Chapter 145 My Brother, You Are Amazing

At this time, another column of water rushed up into the sky, and a huge round figure jumped out of the water in a flash, its tail fin swept across the sea water, and the fish fell on the beach like beans, as if responding to him.

Li Changle danced with excitement, "Thank you, you are indeed the smartest Tiger..."

The eldest and second brothers seemed to be under a spell. They stood there in a daze, murmuring unconsciously, "Mysterious! They can understand human language?"

"My brother, you are amazing! Even sea beasts can understand what you say." Chen Yongwei turned around and hugged him, "Hurry up, brother, run down and pick up the fish..."

"Katai, why are you holding me? Go pick up the fish." Li Changle slapped his hand away and ran towards the beach excitedly. Chen Yongwei and the other two followed him down.

When they ran to the beach, a column of water poured water on them. A killer whale jumped out of the water, drew a graceful arc, made a cry like the sound of nature, then dived into the water and swam towards its companions.

"Thank you, Brother Hu, for the fish. Take care!" Li Changle waved goodbye to it excitedly.

Several people found that there were many tuna and other fish jumping on the beach. It turned out that these killer whales were preying on the tuna schools.

As expected of Tiger, who is the best eater, the fish he preys on are all valuable big fish. Li Changle's eyes lit up as he picked up a tuna weighing five or six kilograms and stuffed it into the net bag.

He kept saying, "I'm rich, I'm rich. I can sell the fish and have enough money to build a small villa."

Seeing that no one responded, he turned his head to look at Brother Li and the other two, and saw that they were also excitedly picking up the fish and stuffing them into the net bag. He thought they were all busy picking up the fish, so he didn't have time to get excited and focused on picking up the fish.

The brothers were happily picking up fish when flocks of seabirds flew over from the sea to snatch the food. A red-legged seabird swooped down, picked up a fish, and flew away with its wings flapping.

"Damn it, you dare to snatch the fish that Hu Zi gave us!" Several people hurriedly picked up stones and threw them at the seabird.

"I'll smash you to death!" Chen Yongwei picked up a stone and smashed a seabird away, then grabbed a tuna weighing seven or eight kilograms and quickly put it into the net bag.

"Don't smash it, use a scoop net to catch it." Li Changle picked up the scoop net and covered a seabird's head, laughing happily, "Damn it, I'll let you steal my fish."

Seeing this, Brother Li also took out his scoop net and went to catch the seabirds, shouting, "Catch a few more and cook them at home."

Brother Li also took out a scoop net to deal with the seabirds that were stealing his food. He managed to get back a fish, but the seabird also pooped on his straw hat.

The seabirds were frightened by the people's scoop nets and dared not get closer, but they were still circling overhead, and from time to time a "clicking" sound could be heard from the straw hats.

The brothers were busy picking up fish, chatting and laughing. As long as the seabirds didn't snatch the fish from them, they would just poop a few times to disgust them, but they were too lazy to pay attention to them.

Anyway, you're wearing a straw hat, so bird poop won't fall on your hair. After picking up the fish, go to the beach and rinse the straw hat in sea water for a few times to clean it.

"Brother, I picked up a blue-spotted mackerel, it weighs at least ten pounds." Chen Yongwei excitedly stuffed the fish into the net bag.

Brother Li: "I also picked up one, it's smaller than yours, about 6 or 7 kilograms."

Brother Li: "It's good to go out to sea with Ah Le. We can even catch fish."

"We used to hide when we saw the sea urchin, why didn't we ever think of asking it for fish?"

"Who could have thought of that? Only someone as crazy as Ah Le could have thought of that."

"Hahaha, what a great find! I picked up a bluefin tuna!" Li Changle laughed and shouted excitedly while holding a big fish that weighed about 70 or 80 kilograms, with its head bleeding from being smashed by Hu Zi.

Seeing him sitting on the beach, holding the fish and laughing like a madman, Brother Li grabbed a handful of sand and threw it at him.

"Dianzi, bluefin tuna is only 30 or 40 cents a pound, not 3 or 4 yuan a pound. After all, you have sold large grouper before. Why are you acting like someone who has never seen large goods?"

Li Changle's eyes widened, "Brother, how much is a pound of bluefin tuna? Are you sure?"

This is the bluefin tuna, known as the Rolls-Royce of fish, and it's only three or four cents a pound? Did he hear it wrong, or did his brother remember it wrong?
"If I remember correctly, it was 30 or 40 cents per pound. It's only in the past two years that the price has increased. Before the fish are distributed to the households, they are returned to the cooperative for sale. The big ones are only 4 or 5 cents per pound. No one eats the small ones. They are cooked and fed to cats and pigs."

Li Changle was like a deflated ball after hearing this, "Damn, it's so cheap?"

"Three or four cents a pound is still cheap?" Brother Li rolled his eyes at him in annoyance, "Ah Le, don't be ungrateful, we have picked up two or three hundred pounds of these, and they can be sold for more than a hundred yuan!"

I just thought he was a little more serious, but now he's acting crazy again. He doesn't seem like someone from the second wife at all.

Look at Awei, who is two or three years younger than him and is much more steady in doing things.

"Brother, the seafood restaurant costs only three or four cents, while the restaurant is more expensive." Chen Yongwei hurriedly comforted him.

