After returning to the White Sand Castle, Xue Yu handed over the remaining soldiers and broken armor he picked up to Hu Dachui, and asked him to re-melt and cast the tools for drilling wells!

I have to admit that Hu Dachui is such a good blacksmith. It took only three days to cast the rough embryo of the tool. Its shape, thickness and size are not bad at all. As long as you refine it, it can be delivered for use.

There is no problem with iron tools, but there are two key parts that are not available in this era and cannot be manufactured!

There is no way, if the technical level does not meet the standards, even if you know the principle of manufacturing, you cannot produce the finished product!

Fortunately, Xue Yu was smart enough to come up with an alternative method. Although the quality and effect were a little worse, he could use it just as much as possible.

As for the materials needed for production, you have to do it yourself!

...

The next day, Xue Yu found Grandpa Baihu and asked to borrow a ox cart for it. He was preparing to take a few friends to Kuyechuan to get water and get some raw materials back!

Grandpa Baihu agreed happily, worried that they would not be familiar with their life, so he specially sent his only grandson, Gou Zuozi, to lead a big yellow dog to lead the way!

"Boss, what are the weapons and armor you picked up there?"

"The northwest direction is more than twenty miles, in a big sand pit!"

"But the next day, the grandfather also brought people there, trying to get some iron tools back, and make a few more farm tools, but nothing was found. The pit had been filled with wind and sand, and no trace was left!

They all said that you are a person with great fortune and fortune. Knowing that you need iron tools, God took the initiative to send it. Others don’t have this blessing, so they can’t get any one!"

...

"Ha ha!"

Gou Zuozi is twelve years old this year. She looks good and has a smart mind. She has long been malnourished and has a little thin body. She is sitting on the ox cart chatting with Xue Yu and others!

At the beginning, he was called Brother Xue's family, but later he became familiar with him. He just called Xue Yu the boss like other children!

Gou Shengzi sat in the car and chatted. As for the lead, he left all the matter to the big yellow dog.

This is a grassland dog, tall, thick and strong, with black and yellow eyes, sharp teeth, extremely sensitive sense of smell, and extremely humane. He has saved the lost military household many times in the desert!

Because of this, the military households forced to squeeze out food without filling their stomachs, raised two grassland dogs, one male and one female, and treated them as well as their relatives!

"Boss, can I ask you something?"

"You're welcome, just say something!"

"Can you give me a name? It sounds nicer. The dog leftover sounds too ugly!"

"Haha, no problem!"

Most of the military households are illiterate and their naming skills are very limited. Therefore, the children of Baisha Castle are basically dunzi, lock pillars, dogs, etc., and there is no elegant name!

In the past, everyone's names were not very good, so don't laugh at anyone.

But now it’s different. The children brought by Xue Yu all have good names, and they instantly compared the original children in the castle, and they were extremely envious. And they found out clearly that those good names were all given by Brother Xue!

Therefore, Gou Shengzi begged Xue Yu and gave herself a good name. Only with a good name can she succeed in the future!

Xue Yu naturally would not refuse such a request. After a little thought, he came up with a very good name: Song Qingshu!

Southern Dynasty - Emperor Jianwen of Liang said in the poem "The Immortal Guest": "The green book has a long life talisman, purple water lotus clothes!"

Qingshu refers to blue words, and also refers to classics, which means knowledge!

"I have a name, I have a nice name. From then on, my name will be Song Qingshu!"

With a new name, Gou Zuozi, it wasn't right. It should be Song Qingshu. He jumped and jumped happily, and he kept turning a few things on the spot!

But I didn't know that Xue Yu was also laughing secretly, and she was a little bad!

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The Kuye River is more than 400 miles long and flows from northwest to southeast. It is one of the important tributaries in the central part of the Yellow River!

Although it is a river, it has two names. The upper section is located in the southern part of the Mongolian grassland and is called "Ulanmulun River" by local herders, which means the red river!

The lower section is located in Yulinwei. It is called the Kuye River by the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty. It is called the three major water sources of Yulin, along with the Tuwei River and Wuding River. It raises more than 100,000 military and civilians here!

However, with the expansion of the Mu Us Desert, the Kuye River was also affected. More than a dozen small tributaries were buried and the main river channel was also shrinking. If it was not managed, I am afraid that sooner or later, the fate of the Bailong River would be repeated!

