This seemed unfair since the meat was obtained from killing the fish in the flood water. However, how many people could keep their lives when they went to hunt was evident.
People lost their lives just to kill one fish. So, the meat that was exchanged with the lives of others could not be considered to have been obtained easily.
The barter of exchanging supplies had started in one building where a mother of two children saw her neighbor coming back with a large piece of meat and asked to exchange some with noodles or rice so that she could cook some soup for her children.
The neighbor had a good impression of her, so he agreed. He gave her a kilo of fish fillet and a small part of the fish head in exchange for two kilos of rice.
That night, the two households had a sumptuous meal they had not had in a long time. They had soup to drink and warm up their bodies, they had rice to fill their stomachs, and there was meat to replenish their energy and build back their lost body mass.
