Chapter 176: Treasure Brought by the Wind

Chapter 176: Treasure Brought by the Wind

Chapter 176: Treasure Brought by the Wind (Revised)

Li Changle and Chen Yongwei handed the hundred yuan that Accountant Chen asked for to the village and went home. Zhang Dejin and the eldest and second brothers Li had already pressed the tiles on the roof with bricks and packed up to go home.

Mrs. Li brought some dried fish and dried shrimp, Mrs. Li brought some jellyfish skin, and Zhou Ruonan brought some dried seahorses, green snappers, mackerel heads, and dried oysters and packed them into a big bag for her.

Mother Li took a big bag of pickled mustard greens, a basket of salted duck eggs, and a big bundle of bean flour and loaded them onto the tricycle.

Li Changxi pointed at the bean flour and said, "Mother, my family just made a lot of bean flour, and I sent you a lot this time. You're still filling it up for me."

"What's yours is yours, and what I did is what I did." Li's mother put them on the tricycle without saying anything, "A Le, send your sister and brother-in-law to the street."

"okay!"

Li Changle carried her two nieces and her little nephew into the tricycle, got on it and pedaled out of the village. Li's mother followed behind and happily sent her daughter and her family to the village entrance before reluctantly going home.

Although Shatou Village and Li'ao are only two or three hours' walk away, Li Changxi seldom visits her maternal family except during festivals, and Li's mother has never visited her daughter's home throughout the entire year.

Li Changle sent her sister's family to the main road, waited for the minibus to arrive, sent them on the bus, and then rode the tricycle back. She saw a dark cloud passing by in front of her, and the rain swept over like huge waves.

The weather at the seaside is so strange. Although they were only a dozen meters apart, the person in front was drenched by the heavy rain, while the person behind was not wetted by a single drop of rain.

When he rode his tricycle home, his parents were weaving nets at home, the little ones were pouting and helping to dry oysters and fish, and everyone else had gone to Nanshan to dig stumps and clay.

The wind is so strong, I wonder if the tide has receded a bit?
If you have time, this weather is a good time to pick up seafood.

Li Changle rode his tricycle to the alley, thought for a moment, then stopped and walked back.

Father Li stopped the shuttle in his hand and asked, "What are you doing back here?"

"Let me drink some water!"

Li Changle said perfunctorily, went back to the house, got some hemp ropes and a few net bags, folded them and put them in his trouser pockets, rolled up the scoop net and hid it behind him, and while Li's father lowered his head, he quickly left the yard and rode his tricycle to Nanshan.

When he arrived at the Nanshan intersection, he stretched his neck to look at the people busy in the valley, stopped the tricycle, got off and locked it, and walked towards the beach with the scoop net in hand. The wind was whistling, and his curly hair immediately became a mess.

When walking past a group of strange-shaped low reefs, I saw densely packed sea cockroaches crawling on them, which made my scalp tingle.

Although this thing is disgusting, it is said to be a traditional Chinese medicine. If people in the fishing village suffer from boils, bruises or sprains, they will grab some and mash it up and apply it on the affected area, and it will be cured after a few times.

Walking through the reefs and towards the sea, you can see from afar that the tide is receding little by little, and the waves are rolling in layer by layer.

Li Changle suddenly realized that something was wrong on the sea, and hurriedly ran forward a few steps. He saw groups of colorful, spherical, translucent objects floating on the sea.

"What the hell~ Could it be a jellyfish tide?"

He exclaimed and ran forward, only to see jellyfish of all sizes floating on the muddy sea like parachutes, and some were stranded on the beach.

"Oh my god, it's really a jellyfish!" Li Changle thought of the jellyfish tide that almost took down the power station in his previous life. He didn't expect that he would be able to see it with his own eyes.

There were groups and thousands of jellyfish floating on the sea, which was a spectacular sight.

He regretted that he didn't have a mobile phone, otherwise he would take a picture and show it to his sons when they came back to open their eyes.

