Chapter 76 Working hard only for money
Zhao Dahai stood on a reef, looked at the white sun, and squinted his eyes. The sea is different from other places. As soon as the sun comes out, the temperature rises very much. Come on, the island is bare with no trees or even soil, only stones. The heat is getting faster. The sunlight reflected on the sea surface is very dazzling and uncomfortable. I lowered my head and looked at some oyster shells in the net bags I was carrying. Most of the net bags contained four Fifty pounds.
Zhao Dahai knew that he was different from people like Chen Fang who were familiar with the island and even had their own snail nests. There would definitely be little gain near the place where they went to the island or in a place that was easy to climb. I am young and strong, and I want to go to places where few people can climb. Chen Fang and others are women anyway, and their physical strength and courage are not as good as those of men. There are many places on the island that are inaccessible. Facts have proved that this is the right choice. In less than two hours, I got 40 to 50 kilograms of large oyster shells for about ten yuan a kilogram, five to six hundred yuan.
Zhao Dahai tied the opening of the mesh bag, found a seawater puddle to soak in, and moved a few rocks to hold it down. It was very heavy to carry dozens of kilograms. It was very dangerous to climb the rocks, so he left it alone first. Take it back with you when you go back.
Zhao Dahai rested for about ten minutes and took the time to continue. However, the key point was not to look for a position a little above the water line. The sun rose and the temperature became higher. All the snails in this position disappeared into the water. , or even dare not touch it even if you can see it. If you can't stand firm when a wave hits, you will have to fall into the sea. If you want to find conches at this time, you have to look for cracks in the rocks. The temperature of the island rises very quickly. But places like stone crevices are usually very humid, and many of them are constantly soaked in sea water. The snails that climb onto the island at night or when the tide rises hide inside.
Zhao Dahai walked to a stone gap formed by two rocks and looked inside with the rising sun. As expected, there were three or four oyster snails and a few bitter snails inside.
Bitter snails and oyster snails are both types of conch. Wherever you can find oyster snails, you can usually find bitter snails. They are much smaller than oyster snails and have a slightly bitter-sweet taste. smell. Many people don't like the taste, and the price is much worse than oysters.
I won’t let it go if I see it. No matter how worthless it is, it only costs a few dollars per pound.
Who can see money and not pick it up?
The fire pliers were not needed at this time, so I took out a half-meter-long iron hook and inserted it into the crack of the stone. I hooked out the oyster snails and bitter snails. I took a new mesh bag and packed it, and continued to move forward. Go ahead and continue looking for conches and bitter snails in the cracks in the rocks.
Zhao Dahai's clothes were soaked, and beads of sweat dripped down desperately. He raised his head and squinted at the sun in the sky, hanging in the center, and looked for snails. Unknowingly, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. , I found a big rock on the back where the sun wouldn’t shine, sat down, took out my lunch box from the bucket I brought, and had breakfast at three or four in the morning. It’s been almost eight hours now, and I’ve been climbing up and down the rock. I only drank a few sips of water and rested for about ten minutes. I was both hungry and tired.
Zhao Dahai ate big chunks of sizzling pork belly into his mouth. He swallowed it without having time to chew. The salted fish went very well with the rice. In about ten minutes, he ate all the food in the lunch box. I drank two mouthfuls of water, burped, sat for two or three minutes, stood up, and walked forward to hook up with the snails. It is not difficult to catch snails on the island. There are not too many skills. Oyster snails or bitter snails are either on the waterline or in the cracks of rocks. If you want to have a good harvest, you must have good foot strength and be able to climb the rocks. You must You have to be able to endure hardships, and you have to be able to bask in the sun.
Zhao Dahai stood in the middle of two large rocks. There was a gap between the rocks, which was almost as wide as a human thigh. A coldness rushed out from it, and his body, which was so hot in the sun, shivered.
Zhao Dahai took a look and saw that the seams between the rocks were dark and hard to see clearly. There are often good things in places like this, and snails are definitely indispensable. He thought that he had brought a flashlight and immediately took it to shine inside.
What!
So many?
Zhao Dahai was stunned. The crack in the stone is not deep, only about two to three meters, so people can't get in, but the space is quite good. There are two palms in the 30 centimeters wide of the opening. The key is that the cracks in the rocks are densely packed with oysters and snails. Layer upon layer, my scalp feels numb. It took Zhao Dahai a while to come to his senses, and he took another net bag, put the hook in and pulled it out, and one after another oversized oyster snails and bitter snails rolled out. At this time, he wished he had a hoe.
Zhao Dahai hooked out half of the snails and put them into a mesh bag to continue hooking. Iron hooks were not needed in deeper places. Fortunately, he brought a four-meter-long steel hook. It comes in handy at this time.
Zhao Dahai quickly understood why there were so many snails in this stone seam. There were several dead fish as big as the palm of your hand, and they were chewing up the remaining fish bones. Maybe it was due to high tide. It was brought in during times of storm or strong waves. No wonder there are so many snails here. People die for money and birds die for food. In the same way, oyster snails and bitter snails came here to eat fish. Now they have become own harvest.
Zhao Dahai pulled out all the oysters and snails and put them into a mesh bag. He picked them up and weighed them. They were very heavy and weighed about forty pounds. He worked for a whole morning of six or seven hours. I don't know. I climbed as many rocks as I could and weighed about fifty kilograms in total. I couldn't stop my luck, and I could harvest a lot from just a crack in the rocks. The sea is so magical.
Zhao Dahai felt so happy that he picked up the flashlight and was about to turn it off when he casually looked into the cracks in the stone and saw a few green and blue things flashing inside.
No way?
Anything else?
Zhao Dahai was stunned for a moment, looked carefully with the flashlight, and laughed. There was really something, and it was a blue crab. It must have gone into the cracks of the rocks to eat fish like the oysters and snails.
Zhao Dahai stretched out a two-meter-long steel hook, hooked the blue crab and slowly dragged it out. He could not break the big pliers. It took a lot of effort to hook it out. He held it down, took the rope with him, and tied it with a piece. Come on, a pound was less than a pound and a half, and now it’s a hundred or more yuan.
Zhao Dahai looked at the time and it was almost three o'clock. When we went to the island, the boat boss said that we would pick him up at four o'clock. Today's harvest is already very good. If we continue to look for it, we will definitely find more oysters and snails. The snails were bitter, but I was not greedy. I packed my things and started to walk back. It was very easy to come back empty-handed. When I went back, the two bags together weighed more than 100 kilograms of snails. It was not easy to climb up and down the slippery rocks. It was an easy task, but it took a lot of effort for the boss to get back to the place where he went to the island.
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