Chapter 263: Scared and sweating

Chapter 263: Scared and sweating

Chapter 263: Scared and sweating
Big Brother Li and Second Brother Li, who were pulling the trap net, turned their heads at the same time to look. Li Changle, who didn't look like a fisherman at all, stabbed them without mercy.

"Those gossipy women in the village used to say that Ah Le was a gigolo."

"I'm going into the water." After hearing this, Chen Yongwei hurriedly jumped into the water.

"Brat, swim two laps in the water before diving." Li Changle and his two brothers shouted hurriedly.

Chen Yongwei nodded, and after getting into the water, he swam two circles in the water before diving down.

Brother Li thought it was getting late, and there were still four groups of traps that hadn't moved. "Ah Le, you stay here, while Ah An and I go sail the boat to collect the traps."

"Okay, when you guys come back, we can collect the longline."

Li Changle sat for a while and felt a little bored. He saw the fishing net in the bamboo basket, went over to pick up the net, and after tidying it up, he stood at the bow with it in his hand, twisted his waist, and cast the net out.

He swung his upper body and threw the fishing net far away with force. The fishing net fell into the water under the gravity of the net sinker, and the net sank with it.

I touched a cigarette, lit it and held it in my mouth, waiting for the fish to enter the net. Suddenly, I felt like a bastard.

Not only can I not rest on rainy days, but now I can't even sit idle for a short while. I have to cast a few nets to feel comfortable.

"No wonder the captain used to say that making money is addictive." Li Changle felt that he was already addicted, but he liked it.

Watching the net sinker completely sink to the bottom of the sea, he began to reel in the net rope. As the net rope was slowly tightened, he saw the waves on the water surface spread out layer by layer, splashing water, and he also felt the weight coming from the net rope.

"Catch some fish! I have nothing to do anyway, so I cast a couple of nets. It doesn't matter if there are a lot of fish or a few. I can bring some back to my family as a dish, or give some to the craftsmen and laborers. I hope everyone will remember my kindness and help do a better job!"

Li Changle muttered to himself as he quickened the speed of collecting the nets, pulled the fishing nets onto the deck, and opened the nets. Several of the most numerous and cheapest green breams they had fell onto the deck, jumping around.

"So cheap, and so young!"

He curled his lips in disdain, but when he saw a mackerel weighing two or three pounds, he felt a little better and sped up the speed of shaking the net.

When I saw the big fish jumping around on the deck after falling from the fishing net, I couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Fuck, three slashes! This must be about 7 or 8 pounds, right? Li Changle, you are really lucky!"

Li Changle didn't even bother to get the net, he pounced on the fish, caught it, and ran towards the live tank while holding it in his arms.

The gas has to be released quickly, otherwise it will be worthless if it explodes and dies.

The scientific name of the three-knife fish is the three-knife fish. It is called the three-knife fish because the raised part on the front part of its back is somewhat similar to a knife.

In some places, it is also called eagle snapper, bitten cloth, Sankang, golden flower, etc.

This fish has a very beautiful appearance. Its dorsal fin and caudal fin are both orange-yellow. There are nine orange-yellow oblique bands neatly arranged on the body from the eyes, and white spots are scattered on the caudal fin.

"Parrot's beak, zebra's body, and sika deer's tail" are used to describe it.

The method of preparing Sandao fish is to steam it or make it into sashimi. When steaming Sandao fish, there is no need to remove the scales. Just put scallion slices on the bottom and steam it in a pot.

The bigger the saury is, the stickier its meat is. The steamed saury is sweet, tender and smooth, making people's appetites grow and leaving a lasting aftertaste.

After deflating the fish, he put it into the live tank and looked at the shrimps inside. He didn't find any dead ones, so he put some ice cubes in it and stared at them for a few times with a grin. Then he covered the cabin and went back to organize the fishing nets, catch the fish and bleed them.

Four green croakers weighing about one pound, two swordfish weighing more than four pounds, three or four white croakers and a few mantis shrimps were enough to add to the dishes.

After finishing the work, he looked at the watch. More than ten minutes had passed unknowingly. Thinking that it was Chen Yongwei's first time in the water, he couldn't help but feel worried.

Standing at the side of the boat, he looked at the fishing rope floating on the water, then at the air pipe on the deck, and then at his watch. It had been more than twenty minutes. Why hadn't this guy come up yet?

As time passed, his heart felt like ants crawling around in circles on the deck.

"You little bastard, wait till you come up and I'll take care of you!"

Before Li Changle finished speaking, he saw the fishing rope on the water surface shaking violently. He hurriedly stepped forward to grab the fishing rope and pulled it up quickly. After pulling it twice, he felt that it was not the weight of a human.

He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and slowed down the speed of pulling the rope. When the heavy net bag was pulled out of the water, Chen Yongwei also floated to the surface.

Li Changle happily stretched out his hand to him, "Come here, I'll give you a hand!"

"It's okay, I can climb up." Chen Yongwei said to him while climbing up the boat with the breathing tube in his hand, "If I wasn't worried about you, I could stay down there for a while."

Seeing that he had been down there for such a long time and still spoke without even taking a breath, Li Changle believed that he was really not tired, "Killing Jia, you are worthy of being a boy's skill!"

