Chapter 83 Finding a Trap

Chapter 83 Finding a Trap

Chapter 83 Finding a Trap

The two walked towards the village entrance together. After passing the gate, they saw the ditch, which had been filled with silt. The small shrubs in the grove were washed all over the place and covered with mud.

Chen Yongwei's heart sank, "Brother, the trap must be gone."

"It's impossible that they are all gone." Li Changle took off his sandals and threw them into the backpack. "Lead the way, go to the place where you tied the fishing rope and take a look. There will always be fish that slipped through the net."

"I tied four fishing ropes for the ground trap nets where you tied them last time, and tied the others along that row."

As Chen Yongwei spoke, he imitated him and threw his sandals into the backpack, rolled up his trouser legs high, and took him to the grove.

The places that used to be overgrown with weeds are now filled with mud, and the mud is up to your calves when you step in.

The two of them searched the tree stumps for a long time. Chen Yongwei pointed to the broken tree and said, "I remember there was a fishing rope tied to this tree."

"Keep looking. I don't believe they've all been swept away."

"Oh oh!" Chen Yongwei bent his body and continued searching in the mud that was above his calves.

Hard work pays off. After searching for a while, Li Changle finally found one. He pulled the rope and shouted happily to Chen Yongwei, "Awei, I found one."

"Brother, I found one too." Chen Yongwei said excitedly while pulling a fishing rope.

"Let's go down and take a look." Li Changle pulled the fishing rope into the water, and the sea water and soft mud instantly covered his knees.

Walking along the fishing rope, I glanced at the seaweed on the side, which was probably washed over by the tide. I saw something swimming in it. I turned my head and saw a few small brown guys.

"Kaiba?"

Li Changle rubbed his eyes, stepped forward to take a closer look, and sure enough, "Hey, this little guy is a good thing!"

Fortunately, the little guy didn't swim very fast. He tiptoed forward, put his hand into the water, and scooped it up.

There are many species of seahorses, and most of them in this area are spiny seahorses, which have light yellowish brown bodies, a vertical row of spots near the tip of the dorsal fin, and black tips of the spines.

This thing swims slowly and can even swim standing up in the water. The color of its body changes with the environment, using protective color and camouflage to defend against enemies and lure food.

The female spiny seahorse is responsible for laying eggs, while the male's brood pouch is responsible for nurturing offspring. They are very loyal to their relationship, and once they are paired, they will stay together forever and never separate.

Li Changle took out a net bag and put the seahorse in it. He excitedly shouted to Chen Yongwei, "Awei, come here quickly, there is a seahorse here!"

"What is a seahorse?" Chen Yongwei hung the fishing rope on a bush and walked towards him through the water. When he saw the seahorse in his hand, he said with disgust,
"Hearing your excited voice, I thought it was something good. It turns out to be this thing. There are a lot of them in seaweed and seaweed. They are only a little bit big. There is no one to catch them. What is there to be excited about?"

"Young man, small doesn't mean bad!" Li Changle gave him an expression that every man would understand, "This is a good thing, more nutritious than sand trout, sea urchins, and oysters."

The water quality is good these days, and you can often see traces of seahorses among the water plants and seaweed on the beach. But in the future, when the environment deteriorates and the water quality worsens, it will be difficult to find traces of seahorses even if you go to a deserted island.

"I don't have a wife, so why should I eat so many tonic foods? Keep them for yourself." Chen Yongwei began to search among the seaweed.

"Fuck you!" Li Changle threw seawater in his face, "I'll fish it back, dry it, and sell it in the pharmacy."

Seahorses change color with the environment, so they are very difficult to find. The two searched in the seaweed for a long time before they caught a dozen seahorses.

Chen Yongwei blinked his sore eyes and said, "Brother, I won't look for it anymore. My eyes are cross-eyed. If you want more, we can go to the island someday. There are much more there than here."

Li Changle thought about how he slept late last night and how he was concentrating on finding it. His eyes couldn't bear it. "Okay, let's go to the island to catch it next time."

"Yeah!" Chen Yongwei looked at the fishing rope hanging on his arm, "Have you found the trap?"

"Not yet!" Li Changle waved at him, "You should go back and look for it quickly, because we still have to go to Tuxia Bridge to deliver the goods later!"

He pulled the fishing rope for more than ten meters before he found the trap. The moment he tried it, he felt there was something inside. Sure enough, as soon as he lifted it out of the water, he was splashed with water.

After he lifted the trap out of the water, he saw that the fish bag on his side was full. The most eye-catching was a sea bass that was longer than his calf. Li Changle estimated that it weighed 17 or 18 kilograms.

Although it is not valuable, it is heavy enough to be sold for a few dollars.

If you look closely, you can see white crabs, blue crabs, sole skin, yellow croaker, black sea bream and small sea bass.

"Awei, I found this explosive net." He shouted excitedly to Chen Yongwei.

"Oh~" Chen Yongwei waved at him happily, "My net harvest is not bad!"

"Hurry up and get on the shore to dump out the catch, and then continue looking for traps."

Li Changle excitedly carried the trap net and walked towards the shore happily. Suddenly, he was tripped by something and almost fell into a puddle.

After standing firmly, he hooked it with his foot and a fishing rope was brought out of the water. He pulled it but it didn't move. There were splashes of water on a raised reef on the left. It seemed that the fishing net was rolled there by the waves.

