Chapter 206: Liar is a puppy

Chapter 206: Liar is a puppy

Chapter 206: Liar is a puppy

After Chen Yongwei sorted out the fishing net, he went to help catch the fish and throw them into the live tank. When he saw the sea ducks, he suddenly remembered the killer whales that helped him catch fish last time.

"Brother, do you think Huzi eats ducks?"

Li Changle recalled the time when he was sailing in the ocean and saw killer whales jumping out of the water to catch seabirds. He laughed and said, "Eat! They even eat seabirds!"

Chen Yongwei said with a look of regret: "It would be nice if they were still here. I would give them some duck eggs to thank them."

"They are even more like idiots than when I was a idiot. Who knows where they are now?"

"My eldest brother said that there are few killer whales near the coast, but we often see killer whales in the wild ocean. Let's buy a big boat and go to the wild ocean to have a look."

"almost!"

Li Changle opened the refrigerator and put some ice cubes into the cabin. Although the fish were not very valuable, a few yellowfin breams and the spiny abalone were worth more than twenty yuan.

Chen Yongwei started the machine and walked towards the sea area where longline fishing was set. The fishing location was not far from Chuiyuan Island and it only took about ten minutes to arrive there.

There were only two of them on the boat now, so one could drive the boat while the other collected the fish. On the way there, Li Changle prepared the bamboo basket for the empty hooks.

When they reached the spot where they were fishing, Chen Yongwei slowed down the boat and said, "Brother, how about I collect the fish?"

"It's okay!" Li Changle waved at him, picked up the iron hook and fished up the float. The first hook was a rice fish, weighing about five or six pounds.

Although millet fish is not valuable, five or six pounds can be sold for three or four yuan.

"Brother, the first hook is okay!" Chen Yongwei shouted, stretching his neck.

"Not bad, I earned back the money I spent on diesel!"

Li Changle smiled and put the fish into the rubber bucket, hung the empty hook, and then collected the second hook.

When he pulled the rope, he felt it was heavy. The fish struggled violently in the water, and his hands were turned red.

He thought it might be a white-eyed fish, so he pulled it up and saw that it was indeed it. It weighed a full eight or nine kilograms and could be sold for four or five dollars.

This thing is very ferocious. Its upper and lower rows of teeth are long and sharp, and its bite force is incredibly strong. If you are bitten by it accidentally, you may lose a piece of flesh at best, or half of your palm at worst.

Li Changle lifted it onto the deck, picked up a wooden stick and knocked on the fish's head twice. When he saw that it didn't move, he picked up the fish and threw it into the bamboo basket.

Next, yellowfin croaker, yellow croaker and spring carp were pulled up one after another, and Chen Yongwei was busy catching the fish and deflation.

After pulling up two empty hooks, I started to catch fish again, sole skin, mackerel, bluefin bream, capelin…

When I pulled the last hook, I actually pulled up a blowfish, but this time it was a poisonous and worthless puffer fish.

In fact, this kind of poisonous one is better, with a higher safety factor and longer life.

Li Changle put away the line groups and thought that the first row's harvest was not bad. With more than fifty line groups, excluding the empty hooks, the total weight of the fish caught was more than one hundred kilograms.

He thinks that longline fishing is still the best because the fish he pulls up are all big fish, so he plans to buy some more hooks and add a few more sets of longlines.

When Chen Yongwei saw that the first group had finished collecting the fish, he hurried forward to help carry the fish in the rubber bucket to the live tank. He scooped up the living ones and put them in the live tank, and put the dead ones into the rubber bucket, then covered them with some ice to keep them fresh.

"Brother, I'll take care of the second group!"

"Okay!" After finishing a set of pulling, Li Changle felt his hands were a little sore again. It seemed that he had not fully recovered from the injury he had sustained while pulling the net the day before yesterday.

Chen Yongwei had good luck today. He pulled up a tiger grouper weighing more than ten pounds with his first hook, which was covered with tiny brown spots.

