Chapter 577
Zhao Qin did not lie. He had not been out to sea for nearly a month since he came back from the last sea fishing competition.
He was very worried that he would not be able to adapt to life at sea, or that he would become lazy on the shore.
There was another reason, that is, the day after tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the elder sister will be back. He plans to find an island and pick up some snails, oysters, etc., because the elder sister likes this.
Of course, it would be a loss to go out just to pick snails.
So he had a trick, that is, he bought two baskets of hooks and lines from the system, and found several people to help in the evening.
The elder brother, Lao Luo, including Lao Luo’s younger brother, and Lao Mao, who had just finished work and had not returned home, helped to do longline fishing together.
“Aqin, how about I go with you tomorrow.” Lao Mao felt that his boss was probably really bored and actually took off his pants to fart.
He had his own boat, and longline fishing was also ready, so why not use his own.
It would be fine to borrow a boat from others, but he actually had to make a row of hooks on the spot.
“Brother Mao, there are still not enough hooks on the boat. I’ll go out and make two sets tomorrow, and then put them on the boat for you to use.”
After hearing what he said, Lao Mao naturally had no objection.
In fact, Zhao Qin didn’t know that there were not four sets of longline fishing on the boat, but ten sets.
Lao Mao and his friends also felt that it was too few to put only four sets of row hooks in one trip, so they paid for six more.
However, after going out to sea several times, what they found incredible was that the harvest of the six sets of row hooks they bought was sometimes not even as good as one of the four sets. This was too amazing.
After comparing, they didn’t find any difference in the line hooks. Of course, luck is the key at sea, so no one really went to investigate the reason.
With more people, there is more power. The sub-line and hooks were quickly made. Next, they just needed to tie them to the main line. This was easier to do.
Big brother and Lao Mao finished it in half an hour, and also tied the buoys at both ends.
In the evening, Zhao Qin went to the town’s purchasing station and bought a few kilograms of white shrimps to use as bait.
“Brother, what are you going to take tomorrow?”
“We’re just going out for a day, so there’s no need for grandma to prepare anything. We can just buy two buckets of instant noodles and take them with us.”
“Then I’ll prepare it.”
Ah He said as he was about to drive to the town. Zhao Qin said unhappily, “What’s the matter, did Lao Zhu offend you?”
Ah He smiled awkwardly, put the car keys back home, and ran to the store.
Because the wharf was under construction, the business of the store was much better than before. Even Lao Peng’s noodle stall was now re-established by his brother.
He added a few stir-fried dishes and made a lot of money. It was said that he could sell more than ten boxes of beer a day.
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Early in the morning, Zhao Qin and Ah He pushed a cart to the village wharf, loaded things, and cranked the machine to go out to sea.
“Brother, where are we going?”
“Let’s go to the edge of Xiagu Island. The terrain on Lobster Island is too steep and there’s nothing to buy.”
Ah He seemed to remember something again, “Why don’t we go to the Cave Island and take a look at the bird’s nest. It’s almost been a year.”
“Ah He, I collected that bird’s nest some time ago, but I didn’t tell you and my brother.” He would not hide this from Ah He.
“Oh, forget it, I’ve collected it.” Ah He didn’t have too complicated thoughts.
On the one hand, it was because of his trust in Zhao Qin. On the other hand, now is different from the past, and he really doesn’t care too much about the money from the bird’s nest.
The two first picked a place to put down two rows of hooks.
After not doing it for a long time, Zhao Qin found that he was a little unfamiliar with hanging bait, and Ah He was almost the same. The efficiency was much slower than last year.
100 hooks, the two were busy for more than an hour before they went down to the sea.
“Brother, I see you brought a fishing rod, aren’t we going fishing today?”
“No hurry, let’s go to Xiagu Island first, it’s low tide, and we’ll find a place to fish when the tide rises after noon.”
Although the two of them don’t care about this income now, they are fishermen after all, and they have to work hard when they go out to sea.
Ah He drove the boat, and Zhao Qin started to make breakfast.
