Chapter 23 My daughter-in-law is so lucky

"Let Jiang Xia rest on the island."

Upon hearing this, Zhou's father said nothing and prepared to sail the boat to the island.

Jiang Xiaxing was so excited that he didn't want to rest. "No need to go to the island to rest. I'm not tired. I'll share the fish on the boat. Keep casting the nets. Cast more nets while you're lucky."

Father Zhou also had the same idea. It was still so early, why rest? It was rare that his daughter-in-law was sensible. He smiled and said, "Then cast another net. It will be noon by then. You can take a break while eating."

"Okay." Jiang Xia smiled and said to Zhou Chenglei, "Keep casting the net."

Zhou Chenglei had no choice but to go and cast the net, and then he and Jiang Xia sorted the fish on the deck.

The fish are sorted by size, and fish of similar size are put into the same basket, with a full basket weighing about 50 kilograms.

Because these fish were caught by the trawling net and were already dead, they were easy to separate.

Zhou Chenglei is used to this job and can tell how heavy a fish is at a glance and can divide it quickly and accurately.

But he never expected that Jiang Xia could divide it faster and more accurately, just like she had done this countless times.

In her previous life, Jiang Xia started to follow her grandmother to sell vegetables every day when she was over three years old. Although she could not help at all in the beginning, she learned to help out a little when she was four or five years old. By the time she was in junior high school, she could tell the approximate weight of a pound just by holding it in her hands.

Fast and accurate? No secret, just practice.

Mackerels are relatively large in size, and it took the two of them more than an hour to put all the mackerels into the basket.

Then he sorted the fish and shrimp, and got more than ten pounds of tiger prawns and more than ten pounds of miscellaneous fish. Among these miscellaneous fish were a few small red squids and flower crabs, which were just right for cooking in the evening.

More than two hours had passed since the division was completed. Zhou's father said, "Alei, it's time to get up the net."

"good."

So Zhou's father slowed down the boat, and the father and son worked together to raise the net.

This net was not as heavy as the previous one, so the two of them pulled it up easily.

Zhou Chenglei poured out the fish by himself.

Jiang Xia saw a mouse wearing a spotted skirt at first glance.

Quite beautiful!

The most important thing is that the fish was still alive when it was dragged out of the net, which is very rare.

Zhou's father also saw it and immediately picked it up and put it in a bucket to keep it. This fish is more expensive when it is alive.

This time there were mostly miscellaneous fish, but there were also a dozen swordfish and yellow croakers, as well as quite a few small red squids.

The quantity is small, but the variety is good.

Father Zhou smiled and said, "This net is not bad. Let's share it quickly."

It was already noon, Zhou Chenglei said: "Let's eat first.

Father Zhou: "That's fine."

Zhou's mother prepared the meal in the morning and put it in lunch boxes for them to take on board.

The food is already cold, but it’s not a big deal in the summer.

Zhou Chenglei opened the lunch boxes and took a look at them before handing them to Jiang Xia. This time, the dishes in the three lunch boxes were the same, and Zhou's mother did not treat them differently.

The only dishes were steamed dried fish and pickled cabbage. In the morning, she was in a hurry and couldn't cook so many dishes. Besides, vegetables would turn yellow if left for too long and would not taste good, so Zhou's mother usually didn't prepare them.

In addition to the lunch boxes, Zhou's mother also prepared six boiled eggs for the three of them so they could eat when they were hungry.

The food was not as delicious when it was cold, but the sauerkraut went well with the rice, and Jiang Xia was indeed hungry after being busy for a long time, so he ate most of the lunch box, and Zhou Chenglei took care of the rest.

After dinner, Zhou's father wanted to go trawling again.

Whenever he goes out to sea, he wants to make the most of his time trawling, hoping to earn more money.

But the sun was too strong, so Zhou Chenglei wanted to send Jiang Xia to an island to rest.

How could Jiang Xia take a rest? There was a lot of work to do on the boat, and she would feel uncomfortable if she didn't finish it.

"I don't need to rest, hurry up and sort these fish." Jiang Xia picked up a big blue crab that wanted to escape and handed it to him to tie it up.

She doesn't know how to tie it yet.

Zhou Chenglei couldn't care less about her, so he took it and used vanilla to tie up the crab's claws, legs and body tightly into a cross shape.

