Chapter 128 Cave

Zhou Chenglei drove the boat away and then he and Jiang Xia lowered the net together.

Father Zhou took the initiative to take over the task of driving the boat and trawling the net all the way.

After all, it's still early and the day hasn't dawned yet. It's not suitable to dive to the bottom of the sea right away when we arrive at the same sea as last time. There's still more than an hour before dawn. Two hours will be enough to drag a net. We can't waste time.

After Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei set up the net, they continued translating.

Zhou Chengxin was fishing and originally wanted to call Jiang Xia, but when he saw that Jiang Xia needed to translate, he felt embarrassed to do so, so he called Zhou Chenglei to join him.

Zhou Chenglei glanced at him calmly and said, "I'm learning translation from my wife, you can fish on your own!"

Zhou Chengxin's mouth twitched: "Can you?"

Zhou Chenglei: “Of course.”

Zhou Chengxin: “…”

I regret not studying hard.

If I had read one more day than Zhou Chenglei, I wouldn't be like this today! Zhou Chenglei can speak and read English, and has no problem with ordinary communication, but he is not as good as Jiang Xia.

So he also took a science and technology magazine and learned how to translate. After all, staying with Jiang Xia was better than going fishing with his elder brother.

Jiang Xia spent a total of more than three hours translating a science and technology magazine, including the more than one hour he spent translating after dinner last night. He will check it again in the evening.

Zhou Chenglei tried to translate half of it, but he was unsure about some parts, so he asked Jiang Xia.

It was time to put up the net, so the two packed up the magazines and prepared to put up the net.

Jiang Xia was still urged by Zhou's father to touch the fishing net before letting Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin pull up the net together.

The net yielded a good harvest, mostly longfish, as well as a dozen bigeye snappers and other miscellaneous fish of varying sizes.

Bigeye snappers like to hide during the day and come out at night. They are in their prime in winter and spring. These dozen or so fish probably fell in love before they had the chance to go home and sleep.

Some people call the dragonfish tongue fish, while others call it pedal fish because it looks like both a tongue and a pedal.

The meat of longli fish is delicious, with a high meat yield and a smooth taste. The fish meat will not become tough even if it is cooked for a long time, and it is very tender and has no fishy smell. It tastes good when pan-fried.

Jiang Xia decided to bring a few longfish and a bigeye snapper home to eat.

I estimate that Mr. Zhou can sell this net for fifty yuan, haha, not bad!

Any net that Wangcai touched cost no less than thirty yuan.

The sun came out early, and Zhou Chenglei drove the boat to the sea area where he was going to dive that day.

Early in the morning, Zhou Chenglei was worried about Jiang Xia going into the water so early, and that was a cave, and he had no idea what was hidden inside.

Zhou Chenglei had to go and see if there were any dangerous or poisonous marine creatures running out.

Jiang Xia was not in a hurry either. Diving was risky, so safety was the priority.

She can wait until after noon to go down.

So Jiang Xia stayed on the boat to divide the fish, while the father and his two sons warmed up, put on their diving suits, and went into the water to dig out the abalone nest!

John and Jill taught everyone how to use this device that day. Zhou Chenglei already knew how to use it, so he taught them again today.

Jiang Xia was distributing the fish on the boat, and every ten minutes or so he would take the net bags of abalone handed over by Zhou Chenglei and his two sons.

Each net bag was filled to the brim, and each abalone was very large. Jiang Xia felt that some of the abalone were bigger than one side of his face!

The three of them went into the water five or six times and pried out eleven bags of abalone. Zhou's father was the first to lose patience and got on the boat first.

Then Zhou Chengxin came on board.

Zhou Chenglei went into the water three more times than them before returning to the boat to rest.

At this time, five large bags of abalone were already packed in snakeskin bags on the boat! After Zhou Chenglei took off his diving equipment, Jiang Xia handed him a kettle, chocolate, boiled eggs and other things to replenish his energy.