Chen Yongwei took off his flippers and said, "Brother, there are so many good things down there, I can't even see them all."

"How deep is this? Take a look at the deep sea of ​​dozens of meters. I guarantee you will be dazzled." "I will definitely go down and take a look when I have a chance in the future." Chen Yongwei took off his flippers and said, "Brother, I found a few sea urchins over there on the coral reef. When you go down, bring some pliers and take a look over there.

Also, I don't know where those sea cucumbers went. I pried a lot of big abalone from that big reef. There are not many left in the front, but there are still a lot further forward. If you want to pry them, go there."

Li Changle agreed and took out the abalone from the net bag. He saw three or four sea cucumbers underneath and poured them into the sea water. From the other net bags, he caught six or seven sea urchins, and the rest were all abalone.

"You are really good. You have caught more abalone than us in the same amount of time."

"I'm strong, so I can do it quickly." Chen Yongwei happily put the diving equipment on the deck, "Are you still going in the water?"

"I'll go down one more time, and when I come back I can collect the longline fishing." Li Changle took off his clothes, put on his equipment and went into the water.

This time he didn't need to find a trap, he swam directly towards the reef area. A group of small shrimps swam past him. He opened his hands and watched the shrimps swim past his fingertips. The feeling was really quite wonderful.

Li Changle swam to the reef at a faster speed and saw that the big abalone on the reef had indeed been pried into pieces by them.

Where he had seen many sea cucumbers when he arrived, those sea cucumbers were gone.

Sea cucumbers are not like abalone, which stays attached to the reefs motionless. They may be looking for a place to hide.

But there is no need to worry. This thing moves extremely slowly. It is said that it only moves 4 meters in an hour, which is much slower than a snail. Even if you let them escape, they can't get far.

Li Changle looked around and saw the lush seaweed under the large reef with better light, and smiled sinisterly.

"I'll come back after I pry those big abalones off of my chest."

He swam to the back of the big reef and saw many big abalone. He took out his chisel and started to work on the biggest one.

The seaweed in this area is growing so well, so these guys should be growing pretty fast too. We must be targeting the big ones to pry them open, and it won’t be too late to let the small ones grow longer before we come.

I wonder how much an abalone this big costs these days?

After I came back, I pried open the general's hat once and took it home to eat. I had never sold it before, and I had never seen such a big abalone in the town, so I guess it must be expensive.

Li Changle grabbed the rough shell of the abalone, raised the chisel and pried off a double-headed abalone in two or three moves. It was as big as his palm in his hand. He weighed it a few times and estimated that it weighed about seven or eight taels. If it was longer, it would be a single-headed abalone.

Purely wild double-headed abalone is completely different from farmed ones. The meat is more chewy and tastes more delicious. Just thinking about it makes me drool.

I put several two-headed abalone, three-headed abalone and four-headed abalone into the net bag. My eyes had also adjusted to the darkness here. Suddenly, I saw several more two-headed abalone under the reef and I excitedly went over to them.

"Fuck, you hide here, do you think I can't see you? My eyesight is 1.5 now, not presbyopia at all."

In one breath, he pried off four or five two-headed abalones, and a dozen three-headed and four-headed abalones, filling up the net bag he brought with him.

He untied a net bag rope from his waist and continued working, prying his way down to the bottom of the reef. Suddenly, he saw several large sea cucumbers hidden under the reef covered with seaweed, so he reached out and grabbed them.

After rummaging through the dense seaweed for a while, he found another mace. Li Changle swung his flippers and searched along the seaweed under the reef, where he found a dozen more sea cucumbers.

I think it’s easier to pick sea cucumbers. You can grab one at a time without any effort.

Li Changle swam forward along the seaweed, picking up the seaweed and catching sea cucumbers while trying to avoid touching poisonous seafood or other unidentified objects. When he pulled out the net bag again, he found that it was already full.

When he came down, he took ten net bags and tied them to the ropes. He used them all up before he knew it. It seems that picking up treasures is much more labor-saving.

Li Changle was about to turn around when a few seahorses swam towards him, jumping and skipping. Guys this small could fit in anywhere, and he would be sorry if he didn't catch them, so he took down the net bag and caught them all in one go.

Tie the net bag to the fishing rope, grab the fishing rope and shake it vigorously for a few times. Watch the fishing rope slowly rise and then float to the surface of the sea.

As soon as I floated above the reef, I suddenly saw a few light blue jellyfish floating in front of me.

The long light blue tentacles swayed back and forth in the water like light blue silk, like a dream.

Li Changle didn't think it was pretty at all. Instead, he was so scared that he broke out in a sweat. "Fuck! Poisonous jellyfish!"

He swam his legs desperately to avoid the jellyfish and swam quickly towards the sea surface, fearing that he would accidentally provoke them and get stung by them. The joy turned into sorrow!

The tentacles of jellyfish are relatively short and they also have stinging cells. Although they also secrete venom, they generally do not actively attack.

Poisonous jellyfish are different. Their tentacles are covered with stinging cells, which, like poison threads, can shoot out venom. After the prey is stung, it will quickly become paralyzed and die.

Li Changle used all his strength to swim upwards, and when he felt he could not swim anymore, he finally surfaced.

(End of this chapter)