Chapter 231 Tentacle Monster

Chapter 231 Tentacle Monster

Chapter 231 Tentacle Monster

Brother Li came over and took the black bream from the bucket and poured it into the live tank. He also put a few pieces of ice in it. "Ah Le, I'll tie the rest. You're lucky. Go ahead and collect the traps."

"okay!"

Li Changle pulled up the fishing rope and felt that it was heavier than the previous one. The second ground cage slowly emerged from the water. The fish trapped in the cage began to flap their wings, splashing waves of water.

"Fuck! It's so heavy, there must be several big tiger eels, right?"

When the trap net reached the side of the boat, it almost couldn't be pulled onto the deck. Brother Li came over and helped pull it up.

"Look quickly, what good stuff have we got?" Li Changle picked up the trap and couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the fish inside the trap and the fish bag.

"Shit! Did these traps just happen to fall on top of the tiger eels' nest?"

Brother Li said excitedly: "Ah Le, I counted them. There are two in the fish bag and three in the cage net. There are five tiger eels in total."

"Let me see." Chen Yongwei also ran over. When he saw the eels in the trap net, he was overjoyed and said, "Luckily I listened to my brother and came here to set the trap that day."

"Tiger eels like to forage on coral reefs. It may be because there are several reefs here that it is easy to get these things."

"It's possible that every time you go near an island or reef, it's especially easy to catch black porgy."

Li Changle happily took the net bag and put it on top of the big bucket, lifted the trap net, and shook the tiger eels into the fish collection bag. There were only a few tiger eels and a few snails in it, not even a single prawn.

"Brother, hurry up and pour the eels in. I still have to collect the traps!"

"Oh oh!" Brother Li hurriedly picked up the fish collecting bag, untied the rope, poured the tiger eels inside into the net bag, tightened the bag mouth, and lifted the net bag in front of the living cabin with some difficulty, and put the net bag in.

Chen Yongwei thought about the big tiger eels that sold for 1.5 yuan per pound last time, "Brother, these six tiger eels can be sold for more than 100 yuan!"

"Yes!" Brother Li nodded happily.

The third trap was not as good. It only caught a few orchid crabs, three-eyed crabs, and two sea bass. I calculated that I could sell them for four or five dollars, and I was very happy.

I pulled a few traps in succession and they were all about the same. Until I finished pulling out the first group of ten traps, I didn't catch any big catches.

Li Changle and his brothers were not discouraged, because the total income from the first set of traps was more than one hundred yuan.

After the first group finished pulling, he and Brother Li shook out the seaweed, shrimp and crab shells in the ground trap net, tidied the ground trap net, checked it again, and found no tangles. Then they began to catch the small fish in the bucket and put them into the bait bag.

Brother Li grabbed the fishing rope to connect to the second one, and Li Changle threw out the buoy and released the trap. After one trap was released, Brother Li also prepared the second one. The two brothers cooperated well and put the trap back into the sea in no time.

Chen Yongwei started the fishing boat and headed towards the second set of traps.

Li Changle wiped the sweat off his face with a towel, turned around to get the straw hat hanging on the mast, and suddenly saw long tentacles floating on the sea, which were very similar to the giant octopus he had seen in movies before.

"Brother, what do you see floating on the sea?"

Hearing the sound, Brother Li stood up, covered his forehead with his hands, squinted his eyes and looked over, shaking his head and said, "It looks a bit like a giant octopus."

"Awei, drive over and take a look." Li Changle excitedly ran to the driver's seat and pointed to the front and said to Chen Yongwei.

When the fishing boat approached, Li Changle couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine when he saw the tentacles that were longer than the tentacle monsters in the movies. He saw many small fish nibbling at the bottom of the tentacles.

"Killer Armor, there really is an octopus this big."

Brother Li and Chen Yongwei also opened their mouths in surprise. After a moment, their mouths, which were almost as big as eggs, slowly closed again.

"Fuck! There's an octopus this big. Its tentacles must be five or six meters long, right?"

"Yes. If you encounter something like this in the water, three or five people are no match for it."

"Brother, let me fish it out and take a look." Chen Yongwei said as he went to get the iron hook.

"Don't try to fish it out!" Brother Li stopped him. "Look, the head is all exploded. If you fish it out, the stink will make you pass out."

Li Changle also shook his head in disdain, "Even if it's not rotten, don't eat it. Eating a ten-pound octopus claw is like chewing rubber. It's not delicious at all."

Chen Yongwei saw that there was no benefit, so he threw the iron hook into the rubber bucket and said, "Then why are you still standing there? Go back and continue fishing for the traps. If you delay any longer, the big brother will be back."

Li Changle smiled and patted his shoulder, "Young man, this is called broadening your horizons, don't you understand?"

"Yes, I've been on the ship for two years and have been to all the deserted oceans, but this is the first time I've seen such a big octopus. It must be almost a spirit, right?"

Li Changle thought of the giant squid that sperm whales love the most, "Who knows what's on the seafloor? Maybe there's something longer than this one!" "That's true!" Li Erge laughed, "When I was at the Zhoushan fishing grounds, I heard from old fishermen that they saw a sea monster that looked like a human. I don't know if it's true or not?"

"I'm not sure." After Li Changle was reborn, he felt that either there really were gods in this world, or there was a parallel world just like what was said on the Internet in his previous life.

