In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 467: Going to sea in this era is like buying goods

Li Duoyu and the others did not set their nets too close to Dongjia Reef because there was a chaotic reef area below.

If the net sinks to the bottom, it is 100% likely to be caught. Even if you can catch a lot of good stuff, there is a high probability that the gain will outweigh the loss.

What they didn't expect was that after they lowered the net, the sky turned gloomy and it began to drizzle.

The rain in winter is not very heavy, but it can fall for a long time.

Based on past experience, Li Duoyu feels that this year’s Chinese New Year will probably be spent in the rainy season.

The net was put down and it would take several hours to collect it. Originally, everyone planned to rest on the sampan boat.

But now it's drizzling. Although it doesn't have a big impact, if you get wet by the winter rain, it's very easy to catch a cold.

In the current situation, the only option was to go to Dongjia Reef to take shelter from the rain. Li Duoyu drove his sampan boat and cautiously approached Dongjia Reef.

Although he was familiar with this sea area and had a very clear waterway map in his mind, he was still cautious.

Anyway, the more they say, the more outrageous and terrifying they become. Now the two brothers are completely afraid to come here.

All the seabirds around him flew up, smelling pungently of bird droppings. Li Duoyu was already experienced.

"It seems like I haven't been here for a long time."

Especially the stewed cobra soup is so delicious.

When the two hundred and five calls were made, Li Duoyu immediately touched the harpoon.

Li Duoyu didn't dare to tell him what happened at Dongjia Reef, otherwise his brother-in-law would probably be scared to death.

When seabirds fly, it's best to protect your head with something, otherwise you will easily get a dip of bird poop.

The Zhao brothers are also quite superstitious. Zhao Dahai drowned here last time and always felt that it was unclean.

Accompanied by the cry of two hundred and five.

And just then.

The moment of landing on the island.

Li Duoyu didn't know where these venomous snakes came from. Anyway, there were indeed many venomous snakes on the island.

In addition, the environment was too harsh and supply ships often ran aground on the rocks, so no more people were stationed on the island.

Li Duoyu is not afraid, but it does not mean that he is not afraid. In fact, he is very afraid of the dark and being alone in the same place.

However, when the three people in the tunnel saw the cobra, they did not show fear, but became excited.

The cry startled Chen Wenchao.

The cobra also showed aggression. The snake's head stood up on the spot and turned into a flat shape.

I heard from the older generation that there used to be a lot of cobras on Dandan Island, but they were all eaten up.

Sure enough, in the direction of 250 Barks, there was a snake that didn't look very big, coiled on the stone wall there.

Li Duoyu waved his hand. The tunnel was full of spider silk. Judging from the situation, it must have been a long time since he came here.

For people on the beach, bird meat is too spicy and not tasty, but cobras are so delicious.

Li Duoyu didn't like this. He was in awe of the sea, but not the weird things.

Li Duoyu took them to a hidden tunnel.

A small iron pot, a bag of caked coarse salt, some firewood, and a quilt wrapped in a tarpaulin but already moldy.

In addition, something happened to Liu Mazi. There is a rumor on the island that there is a drowned ghost here. Liu Mazi must wait until the next person drowns before Liu Mazi can be freed.

Apart from Li Duoyu and some old fishermen on the island, only the Zhao brothers knew about this tunnel.

The reason is that it is a bit embarrassing to talk about the sequelae left behind when he returned from swimming overseas.

Speaking of which, the first most dangerous thing here on Tung Kia Reef is definitely the reef, and the second most dangerous thing is all kinds of venomous snakes.

Because they were huddled together just now, they didn't notice it, and the light in the tunnel was dark. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't find it at all.

This was dug by the soldiers back then, mainly to hide people and weapons.

Touching the sticky thing on his head, he was so angry that he picked up a small stone and threw it directly at the seabirds.

This time my brother-in-law was lucky.

In addition, the relationship between the two brothers and Liu Mazi was not very good. They had fought before, and they were really afraid that Liu Mazi would come over and come to them.

Brother-in-law said:

Two Hundred and Five suddenly shouted towards the top of the tunnel.

In the tunnel, there are still many things left here by the Zhao brothers.

After all, Tongjia Reef was an important island and reef back then, and the two sides just went back and forth to grab it.

As for this thing, because it stands more like a rice spoon and has a large amount of cobra venom, it will shoot out like a water gun to attack the eyes. People in Chenjiacun will call it a rice spoon gun.

At Lao Yang Restaurant on the pier, the best sellers are wild boar and deer meat, and the third best seller is cobra.

It is said that many people died. I heard from the older generation that the young soldiers who used to guard the reef often disappeared for no reason.

