Chapter 198: Catch the sea after a long time! Got a good deal!
Four o'clock in the morning.
Zhao Dahai stood on the small pier, holding a water tank with live shrimps in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. His eyes were wide open, and he was a little confused about whether to laugh or cry. I woke up early in the morning and wanted to go out to sea to see what the situation was like at the place where I caught the big yellow croaker, especially if there were other fishing boats fishing there. If not, I would give it a try and see if I could catch the big yellow croaker.
Unexpectedly, I forgot that the low tide was relatively strong today. The whole beach near the pier was exposed, and the fishing boat was directly stranded.
Zhao Dahai shook his head helplessly. He definitely couldn't go fishing. The place where he caught the big yellow croaker was not too far from the pier. The tide receded so far today, and it was very likely that there would be no fishing spots. Without the sea water, at least the sea water is very shallow. There are not many large yellow croakers in the first place. It will be greatly affected. It is estimated that we will not be able to catch them in the future, or we will have to wait until around this time next year to have the opportunity.
Zhao Dahai had no choice but to go home and put the live shrimps in a live fish pond. He returned to his room and slept until seven o'clock before waking up.
Zhao Dahai brought a bowl of porridge, a piece of salted fish, and walked out of the courtyard while eating. I met Ding Xiaoxiang last night, listened to Ding Xiaoxiang's analysis, and understood what to do next, and my a little impatient heart immediately calmed down. You have to eat your food one bite at a time. There is really no need to buy a big speedboat as soon as you have money.
Zhao Dahai looked at the entire exposed seabed. The seawater was at the invisible end of the horizon. He remembered that he had not been to the sea for a while, could not go fishing, and had nothing else to do. The sea Take a walk inside and get some food.
Zhao Dahai finished the porridge in two mouthfuls, returned to the yard and shouted loudly to Zhong Cuihua to go for a walk in the sea. He put on his liberation shoes, carried a basket and two mesh bags, and thought about it again. I took a small iron rake and a small steel bar with a hook on the front that I had prepared before, and rode a tricycle to the pier. It was quite nice to see. There were many people in the sea, some of whom came from the town to play, and many more. Digging clams with a hoe or something.
Zhao Dahai went into the sea and walked toward the mangroves at the west end of the village. There was a tidal flat in front of it, a paradise for fishing. He put a cage there to catch jumping fish and dig blood eels, and he made a lot of money. Got a lot of money.
Zhao Dahai stepped into the mud on the tidal flat and walked forward slowly. After a while, he stepped on something hard under his feet. He reached down and dug out. He found a clam as big as three fingers. It was not an ordinary white sand, but had mucus. The kind that has very crispy meat and is very good for making soup. Cut two slices of loofah or something and put them in, and it’s extremely sweet.
Zhao Dahai took the clams and washed the mud in the small puddle next to it, put it into the basket, and continued walking forward. He saw the eye of a razor clam, reached out and dug it out, and pointed it out with both hands. The big razor clams are very fat.
Zhao Dahai walked around for about 20 minutes. The small basket contained one or two kilograms of various small seafood. He even caught an octopus and a blue crab as small as half a kilogram. The harvest was very good. good.
“Ah!”
“The sea!”
"Why are you here?"
Zhao Dahai looked up and saw Lei Dayou's wife Ma Hongyu holding a hoe in her hand and carrying a small bamboo basket on her back, less than fifty meters away. Looking at himself.
“Huh?”
“Auntie.”
“Where’s the one who dug up the blood eels?”
Zhao Dahai walked up to Ma Hongyu and took a look and knew that he was digging for blood eels.
"The tide is low today and it has receded quite far. I came out to dig and see if I can make two hundred yuan, but this thing runs so fast. It is really difficult to dig."
Ma Hongyu wiped her sweat and went out to dig out blood eels early in the morning. In three or four hours, she only found half a catty.
Zhao Dahai looked around and saw a blood eel's eye not far away from where Ma Hongyu came. He took a hoe and walked over and started digging.
Ma Hongyu watched Zhao Dahai slowly dig more than a dozen hoes, then suddenly speeded up, and three hoes dug out a blood eel.
"Ah!"
"Why don't you dig it with no effort at all? I have spent so much effort and am so exhausted that I can't dig even one alive?!"
Ma Hongyu is very surprise.
“You have to find the right eye to dig out blood eels!”
“Some have blood eels in them but some don’t. You have to distinguish them clearly. Otherwise, your efforts will be in vain!”
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“Auntie.”
“Don’t start digging too fast.”
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“Digging one hoe at a time. ”
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"You can almost see where the blood eel is, and you can dig it out quickly with a hoe!"
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Zhao Dahai stretched out his hand and grabbed the blood Put the eel into Ma Hongyu's bamboo basket. He handed the hoe back to Ma Hongyu, said a few words about how to dig out the blood eel, then turned around and continued walking forward to get some small seafood.
