Chapter 230: It's the same as not saying anything
Chapter 230 It’s the same as not saying anything
When Li Changle woke up early in the morning and saw Zhou Ruonan lying lazily beside him like a kitten, his first thought was to continue sleeping on the floor tonight!
"What time is it?" Zhou Ruonan looked at him sleepily.
"It's half past six. You sleep a little longer. I'll go to Auntie's to eat."
The high tide today was almost seven o'clock, so they got up a little later.
"There's a lot of cold rice left over from last night. I'll go get two salted duck eggs and make you a bowl of fried rice. Then I'll make you a bowl of seaweed soup. It'll be ready in a while."
"Okay, then you can take a break at noon."
Li Changle quickly got out of bed and went out. He saw Brother Li coming out with a rubber bucket in one hand, "Brother, have you eaten?"
"Your sister-in-law is cooking rice." Brother Li stacked the rubber buckets together and put them on the tricycle, then continued to move other things.
When Li Changle came back from the toilet, he had already moved all the fishing gear to the car and put them away.
"Once we get to Chuiyuan Island, we have to put away the traps first and pick out some small fish and shrimp as bait."
"The traps we collected are not enough. After we leave the port, we will put down the trawl nets. One trawl will be enough." Li Changle thought about it and said, "The traps have been put down for two days. I wonder if there are any big catches?"
"That depends on luck."
"It's the same as if I didn't say anything." Li Changle muttered, and when he entered the room, he smelled the aroma of fried salted eggs and old wine.
After pouring water, brushing teeth and washing face, Zhou Ruonan brought the meal to the table.
"Ah Le, it's not good to eat cold rice and eggs every day. I'll tell my sister-in-law that I'll pack some small pond vegetables, rice, noodles, and lard for you today. How about you bring the small iron pot and cook it on the boat?"
"Okay!" Li Changle agreed readily.
There are so many duck eggs, mussels, small abalone, oysters and shellfish on the island. You can just pick some and cook a big pot of delicious seafood noodles.
When he finished his meal and went out, Brother Li had already put the iron pot and fresh water into the rubber bucket.
Chen Yongwei came over with a bamboo basket. Seeing that they had brought a vegetable noodle pot, he pointed at the melons, boiled eggs, and corn cobs in it and said, "Brother, do you still want these?"
"Yes, save it for making snacks in the afternoon." After saying this, Li Changle got on the tricycle, said hello to the mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in the yard, and rode the tricycle towards the dock.
When he arrived at the dock, he saw Lin Changrong and Wang Mazi standing at the door of the seafood store, talking about something in high spirits. When they saw him coming, they smiled awkwardly and nodded at him.
"Ale, going out to sea?"
"Yes!" Li Changle responded briefly and pedaled the tricycle towards his own fishing boat.
"Bah! Just because you've earned some money, you really think you've gotten rid of that poor skin." Wang Mazi spat at Li Changle's back.
Lin Changrong felt a little uncomfortable after listening to him. He suddenly lost the desire to continue chatting with him. He took out a stack of bills from his pocket and handed it to him, "I'm sorry to trouble you with the TV."
"Okay, leave it to me. I promise to give it to you sixteen times."
Wang Mazi put the money in his pocket, sent Lin Changrong away, and sneered at Li Changle's busy figure: "Aww, I earn more than a hundred just by saying a word, what can you compare with me?"
Over there, Li Changle and Li Erge bought ice cubes from Chen Ji, while Li Dage and Chen Yongwei had already moved the fishing gear onto the boat.
He jumped onto the boat holding the box, waited for Brother Li to come over, and waved to Chen Yongwei, "Awei, let's go!"
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei put the oil barrel away, held the crank and shouted to Brother Li on the boat next door. The two started the diesel engine and drove the fishing boat away from the dock.
I saw a row of fishing boats in front of me, heading towards the open sea like arrows.
Li Changle squinted his eyes and looked at the fiery red sun. "Today is another sunny day."
"Yes, in another hour, people will be tanned." Brother Li said as he went to the stern to clean up and prepare to put down the trap net later.
"Good morning, Boss Ale!"
Li Changle turned around and saw Chen Amao's fishing boat approaching the fishing boat. He took out a cigarette and handed it to him, "You're still early. You're already here."
Chen Amao smiled and walked over to him, taking the cigarette he handed over, "Why didn't I see your family collecting fresh produce at the dock yesterday?"
"I worked at home yesterday and will continue to harvest today."
"Okay, I'll come to the dock to find you this afternoon." Chen Amao gestured to the boatman at the driving seat, and the fishing boat accelerated, passed Li Changle's boat, and headed forward.
Li Changle went to the stern slide and released the long trawl into the sea. The two brothers sat on the deck, closed their eyes, listened to the "da da da" sound of the motor, and sailed towards Chuiyuan Island in the sea breeze.
More than an hour later, the fishing boat arrived near Chuiyuan Island. Looking into the distance, we could vaguely see some fishing boats operating.
"Awei, the net is up."
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei started the net-lifting machine, and the fishing net slowly floated to the surface of the water with the sound of the machine's "click", and the flat net bag appeared in front of the few people. Although they originally trawled with the mentality of using the nets as bait, they were still a little frustrated when they saw the net bag.
Chen Yongwei also left the driver's seat to help, staring at the deflated net bag, "Damn! So little?"
"I've earned back the diesel money." Brother Li said as he stretched out his hand and pulled the net bag onto the deck. He untied the rope of the net bag, and all the fish in the bag poured onto the deck.
