Chapter 14 Preliminary Development of the Territory (2)
After the fishing net is made, you have to consider fishing there.
Daxi Kyoji chose the lake between the former Xiaomai Village and Daxi Village as the experimental site. Because this lake is located at the confluence of several streams, the leaders often see big fish swimming by the lake, but because of limited means, they can't catch too many fish.
Since Daxi Guozhi was not familiar with this novel fishing method, the command power returned to Luo's Masayoshi. Based on the memories of later generations, Luo's Masayoshi first asked several bamboo rafts to carry fishing nets into the water, and one end of the fishing net was pulled on the shore. After leaving the shore for about 30 meters, it began to get out of the net, extending along the lakeside, and then gradually pulled the fishing nets from a bamboo raft to approach the other shore.
When the fishing nets reached the shore, the leaders on the shore began to drag the fishing nets to the shore at both ends. Six bamboo rafts guarded the water surface on both sides, and were responsible for blocking the gaps on both sides when the fishing nets leaned against each other. The remaining bamboo rafts slowly moved closer to the shore with the fishing nets.
The fishing net was dragged to the shore, and when the gaps on both sides were sealed, the water surface surrounded by the fishing net was still calm. When the fishing net continued to close, the surrounded water surface continued to shrink, and the water surface began to splash. From time to time, some big fish jumped out of the water surface and then rolled into the water.
This situation attracted the attention of everyone around. Even the leaders who cultivated fields nearby and picked wild vegetables gathered over. As more and more big fish jumped out of the water, cheers came from the crowd.
As the fishing net tightened again, the water surface surrounded by the fishing net shrank again, the water depth became shallower, and the water splashes in the water became more and more intense. In order to prevent the big fish from jumping out of the net, Luo Shi Zhengliang quickly asked the leaders who were still standing on the bamboo tray but were fooled by the scene in front of him to lift the fishing net in sections.
In the end, the net was closed. The fishing net was covered with white space. Because the grid was relatively large, most of the nets were large fish with more than three or four kilograms, and even dozens of kilograms of large fish.
The leaders behind them were so excited that they were even crying with excitement. This cannot be blamed for this, after all, they had never experienced such a great harvest again. At the same time, their eyes looked at the lord and became more and more respectful. Some people already completely believed that this was the blessing brought to everyone by the lord as the messenger of the lord, which was a miracle used by the lord. Later, some people even began to offer statues of the lord (simple statues made of wood) in their homes.
In this experiment, a total of nearly 500 kilograms (25 stones) of big fish were captured. Luo Shi Zhengliang immediately announced that a fish banquet was held at noon that day, and everyone in the territory could participate.
At noon, the leaders took out their cooking tools at home, spontaneously sat around dozens of fires, cleaned the fish, and then put the mixed grains that the fish lord had just distributed in the "pot" and put them on the temporary fire, and started to cook. Soon, a stream of fish meat and the fragrance of fish soup floated in the territory. Everyone looked excited. Even Dongxiang Heiji did not complain about the "spending" behavior of the lord temporarily distributing reserved food. At this time, he was sitting next to the fire while tasting the fish meat while talking to the lord.
The Luo family Masara is mainly divided into two fires. Togo Heiji's wife Haruno Sakura and his daughter Togo Kiku; Osaki Kyoji's wife Tsukihime and his son Tadajiro (Osaki Kyoji's eldest son was killed in a bandit attack); and finally Masara's maid Matsumiko. These people besieged a lot of them.
On the side of the Luo family Masara, there are Togo Heiji, Osaki Kyoto, Tsuda Hirozo, and a little bear that is leaning on the Luo family Masara - Ta Miko. Why doesn't the little girl go back to Masara? It's not bad, it's for food again.
As an otaku in his later generations, Luo Shi Masayoshi often cooked by himself, so his cooking skills were quite good, especially in this era, he was even considered to have excellent cooking skills. Although these fish have been processed by Matsumiko and others, the fish smell is still very strong, so Luo Shi Masayoshi used the wild ginger he accidentally discovered during a inspection of the territory (Japan already had ginger at this time, but not many people knew its function), plus some wild vegetables, he made several steamed fish. In addition, he also roasted several grilled fish.
The little girl came with Matsumiko and Kikumi. Matsumiko prepared everything for Masaru Luo and returned to her own fire. Even Kikumi also returned with a red face (it seems that she is not used to exercising her duties as a wife in public). The little girl was curious when she saw Masaru Luo making some strange dishes, so she stayed. In fact, she had already determined in her thoughts that as long as she saw this big brother, she would definitely have something delicious. She waited until she had a bite of fish.
