Chapter 262 Big Brother

Chapter 262 Big Brother

Chapter 262 Big Brother

The shell of the nine-segment shrimp is hard, the meat is soft and easy to digest. The astaxanthin contained in the shrimp meat has a sedative effect. It is also rich in mineral elements and the trace element zinc.

The most delicious ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods. Put the lively fresh shrimps directly into boiled water and blanch them. The tender and chewy shrimp meat is paired with a dish of sweet and sour red vinegar. The meat is chewy when you put it in your mouth.

"Alive!" Brother Li quickly shook the fish in the net into the bamboo basket.

"Finally, I got some good stuff." Li Changle looked at the five or six big shrimps inside. The largest one was estimated to be more than a foot long. The shrimp body was bigger than his face. He smiled so hard that the corners of his mouth stretched to the back of his ears.

"Hurry up and release the living pod. If it dies, it won't be worth the money."

Brother Li quickly picked up the bamboo basket, went to the living tank, and put the shrimp in, not giving it a chance to commit suicide and leaving it for others to kill.

Li Changle put three sea cucumbers into the bucket, looked at the prawns in the live tank, and said to Brother Li: "Brother, quickly pick up the ones below and see if there are any more. If there are, keep a few to take back and eat yourself."

"Okay, if there are any left, take a few back." Brother Li turned his head and glanced at him. "You can eat the shrimps, but don't eat the sea cucumbers this time. Sell them all, okay?"

These top-quality sea cucumbers are at least ten yuan per pound, and large shrimps are at most two or three yuan per pound, which is much more cost-effective than eating sea cucumbers.

Li Changle didn't know what was going on in his mind, and was happy that he was so easy to talk to. "I thought you didn't agree!"

"In the past, our family was poor, and whenever we got something good, we would want to sell it for money, so I stopped you from eating. Now life is better, and what you earn in a day is equal to what others earn in several months."

Brother Li smiled and glanced at him, then said with a guilty conscience, "If you still can't bear to eat it, then wouldn't you be the miser you mentioned?"

"I'm not saying you have to eat good food, I just want everyone to eat well and take good care of their bodies while they are young so they can enjoy a few more years of happiness when they are old."

"You haven't even raised any of your children yet. It's too early for you to enjoy life!"

Brother Li pulled up three more traps in succession. What made Li Changle happy was that a total of seven nine-segment shrimps were caught in the two traps.

A few hairtails, two conger eels, a few blue crabs, and two tiger fish. The catch in these cages is good and should be able to sell for thirty or forty yuan in total.

After pulling several nets in a row, Brother Li was a little tired. He looked at the time and said, "Ah Le, Ah An has been down there longer than you. Is he okay?"

Li Changle checked his watch. "Twenty-one minutes, three minutes more than me." He looked at the rope tied to the mast and said, "Don't worry, if anything happens, my second brother will pull the rope."

My eldest brother has the same temperament as my father, he is too cautious and worries about everything. No wonder he ages so fast.

Brother Li looked at the water with worry, "We shouldn't have tied so many nets to him."

"Don't worry, Lord Hailong will protect my second brother." Li Changle took the fishing rope, "Go and rest for a while. Maybe when I pull up this trap, my second brother will come up."

Brother Li nodded, took out a cigarette, lit it, put it in Li Changle's mouth, took a long puff of the cigarette, and looked at the sea worriedly.

Li Changle was pulling the trap while keeping an eye on the fishing rope. As soon as he pulled the trap out of the water, he noticed that the fishing rope on the water surface was shaking violently. "Brother, the second brother is coming up."

"Oh oh!" Brother Li also discovered it, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab the rope and pull it up. Soon, the net bag of turbans filled with pearl oysters, large abalone and sea cucumbers was pulled up.

"Oh my goodness! There really are abalones this big, and not just one. It's like picking up money at the bottom of the sea. You little brat, you got so many, no wonder you stayed there for so long."

"I said, everything is okay!" Li Changle pulled the trap net onto the deck. Before he had time to check the fish in the net bag, he saw Brother Li floating to the surface. He looked at the time and it was exactly twenty-five minutes.

He walked over to pull Brother Li, who was lying on the side of the boat, onto the deck, put his breathing tube and goggles in place, and said to him, "How do you feel?"

Brother Li waved his hands and lay there not wanting to move. "I didn't feel tired in the water, but I feel a little exhausted after coming out."

He didn't think it was a big deal to catch sea cucumbers and pick up turbans, but it was a bit difficult to pry open the abalone. After prying out thirteen or fourteen abalones, he felt a little suffocated, so he pulled the fishing line a few times and floated up.

"There's also rice soup. Can I give you a few sips of it?"

Brother Li blinked and closed his eyes to rest. He really didn't want to move at all and just wanted to lie down and relax.

Li Changle poured the rice soup in the kettle into the porcelain bowl, turned around and saw Brother Li was busy taking off his flippers and massaging his feet.

He stepped forward and helped up Second Brother Li, and said to him with a smile: "Second brother, look how good our eldest brother is. We have to give him an award."

"When we were on the ship, you took care of me most of the time." Li Erge said, "Brother, I can't compare to you in many ways when it comes to my brothers and sisters at home."

"Stop talking so much nonsense and get dressed and get back to work." Brother Li glanced at Li Changle uncomfortably, "You little brat, I just wanted to try putting on my flippers and going in the water."

