Chapter 223: There is no way to get all the fish

Chapter 223: There is no way to get all the fish

Chapter 223: There is no way to get all the fish
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei arrived at the mudflats, and it was pitch black at first glance. There was not even a single person fishing on the beach.

Considering that those people only arrived at one or two o'clock last night, and it's only a little after eleven o'clock now, they shouldn't have come so early.

"Awei, let's go. The tide is just beginning to recede. Let's go see if we can find any good stuff."

"I haven't been out fishing at night for a while. Maybe there are some good things there."

The two of them walked towards the big rock with great interest. When they were almost at the beach, they saw the waves not far away glowing with a faint blue light. The entire coastline looked like a vast Milky Way, dreamy and beautiful.

Li Changle was standing there in a daze. Chen Yongwei smiled and said, "It's blue tears!"

"It's really beautiful! I should have brought your sister-in-law to see it."

Li Changle quickly walked to the beach, turned off his headlamp and walked into the water. The light blue fluorescence rippled back and forth on both sides of his feet. He stood there quietly, looking at the rare beauty in front of him. Once again, he regretted that there were no mobile phones to record videos in those days.

Blue tears are the light emitted by a tiny microorganism as small as a grain of sand in the ocean. This microorganism survives on a kind of energy from seawater.

However, as the waves wash ashore, the blue tears that leave the sea water can only survive for a short time. As the energy disappears, the blue tears lose their light and their life ends.

Chen Yongwei walked back and forth in the water for a few circles, but lost interest. Seeing that Li Changle was still standing there, he simply walked towards the big rock.

I picked up a clam and threw it into the bucket. Suddenly, I heard the splashing sound of fish appearing above the water. I turned my head and saw fish swimming towards the circle of light under the headlight.

Chen Yongwei watched the fish increase in number and stood there not daring to move, for fear that the fish would run away if he moved.

After a while, he came to his senses and shouted at Li Changle: "Brother, brother, bring the scoop net over here!"

Li Changle took a while to react, and then he found that Chen Yongwei had walked to the front, and hurriedly walked towards him with a bucket, "What's wrong? Did you see anything good?"

Chen Yongwei waved at him without even turning his head. "There are fish in the water. They are following my headlight. Hurry and get the scoop net."

Li Changle hurriedly turned on the headlamp and looked towards the water surface he was pointing at. He found that countless fish were gathering in the circle of light from the headlamp. When he got closer, he could clearly see the green-brown backs of the fish.

When he turned his head, he found that many fish were swimming towards the water where the light from his head was shining. When he moved his head, the fish swam towards the light, and some even jumped out of the water.

"They look like fat-eyed herrings. Could it be that the blue tears attracted them here?"

"It's the fat-eyed herring!"

When the two headlights came together, more and more fat eyed herrings were attracted, and the ocean surface where the aperture was located made a "swish" sound like water boiling in a pot.

Fat-eyed herring usually swim in groups at dusk and early morning, and like to swim towards the light at night. It is the easiest fish to catch by light fishing boats.

This fish has small bones and thick, oily meat. Because the meat easily rots, it is mostly pickled and dried for sale after being caught. In some places, it is also called stinky meat fish.

Although it only weighs three or four cents per pound, it can add a variety to the dried goods in the home.

"Why do you care what attracted it? We have fish to catch, what's wrong with you? Forget it, just stand there and don't move, I'll catch them."

Seeing his dazed look, Chen Yongwei became anxious and took out the scoop net from his backpack. He reached for the fish in the circle of light and lifted the net bag to find it was full.

"Brother, although this kind of fish is not valuable, it can be sold for 60 or 70 cents if caught in a net. If it is dried into fish, it can be sold for more than 20 cents per pound, and the money can be even higher."

"Good boy, your mouth is getting more and more talkative."

"That's right, a good teacher produces good students!"

Li Changle watched as the scoop net left the water and immediately more fish rushed into the circle of light, which made him amazed.

"You are so stupid, and you are willing to die!"

"They are not stupid. After going through the six reincarnations, they can be reborn as humans." Chen Yongwei took off the backpack he was carrying and poured the fish in the net bag into the backpack.

Li Changle was stunned for a moment after hearing this. People like him were probably illegal immigrants, right?

Chen Yongwei scooped up several nets in a row and saw countless fish rushing into the circle of light. He was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Fuck! This is so exciting! When we have more money, we will order a fishing boat."

"I haven't saved enough money for that boat yet, so I'm thinking about the light fishing boat."

"Didn't you say that people need to have ideas, and only with ideas can they be realized?"

"You little brat, you're great. You know how to use my words to refute me." Li Changle was itching to do it. "You lure the fish, and I'll catch some fish with the net."

"Okay, my hands happen to be a little sore." Chen Yongwei handed him the scoop net and stood there watching the fish rush into the circle of light as soon as the scoop net left the circle of light.

"Alas, how long will it take to catch all the fish with one net after another? If I had known, I would have brought a hand-cast net with me."

"Money can't buy you knowledge. It's already good enough for you to meet him." Li Changle couldn't help but hit him with the net. "You can show off all you want, but be careful or someone will hear you and beat you up!"

