Chapter 282: The Internet Exploded

Chapter 282: The Internet Exploded

Chapter 282: The Internet Exploded

After Chen Yongwei looked at the lines on the fish's belly and recalled the appearance of tuna, he realized that there are real and fake fish too.

In addition to the bomb fish, this net also caught two silver pomfret as big as palm leaves, and several large sea eels that looked like small pythons in the mountains.

There were also quite a few rice fish, the big ones weighed twelve or thirteen pounds, and the small ones weighed three or four pounds. A total of seventeen or eighteen fish were caught. Not counting other fish, these rice fish alone weighed more than two hundred pounds.

As soon as the fish were poured out, Brother Li started shouting and waving a small flag to ask them to return. Li Changle responded by waving a flag. Chen Yongwei started the diesel engine and drove the fishing boat back.

Li Changle was alone and very busy. He had to catch the fish, deflate them and put them into the live tank, and he was also busy catching the family of crabs.

The swimming crabs, orchid crabs and blue crabs, which are waving their claws and staring with their tiny eyes, are tied up and put into baskets.

He found crabs that had completed their final molting. He picked up a small blue crab at random and discovered that even a small one was plump and yellow in this season!
The plump swimming crabs can be made into steamed crab roe or hot sauce crab roe. In the old days, wealthy families would pick the swimming crabs with plump and yellow roe during this season, pick out the roe and make "crab roe cakes" in the sun, which is considered the best way to eat swimming crabs.

Just as he separated the two fighting swimming crabs, a large sea eel as thick as his arm suddenly rushed towards him with its sharp mouth covered with long spines.

"Fuck!" Li Changle jumped several times to avoid it. He quickly picked up the stick and hit it on the head. He picked up the stunned conger eel and threw it into the rubber bucket, then tightened the opening of the net bag.

Hehe! Today's net is really good. I caught three large eels. The smallest one is thicker than my wrist.

Li Changle thought that if he could make a net like this when he returned, collect the longline and traps, he could go home to celebrate the holidays!

One person did the work of three people, working non-stop until his back and waist ached, and finally he sorted out the live prawns, crabs and large goods, putting those into barrels and those into live tanks.

The remaining miscellaneous fish, dead white shrimps, prawns, water shrimps, mantis shrimps and the like on the deck were shoveled directly into a rubber bucket, sprinkled with ice cubes and covered with cotton wool.

I picked up the lid and closed the rubber bucket that was filled to the brim. After these goods were delivered back home, the sea bream heads, dried shrimps and shrimp meats at home would increase in weight.

I had just finished my work here, so I sat down on a small stool, took out a cigarette, lit it and took two puffs, and then the net-pulling machine over there started to make a clicking sound.

"Brother, let's get the net up!"

"Set up the net!" Li Changle took two deep puffs of his cigarette, stood up and encouraged himself, "I will continue to work while I am still young and can do it as long as I am not exhausted!"

After pulling up this net, it is time to reel in the longline fishing. Chen Yongwei turns off the engine and drops anchor when the net is pulled up. When he pulls up the net, he sees that the net bag is bulging and it feels like it is about to burst.

Li Changle's fatigue instantly disappeared, and he patted Chen Yongwei's shoulders happily, "Haha! Another internet explosion!"

Chen Yongwei grinned and nodded heavily, then stepped forward and busied himself with untying the ropes that bound the net bag.

"A Le, how was the catch?" Brother Li asked him happily from a distance away.

"Both nets burst!" Li Changle shouted at the top of his voice, "How's your catch?"

"Okay, the two nets weigh more than a thousand pounds!" Brother Li responded loudly and started to work.

Li Changle looked at the mountain of fish on the deck and estimated that their two nets should have caught about 1,200 to 1,300 kilograms, which meant an income of at least 300 to 400 yuan.

Most of the fish in this net are Spanish mackerel and sea bass, there are also pomfret, about 30 to 40 kilograms, and there are also quite a few crabs with their claws and teeth bared.

The tide was rising and the crabs' belly buttons were itching. Li Changle grabbed a large blue crab, tied it up and threw it into the bucket. Crabs were his favorite these days. The price of crabs increased during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but after the solar term is over, the price may drop.

Chen Yongwei didn't like tying crabs, he preferred to deflate and bleed them. He ran towards the survival tank while picking at the gills of a giant mackerel with one hand.

The two of them divided the work and worked together, which increased the speed. An hour later, the fish on the deck had been sorted and classified, and their stomachs were growling with hunger.

Li Changle put half of the dry food prepared by Mrs. Li into a net bag, tied it to an iron hook and handed it to Brother Li who was not far away.

Chen Yongwei finished an egg in two bites. He choked so much that he stretched his neck and drank two gulps of water before he recovered. "Brother, don't bring dry food in the future. The noodles and fried rice you cook are still delicious."

Li Changle took a bite of the salted egg and thought of the plump and yellow swimming crabs. "I'll make it myself tomorrow. Go back and buy some rice cakes. I'll make fried white crab cakes for you guys."

Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "Yeah! The white crab fried rice cake is so delicious that it makes your eyebrows drop."

After eating something to fill their stomachs, the two brothers went to the place where the traps were set up to collect the trap nets.

Chen Yongwei used an iron hook to hook the buoy onto the boat and pulled the fishing rope upwards.

This time he learned his lesson and avoided the underwater reef area when lowering the net. Sure enough, he pulled up the first catch with the ground trap net easily.