"Okay, you want to go in the water and take a look." Li Changle said with a smile, "Don't delay too long when you go down, so that we won't worry about you up there."

This is their eldest brother, who even feels shy when caring about his brothers, but is straightforward when scolding others.

No wonder the old saying goes, beating is love, scolding is care, and you will feel uncomfortable without beating or scolding.

Big Brother Li rolled his eyes at him and threw Big Brother Li's clothes at him, "Do you think I'm as unreasonable as you guys?" Big Brother Li laughed awkwardly, "Don't worry, I won't do it recklessly next time."

"That's pretty much it."

After Brother Li got into the water, Li Changle looked at the pearl oysters in the bucket and said, "Brother, have you caught all the ones you saw?"

"We've caught them all." This time, Brother Li caught three pearl oysters, seventeen sea cucumbers, and two abalones that were bigger than his face.

There are fourteen double-headed abalones, and some three- and four-headed ones. There are still quite a few left on the reef, but I really don't have the energy to catch them all.

Li Changle picked up the salamander. He had seen this thing several times before. The captain told him that it was used to make mother-of-pearl. He also said that it was very valuable, but he didn't know its exact value.

If it is not valuable, keep it for making beads or other jewelry in the future.

They definitely wouldn't want to give up these big abalone, so he would go down and catch some smaller ones and bring them back for them to taste.

"A Le, I heard that the pearls from the giant mother-of-pearl and the Hepu oyster are the best." Brother Li put on his clothes and shoes and came to see his trophy.

"I heard from the owner of the Lucheng Gold Shop that pearls produced by mother-of-pearl are smoother and better in shape than oyster pearls."

Li Changle was talking without stopping the work in his hands. He moved the bucket to the side and put it away, then went to pull up the trap.

Brother Li also came to help sort the catch. The next four traps he pulled contained several hairtails, as well as two or three shrimps, crabs and conger eels.

While busy, Brother Li shook the fishing rope. He quickly pulled up the fishing rope and found a net bag full of nine-segment shrimps. Li Changle hurriedly lifted the net bag to the side of the live tank and poured all the shrimps into it.

Then there were the sea cucumbers. I counted them and found there were nineteen of them, which were smaller than the ones picked up by Brother Li. There were eight or nine double-headed abalones, and thirty or forty abalones with three, four, and five heads.

Li Changle gave him a thumbs up, "Big brother is still the strongest fighter. He got more goods than my second brother and I."

"I encountered those nine-segmented shrimps when I went down there. They were really big! I only caught eight or nine of them, but the net bag was already full."

Brother Li added, "There are so many good things on the seabed. I saw a few red groupers, but unfortunately they were too agile and ran away before I could get close to them."

Li Changle was full of pride, "If there weren't enough good stuff, I wouldn't have the nerve to ask Ah Huan to help me buy diving equipment!"

At this time, Chen Yongwei also drove his fishing boat over. As soon as he got closer, he looked at Brother Li who was taking off his gear excitedly and asked in a loud voice: "Brother, you are back from the water. What good stuff did you get?"

"It's sea cucumbers and abalone, and we also caught some nine-segmented shrimps." Brother Li laughed, "How many ducks did you catch?"

Chen Yongwei dragged the bamboo basket to the side of the boat. "Eighteen. It took several nets to catch them. These guys have learned to be smart. They run away when they see the fishing nets."

"If we go a few more times, I'm afraid these things will have to be moved to another island."

"No way? I saw quite a few ducklings, they must have just hatched." Chen Yongwei said as he jumped onto the fishing boat, looking angry:

"Brother, I saw a broken bamboo basket on the slope, some unburned firewood, and a lot of duck egg shells and duck bones. I think the trap was probably stolen by the egg collectors."

Brother Li said in a deep voice: "It might be those shady guys in the village who did it."

Chen Yongwei nodded, "Catch him and beat the shit out of him."

Li Changle looked at the sea duck he caught and asked, "How many duck eggs did you pick up?"

"Sixty or seventy." Chen Yongwei rubbed his hands. "My elder and second brothers have been there. It's my turn now!"

Li Changle looked at Chen Yongwei with amusement, who was as excited as a child. "You can go. After putting on your equipment, swim around on the surface of the sea first, and then dive down after you get used to it."

"Got it. We still need to do some radio gymnastics as a warm-up exercise, right?"

"That's good to know." Li Changle handed him the diving equipment. "Tie the rope too. If anything happens, remember to pull the rope to warn."

"Don't worry." Chen Yongwei swayed up and down and left and right a few times, and took off all his clothes until he was left with only a pair of bright red shorts.

Li Changle looked at the dark-skinned Chen Yongwei and said with a smile, "Good fellow, you are as dark as a black stick fish, without a single white spot on your skin."

"I'm not a gigolo, why should I be so white? You want to be as tanned as me, but you can't do it!"

Chen Yongwei quickly glanced at Li Changle, remembering that his grandmother had told him not to seek coolness when going out to sea, and to take off everything except his underwear to work.

Wear long sleeves and long pants, and keep yourself whiter before getting married, so that you won’t feel depressed when you can’t see anyone at night when you turn off the lights.

How come his brother doesn’t get tanned when they use the same suntan method?

(End of this chapter)