Chapter 259 Right Eye Twitching is Not a Good Thing

Chapter 259 Right Eye Twitching is Not a Good Thing

Chapter 259 Right Eye Twitching is Not a Good Thing
"Brother, we have to go to the master's palace to pay our respects when we get back." Chen Yongwei said angrily, "That bastard of Lai Da is really unlucky. I was unlucky once because of him, and I haven't gotten any good stuff for two days in a row."

Li Changle was no longer angry when he thought about the income during this period. "That bastard couldn't possibly bring bad luck to us. I think it might be that the God of Wealth saw that we had made a lot of money in the past few days, so he let us take a break to avoid making others jealous."

"It's possible!" Chen Yongwei said, pointing to a bearded fish. "I'm confused. We didn't trawle near the reef, so how did we catch this guy?"

"This creature likes to live near islands and reefs, and there are two or three islands nearby, so it is inevitable that it will be caught."

Li Changle went to get a new pair of gloves and took out his rain boots. "Put them on quickly. Put on your rain boots as well. If you get pricked by them by accident, the pain will be unforgettable for the rest of your life."

Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "I know, Wang Laokou was stabbed two years ago, and he rolled on the ground in pain, crying for his parents.

Some even wanted to chop off their arms with a knife, some said they would wipe them with milk, and some said they would use boy’s urine…”

"Didn't Wang Laokou ask an old boy like you to take a bath and help him detoxify?"

Chen Yongwei rolled his eyes at him. "I found a little devil and urinated twice, but it didn't work. I took him to the clinic and got a painkiller, but it didn't stop. I heard from his neighbor that he howled all night and didn't feel better until the next day."

"Fuck, they didn't even invite me to dinner. No wonder the old saying goes, good people don't live long, but evil people live a thousand years."

Li Changle quickly put on gloves and rain boots, took a pair of scissors, put them in the bucket, and began to sort the fish.

Avoiding the bearded fish, the living prawns were picked up and put into buckets. The black sea bream was caught, deflated and put into the live tank. Several large eels weighing seven or eight kilograms were also put into the live tank. The blue crabs, swimming crabs and crabs were tied up.

The meat of rubber fish is bland and tasteless, and no one wants it even at two cents a pound. The big fish weighing more than two or three pounds are picked out to be used as bait or taken back to give to the craftsmen at home, while the small ones are thrown back into the sea and released.

Li Changle carefully caught a bearded fish weighing one or two kilograms, cut off the poisonous spines on the pectoral fin and dorsal fin, and threw it into a rubber bucket.

Suddenly he heard Chen Yongwei scream "Ah!" His heart skipped a beat and he said anxiously, "I told you to be careful..."

Turning around, I saw a large blue crab dangling from his thumb. I breathed a sigh of relief and hurried over to hold the bucket in front of him. "Put it in quickly. It will be loosened in a moment."

Chen Yongwei reluctantly put the hand that was pinched by the crab claws into the bucket, "Damn it, I haven't been pinched by a crab in more than ten years. I really have to go to the master's temple to pay my respects when I go back."

Li Changle recalled the sight of the blue crab dangling from his finger and couldn't help but burst out laughing, "This is what it means when a goose is pecked in the eye while hunting it."

"It's all the fault of those fish catchingers. I was so busy avoiding the spines that I didn't notice a big blue crab underneath. As soon as I reached out my hand, it was clamped."

Chen Yongwei felt the blue crab release its claws, so he quickly raised his hands and took off his gloves. The claws left several bloody marks on his fingers.

Seeing that the injury was not serious, Li Changle patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Take this home and steam it to avenge you."

"Forget it. There isn't much valuable fish to begin with. This one weighs at least two kilograms. I'd better sell it."

"Greedy!" Li Changle fished out the blue crab and tied it up with a hemp rope. "Take a break, I'll do it."

"I'm not a delicate lady. I need to rest for a while with just such a minor injury." Chen Yongwei put on gloves, grabbed a bearded fish weighing more than a pound, cut off the spines with two scissors, and threw it into the bucket with a snap.

"Brother, those that weigh a few taels, should we just let them go?"

"Okay, keep the ones that weigh more than one kilogram, and release the small ones." Li Changle knocked a conger eel unconscious with a stick, picked it up and threw it into the bucket.

"This swimming crab is good. It can be sold for two or three dollars."

At this time, Brother Li drove the fishing boat and stopped not far away. "A Le, how's the catch?"

"Not good!" Li Changle stood up and looked at the two people. "We caught 300 to 400 kilograms of fish, and the rubber fish and bearded fish weighed more than 100 kilograms. I don't plan to continue trawling. I'll put down the longline, collect the trap net, and go to the island to pump out the water pit."

Brother Li smiled and said, “Let’s pull it up and take a look. If it’s not good, I’ll go with you to pump out the water hole.”

"I don't want to pump the puddle." Brother Li looked at Li Changle, "Do you have diving equipment? Bring it with you so we can go fishing."

Li Changle nodded proudly, "Of course I carry the equipment with me. When we reel in the longline fishing, we take turns going down to the sea to have a look."

"Okay, let's pull up the net and see." Brother Li started the net-lifting machine and began to collect the net.

Li Changle and his companion were sorting the catch while keeping an eye on that side. They saw the bulging net bag being pulled onto the deck, and realized that it was time to open the blind box, so they stopped and looked across.

Brother Li untied the fishing rope in the net bag, and fish, shrimps and crabs, both familiar and unfamiliar, swarmed onto the deck and swam away in all directions.

Brother Li looked at them and shook his head. "There are a few silver pomfret and tiger eels. They don't look much better than you."

