Chapter 334 The valuable goods hooked out!
It’s still dark.
Zhao Dahai turned on his headlight and shined his light on the reef. The waves were very big and made a loud noise. The water mist formed by splashing was very large and slippery. You had to be very careful every step you took. It’s not a joke. It can range from a head injury to a bloody head. It’s not a strange thing to lose your limbs or even your life if you roll into the sea. Islands and reefs have always been a dangerous place.
“There are so many spicy snails!”
Zhao Dahai looked left and right, and saw that the rocks at the waterline were covered with spicy snails. They had been crawling for several days. It seemed that all the snails in the sea couldn't bear the strong wind and waves, so they crawled out, and they were like a group meeting. They were densely packed and not small in size. If you move faster and faster, in a long time, it would not be a problem to lose 100 jins and gain 200 jins more.
Zhao Dahai did not stop and continued walking forward. He walked for almost half an hour and did not stop until the color of the sky began to lighten.
Zhao Dahai gasped for air.
The reefs are soaked in sea water all year round. In addition, the current wind and waves are strong, and the splashing sea water is soaked almost all day long, making it even more slippery. You have to be very alert before going to a place like this. You have to climb up and down, which takes a lot of energy.
Zhao Dahai took the kettle and took a few sips. He looked back and saw that Zhong Shizhu and the other snail pickers had only small black spots left.
Zhao Dahai decided to search here to see if there were any valuables he wanted to find on this trip to the island. He looked around carefully and soon saw four or five cracks in the stones.
Zhao Dahai finished drinking the water, wiped his mouth, put it back in the mesh bag he was carrying, and walked to the nearest stone crevice. He did not rush but looked around carefully to make sure that the waves did not hit him when they hit him. Only then can I feel relieved about the cracks in the rocks.
Zhao Dahai squatted down sideways, with half of his face facing the sea. He was close to the waterline, so he had to always pay attention to the waves coming up. He had just observed it for a while, and ordinary waves could not be hit. Arrive, but I don’t know if there will be a bigger wave, so be vigilant at all times.
Zhao Dahai bent down and looked at the cracks in the stone. The widest place was only fifteen centimeters, and the narrowest place was less than five centimeters.
I wonder if there is one?
Zhao Dahai took off the headlamp on his head, leaned down, shined the headlamp into the cracks in the rocks, and looked carefully.
Under the illumination of the headlight, the dark stone seams can be seen clearly.
Yo!
Are there so many snails?
Zhao Dahai saw at a glance that there were many very large figures in the cracks in the rocks, far larger than the ones he saw on the rocks outside at the waterline.
Zhao Dahai was not interested in these spicy snails for the time being, and continued to look into the depths of the cracks in the rocks.
Zhao Dahai saw from the outside of the stone seam to the inside of the stone seam. There was something as big as the palm of his hand. At first glance, it looked like a stone. But if he looked carefully, the color was slightly different from the colors of other stones in the stone seams around him. .
Zhao Dahai concentrated and looked at it carefully for a while, making sure that it was definitely not a stone.
"Where did the eyeballs go? Did they shrink up?"
Zhao Dahai held the headlight and shined it for a long time, but he couldn't see where the eyes were. He couldn't see where the eyes were. There is a special light emitted from the lamp, but I cannot be 100% sure whether it is.
Zhao Dahai took out the hook of the small steel bar he brought. When he brought it, he folded it into several folds. Each fold was one meter long and all of them were straightened. The total length was six meters.
Zhao Dahai found a good position, slowly stretched the steel bar in, and first poked the thing he saw that was as big as the palm of his hand.
"Ha!"
"That's right!"
Zhao Dahai was very happy. With such a bucket, the palm-sized thing moved. The key is that two One little eye stood up, and the headlight gave off a faint blue light.
Blue crab!
This is a green crab as big as the palm of your hand. This time, the main purpose of going to the island is not to pick up green crabs but to pick up green crabs.
Spicy snails are indeed valuable. If you take home one or two hundred pounds a day, you can make a lot of money. But how can it be as valuable as kindness? One is low-end seafood and ordinary seafood, and the other is high-end seafood.
I have to carry back ten or twenty kilograms of spicy snails after working very hard, and the money I sell is not as much as a one-pound blue crab.
The last time I went to the island to pick up snails, I carefully searched for cracks in the rocks and found nothing. It has been a long time this time. With the weather in the past few days, it is very likely that the blue crabs in the sea will come to the island and hide in the cracks in the rocks. The discovery of blue crabs in the first crack in the rocks proved that my judgment was correct.