Ma Hongyu watched Zhao Dahai go further and further, and was filled with admiration. Zhao Dahai is really a master at digging up blood eels. Don’t underestimate him. With this skill, he can earn two hundred a day with a little hard work. Money is not a problem, the fishing village is enough to support a family. The fishing was even better when he went out to sea, and he made a lot of money with Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin as his boss.
Zhao Dahai walked forward slowly, bending down from time to time to pick out a clam or something else from the sea, wash it and put it in a bamboo basket on his back. As he walked, he came to a place he had not been to often, straightened up and took a look. They are all stones the size of a bowl or a football basketball. The stones are mixed with sand and mud, but there is more coarse sand and less mud.
There won’t be anything in this place, right?
Zhao Dahai frowned. There was not a single person rushing to the sea in this whole place.
At low tide, there are more small seafood on the muddy and watery beaches. It takes a while to pick up a bag of clams, which is enough for a meal.
However, in a place like this, there is no water, and it is not a muddy bottom. It is not that there is nothing to eat, but it is difficult to grasp and dig out. Clams also grow in the sand, but the sand is thick, and it is definitely not possible with bare hands. , the skin on your hands broke after just a few digs, so you had to use a rake. However, there are many rocks here and it is very difficult to dig. It took a long time to dig just a few, which was very uneconomical. There are rocks here, and there are some crabs, but for the same reason, you can't dig them out in a hole. Can you lift a stone? Although this head is really not big, it has been soaked in water for many years and half buried in the sand to absorb it firmly. It will make you panting after not being able to move a few pieces.
Zhao Dahai hesitated for a moment and continued to walk forward. He was already here, so he just had to turn around and take a look.
Zhao Dahai walked around for about ten minutes, but didn't see anything.
No way?
How could there be nothing?
Zhao Dahai was very surprised. There was no way there was nothing. He was a little unwilling to give up. He walked forward and stared carefully.
"Yo!"
"This is a good thing!"
Zhao Dahai searched for a long time and saw a triangular-like thing between two or three stones. He immediately walked over, He reached out to grab it and gently shook it while pulling it out. The longer he pulled it out, the bigger it got. After a while, a sharp wedge-shaped thing as big as a palm came out.
Tape!
Zhao Dahai did not expect to find the tape here.
This is a common sea clam on the beach, which is not particularly precious but is very delicious. The scallops in the dried goods are made by drying the muscles of two shells, and they taste very delicious. In some places, there is a saying of "sea cucumber, abalone, Jiangyaobei". Jiangyaobei refers to scallops, which means that the taste of Jiangyaobei is comparable to sea cucumber, abalone.
Zhao Dahai took one out, washed away the mud and took a mesh bag to put it in. You must take a mesh bag when going to sea. Only when you encounter something like a belt can you put it in it. Come on, one basket and one bamboo basket can't hold many at all.
Taps usually come in groups. If you find one in one place, you may be able to find several others or even one piece.
Zhao Dahai immediately looked around and quickly found a few more ones. He immediately took them out one by one, washed them, and put them into a mesh bag.
Zhao Dahai continued to walk forward and could see one every few steps.
“Ha!”
“I thought there was nothing here, but I didn’t expect there was not only such good stuff but also this kind of very good stuff!”
Zhao Dahai short In just one hour, we found more than 100 of them, which were as big as the palm of your hand. They filled two large net bags. The color of the belt is relatively close to the color of the surrounding stones or sand, and only a small half of it is exposed to the sea. It's easy to miss it if you don't pay attention. Either you can't see it, or you might think it's a stone. In addition, most people think that the place in front of them is full of rocks and there is nothing good about it. Very few people came, which gave me an advantage.
Zhao Dahai rested for a while and strode back with a mesh bag in one hand.
When Zhao Dahai walked to the beach in front of the mangrove forest, he met Ma Hongyu who was digging for blood eels. There were so many people rushing to the sea, so they would definitely meet other people on the way back. They must all know that they have found the belt, and the fat water will not go to others. He told Ma Hongyu where the belt was, and he found a small half of the place. There must be quite a lot of the other half left.
Ma Hongyu immediately turned around and left. Blood eels are more valuable, but difficult to dig out. Half of the bag is exposed from the ground. You can find it if you are careful.
Zhao Dahai carried the bag and made a special circle, changing the direction before walking back to the pier. Many people looked at him along the way, and some people turned around and trotted in the direction they came from. Rush over.
Zhao Dahai was a little proud. These people never thought that he had gone around the place. There were so many footprints in the sea. These people would definitely lose them if they followed. By the time they found the place, Ma Hongyu had already dug up most of them. bag.
Zhao Dahai carried two large mesh bags to the pier and happened to meet Lei Dayou and talked about the straps.
"Yo!"
"This is good stuff!"
"I'll treat you to dinner later!"
