Chapter 361 Old Poison

Chapter 361 Old Poison

Chapter 361 Old Poison

When the Xusheng arrived at Chuiyuan Island, Li Changshui, who was operating the fishing boat, was seen from afar. Li Changle blew the whistle to greet him and sailed towards Huzi Island, dragging the fishing net.

The sea was calm under the sunshine, and the waves created by the fishing boats hit the hull, splashing water.

Ajie looked at the endless sea and the seabirds flying across the ocean with curiosity, and whispered to Wang Xincheng, "The waves are not big at all."

"Grandpa said that the calmer the sea is, the more frightening it is when the wind blows..." Wang Xincheng thought of the rules on the ship and changed the subject, "This operation will be short, you will know later."

"I... am not afraid!"

Wang Xincheng understood that he just wanted to earn more money to go home and get his father a prosthesis so that he could stand up...

"You've always been braver than me since you were little. If I can do it, you can do it too."

"You're smarter than me!"

"You are stronger than I am."

"The net is set!" Li Changle's voice came from the loudspeaker.

"Hurry up and get up!" Wang Xincheng pulled Wang Jie and took him to stand up, waiting for Brother Li to start the network machine.

The winch pulled the towline slowly up, and as time went on, the net bag was pulled onto the deck. When the men saw the bulging net bag, there was no smile on their faces.

Seeing that no one was laughing, Wang Jie looked at Wang Xincheng strangely and thought to himself: How come they are not happy at all with such a big net bag?
Li Changle also stood in the cab and looked at the people on the deck. He walked out of the cab and asked, "What's wrong? Did you catch a lot less fish?"

Brother Li looked back at him and said, "I estimate it's less than 2,000 kilograms."

You know, this net has been dragged for more than three hours, almost four hours, which is not as much as the fish caught in two hours when the fishing conditions are good.

"It's like this here. In the past, one net would only net less than 1,000 kilograms. This time, the diesel, ice, grain and oil on the boat are all earned. It would be better if we can earn more, but we won't lose money if we earn less."

"Ale is right. Quickly pour out the fish in the net bag and lower the trawl net."

"Okay!" Chen Yongwei stepped forward, tied the cable, hung it on the crane arm, and the net bag was lifted up by the crane arm.

Brother Li patted Wang Xincheng on the shoulder and said, "Why are you standing there like an idiot? Go and untie the net bag."

"oh oh!"

Wang Xincheng took Wang Jie forward, took a look around, and untied the net bag. Pike, sea catfish, flounder, and a group of shrimps and crabs rushed out of the net bag and piled up into a small hill on the deck.

When they saw that although the catch was not much, there were only a few worthless green mullets, water bream, mantis shrimps and miscellaneous fish, and smiles appeared on their faces.

Brother Li pushed the bamboo basket forward, "Not bad, much better than the third net yesterday."

Several people cleaned the net bag, put it down in the sea, and turned around to sort the fish.

Brother Li pointed at the sea catfish and said, "Acheng, the dorsal and pectoral fin spines of sea catfish are poisonous. Be careful when catching them, and don't get hurt by the fins."

"remember!"

Brother Li waved to Wang Jie and asked him to follow him to learn how to sort the fish and tie crabs.

The fishing boat quickly left the waters of Huzi Island, and the wind and waves in the open sea were obviously much stronger.

The fishing boat had not sailed far when Wang Jie, who was squatting on the deck sorting the fish, turned pale, covered his mouth, rushed to the side of the boat, and started to fall out.

Brother Li stepped forward and patted him on the back. "Ajie, this wave is still the smallest one. If you want to make a living fishing in the sea, you have to adapt yourself to it."

Wang Jie nodded uncomfortably, he couldn't imagine what the big waves would be like!
When Wang Xincheng heard the vomiting sound, his face turned ugly. He hurried back to the cabin and took out a green tangerine, peeled it and put it under his nose, then took the remaining tangerine to the side of the boat and handed it to Wang Jie.

"Ajie, just smell this and you'll feel better. You need to divert your attention, and then you'll feel better."

"Hmm!" Wang Jie put the orange peel under his nose and felt a little better. "You, was it like this last time?"

"I don't feel anything like this. The last time the waves were as high as a hill..."

Two hours later, the fishing boat arrived at Turtle Island. Li Changle headed towards the waters where he had set up traps and jars yesterday. He slowed down in front of the buoy, stopped the fishing boat near the buoy and began to pull up the net.

After the net was pulled up, the net bag was quite bulging. It was estimated that there were more than 3,000 kilograms of fish. Everyone was grinning so hard that their teeth were showing.

Wang Jie, who was standing aside with a pale face, felt relieved when he saw how happy they were.

Brother Li said cheerfully, "Look, there are more fish caught offshore!"

"Don't think there are too many of them. It might turn out to be worse than the net we just used." Li Changle said as he put on gloves.

"Puh, puh, puh!" Brother Li gave him a sidelong look, "Ah Le, you're the captain of the ship, why don't you pay attention to what you say?"

"Brother, the nets have been pulled up, and nothing I say will change anything!" Li Changle waved at Wang Xincheng, "Acheng, open the nets."

"Okay!" Wang Xincheng untied the net bag, and fish of all sizes, both familiar and unfamiliar, poured out of the net bag and covered the deck.

Green and yellow fish gathered together as if they were having a meeting. At a glance, they knew that they had taken half of the fish. They were very upset when they thought that they could only sell more than a thousand kilograms of fish for a few dozen yuan. The rest were mantis shrimp, water urchins, fat-eyed herring, and some miscellaneous fish that no one wanted even if they gave them away...

