Chapter 34: Fighting for more valuable goods
The sun rises half a day high.
Same as the stove.
On the hot mudflats, the seawater evaporated, making it difficult to breathe.
Zhao Dahai gasped for air. The clothes on his body had been wet and dried countless times. There were circles of white powder, which was probably the salt of sweat or the salt of sea water. , there was a lot of mud on his face.
Zhao Dahai drank some water and immediately started to collect the bamboo tube. This was already the third day of catching jumping fish. His muscles were sore all over and he was very tired, but the harvest was good. On the first day, he caught about five kilograms of jumping fish. On the second day yesterday, I caught about six kilograms. Today is the third day. I hope to have almost the same harvest. There is no secret to catching jumping fish. I just work hard.
Zhao Dahai paddled the mud horse, took out a bamboo tube, stuffed it into a mesh bag and shook it.
Huh? !
Zhao Dahai took a look at the jumping fish that was just thrown out, and found that it was not the same as other jumping fish. He reached into the net bag and grabbed it, but did not take it out. There was mucus on the jumping fish and sea. The mud is very slippery. If you are not careful, you will run away. Keep it safe in the mesh bag. After a closer look, it is indeed different. It is bigger, shorter and fatter.
Zhao Dahai bent down and washed the jumping fish. Now he could see it very clearly. It was indeed different. There were very obvious blue spots on its body.
"Hahaha!"
"Good stuff!"
Zhao Dahai recognized it at a glance. The jumping fish in his hand was the commonly known pink minnow. There are many kinds of jumping fish. There are five or six species that can be seen on the beaches of Langtou Village and several nearby villages. Most of the jumping fish are small and elongated. The pink minnow is different. It is larger, has more meat, is rich in oil, and the meat is very smooth and tender. It has a smooth and powdery texture, is very delicious, and has the highest price.
Zhao Dahai let go of his hand, and the jumping fish fell into the net bag and was mixed with others. He rowed the mud horse and continued to collect the bamboo tube. Half an hour later, he stopped, frowned, and collected almost two pieces. From ten bamboo tubes, there were about ten jumping fish poured out, seven or eight of which were pink minnows. There are a lot of jumping fish in the mudflats including the mangroves, and there are even countless jumping fish, but most of them are ordinary jumping fish. In the first two days, all the jumping fish were caught. The number of pink minnows was not large, and now there are more than a dozen jumping fish. Seven or eight of the jumping fish are minnows, which is definitely not normal.
What the hell? !
What's going on?
Is there a lot of minnows here?
Zhao Dahai looked at the mudflat in front of him. Generally speaking, ordinary jumping fish can be sold for thirty to forty-one kilograms, and fatter and larger ones can be sold for forty or fifty. The price of pink minnows is relatively high. One kilogram can be sold for at least ten to fifteen yuan more. Larger ones can be sold for at least ten to fifteen yuan. And if it is fat, it can easily be sold for seventy or eighty yuan, which is comparable to the price of blue crabs.
While pondering, Zhao Dahai collected the remaining twenty dozen bamboo tubes, looked at them carefully, and caught a dozen more pink minnows.
Zhao Dahai did not hesitate and immediately placed the bamboo tube on the spot. The mudflats in front of the mangroves and inside the mangroves are very wide. When I put bamboo tubes in the past, I only put them once in one area. It's not that there are no jumping fish in this area, but that there are more jumping fish in front and they are not frightened, making it easier. fishing. It's different now. The place in front of you is probably the "territory" where pink minnows gather. If there are many pink minnows in one place, it means there are more pink minnows. The price of pink minnows is higher, and catching pink minnows is more cost-effective, so why not do it.
Zhao Dahai walked very carefully this time, not missing every hole where fish jumped. After placing the eighty bamboo tubes, we immediately started chasing jumping fish out of the mangrove.
"That's right!"
"One hundred percent it's a pink minnow."
Zhao Dahai was very excited and waved his right hand vigorously. The pink minnow is big and jumps differently from ordinary jumping fish. It's easy to tell if you look carefully. My guess was correct. The quagmire in front of me, including the mangroves, was indeed where pink minnows gathered. After Zhao Dahai finished catching the jumping fish, he immediately began to collect the bamboo tubes. Not all of the things poured out were pink minnows, but at least five or six of the ten bamboo tubes must be pink minnows. He was very excited and more motivated, and kept pouring the fish over and over again. Place bamboo tubes everywhere and fold them up to catch minnows. Now I'm not going anywhere, I'm just wandering around in this mudflat, fighting to the bitter end.
The sun sets.
The seawater rose and flooded the mudflats. After about half an hour, the mangroves were no longer covered.
Zhao Dahai picked up the mesh bag that was half mud and half water in the bucket. There were seven or eight kilograms of jumping fish in it. Most of them were valuable minnows. The clean bamboo tubes He and the mud horse were tied up and carried on poles to their homes. When passing by the small pier of the village, they met many people from the village. They said hello and left quickly. Catching jumping fish is very exhausting. I just ate some cold rice at noon. I was so hungry that I hurried back to cook to fill my stomach.
“Zhao Dahai is too cruel?!”
Zhong Shizhu carried a bucket of sea water, washed the deck of his fishing boat, and glanced at Zhao Dahai who was striding away. . In the past three days, Zhao Dahai got up early every day and spent every day at night rolling in the mudflats next to the mangroves to catch jumping fish. He only went home when the tide went out and the tide started to rise.
"I can't do this kind of work."
Liu Bin was arranging the fishing nets on the fishing boat next door. When he heard this, he immediately shook his head. Is he just riding a mud horse to catch jumping fish on the mud flats? It doesn't sound difficult and anyone can do it. It is true that anyone can do it, but not everyone can do it by struggling for several hours a day for three consecutive days. This work is very hard. I would rather go fishing for ten days than go to the quagmire to catch jumping fish for one day.
"Hahaha!"
"If you can make one thousand eight hundred a day, you can definitely do it."
Zhong Shizhu made a joke.
"Hey!"
"Isn't this nonsense?!"
"Thousands of people, who would feel tired?"
Liu Bin shook his head . You can make money by catching jumping fish, but at the end of the day, you are exhausted and can only earn two to three hundred yuan. Driving a fishing boat out to sea and casting a net to catch fish, most of the time you can only earn a hundred yuan a day, but it is so easy.
"Zhao Dahai doesn't have a fishing boat now and can't go out to fish, so he can only make money this way. You said that once you have a boat and you work so hard, it will be terrible!"
Zhong Shizhu watched Zhao Dahai turn a corner with the bamboo horse and bamboo tube and disappear, then turned to look at Liu Bin.
Liu Bin was stunned for a moment, his face a little ugly. Zhao Dahai works so hard. Once he has a fishing boat, it will be really great. He will definitely make much more money than people like himself. But, what can be done about this matter? There is no move at all, I can only watch helplessly. But they are all from the same village. If you can't see each other in the morning, you might not see each other in the afternoon. How can you not have a desire to compare? How can you watch other people's lives getting better and better without any ideas?
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