Well, in order to eat fish, you must first catch the fish. Even if it is in a trap, the fish will swim quickly and escape, making it difficult to catch. I thought about how to catch it in such a situation.
How about throwing a stone at it? It’s a strategy to throw many stones instead of one and hit the fish to stun them. If this doesn’t work, it might be a good idea to chase them into a cage and catch them.
Yeah, I feel like I can. I quickly picked up a lot of suitable stones from the surroundings. It’s so heavy that I can hold it with both arms and feel dizzy. Approaching the enclosure trap with unsteady steps.
Observe the movement of the fish as you approach it. Throw it when it comes over here, come over here. As I waited in silence, the fish swam right up to me and stopped. now!
“that!”
Raise both arms and scatter the stones in the enclosure trap. The stone fell with great force, creating a splash. When a lot of ripples spread on the surface of the water, pukari and one fish float.
“Oh, I made it”
I hurriedly approached and tried to grab the fish. The fish fits in your hand without moving. Its size exceeds 20 cm, and its body is swollen. It looks like it’s filling.
When I look down at the fish in my hand, I naturally smile with joy. Skipping with the joy of eating fish, I walk near the bonfire.
“Well, do you want to bake?”
Pick up a handy branch and stick it through the mouth of the fish. Put your strength and insert it with a jerk to fix the fish body. When the tip of the branch comes out, you are ready to go.
When you sit down on the spot, stick a branch to the ground and grill the fish at a distance. I hold my knees and stare at the fish. I’m so excited that I can’t help but stare at it for no reason.
I want it to be delicious, so I stare intently at the fish so that it doesn’t burn. When the surface was nicely browned, I turned the branch to turn the fish over. It looks like it’s still going to take some time.
It will take time anyway, so let’s increase the number of fish even a little. I stood up, pulled up my trousers again, and headed for the river. Carrying a long branch into the upper reaches of the trap, it knocks the branch towards the surface of the river.
Hit it to move forward, hit it to move forward, and drive in the fish. When you get to the front of the trap, head upstream again. And so, he drove the fish in from the beginning.
“How many, how many have you gathered?”
When I reached the front of the trap, I was worried about the result. If you look into the trap, you will be happy to see that the fish shadows have increased. Well, the number was… 6 in all. It looks like there will be about 10 of them tomorrow, so I’ll be even happier.
“Soup with fish for tomorrow… I’m looking forward to it.”
Just thinking about it made me salivate. Ah, I think the fish is about to burn.
I go up to the shore and leave the branch. Then he sprinkled the trap with worms to feed the fish, and hurried over to the fire.
When I checked the fish, it was cooked just right, and there was a nice smell around. Ha, I’m so glad the hole mouse didn’t find me. I completely forgot about it, but it seems to be fine. Maybe you were afraid of fire and didn’t get close to it?
Well, leave it at that. My stomach rumbled in front of the long-awaited grilled fish. Even though he just ate crab and mushrooms, he’s hungry.
Sit on the spot and take the branch with the fish. When I brought it in front of me, I felt a strong smell of fish and my mouth was drooling.
“Ehehe, itadakimasu”
Cool down carefully by blowing on it. Then, it bites hard from the back of the fish. Her body fluffily crumbled, and hot steam rose up from inside.
“Hmm, hm, hmmmmm!”
It’s so delicious that your cheeks will fall! Although it is light, it has just the right amount of oil, and when you bite into it, you can feel the faint sweetness of the meat. It feels like the body is crumbling, melting in your mouth and disappearing.
Go-kun, I swallowed it and immediately bit it again. It bites, mumbles, and swallows. A very happy act, a sinful one.
I ate it carefully from head to tail. In front of me was a fish whose body had turned into bones, and I was very satisfied.
The rationed soup and potato that I only eat once a day at noon. I’ve always been hungry at night, but today I’m going to sleep with a swollen belly. At the time of the bliss that I tasted after a long time, my cheeks loosened.
I wish I could eat full soon and not be hungry at night.
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The next morning I went to the river. The target, of course, is the fish. I’m definitely going to have it in today’s lunch ration. I made a new basket to put fish in yesterday, three times the size of the basket I usually use. You can carry a lot of fish with this.
When I looked inside the trap, there were a lot of them! It looks like there are more than 10 of them. I jumped for joy.
Immediately scatter stones to stun the fish. Capture the place where it floats and put it in a new basket. But I’m surprised you can catch so many. There must have been a lot of fish because there was no one else to catch them.
A total of 12 fish were caught. Big catch! It’s been proven that you can catch fish without pushing, and it looks like you’ll be able to catch fish from now on.
I hurriedly walked to the settlement.
When I returned to the village in 30 minutes, the women were starting to gather in the square. It’s about time to make a lunch ration, just in time!
“Um, I’m sorry.”
“Hmm, what’s wrong? I don’t think today is a help day.”
“Please use this for lunch today.”
“Nn, which one… isn’t it a fish! What’s wrong with this?”
When I held out the basket of fish, the women gathered and everyone looked surprised. Fufufu, that’s right. There is no one who is not surprised by ingredients that are rarely seen.
“I made a trap and caught it.”
“Haa, a trap. Feel free to use it.”
“Riru looks different these days, I’ve been reassessing it.”
“If you get a lot again, please bring it back.”
Even the women, who were usually reluctant, were happy to praise me. It makes me really happy to see everyone smile and be happy. The fish strategy was a great success!
I started helping the women. Better when you can help. As usual, boil the potatoes first. In the meantime, chop the vegetables and prepare the soup. I can’t cut the fish myself, so another woman did it quickly.
Once the potatoes are cooked, the next step is to make the soup. Add the vegetables to the boiling water and bring to a boil, then add the small pieces of fish. Next, add seasoning salt and let it boil to complete.
And the refugees gathered, lured by the smell of the soup. Everyone felt a different smell than usual, and looked into the pot with a curious look on their face.
“Today, Riru caught some fish for us.”
The woman who said that put the soup in the bowl she brought and handed it to me.
“Thank you for today”
I looked at the soup and there was a piece of fish in it. I feel like today’s soup is more delicious than usual because it contains fish.
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