Lei Dayou shouted while getting on the fishing boat and took some With a net bag and a pole, he immediately rushed to the place Zhao Dahai mentioned.
Zhao Dahai carried the straps of two mesh bags, placed them on the tricycle, and took them home.
Zhong Cuihua was very surprised when she saw Zhao Dahai carrying two large mesh bags, which were all filled with palm-sized straps. She said she was going to catch the sea and thought it was just some miscellaneous small seafood, but she didn't expect to get a good product.
Zhao Dahai took a large iron basin, poured out all the bags in the mesh bag, washed away the sediment on the surface with sea water, took a small sharp knife and started to open the shell.
The inside of the scallop is almost the same as a river mussel.
The internal organs were pulled out, leaving behind the skirt, the most valuable thing like large fleshy lumps, translucent white, which the belt uses to open and close its shell.
Zhao Dahai took a knife and gently cut it off from the shell. It was really good-looking, with a diameter of more than two fingers and a thickness of almost 1.5 centimeters. It is a tape that takes a very long time to grow. Only there.
It took Zhao Dahai almost two hours to process all the tapes.
The internal organs of the scallops cannot be eaten, so I took a bag, packed them up and threw them away later. One large bowl contained skirts, and the other large bowl contained lumps and lumps. The "muscles" of the white translucent straps.
Zhao Dahai took two large dustpans, washed the "muscles" of the straps with clean sea water, and placed them neatly on the dustpans one by one. I looked at the weather. It was sunny but not too bright, and the sea breeze was blowing loudly. It was a good day to dry dry goods, so I took them out to the yard and placed them in the open space.
Zhao Dahai started to deal with the skirt of the belt. There was mucus in it. He took salt and cornstarch, washed it over and over again, and cut it off with a knife. It was almost lunch time, and he heated up the oil in the pot. Fry the ginger and green onions together, stir-fry for a while, add water and cook for about ten minutes, reduce the juice over high heat, add salt and soy sauce, braise the scallops and put them in a large bowl.
“Grandma!”
"Eat!"
Zhao Dahai filled a bowl of rice, covered it with the rim of the big spoon and juice, and gave it to grandma Zhong Cuihua. He took another bowl and took a big bite into his mouth. , fragrant, fresh and salty, and went well with the meal. Within two or three minutes, I finished the big bowl of rice. I felt my belly and filled another bowl with it, and burped with satisfaction after finishing it.
After Zhao Dahai finished eating, he grabbed some tea leaves and put it in a cup. He poured it down with boiling water and it was so thick that it turned black. After waiting for a while, it cooled down and drank half a cup. He added boiling water and left it. Go to your room, you can't go out to the sea, get some delicious food, eat well and go to bed, work hard but eat and drink well and rest when you have nothing to do.
The town.
Wu Weimin frowned. He often came to the town to collect seafood from various fishing villages, and directly bought a house. Today he received a call from a big boss who often came to the restaurant to eat, saying that there was a large yellow croaker, please pay attention. Check to see if there are any.
"What's going on?"
"Has someone caught a large yellow croaker?"
"Why didn't you hear about it?"
Wu Weimin was very surprised.
Big yellow croaker is not an ordinary fish, shrimp or crab. Once someone catches it, it will immediately cause a sensation. Fishing people often deliberately spread the news, knowing that the more people there are, the higher the price likely to be.
I have been staying in the town for the past two days, walking around in various villages. Really didn't hear it. But the news is certainly not false. Not only did someone catch the fish, but someone also ate the fish.
Wu Weimin thought for a while and made several phone calls to several village bosses who had large fishing boats going out to sea, but no one heard the news.
“It’s weird!”
Wu Weimin really couldn’t figure out what was going on. He couldn’t get any news by calling, so he could only drive to the village below and look around again.
Zhao Dahai woke up and took the strong tea that he had soaked in water before going to bed. At this time, the tea was already cold and he drank a few big sips. He immediately became energetic, walked out of the courtyard door, and looked at the dustpan. The flesh of the scallops dried above is already half dry. I turned them all over and dried them again. They can be put away after another day of drying tomorrow. This is the scallops, which can be used to cook porridge. Grandma Zhong Cuihua is very good at eating some. It tastes very sweet and nutritious.
"Next time I meet Ding Xiaoxiang, I'll bake some scallops."
Zhao Dahai had an idea and had long thought about giving Ding Xiaoxiang a different twist. The scallops would be equally delicious when baked.
"Huh?"
"Why is Wu Weimin here? Doesn't he want to go fishing again?"
Zhao Dahai turned over the Yao Zhu and drank it. With the cool tea in the cup, I turned around to go back to the yard and saw Wu Weiming's car driving over. It had been just a few days since my last fishing trip. No matter how itchy my hands were, I had to take it easy no matter how much I wanted to fish. You have to work to make money.
Zhao Dahai saw Wu Weiming's car stopped and strode over to see what he wanted to do this time.
(End of this chapter)