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Chapter 829: 812 Snow House Ice Fishing

Chapter 829: Chapter 812 Snow House Ice Fishing

That’s right, after the recent drop in temperature, the ice on the lake is at least twenty centimeters thick, and it’s easy for people to walk on!

Besides, Yue Feng has been eating smoked fish for several days now, and the taste of fresh fish soup was making his mouth water. Freshly caught fish taste a lot better than smoked fish.

“Alright! Since everyone wants to see ice fishing, I’ll take you guys for ice fishing! Before that, we need to make a pair of snowshoes first!” Once Yue Feng found his direction, he immediately got busy with enthusiasm.

Carrying an axe, he found a suitable pine tree and cut down two branches. He soon brought them back to the shelter and bent them into the shape of a tennis racket over the fire.

The principle is quite simple, really. By increasing the contact area, it reduces the pressure on the snow surface and ice surface, preventing people from sinking in too deep while walking.

Yue Feng used PE line combined with pine branches to make the frame, then fixed the wolverine skin on the shoe surface. He lined the innermost layer with rabbit skin, leaving a spot to fix the foot when stepping in, and thus completed a special pair of shoes suitable for walking in the snow, safe and warm.

With these shoes, Yue Feng’s range of movement greatly increased. He took a shovel for a stroll around the lake and returned excitedly soon after.

The snow on the lake’s surface was thicker than expected, but with a little modification, Yue Feng was confident in easily building a windproof, insulating snow house. At that time, he could ice fish inside the snow house and bring along a small clay stove to burn wood for warmth, which would be absolutely fantastic!

With the idea in mind, Yue Feng immediately took action.

He wandered around the ice surface, marked an area with fish, and then rolled up his sleeves and got to work.

Yue Feng’s method was clumsy but effective. He easily rolled snowballs on the ice surface. Snowflakes that haven’t disrupted the structure can be rolled into balls even bigger than a person, as long as they’re movable.

In less than half a day, Yue Feng rolled more than a dozen large snowballs in the chosen ice fishing area.

With the raw materials ready, it was time for the shovel to shine. Yue Feng skillfully used these snowballs as building materials to construct an oval snow house. It was oriented north-to-south, leaving only a small entrance for one person.

After sealing the top, Yue Feng poured water over it several times to freeze it more firmly. In less than two days of work, a tidy snow house was completed on the lake’s surface!

Rediscovering his joy, Yue Feng brought all the bear and rabbit skins he had previously hunted and accumulated into the ice house.

From recent hunting and fixed traps, he usually caught a few rabbit skins a day, which didn’t seem like much at the time. However, a complete inspection revealed he had accumulated over thirty pieces in total.

Instantly, the class of the ice house skyrocketed, with rabbit skins at the bottom and warm bear skins on top. Sitting on the ground wasn’t cold at all. Then he moved the small stove inside and lit pine wood, making the temperature inside the house even higher than in the shelter. Yue Feng even felt an urge to take off his coat.

On the 48th day of the challenge, Yue Feng’s snow house ice fishing officially opened for “business”!

At around eight in the morning, Yue Feng started the live broadcast, formally beginning his ice fishing.

“Whoa, during yesterday’s live stream, it looked unfinished, but this little house has turned out quite well!”

“Except for being a bit short so you can’t stand up, everything else is great! It’s more reliable than our ice fishing tent!”

“Tsk tsk, look at those bear skins laid on the ground, how extravagant!”

“Brother Feng, why don’t you spend the night here! It seems warmer inside with the fire than in the shelter!”

“Haven’t seen Brother Feng fish in days, and it’s the first time ice fishing. Where’s our gear? Let’s fish and chat while we’re at it!”

It wasn’t until his viewers clamored to see ice fishing that Yue Feng slapped his forehead.

“Damn it, I’ve laid out the skins on the ground and brought the fishing hooks, but I forgot something!” Yue Feng said with frustration.

“What is it? Everyone’s waiting to see some fishing!”

Yue Feng: “I forgot to make an ice hole!”

Upon hearing this, the viewers in the chat room burst into laughter.

“It’s over, Yue Hanhan’s nickname is going to stick now!”

“Well, just now I felt like there was something missing in the house—it was the ice hole! How are you going to fish? Lie flat on the ice and wait?”

“That’s ridiculous! Haven’t you seen how thick the ice on the water’s edge was when Brother Feng fetched water before? Luckily, the skins insulate against the cold; otherwise, if you stayed on the ice for long, even a bull would freeze stiff!”

“Hahaha, Brother Feng is killing me with laughter, my stomach hurts!”

Yue Feng sulkily pouted, then lifted the skins and begrudgingly used the axe to break the ice layer. After half an hour of work, he finally made an ice hole with a diameter of about twenty-five centimeters.

Man, the howling wind outside was at least minus ten degrees Celsius, while inside the snow house, sweat was dripping from Yue Feng’s forehead, and steam was rising.

With a wooden spoon, he efficiently scooped out the crushed ice from the hole and cleaned up the surrounding debris. Finally, the ice house started to look decent.

Yue Feng wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, “Phew… finally ready! Come on, everyone, let’s start this thing!”

“Brother Feng, where’s your ice fishing rod? What are you gonna use to fish?”

“Yue Hanhan, you’re killing me! Are you going to fish empty-handed with an axe?”

“You’re catching a hammer! Brother Feng, be careful not to drop the Logging Axe into the water, or there’ll be no wood to burn!”

The first part made Yue Feng’s laughter almost break through his composure, but the latter part sent a shiver down his spine.

The axe was placed near the wall, and if it fell through the ice hole into the water, the challenge might end prematurely. In such cold weather, with no firewood, you wouldn’t last a day. The shelter’s firewood reserves wouldn’t last until the end of the challenge.

Yue Feng moved the axe to another corner of the ice house, then magically pulled out a roll of PE line and a fishing hook from his pocket.

With nimble fingers, Yue Feng tied the hook to the end of the PE line, then took out a bit of bear meat with body heat and baited the hook, dropping it blatantly into the ice hole.

“We don’t have professional ice fishing gear, so I’m using a simple method. Those who saw me fishing in the Black Pit know I bounced the rod tip with oxygen, but today we’re bouncing fingertip tips!”

The large fish hook carrying meat continued to sink until it stopped after seven or eight meters. Yue Feng gently smoothed the line, then calmly wound it around his fingertip and waited patiently.

During the location selection, he had used the fishing position selection skill and determined this area was dense with fish and suitable for fishing. However, after a while, Yue Feng realized that ice fishing wasn’t as easy as he imagined.

His arm and hand position were almost numb, yet no fish took the bait—what was going on?