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Chapter 188 Thinly Sliced ​​Rainbow Trout Pan-Fried on a Stone Slab [First Update!]

Li Younan slept very soundly on the first night.

When I woke up the next morning, I felt refreshed and invigorated.

It's a little disappointing that a sip of hot water right after waking up would be wonderful to start a new day, but since we're in the wilderness, we'll have to make do.

After getting up, the first thing Li Younan did was to light a fire, boil water, and make breakfast.

Since there was only one large pot, there was no container to store water. Li Younan had already started to consider whether to make a wooden bucket or a pottery vessel to store water.

Besides his carpentry skills, don't forget that he also possessed a skill he had never used before: pottery making.

[Level 1 Pottery Skill: When a skilled hand snatches a perfectly translucent piece of pottery from the leaping flames, its scalding perfection is the wilderness's acknowledgment of your skill.]

I acquired this skill around the same time as the mountaineering skill, but to be honest, there hasn't been a scenario where I could use it for such a long time.

Although he had been to Jingdezhen once, he didn't know this skill when he went there.

It's impossible to produce porcelain as exquisite as that from Jingdezhen in such a wild environment, but it's still quite easy to fire some bricks and tiles, as well as water tanks and basins for storing water.

Li Younan had also observed it yesterday; there was very good quality clay nearby, and as long as there was clay, pottery could be made.

He had already prepared the water in the afternoon yesterday, so he could boil it and drink it directly this morning.

After brushing his teeth, Li Younan put the wild ginger he had prepared the day before into the pot and made a bowl of ginger tea.

Although it was summer, the summer mornings at Lake Chirko were quite cool. Li Younan felt warm and comfortable all over after drinking that big gulp of ginger tea.

Of course, Li Younan didn't forget to film a video. After finishing his breakfast, which consisted of blackberries, he said to the camera, "Guys, our plan for today is to go out to forage for food in the morning and then come back to build our shelter in the afternoon. Don't worry, today will be another fruitful day."

Li Younan put the remaining half basket of roots and blackberries into the crevice in the rock wall, then took his bow and arrows and fishing line and set off for the lake.

It's only about a 20-minute walk from here to the lake.

Li Younan was really looking forward to encountering a bear or some other large animal during this process, but unfortunately, there didn't seem to be any large animals in this area. Come to think of it, large animals also need to eat, and this place is not suitable for hunting large animals.

If you want to hunt large animals, you'll probably have to explore the other side of the grove before you find them.

Li Younan arrived at the fishing spot he had chosen yesterday, fixed the camera position, and then stood on the steep slope to fish with a fishing rod he had made yesterday, using worms he had dug up nearby as bait.

With Li Younan's fishing skills, as long as he believes there will be fish in a place, there will definitely be fish there. Although it is in the wild and there is no bait for groundbaiting, the good thing is that the fish here are undisturbed and will bite as long as there is something, making them easy to catch.

Li Younan's eyes were fixed on the water. Suddenly, his expression changed slightly, and with a flick of his wrist, he caught a fish.

He picked up the fish, his expression somewhat amused. It wasn't a big fish, just a small one about the length of a finger.

Li Younan smiled at the camera and said, "Guys, although we caught a small fish, it's too small to even fill my teeth, so I suggest we release it."

Then he chuckled to himself, "Just kidding!"

His expression turned serious: "Friends, have you ever heard of the big fish eating the little fish?"

After saying that, Li Younan reattached the small fish to the fishing line and used a very special technique to thread the hook through the fish's body. In this way, if a big fish bites, the small fish will be hooked instantly.

After finishing this task, Li Younan cast the fish, hook and all, back into the lake.

Next, he demonstrated a top-notch lure fishing technique to the audience. Li Younan placed the fish in the water and manipulated its position with the fishing rod, simulating the movement of a live fish swimming in the water. He quickly cast it in and pulled it up, while keeping his eyes fixed on the surface of the lake with high concentration.

Lure fishing is a fishing technique that mimics the movement of small fish in the water to lure larger predatory fish.

In China, lure fishing primarily uses realistic-looking fake fish, but no matter how realistic a fake fish is, it can never be as lifelike as a real fish, especially one that smells of blood.

Li Younan was highly focused; at this moment, he was not only experiencing the joy of fishing, but also engaging in an operation truly related to survival.

In this state of high tension, Li Younan immediately entered a state of flow. The information in his brain about the types of fish that might appear at the bottom of the water, their preferences for prey, and the swimming posture of the prey was processed at high speed in an instant, and then turned into instructions for the fishing rod to control the small fish.

Suddenly his eyes narrowed, and he raised the hook!

Although he couldn't see what was happening underwater, he could clearly feel the hook piercing the upper jaw of some kind of fish, followed by an astonishing force coming from the fishing rod.

Li Younan was overjoyed, but he didn't rush to pull the fish with brute force. Instead, he skillfully controlled the fish's movement and patiently dealt with the struggling fish for more than ten minutes before gradually guiding its movement to the shore.

Once he reached the point perpendicular to the steep slope, Li Younan exerted his strength and lifted upwards, instantly sending a large fish, half a meter long, bursting out of the water.

