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, and the entire 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 has receded so far today. It is very likely that the fishing point will be gone, at least the sea water. It is very shallow, and there are not many large yellow croakers in the first place. It has been greatly affected. It is estimated that we will not be able to catch it in the future, or we will have to wait until around this time next year to have a chance.

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 and could not go fishing. He had nothing else to do. He just walked around in the sea and did some fishing. It's okay to have something to eat.

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 after thinking about it, he picked up a small iron bag. I rode a tricycle to the pier with a rake and a small steel bar with a hook on the front that I had prepared before. It was nice to see. There were many people in the sea, some of them came from the town to play, and most of them were digging clams with hoes. of.

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.

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 one with very crispy meat 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 eyes of a razor clam, and reached out to dig it out. He pointed out a big razor clam with both hands. It was 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 weighing half a kilogram. The harvest was very good.

"ah!"

"The sea!"

"Why did you come 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, less than fifty meters away, looking at him.

"ah?"

"Auntie."

"Where's the one digging for blood eels?"

Zhao Dahai walked up to Ma Hongyu and took a look and knew that he was digging for blood eels.

"Today the tide is low 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 early in the morning to dig for blood eels. 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 accelerated his speed, and three hoes dug out a blood eel.

"ah!"

"Why do you look like you're digging without any trouble, but I'm so exhausted that I can't dig even one alive?!"

Ma Hongyu was very surprised.

"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 tell them clearly. Otherwise, all your efforts will be in vain!"

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"Auntie."

"You can't start digging too fast."

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"Digging hoe after hoe."

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"You can almost see where the blood eel is. Just dig a few quick hoe and you can dig it out!"

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Zhao Dahai reached out and grabbed the blood eel and put it into Ma Hongyu's bamboo basket. He handed the hoe back to Ma Hongyu, said a few words about how to dig 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 couldn't help but admire him. Zhao Dahai is really a master at digging up blood eels. Don't underestimate him. With this skill, it's not a problem to earn two hundred yuan a day with a little hard work. In this fishing village, Place, 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. There is sand and mud mixed between the stones, but there is more coarse sand than mud.

There's nothing wrong with this place, right?

Zhao Dahai frowned, there was no one rushing to the sea in this whole area.

When the tide of the sea is low, there are more small seafood in the tidal flats with mud and water. It takes a little time to pick up a bag of clams and so on, 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 grab and dig out. Clams also grow in the sand, but the sand is thick, and it is definitely not possible with bare hands. It doesn’t take a few digs. If the skin is broken, you have to use a rake, but there are so many stones here that it is very difficult to dig, and it takes a long time to dig a few, which is very uneconomical. There are stones here, and there will be some crabs, but the same reason, you can't dig in the hole. Can you lift a stone? Although this head is really not big, but it has been soaked in water for many years, half-buried in the sand and sucked steadily. If you can't move a few pieces, you will be out of breath.

Zhao Dahai hesitated for a moment, then continued to walk forward, since it was already here, turn around and have a look.

Zhao Dahai walked around for ten minutes, but didn't see anything.

No way?

How could there be nothing?

Zhao Dahai was very surprised. It was impossible that there was nothing there. He was a little unwilling to give up, and stared at it carefully as he walked forward.

"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, reached out, grabbed it and gently shook it while pulling it out. The more he pulled out, the bigger the head became. After a while, a sharp tip appeared. A wedge-shaped thing as big as a palm was pulled out.

tape!

Zhao Dahai didn't expect to find the tape here.

This is a kind of sea mussel that is not very rare but very delicious.

The scallops in the dry goods are made by drying the muscles connected with the two shells, and the taste is 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 put it in a mesh bag. You have to use a mesh bag when going to sea. Only things like straps can be packed. A basket and a bamboo basket can't be packed at all. Several.

Belts are generally in groups, and if you find one in one place, you may be able to find several others or even a 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 he could see one every few steps.

"ha!"

"Thinking that there is nothing here, I didn't expect not only to have but also such a very good product!"

Zhao Dahai found more than a hundred of them in just one hour, all of which were the size of a palm, and filled two large net bags full. The color of the belt is relatively close to that of the surrounding stones or sandstones, and only a small half of it is exposed to the sea. It's easy to miss it if you're not paying 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 were more valuable, but not easy to dig out. Half of the bag was exposed to the ground. You could find it if you were 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 walked in the direction they came from, trotting towards him.

