Chapter 261: Be careful when sailing the ship of ten thousand years

Chapter 261: Be careful when sailing the ship of ten thousand years

Chapter 261: Be careful when sailing the ship of ten thousand years

Li Changle took off his breathing tube, waved at the few people, swam to the fishing boat, handed him the scoop net, and then took off the net bag and put it on the deck.

Then he climbed onto the boat by clinging to the side. Chen Yongwei didn't bother to look at what was in the net. He grabbed his shoulders and pulled him onto the deck.

Chen Yongwei looked at him with a worried look on his face. "Brother, how do you feel? You are really too brave. You stayed in the water for so long for the first time. What if... what do you want us to do?"

"Awei, how is your brother? Is he okay? Is he injured anywhere?" Brother Li asked, stretching his neck.

"I'm fine, I'm just too tired." Li Changle said, looking at Chen Yongwei, "Hurry up and put the sea cucumbers in the net bag into the water, and put the big flower dragon in the live tank as well."

"Oh oh!" Chen Yongwei hurriedly picked up the scoop net and net bag and ran towards the living cabin.

Li Changle lay on the deck, took a few deep breaths, and after a while he felt more comfortable. He took off his goggles, sat up, and took off his fins and diving suit.

He felt that his physical fitness was still not good enough and that he needed more exercise if he wanted to dive and fish.

When Chen Yongwei saw the sea cucumber in the net bag, he shouted in surprise, "Big brother, second brother, look, a sea cucumber as big as a mace!"

Li Changle, who was enjoying the sunbath on the deck with only his underwear left, glanced at him sideways after hearing this, "Fuck! How come you think the same thing as I do?"

Chen Yongwei grabbed the sea cucumber and waved his hand at him, "Brother, you and I are in perfect sync."

"Get lost! I don't want to have any tacit understanding with a big guy like you." Li Changle smiled and lay down, rubbing his body.

"Brother, there are so many good things on the seabed. Do we still need to use longlines, traps, and trawls when we come here next time?"

Chen Yongwei thought that since there were so many treasures on the seabed, he could just put on his diving gear and go down to look for them, which was just like picking up money.

"Of course!" Li Changle rolled his eyes at him. "We are fishermen, and this is our main job. Do you think we are fish, and it's okay for us to stay in the water every day?"

"We take turns going into the water, and we can catch a lot in a day."

"No, it's fine for one person to go down once or twice a day, but if we work underwater for a long time, I'm afraid we will get rheumatism before we get old."

Li Changle thought of the boatman he worked with in his previous life, who couldn't work in his 40s or 50s because of rheumatism. "I don't want to be unable to stand up straight when I'm old, lying in bed every day without a good night's sleep."

Chen Yongwei thought of the elderly people in the village who suffered from rheumatism and shook his head subconsciously, "If that's the case, what's the point of making money?"

"That's right. We make money to live a more comfortable life, so that we can have money in our pockets when we need it, without having to beg for money from others. We don't make money to use for our old age."

"Brother, you are smart. I can't think of these things."

Li Changle patted him and thought: When I was your age, I was not as good as you!
Big Brother Li and Second Brother Li didn't even collect the trap nets. They simply drove the boat to the side of the Rising Sun and jumped onto the fishing boat. When they saw the big flower dragon in the live hold and the sea cucumber in the bucket, they were so excited that they clicked their tongues.

Li Changle put on his clothes and said to Li Erge, "Brother, let's collect the traps. While the visibility on the seabed is good, you put on your diving gear and go in to fish out the money."

Brother Li looked at him excitedly, "What other treasures are there?"

Li Changle said with great joy, "I saw a luminous salamander as big as a bowl..."

"Ah Le," Brother Li patted him, "What is a glow-in-the-dark turban?"

"It's the kind of snails inlaid on the old dressing boxes." Li Changle looked at Chen Yongwei, "Do you still remember the year when we went to the stage to peek and saw the Dingjia dressing box?"

Chen Yongwei nodded without hesitation, "Remember, it's colorful and very pretty."

"The thing inlaid on it is the luminous turban." Li Changle told Brother Li the location of the turban. "There are also a few large mother-of-pearl oysters below, but you have to be careful, there are a few cone snails next to it."

"Don't worry, I know cone snails. You don't know as many poisonous creatures in the sea as I do."

Li Changle touched his nose and thought to himself: That’s not necessarily true!
Big Brother Li glared at Big Brother Li and said, "An, there are so many things on the seabed, and there are many that we can't recognize. Don't touch things you can't recognize. It's better to be safe than sorry!"

"Don't worry, big brother. I've heard my father say this since I was a child, and I remember it." Second Brother Li looked at Li Changle excitedly, "Anything else good?"

Li Changle smiled, "The reefs are densely packed with large abalones. There are quite a few single-headed abalones, as well as sea cucumbers. There are quite a few as big as mace."

Brother Li rubbed his hands excitedly, "Oh my goodness, these are all big goods. When will it take to get so many of them up?"

Li Changle looked at him with a smile, "Just take your time. Things that grow on the rocks won't run away."

It's half past one now. Everyone takes turns going into the water. Each person works for ten to twenty minutes. After two trips, each person can catch a lot of things.

"Then I'll go down right away." Brother Li started to take off his clothes immediately. His movements were so smooth, probably even faster than on his wedding night.

