Chapter 217 It’s better to be careful

Chapter 217 It’s better to be careful

Chapter 217 It’s better to be careful
Li Xiaoyang got a headache when talking about studying. He looked at him with a bitter face, "If I graduate from junior high school, I still have to study for four more years!"

"Four years have passed in a flash. Be obedient. When Uncle San earns enough money to buy a big boat, I will buy you a TV."

Li Changle thought that maybe they would be able to get a few televisions in a few days, and then give one to each family.

Then I thought again, it would be great if I could get a freezer, then I wouldn't have to worry about having no place to store the fresh produce.

"A Le, what good stuff did you find?" Zhou Ruonan walked up to him with a smile.

"Blue crabs, blue crabs, blood clams, cockles, flower clams, cat's eye snails..." Before he could finish his words, he was slapped in the face.

He turned around and saw his youngest son, his hands full of sand, holding a cat's eye snail and splashing water at him. He turned around and ran away, shouting, "Dad, you can't catch me, you can't catch me..."

"You little bastard, I'll beat your ass up if I catch you!"

"Be careful, don't run and fall! It will be troublesome if you fall and hit a rock." Zhou Ruonan reminded the father and son with a smile.

Li Changle pretended that he couldn't catch up, turned around and waited for his wife to come over, looking at her with a smile, "Is it okay to enjoy the scenery of Yuandao?"

"Okay, when my mother comes home, I'll bring her here to play!"

Li Changle smiled and nodded. It was a rare occasion for them to go out and play together for a day, so he was no longer busy fishing. He followed her and went wherever she went.

I picked up the trash along the way and the bucket was full.

The two of them walked to the reef, and Zhou Ruonan took a fancy to the conches, mussels, and small abalone. He also followed her with a chisel, picking out the plump ones on the reef.

"Shit, it's not a sea cucumber, is it?"

Li Changle moved closer to the crevice of the reef and looked carefully at the brown object covered with thorns in the crevice. After seeing it clearly, he grinned with joy.

"Oh my god, it's really a sea cucumber."

He hurriedly took out an iron hook from the bucket, hooked out the sea cucumber, weighed it in his hand, and found it weighed about eight or nine taels.

"Top quality stuff!" He muttered to himself and walked towards Zhou Ruonan.

"Anan, look, Chuiyuan Island is really a treasure island. You can even pick up sea cucumbers, and they are so big."

"Let me see!" Zhou Ruonan took it excitedly and was so happy after seeing it, "It's really a sea cucumber! Put it in the bucket quickly. If it stays out of water for a long time, it will dissolve."

"Not so fast!" Li Changle said as he still brought the bucket to her, "I'll look for it again!"

If sea cucumbers are away from seawater for a long time, they will melt into a water-like liquid. When people in the fishing village find sea cucumbers, they mostly add salt and dry them in the sun to make dried goods to prevent the sea cucumbers from dissolving.

Not only will sea cucumbers dissolve when they leave seawater, but this will also happen if their growth environment is polluted. In later generations, it is simply impossible to find wild sea cucumbers near the coast.

Anything with the word "sen" in its name is special. When a sea cucumber is attacked by its natural enemy, it will quickly eject all its internal organs to be eaten by the enemy.

And with the help of the recoil force of expelling internal organs, the sea cucumber can escape without a trace. Even without internal organs, the sea cucumber will not die, and will grow new internal organs after a month or two.

Even if it is cut into two pieces and put back into the sea, it will grow into two complete sea cucumbers after half a year.

This thing is not only high-end seafood, but also a precious medicinal material. The medicine book says that eating it can nourish the kidneys, improve the essence, strengthen the yang and cure impotence...

It is also known as the Viagra of the ocean and is said to be able to fight cancer and enhance immunity. No wonder wild sea cucumbers are so expensive in later generations.

Li Changle felt that it would be a pity to sell such a good thing, so he took it back and stewed it for the two old people and An Nan to nourish.

While their health and absorption capacity are still good, make up for the losses.

"I'll look for it with you." Zhou Ruonan happily put the sea cucumbers into the bucket, added some water to it, and followed him to search in the reef pit.

"There's another one in the crack of the rock!"

Li Changle reached out his hand to hook the sea cucumber out of the crevice of the rock. This one was smaller, weighing about six or seven taels.

He turned around and put the sea cucumber in the bucket, then lay down in front of the crevice and looked at it carefully for a few times. When he saw that it was gone, he went to look nearby.

Zhou Ruonan moved a rock and found one underneath. "Ah Le, look at this one, it's really big. It weighs at least one pound."

"Yes, two of the three are big ones. But this stuff is very watery, and only a little bit is left after it dries. It takes fifteen or sixteen pounds to pickle one pound of such a big one."

"It's very troublesome to pickle dried goods, it's better to sell fresh goods!"

"Why sell so few? Dad's leg is still not well, you and mom are busy every day, go home and kill a chicken and stew it for everyone to nourish."

Zhou Ruonan looked at Li Changle, who had lost a lot of weight during this period, and nodded, "We'll eat at Awei's house tonight, and I'll kill a chicken and stew sea cucumber tomorrow."

"Look for them quickly, find a few more and stew them in a big pot."

"It's not like the sweet potatoes in the field can be found just by digging them up."

Zhou Ruonan smiled and moved a rock away. A red crab quickly fled into the crevice of the rock. He quickly pressed it down with a hook and caught it by its back shell.

"My wife is really good at catching crabs."

"My son is already this big, but he still can't catch it. I might as well buy a piece of tofu and let him die."