Zhao Dahai was a little proud. These people didn't even think that they had gone around the place. There were so many footprints in the sea that these people would definitely be lost if they followed. By the time they found the place, Ma Hongyu had already dug up most of the bags.

Zhao Dahai carried two large mesh bags to the dock and happened to meet Lei Dayou and talked about the straps.

"Yo!"

"This is a good thing!"

"I'll treat you to dinner later!"

Lei Dayou shouted as he got on the fishing boat, took a few net bags and a pole, and 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 inside the mesh bag, washed away the sediment on the surface with sea water, and took a small sharp knife and started to open the shell.

The inside of the tape is almost the same as a river mussel.

The internal organs were removed, 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 used a knife to 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 band that takes a very long time to grow.

It took Zhao Dahai almost two hours to process all the tapes.

The internal organs of the straps were inedible, so I took a bag, packed them up and threw them away later. One large bowl contained skirts, and the other large bowl contained piles of white translucent straps. of "muscle."

Zhao Dahai took two large dustpans, washed the "muscles" of the straps with clean sea water, and stacked them neatly on the dustpans one by one. He looked at the weather. The sun was shining but not too strong, and the sea breeze was blowing. "Huh", the weather is good to dry the dry goods, take them out of the yard and place them on the open space.

Zhao Dahai started to deal with the skirt of the belt. This thing was sticky. He took salt and added cornstarch. He washed it over and over again and cut it with a knife. It was almost lunch time. He heated up the oil in a pot. He had ginger and green onions at home. Pour them out. Stir-fry together, stir-fry for a while, put water and boil for ten minutes, collect the juice on high heat, add salt and soy sauce, and put the braised scallop skirt in a large bowl.

"grandmother!"

"Have a meal!"

Zhao Dahai filled a bowl of rice, covered it with the rim of the large spoon and juice, and gave it to grandma Zhong Cuihua. He took another bowl himself, took a big bite and put it into his mouth. It was fragrant and salty, and the rice was very good. In less than three minutes, the big bowl of rice was eaten up, he touched his stomach and filled another bowl, and burped in satisfaction after eating.

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 to cool down, he drank half the cup, added boiling water and left it alone. Then he turned and walked to his room. If you can’t go out to sea, get some delicious food, eat and sleep, and work hard but have to eat, drink, rest and rest when you have nothing to do.

small town.

Wu Weimin frowned. He often came to the town to collect seafood from various fishing villages and bought a house directly. 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. He should pay attention to see if there are any. .

"what happened?"

"Has anyone caught a big yellow croaker?"

"Why haven't you heard of it?"

Wu Weimin was very strange.

Large yellow croaker is not an ordinary fish, shrimp or crab. Once someone catches it, it will immediately cause a sensation. Fishing people often release news on purpose, knowing that the more people there are, the higher the price may be.

These two days I stayed in the town, wandering 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 ate it.

Wu Weimin thought for a while and made several phone calls to the boat bosses in several villages 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, and couldn't get any information by calling, so he could only drive to the village below and take a look around.

When Zhao Dahai woke up, he took the strong tea that he had soaked in water before going to bed. By this time, the tea was already cool. He took a few sips and immediately became energetic. He walked out of the yard and looked at the meat of the scallops drying on the dustpan. , it’s half done. I’ve turned it all over and dried it again. I’ll put it 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. The taste is very fresh and sweet, and full of nutrition.

"Next time I meet Ding Xiaoxiang, I'll bake some scallops."

Zhao Dahai had an idea, he had already thought about changing Ding Xiaoxiang's tricks, the baked scallops were also very delicious.

"ah?"

"Why is Wu Weimin here? Could it be that he wants to go fishing again?"

Zhao Dahai turned over the scallops and drank the cool tea in the cup. He turned around and wanted to go back to the yard. He saw Wu Weiming's car driving over. It had only been a few days since his last fishing trip. No matter how itchy his hands were, he couldn't help it. If you want to fish, you have to slow down, no, you have to work to make money.

Zhao Dahai saw Wu Weiming's car stopped, and walked over with big strides to see what he wanted to do this time.