Chapter 147 Accept the reality! This time it can only be a small profit!
Zhao Dahai returned home and took out blue crabs from the bamboo basket. He counted them and found that there were thirty-two of them. He weighed them and weighed them in total at twenty-seven pounds. The smallest one weighed a little more than five taels, and the largest one weighed a little over five taels. Only weighing more than two kilograms, old blue crabs with huge claws and barnacles on their bodies can be sold for a lot of money. They are all put in a big bucket, sprinkled with some sea water to moisturize, and placed in a cool place. They will die in ten days and a half. No, there is no need to put it in a seawater pool for oxygenation.
Zhao Dahai went to the back of the house and took some dried bamboo. On the way back just now, he had already figured out how to deal with those crab and tiger fish. The crab and tiger fish that was hooked not long ago ran back into the hole and drilled it. It is relatively deep and cannot be pulled out. The method is very simple. Don’t leave the line too long. The hooked crab and tiger fish will not be able to get back to the depth of the hole and will not be unable to be pulled out.
Zhao Dahai chopped fifty or sixty sections of bamboo one finger long, took out a thicker fishing line, cut it to one meter long, tied one end to the bamboo, and tied the hook to the other end. Crab and tiger fish are relatively fierce. If you leave the hook for too long, it will easily swallow the hook to death. If the hook breaks the intestines and cannot be kept alive, it will not be sold at a good price. Use a larger hook, which can greatly reduce the probability of this and avoid small fish. Crab goby takes the bait.
Zhao Dahai got ready and went out again immediately. It was still early, so he put the hooks in place. When collecting blue crabs tomorrow, he could collect them again to see if he could catch crab and tiger fish.
After Zhao Dahai finished placing the hook, it was just after 12 noon. After returning home and having lunch, he remembered that the chicken pen he built at the beginning was a bit small. Now that the chickens have all grown up, he had been thinking a few days ago that he would have to rebuild it when he had time. A big one. After harvesting the second trip of blue crabs tomorrow, we will sell them and go out to sea the day after tomorrow. We won’t have much time in the next few days, so we have to do this well today.
Zhao Dahai went out with a hatchet and went up the mountain to cut bamboo. He re-circled the original position and expanded the area by two or three times. Now the chickens have more and bigger activities. Don't even think about such things as free range. Cats, especially dogs, are not vegetarians. Not to mention that the chickens released may wander into other people's vegetable plots and other places, which will cause a lot of trouble.
After Zhao Dahai finished working on the chicken pen, he checked the vegetable garden to see if the fence was damaged, repaired some, and reinforced the shelves and other things. He was busy until five in the afternoon. It took a little while to finish.
Zhao Dahai took the lead and watered the vegetable garden, picked a handful of beans and two cucumbers, washed his hands and feet, went home and cooked dinner, stir-fried bacon with beans, and got some sea melon seeds and jerky. I soaked it in hot water, stir-fried cucumbers, and then had seaweed and egg drop soup, two dishes and one soup. It was simple. Except for the bacon, I bought these dishes, and there was no need to spend money on anything else.
Zhao Dahai set up a table in the yard and called grandma to eat. After the meal, he put away the dishes and said he would go out for a walk. He originally thought it would take a while, but grandma Zhong Cuihua immediately nodded in agreement. After thinking about it for a while, I realized that it must be what I said last time that you need to be in good health to bring up your great-grandchildren.
Zhao Dahai sighed, people really have to have lofty goals, and when they have goals, they are motivated. In the past, no matter what I said, it was useless. I had to weave fishing nets at home to make more money. Now I just say it, and there is no need to do it next time. I said to myself that I must take the initiative to go out for a walk. This is a great thing. As I get older, sitting and weaving fishing nets all day long is really no good. Now that I can make money, I don’t have to do this anymore.
Zhao Dahai and Zhong Cuihua strolled to the drying ground in the middle of the village. At first glance, they were all old men and old ladies. After a while, they left alone. When they arrived at the pier, they found that the docked fishing boats were still very busy. Young Master, I got on my fishing boat and sorted out my things. I will go to the town tomorrow morning to sell blue crabs, and maybe go out to sea for a while in the afternoon. At the latest, I have to start fishing seriously the day after tomorrow.
Zhao Dahai had just tidied up the things on the fishing boat when he saw Lei Dayou walking over.
"Uncle Dayou."
"Have you gone fishing in the past two days?"
Zhao Dahai said hello and asked about what fish were in the sea these days.
Lei Dayou shook his head, he did not go to sea for the past two days.
“Crazy!”
“They all rushed to catch sea bass.”
“With so many fishing boats crowded together, what kind of fish can be caught? ! ”
Lei Dayou shook his head as he spoke. In the past few days, anyone with a fishing boat or someone who went out to sea to catch sea bass would catch sea bass.
Zhao Dahai smiled and said this was a good opportunity to catch other fish, shrimps and crabs.
Lei Dayou shook his head again.
“Huh?”
