Chapter 125: Thinking about good things every day
Chapter 125: Thinking about good things every day
Li Changle said confidently, "Think about it! I have 200 of them this time. If I come across them, I will definitely earn more than last time."
Chen Yongwei took over the conversation with a smile, "Brother, Brother Ale said that we should have ideas in life and think positively, then good things will come one after another."
"You two silly boys, you only think about good things every day!" Brother Li laughed, "We can just talk about these things among our family members. Others will laugh at you if they hear it."
Li Changle felt that his elder brother was just worrying too much. "Brother, as long as we haven't done anything wrong, why do you care so much about others? In fact, everyone wants to encounter crabs moving every day, but they are just embarrassed to say it out loud!"
"That's right. Didn't you see that when those people saw Brother Ale coming out to fish in the sea, they followed him, saying that they would get some good luck by following him."
Brother Li thought about it and it was true. To be honest, he also hoped that he could encounter schools of crabs every time he went out to fish in the sea. He could build a new house in half a month so that he wouldn't have to do everything in secret, like a thief.
But he still couldn't say it as confidently as Li Changle did.
As we went along, wherever the headlamp reached, we saw countless sand crabs quickly fleeing into the caves, and there were also dense swarms of jumping fish, which all disappeared into the mud holes before we even got there.
"Fuck! They run faster than Sprinter!" Li Changle looked at the jumping fish in the distance and felt the pain of being able to see them but not be able to catch them. He felt very uncomfortable.
"If it's not fast, how can it be called a jumping fish!"
The three of them arrived at the water hole laughing and joking. Li Changle pointed to the location of the big water hole and told his eldest brother how they caught the big grouper.
After seeing it, Li Changping also said that the terrain here is high and it is only blocked during high tide.
The three of them walked down along the reef. Chen Yongwei, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and stared at the place where the headlight was shining. "Brother, hurry up, there is a moray eel hole here."
"Here it comes!" Li Changle and his brother ran over quickly and saw a round hole the size of a goose egg. The entrance of the hole was very smooth, just like the eel holes in the ridges of the fields, except that this one was bigger and rounder.
Judging from the shape of the hole, the conger eel hidden inside should be quite large.
Chen Yongwei pointed at the hole excitedly and said, "When I saw it just now, it stretched its head into the hole. It looked a bit like an eel."
It looks a bit like an eel, could it be a snake eel?
Li Changle searched around and found another one after taking two steps. It was a smooth and round conger eel hole as big as a child's fist. He shouted at the top of his voice, "I found another one."
"Ah Le, I found one too." Brother Li also shouted, "I saw what's in the cave. It's not a conger eel, but a mud dragon."
"Fuck! It's sent, it's sent, hurry up and look for it again!"
"oh oh!"
The three of them searched around excitedly. After searching for a long time, they finally found one, and then there was no more.
Neither the one Li Changle found nor the one he found later had an earth dragon at the entrance of the cave. Brother Li reached out and touched the entrance and found it to be smooth and sticky, and concluded that the earth dragon was still in the cave.
The earth dragon is not a dragon. Its scientific name is Pollu bean-toothed snake eel. It is a very good nourishing tonic with the effects of nourishing, strengthening yang, and promoting blood circulation and unblocking meridians.
He had never dug up a sea dragon, but he knew that it was much more expensive than a snow eel. Both in terms of nutritional value and taste, it was more popular than snow eels and sea urchins, and could be considered a top-notch seafood product.
Whenever villagers in the fishing village were injured, they would ask for some Tulong medicinal wine from the household that had it.
Li Changle remembered that there was a jar at home when he was a child. Maybe because it was soaked for too long and lost its medicinal effect or for other reasons, he never saw it again after that.
Brother Li's face was wrinkled with joy. "Ah Le, judging from the size of these four earth dragon caves, two or three pounds should be no problem."
"Hahaha, big brother has a good start today!" Li Changle excitedly ran back and picked up the sand shovel, "Big brother, Awei, what are you two just standing there watching? Hurry up and dig!" After saying that, he squatted down and was about to start digging.
Brother Li stopped him and said, "Ah Le, don't dig yet. This thing's tail can also dig holes. If you dig from this end, it will use its tail to dig a hole and run away."
The tip of the earth dragon's tail is very hard and can be used to dig holes and build nests.
The older generation of sea diggers often say, "eel head, earth dragon tail." What this means is that the eel's head is hard and the earth dragon's tail is strong, one digs holes with its head and the other digs holes with its tail.
"What should we do then?" Li Changle and the other person looked at him in shock.
Brother Li looked at the small sand shovel and shook his head. "The tool is not good enough. The earth dragon cave that I dug with my father was deep and long.
Some were even two or three meters deep. With such a small sand shovel, even if the three of us worked together to dig for two or three hours, we wouldn’t find even one fish.”
Chen Yongwei was anxious after hearing this, "What should we do? Second Brother is still guarding the grove. What if Wang Mazi, that bastard, goes there and they can't defeat him?"
Brother Li looked at the time and said, "It's only a little after eight o'clock. They won't go to the grove so early."
Li Changle nodded, "Brother, you have dug earth dragons with my father before, do you think there is any other way?"
"Let me think about it!" Brother Li thought for a while and took out the remaining half pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket. "Last time when we docked at the dock of the next province, I saw an old man with a good idea." "I have a light here." Li Changle thought he wanted to smoke, so he hurriedly took out a match from his pocket and handed it to him.
