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 quite good.

However, the previous bow and arrow was made too roughly and was almost unusable. Now it is likely that two more will be made.

So in the past few days, when Huang Hai went out to find food, he would 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 is very high. 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 it can be found slowly.

For life after the cold wave, the two have made some arrangements and seriously began to 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 food they eat every day is reduced as much as possible.

Fortunately, although they cannot get more food from plants, the river has 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 foods 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 river, 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 bamboo baskets into the stream and pressed them down with fishing rods. After a while, there will be some fish and shrimp in it.

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

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

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

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

At the same time, the two would catch snails beside the stream. There were fewer crabs recently, but there were many snails, which were attached to the crabs around. They could catch several kilograms in one afternoon.

This is also a very good food, which can improve their daily diet.

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

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

And just 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 grow crops in the underground shelter.

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

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

He planned to make this underground shelter into a cellar, or strictly speaking, 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 summer comes, the temperature is particularly high, then the food will spoil very quickly, and it is easy to attract snakes, insects, rats, and ants, so that a lot of food cannot be stored, which will have a great impact on the lives of the two.

However, if we can take advantage of the fact that winter has not completely ended, and then 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 slapped his head and agreed immediately.

For now, the cold weather covering the ground with ice and snow is 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 melting speed of ice 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 focus a lot of energy on storing ice, and at the same time they will carry out a new round of expansion of the underground shelter.

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

However, it is easier said than done.

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

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

However, the result is satisfactory. The spacious area and the underground shelter are hidden enough to store enough ice cubes.

The next thing is to go out and collect ice cubes.

Use wooden boards to make a long mold, then fill it with ice and snow, and pour some water into it, and it will become a relatively transparent ice cube.