Chapter 125 Thinking of good things every day
Li Changle said confidently, "Think about it! I have two hundred sticks in my hand. As long as I meet them, I will definitely earn more than last time."
Chen Yongwei took over the conversation with a smile, "Brother, Brother A Le said that you must have ideas and think for the best, so that good things will come one after another."
"Two silly boys, they think about good things every day!" Brother Li said with a smile, "Let's just talk about these things to our own family. Others will laugh at you if they hear it."
Li Changle felt that his eldest brother just worried too much, "Brother, as long as we don't do anything wrong, why do you care so much about others? In fact, everyone wants to encounter crabs every day when moving, but they are too embarrassed to say it out loud!"
"It's just that you didn't see that when those people saw Brother Ale coming out to sea, they followed him and said they would get good luck with him."
Brother Li really thinks about it. To be honest, he wishes he could encounter a swarm of crabs every time he goes fishing in the sea. He can build a new house in half a month, so that he doesn't have to do everything secretly, just like being a thief.
But like Li Changle, he could speak out confidently, but he still couldn't.
Along the way, wherever the headlight shines, there are countless sand crabs escaping into the caves, and there are also densely packed jumping fish, all of which disappear into the mud holes before anyone can reach them, without a trace.
"Damn it, all of them are running faster than Scud!" Li Changle looked at the jumping fish in the distance and felt that he couldn't catch them, and it was painful to scratch his heart and lungs.
"If you don't feel happy, why would you call me jumping fish?"
The three of them arrived at the puddle laughing and joking. Li Changle pointed to the location of the puddle and told his elder brother how they caught the big grouper.
After seeing it, Li Changping also said that the terrain here is high and the only difficulty is when the tide rises.
The three of them walked down the reef. Chen Yongwei, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and stared at the position illuminated by the headlight, "Brother, hurry up, there is a moray eel cave here."
"Here it comes!" The two brothers Li Changle ran over quickly and saw a round hole the size of a goose egg. The mouth of the hole was very smooth, just like the eel hole in the field ridge, except that this one was bigger and rounder.
Judging from the shape of the hole, the moray eel hidden inside should be quite large.
Chen Yongwei pointed at the entrance of the cave excitedly, "When I saw it just now, it extended its head to the entrance of the cave. It looked a bit like an eel."
It looks a bit like an eel. Could it be a snake eel?
Li Changle started searching around, and after taking two steps, he found another smooth eel hole as big as a child's fist. He shouted at the top of his lungs, "I found another one."
"Ale, I also found one." Brother Li also shouted, "I saw something in the cave. It's not a moray eel but an earth dragon."
"Damn it! It's been posted, it's been posted, look for it again quickly!"
"oh oh!"
The three of them searched around excitedly. After searching for a long time, they found another one, but there was no more.
Neither the one Li Changle found nor the one he found later saw the earth dragon at the entrance of the cave. Brother Li reached out and touched the entrance of the cave and found that the entrance was smooth and sticky, so he concluded that the earth dragon was still in the cave.
Earth dragon is not a dragon. Its scientific name is Bolu bean-toothed snake eel. It is a very good nourishing tonic and has the functions of nourishing and aphrodisiac, activating blood circulation and unblocking meridians.
He had never dug up an earth dragon before, but he only knew that it was much more expensive than snow eels. Whether it was nutritional value or taste, it was more popular than snow eels and sea urchins, making it a top-notch seafood.
Whenever the villagers in the fishing village suffer from injuries, they will definitely go to any house that has Tulong medicinal wine to ask for some.
Li Changle remembered that there was a jar at home when he was a child, but it may have lost its efficacy because it was soaked for too long or for other reasons, but he has not seen it since.
The wrinkles on Brother Li's face were all smiles, "Ale, judging from the size of these four Tulong Caves, one weighing two to three kilograms should be fine."
"Hahaha, brother got off to a good start today!" Li Changle ran back excitedly and picked up the sand shovel, "Brother, Ah Wei, what are you two doing watching? Hurry up and dig!" After saying that, he squatted down to dig.
Brother Li hurriedly stopped him, "Ale, don't dig yet. This thing's tail can also make holes. If you dig over from this end, it will make holes with its tail and run away."
The tip of the earth dragon's tail is very hard and can be used to drill holes and build nests.
The older generation of Taohai people often say, eel head, earth dragon tail. This sentence means that the eel has a hard head and an earth dragon tail is strong. One uses the head to drill holes, and the other uses the tail to escape.
"What should we do?" Li Changle and the two looked at him dumbfounded.
Brother Li looked at the small sand shovel and shook his head, "The tool is not good. The Tulong Cave I dug with my father was deep and long.
Some of them are even two or three meters deep. With such a small sand shovel, even if the three of us dig together, we can't dig even one line for two or three hours."
Chen Yongwei became anxious after hearing this, "What should we do? The second brother is still guarding the grove. What if Wang Mazi, the turtle grandson, goes there and they can't do it?"
Brother Li looked at the time and said, "It's only after eight o'clock. They won't go to the woods so early."
Li Changle nodded, "Brother, you and Dad dug up earth dragons before. Are there any other ways?"
"Let me think about it!" Brother Li thought for a moment and took out the remaining half pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket. "Last time we docked at the provincial dock next door, I saw an old man who had a good idea."