The two chatted and laughed as they searched around the reef. They found two more, but then they couldn't find anything else. When they were planning to call Brother Li and the others to look for it in the reef ahead, Brother Li came over.

"A Le, what good stuff did you find?" "Sea cucumber!" Li Changle happily handed the sea cucumber to him to see, "We found it in the cracks of the rocks, and were just about to ask you to go look for it together."

When Brother Li saw this, his face turned grim. "Ah Le, did you find a lot? Dad once said that sea cucumbers would hide in the cracks of rocks in advance to avoid the storm. If there are a lot, we have to return home quickly."

After hearing this, Li Changle also remembered that wild sea cucumbers usually live in seaweeds and rock holes on the seabed, and are the only species that hibernates in summer.

When the sea water temperature exceeds a certain level in summer, they will hibernate in rocks or deep waters. They will also hide in the cracks of rocks or reefs before a storm comes.

Fortunately, we only found a few. If they suddenly appeared in large numbers near the reef, it would be troublesome.

Li Changle pointed at the buckets and said, "Not many. We only found these few in such a large circle!"

Brother Li looked relieved after seeing this. "That's good. It might be a sea cucumber hiding in the shade. Let's go look for it in front to see if there are any more."

Zhou Ruonan carried the bucket and looked at the two worriedly, "Brother, we are still with the child, why don't we go back first?"

Li Changle saw that she was worried, so he raised his hand to check the time, "Brother, the kids have been playing for an hour or two, why don't you just call them up, and we'll go collect the longline fishing and go home."

"Okay!" Brother Li turned around and shouted to Sister Li, "Afang, let's go back."

Mrs. Li turned her head and looked at him, "Why are you leaving so suddenly? I still have a lot of Buddha's hand snails here!"

"Yes, there are still quite a few small abalones that haven't been pried off!" Li Ersao also said.

"Ale picked it up..." Brother Li told them the situation.

Mrs. Li laughed and said, "Anan, there are only a few sea cucumbers, so don't be afraid. If the cracks in the rocks are full, we will have to go home immediately."

Zhou Ruonan smiled embarrassedly, "Sister-in-law, we are still with the child, so we'd better be careful."

"Yes, sister-in-law!" Li Changle pointed at her watch, "We have been playing for an hour or two, and the children are tired. We still have to go collect the longlines."

Mrs. Li looked at the children who were sitting lazily in the shade of the rocks and said, "Okay, next time you come here, we'll come again."

"We've been setting traps and longlining around here during this time. I guess it's fine anytime."

Li Changle took the bucket brought by Xiang Xiaoyu and found that the little guy had pried open a lot of Buddha's hand snails.

While other children in the family were resting, the two brothers were the only ones still prying snails. Without anyone to rely on, the children could only rely on themselves.

Brother Li waved to the children who were enjoying the cool under the rocks and said, "Let's go, we're going to collect the longline fishing."

"Oh oh, time to reel in the longline and go home!"

After hearing this, the children immediately perked up, got up, picked up the buckets and ran towards the adults. Li Changle and Big Brother Li picked up the two younger ones and walked back first.

"Mom, my brother fell asleep on my legs and drooled a lot." Li Xiaohai said, pointing at his pants.

"Big brother is so good!" Zhou Ruonan took his small bucket and rubbed his head, "Let's go home."

As the group walked under the reef, Brother Li and Chen Yongwei also arrived.

"We thought you were reluctant to leave, so we came to call you to collect the longline fishing!" said the second brother Li as he took over Li Xiaomei from the eldest brother Li's back.

"Brother, we caught twelve wild sea ducks, and we cast two more nets and caught a few yellowfin bream and black sea bream." Chen Yongwei said as he reached out to take the bucket Zhou Ruonan was holding.

"You're lucky. I'll collect your first set of longlines later."

"Okay!" Chen Yongwei carried two full buckets and walked up easily.

The things had already been packed up and put on the boat, and the group boarded the boat at the dock.

Zhou Ruonan and her sister-in-law took the children to sit down, and Brother Li started the engine and drove quickly towards the longline fishing boat.

Li Xiaoyang squeezed in next to Li Changle and sat down, "Uncle San, can you let me try to pull a hook later?"

Li Changle flatly refused, "No, sea fish are very strong. If you encounter a pike or a big fish, your small body will be pulled into the water by it."

"so smart?"

"If you don't believe me, sit over there and watch your uncle Awei pull the fish."

"Oh!"

The sea area for longline fishing is not far away, and it only takes about ten minutes to arrive. After the boat slows down, Chen Yongwei and Li Changle put away the bamboo basket and prepare to collect the fish.

Brother Li took out the long deflated needle and made preparations. Zhou Ruonan, her sister-in-law and the children looked at the men busy in an orderly manner with curiosity.

I had only heard them talk about how things were like on the ship before, but this was the first time I got on board and watched them work.

Chen Yongwei hooked the buoy and pulled up a two-pound Spanish mackerel on the first hook. Although they were a little disappointed, they were still very happy that they had caught a fish on the first try.

Li Changle put away the buoy and sinker, hung the hook, and straightened the line group. Brother Li had already put the fish in the rubber bucket. Anyway, they would kill it for making mullet, so there was no need to occupy the live tank.

When Chen Yongwei pulled the second hook, he felt that he had caught something. He looked at Li Changle happily and said, "Brother, this one is a bit big."

"The young man is doing well. He is successful in love and even his luck has improved." Li Changle said this and then remembered that there are many black sea breams in this sea area. Is he worried that it is another big black sea bream?

After hearing this, Brother Li came over and stretched his neck to look. Everyone also looked over here, waiting to see what big fish it was.
(End of this chapter)