Chapter 114 An unexpected gain
Li Changle was not very familiar with this area, so he looked in the direction he pointed and saw that there was indeed a rocky beach.
The two of them thought that they were already here, and they would only have to walk a few dozen more steps, so they went there together.
After walking for more than ten minutes, we arrived. This place was different from the tidal flat just now. The sand under our feet was obviously much harder. As we walked further, we saw a few large rocks standing on the seashore.
When I walked to the rock, I saw several small puddles of different sizes on the rock next to a large puddle.
After reading this, Li Changle felt that after the typhoon, the harvest would definitely be good.
As expected, there were many oysters growing on the rocks. They were larger than those at the dock, but far inferior to those in the cave. Ge Changfa liked to eat these things, so he started digging with a chisel with great interest.
Li Changle was not interested in oysters, so he and Chen Yongwei walked toward the puddle with buckets. When they went over, they saw several nine-segmented shrimps in the puddle, dying of being basked in the sun.
"Hey, he's not dead yet!" Chen Yongwei pulled out the small net used to catch seahorses and caught several nine-segmented shrimps in one catch. He felt that a small net was better for catching fish and shrimps in such a small puddle.
Li Changle walked towards the puddle next to the reef. When he turned around, he seemed to see movement in the puddle on the left out of the corner of his eye, so he turned around and walked over.
Before I reached it, I stretched my neck to look into the puddle, and happened to see a reddish-brown spotted dorsal fin emerge from the water and then submerge into the deep puddle.
There are many nine-section shrimps, white shrimps, and Pipi shrimps swimming in the puddle.
There was an oyster shell as big as his palm beside the stone. What excited him the most was the fish with reddish-brown spots that dived into the water. He thought it was probably a grouper.
"Awei, come here!" Li Changle shouted excitedly, put down the bucket, hung the net bag on his trousers, carried the net into the water, first picked up the oysters and put them in the net bag, and then went to fish for Pipi shrimps and Jiujiu shrimps.
Shrimp.
"Brother, did you see something good?" Chen Yongwei just ran over, and Ge Changfa also came carrying a bucket, "Did you see something good? You howled so loudly?"
"There seems to be a grouper in the pit, and I can see the fins." Li Changle said and gestured, "The fins alone are as big as a fan."
If it's really a grouper, there happens to be a banquet at the restaurant, and I'm sure it will fetch a good price if you give it to me.
"Are your eyesight?" Ge Changfa stared at the depths of the puddle and shook his head, "No way, the tide has not come, how could the big grouper rush into the puddle?"
"I'm not old enough, how can I see a fin as big as a fan clearly?" Li Changle continued, "The typhoon only passed a few days ago, and most of the time the typhoon was washed away and stranded!"
Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "It's really possible. My brother is very lucky and has encountered shoals of fish in the offshore. What does a big grouper mean?"
Ge Changfa thought about it and it was true that A Le had been very lucky during this period. He stared at the deep, dark puddle in front of him, thinking that there might really be a large grouper in it.
"Yes, yes, he rushed in during the typhoon." He rolled up his sleeves excitedly and patted Li Changle, who was standing in the water fishing for shrimps. "You are still fishing for nothing, hurry up and get online."
Go down and fish for it.”
"You know where it is hiding in such deep water. I'll wait for you to come over and scoop out some water. When the water falls, the fish will come out, do you know?"
"Brother, do I know? I want to get things out of my mind, but I don't want them to come out!" Chen Yongwei rushed to say.
"We are fishing for fish now, not looking for rocks. Of course we will let the fish out of the water!" Li Changle put down the net with a smile and went up to the bucket to scoop out water.
"Damn it, you can still do it like this!" Ge Changfa patted Chen Yongwei, "Ah Wei, this guy has a well-oiled mouth. He can find a hundred reasons for whatever he says."
Chen Yongwei said with admiration: "My brother has always been smarter than us, otherwise we wouldn't be able to figure it out!"
"..." Ge Changfa was speechless at this guy who always worshiped without thinking, and rolled his eyes at him, "Work, work, get the fish out first."
"Fortunately, those people have left. If they still followed, the big grouper would not be enough."
Chen Yongwei seemed to have seen the big grouper, and happily ran over to pick up the bucket and backpack.
Li Changle was thinking, how much can a pound of grouper be sold for now? In his previous life, a grouper weighing one or two pounds could be sold for several hundred dollars!
Ge Changfa excitedly came over with a bucket, hugged the bottom of the bucket and poured the fish inside into Awei's bucket, "Haha, I'm sure I'm right if I follow you two, you can meet groupers in the puddles."
"Stop it, I have a net bag here." Li Changle hurriedly stopped him, took out a net bag from his pocket, and asked him to pour the catch into it and keep it in a shallow puddle next to it.
"You guy, you have quite a lot of things with you!" Ge Changfa tied up his net bag and said.
Li Changle glanced at him proudly, "If you want to make money, how can you not prepare everything for your home!"
"You're right, I'm going to serve snacks in the future. Now that I'm ready, if I want to eat this bowl of rice, I have to do the preparations well."
Li Changle smiled and patted his shoulder, "You are sensible, you deserve praise!"
"You kid, you want some firewood, don't you?" Ge Changfa waved his fist at him.
"Aren't you happy when I praise you?"
