Chapter 120: A blatant provocation
In many places, the plum fish is called the "fresh king". This is because its meat is white and smooth, it breaks when touched by chopsticks, melts in the mouth, and is so fresh that it can reach the root of the tongue.
As the name suggests, the plum fish is really quite "childlike". It is a fish that never grows big. The largest one is only three fingers wide and one hand long.
The fish that Liang Ziqiang had just caught from the bottom of the sea weighed only about two taels each.
"It is similar to a stone head but smaller, golden in color, tastes quite good, and its head is larger than its body, so people call it 'Mei Datou'." This is the description of Mei Tongyu by our ancestors.
In terms of price, the current value of the whitebait has not increased as much as in later generations, but it is still several times that of the goby and is slightly more expensive than sea bass and the like.
Among the fish caught from the seabed in this net, in addition to several species of fish, there are also some bright spots such as shrimps and crabs.
There are relatively cheap shrimps, also known as mantis shrimps, as well as slightly more expensive green shrimps and red shrimps.
There are stone crabs, but there are also swimming crabs which are more valuable than stone crabs. The key is that October is when crabs are getting fatter and fatter. The swimming crabs in front of me are plump and look like they have roe in their stomachs. The price of roe crabs is different. The best red roe crabs can cost 1.2 yuan per pound!
The remaining few octopuses are not big, they are small white octopuses, and the price is relatively average.
While Liang Ziqiang and his friends were recovering the "sea bass", Liang's father, who had not released the sea bass, had already started casting nets on the sea to catch them.
"Dad, how is it today? Are there any silver pomfret under the water?" Liang Ziqiang asked his father loudly while busying himself.
"Don't think about it. We didn't catch any silver pomfret today, and we don't have many bamboo swords either. But we did catch some white bream!" Liang's father replied somewhat disappointedly.
This basically confirmed Liang Ziqiang's judgment: the silver pomfret the day before yesterday only swam through the nearby sea water for a short time and could be considered "passing fish", rather than having been living in this area in recent times.
There were no silver pomfret caught during the “sea diving”, and my father also didn’t see any silver pomfret when he cast the net today. The combined results are enough to draw this conclusion.
It seems that it will be difficult to repeat the silver pomfret harvest of the day before yesterday. Liang Ziqiang decided to continue fishing for the remaining three seafloor breams. If he could catch a large number of plum breams, they would be almost as good as the silver pomfret.
Before the boat reached the next seabed location, Li Liang also started to recover.
"Acai, you idiot, don't rush to look for your old pockets. Come over and give me a hand. I've paid you for your work!"
Li Liang pulled and found that one of them was unable to pull, so he shouted Deng Zhaocai in frustration.
Deng Zhaocai felt embarrassed after his thoughts were exposed, and hurried forward to help pull. While pulling, he shouted: "Fuck, you are going to get rich! This bag is too heavy, it's a bit difficult for two people to pull it. I have released so many sea breams, but I have never encountered such a heavy catch!"
Hearing this, Liang Ziqiang also looked over.
He felt that Deng Zhaocai's shouting seemed a bit exaggerated. No matter how big the pocket on the seabed was, it couldn't compare to the hand-cast fishing net.
The bag he had just taken weighed about thirty or forty kilograms, which was a lot for him in the seabed. No matter how much, even with the weight of the anchor, would it be too much for two big guys to pull? But it was strange, looking at the way the two men's arms were tense, it didn't seem like they were joking.
The next second, Li Liang's underwater diver was finally pulled out of the water and onto the boat.
Now Liang Ziqiang finally understood why it was so heavy. At the same time, everyone on the three boats stared with wide eyes, looking very surprised! What kind of fish is this? It's a whole seabed filled with huge rocks!
Yes, he was not mistaken, it was the most common stone on the shore and islands!
"Fuck..." Li Liang's mood suddenly dropped from the peak of excitement to the bottom, and he didn't know how to express his emotions.