"I'm not smoking." Brother Li laughed, "The old man used the smoking method, which is to put tobacco into the hole and smoke it. It will come out of the hole in about a cup of tea."
"Smoking method?" Li Changle looked at the Earth Dragon Cave and frowned. "There is water in the cave. If you put the tobacco in, it will go out. How can you smoke it?"
"Fool!" Brother Li laughed, "It's not smoked, it's the smell of soaked tobacco that the earth dragon doesn't like, so it will crawl out of the hole. I don't have enough cigarettes, give me all your cigarettes."
After hearing this, Li Changle finally understood that tobacco contains tar. When it comes into contact with water, the bitter taste of the tar will be absorbed into the water. The earth dragon cannot stand it and will naturally break through the hole and escape!
"Oh!" Li Changle and Chen Yongwei quickly took out the cigarettes in their pockets and handed them to him.
Both of them bought cigarettes in the afternoon. Li Changle smoked a few cigarettes, while Chen Yongwei didn't have a smoking habit, so he gave three to the brothers, along with a full pack.
Brother Li took the cigarettes, took out a dozen or so, soaked them in water and rubbed them a few times, then stuffed the tobacco into the earth dragon cave, and dug some sand to cover the hole.
The other three followed the same procedure, except that one put the tobacco in two minutes later.
Then he took the can out of the sack, untied the two ends of the fishing rope, made a loose knot and placed it on the pile of earth. Then he went to another hole and put the loose knot in place.
After placing the rope buckles, the three men each guarded a dragon cave, squatting there with great anticipation, even their breathing slowed down, quietly waiting for the dragon to come out.
Sure enough, after more than ten minutes, a dragon broke out of the hole that was first stuffed with tobacco. Li Changle quickly grabbed the fishing rope. The dragon struggled to coil its tail, and the rope buckle became tighter and tighter.
Over there, Chen Yongwei and Brother Li grabbed the earth dragon by pulling the fishing rope. Without time to be happy, they hurried to the last cave entrance to guard it.
Li Changle was holding the earth dragon with a cone-shaped head and a rouge tail, and was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth. "Mine weighs at least three kilograms."
"Brother, mine is small, only about two pounds." Chen Yongwei held the earth dragon and smiled with a mouthful of white teeth showing, "Brother, this one is thicker, it should weigh three or four pounds."
Brother Li was guarding the entrance to the last earth dragon cave, looking at the two with a smile, worried that any noise he made would scare away the earth dragon in the cave.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei hurriedly took out a net bag to put the earth dragon in, tied the opening of the net bag before putting it into the bucket, and tied the rope to the handle.
The main thing is that this thing has a lot of momentum. If you put it directly in the bucket, it will jump out and you won’t know when it will escape.
"Here it comes!" Brother Li pulled the fishing line, and the last dragonfish was caught in the net. "This one is fat, at least four pounds."
Li Changle hurried over with the net bag, "Hurry up and put it in the net bag."
"Hehe, it's a good start." Brother Li put the earth dragon in, untied the fishing rope, and looked at the earth dragon struggling in the net bag, grinning.
Li Changle: "Brother, luckily you came with me today, otherwise Ah Wei and I would have been digging foolishly for a long time and we don't know when we would finish digging."
Brother Li was very happy to have such a harvest on the first day of fishing. "There used to be a lot of snakeheads on the beach. When the tide was high, the snakeheads would come out of their holes and run around. You didn't even need to use a triangular fork to catch the tobacco."
"Were there so many before? I started fishing in the sea when I was a teenager, and I only saw others catch them. This is the first time I have caught one myself!"
"Ah Le is lucky. I always get good seafood when I take him fishing."
"You were the first ones to discover the Earth Dragon Cave. Why are you pushing all the blame on me?"
"Your second brother and I used to come here to fish when we returned from sailing, but we never found any good stuff. If it's not because you are lucky, then what is that?"
Li Changle hurriedly changed the subject, "I heard that drinking Tulong wine is good for the waist, how about we keep two small ones for soaking in wine?"
You little bastard, you dare eat such a big bowl of earth dragon which costs several dollars per pound!
Brother Li glared at him and said, "More than two kilograms is not small. If you want to drink Tulong wine, A'an, A'wei and I will come here tomorrow to find some small ones to soak in wine."
"Okay!" Li Changle thought that everyone needed money, and it was indeed difficult to eat such an expensive earth dragon. Sand scoop would be a good choice for nourishing the waist.
Speaking of Li Changan, Chen Yongwei hurriedly said: "Brother, let's go and get the jars, Brother An is still waiting for us in the grove!"
"Okay!" Li Changle and Brother Li also picked up the sacks and followed.
"Brother, how much can earth dragon sell for per pound now?" Chen Yongwei asked what Li Changle wanted to ask most.
"If you send more than two kilograms to a seafood store, you should be able to sell it for eight or nine yuan per kilogram. If it's more than three kilograms, the price will be higher. Ah Le has connections in the restaurant, so the price there must be higher."
"I'll take them and sell them when I go to Lucheng tomorrow morning, and I'll give you the money when I come back."
Li Changle thought that since the seafood store charged eight or nine yuan per pound, it should be no problem to sell it to the restaurant for fifteen or sixteen yuan.
(End of this chapter)