The big fish made him sweat profusely. After he pulled the fish onto the deck, he was still panting and grinning at Li Changle, "Brother, this is a big catch for the first time!"

"Strong! Keep up the good work!"

"Okay! Let the air out quickly!" Chen Yongwei picked up the fish and ran towards him.

Li Changle quickly turned off the engine and walked forward to take the little fat pig with its mouth wide open. He walked to the living cabin and used a needle to deflate the air. The pig's mouth was wide open and never closed.

At this time, Brother Li and his crew's ship also returned, and the ship slowly approached this side.

Seeing that the two looked good, Li Changle guessed that the catch of the trawl should be good, so he asked in a hoarse voice: "How was the maiden voyage? Are you satisfied?"

"About 400 to 500 kilograms!" Brother Li said cheerfully, "There are more than 100 kilograms of hairtail, dozens of kilograms of prawns and crabs, as well as some yellowtail, mantis shrimp, sole skin, and yellowtail."

After hearing this, Li Changle compared the catch with that of Ge Changfa's first voyage yesterday and felt that it was much better than theirs.

As soon as the two boats approached, Brother Li jumped onto the Rising Sun in one leap. "Ah Le, how many groups have you caught from longline fishing? How's the catch? Did you find any water holes on the island?"

Li Changle looked at his second brother with amusement as he started asking questions one after another. "Not very good. We didn't catch any fish on the island. We only picked up two baskets of duck eggs and caught a few wild sea ducks."

"Duck eggs and ducks are better than an empty bucket!" Brother Li took a look at the ducks and nodded with satisfaction. "Tonight, we'll braise the wild sea ducks, steam the big hairtail fish to go with the wine, and cook some small hairtail fish with shredded radish to celebrate your winning the prize."

"Okay, let's have a nice drink tonight!"

Cooking hairtail with shredded radish, I guess only people here eat it this way.

The snow-white shredded radish is spread on the hairtail fish, and the fish soup is as white as milk, and the freshness is visibly visible to the naked eye. The hairtail fish in the East China Sea is small, with a pair of small eyes with more white than black on its pointed head.

The meat is thick with few bones, and the texture is tender, without the large bones like those in large hairtail fish.

Especially in winter when the hairtail season arrives, you can cook hairtail with shredded radish, fry it, steam it, or pickle it, and you never get tired of eating it every day.

Big Brother Li drove the boat and followed them slowly. With the help of Second Brother Li, it took only about an hour to collect all the remaining fish with multiple longline hooks.

The second and third groups used longline fishing and caught more than 70 fish with more than 100 hooks. The big ones weighed more than ten kilograms, and the small ones weighed one or two kilograms.

Including the first row of lines, a total of more than 100 fish were harvested, with a hook rate of nearly 80%.

The more valuable ones are two tiger groupers, a few small fish, and yellowfin croakers weighing several to more than one kilogram. The catch of the three-row line group is better than that of the trawl.

"Brother, we dragged the trawl for two or three hours at sea and burned so much diesel, but only caught four or five hundred kilograms of fish. Ah Le also caught this much with his longline fishing. I think it's better to buy fish hooks and fishing lines for longline fishing."

"Okay, let's go buy some fishing line and hooks when we get home."

"Brother, I'm planning to make three more sets too. When you buy them, bring mine along as well."

Brother Li nodded and prepared to return. "An, Wei, put down the trawl net. On the way back, you can also catch a few nets of fish to dry in the sun."

"Okay!" Brother Li and Chen Yongwei ran towards the stern of the ship.

Li Changle started the engine, and the two men lowered the trawl into the water, then jumped onto the opposite boat and lowered the net. The two brothers made a gesture, and the fishing boats sailed one after the other towards Yantou Mountain.

When the boat arrived near Yantou Mountain, it was almost eleven o'clock. The return voyage was not in vain, and we harvested more than 100 kilograms of fish.

There are dozens of kilograms of sardines, a few conger eels, swordfish, yellow croakers, some crabs and shrimps, and we have the bait for tomorrow.