Jiang Xia watched his movements carefully, and when she was done, she also picked up a crab and learned how to tie it up.

I was not familiar with it at first and my hand was pinched by the crab claws, but it was okay because I was wearing gloves.

Zhou Chenglei saw that she was a little clumsy, but she tied the crab well.

He had only one thought at this moment: clever and skillful!

She is really smart and learns things quickly.

Jiang Xia tied it up and tied a bow. After admiring it for a while, he held up the crab and looked at Zhou Chenglei: "Does it look good?"

Zhou Chenglei took a look and felt that the bow was unnecessary and in the way, but he still nodded, "Yeah."

Ignoring her, he went to set the net, intending to come back and sort it out later.

Jiang Xia put the crab aside and planned to continue looking for crabs to tie up. When she raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, her eyes swept across the sea. She seemed to see a red light flash on the sea surface and then sank into the seabed.

Jiang Xia immediately pointed ahead and said, "There's a school of fish! There's a school of fish ahead! Red ones!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou's father immediately increased the horsepower and the fishing boat went at full speed.

Zhou Chenglei stopped letting go of the net and looked over.

After the boat had been sailing for a while, we saw the same red color that Jiang Xia had seen.

"Grilled fish! It's a school of ginger fish! Use a hand net! Chenglei, quickly prepare the hand net!" Zhou's father shouted excitedly while driving the boat to chase them.

What's going on today? Why are there so many fish? Zhou Chenglei has already picked up the hand-cast net.

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Jiang Xia looked at it and hesitated for a moment, then also picked up the hand casting net.

She saw them cast the net several times and felt that she had learned how to cast the net.

When the fishing boat approached the school of fish, Zhou Chenglei took out his hand-cast net and threw it.

The fishing net was spread out in the air and fell into the sea. A group of groupers were caught under the net and rolled violently.

Zhou Chenglei dragged the net up!

Jiang Xia also imitated Zhou Chenglei and threw the net forward. The fishing net was not as big as Zhou Chenglei's, but it still caught a lot of fish when it fell into the water.

Much more than catching with a hand-scoop net!

She pulled herself onto the boat with all her strength.

Zhou's father also rushed over and cast the net with familiar movements.

The three of them cast six or seven nets in total, and the fish scattered.

The deck was filled with lively fish.

It’s all red and very festive!

Zhou's father's dark face was covered with a smile that showed his teeth.

This is the snapper, also known as the red sea bream.

Like yellow croaker, it is a relatively valuable fish.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to find large yellow croaker and grouper fish, and their prices are starting to rise.

He has been fishing for so many years, but he has only seen others encounter schools of red snapper, but he has never encountered one. He has heard that some people are studying the artificial breeding of red sea bream, but he doesn't know if it is true.

When Father Zhou saw that the grouper was quite big, probably around one to two kilograms, he smiled brightly.

It’s a success! It’s a success! My daughter-in-law’s sea transportation is amazing!

Father Zhou said, "Go back early today. Today is a good day. Take advantage of the early hours and drive the boat to the dock in the city to sell it."

The price of fish at the city dock is a little higher than that at the village dock. Usually there is not much fish, so the villagers will not waste the gas to go to the city to sell them. After all, the gas cost for a round trip is almost the same.

But today they have a lot of good goods, so of course they have to go to the city to sell them.

Zhou Chenglei responded: "I'll put the net down and drag another one back along the way."

"Okay." Father Zhou went to drive the boat.

After Zhou Chenglei put down the net, he and Jiang Xia took the time to sort the fish and put them in baskets.

Jiang Xia's eyesight and speed in sorting fish are even faster now! Zhou Chenglei couldn't help but look at her.

The afternoon sun was scorching. She wore a straw hat and long-sleeved clothes that covered her entire body tightly. It was so hot that beads of sweat appeared on the tip of her nose.

Just because I’m afraid of being exposed to the sun.

He felt hot just by looking at her, wondering if she could bear it! But her skin was white, and she occasionally raised her head to wipe the sweat off her face, and her skin was dazzlingly white in the sun.

Two hours later, the fishing boat docked at the city's pier.

It was still early, just around four o'clock, and there were not many fishing boats returning to the pier, but there were quite a few.

There were already quite a few people selling fish on the dock, and there were also traders waiting for the fishing boats to return and collect their goods.

(End of this chapter)