Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 334 The valuable goods hooked out!
It was 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. He had to be very careful every step he took. In a place like this, a fall would not be a good idea. Just kidding, it would be anything from a head injury to a bloody head. It would not be a strange thing if he rolled into the sea and lost his limbs or even his life. 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 snails. It seemed that all the snails in the sea couldn't bear the strong winds and waves for several days. They crawled out, and they were densely packed like a group meeting. , not small in stature, if you have quick hands and feet, it won’t be a problem to lose one hundred kilograms and gain two hundred kilograms in half a day.

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 reef has been soaked in sea water all year round. In addition, the current winds 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 energetic when walking in such a place, and you have to climb up and down to get to the reef. The physical exertion is not small.

Zhao Dahai took the kettle and took a few sips. He looked back and saw that only small black spots were left on Zhong Shizhu and the other snail pickers.

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 into 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. Being close to the waterline, he had to always pay attention to the waves coming up. He had just observed it for a while and found that ordinary waves could not hit him, but he didn't know that it would. There will never be a bigger wave, so stay 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 don’t know if there are any?

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 heads in the cracks in the rocks, far larger than those 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 his eyes were. He couldn't see the special light emitted by the eyes under the light. He couldn't be [-]% sure.

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 was straightened out. 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.

"what!"

"That's right!"

Zhao Dahai was very happy. With such a bucket, the palm-sized object moved. The key was that the two small eyes stood up and emitted a faint blue light under the headlights.

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 had to carry back more than ten or twenty kilograms of spicy snails after exhausting my efforts, but the price I paid for them was 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 mud crabs into cracks in rocks 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 hook out all the beards and tails without breaking the claws and pliers.

Regardless of whether they are big or small, the blue crabs must be intact if they want to sell for a good price. The price of green crabs with broken pincers and claws is greatly reduced. A crab that could have been sold for 100 yuan can only be sold for 30 yuan.

Zhao Dahai was very careful. He hooked and stopped for a while. He must not be in a hurry. He hooked and chased it until it stopped moving. He hooked it and drove the blue crab away. If he used force, he would definitely be able to hook it out, but the pliers and claws would definitely break.

It took Zhao Dahai almost 10 minutes to hook out the blue crab hiding in the deepest crevice of the stone. When he saw the green crab crawling out of the crack and trying to run away, he immediately reached out and held it down and carefully grabbed it.

"Yo!"

“Really very good!”

"This one has to weigh a pound and a half!"

Zhao Dahai grabbed the blue crab, weighed it in his hand, and pressed it very hard. He held up the blue crab with a headlight in one hand and looked at it carefully. It was a pity that there was no paste. It was just a meat crab.

Zhao Dahai took the rope that had been prepared long ago, tied the blue crabs, put them into the mesh bag, and tied the opening of the mesh bag.

Zhao Dahai carried his headlamp and green crab 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. He looked at it carefully. , only ten eight thumb-sized snails were seen, and no trace of 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, they are basically located 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, when the sun is shining, the temperature is very high, and 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 it to 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 that was about two kilograms in size at the innermost place between the rocks. He didn't need a steel bar to hook it, he could just grab it directly. It was no different than what he picked up for free.

Zhao Dahai happily caught the blue crab, tied the rope and put it in his mesh bag, and continued walking forward.

Sun rise.

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 and down the reef until now, constantly walking and hooking blue crabs. He was very tired. His clothes got wet, then dried, and then dried again.

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 10 minutes and continued to walk forward, looking for cracks in the rocks, looking for blue crabs, and hooking blue crabs.

Four p.m.

The sun began to set westward.

A cool breeze blew from nowhere on the sea, which was very comfortable.

"No one has been to this island in the past two days."

“There are too many spicy snails!”…

"I picked up almost two hundred kilograms in most of the day!"

……

"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 things are you thinking about? It would be nice to have a chance for one day."

"There have been a lot of people going out to sea to pick up snails in the past few days. Especially yesterday, there were more people going out to sea. How many people have you seen who 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. There were two huge mesh bags at each person's feet, and the mesh bags were filled with spicy snails.

“After so many windy days, I finally made money today!”

Zhong Shizhu lit up a cigarette and took a puff. He couldn't go fishing in the past few days, so he was sitting on nothing.

"Our life has been much better this year. We have made more money on these trips with Zhao Dahai, and we have made a lot of money."

“Without the money I’ve made in the past few days, I would really be an ant on the hot pot right now.”

Liu Bin stepped twice on the mesh bag containing spicy snails.

"correct!"

"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 become worried 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, so nothing will happen. If I have to say it, there are too many snails picked up, and it will take some time. Rush back.

"what!"

"As soon as you say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive!"

Zhong Shizhu smiled and pointed to the southeast of the island.

"what?"

"How did Zhao Dahai come back from here? Could it be that he went around the island?"

Lei Dayou looked at Zhao Dahai. Zhao Dahai was walking in the completely opposite direction to the island early in the morning.

"what?"

"Why is Zhao Dahai just carrying a mesh bag?"

"You can't just pick up a snail in a net bag, right? How is this possible?"

Liu Bin was confused. He, Zhong Shizhu and Lei Day, including about 100 people who came to the island, each picked up more than [-] kilograms and nearly [-] 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.

"Is this impossible?"

……

"Why did Zhao Dahai only pick up so few spicy snails?"

……

Zhong Shizhu and Lei Dayou couldn't believe that Zhao Dahai only picked up a few dozen kilograms of snails in such a long time.

"Zhao Dahai."

"What's going on here?"

"Didn't you see any snails?"

"There are quite a few around here, hurry up and let us help you pick up some more!"

Zhong Shizhu saw the mesh bag Zhao Dahai was carrying. It was really 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 it because I don't have much, but I make no less money than you do!"

Zhao Dahai put down the mesh bag in his hand and directly pulled open the rope tied around the mouth. The mesh bags used to pick up snails are all mesh bags with very dense mesh and very thick threads. It is not clear what is inside without untying it.

"what!"

“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 pick up blue crabs instead of snails?"

……

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou were all shouting, because 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.

When Zhao Dahai saw this, he opened the mesh bag wider and everyone could see it clearly.

"what!"

"Are there so many blue crabs on this island?"

……

"If I had known I could bring something to hook blue crabs, why would I pick up snails? It's cheap and heavy, so I can't make much money!"

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"People with brains are great! We all just want to pick up snails!"

"Where 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 him were right. Zhao Dahai had a flexible mind. People like him only wanted to pick up snails when they went to the island. Zhao Dahai wanted to get into the cracks in the rocks on the island. There may be blue crabs who do different jobs at the same time and earn very different amounts of money.

(End of this chapter)