Chapter 275

Chapter 275

Chapter 275

"I call on all of you boatmen who have salvaged items from the sunken ship on Baisha Island to hand over what you have salvaged to the country."

"You little brat, you can't even speak, why are you calling us?" Li Changle glanced at him, "We didn't get anything, what can we hand over?"

"Tsk! I'm not a child!" Li Xiaoyang looked at him with an expression that said, "I don't even believe the punctuation marks you say."

"Jin Pengfei's family got it, I don't believe you didn't! When I came back from fishing, that kid showed off to me, saying that his family had a TV set, which his grandpa got from Baisha Island."

"Then why didn't you watch TV?" Li Changle didn't expect that the Jin family was such a brainless family.

"A Fei said that his family's TV was hidden by his grandfather. His grandmother told Auntie Chan that you got a big thing, and asked her to ask Uncle Wei what the big thing you got was."

The thing whose brain is stuck in the door! Li Changle cursed inwardly and walked towards the ditch.

"Uncle San!" Li Xiaoyang hurriedly followed, "Uncle San, our family also got something, right? I asked my father, and he scolded me.

"Uncle San, I'm your best friend, just tell me! Don't worry, I'm different from that big mouth Jin Pengfei, I won't go out and show off to others."

Li Changle rolled his eyes at him, "What are you showing off when you don't have anything?"

Li Xiaoyang smiled flatteringly, "Really?"

Li Changle said seriously: "No!"

Li Xiaoyang's shoulders instantly slumped, "That's what I told you, why didn't you listen to grandma if there was any."

"Go home for dinner." Li Changle stood up and said, "As long as you get a good grade on this unit test, when the new house is built, Third Uncle will buy a TV that is bigger than the one at Secretary Wang's house."

Li Xiaoyang curled his lips, "Last time you said that we should be obedient and you would buy us a TV when we made money, but you haven't bought one yet. And our wages, you said that what we earn is ours.

My mother said that our family owed a lot of money for building a house, and we used the money to run the store. We were only paid two cents per job, and she even said she would save it for us. You adults don’t keep your word.”

Li Changle was speechless after hearing what he said. After a moment, he said, "What we did was a little wrong, but what you did was also wrong. Think about what I told you when I paid you. Did you do it?"

Li Xiaoyang didn't expect his uncle to admit that what they did was wrong. After thinking for a while, he said, "We shouldn't go back on our word and spend all the money at the canteen to buy food."

"Look, in the final analysis, it was you who were dishonest first, so your mother deducted your wages. If they really had no credibility at all, why didn't they deduct Xiaoqing's wages as well?"

"Oh!" Li Xiaoyang was a little depressed. Why was it always his fault?

Li Changle patted him, "Okay, why are you doing that? How did you get from fishing today?"

"Not very good, I only got two sand buckets and half a bucket of clams. I sold the sand buckets for fifty cents, and Ah Yu said he would sell the clams when he went to Shaji Village to watch a play in the afternoon, which would be more cost-effective."

"Are you going to continue tomorrow?"

"Mother will take us to grandma's house tomorrow to celebrate the festival." Li Xiaoyang said, still holding him in despair, "Uncle, did you really not get anything?"

Li Changle spread his hands and said, "Really not." I won't tell you even if I have one!
"The people in the village said you must have gotten a lot, but after all this time, there really was nothing." Li Xiaoyang sighed, "From now on, I can only go to Jin Pengfei's house to check."

"It's only two steps away. Going to his house can save some electricity bills."

At this time, Li's mother came out of the kitchen carrying a rice steamer and asked, "It's time to eat, why are you still standing there?"

"Here we are!" Li Changle hurried to the kitchen and saw that Brother Li, who had gone to the beach to check the tide, had returned. "Brother, how's the water level?"

The water level here in Nanshan is low, so unlike the pier where you can sail out at any time, you can only wait until the tide reaches its highest before you can sail out.

"I'm up. It's just right to go after dinner."

"okay!"

After dinner, the three brothers packed up their fishing gear, and Chen Yongwei came with a diesel barrel, "Brother, I filled the barrel."

"Put it on a cart and take it to the beach."

"Yeah!" Chen Yongwei parked his bicycle. "It's still quiet here. The village horns have never stopped. People in the alley are talking about the salvage and Wang Mazi's family."

“How did those who asked for money finally get their settlement?”

"Some said they did, some said they didn't, I don't know."

A few people got the fishing gear on the boat. Brother Li picked up the crank, thought for a moment and asked, "Ah Le, are we still going to longline today?"

"I'm tired after a night of work, so I won't let go."

"Brother, instead of longline fishing, how about going diving?" Chen Yongwei went diving once and was really addicted.

Seeing him looking at her eagerly like a child, Li Changle smiled and said, "That's fine. If the waves aren't too big, let's go for a spin."

"Okay, okay." Chen Yongwei happily took the crank from Brother Li's hand, "Brother, I'll drive, you guys go get some sleep."

"We went to bed early, you and Ale go to sleep." "Who cares about you two? I'm going to enjoy the sunbath now."

Li Changle touched the deck that was a little hot from the sun, took two sacks to spread on it, took a straw hat to cover his face, listened to the sound of the motor, and fell asleep after a while.