"Brother, do some warm-up exercises first, and let's get ready." Li Changle said to Chen Yongwei, "Bring a fishing rope, and a few net bags to tie on it, and bring the chisel and pliers."

"Oh!" Chen Yongwei quickly prepared himself, found a fishing rope several dozen meters long, tied the net bag on it, and handed it to him.

Li Changle took over and said to Li Erge: "The area below is full of reefs and corals. You go down with a rope and fill the net bag. Tie it to the rope and pull it a few times, and we will pull the rope up."

Brother Li nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "That's a good idea. If anything happens to you down there, just tie the rope around your body and pull it a few times, and we'll be able to pull you up."

Li Changle found this a good idea, "Then bring an extra rope with you."

"A Le, you forgot one thing." Brother Li came forward and pointed in the direction of Zhushan Island. "This place is not far from the reef. There were many shipwrecks in this area in the past.

When I was a child, my grandfather told me that in the old days, some people from above came here to salvage shipwrecks. I heard that someone salvaged several boxes of yellow croakers and a lot of antiques.

Some people in Shaji Village also said that the Zhou brothers’ big boat was bought with the money earned from the treasures that the eldest brother Zhou found on the island when he was fishing.”

Of course Li Changle had heard of these rumors. When he was working at sea in his previous life, he had seen people who specialized in salvaging shipwrecks. Those who were lucky would salvage something, but those who were unlucky would have worked in vain.

There were also people who were looking for pirate treasure, but they didn't find the treasure and they started fighting among themselves.

"Brother, that's just a rumor after all. Yellow croakers and antique jewels on the seabed are hard to come by. We should still fish for seafood and sell them for money."

Li Changle smiled and said, "Of course, if we find treasures while fishing, we can make some money. If we don't find any, it won't affect our business."

Brother Li looked at him with a look of relief, "Ah Le is right, there are not so many good things. If it is true, those who smuggled the goods should just go to the sea to retrieve the treasures. Why take the risk of going against the police?"

"That's right, it's more important to get the big stuff and sell it for money." Brother Li took off his watch and handed it to Li Changle, then put on his equipment.

He tied the rope around his waist, the knife and the net bag for tools as well, went into the water, waved to them, dived into the water, swam his feet, and swam towards the reef like a fish.

The three of them saw him dive into the water. Chen Yongwei pulled Li Changle and said, "Brother, can you open that big clam shell and take a look?"

Li Changle shook his head, "Keep it in the bucket first, and then slowly open it when you get home."

Brother Li thought about catching sea ducks, "Ah Wei, you drive my boat to catch ducks and collect duck eggs, while Ah Le and I will continue to collect the ground trap nets."

"Okay!" Chen Yongwei jumped onto the boat of Brother Li and his crew, and started the fishing boat and headed southeast.

Li Changle and Brother Li continued to collect the ground traps. He was at the bottom just now, and they were worried about his safety, so they had no intention of working and only collected two ground traps.

Needless to say, the catch that Chen Yongwei pulled up was amazing. The catch that Brother Li and his friends caught included a few large shrimps, orchid crabs and a few conger eels, so it was a pretty good catch.

Brother Li pulled the fishing rope connected to the ground trap and slowly pulled it up, "Ah Le, I'm worried that there are still some people in this group who are stuck."

"I looked down there, and I didn't see any other traps." Li Changle stretched his neck to take a look. "How did it feel when you pulled it?"

"It probably didn't get caught." Brother Li pulled the trap out of the water. "The catch probably wasn't much."

Li Changle stretched out his hand and grabbed the iron ring, pulled the trap onto the deck, lifted the trap and shook the fish inside into the fish bag.

He opened the fish collection bag and poured the catch into the bamboo basket. There were four hairtails. The two big ones were four fingers wide and less than one meter long. Such big hairtails were considered large in the East China Sea.

There were two small ones that were more than two fingers long, three lobsters, seven or eight white shrimps, and two swimming crabs.

After the fall, the swimming crabs are fatter than before. One of them has even grown roe. The lobsters are still alive, so we caught them and threw them into the live tank.

Several white shrimps and hairtails were already dying, so they were put directly into a rubber bucket and some ice cubes were placed on top to keep them fresh.

According to ancient and modern medical and aquatic medicinal books, hairtail has the effects of warming the stomach, replenishing deficiency, moisturizing the skin, dispelling wind, killing insects, and replenishing the five internal organs. It also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on chronic hepatitis.

Hairtail fish scales are the raw materials for making antipyretic and acetaminophen tablets and anti-tumor drugs. Eating more hairtail fish is also good for the body.

He cleaned up the fish and shook out the ground trap nets. Brother Li pulled up another trap and shouted to him in surprise, "Ah Le, I see there are three sea cucumbers and a few nine-segment shrimps in it."

Li Changle asked hurriedly: "Is the shrimp dead or alive?"

The nine-segment shrimp, scientifically known as Penaeus monodon, can be considered the best of shrimps. It gets its name because there are deep and shallow horizontal lines along the length of the shrimp, and after being cooked, there are obvious nine white patterns.

The nine-segment shrimp is also a very temperamental shrimp. After being caught, it will spit out a secretion and commit suicide, so that people who like to try new things will not get their hands on it. It is quite heroic and brave, with the spirit of "rather die with honor than live in disgrace".

(End of this chapter)