Chapter 47: Online goods riding on the ebbing tide!
Three o'clock in the morning.
Zhao Dahai got up, saw that the lights in the main room were on, and immediately walked over. This was no good. Without saying anything, he directly helped Zhong Cuihua to sleep in the back room.
Zhao Dahai walked into the kitchen. He had cooked the food before going to bed last night. After breakfast, he found a lunch box with rice and large pieces of pork belly and salted fish. He closed the lid. He will be very busy today. , I don’t know where to eat at noon, so I just bring it with me, and I can eat whenever I’m hungry, without having to go home specially.
Zhao Dahai walked to the motorcycle, put the lunch box into the basket on the back seat, packed everything, opened the yard door, pushed the motorcycle out and locked the door.
Zhao Dahai looked around. The whole village was quiet. He was the first one to go out. The early bird catches the worm. He rode his motorcycle and arrived at the village pier in about ten minutes. The low tide was no joke. He moved forward with his flashlight. After taking a photo, as far as I could see, the seawater had already receded, and the entire seabed was leaking out.
The seabed exposed when the sea water recedes is mudflats in some places, reefs in some places, and sand in some places.
The mudflats are soft and sticky, and there is even water accumulation, so motorcycles will definitely not be able to drive. The rocks are uneven, and a motorcycle can barely walk on the lower parts, but not on the higher ones. However, the sand on the seabed is very compact after being soaked in sea water, especially where the sand is mixed with some small reef bottoms. Motorcycles can not only be driven but also driven very smoothly.
Langtou Village To the east of the pier is a reef area, to the west are mangroves and tidal flats, and directly in front there is a large area of sand and gravel extending straight ahead.
Zhao Dahai kicked the accelerator and drove the motorcycle directly into the sea. He was a little cautious at first, fearing that the car would get stuck, but he soon discovered that it was very safe and sound. The sand was more solid than he imagined. Slowly refueling, the speed became faster and faster, until it reached a speed of fifty kilometers per hour.
The sea was quiet.
It was dark all around.
The roar of the motorcycle's engine could be heard in the distance. The light of the headlamp pierced the night like a sword.
Zhao Dahai heard the sound of the waves and slowed down. The headlight of his motorcycle shone on the sea water. He immediately stopped, found a small reef, propped up the motorcycle on a cushion, held a flashlight, and walked around. After walking around for a while, I came a little early, and the sea water has not completely receded. I have to wait at least an hour until it has receded further and deeper at about five or six o'clock, when it is almost dawn, so that I can collect mussels or fish. The oysters are all soaked in water now.
Zhao Dahai walked to the side of the motorcycle and took out a mesh bag from the basket, put on gloves, walked to the edge of the seawater, and walked forward along the waterline, keeping the flashlight shining on the seawater.
Zhao Dahai walked five or six meters, and the flashlight illuminated a place. At first glance, it looked like a piece of sand, but upon closer inspection, the sand here was different from the surrounding sand. It was slightly sunken, and the sunken area was about as big as the palm of your hand. It is large, with two small eyes on the sand, and the flashlight emits a faint blue light.
Zhao Dahai bent down and pressed the depression in the sand with his right thumb. The other four fingers were inserted into the sand, and they were pinched firmly up and down at the same time to pick it up.
“Aha!”
“Here it comes!”
“In stock!”
"This head is really good!"
Zhao Dahai laughed and held a pretty good-sized orchid crab in his hand. This is a kind of crab. The male crab has dark blue color on its body. Color or blue-green, light blue or white spots, female crabs have dark green or yellow-brown spots. The meat is very fresh and sweet, and tastes great. It is very popular and the price is quite good. The bigger the crab, the more valuable it is. The crab in my hand is only about a pound of big male crab. When the tide goes out at the beach, fish, shrimps and crabs will retreat to the depths of the sea along with the water. Crabs often do not immediately turn around and swim to the sea but "stay behind". Their favorite thing to do is to keep hovering at the waterline. Many times, Once the tide recedes too fast and you can't run away, you have to stay where you are. This is how you find crabs by turning over rocks on the tidal flats.
Zhao Dahai woke up early specifically to catch these crabs on the waterline. The first big male orchid crab harvested proved that his guess was correct.
“Don’t be greedy. Don’t be greedy.”
"Just eight or ten of this size will be enough!"
Zhao Dahai took out the rope he had prepared long ago, tied up the orchid crabs, put them in the mesh bag, and continued to move forward. The market price of about one kilogram of male orchid crabs is about 100 yuan. If you buy eight out of ten crabs, you can get them for 1,000 yuan, which is very satisfying just thinking about it.
Zhao Dahai stepped on the receding waterline and continued to move forward, staring at the place where the flashlight swept. Thirty or forty meters later, he discovered another crab. , is also an orchid crab, but this is a small female crab, only about four taels, not as big as the male crab, but in fact it is not small, and it cost at least thirty yuan.
Zhao Dahai picks up as he walks. Sometimes he can find orchid crabs or other crabs within two or three steps, but sometimes he has to walk hundreds of meters to find one.
A hint of fish belly white is faintly revealed on the horizon.
Zhao Dahai stopped and walked for more than an hour without realizing it. He weighed the mesh bag in his hand. It weighed twenty kilograms. Most of them were valuable orchid crabs, three or four three-point crabs and a few small crabs. Large stone crab.
Zhao Dahai turned around and walked back. It was almost dawn. He quickened his pace and rushed back to the place where the motorcycle was parked in less than an hour. There were six more large male orchid crabs in the mesh bag. .
“Hahaha!”
“The early bird catches the worm. This is really true.”
Zhao Dahai is very happy, almost thirty pounds There are many crabs, and there are many large and valuable orchid crabs. On average, they cost about fifty or sixty yuan per pound. If the market is good, they can be sold for almost two thousand yuan. If the market is bad, they will cost about fifteen hundred yuan. It's a little harder to get up two or three hours earlier than others, but with the extra money, it's very cost-effective.
Zhao Dahai dug a hole in the sand. After waiting for a while, a lot of seawater accumulated. He took out a bucket of water from the basket and soaked the mesh bag with crabs in the bucket. Crabs are relatively durable, even if there is no oxygen machine. No problem keeping it for a few hours.
Are the people in the village fools?
Or are you really too rich and don’t want to pick up crabs and sell them to make money? !
The people in the village are really not stupid. Your ancestors have been living in fishing villages and going out to sea to make money for generations. How could you not know this? !
It is even more impossible to be very rich and not look down on two or three thousand yuan.
The real reason is that there may be crabs at low tide, and more likely there will be nothing at all.
I want to make as much money as possible. Once I save enough to repair my fishing boat, I will get up early if I am willing to put in the effort. If I had no pressure and no need to worry about the money to repair the fishing boat, I might be able to sleep at home right now!
Zhao Dahai picked up the kettle, drank some water, and looked in the direction of the village. It was a little too far and the sky was not very bright. He couldn't see where he was. He rested for about ten minutes. Get on the motorcycle and keep driving forward. It’s almost time to start cooking mussels and oysters!
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