Brother Li looked at him strangely, "Ah Le, I think you are a little strange. Even if you didn't come here to fish before, you should know the approximate price! Why don't you look like someone from a fishing village? You look like the nouveau riche in the restaurant, where money is worthless. Ah Le, we are just ordinary people, we don't want to be so high-minded."

"No, I heard from those foodies in town that bluefin tuna is more expensive than yellowtail. I picked up this big one and thought I could sell it for a lot of money. In my excitement, I forgot about the market price." Li Changle hurriedly found an excuse to evade him.

Brother Li thought of how he used to hang out in the town and nodded, "Don't listen to their bragging. Now that you have a boat, you are a proper fisherman. You should learn more about the fish prices, or people will laugh at you."

"Yes! I'll understand." Li Changle also felt that he should ask about the price of fish. If this happens a few more times, his heart will not be able to bear it.

After a busy period, the net bags brought by Li Changle and his companions were already filled with fish. Most of the fish in the sacks were tuna, weighing at least more than 200 kilograms.

Then there are some Spanish mackerel, grey mullet, and a few silver pomfret, which together might weigh about a hundred pounds. At three or four cents a pound, that's still a profit of more than a hundred dollars.

The four of them felt that the trip was well worth it. It only cost a few dollars for diesel round trip, but they earned so much.

Seeing that most of the fish had been picked up, Brother Li said to Li Changle and the others, "The dead fish have been left for a long time and are no longer fresh. I'll drive the boat over and you can move the fish onto the boat."

"Okay, we'll wait for you to come over." Li Changle took off his hat and found several puddles of bird droppings on it. "Brother, where are the seabirds you just caught?"

"It's still in the scoop net, weighed down by rocks."

The three men walked to the beach, washed the bird droppings off their hats, weighed the hats down with stones, and went back to pick up the fishing tools thrown on the beach.

I was busy picking up the fish and dropped the bucket, and the sand shovel, chisel, rake, etc. all fell out.

What made me happy was that one of the scoop nets actually caught two seabirds. There were eight or nine seabirds in total in the several scoop nets. I can cook a big pot of them tonight.

Chen Yongwei followed Li Changle with a bucket in his hand. Thinking of the time when Li Changle asked the killer whale for fish, he was very curious. "Brother, can killer whales really understand human language?"

This was the first time in Li Changle's life that he had done such a thing. He felt it was amazing. "Maybe. I heard people in town bragging that killer whales are very smart, with the IQ of a few-year-old child."

"Fuck! So they can understand everything we say?"

"I just heard it from others, I don't know what's going on."

"Awei, Ale, when you are sailing in the sea in the future, it is best not to provoke them. After all, they are sea beasts, and we don't know what they are going to do. If we piss them off, they can smash the fishing boat to pieces with a single sweep of their tails."

"Oh!" Li Changle picked up the bucket, "Let's go over there, big brother is coming."

The three men waded through the water, handed the fish in the net bag to Brother Li to carry onto the fishing boat, and then handed the living ones to him to pour into the live hold. Then they brought up a few seabirds and buckets, and then they climbed onto the fishing boat using the rope ladder.

The water was waist-deep, soaking even my underwear.

Li Changle went to the cab, took out the pants of the three people from the backpack, and said to Li Erge and Chen Yongwei: "Take off your wet pants and put on dry ones."

"Oh oh!" The two men stood up, took off their pants, and changed them arrogancely.

Li Changle nudged Chen Yongwei and said, "Brother, be careful of seabirds coming over and taking the little bird away."

"It dares. My scoop net is still here. It's just the right time to add some food." Chen Yongwei said as he put on his pants and lay on the deck warmed by the sun.

Li Changle also lay down. The sea was calm and the fishing boat was rocking gently. It was a pleasure to lie on the deck.

Brother Li covered his face with a straw hat and lay beside him with his head in his arms. "I have been making a living in the sea since I was fifteen or sixteen years old. Today's fish is the easiest to catch."

Li Changle thought of the scene of picking up fish just now and smiled proudly, "Who isn't? It can be said that the entire Shatou Village has never had this experience."

"Not to mention Shatou Village, even in the nearby fishing villages, I have never heard of such a thing." Chen Yongwei laughed, "During the time I worked with Brother Ale, I felt that making money was just like picking up money."

"Get up, get up!" Brother Li came over with two melons, kicked one of them, and sat down cross-legged, "Eat a piece of melon, sit for a while, and finish your work. Then you can go back and collect the longline."

Chen Yongwei turned over and got up, patting Li Changle, "Brother, get up, go back and rest for a while, we have to collect jars in the evening, and we also have to go to the cave to dig oysters and Buddha's hand snails."

Li Changle supported himself on the deck and sat up lazily. "How can I have time to rest? I have to send the fish to Tuxia Bridge to sell. It's dark when I get home. I'm exhausted every day."

Brother Li slapped him and said, "Young man, be content! I am willing to work for three yuan a pound of Buddha's hand snails and oysters with pearls even if I have to go without food all day long."

"Oh, right. I wonder if the remaining oysters have produced pearls yet?" Li Changle took the melon and took a bite. "Brothers, let's go after we finish eating."

(End of this chapter)

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