Li Younan took a closer look and immediately burst out laughing. It turned out to be a very large rainbow trout.

This fish is widely distributed in Lake Chirko. Its taste and texture are very similar to salmon. In fact, many unscrupulous merchants use this fish to impersonate salmon, and ordinary people have no way to tell the difference.

Rainbow trout are an invasive species in China; this is their true home. Because Li Younan hadn't made a landing net, while the fish was still in mid-air after he pulled it up, he drew his hunting knife from his waist and precisely stabbed it into the rainbow trout's heart.

Thanks to his level 2 slaughtering skill, the stab was extremely precise, and the fish walked away peacefully.

Of course, this scene was also fully captured on camera.

Unlike many contestants, Li Younan always sets up his camera beforehand before doing anything, so that the footage of his successful hunt won't be lost.

In addition, an action camera was also kept on, recording this wonderful moment in the first person.

The production team requires that every hunt be filmed, but in reality, too many contestants still miss the moments of the hunt.

After all, there's too much uncertainty in this kind of thing.

Li Younan then hooked the fish through its gills with his fingers, slammed it against a rock, and the next moment, the hunting knife moved, slicing open the fish's belly and neatly removing all the inedible parts, leaving only the essence of the fish meat.

The only downside was that I didn't bring the wicker basket I wove yesterday, so I could only take the fish home.

Li Younan held up the fish in front of the camera and said, "This is a very large rainbow trout. To be honest, I didn't expect rainbow trout to grow to this size. The edible part weighs at least 12 pounds, which is enough to provide us with protein for at least three days."

To be honest, if Li Younan's words were broadcast, he would most likely be criticized.

Let alone in the wilderness, even in the city, an average of 4 pounds of meat per day is a very high standard of living for an ordinary person.

After catching this fish, Li Younan did not plan to continue fishing. He said, "In the current climate, fish cannot stay fresh for long. We should try to eat fresh fish as much as possible, so let's stop here for today."

Because we started fishing very early today, we have plenty of time to focus on building our shelter throughout the rest of the day.

Li Younan returned to the camp and hung the fish on the wooden frame he had built the day before. Then he found a lot of relatively flat stones nearby and stacked them together to build a simple stove. In this way, he could have a different kind of lunch today.

Li Younan took the camera, set it up in front of his stove, lit a fire, laid a flat stone on top, and said to the camera, "Today's lunch is rainbow trout grilled on a stone slab."

He then said with some regret, "Because we have just started living alone in the wilderness, our resources are limited. We don't have much fat to use right now. Otherwise, using animal fat to fry this rainbow trout would make it taste even better."

As he spoke, Li Younan took the wild ginger from yesterday, chopped it into minced ginger with the hunting knife, and took a few blackberries, which he also chopped on a clean stone slab to make something like jam.

He then said with some regret, "There aren't many things we can use for seasoning right now. We'll try to find some suitable seasonings later, and then we can start frying the fish."

Li Younan was, after all, a professional chef. Even in such a remote and rudimentary wilderness, his chef's instincts allowed him to easily control the heat.

Rainbow trout is a type of fish with a relatively high fat content, so even without extra cooking oil, it can still be pan-fried very well as long as the heat is controlled properly.

When Li Younan was doing this, he was even more focused than when he was fishing. After drizzling on the special sauce, a plate of thinly sliced ​​rainbow trout, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, was ready to be enjoyed.

Li Younan picked up a slice of meat with chopsticks he made himself and said to the camera, "The fans will eat first."

He then put it in his mouth, tasted it carefully, nodded unconsciously, and showed a satisfied expression on his face, saying, "I have to say the water quality here is very good, and the water on the plateau is relatively cold, so the texture of the rainbow trout is much better than that of farmed ones."

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After finishing lunch, Li Younan cut the remaining rainbow trout into fillets and hung them on the rack he had made the day before to smoke. After resting for a while, he began his afternoon work.

Li Younan did not intend to build an unconventional house; he chose a traditional Chinese wooden frame house.

Of course, since only one person needs to live there, there is no need for very thick and long beams. With the overall scale reduced, it can be built by one person.

The foundation was laid yesterday, and today's task is to build the frame of the house.

To be honest, although some of the houses built by the masters in the previous episodes were very sturdy, Li Younan still thought they were too rough. He wanted to show the world the art of building houses using traditional mortise and tenon joints.

Before that, he needed to process the timber. So, Li Younan spent the entire afternoon doing one thing: felling trees, sawing them into suitable sizes, and hauling them over.

This is a rather demanding job.

Li Younan plans to build a house with a raised beam structure, and the first step is to prepare the materials for the raised beam frame.

Fortunately, Li Younan's house only needs to be occupied by one person, so only two sets of beam-lifting frames are needed. Even so, the amount of work required cannot be completed in one day.

But he wasn't in a hurry; according to the plan, the beam-lifting frame could be erected in three days.

Fortunately, his mountaineering skills made it easy for him to move the logs.

Before the sun had even set, Li Younan had already prepared the wood for building the scaffolding.

Next, he will need to spend about two days processing the timber, including peeling the wood and then using mortise and tenon joints to assemble the two beam frames.

(End of this chapter)