Zhao Dahai took a headlight and carefully illuminated the blue crabs to determine the location, especially where to place the hook.
Zhao Dahai put down his headlamp, rested it on the stone next to him, and aimed it at the green crab deep in the crack of the stone. He held the steel bar with the hook at the front in his right hand and adjusted the appropriate direction. The top hook hooked the blue crab's The crab body is slowly dragged outward.
Hooking blue crabs into stone cracks is a very technical job.
It looks simple, but in fact it is not easy.
Blue crabs are not fools. When they see someone using a hook to hook themselves, they know that this will definitely cost their lives, so they struggle desperately to hide, and it is very possible that they may even hold on to the cracks in the rocks and be unable to get out.
The most troublesome thing about hooking blue crabs is not that they cannot be hooked out, but that they have to be hooked out with all their beards and tails, and the claws and pliers cannot be broken.
Regardless of whether they are big or small, the blue crabs must be intact if they want to be sold at a good price. The price of blue crabs with broken pincers and claws is greatly reduced. What could have been sold for a hundred yuan can only be sold for twenty or thirty yuan.
Zhao Dahai is very careful. He hooks and stops for a while. He must not be in a hurry. He hooks and catches them at the same time. When he sees that they have stopped moving, he hooks and drives the blue crabs out. If he uses force, he will definitely be able to hook them out, but the pliers And the claws must be broken off.
It took Zhao Dahai almost ten minutes to hook out the green crab hiding in the deepest crevice of the stone. Seeing that the blue crab crawled out of the crevice of the stone and wanted to run away, he immediately reached out and held it down and carefully grabbed it. got up.
“Yo!”
“It’s really good!”
"This one must weigh a pound and a half!"
Zhao Dahai grabbed the blue crab, weighed it in his hand, pressed it very hard, and looked at the blue crab carefully with a headlight in one hand. , it's a pity that there is no paste, this is just a meat crab.
Zhao Dahai took the rope that had been prepared long ago, tied the green crabs, put them into the mesh bag, and tied the opening of the mesh bag.
Zhao Dahai carried a headlamp and blue crabs and walked to another stone crack two or three meters away. The width of this stone crack was not much different from the previous one, but it was very narrow inside. , looked carefully, and saw only ten spicy snails about the size of eight thumbs, but no blue crabs.
Zhao Dahai gave up on this stone gap and continued to move forward.
There are many stone crevices of various sizes on the reef island, but if you want to find blue crabs, you can basically find them a little higher than the waterline.
The hook does not need to live in seawater, but it must have seawater.
If there is no sea water and it is not moist, it is easy to catch dead fish. The island is full of rocks. When the weather is nice, the sun basks and the temperature is very high. It is easy to become dehydrated and die.
Zhao Dahai found the third crack in the stone. He bent down and saw it and was immediately happy. This crack in the stone was wider, but the key was that it was relatively shallow. You could directly reach in and touch the bottom.
“There is a way to heaven. If you don’t go to hell, there is no way to enter.”
"Then don't blame me for being rude!"
Zhao Dahai saw a large blue crab of about two kilograms in the innermost part of the stone seam. He didn't need a steel bar to hook it, just grab it directly. This drink There is no difference if you pick it up for free.
Zhao Dahai happily caught the blue crab, tied the rope and put it in his mesh bag, and continued to move forward.
The sun rises.
The temperature is getting higher and higher.
Zhao Dahai continued to walk along the waterline against the sun. There are so many cracks in the rocks, large and small, that every time I encounter one, I carefully shine my headlight into it. If you find a blue crab, try to hook it out. If there are no blue crabs, continue moving forward. I don’t know if it was due to the bad weather, but all the blue crabs that were originally in the sea or elsewhere came to the island and hid in the cracks in the rocks. There were so many of them.
Noon.
The sun is high.
It’s too hot.
Zhao Dahai found a flat rock and sat down. He walked up to the island and kept hooking mud crabs until now. He was very tired. His clothes got wet and then dried. And wet.
Zhao Dahai took out the kettle, drank two large sips of water, and glanced at the mesh bag soaked in the puddle at his feet. There were more than thirty large and small blue crabs in it.
Zhao Dahai rested for ten minutes and continued to walk forward, looking for cracks in the rocks, looking for blue crabs, and hooking blue crabs.
Four o'clock in the afternoon.
The sun begins to set in the west.
The cool breeze blowing from nowhere on the sea is very comfortable.
"No one has been to this island in the past two days."
