Chapter 208: Catching an unexpectedly large fish

The white shrimps were quickly poured into the bamboo basket, together with the clams and flower clams, and the stilt net was plunged into the water to scrape along the bottom of the water.

I was right. There must be a lot of shrimp nests in the mud and sand nearby. When I pulled up the net, I found a lot of small white shrimps.

These shrimps did not bounce around in the net like usual, but were free to be caught and did not move much.

But this does not mean that these shrimps are dead. The reason they lack vitality is that they were originally in a hibernating state and were forcibly stirred out of their shrimp holes.

Obviously, the shrimps are all large live shrimps, so there will be no impact on the taste or nutrition.

"I'm lucky today. I can still get so many shrimps in the middle of winter. This is really disturbing the nest of the little white shrimps!"

Deng Zhaocai was also very excited. After catching several fish in a row, he exclaimed in admiration.

Before discovering this nest of white shrimps, Liang Ziqiang had already harvested a lot of clams and flower clams in his bamboo basket, filling up half the basket. Now he added a lot of shrimps, and the bamboo basket was almost full.

At the same time, there were quite a few seaweeds on the empty oil bottles, pressing the bottles down a bit.

Liang Ziqiang decided to get the goods back to shore first.

Dragging the bamboo basket, he walked towards the shore.

When they were almost at the edge of the beach, Duobao saw that it was inconvenient for him to stand on stilts, so he ran over without asking, wagging his tail. He bit the rope on the bamboo basket with his mouth and helped Liang Ziqiang to drag the basket onto the beach.

In fact, this basket of things is not heavy at all for Liang Ziqiang, but Duobao likes to come over to help, so let him help. Anyway, it will be helpful to get used to it in the future.

When he got to the beach, he poured all the clams, garden clams and spring shrimps into a large bucket. He asked Duobao to continue squatting there and watching, and then he dragged the empty bamboo basket into the water again.

Deng Zhaocai's bamboo basket was not full yet and he was still fishing.

Liang Ziqiang pushed the stilt fishing net down along this area again, and pushed more than ten nets back and forth. Each net yielded not much, about a few dozen small white shrimps. But when added together, it was a lot, and there were hundreds of small shrimps.

Later on, the number of shrimps that appeared in the fishing net became fewer and fewer, and it seemed that the whole nest of shrimps was eaten up by the two of them.

The two men changed places, trying to get lucky and catch another small basket of shrimps, but it seemed that shrimp holes were not so easy to find, and they were unable to catch any spring shrimps even after changing places several times.

However, in a place where half of the reef was emerging from the water, we found a lot of clams again.

Without exception, these clams have their shells tightly closed, pretending to be dead and hibernating.

There are also a lot of oysters among the clams. Needless to say, it must be the reef next to it. Usually, there are many oysters attached to it, but people can't reach it. After all, it is a little far from the shore, so people can't get here to catch the sea.

Due to the repeated washing of wind and waves, a lot of seabed material fell off next to the stone.

In addition to clams and oysters, there are also some champignon snails, which were obviously washed down from the rocks.

After pushing for a while, clams, oysters, and conches were all mixed together, and the height of the bamboo basket increased a lot.

Liang Ziqiang pushed the fishing net again and found that it was much heavier. When he pulled it out of the water, he paused for a moment, a little surprised.

I thought I had caught a lot of clams, so it was so heavy. But there were only a few clams in the net, but there were two snails.

These were not small shampoo snails, but two large conches with round shells that were twice as big as an adult's fist! It would be strange if such large snails were not heavy.

The shell of this snail is very eye-catching, orange-yellow in color, a color that is a bit like... papaya.

The surface of the shell is extremely smooth, and in addition to the orange color, there are circles of dark brown spots surrounding the shell.

Of course, the snail meat shrank back due to the cold, but a little bit of it was exposed. The snail meat was actually black and white stripes, as if there was a zebra hidden in this round orange shell.

The zebra was sticking out a corner of its body, looking out of the shell, giving a quick glimpse.

