Chapter 77 Lazy People Have Lazy Ways

Chapter 77 Lazy People Have Lazy Ways

Chapter 77 Lazy People Have Lazy Ways
After Li Changle picked up a few, he found that these purple sea urchins were all large, and three or five of them weighed one kilogram.

In later times, the wholesale price of wild sea urchins of this quality would be about one or two hundred yuan per catty. I wonder if it can be sold for three or four yuan per catty now?
"Awei, how much can this thing sell for per pound?"

"I saw them charging 15 cents for each at Adong's last time." Chen Yongwei picked up one. "It's just a small one. The big ones might be more expensive."

"It used to be sold for only two or three cents each, but it was only in the past two years that merchants from other places came to buy them, and they started selling them for 20 cents each."

Li Changle lamented in his heart, such a good thing is only one or two dimes each, and these unscrupulous merchants in the seafood shop are making such a damn profit!

Fortunately, he also has the Phoenix Restaurant, so it should be no problem to double the price if I send it there.

The quantity is also large, and if you pick them all up, you can sell them for dozens of yuan. Including the yellow croaker, there are also dozens of yuan. It seems that tonight's catch is more than 100 yuan!

Li Changle was working happily. He looked up and saw a dead fish beside the reef. He walked closer and saw that it was a sole skin, which looked to weigh more than a pound. He picked it up and took a look. It was still fresh, so he put it into the backpack.

The scientific name of sole is Oxglossum, which has a flat, tongue-shaped body and is also called ox tongue fish in some places.

It is a fish that likes to live on the seabed. Its meat is tender and has little fishy smell. It has very high requirements for water quality and likes to live in clear waters. Like hairtail, it will die once it is caught ashore.

The two men were busy at the reef for more than ten minutes before they picked up all the purple sea urchins and put them in the backpack. Seeing that the bucket was full, Chen Yongwei simply put the oilcloth bag in the backpack and poured all the sea urchins into the backpack.

At this time, several people came over and saw that they were pouring sea urchins into the basket, so they all gathered around.

"Wow, there are more than a hundred of them..."

"Oh my goodness, so many purple sea urchins, where did you pick them up?"

"Ouch! Did you two disturb the sea urchin's nest?"

"Ah Le has been very lucky recently. A few days ago, there were big flower dragons and big rice fish, and now there are so many sea urchins!"

"There's a big yellow croaker here! It looks like it weighs more than ten kilograms!"

Li Changle looked at the envious people and said, "It wasn't me who discovered it, it was Awei who discovered it."

Chen Yongwei didn't say anything and just busy himself with his work.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk~ It's only been two days since you two discovered the mines, and you haven't received the bonus yet, and there are so many sea urchins. Your luck is simply terrible. We have to go to the master's palace to pay our respects."

"Ale went to the master's temple to worship in the afternoon!"

"Oh no! Why didn't we think of it? We should have gone to pray earlier!"

"Don't be jealous. Look at his family's luck this year. First the old lady passed away, then the boat crashed, and then uncle was bitten by a five-step snake. Bad things happened one after another. It's time for them to have good luck!"

"Yes, yes! As the saying goes, good times come after bad times. It's time for people to have some good luck."

Li Changle recognized the brother who was talking as the son of a childhood friend of Li's father, so he smiled and said, "Brother A'tai, you guys should also go and look for them quickly. There may be sea cucumbers, sea urchins, big fish or something else that has been swept up by the waves!"

"Yes, yes, let's go look for it too!"

After saying this, a few people turned around and left, fearing that if they walked a step slower, the good stuff would be discovered and picked up by others first.

"Brother, let's go." Chen Yongwei picked up the backpack and the bucket and said.

"Well!" Li Changle looked at the people walking forward, "Let's go to the big rock and put the jar down first, then go find the jar."

"Okay!" Chen Yongwei handed him a cigarette, "Brother, let's go quickly and follow them. The good stuff has also been picked up by them."

Li Changle looked at Ah Wei who was walking in front of him. He felt that working with this diligent childhood friend was a very easy task for a lazy person like him.

It's like finding a small whip for yourself, whipping you at all times, and you have to run faster.

The two followed those people for a while, but didn't even pick up a single shellfish, so they simply stopped following them and took a shortcut towards the big rock.

It was still more rewarding to take the shortcut. The two picked up some clams along the way and caught two yellow croakers, a herring and three white crabs in the puddle. After more than ten minutes, they arrived near the big rock.

Li Changle looked at the location of the plastic can. The tide had receded a lot. He looked down at his wet pants, but was too lazy to take them off under the big rock.

"Awei, let's go and look for it first. If it's not exposed, poke it with a rake. The jars are filled with water after they sink, so it's impossible for them to be swept away."

"Hmm!" Chen Yongwei took a big sip from the kettle and wiped the water stains from the corners of his mouth. "Brother, when are we going to the grove to find traps?"

"Let's go to the grove after daybreak." Li Changle said with a smile, "Boy, have you been so worried about those traps these days that you haven't even gotten enough sleep?"

Chen Yongwei put down the bucket and backpack with a silly smile, and sighed, "Brother, I put down 23 ground traps and 15 crab cages. If they are gone, it will cost dozens of dollars!"

"Don't feel bad. Even if we lose everything, we picked up so many sea urchins today. We won't lose anything!"