The two of them were quarreling while tying the net bag.
Chen Yongwei came over and put the bucket at Li Changle's feet. He put down the backpack and began to take off his clothes and pants. "Brother, you put the fish in the net bag. I will go into the water first to test the depth, and then we start."
"Okay!"
Li Changle poured the fish into the net bag and tied it to a rock. When he turned around, he saw that Ah Wei had reached the deepest point, and the water just covered his chest.
Chen Yongwei walked towards the two of them and said, "Brother, if we work hard with three strong men, we can scoop him up for two hours and we can catch the fish."
"Okay, let's get started!" Li Changle lifted the bucket into the water, scooped up a bucket and poured it out. Chen Yongwei also picked up the bucket and started doing it.
After Ge Changfa poured a few buckets of water, he wiped the water on his face and said, "Damn it, it's much cooler in the water. This guy A Wei didn't even know how to bring us here earlier."
"If you didn't mention digging oysters, I haven't even thought about it yet!"
Chen Yongwei was very strong, so he lifted up a full bucket and poured it out. The three strong men rolled up their sleeves to do it. The water poured out with a splash, and the water level dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Ale, a fish swam across my feet." Ge Changfa shouted in surprise, "Damn it, I used to know how to build dams in ditches and scoop out water to catch fish, but why didn't I think of puddles?
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"If I hadn't seen the big grouper, I wouldn't have thought of scooping up water to catch fish."
As he spoke, Li Changle looked at the terrain and thought that next time he went to Tuxiaqiao, he would have to buy a few plastic pipes and put them directly into the puddle, take a sip of water and then it would flow underneath, saving time and effort.
The three of them worked for a while, and then they were so exhausted that they were panting, and beads of sweat and water flowed down their ears.
"Big fish, there are really big fish!" Chen Yongwei pointed to the back and shouted excitedly.
Li Changle and the two turned around and saw a splash, and the fish swung its tail and hid in the deep water area. The two people who were a little tired at first seemed not to be tired anymore now, as if they had been injected with chicken blood, big buckets of it.
Pour water outside.
When he gets tired, he takes out his cigarette, lights it, and continues working with the cigarette in his mouth.
I kept scooping until my arms and legs ached, my waist and legs ached, and the water in the puddle became shallower and shallower.
Suddenly, there was a sound of water coming from behind the three of them, and they all turned around in unison and looked towards the puddle, finally seeing the true appearance of the big grouper.
The body is nearly 1 meter long, and the whole body is covered with reddish-brown spots. The reddish-brown spots on the spread dorsal fin and tail fin are like peacock feathers, which is very beautiful.
Grouper is a fish of the genus Grouper in the family Perciformidae. It is ferocious and feeds on fish, shrimps and crabs. It will also kill each other when hungry.
Because of its white, tender and delicate meat and very delicious taste, it is also known as "Chicken of the Sea".
Li Changle felt that sending this fish to a restaurant would definitely cost more than one or two yuan per catty.
Ge Changfa's eyes shone with excitement, "Damn it! It's really a big grouper! This is the first time I've seen such a big, live big grouper. How much does it cost per kilogram?"
Chen Yongwei also said excitedly: "Brother, it looks like he weighs more than thirty kilograms."
“How much can a pound of such a big grouper sell for?”
Although Li Changle is also concerned about the price, he no longer thinks that a fish can be sold for tens of thousands or a few hundred like before.
Chen Yongwei thought for a while, "Last month I saw the two or three kilograms that Adong collected, and I thought they were sold for one yuan per kilogram. Such a big one should be sold for one yuan and five kilograms."
Ge Changfa shook his head repeatedly, "Such a big one is still alive, right? I think it's okay to sell it for two or three yuan a pound."
The price was a bit beyond his expectation. Li Changle thought it would be only one or two yuan at most, but he didn't expect it to be much more than rice fish.
He happily raised the net and said, "Let's go ahead and pick it up first."
Ge Changfa hurriedly grabbed him, "Ale, scoop for another ten minutes, make the water shallower, catch all the other fish first, and then catch the big grouper."
"That's fine!" Li Changle put down the net, and the three of them started working harder.
After more than ten minutes, the back of the big grouper finally emerged from the water. The three of them sat on the rocks and gasped. They took out their cigarettes and lit them. While smoking, they admired the fish hiding in the puddles.
It wasn't until they finished smoking a cigarette that the three of them went into the water to catch fish with their nets in hand. A silver-gray dorsal fin quickly hid in a crevice in the rocks.
Li Changle stepped forward and moved the stone away, and saw a millet fish that weighed about a pound, "Haha, there is another good one, but it's too small."
Catching fish is a joy, especially the moment you catch the fish in your hand, you feel a full sense of accomplishment.
"The meat of millet fish is better than the big fish, and the bigger fish is more valuable because of the fish maw." Ge Changfa held a blue-spotted mackerel and said happily, "Dried mackerel is more delicious than dried pomfret, and better than fresh mackerel."
It’s delicious.”
Chen Yongwei smiled and said: "I'll give it to you if you like. We left a lot last time."
There were bursts of laughter in the puddle. Li Changle took a small net to pick up a few nine-knot shrimps and Pipi shrimps and poured them into the bucket. Suddenly, a fish hit the base of his calf and fled forward quickly.
Chapter completed!