Chapter 59: A little test! So many and so big!
Zhao Dahai walked to the edge of the mangrove and had to go around the place where blood eels were dug. The tide receded a few meters but not enough. After waiting for half an hour, he retreated further and exposed the tidal flat, carrying a hoe. Carrying a small basket into the sea, a group of small fish were startled as soon as I stepped into the sea water. They were not big, only small whitebaits the size of small chopsticks. Don’t look at them as inconspicuous and worthless. They were dried and fried in oil, and they were fragrant. I didn’t bring a fishing net. Unable to catch it, I continued to walk forward through the water. When my feet stepped into the sea mud, something hard hit my feet. I bent down and reached into the mud along my feet with my hands to dig out a clam half the size of a fist.
“Ha!”
“Is there such a good thing?”
Zhao Dahai straightened up and looked forward. The place where he could dig blood eels must be two meters away from him. 100 meters, the sea water is estimated to be waist deep, and it is difficult to cross. I have nothing to do, dig some clams, kill two birds with one stone to pass the time and have food for the evening. Clams are very common on the beach and can be found on tidal flats and other places. Generally speaking, when you find one, there will be several around it, sometimes there is one.
Zhao Dahai bent down, with the place where he was standing as the center, and inserted his hand into the sea mud, one palm deep, and pulled the circle from the inside out. As expected, he dug out a dozen large and small ones from half a meter. He walked a few steps forward. Step by step, follow the same pattern. In less than half an hour, dozens of clams weighed four or five kilograms together. There were many around. I brought an iron rake and used my strength. Maybe I could get one or two hundred kilograms in half a day. However, clams are not worth digging so much. I had enough food for the evening. I washed it and put it in a mesh bag. I picked up clams on one end of my hoe and a bamboo basket on the other. The tide had receded far enough at this time, and the place where I had dug the blood eels was exposed. I strode over there. , business matters.
Zhao Dahai bypassed the mangroves and protruded to a place in the sea. The vast expanse in front of him was covered with tidal flats. Sea mud, sand and small reefs were mixed together. This is the environment where blood eels like to grow most. There is plenty of food. The water quality is good and the quality of the blood eels is very high. This is the key to the reputation of the blood eels in Langtou Village.
Zhao Dahai walked forward slowly. Don't be in a hurry when digging for blood eels. First, you have to look for the entrance of the hole to find an eye. Second, if you walk too fast, the blood eels will start to burrow down. It is very difficult to dig. The tidal flats at low tide are densely covered with holes of various sizes, including crabs, jumping fish, or other small animals. Blood eels are just one of the many creatures that can dig holes. For inexperienced people, see I can’t tell which one is the blood eel.
Zhao Dahai squinted his eyes and looked at the tidal flat carefully, looking for blood eel holes. Children who grew up in fishing villages are not short of this skill. His father is also a master of digging blood eels. He started following him when he was five or six years old. You don’t need to learn how to roll around on the beach with your buttocks, and it doesn’t take long to find one.
Does it mean that no one has dug blood eels recently?
Zhao Dahai looked at a blood eel hole one meter away. If he looked carefully, he could even see a few strands of mucus at the entrance of the hole. This is a very obvious feature of Blood Eel Cave. Digging blood eels is indeed hard and not easy, but the price is high. If there are more people digging, the number will become smaller and the holes will be difficult to find. I found one immediately after I arrived and didn’t take a few steps. This only shows that there are fewer people digging recently, especially this year. At least no one has been digging for the past two months.
Zhao Dahai was a little excited. If his guess was correct, it would be a good thing. If there were fewer people digging, there would be more blood eels and they would be bigger.
Zhao Dahai carefully looked around the entrance of the blood eel cave, pondered for a while the direction of the blood eel cave in the mud, and then chose a direction before walking over.
Why is it difficult to dig blood eels?
One is sea mud, sand and small rocks. It is easy to go down with a hoe, but the sea mud will absorb the hoe and it is not easy to pick it up. If it is sand and small rocks, the hoe will make a "bang" sound. It can't be dug down directly if it bounces up.
The other is the Blood Eel Cave, which first digs several square meters of holes under the tidal flats and can be up to one meter deep. Once frightened, they will drill to the deepest point. If you want to dig it out, you may have to dig a large pit with an area of 4 to 5 square meters and a depth of one meter. This is not something that can be done with a hoe, or if there are not enough people to dig such a hole, it will be useless.
Zhao Dahai approached lightly and took a closer look. He was sure it was a blood eel's eye. The mucus was very obvious. He dug slowly and lightly with the hoe in his hand a few times. He couldn't dig straight down with force. It was really bad. If you do this, the blood eel eye will dig out the sea mud and the sea water will block it until you can't find it. If you gently dig open the sea mud, a larger and more obvious hole will appear, which is about the size of a toe.
Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry at all, and was very patient. The hoe in his hand became lighter and he continued to dig out the sea mud layer by layer along the blood eel hole. After more than twenty strokes, he just picked up the hoe and suddenly I saw something flash past in the hole.
Coming!
Zhao Dahai perked up and quickly dug the hoe along the blood eel hole five or six times in one breath. The last piece of the hoe dug out contained something with a tail wagging wildly in the sea mud. "Ha!"
“I can’t run away now!”
Zhao Dahai was very happy. He put down his hoe, bent down, put his middle finger in front and the remaining fingers in the back to clasp the blood eel in a T-shape. After washing in a small puddle, his true appearance was revealed. He was really good-looking, about thirty centimeters long, about the size of a middle finger, and definitely one centimeter in diameter. He was very fat and round, and must have weighed two to three taels. According to the price offered by Liu Gang, it was four to five. Got ten dollars.
Zhao Dahai took out the plastic bag, put the blood eel in it, rolled it up and put it in the bamboo basket. Blood eels cannot be placed in mesh bags, let alone bamboo baskets directly. Once dried like this, the mucus on the blood eels will soon dry out and die. If placed in a watertight plastic bag, there is no need to soak it in water. Keep it moist and it will survive. long time.
Zhao Dahai continued to move forward with a hoe. Don’t be anxious when digging for blood eels. The important thing is persistence and a slow speed. After walking a few meters, he found another blood eel hole. This hole was relatively shallow and there was no need to waste any time. It took only five or six hoes to dig it out.
What's going on?
Are there so many blood eels?
It’s been a long time since anyone dug it?
Or maybe another reason?
Zhao Dahai stood with his hand on the hoe, his brows knitted into a knot. In less than half an hour, he dug up seven or eight blood eels. The largest one was three taels and the smallest one was one tael. I don’t understand. People may think this is not strange. In fact, it is very strange. At this speed, it is not too difficult to lose seven or eight pounds a day. Not to mention the double price offered by Liu Gang, which can be sold for thousands at the normal market price. Eight hundred sons.
Difficult to dig?
Hard work?
Who wouldn’t make so much money in one day?
Zhao Dahai felt that he was thinking too much. Why are there so many blood eels? It doesn't matter if no one has dug for a long time or the tide is just right. I'm not a scientist, so why bother with this? He is just a fisherman, just digging blood eels to make money. Are there many and big blood eels? Just do it. Dig the most blood eels in the shortest time and make the most money. This is what I want to do now!
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