Chapter 238 Goodbye Huzi
Chapter 238 Goodbye Huzi
Li Changle returned to Nanshan with his fishing gear, and the eldest and second brothers Li came over and asked, "Where's the gun?"
"Let's see what it looks like?" Brother Li rubbed his hands excitedly.
"Look how anxious you are!" Li Changle picked up the gun and handed it to Brother Li with a smile, "Open it yourself and see."
The two men gathered around the rope that was used to untie the sack and looked at the gun. Li Changle pushed the tricycle into the kitchen and came out to see several children and women, who were also gathered around the gun with curiosity, touching and looking at it.
Brother Li patted a few boys, looked at them seriously, and said in a serious tone: "I warn you guys, don't play with guns secretly. This thing may cause death. Remember?"
"Remember." Several boys responded in unison.
"Do you remember the gun shooting scene in the movie? As soon as the gun went off, blood gushed out." Brother Li was worried that the others would not take it seriously, so he added another sentence.
Zhou Ruonan's sister-in-law felt relieved to see that the gun was really bought back. But when she heard that it cost more than two hundred yuan, Mrs. Li felt distressed again.
"It's so expensive. Just two iron pipes and a piece of wood cost more than two hundred yuan."
Mrs. Li nodded. "I think it's expensive too. Why don't we buy one for each of us and see who dares to hijack the ship?"
Li Changle and his two brothers were stunned for a moment, then they all laughed, "If that's the case, it would be strange if those people didn't think we were pirates!"
Zhou Ruonan imagined the scene of four people each carrying a gun and standing on the boat, and couldn't help laughing, "Second sister-in-law is still the best!"
They got up at around 4 o'clock and have been busy ever since. Both adults and children are tired. After chatting for a while, they went back to their rooms to rest.
Li Changle and his friend thought that the child would not be used to living in a new place, but when he came back to the house after washing up, they saw that they fell asleep in bed after a while just like they did in the old house.
"Anan, mother said Qing will be free the day after tomorrow. Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. I will go there to deliver the gifts first. You can take the children to Lucheng for the Mid-Autumn Festival. I will pick you up after I am done with my work."
It was the Mid-Autumn Festival and the tide was high, and with the cargo ship incident, he had to go to Chuiyuan Island and keep an eye on it. It would be best if he could catch something, but it was okay if he couldn't. When the tide was high, fish followed the tide, so the catch was high.
"When the time comes, go to Chuiyuan Island and catch two ducks. Pick up some duck eggs and I'll bring them to the Yan family." Zhou Ruonan said with a smile, "Look at me, I'm talking as if I raised them myself."
"Yes!" Li Changle thought about the island where not even a single duck feather could be seen in the future, "I wonder if we can contract an island? If so, we can contract Chuiyuan Island."
Zhou Ruonan thought for a moment, "Isn't this okay? It's not from Shatou Village, who are you going to find to contract it?"
"The villagers should know. I'll ask Uncle Adong one day." Li Changle knew that in the past, some people contracted islands for aquaculture, but he didn't know about it these days.
"Well! We have to get up early to go out to sea tomorrow, so go to bed early." Zhou Ruonan reached out and turned off the light.
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The next morning, the three of them packed up and went out on a tricycle.
When we arrived at the dock, everyone rushed to go out to sea taking advantage of the good weather. We saw that the fishing boats leaving the dock were sailing in groups of two or three.
Chen Yongwei was already waiting there. He unloaded and loaded the things and put the hunting rifle in a convenient place. Li Changle filled up the gas tank and went to Adong's house with Li Erge to get the oil barrel and left the car at his house.
Li Changle is used to bringing a barrel of diesel every time he goes out to sea, so that in case of emergencies, he does not have to worry about running out of diesel.
"Ah Le, today we will first drag two nets, then go longline fishing and collect the ground trap nets."
"Okay." Li Changle started the fishing boat, left the dock, and headed straight for Chuiyuan Island.
Chen Yongwei walked over and pointed to the back, "Brother, look, Fourth Uncle Li has also found someone to form a team."
"He must have heard the news too." Li Changle turned around and saw Li Asi and another boat heading towards Takeshima Island.
The two boats sailed to the waters of Chuiyuan Island, lowered their trawl nets, and sailed around the island for two or three hours. The first net caught three to four hundred kilograms of fish.
The fish were poured onto the deck and another net was cast. Li Changle drove the boat while Chen Yongwei was busy sorting the fish alone.
After running for another two or three hours, they returned to the sea area of Xiadilong. It was already past eleven o'clock. Brother Li gestured to him and put away the second net.
The two nets had a pretty good harvest, catching more than 400 kilograms of sea bass and mackerel, more than 100 kilograms of white eels, about 100 kilograms of cuttlefish and squid, and a lot of other fish, shrimps and crabs.
Brother Li's boat caught more swordfish and dozens of kilograms of small yellow croaker.
When the sorting was over, Brother Li said to Li Changle, "Ah Le, we'll help with the rest, you go cook."
"Alas! What ship captain like me has to cook for the boatmen?"
Brother Li smiled and said, "As long as we make it and you can eat it, it's fine."
"Forget it, I'd rather be nicer to my stomach." Li Changle started to cook noodles, still seafood noodles, but the noodles were changed to chewy hand-rolled noodles.
