Chapter 147 Accept the Reality! This Time It’s Just a Small Profit!

When Zhao Dahai returned home, he took out blue crabs from the bamboo basket and counted them. There were thirty-two of them. They weighed them for a total of twenty-seven kilograms. The smallest one weighed a little more than five taels, and the largest one weighed 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 seawater to moisturize, and placed in a cool place. They will not die in ten days and a half, so there is no need to put them there specially. Sea water pool oxygenation.

Zhao Dahai went to the back of the house and took some small dried bamboos. On the way back, 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 deeper into it, unable to pull it 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 depths of the hole, and will not be unable to be pulled out.

Zhao Dahai chopped fifty or sixty sections of bamboo that were one finger long, took out a thicker fishing line, cut it to one meter long, tied one end to the bamboo, and tied a 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 made preparations and went out again immediately. It was still early, so he put the hook 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 location and expanded the area by two or three times. Now the chickens have a larger range of activities and can do things like free range. Don't even think about it. Cats, especially dogs, are not vegetarians, not to mention that chickens released may wander into other people's vegetable plots and other places, causing a lot of trouble.

After Zhao Dahai finished working on the chicken pen, he checked the vegetable garden to see if there was any damage to the fence, repaired some, and reinforced the shelves. He was busy until about five o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhao Dashun watered the vegetable garden, picked a handful of beans and two cucumbers, washed his hands and feet, went home and cooked dinner, fried beans with bacon, and soaked some sea melon seeds and dried meat in hot water. Stir-fried cucumber, and seaweed and egg drop soup, two dishes and one soup, simple. Except for the bacon, you bought these dishes, and you don’t have to spend money on anything else.

Zhao Dahai set up a table in the yard and called his 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 his grandma Zhong Cuihua immediately nodded in agreement and thought about it before reacting. Come here, 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. Once 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 there were still very few fishing boats docked, so they got on their own I have sorted out my things on the fishing boat, and will go to the town tomorrow morning to sell blue crabs. I may go out to sea for a while in the afternoon, and I will have to start fishing seriously the day after tomorrow at the latest.

Zhao Dahai had just packed 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 and did not go to sea for the past two days.

"crazy!"

“They all flocked to catch the sea bass.”

"With so many fishing boats crowded together, what kind of fish can they catch?!"

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.

"ah?"

"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, they only had five or six fish every day. A pound of small fish.

Zhao Dahai was a little speechless and didn't know what to say.

"Why!"

"It's really hard to go to sea."

"It gets harder every year."

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"This sea is really full of ghosts!"

"Does it mean that except for sea bass, all other fish, shrimps and crabs are missing?"

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"Why!"

"So many fishing boats are forced to be crowded together. Who says 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 was not that he did not want to go out to sea, but there were no fish at all. Not only would he not go out to sea tomorrow, but Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin would not go out 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 not many blue crabs in the mangroves. He thought about it for a while these days and estimated that they were all on that beach. If there were traps, he could go and put them there. Maybe there would be some harvest.

Lei Dayou's eyes lit up. This was a good idea. He had traps at home, and they were idle. He was not going out to sea to set nets, so he could just put down the traps.

"Ha!"

"Dahai!"

"This is a good idea!"

"I'll go back and find the traps now, and put them down later. Let's see if we can catch something tomorrow."

"It's hard to say whether we can make money, but there is definitely no problem getting some food. Let's get together."

Lei Dayou turned and left.

Zhao Dahai knew that there must be blue crabs or other things, such as shrimps, on the mudflat in front of the mangroves. He didn't have a trap, and it was not cost-effective to buy a new trap to catch these blue crabs. He would mainly go fishing next and slowly put out fishing nets. Lei Dayou had ready-made ones to put out. As Lei Dayou said, making money may not be a problem, but making a delicious meal is no problem at all.

Zhao Dahai looked at the time and it was almost nine o'clock. He returned to the village drying yard and called his grandmother Zhang Cuihua, who was enjoying the cool air, to go home and rest.

Early morning.

The birds in the forest sounded like thunder, deafening.

Zhao Dahai felt that his ears were deafened. He picked up a stone and threw it on the tree. A group of birds flew up. It was quiet for less than two minutes. Then a bird started to cry and then a hundred birds started to cry.

Zhao Dahai had no idea what to do. He frowned and walked forward with the bamboo basket on his back. When he reached the canal, he went into the water to collect a circle of blue crabs. There were not many, only seven or eight, and each weighed about five taels. This meant that almost all the blue crabs here were caught. The remaining ones were either small or cunning and smart, and not worth spending time on.

Zhao Dahai began to collect crab goby. He rushed here yesterday and only caught eight of the dozens of new hooks. They were not big, about four and a half catties. He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. No one had caught them for so many years. The size and quantity were not good. He put away all the hooks and would not come to this place again in the short term.

Zhao Dahai walked out of the forest and went home. He packed up the blue crabs and went to sell them to Liu Gang in the town. The price of meat crabs was not high, forty yuan per catty. He caught a total of thirty catties of blue crabs in two days and sold them for one thousand two hundred yuan. The crab fish were not big, so they were sold for a total of three hundred yuan, which added up to one thousand five hundred yuan.

"What?"

"This live sea bass is worth seven or eight pounds, and it's only twenty-five per pound?"

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"Didn't it buy thirty-five yesterday?"

"Why has it dropped so much today?"

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After Zhao Dahai sold the blue crabs, he stood and watched for a while. Most of the fish sold were sea bass. However, in just a few days, there were many fishing boats going out to sea, and the production was large. The price of sea bass plummeted. He was very fortunate that he and Zhong Shizhu seized the opportunity during this year's sea bass season and made a lot of money. Now that he has caught sea bass, he can't sell it at a high price. He can only make hard-earned money. He was thinking about whether to go fishing for sea bass tomorrow, but when he saw this situation, he gave up.

Zhao Dahai rode his motorcycle to the fishing tackle store. He found a reef a few days ago and caught a lot of big stone nine-gong. One big fish cut the line and ran away. He originally thought of fishing for this fish the next day, but in the next few days, he was either fishing for sea bass or catching sea bass. He took another day off. Now it's time to prepare to find this fish for revenge.