“What’s wrong?”
"Isn't it like this?"
Zhao Dahai was very strange. Most of the fishing boats are fishing for sea bass, and they are all crowded into a limited number of places. There are definitely few fishing boats in places where other fish, shrimps and crabs can be caught. Lei Dayou, Zhong Shizhu, and Liu Bin can catch other fish, shrimps and crabs.
Zhao Dahai asked carefully and found out that Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin had been fishing every day for the past two days. They also thought that without competition from other fishing boats, they would be able to catch a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs. Unexpectedly It’s just five or six pounds of small fish every day.
Zhao Dahai was a little speechless and didn't know what to say.
“Hey!”
"It's really difficult to go to sea."
"It's getting harder every year."
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"This sea is really a ghost!"
“Are you saying that except for sea bass, all other fish, shrimps and crabs are missing?”…
“Hey!”
“So many fishing boats are forced to crowd together. Who said that fish can’t be caught elsewhere?”
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Lei Dayou was very helpless.
Zhao Dahai asked Lei Dayou if he would go fishing tomorrow.
Lei Dayou shook his head. It wasn't that he didn't want to go to sea, but that there were no fish at all. Not only would he not go to sea tomorrow, but Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin would not go to sea either.
Zhao Dahai thought for a while, pointed to the mangroves in the distance, and said that it had been raining continuously some time ago, and there were no blue crabs in the mangroves. After thinking about it for a while in the past few days, he estimated that they were all there. If there is a ground cage on the beach, you can put it there, maybe you will gain something.
Lei Dayou's eyes lit up. This was a good idea. He had a ground cage at home. He had nothing to do when he was free. He didn't go out to sea to release the net, so he could just put down the ground cage.
“Ha!”
"The sea!"
"This is a good idea!"
"I will go back and find out the cage now, put it down later, and see if I can catch something tomorrow."< br>
"It's hard to say whether we can make money, but it's definitely no problem to get some food. Let's get together."
Lei Dayou turned around and left.
Zhao Dahai knew that there must be blue crabs on the tidal flat in front of the mangrove forest, or other things, such as shrimps. He didn’t have a ground trap. It was not very cost-effective to buy a new ground trap to catch these blue crabs. He would mainly focus on fishing next time. , slowly began to put out fishing nets. Lei Dayou had ready-made ones that he could put out. As Lei Dayou said, making money is not necessarily a matter of making a delicious meal. There is no problem at all.
Zhao Dahai looked at the time and saw that it was almost nine o'clock. He returned to the village sunbathing field and called his grandma Zhang Cuihua, who was enjoying the shade, to go home and rest.
Early morning.
The chirping of the birds in the forest was like thunder, deafening.
Zhao Dahai felt that his ears were deafened, so he picked up a stone and threw it into the tree. A flock of birds flew up. It was quiet for less than two minutes. One bird started chirping, and then a hundred birds chirped. got up.
Zhao Dahai had no idea. He frowned and walked forward with the bamboo basket on his back. When he got to the edge of the canal, he went into the water and collected a circle of blue crabs. There were not many, only seven or eight, and they were all about five taels in size. This meant that here Almost all the green crabs were caught, and the remaining ones were either small or cunning and not worth spending time on.
Zhao Dahai started to collect crab and tiger fish. Yesterday he rushed over and put dozens of new hooks to catch only eight fish. They were not big in size, weighing about four ounces and a half catty. I couldn’t help but be a little disappointed. I haven’t caught them in so many years. The size and quantity of human beings are not allowed to be captured. All hooks are put away. I will not come to this place again in a short time.
Zhao Dahai walked out of the woods and went home. He packed up some blue crabs and went to Liu Gang in the town to sell them. The price of meat crabs was not high, 40 yuan per catty. He caught a total of thirty catties of blue crabs in two days. It was sold for 1,200 yuan. The crab and fish were not that big, so the total price was 300 yuan, adding up to 1,500 yuan.
“What?”
“This live sea bass weighs seven or eight pounds, only twenty-five pounds?”
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"Isn't it collected at thirty-five yesterday?"
"It dropped so much today?"
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Zhao The blue crabs were sold out in the sea. I stood and watched for a while. Most of the fish that came to sell were sea bass. However, within a few days, there were many fishing boats going out to sea and the output was large. The price of sea bass plummeted. I am very fortunate to have this year’s sea bass. During the bass season, I and Zhong Shizhu seized the opportunity and made a lot of money. We only caught sea bass at this time. We couldn’t sell it for a price, so we could only make hard money. I was originally thinking about fishing for sea bass tomorrow. Yes, when I saw this situation, I gave up immediately.
Zhao Dahai rode his motorcycle to the fishing gear shop. He found a reef a few days ago and caught a lot of big Shi Jiugong. One big fish ran away directly. He originally wanted to catch this fish the next day. , but after spending the next few days either fishing or catching sea bass and having another day off, it was time to get ready to take revenge on this fish.
(End of this chapter)