"I have a fire here." Li Changle thought he was going to smoke, so he quickly took out a match from his pocket and handed it to him.
"I don't smoke." Brother Li smiled and said, "The smoking method that uncle used was to stuff tobacco into the hole and smoke it. It took about a cup of tea to get it out of the hole."
"Smoke method?" Li Changle looked at Tulong Cave and frowned, "There is water in the cave, and the tobacco will be extinguished when it is put in. How to smoke it?"
"Idiot!" Brother Li said with a smile, "It's not about using smoke, but because Tulong doesn't like the smell of the wet tobacco, so it will come out of the hole. I don't have enough cigarettes, so give me all your cigarettes."
After hearing this, Li Changle finally understood that cut tobacco contains tar, and when it comes into contact with water, the bitter taste of tar will blend into the water. The earth dragon can't stand it, and will naturally break through and escape!
"Oh!" Li Changle and Chen Yongwei quickly took out the cigarettes from their pockets and handed them to him.
They both bought them in the afternoon. Li Changle smoked a few cigarettes, but Chen Yongwei didn't have any craving for cigarettes, so he gave three cigarettes to their brothers, along with a full pack.
Brother Li took the cigarettes, took out about ten of them, soaked them in water and rubbed them a few times. Then he stuffed the tobacco into the Tulong Cave, dug some sand and covered the hole.
The other three also prepared according to the law, and one put in the tobacco two minutes late.
Then he took out the jar from the sack, untied the two ends of the fishing rope, tied a loop and placed it on the mound, then went to another hole and put the loop in place.
After placing the rope buckle, the three of them guarded an earth dragon cave, squatting there with anticipation, even their breathing slowed down, quietly waiting for the earth dragon to come out.
Sure enough, after more than ten minutes, an earth dragon broke out of the Tulong cave where the tobacco was stuffed first. Li Changle quickly grabbed the fishing rope with quick eyes and hands. The earth dragon struggled to coil its tail and curl it up, tightening the rope buckle tighter.
Over there, Chen Yongwei and Brother Li grabbed the fishing rope and caught the earth dragon. They didn't have time to be happy and hurriedly ran to the last hole to guard it.
Li Changle was holding the earth dragon with a tapered head and a rouge tail, and his mouth couldn't close with joy, "This one weighs at least three kilograms."
"Brother, this little one of mine only weighs two kilograms." Chen Yongwei was carrying the earth dragon and smiled so much that he showed his white teeth. "Brother, this one is thick. It should weigh three or four kilograms."
Brother Li stood guard at the entrance of the last earth dragon cave, looking at the two of them with a smile, worried that the earth dragon in the cave would run away if he made any noise.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei hurriedly took out the net bag to pack the earth dragon, tied the mouth of the net bag before putting it into the bucket, and tied the rope to the handle.
The main reason is that this thing has great momentum. If you put it directly in the bucket, it can escape. You don't know when it will escape.
"Here we come!" Brother Li grabbed the fishing rope and the last dragon was caught. "This one is fat, at least four pounds."
Li Changle quickly carried the net bag over and said, "Hurry up and put it in the net bag."
"Hey, it's really a good start." Brother Li put the earth dragon in, untied the fishing rope, looked at the earth dragon struggling in the net bag, and smiled crookedly.
Li Changle: "Brother, it's a good thing that you came with me today, otherwise Awei and I would have been digging stupidly for a long time, and we still don't know how long we would be digging?"
Brother Li was very happy to have such a harvest on the first day of fishing, "There used to be a lot of earth dragons in the tidal flat. When the tide was high, the earth dragons would come out of their holes and run around. They didn't even need to use a triangular fork to cut tobacco."
Just stick it on."
"Were there so many before? I started fishing when I was a teenager, and I only saw other people catch them. This is the first time I caught them myself!"
"It's because Ah Le is lucky. I used to be able to get good seafood with him when I went shopping in the sea."
"You were the first to discover Tulong Cave, so why do you blame me for all the good things?"
"In the past, your second brother and I would go shopping when we returned from our voyages, and we never found any good stuff. Why are you so lucky?"
Li Changle quickly changed the subject, "I heard that drinking Tulong wine is good for your waist. How about we leave two small ones to soak in the wine?"
You bastard, you can even swallow a piece of earth dragon worth several yuan a pound!
Brother Li glared at him, "Two pounds is a lot. You want to drink Tulong wine. Tomorrow, An, Awei and I will come here to look for some small bubble wine."
"Okay!" Li Changle thought that everyone needed money, and such an expensive earth dragon really couldn't bear to swallow it. It would be good to use a sandbag to supplement the waist.
Speaking of Li Chang'an, Chen Yongwei hurriedly said: "Brother, let's go get the jar quickly. Brother An is still waiting for us in the grove!"
"Okay!" Li Changle and Brother Li also picked up the sacks and followed.
"Brother, how much can Tulong sell for a pound now?" Chen Yongwei asked what Li Changle wanted to ask the most.
"If you send it to a seafood store if it weighs two kilograms, it should be sold for eight or nine yuan per kilogram. If it weighs three kilograms or more, the price will be higher. A Le has connections in restaurants, so the price must be higher there."
"When I go to Lucheng tomorrow morning, I will take it with me and sell it first, and then I will give you the money when I come back."
Chapter completed!