Chapter 63 Intangible Cultural Heritage Bow Fish Technique
"Ni Mu, show it to Mr. Yogurt quickly!"
The kitten was very curious about this white carp and meowed anxiously.
Li Mu held the albino carp in both hands, put it into the water, walked slowly to the shore, and showed it to the kitten.
"White fish." Yoghurt stretched out his little paws and touched the white carp in the water. He lowered his head to look at it, keeping his eyes on the water.
When the carp saw the cat's head so close, it was so frightened that it swung its tail in the water and wet the hair on the cat's head.
"Hmm!" The kitten took two steps back and shook its head a few times, "It attacks Mr. Yogurt!"
"You were too close."
"Use it to make fish soup with rice at night!"
"It's already very pitiful. Lord Yoghurt, just let it go."
"What's wrong with it?" The kitten raised its head, its eyes full of curiosity.
"This is a carp, and there is no such species of white carp in the world, so it is an albino carp."
"What is albino?"
"It's similar to human albinism."
"What is albinism?"
"Albinism is the lack of a tyrosinase enzyme in the body that can synthesize melanin. Without this, the skin and hair of the body will appear white."
"Hmm"
"Master Yoghurt is so smart, you must have understood it, right?"
"Yes!"
"Master Yoghurt is really smart."
"Then why is it pitiful?"
Li Mu looked at the albino carp in his hand, "Because after an animal turns albino, it will be marginalized in its group, and because it has no camouflage color, it is easier to be caught by natural enemies."
"And the life span of albino animals will be affected, and their life span will be much shorter than that of normal animals."
"Oh." The kitten took a few steps forward and looked at the albino carp in the water with some pity, "Then let's let it go?"
"Just listen to Mr. Yoghurt."
Li Mu smiled, took out his phone and took a few photos. Then he let go and the fish disappeared into the water.
[It turned out to be albinism, I thought I was born with it. 】
[There seem to be many albino animals. We have seen albino monkeys in the news, and there are also albino giant pandas. 】
[Is this the Qizai mentioned above? 】
[Qizai is not albino, the panda mother was out of ink when she gave birth to him (laughs). 】
"Actually, there are two reasons for animal albino. One is genetic mutation, and the other is the lack of tyrosinase in the body just mentioned."
After Li Mu took photos of the albino carp, he took a look at the barrage in the live broadcast room and answered netizens' doubts:
"These two reasons are very complicated to explain. Let's talk about the simplest way to distinguish them."
"When you encounter an albino animal, you can look at its eyes. For example, the carp just now has a white body but pink pupils. This is albino caused by a lack of tyrosinase. In albino genetic mutation, the eyes will be normal. color.”
[So that’s it, is the prayer you just worshiped still alive? 】
[I was really praying sincerely just now (crying)]
[Faith is the best, brothers! It doesn’t cost any money anyway, so give it a try. 】
[That’s right, it’s free anyway. If it doesn’t work, just wait and see. 】
Li Mu looked at the barrage and laughed dumbly.
The people of the Dragon Kingdom are so simple and honest. They don’t need money anyway. They worship first and then talk about it. If it works, continue to worship next time. If it doesn’t work, immediately replace it with the next one.
The main theme is a useless idle god who is not nourished.
After sending the photo of the albino carp to Brother Nan, Li Mu put the phone back in his breast pocket.
"Ni Mu, you still have to eat Mr. Yogurt's fish soup rice."
"Okay, I'll continue to catch fish for Mr. Yoghurt."
"Don't want poor fish, want normal fish."
"I see, Mr. Yoghurt is really like a taskmaster."
"I don't know what an overseer is."
"Then you're not smart."
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Li Mu grinned and continued fishing.
The albino carp may have been caught once, frightened, and never touched again. Li Mu dug a small puddle by the lake and put all the fish he touched into it.
Yoghurt squatted beside the puddle, guarding its fish soup rice.
The puddle was gradually filled with fish.
Li Mu walked ashore, washed his hands and feet and put on his shoes and socks.
"Have you counted how many yogurts there are, sir?"
"So many!"
"That's it."
There are more than a dozen fish in the puddle, including carp, lancet fish, and wheat ear fish.
Li Mu looked at the puddle and became worried.
He caught so many fish on a whim, but he didn’t have a small bucket to hold the fish.
It's a long walk from the lake back to the small courtyard. If you don't put the fish in the water with you, they will die before reaching the small courtyard, and the fish meat will not be fresh.
"Ni Mu, what's wrong?" Mao Mao asked Li Mu, who was staring at the puddle in a daze.
"I'm thinking about how to get the fish back. We don't have a small bucket for the fish."
"It would be great if Brother Lan was here." Mao Mao also expressed worry.
Li Mu thought for a while, then made a fist with his right hand and smashed it into the palm of his left hand.
"Yes!"
"Huh? Have you figured out a way?"
"yes."
Li Mu turned around and walked towards the grass by the lake.
Yogurt followed Li Mu for a few steps, then suddenly stopped, looked back at the puddle, thought for a while, walked back to the puddle and squatted down.
It’s better to wait here for Ni Mu to come back. There are too many birds here, so don’t take her fish away.
Not long after, Li Mu came out of the grass, walked back to the small puddle, squatted down, and put down the grass in his hands.
"What do you do with grass?"
"Tie the fish."
"How does Xiaocao tie up the fish?" Yoghurt walked to the thatch and sniffed a few times.
"This is thatch. It's very strong and can be used as a rope."
As Li Mu spoke, he picked up a carp, passed the end of the thatch through the nostrils of the fish's lips, and tied a knot.
Then bend the fish's body to the right and tie the other end of the thatch slightly below the fish's tail.
The carp's body formed an arch shape.
Li Mu picked up the tied carp and walked to the lake, put it into the water, then walked back to the small puddle and tied the fish again.
All the fish were tied in the same way and released into the big lake.
"Okay, just wait a little longer and we can go home."
Li Mu sat down by the lake.
"Won't the fish run away?" The kitten stood by the lake, staring at the fish with their bodies hunched over.
"You're tied up, you can't run away."
"Why are you tied like this?"
"Because we don't have small barrels to carry fish, if we tie them like this, the fish will still be alive when we get home."
[If you bow the fish and tie it up, can the fish survive out of water? 】
[I think it’s a bit fake. The fish will die after being out of water for only five minutes. 】
[Are there not many magical things that anchors have done? 】
[I believe in the anchor. He is too mysterious. He is obviously a young man in his early 20s. Compared with the anchor, I feel like a waste. 】
【Upstairs, is there a possibility that you are originally...】
"This method of tying fish is called bow fish technique. It is a traditional skill of the people in Jianou City, Hujian Province. It has been used as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties."
Li Mu saw that many people were confused in the barrage. He was explaining to netizens and answering Mao Mao's questions.
"The bowfish technique is divided into three steps, initial tying, water feeding and re-tying. What I just did was the first two steps.
"Everyone knows that after a fish leaves the water, it will struggle violently and flap its tail. This situation will consume a huge amount of oxygen. Generally, fish out of the water will die in this way.
“The initial tying is to prevent the fish from struggling violently, and the water feeding is to put the tied fish into the water for a while, so that the fish can spit out dirt and absorb new things. While impurities are eliminated from the body, some water will be stored in the fish’s body.
"As for the third step of re-tying, it is actually similar to the first step, except that the rope tied to the tail is changed."
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