Now when he sleeps at night, if he sleeps alone, he must have a little light before he can sleep peacefully.

The cobra is just one of them, and there is also the triangular point (the original spearhead viper).

After Erbaiwu saw the cobra standing upright, he wanted to rush over, but Li Duoyu kicked it away. This thing can spray venom.

If two hundred and fifty go up and get sprayed, the eyes may go blind, and if they get bitten, it will be even more uneconomical.

Li Duoyu took the harpoon, shook it twice, and sure enough he shot.

Fortunately, not much was shot.

The portion is small and a bit short.

Li Duoyu didn't bother to waste time with it. He harpooned it directly and nailed it instantly.

Perhaps because of the pain, the cobra kept wrapping around the harpoon, forming a ball.

The brother-in-law looked up at the top of the tunnel and found that the gaps between the stones were quite wide.

"There are many fish, be careful. These things usually appear in one nest. I don't know if there are any more."

"Ah."

Li Duoyu nodded: "Let's light a fire and smoke it for a while."

It might be because no one has been in this tunnel for a long time, and unexpectedly it has become a nest of cobras.

As Li Duoyu lit the fire and deliberately created thick smoke, two more cobras were smoked out from the cracks in the stone above his head.

Unexpectedly, the fish haven’t started catching yet.

Instead, I caught a snake. A cobra on Dandan Island can be sold for at least three yuan. If there are three, it will be nine yuan.

After they caught the snake, the tide had almost receded, and the three of them were always worried that a snake would appear above their heads.

I didn’t want to stay in the tunnel any longer, but headed to the area where the tide was low, intending to pick up some small seafood so I could buy less during the Chinese New Year.

Although Li Duoyu is now a rich man, if he doesn't go to the sea in such a good place, he would be a bit disrespectful to the genes of the seaside people.

When leaving. Li Duoyu took away the bag of caked coarse salt. If he went to catch the sea, this thing might come in handy.

Maybe it’s because no one has come here for so long. There are so many sea urchins, so densely packed that it’s hard to pick them all up.

But for the three of them, the medicinal materials in this stuff are fine, but people on the beach really don't eat this stuff.

There are so many stone crabs. If you turn over any stone, you will find several stone crabs. Unfortunately, they have no meat and their shells are hard. They are disgusting and look down upon.

The rocks are covered with wild mussels. If you start raising blue crabs again, you can pry them off for the blue crabs to eat.

On the rocks, there are many general hats and spicy snails. The spicy snails taste average, but the general hats are worth eating.

The general's hat is a kind of snail, whose scientific name is Li snail. It especially looks like the hat of a Qing Dynasty soldier, so it is called the general's hat.

This thing is called small abalone here. It tastes very good. Just clean it, put it upside down, and put some garlic sauce on it.

Whether it is eaten steamed or grilled, it tastes good.

You can also stir-fry it directly with onion and ginger. Li Duoyu remembers that the price of this thing seemed to be twice as expensive as ordinary abalone.

Li Duoyu pried off some general hats and planned to go back and fry them.

Chen Wenchao's eyes were very sharp. He immediately noticed a bulge in the sand. He dug out and caught a red flower crab.

When caught, the two large claws were as wide as thirty centimeters when spread out.

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng said in surprise: "Damn, this island is great. There is such a good thing. During the Chinese New Year, this kind of red flower crab is worth a lot of money."

Li Duoyu was not surprised to catch safflower crabs here. The last time they came here, they caught a lot of these crabs.

Brother-in-law and Xiao Chao went to catch safflower crabs, while Li Duoyu went to pry small seafood. It must be said that in this era.

The most abundant seafood is this kind of small seafood that no one eats. The whole reef is covered with it, and Li Duo only picks the biggest ones.

Because Two Hundred and Five had been locked up for too long, after arriving on land, he couldn't help but start running and chased those hermit crabs.

Li Duoyu said to it: "Don't mess with the big crab again. If your nose is pinched again, I won't help you."

In less than twenty minutes, he had gained four or five kilograms, which was almost enough for a large family.

Immediately afterwards, Li Duoyu was looking for the sandy beach after low tide. The beach at Tongjia Reef was not the kind where you could run freely on it.

It's half rock and half sand.

If you run barefoot, the barnacles attached to the rocks will definitely teach you how to behave in minutes.

After Li Duoyu pried off the general's hat, he continued to catch small seafood. This time his goal was to catch some razor clams.

The last time he came here, Li Duoyu discovered that there were a lot of wild razor clams here, but they burrowed very deep into the ground.