She had just taken care of Zhou's father and Zhou Chengxin in the same way, except that she had already unscrewed the lid of Zhou Chenglei's kettle, removed the wrapping paper of the chocolate, and peeled the eggs.

Zhou Chenglei took a bite of the chocolate and stopped eating it because it was too sweet. If Jiang Xia hadn't fed it to his mouth, he wouldn't have eaten a single bite.

Jiang Xia fed him the egg and ate the remaining chocolate herself.

"Are there still abalone on the seabed?" Jiang Xia asked.

Zhou Chenglei: “Yes.”

Father Zhou said excitedly, "There are still many. There is a cave under the water. The rock wall is full of them. I guess we won't be able to pry them all out tomorrow."

Although these abalones are variegated abalones and do not taste as good as the wrinkled abalones, they are still abalones. Moreover, abalones are all about size. When they grow to this size, they are already very valuable. The largest ones are dried in the sun. If they are dried well, they can be sold to restaurants during the Chinese New Year. They should be able to sell for seven or eight yuan each.

They caught big ones, so many! There should be more than a hundred of them. They should make at least a thousand or a few hundred today.

Zhou Chengxin: "Too many. I have never seen so many abalones."

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Then let's come here to pry abalone in the next few days."

Zhou Chenglei: “Yeah.”

Zhou Chenglei took a break and was about to help Jiang Xia put on her diving suit and take her into the water when a boat came towards them from a distance. Zhou Chenglei said, "Brother, drive the boat away."

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Zhou Chengxin was also preparing to go into the water again. Hearing this, he took a look at the boat and hurried to start the boat.

Jiang Xia asked, "Are you worried that someone will find the cave?"

Zhou Chenglei nodded: "Well, the cave is not very deep. People who are good at swimming can still dive in. It is suitable for abalone to grow there. As long as we are not discovered, we can pry it open later. Let's drag a net of fish first, and I will take you diving again when we come back later?"

Jiang Xia had no objection, "Okay."

So their boat started trawling again.

The people on that boat saw that the Zhou family’s boat had been parked there for more than half an hour, and were curious about what they were doing, so they drove over to take a look.

Now they saw the Zhou family’s boat starting to drag the net. They drove to the location where the Zhou family’s boat had just stopped, but didn’t find anything, so they drove away.

After Zhou Chenglei caught a net of fish, he drove the boat back to that sea area.

This time, Zhou's father stayed on the boat, while Jiang Xia, Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin went into the water.

Before going into the water, Zhou Chenglei taught Jiang Xia repeatedly and patiently for half an hour. Only after repeated confirmation did he take her into the water.

The first time Jiang Xia dived into the sea, he saw the sunlight penetrating the water and felt like he was in a blue gem.

Very dreamy, very beautiful! Zhou Chenglei identified the direction and swam with Jiang Xia in a certain direction. This time the boat stopped a little far away. After all, it was difficult to grasp the position in the sea.

But it doesn’t matter. I can just take Jiang Xia for a swim under the sea to get familiar with it.

The main thing is that she is not very skilled in putting on the equipment.

Because there is an island not far away in this area, the seabed is not very deep and the light is sufficient. Jiang Xia can see some small fish swimming past him.

Soon the three of them swam to the cave, and Jiang Xia finally saw what an abalone nest was.

But the cave was pitch black and deep, and you couldn’t see the bottom at a glance, which looked a bit scary.

I heard that abalone hides during the day and comes out at night. I guess it’s because this cave is so dark that they all hide here and make their home.

Everyone was curious about how deep the cave was and what was inside, but no one had the heart to explore it for the time being.

Jiang Xia took the iron hook and followed the method Zhou Chenglei taught her, and quickly hooked the abalone into the net bag.

When the net bag was full, he would swim up and hand it to Zhou's father, pour the abalone onto the boat, empty the net bag and continue diving.

After going back and forth like this three times, Jiang Xia couldn't stand it anymore and returned to the boat.

Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin continued to pick abalone.

Shortly after the two men entered the water, the previous ship discovered that their ship was parked there, so it headed towards the Zhou family's ship again.

(End of this chapter)