"Brother Qiang, you caught two papaya snails?! Wait, let me catch some too. If you cut a snail this big into slices, one can make a big bowl of stir-fry!"

After Deng Zhaocai recognized it as a papaya snail, he hurriedly pushed the net back to the place he had just been at.

Liang Ziqiang reached out and took one of the big snails out of the net, and took a good look at it before putting it into the bamboo basket.

Yes, this is the papaya snail.

Papaya snails are also known as coconut vortex snails, melon snails, and coconut snails. The round and bright yellow-orange shell and zebra-patterned snail meat are the most unique features of papaya snails.

The snail meat is very large and must be cut into thin slices when eaten. After being fried, it is very chewy. It tastes ordinary at first, but becomes more fragrant the more you chew it.

It is no exaggeration to say that these two snails can be fried into two large bowls after being sliced.

I really didn’t expect that I could come up with another great dish.

"That's strange, why didn't I catch anything?" Deng Zhaocai had already fished twice, but got nothing except oysters and small snails.

"Look again, there must be more than two that we dug out of the mud!"

Liang Ziqiang threw all the papaya snails in the fishing net into the bamboo basket and started searching again.

The two men used their slingshots to scrape the ground about three feet deep nearby, and they did get quite a harvest.

Deng Zhaocai also scraped out a papaya snail, which was about the same size as the two Liang Ziqiang had.

Liang Ziqiang caught several nets of oysters and clams in succession, and later one of the nets was empty, with nothing in the net.

He didn't get discouraged and continued pushing slowly.

"Fuck, this snail of yours is about to become a spirit?!"

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When Deng Zhaocai turned around, he saw that Liang Ziqiang had finally made another catch. This time, in addition to some small oyster shells, there was also a huge snail in the stilt fishing net.

It was still a papaya snail, but this one was as big as the previous two combined, like a bulging orange basketball.

This one alone probably weighs more than ten kilograms.

"For such a big one, it must have rushed in from a relatively deep place!" Liang Ziqiang estimated as he picked up his oversized papaya snail.

The clams and spring shrimps in front of him all hibernate deep in the mud nearby, but he thought that such a large papaya snail should have been hibernating on the seabed a little further away, and then was washed nearby by last night's waves and blocked under this rock.

This one was enough to stir-fry two large bowls of food. Add the two in the bamboo basket, and before you know it, four or five bowls of food were ready.

After searching for a while, he found nothing new. Liang Ziqiang looked at it and couldn't let it go.

The few papaya snails took up too much space and filled the basket in an instant. The third one was not put in and was placed on the top of the basket, like a ball on top of the basket.

Actually, he just came out to get some fresh food at noon. Thinking that he had other important things to do in the afternoon, Liang Ziqiang didn't want to fight any longer. He pulled up the bamboo basket and started to return to the shore step by step.

Deng Zhaocai of course gave up and dragged the heavy basket back to the shore.

As soon as people arrived at the beach, Duobao, an uninformed dog, saw such a dazzling thing on the basket and actually barked a few times.

I don't know what it means, whether it is marveling at the sight or cheering for getting something good.

After he finished fishing, he immediately trotted over, grabbed the rope as usual, and helped him pull the bamboo basket onto the beach and drag it to the big bucket.

Liang Ziqiang pointed at Deng Zhaocai who was trudging by the water and said, "Go, help him too, and drag the basket over here!"

Because he was on stilts, Deng Zhaocai could only trudge while dragging the bamboo basket, and his movements were very slow.

Unexpectedly, the dog was very clear about the inside and outside. After taking a look at Deng Zhaocai's figure, it shook its head for a while and stood there motionless.

"What do you mean I can't order you around anymore? You lazy dog!"

After being taught a lesson, Duobao ran over reluctantly to help Deng make money.

When they reached the barrel, both of them untied the stilts on their legs and stood firmly on the ground.

I went out and got a lot of fresh hibernating food, including clams, oysters, spring shrimps, and giant snail meat.

In the next few days, we won’t have to worry about not having fresh seafood to cook...

Burst

(End of this chapter)