Chapter 158 The Wind Rises
Brother Li covered the live hatch and took the two people squatting there watching the fish. He went over to catch the Huang Zhan, mackerel and small miscellaneous fish in the fishing net and put them into the live hatch and the bucket, allowing Li Changle to take advantage of it.
One more network.
After catching a rice fish in the net, Li Changle became more confident and cast another net on the same spot without even moving.
I don't know if that net used up all my luck or for some other reason, but this net caught a few saury fish, sole skins, and several kilograms of shrimps, but not a single fish weighing more than one kilogram.
Brother Li moved the boat forward a few nautical miles and asked him to cast the net again. This net was even worse, with only a few small miscellaneous fish, which was almost like an empty net.
Chen Yongwei cast a net, but the fish was just a little bigger. He said to the Li Changle brothers with some frustration: "Forget it, let's not cast the net. Lord Hailong thinks that giving us a rice fish is enough, so we should return to the sea."
Already."
"Maybe, let's close the net then!" Li Changle raised his wrist and looked at the time, "It's almost twelve o'clock. We ate the dry food and then sailed over to collect the longline."
"Yes, eat. Only when you are full can you have the strength to work!" Brother Li went to the cab and took out the lunch box. "Your second sister-in-law made rice, fried eggs, and fried some rice balls wrapped in salted vegetables.
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"I have some, too. My grandma made a pancake tube and boiled turtle eggs!" Chen Yongwei hurriedly ran to dig through his own basket.
Li Changle didn't expect that the three of them had brought dry food, so he smiled and said to Brother Li: "The wheat cakes fried by Anan are also filled with eggs and salted vegetables."
"Eat me, eat me." Chen Yongwei said, opening the lunch box, "My pancake cones are delicious. They also contain mushrooms, dried tofu, carrots, shrimps, and eggs."
The two brothers Li Changle looked at the cake tube in his lunch box, and then at the wheat cakes and rice cakes in their own lunch box. The two brothers looked at each other and sighed.
"Oh, it looks like grandma still loves her grandson!"
"Hey! Then you all eat mine." Chen Yongwei proudly picked up a cake tube and put a turtle egg in Li Changle's lunch box, and gave the same to Brother Li, "Brother, you guys have a taste of my grandma's milk."
craftsmanship."
Brother Li took a big bite of the cake tube and said, "No, I have to give them some advice when I get back. Next time, I can't treat the men who work hard to earn money in a careless manner."
I was very happy to see Chui's rice in the morning, but now it's far inferior to the food prepared by Grandma Chen.
Li Changle nodded, forgetting that he said good things to his wife in the morning and even cooked wheat cakes early in the morning.
The three of them got rid of all the food cake tubes and turtle eggs brought by Chen Yongwei, wiped their hands on their bodies a few times, put the lunch boxes they brought back into the cab, started the fishing boat and sailed to the longline position, and started working.
Brother Li was worried that Li Changle could not control the speed, so he walked to the driver's seat, raised his voice, and asked him and Chen Yongwei to reel in the longline together, and he would take the helm.
The machine was too noisy, so Li Changle said nothing. He just nodded and walked towards Chen Yongwei. When he went over, he saw that he had hooked up the buoy with an iron hook and started to pull the line.
"How does Awei feel? Is it in stock?" Maybe it was because of the rice fish, but Li Changle always felt that today's longline fishing was not productive.
"It's a bit light. Even if it is available, it's not a big deal." Chen Yongwei slowly pulled up the fishing line, and a half-foot-long sea bass hung on the hook.
"That's right, no hook left!" Li Changle put the fish into the bucket, arranged the line group, and waited for him to pull the next hook.
Chen Yongwei thought of the sea bass that was bigger than this one yesterday. He didn't even bother to look at it, "Brother, you are satisfied with a small sea bass. When did the requirements become so low?"
Li Changle smiled and said: "It's not that I have low expectations, but I think we have to learn to be content. We already have a rice fish. If we are not satisfied yet, I'm worried that Lord Hailong won't take care of us in the future."
"You're right!" Chen Yongwei turned to look at him, "On the island just now, I was worried that you were drifting off and looking down on small money!"
"Look at it, small money and big money are money. If you have money coming in every day, you can't count it carefully." Li Changle looked at the empty hook he brought up, shrugged, took off the half fish head on the hook, and put away the line group.
Put it in a bamboo basket.
Just as he expected, after three rows of longlines were harvested, they only harvested a few yellow croakers each weighing a pound, two black snappers, five yellow-finned fish, a dozen barracudas, red-eye fish, and some fish in the water.
About ten kilograms.
Compared with yesterday's catch, the difference was really not the slightest. Li Changle thought it might be that rice fish that used up today's luck.
"Let's go and see how the harvest in the ground cage is?" Brother Li patted Li Changle and went over to start the fishing boat and sail towards the Groove Island.
Arriving at the buoys of the first group of ground cages, Awei asked Li Changle to come first. He felt that it was the first group of lines just now, and it was because he pulled them first, so the two groups behind him had nothing to gain.
When Li Changle hooked up with an iron hook and buoy, he secretly prayed in his heart that the ground cage harvest would be better. He was worried that the six groups of six groups of ground cages, with a total of 66 ground cages, would not be as small as the catch of three rows of longlines.