Li Changle stretched his neck to take a look, "It's better than us. At least many of them can be left to dry in the sun."

Brother Li nodded, "Yes, let's take a different route next time."

Brother Li thought for a moment and said, "After the Mid-Autumn Festival, we will go to the sea area where Brother Huzi was rescued. I don't think there are many fishing boats going there."

Chen Yongwei raised his hands in agreement, "Yes, yes, yes, I think that place is nice too. That island looks nice too. I'll go there next time."

"Okay, we'll go there after the Mid-Autumn Festival." Li Changle continued to work, sorted the fish, and went to help Brother Li and the others for a while, and docked their fishing boat in the sea area southwest of Chuiyuan Island where they set up ground traps.

All four brothers boarded the Rising Sun. Eldest brother Li drove the boat, Chen Yongwei went fishing, and second brother Li dragged the rubber fish out of the bamboo basket, chopped it into pieces with a knife, and Li Changle took it and hung it on the hook.

Place two hooks apart and try a different approach by hooking some shrimp or other fish.

The boat moved forward slowly, and Chen Yongwei slowly let out the line, muttering to himself, "May the Sea Dragon Lord bless us with lots of fish and shrimp."

With four people working together, the process was much faster and all five sets of longline fishing were ready in just over an hour.

Second brother Li drove the fishing boat towards the sea of ​​Xiadilong. Li Changle brought out the wooden barrel containing lunch, and sister-in-law Zhou Ruonan made steamed rice for them.

It was put in two large lunch boxes and wrapped in a cotton-filled scarf to keep it warm, and the kettle was filled with two pots of rice soup with a rich rice aroma.

Li Changle picked up a rice cake and took a bite. "Today's rice cake is good. It has fried eggs, pickled vegetables, and mantis shrimp."

"I'm so hungry." Brother Li stopped the boat next to the buoy, turned off the engine, came over, picked up the rice and started eating.

"Eat more. Only when you are full will you have the strength to dive and pull the net."

Chen Yongwei swallowed the rice in his mouth and said, "Brother, it's already one o'clock. Let's collect the traps together on both boats, and then go to the island to catch sea ducks."

Brother Li nodded. "That's fine. If we don't hurry up, we won't have time to go diving today."

"Then hurry over there." Big Brother Li picked up the kettle, and Second Brother Li took two rice cookers, and jumped onto the opposite boat with him, starting the fishing boat to go forward to collect another set of traps.

Li Changle drank a bowl of warm rice soup, stood by the side of the boat, rubbed his hands and bowed, "May the Sea Dragon Lord bless us, and may we catch a lot of fish."

Before he could finish his words, the upper eyelid of his right eye twitched a few times and he immediately felt something was wrong. From childhood to adulthood, whenever this eyelid twitched, it was always something bad.

Seeing him standing there in a daze, Chen Yongwei quickly handed him the hook and said, "Brother, this hook is for you."

Li Changle hesitated for a moment and said, "My eyelids twitched a few times just after I finished speaking. How about I just let you pull the net?"

"I'll pull it!" Chen Yongwei walked forward happily, hooked up the float with an iron hook, pulled the fishing rope, and pulled the ground trap net up. The heavy feeling came again.

He turned his head and looked at Li Changle, smiling so hard that his teeth were exposed, "It's really different in a different place."

Li Changle breathed a sigh of relief and happily moved over, "Hurry up and pull it up and take a look."

When Chen Yongwei pulled again, he felt something was wrong. It was not as heavy as after the net burst, but it seemed to be caught by something. He turned his head and looked at a few people, "It seems to be caught."

Li Changle saw that he still couldn't escape the disaster, "I'll try to pull it and see. If it's really stuck, I'll have to go down and take a look."

Chen Yongwei stepped aside and said, "You try it. I feel like I'm stuck."

Li Changle didn't dare to pull it hard. After trying it for a while, he felt that it was stuck. "Yes, it's stuck. There may be reefs on the seabed. I'll go down and take a look."

The eldest and second brothers Li also noticed the situation and asked loudly and gestured, "What's wrong?"

"The fishing net is stuck!" Li Changle gestured to them a few times, "I'm going to go in the water and take a look."

Brother Li nodded and said, "Be careful."

Li Changle nodded heavily at him, took out his diving equipment, stripped down to only his pants, quickly put on the diving equipment, moved his hands and feet up and down and left and right, and started warming up.

"Brother, do you still need to do radio gymnastics when diving?"

"This is called a warm-up exercise. It's mainly to prevent cramps after entering the water. Remember to do it before entering the water next time."

"My second brother didn't do it that day, so it's okay."

"...The situation was urgent that day, so I forgot about it." Li Changle glared at him, "Remember, no matter if it's you or my second brother or eldest brother, you must remind them before they go into the water, otherwise you will suffer a great loss."

"remember."

After doing warm-up exercises, Li Changle put on fins, goggles and a snorkel, hung the net bag around his waist, took a scoop net and a bloodletting knife, and went into the water.

After getting into the water, I found that it was really comfortable to go into the water in this season. I didn’t rush to dive, but swam around on the sea surface first.

He looked up and saw Chen Yongwei standing above him, looking at him worriedly. He waved at him, dived into the water, and dived down along the fishing rope.

After swimming downstream along the fishing rope for a while, I felt more and more flexible. Through the goggles, I saw several lobsters and small fish swimming slowly and leisurely.

A stone eel poked its head out from the crevice of the reef in front, as if looking curiously at the strange creature that had intruded into their world.

(End of this chapter)