"Hey, who told them to be lazy!" Chen Yongwei laughed proudly, "Brother, how many pounds do you think we can catch if we fish here tonight?"

"That depends on how big the school of fish is."

Li Changle turned around with the fish in his hand and realized that the basket was already full. On the beach a little beyond the basket, there were many dead fat eye herrings lying on the ground. This guy was amazing. It had only been a short while, but the fish he had caught had already filled the basket and piled up on the ground.

Li Changle picked up the net bag and poured the fish into it, then quickly turned around and rushed towards the aperture net. After catching more than ten fish in a row, his wrists and waist began to ache.

Only then did I notice the blue tears on the ocean surface. They had disappeared at some point, but the fish were still flocking into the circle of light.

Thinking of the school of silver pomfret I encountered last time, I can't help but get a headache. It's also a hassle to have too many fish and not be able to catch them all!

"Awei, I can't do it anymore, it's your turn."

"You're terrible! I caught 19 nets in a row, but you failed after only 17. Your speed is not even as fast as mine." Chen Yongwei grabbed the scoop net and started working.

"Get out!" Li Changle didn't expect that he still remembered the number, so he kicked him with a smile and walked forward to shine the headlight into the circle of light he was shining.

"A Le, what are you doing here?" The sudden shout startled both of them. They turned around and saw that it was Brother Li (Eldest Brother) and Brother Li (Second Brother).

"Why are you here?" Li Changle said and quickly turned his head to look at the water, fearing that the fish would run away.

"You better save your energy. We don't need to come out in the middle of the night..."

Before Brother Li could finish his words, he was frightened by the fish in the circle of light and stood there in shock, his mouth opening and closing. After a while, he pointed at the fish.

"Ah, there is such a good thing?"

"Fuck! Ah Wei, give me the scoop net quickly. I want to catch some too."

Brother Li reacted quickly and excitedly snatched the scoop net from Chen Yongwei's hand and started doing it, saying "WTF, TF" over and over again.
Seeing that he was so excited that he was incoherent and couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time, Li Changle couldn't help laughing when she thought of her second brother who used to have a serious face.

"Brother, you have become a bad person!"

“How dare you say that!” Brother Li turned around with the scoop net in hand and rolled his eyes at him, “I learned it from you, saying shit all the time. The kids at home also learned it from you.”

"Ah Le, it's okay for us brothers to talk outside. Xiao Qing and the others are grown up now, so we have to be careful with our words."

Li Changle nodded awkwardly, "I've already paid attention to it at home."

"Brother," Chen Yongwei pulled Brother Li to show off, "We saw Blue Tears when we got to the beach. They were so beautiful. It was like a dream!"

"We don't have many beaches here. We've seen them a few times this year in the fishing grounds in Fujian Province." Brother Li said, looking at the fish in the basket and on the beach. "How long have you been fishing?"

Li Changle said proudly: "After watching Blue Tears for a while at the beach, he started to work, and has been doing it until now, without stopping for a moment."

Brother Li excitedly held up a net full of fish and said, "If we had known earlier, we would have brought a net with us."

"Awei said this just now, and now you say this again." Li Changle pulled Brother Li over and stood up, "Brother, it's your turn to stand guard."

After standing for a long time, his back and waist ached, so he decided to take a walk nearby.

Chen Yongwei hurriedly chased after him, "Brother, the jars haven't been collected yet, and the backpack is full. When we go into the water later, what will I use to hold the octopus?"

"Oilcloth bag!" Li Changle said as he took out the oilcloth bag from the bucket and handed it to him, "Let's go and collect the cans over there on the rock.

The two men arrived at the big rock and looked at the puddle above it. Then they went under the rock, took off their pants, and walked towards the place where the jar was.

Li Changle pulled up the fishing line, followed the vine and pulled up the first jar, grabbed a big octopus from it, and put it into the bucket.

The second can was empty, and the third can was also empty. He pulled up several cans in a row, and they were all empty. He thought that the cans he had put down this time might have been stolen again.

"Brother, I don't think we can put jars down on this beach."

"I told Xiaoyu to take the can to the beach below the rocks tomorrow. The path there is easier to walk and he can collect it himself."

The two of them pulled together more than a hundred cans, and it didn't take long for them to pull up the cans. They caught sixteen or seventeen small octopuses, which was more than ten pounds of octopus, and could be sold for five or six dollars.

Li Changle thought that if he went there, he could also earn five or six yuan every other day, and the lives of the two brothers would be much better.

Chen Yongwei put the cans into a sack, and the two returned to the place where they were fishing. They saw that the pile of fish on the beach was getting bigger and bigger.

Brother Li dumped the fish in the net onto the beach and said, "Ah Le, fewer and fewer fish are coming towards the light. We'll call it a day after two more nets."

"That's enough. There are at least 600 to 700 kilograms of fish on the beach."

"The backpack is full. Did you bring the net bag?"

"You have to go out to work without equipment!" Li Changle proudly took out all the net bags in his two trouser pockets, and counted them to find that there were seventeen or eighteen of them.

"Good boy, you are always prepared to catch fish anywhere and at any time!"

"That's right. Making money is a big deal. You have to be prepared at all times."

(End of this chapter)