Chapter 1573 Plenty of Fish and Shrimp

Whether facing wild beasts or the same kind, bows and arrows can have an advantage and are a very important tool.

Fortunately, Huang Hai can make simple bows and arrows by himself. Although the accuracy and range are not particularly good, they can be used barely, and the efficiency of hunting wild beasts is also good.

However, the previous bow and arrow was made too roughly and was almost unusable. Now there is a high probability that two new ones will be made.

So in the past few days, when Huang Hai went out to find food, he would also look for suitable materials and try to find some materials that can be used to make bows and arrows.

The materials for making bows and arrows generally need to have high enough toughness, and the labor cost also has high requirements. The strength and toughness need to be very high, and it is not easy to find them.

This matter is not particularly urgent. The old bow and arrow can be used barely, and they can be found slowly.

For life after the cold wave, the two have also made some arrangements and began to seriously plan for future development.

For today's survival in the wild, the most important thing has not changed, that is, food.

A cold wave consumed almost all of their food, and now they are in a state of insufficient inventory. If they cannot find enough food, they may starve in a while.

More importantly, the wild is still covered with snow, and many crops have not grown yet, so it is very difficult to find food.

This made the two people's lives suddenly become tight after the cold wave, and the daily food was reduced as much as possible.

Fortunately, although they could not get more food from plants, the stream had gradually thawed, allowing them to get some food from the river.

This has to mention the importance of food diversity. It is precisely because they can get different food from multiple channels that they can live better in the wild and make them more resistant to disasters.

Recently, the two often eat aquatic food in the stream, which can just fill their stomachs and change their taste.

After a winter, there are more fish and shrimp in the stream. The two put the bamboo basket into the stream and pressed it with stones. After a while, there will be some fish and shrimp in it.

Although these fish and shrimps are relatively small, at most the length of a finger, as long as there are more of them, they can still barely eat enough.

In order to make the daily harvest bigger, the two even made some modifications to the stream.

This stream is not particularly wide, only about 1.5m. The two used stones to block the stream into a funnel. All the fish and shrimp passing through will flow downstream from the funnel. They placed fishing baskets at the bottom of the funnel to make it more likely to catch fish and shrimp.

In this way, more than ten or twenty kilograms of fish can be caught in a day, which can not only meet the daily food needs, but also accumulate some fish meat.

At the same time, the two will also touch snails beside the stream. There are fewer crabs recently, but there are many snails, which are attached to the surrounding stones. They can touch several kilograms in a morning.

This is also a very good food to improve their daily diet.

If they touch a lot of snails, they will try to use snails as the staple food, and then smoke and dry some of the fish and store them.

Because of this stream, the two people's originally poor lives gradually became richer, and they had a lot of fish and meat to eat almost every day, so they had time to think about other things.

And in these few days, Bai Hao suddenly remembered an important thing.

That is about the underground shelter. Now the underground shelter has been idle, and the crops planted before have been moved out, and the interior has been refilled.

The facts have told them that it is not realistic to want to plant crops in the underground shelter.

So now the underground shelter has been idle, but it can't be left like this, it needs to play its due role.

After a long period of careful consideration at night, Bai Hao finally came up with a way to make the cellar work, and it was also an idea to prepare for a rainy day.

He planned to make this underground shelter into a cellar, or strictly speaking, into an ice cellar.

Since there are extremely cold winters in this world, will there be extremely hot summers?

The possibility is still very high, and once it is summer and the temperature is particularly high, the food will spoil very quickly, and it is easy to attract snakes, insects, rats, and ants, so it is impossible to store a lot of food, which will have a great impact on the lives of the two.

However, if they can take advantage of the fact that winter has not yet ended, collect a batch of ice and snow, freeze them, store them in the underground ice cellar, and make a natural refrigerator, would it be a good idea?

After hearing this idea, Huang Hai also slapped his head and agreed immediately.

Now, the cold weather and the ice and snow covering the sky and the earth are a great burden, affecting daily life.

Who knows if there will be a time when ice is urgently needed in the future?

As long as enough ice is stored, the speed of ice melting can be reduced, forming an underground ice cellar, which is equivalent to buying a refrigerator directly.

In the next period of time, in addition to fishing in the river, the two will also focus a lot of energy on storing ice, and at the same time, they will also expand the underground shelter in a new round.

First of all, although the depth of 5m underground is very good, it is still not deep enough and needs to be dug deeper.

So, the two continued to dig a channel downwards on the basis of the original underground shelter, and dug another 5m down.

They planned to dig this underground shelter into a double-layer underground shelter.

The height of the second-layer underground shelter is also two meters, and the two layers of underground shelters are 3m apart, but the area of ​​the second-layer underground shelter is relatively larger, anyway, they hope to store more ice.

However, it is easier said than done.

But when digging deep, more stones began to appear, which brought a lot of trouble to the excavation. It was necessary to dig out all the stones inside, which wasted a lot of time.

It took almost 5 days for them to dig out an area of ​​30㎡, and they were already very tired, and their food consumption increased a lot.

However, the results are still satisfactory. The spacious enough area and the hidden underground second-layer shelter allow them to store enough ice here.

The next thing is to go out and collect ice.

Use a wooden board to make a rectangular mold, then fill it with ice and snow. After pouring in some water, it will become relatively transparent ice.