When the ground cage emerged from the water, it splashed a little. Li Changle stretched his neck to look at the cage and saw a few nine-segment shrimps through the mesh.

"Shit, the suicidal guy is here." Li Changle hurriedly picked up the bucket and filled a large bucket of sea water into the wooden barrel, ready to load the shrimps.

"Brother, there are still sea cucumbers!" Chen Yongwei grinned. When he saw the two big guys in the fish bag, his mouth was grinning to the back of his ears. "Oh my goodness, there are still two tiger fish!" "Pour them into the bucket together, I'll take care of them!" Li Changle thought of the sea snakes he saw while diving, and reminded him, "Look carefully before you take action, there are still sea snakes below."

"rest assured!"

Chen Yongwei shook the sea cucumbers and the prawns that were clinging to the mesh into the fish-collecting bag, carefully untied the rope, and poured the catch into the bucket.

There was a black sea bream, two white-haired fish, seven nine-segment shrimps weighing six or seven taels each, a few prawns, and two fat sea cucumbers, the big one being as thick as his wrist.

"Next time, do the same as this time. Avoid the underwater reefs when setting the traps. You can still get good catches."

"That's right. It's better to transport this kind of goods. It's less laborious and the price is higher."

Chen Yongwei picked up the small net, scooped out the nine-segment shrimp and began to clean up the prawns and fish.

Li Changle caught the tiger fish and threw it into the live tank. He rubbed his hands excitedly and turned to pull the second ground trap net.

The second time the net pulled up five sea cucumbers and four nine-segment shrimps, the two were so happy that they kept their mouths wide open.

"Brother, we have six groups of traps, each with ten traps. We don't need too many traps in one trap, just two or three will do. We can make a lot of money just from the sea cucumbers today."

"It's not that good. I don't need too many. Just this group of traps near the reef area. If there are two or three in each, I'll be satisfied."

"Why do you always go against me? When I say that this is all, you say that people should have their own ideas. When I have an idea, you say that it is not that easy!"

"Brother, it's good that you have ideas, but unrealistic ideas are just fantasies! If you can catch so many sea cucumbers with traps, this area would have been occupied long ago."

"That only proves that those who came here before had bad luck!"

"You can think so!" Li Changle threw the two little blue crabs back into the sea. They are so greedy at such a young age, and they will end up on the table sooner or later!
After the third trap was pulled up, Chen Yongwei was immediately slapped in the face. After looking for a long time, he found a sea cucumber, three shrimps, several blue crabs and two large lobsters.

The good thing is that this guy has a good personality. He was not sad even after being slapped in the face. He happily grabbed a big lobster and said, "Brother, is this considered a case of one side shining brightly in the other?"

"Of course! One dollar per pound, so two pieces would be six or seven dollars!"

Although the price of lobsters is not as high as that of shrimps, they are easy to raise and are big in size, weighing more than three pounds each, and they will not commit suicide at any time.

The fourth trap also caught a nine-segment shrimp, which was not big, only about 150 grams. There was no sea cucumber, but there were seven or eight blue crabs and white crabs.

What was creepy was that the fish bags were filled with white eels, tangled together like a big ball of snakes.

Li Changle estimated that the sea cucumbers that entered the ground traps were all killed by eels and blue crabs, because there were no eels and crabs in the first two ground traps that were pulled up.

They collected six sets of traps and harvested a total of 17 sea cucumbers, seven or eight kilograms of tiger fish, six large lobsters, and twenty to thirty white eels and stone eels.

There were twelve or thirteen pounds of nine-segment shrimps, twenty to thirty pounds of blue crabs and swimming crabs, and there were also quite a few black sea bream, white-haired fish, tiger fish and other miscellaneous fish.

The two men took out the small fish from the bucket, put them into bait bags, and put the ground trap net back into the sea.

Exhausted, Li Changle sat down on the deck, waiting for Brother Li and the others to come over here so that he could reel in the longline.

At this time, the tide had receded a lot, and the small reef that I saw when I came to collect the trap net had already appeared.

Brother Li drove the fishing boat slowly towards the Rising Sun, turned off the engine and dropped anchor, then jumped on board. Chen Yongwei started the fishing boat and headed towards the downstream longline fishing area.

Brother Li sat down on the deck, stretched his legs and leaned against the side of the boat, "It's tiring for two people to manage a boat."

Brother Li wiped the sweat off his face tiredly, "It's good to be tired. If I sit comfortably like this, I'm afraid I won't even be able to earn back the money for the diesel."

Fish arrive with the tide, so the yield must be high. A high yield means more fish, and more fish means more money. No matter how hard or tiring the work is, it is worth it.

"I'm so tired!" Li Changle took out a cigarette and handed it to them, pointing to the time and saying, "Brother, it's already seven o'clock, and we still have to collect the longline fishing. I think it will take at least nine o'clock to finish."

"An hour later is not too late." Brother Li took the cigarette butt he handed over and lit it with a few taps. "How's your harvest from the trap nets?"

"Not bad!" Li Changle told them about his catch. "How about you?"

Brother Li shook his head. "We are much worse off. We only have three sea cucumbers, a few lobsters, 7-8 catties of prawns, 20-30 green crabs, and more than 10 kg of eels. Most of them are miscellaneous fish."

"It's still better than usual." Li Changle stood up and moved the bamboo basket for collecting longline fishing lines to the deck, preparing to start collecting the fishing lines.

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