"Can the account be calculated this way?"

"That doesn't make sense. Do you want me to beat you up before you feel better?" "I'm not a fool. I don't like being beaten!" After saying that, Chen Yongwei picked up a small rake and walked towards the place where the jars were.

Li Changle walked towards the other side where he put the plastic can. After a few steps, his foot was hit by something hard.
He lifted his foot and looked down, and a dark red stone half-buried in the mud and sand caught his attention.

He bent down and picked up the stone. It was a dark red conch-shaped stone that was larger than his egg. "Conch fossil?"

Li Changle rubbed it a few times with his hands and found that it was indeed different from the touch of ordinary stones. It felt smoother and even the lid of the snail shell was clearly visible. The most bizarre thing was that the shell was orange-red.

Under the illumination of the headlamp, the stone sparkled with colorful light, the color was like southern red agate, extremely beautiful.

Li Changle looked at the stone in his hand and said in surprise, "Hehe, it's actually a piece of spiral jade. When I have money in the future, I'll ask someone to polish it and make it into a pendant for Anan. It will definitely look good when she wears it."

He remembered that his fellow tribesman Acan had picked up a piece of snail jade when he went to a deserted island to fish in the sea. The quality of that piece was not as good as his own. It was only the size of a small snail, but it was sold for several thousand yuan.

After coming back, Achan boasted for a long time, saying that the jewelry boss said that snail jade was produced in the ancient geological era, earlier than the appearance of dinosaurs on the earth, so such a small piece was sold for so much.

"Hehe! I found a treasure!" Li Changle happily put the snail-shaped jade into his trouser pocket, waded through the sea water and walked over. He was surprised to see that the bamboo pole was still inserted there intact.

"Awei, the bamboo pole on my side is still there, how about yours?"

"Mine was washed away, but I have found the jar." Chen Yongwei replied in a hoarse voice.

Li Changle pulled up the bamboo pole, and the lead weight of the fishing rope buried under the mud and sand was also pulled out.

He inserted the bamboo pole back into the mud and sand, held the fishing rope and took a big step forward. The first jar was pulled up. A tide-watching fish was even taken away from its home, but it still stuck firmly in the jar and refused to move.

The first jar yielded a Wangchao fish. Li Changle happily pulled it out of the jar and put it into the bucket. He walked forward pulling the fishing rope and harvested a stinky black seal. He threw it into the bucket and continued to move forward to open the treasure.

When I was almost done, I suddenly saw a dark object floating on the sea in front of me, moving slowly with the waves. I quickly took off my headlamp and shone it over there, but I couldn't see it clearly.

Just as Li Changle was about to call Chen Yongwei, he shouted, "Brother, look what that is, it looks like a fish!"

"It might be a big fish. Go catch it before it swims away."

"Oh oh!" Chen Yongwei hurriedly walked towards the direction of the black shadow. Li Changle also put down the fishing rope and waded over. When the sea water was almost up to his chest, the two finally caught up with it.

The two then saw clearly that it was a sunfish. What was shocking was that almost half of its body had been bitten, but it was still alive.

Chen Yongwei stared at it in amazement, "My god, what has this fish become? It has been bitten into such a horrible state, but it is not dead yet."

"Just because you're thick-skinned! Let's go back. It's a wasted trip." Li Changle turned around and walked back in disappointment.

The sunfish is one of the largest and most bizarrely shaped fish in the world, a giant relative of the family Pufferfish and the heaviest of all bony fish.

Although it has dorsal fin and caudal fin, its huge body is propelled by the swinging of its small pectoral fins. Its swimming speed is extremely slow. Even if it uses all its strength to swim, it can only move forward two meters at most.

Because they can't swim fast enough, they just give up and go with the flow. They won't run away even if they are eaten by other fish. If they swim too slowly, they can't escape at all.

Perhaps because there are often many luminous organisms around its body, when it swims, the luminous organisms on its body will emit light, which looks like a bright moon from a distance, so it is also known as the "moon fish".

The meat of sunfish is gelatinous, white in color, and has good protein and nutritional value, but it contains a lot of bacteria.

It is said that its intestines are very expensive, and there is a famous Taiwanese dish called "Miaolong Soup" which uses it as the main ingredient.

Fish skin is the raw material for making gelatin or fish oil, and can be used as a lubricant for precision instruments and machinery. Fish liver can be used to make cod liver oil and edible hydrogenated oil.

Fishermen in some places are very superstitious about this kind of fish, thinking that catching sunfish will bring bad luck. If they do not believe in it and catch it and sell it for money, they may encounter evil spirits at any time, and in serious cases they may lose their lives.

Some places believe it while others don’t, and they are the ones who believe it.

Chen Yongwei followed him back through the water, "Brother, are you almost done with yours?"

"There are still thirty or forty left to be taken out." Li Changle turned his head and glanced at him. "What about you? How did you get?"

Chen Yongwei grinned happily, "I'm almost there too. Most of them are in stock. I have more than 30 Wangchao alone!"

"I have about 30 or 40 tide-watchers, a few black seals, and the rest are red seals."

"Brother, I think it's better to put it in a jar. Not only is the cost low, but you don't even need to put in any bait. You just need to come and collect the goods when the time comes."

"That's what they call lazy people have lazy ways."

"It's true. Only lazy people think about how to save time and effort every day."

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