Later, the little girl was reluctant to leave. She was eating fish in big mouthfuls while talking to Luo Shi Zhengliang. Luo Shi Zhengliang didn't hear clearly at all, probably some words to praise the delicious fish. Because the fish was still hot and there were many bone spurs, Luo Shi Zhengliang hurriedly asked the little girl to eat slowly. The little girl was willing to listen. She ate big while cracking her teeth and blowing. Even because of the delicious fish, several small crystal tears gushed out of her big eyes.
I looked at the little girl hanging beside me, wearing a gray and light red kimono. It is said that this is the most beautiful piece of clothing for the little girl. She usually doesn't wear it, but only wears it on special holidays. Today I heard that there was a lot of fish to eat, so I wore it with the help of Matsumiko. A pair of thin and slightly scarred hands (this is a new scar, which was cut when Matsumiko pulled out weeds), and was grabbing the fish into her mouth. Two small feet with mud, and several obvious scars could be seen on it, which were frozen and cracked wounds in winter.
He held the little girl in his arms and flipped over a few pieces of grilled fish to cool it down as soon as possible. While watching the little girl swallowing her voraciously, Luo Shi Zhengliang suddenly felt a sense of happiness. Perhaps the responsibility of the lord would also be a kind of happiness experience.
Hiroji Togo and Kyoji Osaki were also savoring the delicious food in front of him. After all, such a novel way of eating fish, and it was also a delicious food made by the lord himself. It really made a difference. Looking at Hiroji Tsuda again, Masara Luo was amused. This guy was grabbing a big fish with both hands and chewing it in big mouths, without any scruples about the etiquette in front of the lord. However, Hiroji Tsuda, who was standing beside him, could not bear to see it anymore and blamed Hiroji Tsuda several times. But Hiroji Tsuda had completely transformed into a foodie. Facing Hiroji Tsuda's gesture, he didn't even raise his eyebrows and continued his own chewing career. Seeing the completely opposite expressions of these two people, Masara was really amused.
During the meal, Luo Shi Zhengliang discussed with several people how to deal with the remaining big fish. Luo Shi Zhengliang originally planned to use dense bamboo poles to surround a section of a nearby shallow stream to specifically stock these fish. Later, he was worried that it would rain heavily and the water level of the stream would rise, causing the fish to get lost in large quantities and give up. In fact, the rain here is indeed quite sufficient, and several heavy rains have been raining in the past half month.
Later, Luo Shi Zhengliang thought of using bamboo strips to weave fish baskets and raise fish by the river. Dongxiang Heiji and the others were stunned when they heard this. It turned out that they didn't know what the fish basket was. After a long time of analysis, Luo Shi Zhengliang confirmed depressedly that no one in the territory could organize these things. Luo Shi Zhengliang himself did not. Although he had watched it on TV in his previous life, he was not omnipotent after all. So he finally gave up this idea.
After repeated discussions, the remaining big fish were finally processed as follows. First, each household sent two big fish, which were processed by the entourage residents themselves; secondly, some big fish were cleaned and salted, but the territory was not much salt at present, so only a small part of the fish was cured; finally, the remaining fish were dried into dried fish and kept as reserved for this winter. As for the fish internal organs left behind by cleaning up the big fish, part of them was distributed to them according to the wishes of the entourage residents, and the other part was buried deep under the corn field of Luoshi Zhengliang as fertilizer.
The fish banquet lasted for nearly 3 hours. In the second half of the banquet, the leaders spontaneously organized singing and dancing activities. Heiji Togo said with deep emotion that the leaders were so happy. This situation usually only occurred during the Ullamban Festival (called "Ghost Festival" in China). The Ullamban Festival is a story of Mulian saving his mother in the Buddhist scriptures. It was originally intended to encourage filial piety. When he arrived in Japan, he had become a festival for mass carnival. On the day of the festival, all the warriors and farmers put down their weapons and farm tools and joined the ranks of singing and dancing. At night, bonfires were raised everywhere, and people continued to drink, singing and dancing around the bonfires, and the carnival did not end until the morning.
At the end of the banquet, the leaders took the two big fish that the lord had just sent to him, and brought their families to Luo's Zhengliang to bow and salute. The leaders became more and more grateful to this lord who gradually brought him a good life.
Chapter completed!