As they were talking, they arrived in front of the floating ball. Brother Li picked up the iron hook and hooked the floating ball up. "It's so light, could it be an empty net?"

Li Changle walked over and said, "An ugly daughter-in-law also needs to meet her parents-in-law. Pull her up first and let them see."

"Splash~" Brother Li pulled the trap out of the water and directly brought it to the deck.

Li Changle held up the ground cage and looked at the fish in the cage. "There are a few lobsters, two orchid crabs, three blue crabs, and three braided fish. It's not a complete loss!"

"You can sell it for a few dollars." Brother Li opened the fish bag with a smile and poured the fish into the bucket. "Ah Le, braided fish is good for curing edema, and it is also good for people who are in confinement after childbirth."

"Just be careful when catching it. The spines on the back of the braided fish are very hard and very poisonous, and they are not worth much."

The head and body of the braid fish are very wide, and the head is flat, as if it was crushed by a car. The body becomes smaller towards the back, and the tail is very thin, looking like a big braid.

"Don't worry, I'm an experienced fisherman, how can I be stung by it?" Li Changle caught the fish and threw it into the rubber bucket. "I'm too lazy to sell it for a few cents a pound. I'll just take it home and braise it. It's also good to eat."

When he sent seahorses to the drugstore before, he heard from the old Chinese doctor who was seeing patients there that eating the braid fish can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, soften and disperse lumps, and is also effective for edema, ascites due to cirrhosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and non-healing wounds.

Almost all coastal fishermen suffer from rheumatoid arthritis when they get old. Eating more braided fish can prevent and treat it.

By the time he had thrown the lobster into the live hold, tied up a few crabs, and cleaned and put away the traps, Brother Li had already pulled the second trap onto the deck.

The second bite of fish was nothing special. There were snails, clams, sword shrimps, two large blue crabs weighing one or two pounds, two black sea breams weighing two or three pounds, and some small fish.

They pulled out five or six nets in a row, and each one was worse than the last. The total catch of crabs in the nets was only about 15 to 18 pounds, with some small fish and shrimps, and even the black sea bream that they disliked was gone.

Brother Li couldn't hold his temper any longer. "Ah Le, my luck is bad. It's your turn."

"Okay, I'll be your replacement." Li Changle rubbed his hands, "Lord Hailong, bless me, this is a big deal online."

"Hurry up, there are still four groups to be confiscated!"

"Look at Boss Ah Le." Li Changle smiled and pulled up the fishing line. It didn't feel heavy at first, so he pulled the net onto the deck with a bit of a chill in his heart. "It looks like they are still lobsters and crabs."

"Crabs and lobsters are always better than small fish." When Brother Li picked up the trap and poured the catch into the bucket, he instantly became excited when he saw the crabs inside.

He grabbed a crab and shouted to Li Changle, "Ah Le, there are three red crabs, two orchid crabs, and four lobsters. They are all big ones. It's time for you to take over."

Li Changle happily came forward and grabbed a crab. Thinking of the red crab after it was steamed, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

"Autumn is coming soon, and blue crabs are at their fattest. I'll get some blue crabs home, cook some old wine, and enjoy a delicious meal."

Brother Li rolled his eyes at him and said, "The price of blue crabs is the best during the Mid-Autumn Festival. If you dare to take some back to eat, I'll be surprised if my mother doesn't scold you."

Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "My grandma is the same. In the past, when I caught something good, I wanted to keep it for myself, but she always said that I didn't know how expensive firewood and rice were until I was in charge of the household."

Li Changle smiled at him and threw the tied crabs into the bucket, thinking that she would break the claws when the time came, and she had to give up even if she was reluctant.

The last trap of the second group was pulled up, and two sea bass, a yellowfin mullet, and a few blue crabs were caught. His luck was better than that of Brother Li.

Li Changle then pulled up two more sets of ground traps, and harvested a total of two to three pounds of sword shrimp, more than a pound of prawns, two white eels, a dozen blue crabs, swimming crabs, more than twenty sea bass, and a dozen black sea bream.

By the fifth set, their hands were starting to lose strength, so Brother Li took the helm and replaced Chen Yongwei with the one who pulled the net.

His luck today was not very good, just like Brother Li. The three of them took turns pulling up the last four sets of traps and putting them back into the sea.

There were six sets of traps, and overall the catch was pretty good, including six tiger eels, shrimps weighing a total of 15 kilograms, 15 lobsters, 30 to 40 blue crabs weighing a total of 50 to 60 kilograms, orchid crabs weighing 16 to 17 kilograms, and swimming crabs weighing about 10 kilograms.

The sea bass weighed about 60 to 70 kilograms, and the black sea bream weighed more than 40 kilograms. I didn’t plan to sell the snails, miscellaneous fish and clams, but kept them to take home and eat at the construction site.

Li Erge and the other two lowered the trap into the water and shouted to the two, "Let's go and collect the jars." After that, they increased the speed and headed towards the jars which were more than ten minutes away by sea.

Li Changle sat on the deck, leaning against the side of the ship, rubbing his sore wrist with a cigarette in his mouth, and said with some pride: "Too many industries, it's quite tiring."

Chen Yongwei looked at him cheerfully, "Brother, I'm not tired. You can take a rest later and just watch me collect them."

"Ah!" Li Changle sighed. For a moment, he didn't know what to say to his brother whose emotional intelligence was sometimes off.

(End of this chapter)