"There are too many spicy snails!"...
"It took me most of the day to pick them up. Almost two hundred pounds!”
……
"I made a lot more money picking up snails today than I did out fishing! It would be great to have so many snails to pick up every day!"
......
"So many snails every day? "
"What good thing are you thinking of? It would be nice to catch it for one day."
"There have been a lot of people going out to sea to pick up snails in recent days, especially yesterday. A lot. How many of you have seen that can pick up a lot of snails?”
"We are lucky today."
......
Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Da were each sitting on a small stone, with two at their feet. A huge mesh bag filled with spicy snails.
"It's been windy for so many days, and I finally made money today!"
Zhong Shizhu lit up a cigarette and took a puff. He couldn't go out to sea to fish in the past few days, so he was sitting on nothing.
"Our life has been much easier this year. We have made more money on these trips with Zhao Dahai, and we have made a lot of money."
"Without the money we have made these days, it would be really difficult now." They are just ants on the hot pot.”
Liu Bin stepped on the mesh bag containing spicy snails twice.
“That’s right!”
“Why hasn’t Zhao Dahai come back yet? It will be the agreed time to go back in half an hour!”
"Isn't it a fall or something?"
Lei Dayou couldn't help but worry as he spoke. The islands and reefs are very slippery, and you may fall if you are not careful. Carrying heavy things is even more likely to cause various accidents.
Liu Bin shook his head. Accidents might happen to others when they go to the island, but Zhao Dahai is very careful and nothing will happen. If I have to say it, it is because he picked up too many snails. It will take some time to get back.
“Ha!”
“As soon as I say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here!”
Zhong Shizhu smiled and pointed to the southeast of the island.
"Huh?"
"How did Zhao Dahai come back from here? Could it be that he went around the island?"
Lei Daye was interested. Looking at Zhao Dahai, I saw that Zhao Dahai was walking in the completely opposite direction to the island early in the morning.
“Huh?”
"Why is Zhao Dahai just carrying a net bag?"
"It can't be that he only picked up a snail in a net bag, right? How is this possible?"
Liu Bin was confused. Shui, himself, Zhong Shizhu and Lei Dayou, including about twenty people who came to the island, each picked up more than 100 kilograms of spicy snails and nearly 200 kilograms of spicy snails. It is impossible for Zhao Dahai to only gain such a small amount.
Zhong Shizhu and Lei Dayou took a closer look and found that Zhao Dahai was really only carrying a mesh bag in his hand, and the mesh bag didn't look particularly heavy.
“Isn’t this impossible?”
...
"Why did Zhao Dahai only pick up so few spicy snails?"
...
Zhong Shizhu and Lei Dayou couldn't believe Zhao Dahai only picked up a few dozen kilograms of snails in such a long time.
"Zhao Dahai."
"What's going on?"
"Didn't you see any snails?"
"There are a lot of them around here, hurry up and let's help." Pick up some!”
Zhong Shizhu saw that the mesh bag Zhao Dahai was carrying was only fifty or sixty pounds, which was not much money.
Zhao Dahai waved his hand, quickened his pace, and walked to Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou,
"Don't look at me because I don't have much, but I make no less money than you!"
Zhao Dahai put down the mesh bag in his hand and directly pulled open the rope tied around the mouth for picking up snails. They are all mesh bags with very dense mesh and very thick threads. You can't see what's inside unless you untie them.
“Ah!”
“Are there so many blue crabs?”
……
"Yo!"
"Are all the blue crabs in this mesh bag? Doesn't it have to weigh fifty or sixty pounds?"
......
“Zhao Dahai!”
“Didn’t you go to pick up snails instead of hooking blue crabs?”
...
Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou were shouting and screaming. What was in the net bag was not spicy snails but blue crabs one after another.
When everyone else heard this, they all gathered around.
Seeing this, Zhao Dahai opened the mesh bag wider and everyone could see clearly.
“Ah!”
"Are there so many blue crabs on this island?"
......
"If I had known that I could bring something to hook the blue crabs, what kind of snails would I pick up? It's cheap and heavy, so profitable Not much money!”
……
“People with brains are awesome! We all just want to pick up snails!”
"How do you expect to get blue crabs? You deserve to be paid by others!"
...
Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou kept nodding. The people around them were right. Zhao Dahai has a flexible mind. When people like him go to the island, they only think about picking up snails. Zhao Dahai thinks that there may be blue crabs in the rocks on the island. The difference in the money earned by doing different jobs at the same time is very different. big.
(End of this chapter)