Chapter 275
When Zhao Qin came to the mudflat, he thought that there would be a lot of people here if we didn’t go out to sea. However, when he arrived, he found that there were only two or three people.
Seeing the direction where his eldest brother was, he walked over and said, “Brother, why aren’t there many people?”
“It’s normal. We have to wait until the weather gets colder in the real season. It’s hard to dig now.”
Zhao Qin took a look at his brother’s bucket. There were two blood eels, a small octopus, and two jumping fish in it. “Brother, how long have you been digging?”
“about an hour.”
Zhao Qin frowned, that’s not right. It took him so long to dig just this little. The next moment he found the crux of the problem. The big brother was not using the shovel rewarded by the system.
“Brother, why don’t you use the shovel I bought?”
“I have an old one, so why would I use a new one? I didn’t plan to dig much, so I just took a sand shovel, but it didn’t work well, so I went back and replaced it with a shovel.”
Zhao Qin understood. No wonder the system had reduced luck points before. He thought it was because his elder brother was using a sand shovel.
No longer caring about why the elder brother’s harvest was so little, he also started to work. He felt uncomfortable even if he didn’t move for a day.
“It’s not like you dig. You have to find a hole. And the mud here sticks to the shovel. You have to use skill. It doesn’t matter how fast you take out the shovel. When you take the mud and collect the shovel, you have to have a sudden force so that the mud doesn’t stick. Spade it, save your energy.”
Zhao Qin didn’t listen to what his elder brother said, mainly because he didn’t expect to gain much. He came here simply because he heard that blood eel tastes good.
The two brothers only dug enough for one meal, and he didn’t expect to sell it for money.
“Hey, why don’t you listen? Look for a hole. If you don’t find a hole, dig one…”
In the middle of what Zhao Ping said, his voice suddenly stopped because he had already seen his brother pick out a blood eel.
“A blind cat meets a dead mouse.” After a moment, he still complained, but he didn’t bother to care about what his brother was doing.
Or as the saying goes, everyone has his own way of killing pigs and butts.
Blood eels have a high blood content in their bodies, and blood will overflow when their skin is scratched.
The body of the fish is long and cylindrical, spread out like a word, like a small pointer. The skin is smooth and the body has no scales. The surface of the back and arms is light yellow and translucent purple, the surface of the abdomen is white to translucent purple, and the flesh is blood red.
Local people think it is a great tonic, and of course it can indeed replenish qi and blood.
blood eel
“Brother, is this delicious?”
“Unappetizing.”
“I don’t care if what you say is true or not, I will keep everything I dig to eat.”
Zhao Ping felt tired and simply shut up to save some saliva.
Seeing his brother continuing to dig where he had just dug a blood eel, with no intention of changing places, he finally couldn’t help but said again: “You are digging the ground. The reason why blood eels are so expensive is because there are few. How can it be so dense, you…”
As a result, before he finished speaking, Zhao Qin picked up another spade and looked at his elder brother with an innocent face, “Feng Da didn’t hear what you just said.”
“No…I didn’t say anything.”
Zhao Ping has the urge to throw a spade, which is so annoying.
Then he looked at his brother, who was still digging in rows like digging the ground, and he found a hole every now and then. He himself spent a long time looking for holes, and even lost some of them.
“Brother, there really is a little octopus. How can it dig such a deep hole?”
“Brother, what a shame, haha, I actually dug out a blue crab, you can see it’s quite big.”
“Brother, I’ll go. There’s also an eel. Watch me dig it up with three shovels.”
“Hey, brother, I dug up a jumping fish, and it’s still a flower.”
“Shut up, it’s so noisy.” Zhao Ping felt that he could hardly hold the shovel anymore and was getting more and more tired.
“Brother, I heard that jumping fish tastes good too.”
“It’s not like you haven’t eaten before. I used to catch them when you were little, and my mother-in-law would fry them for us to eat. It tasted really good. Not to mention, when I came down just now, I really noticed that there seemed to be a lot of jumping fish today.
It’s just that this thing runs fast and is difficult to catch. ”
“Is there no other way?”