Li Changle watched for a while, spread the scoop net on the beach, picked up a stranded jellyfish the size of a washbasin and put it into the scoop net. When he lifted it up, he found that it didn't look very big, but it was quite heavy, estimated to be twenty to thirty kilograms.

"Hey, there's only 200 grams of meat on you, and you're just full of water!"

Li Changle ran a few steps with the jellyfish in his hand, then stopped and looked at the juicy and bouncy jellyfish in the net bag. He felt that it would be a burden to carry it with him, so he simply dropped the net and turned around to run towards the foundation.

He ran to the homestead, so tired that he rested his hands on his knees, hunched over and gasped for breath.

Seeing that he was out of breath, Brother Li laughed and joked, "Why are you running so fast? Is there a dog chasing you?"

Zhou Ruonan saw that his pants were soaked, "Ah Le, did you go to the beach again?"

"Yeah!" Li Changle took a deep breath and waved to Chen Yongwei, "There are a lot of jellyfish in the sea. Ah Wei, hurry up and ride back to get rubber gloves, a scoop net, a basket, and a bamboo knife."

"Oh oh!" Without saying a word, Chen Yongwei threw down his hoe, got on his bicycle and went home to get his belongings.

"Ah Le, jellyfish and jellyfish look similar. Did you mistake a jellyfish for a jellyfish?"

"Even if you haven't eaten pork, you've seen a pig run! I scooped one up with my own hands, but I thought it was in the way, so I threw the scoop net on the beach!" After saying this, Li Changle turned around and ran away.

Jellyfish are also part of the genus jellyfish, but jellyfish are not jellyfish.

Jellyfish are just a small branch of the jellyfish family. As a fishery resource these days, a large number of species such as face stings and sand stings are caught for food.

The surface jellyfish tastes better and is not very big, usually weighing between 10 and 20 kilograms. The sand jellyfish is much larger, some weighing several hundred kilograms.

"Ale, wait for me!" Zhou Ruonan ran after him.

Li Erge was the fastest to react. "Who cares if it is real or not? We can find out by going to the beach!" Then he chased after them. "Ah Fang, Ah Zhen, hurry up and take the dustpan and basket with you. If it is real, there will be something to salvage."

"Oh oh!" Mrs. Li Da and Mrs. Li Er quickly packed up their belongings and ran after them.

Over there, Brother Li ran to the intersection and saw him park the tricycle on the side of the road. He hurried forward to take a look, and saw that it was locked, so he continued to chase him.

A few people chased to the beach and saw Li Changle already holding a scoop net and starting to work. Zhou Ruonan had no tools and could only watch excitedly.

Because the stinging cells of jellyfish are distributed on the surface of the jellyfish mouth and are very sensitive to touch.

Once touched, the stinging wire containing venom will pop out and pierce into the body of the target. After being stung, the mildest injury is redness and swelling of the skin, pain and itching, while the worst case is shock or even death.

But jellyfish are different. Famous ones include the box jellyfish, Portuguese man-of-war, lion's mane jellyfish, Arctic jellyfish, etc. These are called swimming killers. Once you are targeted by them, there is only one way to go, and that is death.

"Oh my goodness!" Brother Li exclaimed as he looked at the sea, "There really are jellyfish everywhere!"

"Brother, why are you just standing there watching? Hurry up and get the bamboo basket to catch them!" Li Changle struggled to carry a net bag full of jellyfish and walked towards the shore, all wet.

"Oh oh!" Brother Li took the bamboo basket handed to him by Sister Li Er, walked towards the sea with it, grabbed the edge of the bamboo basket, and scooped up a few fish at once.

Brother Li was also excited and went into the sea with a bamboo basket to salvage the jellyfish. The sisters-in-law on the shore did not dare to go into the water, so they picked up the stranded jellyfish with a dustpan and poured them on the beach a little away from the sea.

Mrs. Li turned over a jellyfish, and an octopus crawled out from the large conch next to it, moving its tentacles and quickly fleeing towards the seaside.

"Oh my god!" She shouted in surprise, grabbed the octopus, and kept pulling out its tentacles that were wrapped around her hands.

