Chapter 196 Pulling the Net

Zhou Chenglei replied: "You will know in a moment."

It usually takes dozens of people to pull a big net together. There were always people pulling big nets in the village. There are still such people now, but less, because the fish caught with big nets are not as valuable as those caught by trawl nets at sea.

Zhou Chenglei returned to the boat and handed down a few buckets, snakeskin bags, and some sea-hunting tools such as shovels, and then threw down two bundles of fishing nets, both of which were strung with two bamboo-sized logs. When the time came, one person would hold a log, put the net into the sea, and pull the net.

After handing over everything, Zhou Chenglei jumped off the boat and pointed at the snail eyes on the beach and said to Jiang Xia, "There are more clams and blood clams on this beach. You and Comrade Zhang pick some up first. Jiang Dong and I will set the nets, and you can pull them when it's time to collect them."

"Okay!" Jiang Xia responded and took Zhang Fuyan to pick clams.

Zhou Chenglei pointed to a bundle of fishing nets strung together with logs and said to Jiang Dong, "Take this bundle of fishing nets and follow me to the sea to pull the nets."

Jiang Dong asked excitedly: "How do we release it?"

Zhou Chenglei taught Jiang Dong how to do it, and then said, "Let's go to a deeper place first. I'll ask you to start casting the net, so you start casting the net."

So Jiang Xia and Zhang Fuyan watched Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Dong walk out to the sea to set the nets.

The two looked at it for a while and then stopped looking.

The tide is really receding now, and many clams and blood clams are lying in the shallow sea water. You can see them without digging.

Not only are there clams, but sometimes you can also come across a flower crab, blue crab, octopus and the like.

Probably because the tide had just receded and no one had come to pick up the goods, there were still a lot of them. Jiang Xia and Zhang Fuyan stepped in the water and had a lot of fun picking up the goods.

In less than two hours, the two had picked up a full bucket.

Zhang Fuyan enviously said, "If you live by the sea, you don't have to buy meat and vegetables. You can go out every day to pick up some seafood and have meat to eat when you get home, and there are many varieties."

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "People in the village really don't eat meat very much. They basically eat seafood every meal."

Zhang Fuyan expressed her envy!

She loves fish and seafood the most!

At this time Zhou Chenglei called out to Jiang Xia: "Jiang Xia, you guys can come over and pull the net!"

Jiang Dong said excitedly: "Sister! Sister Xiaoyan, come and pull! There are so many fish in this net!"

The two of them ran over quickly.

Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Dong pulled the fishing net closer, and then handed it to Jiang Xia and Zhang Fuyan to pull it to the beach.

Zhou Chenglei said to the two of them, "Just like us, drag the net to the beach, somewhere without water. If you are tired or don't have enough strength, don't force yourself. Jiang Dong and I will pull it later."

Jiang Xia nodded: "I understand, let's try it first."

Zhou Chenglei let them try it, and then the two men went out and pulled back another net.

They set out two nets in total.

Jiang Xia and Zhang Fuyan each took one end and worked hard to pull a large net ashore.

Zhang Fuyan saw many white fish caught in the fishing net, jumping around in the water, and said excitedly: "So many fish! Xia Xia, so many fish!"

Jiang Xia laughed and said, "Yes, it's a lot! I didn't expect it to be so many!"

Jiang Xia saw many fish breaking free from the fishing nets and running out of the meshes, so he said, "Hurry up, the fish are all gone!"

Zhang Fuyan also saw it and hurriedly pulled, using all her strength! But after pulling for about a few meters, they both felt that they couldn't pull it anymore!

It was too heavy! It was very strenuous! Fortunately, Jiang Xia had some experience, and she and Zhang Fuyan both wore gloves, otherwise their hands would have been torn.

Jiang Xia's strength is getting stronger and stronger now, but she still has difficulty pulling up a fish weighing more than 100 kilograms.

However, seeing more and more fish running away, the two did not dare to stop and pulled hard.

In the end, Jiang Xia was really exhausted and just sat on the ground to pull! Zhang Fuyan saw this and sat on the ground as well. The two of them pulled until they were sweating and finally pulled the whole net of fish onto the beach.

Zhang Fuyan looked regretful: "I ran a lot."

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. Those are small fish, and we can't pull them up if they don't run away. Let's pick up the fish quickly."

"Okay!" Zhang Fuyan instantly recovered and quickly stood up to pick up the fish.

