Chapter 269 It's all dark

Chapter 269 It's all dark

Chapter 269 It's all dark

The squid fishing season is from May to August every year, because this period is also the breeding season for squid, and a large number of squid will return from the deep sea to the shore to breed.

They lurk in deep water during the day and come ashore to find food at night. Li Changle remembered that there were not many squids in their area. It seemed that these were attracted by the lights today.

"Fuck! It's really coming!" Chen Yongwei stared with wide eyes, "Brother, this is a great idea! It's going to be a success, a success, why didn't you think of it before?"

"..."

I didn’t have an important job before, and I dreamed every day about shipping goods like the Wang family, using sacks to carry money.

Li Changle and Li Erge picked up the landing net and handed it to Li Dage and Chen Yongwei respectively. "Hurry up, what's the point of just watching? The fish won't jump onto the deck by themselves."

Casting the net is too slow, so of course scooping the net is faster, and the four of them started working excitedly.

The extended version of the net bag is two meters long. Once the net is cast and lifted up, the net bag is full of heavy fish catches.

Green squid and yellow squid are not valuable, but the price of squid is still good, several cents per pound!

We pick the fat and big ones weighing forty to fifty kilograms and send them to restaurants to sell, and kill the rest and dry them.

Li Changle was somewhat impressed by his good luck. He just received the business last night and the squid came tonight. It was simply what he wanted!
"Brother, I caught a few yellow croakers, they are pretty good size." Chen Yongwei put the net bag on the ground and rummaged around in it, revealing a few golden yellow croakers.

"Hurry up and send it to the live tank." Li Changle grabbed a fish with one hand, rushed to the live tank in one step, opened the hatch and put the fish in.

He turned around and took the few yellow croakers that Chen Yongwei had found, put them into the live tank and put some ice cubes in it.

The big yellow croakers weigh more than one kilogram, and the small ones weigh about eight or nine taels. When it gets daybreak, we will go down to the sea to catch some nine-segment shrimps, sea cucumbers, and abalone, and the main dishes for the Mid-Autumn Festival will be ready.

Unfortunately, my wife and children have gone back to their parents’ home, so I can only wait for them to come back and then make some for them.

Li Changle felt that the days were getting more and more promising. He felt full of strength. He quickly filled several rubber buckets, pulled them aside and pulled two more plastic buckets over.

The brothers were sweating profusely, and they poured the liquid into the bucket one by one. The plastic bucket was soon full.

The squid that fell onto the deck squirmed its tentacles and quickly climbed onto the side of the ship. After falling into the water, it was salvaged again and poured into a bucket, where it was crushed so hard that it could hardly move.

The few people kept fishing like a clockwork pendulum, but there were still countless fish swimming towards the sea surface illuminated by the lights.

The sea water under the light looks like boiling water. Small fish jump out of the water from time to time, and the tentacles of the squid sway like ribbons.

Li Changle, who had caught more than ten fish in one breath, felt a pain in his arms and could not even hold the handle of the scoop net.

He quickly grabbed the handle and shouted to Brother Li who had just finished fishing, "Brother, give me a hand. I can't pull it up by myself."

"I know I don't have enough strength, so I catch less. Otherwise my arms will hurt again tomorrow!" Brother Li hurried forward to grab the iron ring and help pull it up. I saw that the two-meter-long net bag was filled with most of the fish.

The frightened squid spit out a lot of ink after being startled, and the black sea water flowed down the net.

Chen Yongwei carried most of the fish by himself and said to Li Changle proudly, "Brother, you still lack practice. Look at me, I can catch so much easily by myself."

Li Changle wiped his sweat and said, "Your brother is not good enough. He dare not compete with a strong man like you!"

Brother Li took it and said, "The extended version of the scoop net we made this time is really powerful. When we started fishing, each net weighed at least 70 to 80 kilograms. Now that I have reduced it by half, my arms are sore."

Chen Yongwei nodded, "It can hold a lot of fish. After three nets, a rubber bucket is full. This bucket can hold 200 kilograms."

Li Changle lifted the bottom of the net and poured the fish into a rubber bucket, only to see a yellowfin croaker holding the body of a squid in its mouth.

The squid's slender tentacles were wrapped around Huang Zhan's round fish body.

Yellow snapper and green snapper look somewhat similar, both have spindle-shaped bodies that are slightly flattened laterally.

The back of the yellow croaker is blue-gray, the belly is silver, there is a small black round spot on the posterior upper corner of the gill cover and the shoulder strap, and there is a white spot above the front of the dorsal fin. It is also known as pond fish and balang fish.

There is no white spot above the front of the dorsal fin of the bluefin, and there are five small fins behind the second dorsal fin.

Li Changle grabbed the two guys in his hands and said, "Fuck, the decisive battle at Huashan Mountain, we were defeated by humans before the outcome was decided."

Brother Li: "They said The Legend of the Condor Heroes is very good. When we finish building the house, we will buy a TV and watch The Legend of the Condor Heroes."

"Okay, I'll buy one someday so that the kids don't have to run to the village after putting down their bowls."

Li Changle looked at the waters around Zhushan Island and saw that it was still pitch black. He thought that if he didn't see the sunken ship tomorrow night or the night after, he would go to the black market to buy one.

At this time, Chen Yongwei was holding a squid with tentacles longer than chopsticks, and proudly showed off to Li Changle, "Brother, look, it's another big one."

Just at this moment, the squid in his hand spat out a mouthful of ink, and its face was turned into a big black face, with ink flowing down its neck.