"Awei, I found another trap." "Pull the fishing rope over here and go down to collect it later." Chen Yongwei strode towards the shore holding the trap.

"What's in your cage?"

"I saw a mullet, croaker, stonefish, crabs and shrimps."

Li Changle followed him ashore. When he saw the catch in the fish bag on the other side, a sea snake covered with gray and blue rings appeared in front of him. He was immediately frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Oh my god! What a huge gray-blue sea snake!"

"Oh my god, this thing is very poisonous. If it bites me, I will be in trouble." Chen Yongwei was very grateful. "Brother, I'm glad I listened to you and came to find the trap this morning. If I had come last night, I would have been killed if I was bitten by it."

The flat-tailed sea snake is a reptile of the genus Flat-tailed Sea Snake in the family Elapidae. This creature is extremely poisonous. It is said that its venom is ten times that of a cobra. It generally lives along the coast of rocky reefs near estuaries.

Snake meat also has the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, promoting blood circulation and dredge meridians, and nourishing the body.

In later generations, it has been listed as a second-class protected animal, and those who catch it privately can get a free meal.

Li Changle came to his senses and looked at the flat-tailed snake excitedly, "Today's dragon and phoenix soup has been found."

Chen Yongwei also nodded excitedly, looking at the gray-blue flat-tailed sea snake curled up in the fish bag, "Brother, we didn't bring any pliers, how can we catch it?"

"That's easy!" Li Changle carefully poured the fish and crabs from the fish bag into the backpack, picked up the ground cage and put it into the backpack, clapped his hands, "It's done, let's have dragon and phoenix soup for lunch."

"The other day he said he hadn't had dragon and phoenix soup for a long time, and today he caught a big poisonous fish." Chen Yongwei happily pulled up the fishing line, "Brother, I'll go into the water to collect it, can you look around the woods over there to see if there are any more?"

"Go!" Li Changle found a stick and started searching in the mud under the tree. After searching for more than ten minutes, he finally found another one.

Chen Yongwei felt relieved when he saw that he had found four. He hoped to find a few more, and if he was lucky, he could make up for his losses.

The two were busy in the grove for more than two hours, found six traps and three crab nets, and harvested more than a dozen blue crabs, as well as stone crabs and orchid crabs.

The harvest after the typhoon was really good, it’s a pity that I only found these few, otherwise I would have posted them today.

The two men collected their catch. Seeing that the sun had risen, Li Changle stopped Chen Yongwei who was still trying to go into the water to look for crab cages. The two brothers picked up their backpacks and walked back.

Chen Yongwei picked up the kettle and took a few sips. "Brother, they may have already started opening oysters when we get back."

Li Changle nodded, "I hope I can get one out. Otherwise, if I pry it back later, they will definitely refuse to let me open it."

"Old people are like this. They don't like to take risks. They like to grab what's in front of them."

Li Changle felt that what he said made sense, and kept urging him to walk faster, wanting to go home and see what was going on.

The two men walked to the entrance of the alley panting, and met Wang Mazi and A Biao coming out of the alley.

When Wang Mazi saw Li Changle, he thought of the day when Ah Wu warned him not to provoke Li Changle and not to cause trouble for his brother, and he became furious.

With a roll of his eyes, he deliberately said loudly to Ah Biao, "I told you, I have money here. Don't just say you want to lease 100 acres, you can lease 200 acres."

"My brother-in-law said that there is a lot of money in leasing tidal flats, so he let my family lease 500 acres! His family leased even more. In the future, those poor guys who go fishing in the sea can only watch us make money."

"Awang, thank you so much."

Wang Daobiao, who had a shaggy face, also saw Li Changle and the other person. Thinking of the falling out between Wang Mazi and Li Changle, he pretended not to see them.

She happily put her arm around his shoulders and said, "Don't worry, when I make money, I will definitely pay you back with interest."

Mingming was clearly reluctant when asked to borrow the contract fee for 100 acres of tidal flat land just now. But now seeing A Le, he took the initiative to ask to borrow another 100 acres of contract fee.

It seems that if I want to borrow money from him next time, I have to ask him when I meet A Le.

"You're still talking about interest to me, you look down on me!" Wang Mazi said as he looked back at Li Changle with pride, cursing inwardly: "You bastard, you deserve to be poor for the rest of your life for fighting with me!"

Wang Daobiao said with gratitude: "Then I won't be polite. When we get to the village committee, I'll ask Uncle Dong to help write an IOU."

Li Changle glanced at the two people who were arm in arm, as close as if they were wearing a pair of trousers, and wished that they could contract all the tidal flats in Shatou Village.

Thinking of the scene at the end of the year when A Biao was chasing Wang Mazi, who was wearing women's panties in a panic, with a machete, the corners of his lips curled up and he smiled happily.

Chen Yongwei glanced at him and said, "Brother, your smile is a bit sinister! I understand now, Wang Mazi must be having an affair with A Biao's wife?"

"She's not your wife, why do you care who she has an affair with?" Li Changle glanced at him and went up to the yard. He saw Li's father sitting on the steps and Zhou Ruonan and Grandma Chen opening oysters in the house.

　Thanks to my friend Xiao Pao's weapon is Boom, lucky little koi, for your support! Thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)