Even if there are tools for digging, it is not very easy to use. The best thing to use is salt. Razor clams are extremely sensitive to salt.

Once the salt is sprinkled down, the razor clams will feel uncomfortable and want to drain out all the salt water in the hole, so they will dig out of the sand.

And the moment it emerges is the best time to catch it.

Before taking two steps, Li Duoyu found a small, oblate-looking hole in the sand.

Looking at the shape of the hole, Li Duoyu knew what was inside.

Li Duoyu took out the bag of salt, broke the lumps of salt into pieces, took out some coarse salt, and carefully poured it into the entrance of the cave.

He is not as wasteful as the Qianhai anchor in his previous life. He poured a lot of salt in one fell swoop. That was too wasteful.

Salt is still quite expensive in this day and age. If we go forward a few years, if people like them on the seaside want to eat salt, they will have to use salt stamps to buy it.

After the coarse salt was poured in, water began to spray out from the hole not long after. The spray was so violent that it seemed as if all the water in the hole was being emptied.

The more violent the spray, the bigger the thing inside is, and this trick is very effective for most marine organisms, because table salt is high in salt. Once it is sprinkled in, it will immediately cause discomfort to the marine organisms and even cause them to become dehydrated. .

If there are any creatures in the hole, they will definitely be unbearable. Using this trick to catch shrimps and watch the tide is also very effective.

As the sand near the entrance of the cave bulged slightly, it looked like something was about to rush out.

Li Duoyu's right hand was already ready. The moment it rushed out, Li Duoyu immediately grabbed it.

Immediately afterwards, he used a shovel with his left hand to cut off the way back so that the razor clam couldn't escape even if it wanted to.

The razor clam Li Duoyu caught was not the same species as the constricted razor clam raised by Tang Ping in the village.

But razor clam.

As the name suggests, it is very easy to understand. Yes, it looks like a thin bamboo.

It's hard for Li Duoyu to tell which of the two types of razor clams is more delicious, but in Li Duoyu's impression, people here in Rongcheng seem to prefer eating constricted razor clams.

The most common way to prepare razor clams is to stew them in soup or make fried eggs.

The meat of razor clams is a little crisper. It just so happens that this season is the breeding period of razor clams. At this time, the female razor clam meat has seeds and the male ones have paste. It tastes sweet and plump.

The razor clam Li Duoyu just caught was fifteen or six centimeters long, and it was already a razor clam.

If I catch a few more king razor clams, I can definitely make a razor clam and garlic vermicelli today.

The resources of Dongjia Reef did not disappoint Li Duoyu. The area he was in was full of razor clams.

It took him less than forty minutes to catch more than half a bucket of razor clams, and he also caught a lot of shrimps.

Going to the sea these days really seems like going there to purchase goods.

My brother-in-law and Xiao Chao went even further and bought nearly a bucket of safflower crabs, many conchs, and several large octopuses.

All the octopuses have turned white. They are probably afraid that they will escape because they have been dropped by my brother-in-law and others many times.

My brother-in-law is an old fisherman. The further you go, the more safflower crabs you will find. It was because the Zhao brothers were reluctant to come back that they were trapped on the rocks.

But as soon as my brother-in-law saw the rising tide, he immediately rushed to the shore without any hesitation.

Seeing that Li Duoyu also caught so many razor clams, his brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng couldn't help but said: "Duoyu, this is such a good place."

But Li Duoyu didn't expect that Chen Wenchao on the side said: "If Liu Mazi had not died here, it would indeed be a good place. No one on the island dares to come here now."

Li Duoyu suddenly turned his head.

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng was stunned, blinked, turned his head mechanically, and looked at Chen Wenchao: "Who are you talking about, died here?"

"Ah, you don't know!"

"No one told me, not even Duoyu."

"That happened last year. Didn't smuggling start again last year? Then there were two young people sailing in our village. One of them disappeared here."

Zhang Mingsheng, who has been fishing at sea all year round, is really taboo about this. He looked at the red flower crabs in his hand and originally wanted to save some for his family.

Now that I think about it, I might as well sell them all. After watching the tide rise, Zhang Mingsheng couldn't help but say something.

"There are many fish, the tide is almost up, we can go and collect the nets."

Li Duoyu laughed and said:
"Okay, when the tide rises again, we will collect the net immediately."

At the same time, he shouted to the big yellow dog who was still having fun not far away: "Two hundred and five, come back quickly, we are leaving."

But just when they were about to leave Dongjia Reef, 250 kept calling not far away, acting very anxious.

Then, a "嘤嘤" sound came from the sea, but the sound was different from usual.

(End of this chapter)