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There just happened to be a bamboo grove nearby, but it wasn't the large nanmu bamboo they had encountered on the road before; instead, it was small bamboo about the thickness of two fingers, which was perfect for making fish traps.

Banxia then led a group of boys up the mountain to cut bamboo, and then wove many cages on the spot, fixed the fishing nets to the cages, and made the exits so that they could only go in but not out.

Finally, attach long vines to both ends of the fish trap to make ropes, and a simple fish trap is complete.

"There are too many of us here, and it will be too noisy. I don't think the fish will come out during the day. Why don't you set the cages tonight and pull them up tomorrow morning to see if you can catch any fish?" Banxia kindly suggested.

Of course, it also makes it easier for her to do tamper with things.

So, when the boys went to set the fish traps at night, Banxia added something to the animal entrails that were put into the fish traps as bait.

Not many, really just a little bit. Banxia is mainly worried about attracting too many fish, and if they start fighting, they might overturn the fish trap, which would be bad.

Sure enough, when the boys excitedly went to pull the fish trap the next morning, they almost couldn't pull it even with two people working together. It took several people working together to pull up one fish trap.

When the fish trap was lifted out of the water, the sound of the fish tails slapping was deafening, and the boys cheered, attracting Yao Lizheng to come and see.

"Great! You finally got some fish!" Yao Lizheng grinned from ear to ear as he looked at all the fish.

Although I'm almost sick of eating salted fish all this way, who would complain about having too much food, especially since fish is a type of meat?

Most importantly, the children are sensible and know how to find their own food, instead of relying solely on the adults at home, which makes Yao Lizheng very happy.

"Uncle Village Head, this is a fish trap that Banxia taught us to make. We only managed to catch fish because we followed her advice." The boys grinned, showing their white teeth, but they didn't take credit for it.

The boys made seven or eight fish traps in total and placed them in different locations along the riverbank. Seeing that the first one had a good catch, they couldn't help but excitedly go and catch the others.

In the end, when the eight fish traps were pulled up, three of them had holes broken and only caught a few clumsy fish, which made the boys feel quite sorry for them.

Fortunately, the other five fish traps yielded a full harvest, with several hundred kilograms of fish caught, which was quite a considerable haul.

The boys originally wanted to set the fish trap again and come back to catch the fish in the afternoon, but Yao Lizheng stopped them.

It wasn't that Yao Lizheng looked down on these few fish, but the boys had just caught some, and there probably weren't many fish left in the river now, so they should let the fish rest.

Besides, there are three broken fish traps, which will take time to repair. We can put them out at night, just like Miss Banxia said, it's best to put out the fish traps at night.

For some reason, Yao Lizheng now not only highly admires the young master, but also deeply believes in everything Banxia says.

Influenced by him, Yao Lizheng's family gradually changed their way of addressing Banxia from "Banxia girl" to "Banxia lady".

Banxia didn't care about any of this; she was busy searching for treasure on this flat land.

Banxia knew that the boys had caught a lot of fish from the fish traps that morning, because the boys had given her the biggest and best catch immediately.

Seeing that they didn't rush to continue casting the net but instead went to repair the fish trap, Banxia praised them in her heart. They knew how to ask for help and understood the difference between urgency and time, so they were bound to succeed.

Unaware that the boys had actually been instructed, Banxia decided not to add any more bait to their fish that night. She had only helped them yesterday because she saw how discouraged they were after catching nothing.

After handing over the fish to Qi Sanshui, his son, and daughter-in-law to handle, Banxia led the group of children in the family to search for things in the shallow weeds and bushes around them.

Of course, Qi Yun and Xiao Shuang'er, the two youngest, didn't come along. The rest were all tough boys, and Banxia didn't feel bad at all making them do things for her.

If such a child doesn't have any skills, he'll be someone else's meal in the apocalypse, so it's better to train him as early as possible.

And so, Qi Yun, Lian Chengyu, and the four Qi brothers, each with a fire poker, led the way by tapping the grass, while Banxia leisurely followed behind.

Banxia actually found something good; it was Liancheng Yu who discovered it.

"Sister Banxia, ​​this looks like a lotus flower. I saw it when I was in Yunzhou. Lotus roots grow under these lotus flowers, and they are very delicious." Lian Chengyu pointed to a small patch of plants hidden among the weeds in front of her.

"Really? Let me see." Banxia was delighted to hear this and took a few steps forward to check.

But as Banxia parted the weeds and looked at the dry ground beneath her feet, she hesitated. This thing probably wasn't a lotus flower.

At least, she had never seen a lotus growing in dry land, and more importantly, there were no flowers there.

However, when Banxia looked at the thing that looked a lot like a lotus leaf, a plant immediately popped into her mind: yam.

Also known as taro or hairy taro, its tubers are oval-shaped and its leaves resemble lotus leaves. It prefers high temperatures and humidity, and is more suitable for growth in southern environments.

Banxia never expected that there would be wild sweet potatoes in these 100,000 mountains.

However, it is true that although sweet potatoes are eaten as food, they are also a medicinal herb. The tubers can be used to treat mastitis, canker sores, burns, etc., while the leaves can be used to treat urticaria.

This is a wild medicinal herb, so it's not unusual for it to grow in the wild.

However, when Banxia looked at the large sweet potato plants in front of her, she felt like she had struck gold.

There are different kinds of sweet potatoes. One kind is small sweet potato, with the fruit being no more than the thickness of three fingers. The other kind is large sweet potato, which is at least the size of a fist.

The area in front of us is clearly about the size of a fist; you can roughly tell by looking at the exposed tubers at the base.

To be honest, this place is really fertile. Grapes grow on the hillside, and sweet potatoes grow in the grass below. It's a treasure trove. No wonder Yao Lizheng always wanted to stay here and cultivate the land.

However, now is not the time to talk about this. Banxia vigorously tapped the surroundings to make sure there were no poisonous snakes or anything like that, and immediately called on her younger brothers to start digging.

Before long, Banxia, ​​as the eldest sister, was the first to dig it out, holding a sweet potato almost as big as her head in her hands.

"Wow, this is huge!" Banxia looked at the sweet potato in front of her, already thinking about how to eat it.

Sweet potatoes, when cooked, are tender, sweet, and glutinous, making them perfect for the elderly and children. I loved them in my previous life.

However, Lian Chengyu, who was digging sweet potatoes next to her, hesitated when he saw what she was holding.

The lotus root he ate didn't look like this.

Lian Chengyu looked at the sweet potato in Banxia's hand, then at the one-third of the sweet potato he had dug out, and felt that something was not quite right.

Banxia didn't notice Lianchengyu's expression. She carefully put the big sweet potato into her basket and immediately looked for the next one.