Chapter 59: Complementing the shape with the like

Li Changle strode to the location where the third trap was placed. After lifting it, he felt that the weight was almost the same as the previous one.

But after the trap was out of the water, the fish in the trap didn't even splash a drop of water. "What's going on? The weight is enough, but there is no splash. Could it be that a turtle got in?"

"Old turtles are good too, they can be sold for a few dollars each."

Li Changle muttered to himself as he pulled the trap out of the water. He saw two white crabs, one big and one small, in the net. There was no trace of the imagined old turtle.

There are only two white crabs, and the weight seems a little off!

Li Changle looked down at the fish bag and saw several river eels entangled like snakes inside. He grinned excitedly and laughed softly, "Hehe! That's right!"

"Brother, how was the catch?" Chen Yongwei walked over here with a crab net.

Li Changle shook his head, and waited until he came over before whispering, "We just caught a few river eels, they look like they weigh more than ten kilograms. How come you're so fast?"

"I found three crab nets, and I haven't found one yet. I'll bring up the one I found and go down to look for it again." Chen Yongwei said happily, "The other three have a good harvest."

"It's probably been washed away. If we can't find it, we should stop looking." Li Changle lowered his voice and said, "Reel it in slowly. Don't let Wang Laobian see our catch."

"Hmm!" Chen Yongwei thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Brother, what did that guy get?"

Li Changle glanced at Wang Laobian who was walking towards the shore with a trap in his hand. "You are so happy to have four big blue crabs, but you complained about your bad luck when you got the trap you set. You can't do business with such people."

"Damn it, I shouldn't have helped him last night."

"Forget it. For the sake of the child, help him this time and just ignore him in the future."

"Yeah!" Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly and put the crab cage back into the water.

At this time, Wang Laobian came over with a trap and said to him on the shore: "Ah Wei, look, Ah Le helped me to cast the trap and caught four blue crabs. Look, you helped me to cast the trap, but all you got were worthless crabs?"

Chen Yongwei glared at him, "Are you crazy? I'm helping you set the trap, but do I have to help you catch fish?"

Li Changle sneered, "Wang Laobian, I advise you to sell your blue crabs and go to town to buy two pig brains to eat at home!"

Wang Laobian shook his head honestly, "I have to save money for Lao Wai's surgery, how can I afford to buy that food?"

Chen Yongwei: "Like cures like, you know! My brother is telling you to buy some pig brains to supplement your body, so that you don't have to think too much when you are so old!"

Wang Laobian finally understood and scratched his head in embarrassment, "My wife also said that I have a foul mouth and I don't even know how many people I offend! I have already collected all my traps. I will help you collect them. Thank you for helping me last night."

"No need. We have several traps that were washed away by the water and we will have to look for them for a while!" Li Changle didn't want him to see his true identity.

"That's what I said. You guys are too careless. You put so many traps in at once that you can't even remember where you put them in the end."

Wang Laobian shook his head and began to collect the catch, "Ah Le, I'm going to go to the dock to collect the crab nets first."

"Go ahead and do your thing!" Li Changle waved his hand, and he and Awei slowly walked towards the shore carrying the trap.

It was much faster when two people worked together, and it didn't take long to collect all the dozen traps.

Not counting the blue crabs and white crabs caught by the crab nets, 20 traps caught a total of 35 blue crabs. The smallest weighed half a pound, and the largest weighed more than a pound.

There were also a dozen white crabs, herring, sea bass, eel, red snapper, blackhead fish... all the fish together weighed about 100 kilograms. Awei was very happy, "Brother, no wonder you asked sister-in-law to weave so many traps. I never thought that one trap could catch several kilograms of fish, and dozens of traps would bring dozens of kilograms.

Dozens of kilograms a day, the monthly income is also considerable."

Li Changle was worried that he was being tricked, so he warned him, "I'm telling you, after the distribution, anyone with a little bit of an idea will be crazy about making money. Don't tell anyone that we have so many traps. If that happens, every household will have dozens of traps, and we won't make a dime."

"Brother, I'm not stupid. I will never tell anyone how we make money."

"Just remember it." Li Changle helped to put away the crab cages. "You send the fish back first. I'll go to the beach to collect the crab cages from here."

"Okay, I'll send the fish and crabs back and then I'll find you on the beach."

"Also, pick out the best ones and we'll send them to the restaurant to sell."

"Uh-huh!"

Since both buckets were full of catches, Li Changle took two sacks and a net bag, carried a backpack, and strode towards the Dongtou Rocky Beach.

It takes only half the distance to get to the rocky beach at the east end from the grove than from Yantou Mountain.

But this area is mostly soft mudflats. If you are not careful, your feet will sink into the mud and it will be difficult to pull out, so few people come here to fish in the sea.

In the sunshine, from afar, the sand crabs on the mudflats are densely packed all over the mudflats, just like grains drying in the sun.

Before anyone came close, he quickly went into the cave where he lived.

There are also jumping fish with gray-brown or gray-black bodies covered with spots, big heads and wide mouths, and two eyes bulging out like cow eyes. Their shapes are somewhat similar to loaches, and they glide quickly and gracefully on the mudflats.

In order to catch this kind of fish, in addition to using bamboo pots as traps to lure, there are also sea divers who use a 5-meter-long fishing rod and a 6-meter-long fishing line. From ten meters away, they can just swing the rod and "kill" the jumping fish instantly.

The accuracy and speed of the fishermen's pole swings are comparable to the flying knife shot by Li Xunhuan in martial arts scenes, and they always hit the target.

Li Changle simply took off his plastic sandals and walked along the edge of the mudflat towards the rocky beach. Half an hour later, he reached his destination.

At this moment, the tide has receded to the position below the big rock yesterday. About two hundred meters further down is where they placed the plastic cans.

At this time, the beach was so calm that there was no wind, and the waves were just gently hitting the rocks. It didn't look like typhoon weather at all.

Li Changle thought that maybe the weather station's forecast was wrong? Or maybe it was the last calm before the typhoon came.

There are already many people digging in the mudflats in the distance, and some are riding mud horses and traveling freely on the mudflats.

He stood there for a while watching the fishermen fishing in the sea in the distance, thinking that he had to wait for Awei to come anyway, and by the time he arrived, the water would have almost receded there.

He simply took out the scoop net from the backpack, went back to the big rock, and started searching in the puddle.

Several small fish and shrimps of different species were playing in the water, and a spotted fish body was exposed by a reef nearby.

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it. He raised his feet gently, trying not to splash any water, and quickly covered the prey with the scoop net in his hand.

With a "splash" sound, the fish swung its spotted tail and hid in the deep water like lightning, splashing water from the tail all over his face.

　Thanks to my friends Toutengyitou and the man from the mountains 1988 for their tips and support!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)

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