocodiles on the river suddenly disappeared, disappeared completely, and there was not a single one left.

Seeing this scene, the chief, who originally followed the clan with a smile, suddenly disappeared.

The faces of the clansmen also became ugly.

The chief sighed: "So the water is already so deep."

I don't know when, the water has submerged half of the jungle, and now only the crowns of the towering trees are exposed.

Ye Xi turned to look at the chief.

The chief stared at the water with a dignified expression: "I'm afraid some big guys have climbed out of such deep water."

Just as he said that, a strong churning trace suddenly appeared on the water, and a huge black figure flashed by. The diameter of the water circle is huge, and it ripples around in circles.

"Now even the crocodiles are gone. Obviously, there are more terrifying monsters in the water, monsters that make them all afraid."

Although everyone was frustrated, they couldn't think of a way. The days of full meals came to an end, and everyone became frugal again. Often lying beside the stone tank, counting the fish inside, but reluctant to catch one.

But Jiaojiao still wanted to go into the water.

Ye Xi was worried about the Jiaojiao and stopped it, but the Jiaojiao was very firm and insisted on going into the water. Ye Xi had no choice but to believe that he let it go.

Fortunately, Jiaojiao can come back safely every time, and every time he comes back, his body will bulge out, and he doesn't know what he ate in the water.

Jiaojiao often brought back prey to Ye Xi.

There are all kinds of aquatic creatures, such as strange creatures in the shape of mud like skinned, black giant turtles that can spray water, and huge crabs that are very vicious and can even walk straight.

But as the water got deeper and deeper, the Jiaojiao no longer came back intact, and it gradually had scars on its body.

The most serious one, there were deep bite marks all over the body, and the flesh was cracked, and the bite marks were especially deep near the head. Almost any deeper, the Jiaojiao came back with no life.

That time Jiaojiao lay in the house for several days to recuperate. After the injury was healed, the water at the foot of the mountain was deep again.

Jiaojiao lingered on the water bank, hesitated for a long time, and finally returned to the top of the mountain.

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mountain top.

Ye Xi stood on a huge rock protruding from the cliff and looked into the distance.

The strong wind and heavy rain kept coming, and the hat on Ye Xi's head was almost blown over. He had to hold the brim of the hat tightly with his hands.

Jiaojiao stayed by Ye Xi's side, it coiled up its huge body, its python head stood up, and its scarlet eyes followed Ye Xi's line of sight, looking towards the waters ahead.

At this time, the water had completely submerged the jungle.

Looking forward, the vast waters, even the tops of the trees can no longer be seen, and the land has completely turned into a vast ocean. Only the mountain peaks silently emerge from the water, as if they are isolated islands in the vast sea.

The gloomy sky darkened the water.

In the rainstorm, huge water beasts jumped up from the dark water surface, splashing huge water splashes; dark red huge aquatic insects churned through the water surface, revealing hideous limbs and tentacles.

Seeing something, Ye Xi suddenly shrank his pupils.

I saw a water surface in the distance, and I don’t know when, a dark brown hill appeared!

He was certain that he had never seen this hill before! How did this hill come to be? Is it some kind of creature? If yes, what kind of creature is it? Is it aggressive? It's too big!

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of breaking water from under my feet.

I saw a huge dinosaur head actually appearing in front of me, looking at me!

Ye Xi immediately took a big step back in shock and reached for the dagger hanging from his waist.

This is an aquatic dinosaur with an extra-long neck, with bluish-gray skin, a red umbrella-shaped sarcoma on the top of its head, and black eyes shaped like almonds, without a trace of white, and it looks very innocent.

But no matter how pure it is, it can't hold back that one eye is bigger than his whole person!

And the neck of this dinosaur is so long that it can suddenly stretch out from the water to the edge of the cliff, and look at himself standing on the top of the mountain!

What the hell! what's going on! ! Ye Xi shouted in his heart.

If he had long hair like a cat, he would have frizzed by now.

Jiaojiao was also startled, and instinct drove it to flee, but Ye Xi was still here, so it raised its neck high, opened its mouth to reveal four sharp fangs, and silently threatened it .

And this giant beast ignored the Jiaojiao, just tilted its huge head and stared at Ye Xi with big black eyes.