The sun was scorching and people were sweating all over. The brothers quickly packed up the fish and drove towards the dock at full speed.

There were only two boats from their family returning at this time. At first glance, there was no one on the dock. But as soon as the boats docked, Li Xiaoyang and Li Dasao pushed a tricycle and pulled a cart towards the fishing boats.

Mrs. Li looked at Brother Li on the boat with a smile on her face, "A Ping, how was the maiden voyage?"

"Okay!" Brother Li jumped ashore with the rope in hand, and Li Xiaoyang immediately stepped forward to catch it, "Dad, I'll tie it."

Brother Li handed him the rope and said, "School is about to start. Have you finished your summer homework?"

"There are only two pages left to be completed." Li Xiaoyang regretted it and felt that he should not have stepped forward to show his courtesy.

"You've been on vacation for two months, and you haven't finished these few thin pages yet!" Brother Li gave him a sidelong look and said, "If you can't register for school, you'll just have to wait for me."

"Xiaoyang, your second uncle and your father wanted to study but didn't have the chance to do so before. Don't miss such a good opportunity." Brother Li, who came ashore carrying a bamboo basket, said again.

"Oh! I get it!" Li Xiaoyang quickly retreated, jumped onto Li Changle's boat, and whispered, "Third Uncle, you don't keep your word."

Li Changle, who was holding the scoop net, raised his head and tapped him on the forehead, "When did I ever break my promise?"

Li Xiaoyang rubbed his forehead and said, "You said last time that as long as we help with the work, you would take us to the island to fish for seafood. School is about to start, and you haven't taken us there yet."

"Oh, I forgot when I was busy." Li Changle smiled awkwardly and rubbed his head, "Go home and finish your homework, I'll take you there tomorrow!"

Li Xiaoyang looked at him, "Lie to me, little dog!"

"Get lost!" Li Changle kicked him, "You disrespectful little bastard!"

"I was wrong. I won't say it next time." Li Xiaoyang hurriedly picked up the bucket. "Uncle San, you're taking the shrimp home to dry them, right? I'll carry it down!"

Li Changle rolled his eyes at him, scooped up a yellow-finned fish and poured it into the rubber bucket.

Along the way, the fish to be sent to Tuxia Bridge for sale and the fish to be dried have been sorted, and there are not many left to sell to Adong's family.

When they carried the two baskets of sea duck eggs to the shore, Mrs. Li's eyes widened. She hurriedly pulled Li Changle and whispered, "Did you go to the duck farm to steal duck eggs?"

"No way!" Li Changle smiled and pointed at the sea duck in the bamboo basket, "Look, the one laying the eggs is still here!"

"Wow~" Mrs. Li's eyes lit up when she saw it, "This wild sea duck is fatter than the ones we raise at home!"

Li Xiaoyang excitedly pulled him and said, "Uncle San, which island did you catch them on? Take us there tomorrow."

Li Changle smiled and nodded, thinking about the fact that he hadn't found any water holes on Chuiyuan Island today, "Okay, let's go out to sea later tomorrow and go to the island to fish and pick up duck eggs."

"Oh oh!" Li Xiaoyang hurriedly moved the bamboo basket containing the ducks under the boat.

Mrs. Li shook her head and said to Brother Li, "It looks like Ah Yang can only make a living by fishing in the sea."

"Who cares! Everyone has his own destiny!" Brother Li took a small bamboo basket and started picking cutlassfish.

There were only dozens of kilograms of hairtail in total. We picked out those weighing more than 100 to 200 grams and put them in a small bamboo basket. Then we sprinkled a layer of ice on it and covered it with cotton wool to keep it fresh. Then we sent it to the restaurant to sell together with the tiger grouper and yellowfin croaker in a rubber bucket.

Mrs. Li put the selected hairtails into a bamboo basket and said, "A Ping, we won't sell these hairtails. Take them home and pickle them for your family to eat slowly."

(End of this chapter)