The ground cage dropped into the sea was much deeper than the grove. Li Changle pulled it for a long time before pulling up the first ground cage. Both he and Chen Yongwei stared nervously at the ground cage. The ground cage came out of the water. After seeing it clearly,
, all showed smiles.
"I saw moray eels, blue crabs, orchid crabs, and yellow crabs. Brother, you are lucky. I will let you pull first every time in the future."
After Li Changle saw the catch in the ground cage, he also grinned happily. Any catch means money coming in, a new house, and big ships are all pointing at them!
After the ground cage was placed on the deck, Chen Yongwei lifted up the ground cage and shook all the catch into the fish collection bag. Li Changle untied the rope above and poured all the catch into the rubber bucket.
There were two moray eels as thick as a child's wrist, a few small yellow crabs, a big clawed claw, and three large blue crabs that were thicker than chicken legs, weighing about eight or nine kilograms.
There were also two half-pound crabs, and three orchid crabs turned over. When I saw the round belly buttons, I recognized them as female crabs at first glance. I pinched them and they were quite fat.
Brother Li stretched his neck to look at it and grinned happily, "Not bad, not bad, Ah Le is lucky. Three blue crabs can be sold for more than ten yuan."
"I will be happy if I get more than half of the catch in the next bite." Li Changle grinned, pulled out the hemp rope, tied up the blue crabs and orchid crabs and put them in the bucket.
Chen Yongwei loaded the moray eels into the live cabin, and Huang Zhan returned from the warehouse, put the small miscellaneous fish into the bucket, waited for the row of ground cages to be collected, and then loaded the bait bags into the ground cages.
After the second ground cage was closed, there were two more blue crabs, three swimming crabs, two cuttlefish, and what surprised the three of them was that there were also two large groupers weighing four to five kilograms each.
"Brother, the big one last time was sold for five yuan a pound. These two small ones, three yuan should be fine, right?" Chen Yongwei happily took it and put it into the live cabin, and carefully added two shovels of ice cubes.
inside.
Brother Li smiled and said: "Even if it doesn't sell for three yuan, two yuan is not bad. These two can be sold for more than twenty yuan. Just looking at these two, the harvest is much greater than the first cage.
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After pulling two ground cages in succession, the catches were both good. Li Changle became more confident. He neatly tied the crabs and put them in the bucket. He quickly picked up the iron hook and hooked up the third ground cage.
This one is a bit worse, there are two lobsters, a blue crab, two moray eels, and then some miscellaneous fish and conch.
The two sorted the catch and began to collect the lower ones. The fish in this net were mixed. There seemed to be a lot of fish, but they were all worthless.
Several fish in a row were as good as the catch in the previous cage, and when they took the last bite, the three of them showed smiles of surprise again.
There were actually seven blue crabs and a few orchid crabs in this cage, which was almost like a crab nest found while fishing in the sea.
It was a pity that there were two blue crabs dueling in a cage on the ground. In the end, they both lost and lost one of their majestic big claws.
"Brother, you and your eldest brother will take care of these two."
"I went back and asked my grandma to cook it for everyone to eat together. I also stewed two conger eels. The children should all replenish them. One or two of them are yellow and skinny. If there is a strong wind, they are worried that they will be blown away."
The second brother Li is more willing to give up than the eldest brother Li. He believes that making money is to live a better life. If you have to work hard and eat sweet potato rice every meal, then it is better not to work.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei both shook their heads, "Then take two more conger eels and stew them. We don't want blue crabs. Last time we encountered crabs when moving, the whole family ate several meals of blue crabs. The crabs were injured, and now we can't even see the crabs."
I don’t even want to take a look.”
"We'll wait until we get home. Hurry up and collect them. There are still five rows of cages. At the speed you two are going, you won't be able to collect them all until dark."
"Oh!" Li Changle and the others sped up their movements, and the first cage in the second row made the three of them grin excitedly. It was another blue crab.
There were five blue crabs weighing more than two kilograms in the rubber bucket, one weighing more than three kilograms, and three weighing more than half a kilogram. There were nine blue crabs in one net, as well as two mackerels.
After harvesting the second row of ground cages, there are already seventy or eighty blue crabs in the rubber bucket. Not counting other catches from the two rows of ground cages, the harvest of blue crabs has already reached over 200 yuan.
Li Changle estimated that after collecting all the cages, he would have an income of more than a thousand yuan today.
When Chen Yongwei released the fish into the live cabin, he found that the rice fish completely burped. Brother Li poured all the remaining ice cubes into cotton wool, wrapped the rice fish, put it in a rubber bucket, and put it in the live cabin to refrigerate.
Start the fishing boat and continue moving forward.
Changed to Chen Yongweila in the third row, this guy seemed to have stepped on daddy when he went out. He pulled up the ground cage net and the fish caught in each cage was worse than the last cage.
He didn't even finish the third row, so he pulled Li Changle in frustration and asked him to continue.
In order to move into the new house as soon as possible, Li Changle once again took over the important task of opening the blind box and continued to contribute to the new house.
As expected, my luck was a little better than that of Chen Yongwei. In the last two cages, I harvested two conger eels weighing seven to eight kilograms and a few blue crabs.
The catch in the fifth row of ground cages was the worst, with almost a few conches and some worthless yellow crabs, green crabs, blue crabs, sea bass and conger eels.
Li Changle, who originally thought that today's harvest would exceed 1,000 yuan, was no longer as optimistic as before.
Chapter completed!