Zhou Ruonan picked up a jellyfish and turned around to see a white crab crawling past Li Ersao, "Hurry up, Ersao, there's a crab behind you!"

"Where?"

Mrs. Li looked up and saw a white crab running fast on the beach. She took a few quick steps and stepped on its shell. She reached out and grabbed both sides of the crab shell and shouted, "Ah Le, did you bring the hemp rope?"

"I brought them!" Li Changle poured the jellyfish in the net bag onto the beach, took out a handful of hemp rope from his pocket and handed it to her, and also brought out a few net bags.

"Hehe!" Mrs. Li looked at the net bag on the beach and laughed, "Ale's trouser pocket is like a treasure bag, it has everything!"

Li Changle quickly picked it up and put it in his pocket, saying proudly: "This is what I call being prepared for any eventuality, you guys don't understand!"

"Ale is now doing things more prudently than us."

Brother Li excitedly shouted while holding the bamboo basket, "Fuck! It's so heavy that I almost couldn't hold on to the bamboo basket."

Brother Li came up with a bamboo basket, all wet, "Ah Le, there are so many jellyfish, what should we do?"

The jellyfish they caught ranged from small ones weighing more than ten kilograms to large ones weighing thirty or forty kilograms.

"What else can we do?" Brother Li said cheerfully, "Catch up everything we can and send it to the fishery cooperative to sell. If we catch a few hundred, we can sell them for at least 20 or 30 yuan."

Li Changle frowned after hearing this, "So little?"

"You thought it was weighed by kilograms!"

Brother Li smiled and pointed at the jellyfish in his bamboo basket, which weighed at least 30 to 40 kilograms. "The fishery cooperative will charge 30 cents for jellyfish weighing more than 30 kilograms, 20 cents for jellyfish weighing more than 20 kilograms, and 10 cents for jellyfish weighing more than 10 kilograms."

"It's too cheap. It's not worth selling fresh food!" Li Changle shook his head decisively, "Make them all into jellyfish skins and send them to Lucheng to sell to my mother-in-law!"

He remembered that the insides and brains of jellyfish were quite valuable, although they were sold in small quantities and generally several hundred kilograms of fresh goods would not sell for one kilogram. But one kilogram could still be sold for one or two yuan, right?

If we kill all the jellyfish, collect them together and sell them at a seafood restaurant, the price would probably be more than this.

"Jellyfish brain" is the reproductive gland of jellyfish, which is jelly-like and tastes extremely delicious. "Jellyfish inside" is a thin layer of skin inside fresh jellyfish meat, which is white and slightly yellow in color, and has a smooth, crisp and delicate taste.

Jellyfish blood is a thin layer of brown bloody membrane torn off from the inner side of the jellyfish's umbrella. A large jellyfish has only a tiny bit of blood.

And not every jellyfish has it. Only the jellyfish with a long growth period whose epidermis falls off naturally and has a reddish-brown membrane can be called "jellyfish blood".

Therefore, it is the most valuable part of the jellyfish.

These things cannot be pickled and stored for a long time like jellyfish heads and jellyfish skins. They need to be simply boiled in water and frozen with ice for storage.

Zhou Ruonan nodded and said, "I think we can pickle them and send them to Lucheng to sell. Last time I saw my mother buying jellyfish heads for one yuan per pound, and the jellyfish skin can also be sold for eight or nine cents."

As she spoke, she poked a jellyfish with a dustpan and saw a thin layer of brown blood under the umbrella. "There are also these, one pound can be sold for more than ten yuan!"

Li Changle took over and said, "Eight or nine kilograms of fresh food can produce one kilogram of dried food. The big ones can weigh thirty or forty kilograms. One jellyfish, not counting the jellyfish brain and jellyfish lining, can be sold for more than one yuan."

"The big one can earn at least one dollar, and the small one can earn a few dimes. We can't go out to sea on typhoon days, so we do it ourselves. It just takes a little more effort."

(End of this chapter)