It’s very simple, boil the water in the pot, beat two eggs in, wait until the eggs are almost cooked, then put the instant noodles and seasonings in, turn off the induction cooker and simmer for a while.
After eating, the boat also approached Xiagu Island.
Today’s weather is good, and I can see a similar boat docked on the side from a distance.
“Brother, someone is also fishing.”
“It’s okay, they are them, we are us, and today we are mainly going to crack oysters and pick up some bitter snails.”
The area around the island is very flat, including the terrain on the island. Zhao Qin and Ah He went around to the back,
and just drove the boat to the beach and ran it aground. Anyway, it is low tide now, and the boat can be sailed naturally when the tide rises.One person carried a bucket, a sand shovel, and a pickaxe for cracking oysters, and the two of them wandered onto the island.
“Brother, where are you going?”
“I remember that there seems to be a reef area to the west. Let’s go there.”
When I arrived at the place, I took a look at the situation on the rocks and said, “Brother, it’s not bad. There are a lot of spicy snails. Hey, there are also mussels, which are quite big. Do we want them?”
“As long as it’s edible, I’ll pick it up.”
The two began to work. Zhao Qin focused on oysters, which was the eldest sister’s favorite. He would weigh two or three kilograms first.
After knocking on a piece of rock, he turned around and found a small puddle next to it, with reflective white stuff coming out of it.
Out of curiosity, he walked closer and said, “Ah He, I actually encountered something good.”
Ah He took a closer look and said in surprise: “There are also blood clams.”
The so-called blood clam, whose scientific name is mud clam, is similar in shape to clams, but is fuller, and its shell has several grooves, is tooth-shaped, and is light gray or white in color.
It is called a blood clam because the flesh inside the shell is blood red.
This thing is not uncommon in the local area, but it is normal to pick up a few while rushing to the sea, but it is more difficult to find enough for a meal.
If you buy it, the farmed ones are not expensive, more than ten yuan per pound, but the wild ones cost at least thirty yuan and upwards.
Zhao Qin didn’t do anything. Ah He had already filtered the small puddle and found about forty or fifty pieces, which should weigh more than two kilograms.
“Not bad, enough for a meal.”
“Go on, you are responsible for picking up the snails, and I will knock the oysters.”
The two started working again.
In June here, the temperature is still very high, but fortunately the wind on the sea is still very cool.
Ah He has also learned to be smart. Like Zhao Qin, no matter how hot it is, he can still cover himself tightly enough.
After two hours, Zhao Qin felt that the oysters should be enough, so he took some of Ah He’s oysters and said, “I’ll take them to the ship and put them in the refrigerator first. If it’s too hot, they’ll go bad.”
“Brother, how about I go?”
“Okay, you stay here and continue looking for snails.”
When Zhao Qin came around from the boat, he found that there were three more people beside Ahe, who seemed to be chatting about something.
He hurriedly came closer.
“Brother, friends from other places came here to play. The boat we saw before was hired by this big brother.”
The three of them should be a family, a man, a woman and a child.
None of the family took any sun protection measures. The man was probably in his thirties. He smiled and said, “I’m not bothering you, am I?”
He was an educated man. This was the first impression of Zhao Qin. His appearance was very elegant.
“It’s okay. Why don’t you go back at noon? The ultraviolet rays at the beach are very strong.”
Zhao Qin looked at the child’s red little face, hesitated for a moment, then took off his hat and put it on the child’s head, “The skin is tender, and it will peel after two hours in the sun.”
Seeing him doing this, Ah He also took off his hat and handed it to the woman, “Sister, if you don’t mind, put it on to block the sun.”
blood clam
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PS: Sorry, our first year of Tomb-Sweeping Festival is going to be a big one here. We have a busy day today and I will definitely not have time to update tomorrow.
I will try my best to update stably the day after tomorrow.
It’s not that I’m distracted, I also want to read more. There is no shortage of plots in my mind, but I really have to squeeze in time and have to work again soon.