Li Xu carefully broke off a fingernail-sized piece from a chunk of Ah Wei that was air-drying in the shade.
It wasn't completely dry, still holding a bit of moisture inside.
But since it was being used as bait to catch loaches, not for medicine, the effect was the same.
In fact, the moisture would even help the strong, peculiar scent spread more easily in the water.
Snar was also quick to act.
He ran home and, before long, returned lugging three cylindrical bamboo cages woven from bamboo strips, each with a narrow entrance and a wide belly.
This was the traditional tool local people used to catch small fish and shrimp.
The two of them returned to the riverbend.
They didn't go anywhere else, choosing the spot right next to the same mudflat where they had dug up the Yabulu that morning.
Li Xu guessed that the abundance of loaches in this riverbend wasn't just because the silt here was fertile.