“I’ve seen people using lure rods to fish in mudflats, but I haven’t tried it, and the harvest is just like that.”
Zhao Qin thought for a moment and asked again, “Brother, is Dipping Fish afraid of light or movement?”
“It is very sensitive to sounds and vibrations. On the contrary, if it is illuminated at night, its response will become slightly slower. If you really want to eat it, I will catch some one night.”
Well, the eldest brother is still a good big brother. Apart from being a little stupid, there is nothing wrong with him.
Zhao Qin continued to dig, and the frequency of restocking was very fast, and it took only a few shovels to dig out one. On the other hand, Zhao Ping was more miserable because there was no system luck bonus.
“Are you tired?” Zhao Ping asked.
Zhao Qin smiled and thrust his shovel into the ground. “Brother, come and dig. Just dig here and use my shovel.”
Zhao Ping didn’t ask why he was using his spade, he just threw the spade bucket over and took it over to dig.Finally, he experienced the joy of a good harvest. His movements were more efficient than Zhao Qin’s.
He caught several in a short while. The big one weighed more than two taels, and the small one weighed only one tael. Blood eels can only grow to this size.
“Brother, let me dig for a while.”
Seeing Zhao Ping sweating, Zhao Qin suggested switching hands.
The two brothers took turns. After a while, hundreds of square meters of mudflats were dug out, and the bucket was half full. Of course, there were not only blood eels, but also small octopus jumping fish and so on.
Another change of hands, Zhao Qin’s cell phone rang. After hanging up, he told his brother, “The water heater is here. Brother, why don’t you go back first?”
Zhao Ping glanced at the sea level in the distance and said with a smile, “Let’s go back. The sea water is rising.”
Zhao Qin didn’t care. Anyway, he didn’t plan to sell more.
“Oh, you are turning the soil, and you dug out such a large area?” The one who came closer and joked was Lao Fu, who originally had a grudge against Zhao Qin.
There was nothing he could do. His daughter-in-law was going to compete for the position of village women’s director, but Zhao Qin intervened, forcing him to sell the foundation to the Xu family’s kid at a discount of several thousand yuan.
However, since Lao Zhang became the deputy director, Lao Fu’s attitude has changed. He seems to understand that it is not wise to make an enemy of Zhao Qin. He can smile and say hello when he sees him every day.
Just like now, he saw that the two brothers were here and took the initiative to circle around and chat.
“Uncle Fu, how is the harvest?” Zhao Ping said with a smile.
“It’s just so-so. There are about ten roots, and I guess they can sell for a hundred or so yuan.”
At the seaside, as long as you are diligent and willing to learn, you will never starve to death. Even if the marine resources are severely depleted and there are no good ones, it is not difficult to make a whole dish with similar things.
“Oh my god, how come you have so many in this area? This must be more than ten kilograms, which is worth more than a thousand!”
After saying this, Lao Fu looked at their buckets, and his eyes widened like lanterns.
Originally, he thought that digging more than a dozen in two or three hours was not a small amount, but in comparison, it was much less than his grandmother’s house.
“Aqin is lucky, almost all of them were dug by him. This bucket looks a lot, and there are still a lot of groceries in it.”
“It’s a lot even if you remove the groceries, Aqin, your luck is really unparalleled. Others don’t know, but I know it clearly. If Lao Luo didn’t follow you, he wouldn’t get anything. You must have earned a lot that day, right?”
Zhao Qin gave a thumbs up, “Uncle Fu is awesome, I must have earned dozens of kilograms more than Lao Luo that day.”
Lao Fu is still a bit of a figure in the village, otherwise he wouldn’t have arranged his daughter-in-law to be the director of women’s affairs. Now that the other party has taken the initiative to make friends, Zhao Qin will naturally not push her away.
“That can be sold for more than 30,000 yuan. Tsk, tsk, what kind of luck do you have? Take me with you to make a fortune someday?”
“Okay, Uncle Fu, when the weather is good, I’ll tell you where it is, but I can’t guarantee if it’s still there now.”
“We are all sea diggers, I understand this. Let’s go, the sea water is rising.”