"Oh my god, I've seen fish float into a net bag, but I've never seen such a heavy stone float into the bag by itself. I'm afraid this stone has become a spirit..." Deng Zhaocai's words helped Li Liang express his inner feelings.
"Bullshit! Are you blind? It's obvious that someone secretly fished out my seabed and took away the fish and shrimp inside, and deliberately stuffed so many big rocks in it. If I catch anyone who has a son without an asshole, I will cut his whole family into pieces and stuff them into a net bag!"
Li Liang's curses were quite terrifying, but Liang Ziqiang could fully understand his mood.
Apparently, Li Liang's guess was correct. Someone must have stolen his catch and put a bunch of rocks in it. This was the only explanation that made sense.
The question is, shouldn't you steal someone else's "underwater tunnel" by doing it in a sneaky and unnoticed way? Why did you deliberately stuff so many stones in there, fearing that others wouldn't notice it? This is a provocation, and it goes without saying.
At this time, Deng Zhaocai had already started to curse: "He really deserves a beating! No need to think too much, it must have been done by those sons of bitches from Jitou Village!"
Li Liang said angrily: "Who else could it be if not them? A bunch of sluts from Jitou Village who need to be fucked!"
Liang Ziqiang agreed with Li Liang and the others' judgment.
There are conflicts between Jitou Village and Pomwang Village. Although there are still many villagers in the two villages who have good personal relationships with each other, overall, the relationship between the two villages is not harmonious.
This provocative behavior is extremely obvious and points to the fact that it was done by people from Jitou Village.
At this moment, several people had no time to discuss and hurried to find other places to hide in the sea.
As a result, angry curses were heard one after another - and several empty sea urchins were fished out one after another.
Every time Liang Ziqiang picked up one, he felt a chill in his heart.
In the entire big net bag, there were only a few small shrimps that were not stolen cleanly, and the rest were not even a hair away.
It seems that the one that I picked up first was the only one that was not stolen. It was most likely because it was a little far away and was missed when it was stolen.
Liang Ziqiang's heart bled when he thought about how so many red crabs and whitebait had all been fattened by that bastard.
It seems that the few sea breams that had disappeared before did not disappear because of ocean currents or the falling off of buoys, but were simply stolen.
After fishing for all the seafloor fish in the area, we finally confirmed that, except for the one "survivor", all the other fish had been stolen.
The one who suffered the heaviest losses was Deng Zhaocai. He invested the most and released more than ten "sea slugs", but all his troops were wiped out.
Looking at the empty seafloor trolls on the boat, he asked Li Liang with a sad face: "Liangzi, do we need to continue to put these seafloor trolls down?"
"What's the point of releasing them? Even if we release them, it's just for those bastards from other villages!" Li Liang said gritting his teeth.
Liang Ziqiang was in a very bad mood and didn't have the energy to cast the net anymore.
While they were discussing, a wooden boat over eight meters long passed by. It was the boat belonging to Zhong Yongrui's family.
The boat was getting closer and closer to them. Zhong Yongrui was not on the boat, but his two sons were driving the boat.
"What's going on with you? I saw you constantly pulling up empty nets from the sea. It looks like someone has stolen your fish?!" Zhong Yongrui's eldest son Zhong Kang stood at the bow and asked loudly.
"That's right, the theft was so damn clean! How come your underwater tunnel was also stolen?" Liang Ziqiang asked back.
Zhong Kang said helplessly: "Our house has been robbed three or four times. Not only did they steal fish, but twice they also put a bunch of stones in the net bag, which made us spend a lot of time pulling the net. Isn't it infuriating!"
Li Liang said angrily: "He is indeed a habitual offender. He is going too far!"
Deng Zhaocai said in a hateful voice: "You can't do anything about it?"
Zhong Kang shook his head: "What can we do? If it's on the ground, we can still defend it. But how can we defend it on the sea?"
Everyone was silent for a while. After a while, Liang Ziqiang suddenly spoke up:
"It's not completely impossible to defend the sea!"
"What is the solution?"
Everyone on the boats looked at Liang Ziqiang, waiting for him to express his thoughts.
(End of this chapter)
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