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Chapter 9 Grilling Fish and Digging Ponds(2/2)

The best way is to dig a pond, raise these fish, and fish them out whenever you want. You don’t have to worry about saving them, and the small fish can be raised.

Early the next morning, Jiang Xuan got up, took two half-smoked fish from the top of the fire pond, grilled them for everyone to have a feast, and then began to prepare the tools for digging the pond.

As the saying goes, if a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.

Good tools can greatly improve work efficiency.

Jiang Xuan, with the help of Chi Shao and others, spent a whole day making three more bone clams. Adding the previous two, they had five bone clams, and each of them could own one.

Then, they spent another day using rattan to weave three rattan baskets of different sizes for transporting the excavated soil.

On the third day, they finally started digging the pond.

Jiang Xuan chose a place in front of the bamboo forest that was relatively close to the creek and had relatively flat terrain. After eradicating the weeds and shrubs, the five of them dug soil at the same time with bone blades. The excavated soil was piled around in rattan baskets to build a pond embankment.

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Because the tools were backward, it took them eight full days to dig a six-meter-long, four-meter-wide, and half-meter-deep pond. The hard work involved cannot be appreciated by outsiders.

Jiang Xuan spent another day using the mixed wet mud to paste the embankments around the pond so that water leakage would not easily occur.

After laying up the pond embankment, Jiang Xuan inserted a small fence made of branches at the water outlet, so that it would be difficult for the fish to escape.

After everything was done, Jiang Xuan dug a diversion canal to divert the stream water into the pond.

"Crash..."

The stream is rushing, filling the pond little by little.

Jiang Xuan and the other five stood by the pond, watching the water surface rising little by little, and their hearts were filled with a sense of accomplishment.

"Xuan, if we dig the pond, will we have endless fish to eat in the future?" Nan Xing asked longingly.

Jiang Xuan smiled and said: "Yes, one day we will have endless fish to eat."

"Great!"

Nan Xing suddenly laughed happily, and Uncaria and Stone Loach also laughed.

Chi Shao looked at Jiang Xuan and said, "I really hope this day comes soon, so that everyone no longer has to worry about going hungry."

Jiang Xuan nodded, he believed that as long as he worked hard, that day would come sooner or later.

After digging the pond, the fish caught in the fishing trap will no longer be shot to death.

They used rattan baskets to fish out the fish from the pond, and then used animal skin bags to put the live fish back into the pond and release them.

After a few days, the newly dug pond was no longer empty, with many fish swimming around in the water.

However, they soon discovered new problems.

Carnivorous fish often bite herbivorous fish. Even if the herbivorous fish is relatively large, they will be bitten with bruises all over their bodies or even be killed directly.

Helpless, Jiang Xuan could only drain the water in the pond, build a new embankment in the middle of the pond, and raise carnivorous fish and herbivorous fish separately.
Chapter completed!
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