Collapsar, mantis shrimp, red fish, squid, shrimp, crab and some unknown fish were jumping on the deck.
The three men bent over and began to sort the catch. There were blue crabs, orchid crabs, swimming crabs, and three-eyed crabs. They were tied up and put into rubber buckets.
Small fish and shrimps are kept as bait, while fish, shrimps and crabs that are too small are thrown back into the sea and released.
At this time, Brother Li drove the fishing boat and slowly approached them, "Ah Le, Ah An, come and cast the net."
"Okay!" Li Changle and Li Erge jumped onto the boat, helped put the trawl into the water, then jumped back into the fishing boat, watched Li Dage drive the boat away, and continued to get busy.
"Brother, we still have big stuff. This one weighs more than two kilograms and can be sold for five or six yuan." Chen Yongwei grabbed a flat and wide fish skin and said to Li Changle.
"Yes, this net is worth some money just for the fish skin."
Li Changle threw the fish into the rubber bucket. There were about thirty to forty kilograms of miscellaneous fish that could be made into croakers. Some big ones could be picked out and cooked for the hired craftsmen.
The mantis shrimps weigh about 20 to 30 kilograms. The thin and small ones are thrown back into the sea, leaving only the fat and meaty ones. Selling them fresh is not worth much, so we can only peel them and dry them in the sun.
The three of them were busy for more than half an hour and finally sorted all the fish on the deck. They put the ones for bait into buckets and the ones that could be sold into rubber buckets and sprinkled some ice cubes to keep them fresh.
Li Changle and Li Erge brought out the bamboo baskets containing the fishing lines. "Awei, start the boat and cast the longline."
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei started the machine and moved forward at a constant speed.
The Li Changle brothers began to bait the longline fishing line. The second brother Li reminded Chen Yongwei from time to time to keep the boat speed at around six to seven knots.
This speed range can effectively release the hook. The hook will not be unable to be cast due to the boat speed being too fast, nor will the line be too loose and the hook get tangled due to the boat speed being too slow.
"Brother, are the fishing line and hooks I bought last time almost ready?"
"I sent two of the five sets of thread to Yufang, and left the rest at home. They were almost done, but I was busy with the new house yesterday, which delayed me for a day. I should be able to finish it today."
Li Changle nodded. They made two more sets of longline fishing this time. Together with the three sets here, there were five sets in total. With more than two hundred hooks, they could also catch more fish.
Brother Li took the sinker and tied it to the main line. After putting the line group into the water, he continued, "Longline fishing is fast, but ground trap fishing will take some time."
"Let them do it slowly. I think longline fishing is better than trapping. At least the fish they catch are big ones."
"Yes, it's the starting price for sending it to a restaurant or selling it in bulk."
Soon all the longline fish in the three bamboo baskets were released. Li Changle waved to Chen Yongwei, stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the location of the lower trap net.
Chen Yongwei saw the float on the ground trap net, released the accelerator, and the boat slowly stopped.
Li Changle picked up the iron hook and hooked the buoy to the side of the fishing boat, took off the buoy, pulled the fishing rope and pulled the ground trap towards the fishing boat.
This was the second time they had cast nets in this area, and they were not worried about the reefs getting stuck on the nets. It was just that the water was a bit deep, and it took a while to pull the traps out of the water.
Brother Li reached out and grabbed the steel ring of the ground trap to help pull the net onto the boat, and shouted in surprise, "Ah Le, look, it's another tiger eel."
Li Changle was also happy to see that there were large quantities of goods on the first network. Now was the time when money was needed, and he wished there were as many large quantities of goods as possible!
Chen Yongwei also stretched his neck to look after hearing this. The traps were large, and he also saw the tiger eels inside. He was overjoyed and said, "It's a big catch for the first time. Today's catch must be good."
Li Changle nodded, lifted the trap net, and shook the fish inside into the fish collection bag.
Only then did I see that there were clams, snails, several huge oyster snails, crabs and black sea bream.
He once again felt that the black sea bream in this sea area were not only numerous, but also very greedy. These guys were present every time he pulled in the net or longline fishing.
After the fish were put into the fish collecting bag, Brother Li quickly untied the bag and poured the fish into the rubber bucket. The tiger eel immediately swam around in the bucket, trying to escape.
Li Changle came over with a pair of long pliers, aimed them at the eel's neck and clamped them fiercely. The tiger eel opened its big mouth full of spikes, turned its head and bit the handle of the pliers.
Li Changle looked at the tiger eel struggling desperately, estimating that it weighed 13 or 14 pounds, "Fuck! It's so fierce, do you think it can bite through the iron?"
"Be careful, this thing can break your bones." Brother Li said as he caught the tiger eel in a net bag and put it into the survival chamber.
Li Changle took a hemp rope and walked to the rubber bucket. He grabbed the black sea bream and threw it into the bucket, then started tying up the crabs.
There were four swimming crabs, seven orchid crabs and five blue crabs. The big one weighed more than two kilograms, and the small one weighed one kilogram. Only then did I realize that there were some dead crabs in the bucket. It seemed that they were bitten by tiger eels.
This creature preys on a wide range of food and has a huge appetite. It eats everything, including fish, shrimp, crab, octopus, and cuttlefish. Li Changle suspected that there was not a single shrimp in the net cage, and it might have been eaten up by this creature.
(End of this chapter)