At that time, neither the Mongolian herdsmen upstream nor the military and civilians downstream of Yulin could live here.

At noon, Xue Yu and others arrived by the river. Their faces were red with cold faces and their heads were constantly blushing. They walked more than forty miles in a row, which was not an easy task!

The river water has long been frozen, at least one foot thick, so there is no problem for people to walk on it. And through the clean ice layer, you can vaguely see the swimming fish below, swimming slowly!

"It was just October, and the weather was so cold. If it was the cold winter, wouldn't you have to freeze your nose?"

"The winter in our Yulin is very cold, with biting winds and dripping water turning into ice. If people catch up with heavy snow, even if they hide in the house, they can freeze into ice!"

"Okay, hurry up and put a bunch of fire and bake it for everyone!"

"Yes, boss!"

There were dead grass on the river bank. Everyone picked up some of them and soon the fire rose up. After baking for a while, they became warmer.

Next, I held a shovel, wooden vertebra and other tools and dug a hole in the river surface, then used a small bucket to fetch water, then poured it into the big bucket on the ox cart. After working back and forth for half an hour, I finally filled the bucket.

"Boss, the water is full, let's go back?"

"Don't worry, take this opportunity to catch some fish and have a tooth sacrificial ceremony at night!"

"Ah, catch fish?"

It is best to catch fish in summer and autumn. The water temperature is suitable at that time and the fish are all fat. You can choose a sunny weather, hold a fishing rod and sit under the shade of the tree to fish. It is cool and comfortable!

You can also work together to catch fish with seines, or throw a few fish baskets, put a few sheep bones inside, and fish and shrimps and the like will get in by themselves.

Now it is winter and the river surface is frozen, so how can you catch fish?

Besides, everyone has no fishing tools, there are no fishing rods, fishing nets, or fish baskets. You can't go down the river to catch fish, right?

The weather is so cold that it won’t take a moment or three, and you will freeze to death!

"Don't worry, we don't need to go into the water. The fish will come to your door by themselves. You can rest for a while and I'll go and check in!"

Let the friends cook on the shore, Xue Yu walked around the river alone, and from time to time with a wooden stick, knocking on the ice layer under his feet, listening to the echo!

After wandering around like this for a while, I stopped at a river beside me. After a few pounds, I nodded with satisfaction!

Then he called his friends over, used tools to dig out an ice hole with a diameter of more than one foot, and gently stir it with a wooden stick to prevent it from freezing again!

"Boss, what should I do next?"

"No need to do anything, just wait!"

"ah?"

Everyone was waiting skeptical. After about a meal, several black shadows slowly swam over, their mouths pressed against the water, constantly opening and closing!

Xue Yu took action as fast as lightning, and instantly grabbed a black shadow. It turned out to be a grass carp weighing three or four pounds and threw it into the bucket next to it!

I caught it again, this time it was a silver carp, which was bigger, weighing at least five or six pounds!

Fish is a very clever creature. After discovering danger, they will immediately escape without a trace!

But today it was a terrible thing. Xue Yu caught a few of them in a row. Instead of running away, the other fish came over desperately. The number of them gathered more and more. Several carp even jumped up and jumped up on the ice, and they were frozen.

This scene seems strange, but the truth is actually very simple!

Fish are also afraid of the cold. After winter, they will gather in deep waters, because the temperature in deep waters is higher than that in shallow waters and it is easier to avoid natural enemies!

However, after the river surface is frozen, there will be severe hypoxia under the water. In addition, the fish gather together, making it very difficult to breathe!

At this time, if a hole is dug in the ice surface, the fish will gather together, open their mouths, rush to breathe oxygen, and even jump to the water by themselves!

Xue Yu ran all over the world in his previous life. He once saw old fishermen fishing in the Northeast region using this method, so he learned it.

I saw him take action like lightning, one after another, and in less than half an hour, he caught dozens of big fish, weighing at least two or three hundred kilograms, and the buckets were all filled.

The conditions of the white sand castle are difficult, and it is rare to see any meat and fish. Now that I have caught so many fish, the children are so happy. While loading fish into the car, I discuss how to eat it, and my saliva is flowing out!

While I was happy, I didn’t expect another team of water to be collected on the bank of the Kuye River!
Chapter completed!