The only consolation is that the total weight of mackerel, sea bass and silver pomfret may be around a thousand kilograms.

Li Changle touched his nose and smiled awkwardly. He did not expect that this place would be so chaotic, record-breaking, unprecedentedly chaotic, really not as good as the first website.

Big Brother Li's glares were silently directed at Li Changle. Thinking that he was the captain of the boat, he glared at him unhappily, pulled over the bamboo basket and began to sort the fish.

It took two hours to sort out the net. The rotten fish that no one wanted even if they were given away were kept for the end, scooped up with a shovel and dumped back into the sea as nutrients.

We set off a little after ten o'clock and sailed on the sea for six hours. The sun had already lost its dazzling light and began to sink in the west.

After the deck was cleaned, a few people ate some square cakes and buns and started to pull the trap net, trying to retrieve the trap net and the jars before the sun went down.

Brother Li hooked the buoy onto the boat with an iron hook. Chen Yongwei grabbed the fishing rope and pulled the trap out of the water without much effort. He saw a large sea eel hanging on the mesh of the net, which fell back into the sea when he pulled it.

"Fuck!" Chen Yongwei watched the conger eel he had caught run away. He stared angrily at the place where the conger eel sank for several times. Then he put the trap on the deck in disappointment and went to pull the second trap.

Li Changle saw two big eels in the fish bag and there seemed to be sea cucumbers in the net. As soon as he got closer, Wang Xincheng swiftly lifted the trap net and poured the catch into the bucket.

There was a tiger eel, two seven-spotted eels, three blue crabs, one big and two small, a few crayfish, two large sea cucumbers and a sea cucumber that had been bitten half off in the bucket.

"If the east is dark, the west will be bright!"

Li Changle happily took out the tiger eel that had just been freed from the fish-collecting bag and was trying to escape with its head erect, and opened a single room for it to stay.

Throw half of a sea cucumber back into the sea. This guy's regenerative ability is extraordinary. Even this half can still survive in the sea.

After putting the seven-single eels and blue crabs into the living tank, Li Changle filled half a bucket with water. Wang Jie curiously picked up a sea cucumber, but before he put it into the bucket, he got splashed with sea water in the face.

Everyone burst into laughter when they saw this. Wang Jie looked at the soft and slippery sea cucumber in his hand and felt like he had caught a slug, so he quickly threw it into the bucket.

After the first catch of fish was collected from the ground trap, Brother Li stepped forward and said with a smile: "Come here, Ajie, help me clean up the ground trap net and fold it up and put it away."

"it is good!"

Li Changle and Wang Xincheng continued to collect traps.

The second trap caught better fish than the first. There were not only sea cucumbers, conger eels and blue crabs, but also two small blue dragons and several prawns.

Chen Yongwei looked at the fish in the bucket and said, "Brother, if it's not too far from home, it's better to set up traps here than on Blowing Round Island."

“Not having to worry about people stealing is a relief, but the inconvenience is also the biggest hassle.”

Li Changle picked up the third trap and suddenly found two stone fish inside.

"Fuck, how did the old poison get in?"

Stonefish belongs to the family of poisonous scorpionfish, and its scientific name is "rose poisonous scorpionfish", named because it has thorns like a rose.

The largest ones are only about 30 centimeters long, with a smooth body and no scales. The eyes are on the back, with a deep depression under the eyes, a wide and flat mouth, and body covered with khaki and orange tumor-like protrusions. At first glance, it looks like a colorful stone.

The stonefish disguises itself as a stone, lying motionless on the seabed, preying on shrimps, crabs and insects that swim near it.

There are more than a dozen hard dorsal fin spines on the fish's back that can easily pierce the soles of shoes. Once stung by the spines, the toxins will immediately invade the human body, causing swelling and pain at the mildest, and convulsions and fainting at the worst.

Although stonefish contains highly poisonous spines, it still cannot escape the fate of being eaten because of its delicious meat.

According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", stonefish can treat muscle and bone pain, and has the effect of warming the middle and replenishing deficiency.

After hearing this, Wang Xincheng came forward to look inside. Li Changle quickly warned him, "Acheng, be careful, this thing is extremely poisonous, don't touch it!"

Wang Xincheng was so scared that he quickly retracted his hand. "Uncle A-Le, I recognize it. This is a stonefish. I heard that it is more poisonous than pufferfish."

"You have to risk your life to eat pufferfish, but you don't have to eat this. The only poisonous parts are the row of hard spines on the dorsal fin and the fish fins. If you cut off the spines and remove the fins, it will taste delicious and have no small spines."

"How do we kill one like this? We caught some when we were fishing before, but we threw them back into the sea."

"Put it in a pot and boil it first, remove the things attached to the skin, then cut a knife in the belly of the fish, peel off the skin, chop it into small pieces, stir-fry it with oil for a few times, and add bone broth to stew tomatoes until they are so delicious that they make your eyebrows fall off."

After hearing this, Brother Li looked at him curiously and said, "Ah Le, who taught you this? Why haven't I seen you do this before?"

"I heard it in town!"

Li Changle used this excuse again and scooped up the stonefish with a scoop net. After weighing them, he found that the two fish must weigh about four or five kilograms.

After watching a short video in his previous life, he returned to Hong Kong and fished for a stonefish. He learned how to cook it once and found that it was indeed fresh and tender.

I remembered that Baidu said that this thing has the medicinal effects of promoting salivation and moistening the lungs, and also has beauty-enhancing effects. I went back and got some for them to try, to see if it could make my eldest brother and second brother's skin whiter as well.

(End of this chapter)