Most of the fish pulled up in this way are mullet, also known as blackhead fish. This fish grows very quickly but does not grow large.

"Xia Xia, there's a big fish here!"

Jiang Xia looked over and smiled, "What a lucky fish! It's a perch, weighing two kilograms!"

Zhang Fuyan happily threw the fish into the bucket.

"Xia Xia, there's a fish spraying ink here! The water is all black!"

"Xia Xia, there is a big crab here. How do I catch it? I am afraid of its claws."

"Xia Xia, there's a big crab here too. It's so big! There's even a sore on its lid!"

At this time, Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Dong also pulled up another net of fish.

They had even more fish in this net. Jiang Xia took a look and estimated that there were more than 150 kilograms of fish.

When Jiang Dong heard Zhang Fuyan screaming, he quickly ran over to help her catch crabs.

He didn't understand why crabs got sores. Aren't crabs made entirely of shells?

He took a look at the crab with sores in Zhang Fuyan's mouth and said speechlessly: "Sister, this is a barnacle! Not a sore!"

Zhou Chenglei also took a look and said, "It's a barnacle, a large crab that can only be found in the deep sea. It's very nutritious."

Zhang Fuyan said happily: "Wouldn't that mean we're making a lot of money?"

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Then she found another big blue crab: "Jiang Dong, there is another one here! It's about to run away! Catch it quickly!"

"Where are you running to!" Jiang Dong shouted and quickly ran over to catch him.

"Jiang Dong, look, there are fish spraying ink here!"

"I've seen it before!"

"Jiang Dong, look, there's a big shrimp here! It's peeing!"

“That’s a mantis shrimp!”

Jiang Xia ignored them and also picked up a mantis shrimp. He smiled and said to Zhou Chenglei, "There are so many mantis shrimps. These mantis shrimps have a lot of roe and their bellies are all red. If we pick them all up, they will probably weigh two or three kilograms!"

Zhou Chenglei: "This is delicious. Let's go to the restaurant and have someone make it for us."

Amid the excited voices of Zhang Fuyan and Jiang Dong, the four of them picked up all the fish for half an hour.

A total of about two hundred kilograms.

Zhou Chenglei put away the fishing net. It was already past eleven o'clock.

Zhou Chenglei sailed them back to the city dock, kept some of the fish, shrimps and crabs for himself, and sold the rest.

Because there were a lot of mullets, and they kept the valuable and delicious ones for themselves, they didn't sell for much money, only a dozen or so yuan.

With only a dozen dollars, I couldn’t even make back the fuel costs for the big ship, but today’s happiness is doubled, which cannot be measured by money.

The four of them had dinner at Jufulou. Zhou Chenglei asked the restaurant manager Xu Wen'an to help cook some seafood, and they had a very fresh seafood dinner.

There were mantis shrimps covered with red roe, steamed sea bass, stir-fried baby octopus with soybean sauce, fried squid with chili pepper, steamed red roe crab, fried clams with chili pepper, a dish of fried mullet and a dish of green vegetables.

Zhang Fuyan was so full that she said, "It turns out the fish I caught myself are so delicious!"

Jiang Dong: "Of course, I went to the sea net myself!"

Jiang Xia smiled and said, "That's because it's new!"

After dinner, Jiang Dong took Zhang Fuyan home on his bicycle. He hung two buckets of fish, shrimps and crabs on the bicycle. One bucket was for Zhang Fuyan to take home and eat, and the other bucket was for Jiang's father and mother to eat. There were also two bags of clams and blood clams in the basket on the front of the bicycle, one bag for each person.

Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei went to the photo studio to pick up the photos they had developed last time, and then sailed directly back to the village.

After returning to the village and parking the boat, Jiang Xia took Zhou Chenglei and ran to the production team before going home.

The two came to the phone, and Zhou Li smiled and said, "Alei is back from his long sea voyage? He must have made a lot of money, right?"

Zhou Chenglei just raised the corner of his mouth and said nothing.

Jiang Xia smiled and said to Zhou Li, "Second Aunt, can I borrow the production team's phone to make a call?"

Zhou Li smiled and said, "Fight! Fight back home?"

"No." Jiang Xia responded and lowered his head to dial the number.

Zhou Li pretended to tidy up the desk, but her eyes were watching Jiang Xia dialing the number. She wrote down the number in her mind, and then smiled and talked to Zhou Chenglei to get closer to him.