Li Changle laughed loudly at his embarrassed look, and suddenly felt a chill on his face, which was splashed by the squid in his hand. "Little guy, you are still stockpiling ammunition for a sneak attack!" Chen Yongwei was amused and pointed at him and laughed, "Hahaha, this is called retribution in this life!"

Big Brother Li and Second Brother Li looked at the two black faces and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Li Changle took a look at the ink on his hand, walked behind Brother Li, stretched out his hand and smeared his face. After succeeding, he tried to smear Brother Li, but he dodged.

"You little brat, I'm holding a landing net in my hand, I'll fall into the water soon."

"You're not a kid anymore, but you're still not serious!" Big Brother Li gave Li Changle a sidelong look in disapproval, "Hurry up and work, or the fish will run away."

Chen Yongwei chimed in righteously, "That's right, you're in your twenties and still not serious. There are so many fish in the sea waiting for you! If you catch less, you'll earn less money."

"Good boy, your mouth is getting more and more oily!" Li Changle wiped his face, threw the squid into the bucket, and simply put down the big scoop net and fished it out with an ordinary scoop net.

The scientific name of the squid they caught is Calamari, which has a small head, a slender, cone-shaped body, and two fleshy fins connected at the tail end of the trunk in a diamond shape. Its body shape resembles the head of a javelin, hence the name Calamari, and some people also call it squid.

8 arms, with 2 rows of suckers; 2 tentacles, which cannot be completely retracted into the head, with 4 rows of suckers. The suckers have horny tooth rings.

Brother Li turned around with the scoop net in his hand and saw that the rubber bucket and plastic bucket were full, and some of them had been poured onto the deck.

Said to Li Changle: "Ah Le, go sort the fish. I'll get the ice and freeze the fish that need to be frozen to keep them fresh."

"Okay!" Li Changle and Li Erge pulled the rubber barrel to the front of the cargo hold, picked out the green and yellow mullets inside, and poured the squid, sardines, fat-eyed herring and miscellaneous fish directly into the cargo hold.

Green snapper, yellow snapper and larger fish need to be bled, otherwise the heads of the snappers will not be bright and white when dried and will not look presentable.

Li Changle felt too tired, so he sat on the deck with a cigarette in his mouth to sort the fish. He grabbed a squid but before he put it into the living cabin, this guy retaliated by smearing ink on his face.

His face, which was already covered in ink, was completely turned black by the spray. The ink flowed down his neck, and the cigarette in his mouth also turned black. A lot of ink had entered his mouth.

Now, without a flashlight, I can’t even find the person.

Brother Li took a look, gritted his teeth and held back his laughter, turned his head away, shrugged his shoulders pressed on the deck a few times, and almost cut his hand with the bloodletting knife.

Li Changle wiped his face, looked at the dark palms, turned his head to look at Brother Li and the other two, and seeing that they were not much better than himself, he started to work with confidence.

Thinking that when the day came and the school of fish left, the big guys would laugh secretly when they saw each other.

Time passed by unknowingly. Li Changle looked at the watch and it was already past three o'clock. The busy time passed so quickly!
Before they knew it, they had been fishing for over an hour.

It will be dawn in another hour, but there is still no movement from the direction of Zhushan Island. It seems that the fishing boat carrying the cargo did not encounter an accident tonight.

I felt a little disappointed, but when I saw the catch in the live hold, I felt happy again. This trip was not in vain, and I felt at ease spending the money I had earned with my hard work.

Brother Li happily dumped the fish from the net bag onto the deck, "Yesterday you said you didn't have any dried squid at home, and tonight you got this much."

Li Changle smiled and nodded, "There are also green snappers, yellow snappers, sardines and other miscellaneous fish. We can dry a lot of dried goods when we return from this ship."

"We make money during the day and at night. We really need to use sacks to carry money in the future!" Chen Yongwei lifted most of the catch and poured it into a rubber bucket like a perpetual motion machine.

Li Changle felt that this kid must have eaten too many good things recently, so he didn't feel tired at all.

"You are beautiful." Brother Li said with a smile, "The Dragon King has been giving us food these days. The wind will come in a while, and we will have to rest for a long time."

Brother Li nodded and said, "It's good to take a break for a while and gain some weight so that you can prepare for the hairtail season in winter."

There is a period of time after autumn every year when the winds are quite strong. If you are lucky, you can rest for three to five days. If you are unlucky, you can only go out to sea two or three times at most in a month.

"Brother, there is a big cargo down there." Chen Yongwei shouted, pointing at the huge black shadow under the water.

"Cast the net." Li Changle quickly stood up, picked up the fishing net that had been prepared long ago, and cast it towards the location of the black shadow.

Chen Yongwei hurried forward to help pull the net. When he grabbed the fishing net and pulled it up, Li Changle suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. Without the help of a winch, it would require a strong athlete.

If you have time, go to Shuilu Zhang and ask. There is no motorized one, so a manual one should be installed on a large ship.

After the two of them pulled up the net, Li Changle panted and looked at the big fish on the deck, his eyes widened, "Fuck, this is the first time I've caught such a big pike."

"He's about 1.23 meters tall, and weighs at least 30 kilograms."

Brother Li picked up a wooden stick and hit it on the head, then held it aside, picked up a bleeding knife, and cut it cleanly on the pectoral fin, and then hit the tail of the fish again.

"Bang~" Suddenly, a gunshot was heard faintly in the distance, which frightened Li Changle and the other three who were busy and had fun, and made their hearts beat violently.

(End of this chapter)