Li Changle drank the last mouthful of noodle soup and rubbed his stomach with a satisfied look on his face. "Second sister-in-law's noodles are pretty good. We can go to town and set up a stall to sell noodles."
"Delicious!" Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "Mm! Delicious!"
After hearing this, Brother Li felt a little proud, "I'll ask her to roll some more tomorrow morning." Li Changle thought about going to Lucheng tomorrow, "Tomorrow morning we'll pull a net, collect the traps and go home. After dinner, I'll go with Aqing to deliver the dried goods to Lucheng."
"Can it be done in one afternoon?"
"Go drive the tractor yourself. It's okay if you come back later."
"Okay, go back early so we can help out on the construction site for the whole afternoon."
After dinner, the four of them started to bait and cast longline fishing. All three groups of fishing rods were put into the water and they began to collect the ground traps.
The two ships worked together, which increased the speed a lot, and soon received the fifth set of traps.
The first four groups of ground traps collected mostly shrimps and crabs, with shrimps weighing about thirty to forty kilograms. They also collected dozens of kilograms of blue crabs, swimming crabs, orchid crabs and three-eyed crabs. The rest were some snails, clams and miscellaneous fish.
I hired a worker at home, and I can take these things home and cook them into several dishes, so I can buy less meat.
"Ah Le, let's go diving to the west of Chuiyuan Island later. There are many reefs there, and there should be some good stuff underneath."
"Okay, we'll just drop anchor over there later." Li Changle pulled the ground trap net onto the deck. "Fuck, it's still shrimps. I've destroyed the shrimp nest today!"
“Shrimp are not bad, pick out the big ones and sell them in restaurants, and keep the small ones to dry and sell.” Brother Li took the net, shook it straight, put the bait into the bait bag, and put it back.
Suddenly, a piercing, sharp cry was heard from a distance, and Li Changle and the other three stood up.
"Brother, it's a killer whale!" Chen Yongwei shouted in surprise.
Li Changle covered his forehead with his hands and saw two voluptuous black and white figures leaping out of the water. He was overjoyed and shouted to the sea, "Brother Hu, is that you?"
"Ah Le, there are two killer whales." Brother Li said worriedly, "We are on the boat. If we piss them off, they will come at us and we will be in trouble."
"Don't be afraid. I heard they have the IQ of a 12 or 13 year old child. They must have recognized us."
Li Changle picked up the bucket and shouted to the killer whale that was swimming towards them, "Thank you, Brother Tiger, for sending us the big fish last time. This time we will also send you some fish as a return gift."
As he said that, he threw the fish in the bucket towards Hu Zi. The killer whale opened its mouth wide, caught the fish, and continued to swim towards them.
"A Le, what should we do? They are coming towards us?" Big Brother Li and Second Brother Li were so scared that their faces turned pale. They were afraid that they would get angry and overturn the fishing boat with one sweep of their tails.
"It's okay. I heard that killer whales rarely hurt people." Li Changle felt a little uneasy. Could it be that he really became a Ye Gong who loved dragons so much that he was scared to death when the other party really came close to him?
"Ah Le, they are not real children, so why can't they understand?"
Brother Li and the other two looked at him with worry, their minds racing, wondering how to save Li Changle if the killer whale suddenly attacked him.
The three of them searched in their minds at the same time, what could be on the boat that could resist these two huge beasts? When they saw the fishing nets on the side, they looked at each other at the same time, ready to use the fishing nets to deal with the sudden killer whales.
But in the blink of an eye, the two killer whales swam in front of the fishing boat, rolling in the water, and making whimpering sounds.
Seeing that they didn't sweep up the boat, Brother Li and his two companions felt a little relieved, but they still looked at them with caution.
Li Changle felt that today's screams sounded completely different from the joyful ones that day, as if they were a little painful. He stepped forward courageously and tried to make his tone of voice more normal.
"Brother Hu, what's wrong with you? Is there anything you need our help with?"
The killer whale was still whimpering, looking anxious and in pain. Li Changle recalled the videos he had seen before of killer whales calling for help.
"Is one of our companions caught in the fishing net? If so, take us there."
A moment later, a scene that stunned the four people appeared. The killer whale turned around and swam forward, much slower than when it came, as if it was waiting for them.
"Queen of Heaven, Lord Sea Dragon, they really can understand." Brother Li exclaimed.
"Brother, hurry up, go to your boat and follow us." Li Changle took two steps at a time and returned to the driving seat, released the accelerator, and followed with full speed.
When Brother Li saw him driving away, he had no choice but to follow him.
To his second brother Li's surprise, the two killer whales were indeed waiting for them. When they saw their fishing boat catching up, they turned around and swam towards the southwest sea.
Brother Li looked at them in surprise, "Brother, these killer whales are clearly here to ask for help."
"Yeah, could it be that these sea beasts really have the IQ of 13 or 14 year old children as Ah Le said?"
"It's possible. They all came after us. If we didn't go to help, we would have angered these sea beasts. That's what we are suffering today."
Brother Li nodded, controlled the rudder and followed the two killer whales closely. The two brothers sailed quickly behind them for more than half an hour, and a small island appeared in the distance.
At this time, the killer whale swimming in front cried out, and the cry of killer whales was heard in the distance. A moment later, the four people saw two more killer whales swimming towards them.
(End of this chapter)