When I woke up, I found that I had arrived at the waters of Zhushan Island. I turned around and saw Chen Yongwei, the kid, sleeping and snoring with his belly sticking out.

When the fishing boat passed the reef, it saw two fishing boats hanging around nearby. When they saw them coming, they sped up and drove away, as if they were waiting for them.

"Brother, are they trying to salvage the Zhao family's sunken ship?" Chen Yongwei woke up at some point and was also looking at the two ships.

"Impossible. The current near the reef is strong and deep. Even the anti-smuggling boats dare not move. How could they dare to do that?"

When the boat reached the waters of Chuiyuan Island, Brother Li said to Li Changle and the others, "You guys collect the cans here, and I'll drive the boat to haul in a net."

Li Changle looked at him helplessly, "Brother, aren't you tired?"

"I slept for a few hours this morning, so I'm not tired at all. I'll catch more fish while the weather is good and dry them at home to avoid being late to sell them."

"Okay!" Li Changle and Li Erge jumped onto the boat, put down the trawl, and jumped back to the Rising Sun. They watched him pull the trawl away, and then drove the fishing boat to the islands and reefs in the southeast.

Chen Yongwei picked up the float, lifted the fishing rope and pulled it up, and caught two tide-watchers in the first jar.

Li Changle felt that whether it was ground traps or longline fishing, it was not as easy as using a jar, and there was no need to worry about the net getting stuck or the lines getting tangled.

"Brother, look at these two. They are so fat and have grown pubic hair." Chen Yongwei was holding a Wangchao to show off to Li Changle, but accidentally got sprayed with ink in the face by it.

"Damn it, I was sprayed by Squid in the morning, and you sprayed me at noon. You are addicted to bullying me."

"You are about to eat someone, but you don't even spit at him. That's too much." Li Changle took the fishing rope with a smile and asked him to scoop up fresh water to wash his face.

Autumn is the season when the wangchao matures. Although it is small, it is full of golden cream. The wangchao in this season only needs to be steamed or blanched until it is 70% to 80% cooked, and eaten with a dish of vinegar to dip it in, it tastes delicious.

Wangchao is actually a small octopus. The locals call the slightly larger ones salmon, and the grown-up ones are called octopus.

There is also squid, which is called cuttlefish locally. There is an interesting saying in local slang: The cuttlefish laughs at the salmon, but does she not know whether her own buttocks are black or not?
It's the same as a crow laughing at a pig's blackness, only seeing the blackness of others but not its own.

After collecting all the cans, Brother Li turned the rudder and the fishing boat moved forward at a constant speed. Li Changle and Chen Yongwei put the cans neatly arranged on the deck back into the water one by one.

I came back two days later, and this time the harvest was much better than before. I caught eighty or ninety octopuses, large and small, weighing nearly two hundred kilograms.

Li Changle put the last buoy in place and gestured to Brother Li Er. He drove the boat to the waters where he had dived yesterday, turned off the engine and dropped anchor.

Chen Yongwei happily took out the diving equipment and said, "Brother, you should go down first."

"You go first, I'll take a break." Li Changle really admired this kid's energy, it was really great.

"Eh!"

Chen Yongwei responded crisply, quickly stripped himself down to his underwear, put on his diving gear, took the fish knife handed to him by Brother Li, tied the rope with the net bag and chisel around his waist, swam two circles in the water, and began to dive.

Brother Li held the silk coil in his hand and put on gloves as he walked, "Ah Le, get a big octopus."

"It works great!" Li Changle opened the lid of the rubber bucket and pulled out a large octopus weighing more than a pound. "Here comes the big money!"

"That's what I'm saying. I'd feel embarrassed if I don't catch a few big ones!" Brother Li took the octopus, hung it on the hook, and threw it directly into the sea.

Li Changle looked at the air tube, then turned to look at Brother Li, who was sitting on a small stool and looking at the sea intently, "How is it, are there any fish taking the bait?"

"How can it be so fast!" Before Brother Li finished speaking, he suddenly felt a pulling force on his hand and shouted excitedly, "Here it comes, a fish has taken the bait..."

Li Changle quickly rushed over to him, wanting to see what kind of fish it was. "Hurry up and pull it up to see what kind of fish it is."

"That's pretty fierce. Hurry and bring the scoop net over here." Brother Li said as he pulled the line upwards with both hands alternately, and beads of sweat fell down like raindrops.

"Don't you prepare anything for fishing?"

“I didn’t expect it to come so soon!”

"You must be joking. How can a big, lively octopus not be fast?"

As soon as Li Changle got the scoop net, he heard him laughing happily, "Wow, hahahaha...haha...a big blue spot, haha..."

"Wow!" Li Changle excitedly stretched out the scoop net to catch the fish, "It's at least six pounds. I caught that big blue spot in the puddle above last time. I've earned back the money I spent on diesel this time."

"It weighs about 6-7 kilograms, which is enough to pay for the diesel round trip." Brother Li took down the fishhook with a smile on his face, "Good luck with the opening, keep working."

Li Changle carried the big fish over to let the air out, then put the fish into the live tank. He checked the time and found that Chen Yongwei had been there for twenty minutes, and Brother Li had been gone with the trawl for two or three hours.

(End of this chapter)