Chapter 146: An unexpected harvest of conch shells
Oystercatchers are typical monogamous birds. They find a place to settle down and usually live together, foraging together, singing songs together, and playing "butterfly dance" together.
Liang Ziqiang and his companion were thinking about how to drive away the two annoying big birds, but they couldn't think of any effective method for a while.
I can only continue looking for new snails while slowly thinking of a solution.
Further ahead, there are some crevices in the reefs, covered with chicken-claw snails, which have not yet been damaged by oystercatchers.
It can be seen that the two pairs of oystercatchers have not been on the nameless island for long, and have not had time to fully attack the chicken-claw snails here.
The two men hurriedly pried it open again, and the snakeskin bag became even fuller.
While prying, they saw two pairs of oystercatchers flying to other places to destroy conches in the distance, so they picked up small stones from the ground and threw them over there.
As soon as the oystercatcher landed in a place, a torrential rain of stones fell from the sky; when it found a place where there were chicken-claw snails, there was another rain of stones.
After this happened several times, the oystercatcher either got tired or scared, gave up looking for the snails, and flew to the beach, chirping non-stop. This time it wasn't chanting or playing music, it was just cursing...
The two men didn't look like children anymore. They kept picking on the two pairs of birds. How could the birds understand? In this way, the two pairs of birds became their spies in the search for the oyster snails. They searched every place where the oystercatchers had just landed and pecked.
They found the right place, where there were chicken claw snails. Unexpectedly, a bad thing turned into a good thing, saving them a lot of time in searching for chicken claw snails.
When they had collected more than half a bag, they looked at the beach. What the hell was going on? The four oystercatchers were surrounding a sea turtle and bullying it?
The key point is that the turtle is not the same as the one in Liang Ziqiang's home. This turtle is much bigger, at least three times as big as the turtle at home! I saw four big birds surrounded the turtle in the middle, pecking at it with one beak after another.
It was as if they had been hit by Liang Ziqiang's stone and suffered humiliation, so they were looking for turtles to vent their anger...
Sea turtles are alive, too. They won't resist. The two walked toward the beach and got closer to take a look. As soon as they got closer, the oystercatchers started to protest sharply, like an air raid alarm.
Looking past the oystercatcher, the two men finally understood.
Not only did the big turtle not resist at all, but it stretched out its limbs comfortably, with an attitude of asking for whatever you want and being all right with it.
It turned out that the turtle's back was just like the last turtle, with layer upon layer of densely packed barnacles!
The four oystercatchers, at this moment, were like four diners, surrounding the big round table of the turtle, and from time to time, they would use their hard long beaks to pick up a mouthful of food from the turtle's back...
This sea turtle will look for help. It is said that barnacles have almost no natural enemies, so much so that even giant whales weighing dozens of tons are tortured to death by them and have no choice but to rub against reefs and ram ships.
In addition to colliding with ships, sea turtles will also actively seek help from humans. This sea turtle is smart. It found that there are oystercatchers on the island, so it went directly to the oystercatchers and asked for help.
To be honest, oystercatchers are one of the few enemies of barnacles.
Oystercatchers are so called because they are the best at opening oyster shells, and they are the nemesis of oysters. Of course, they are also the nemesis of barnacles, especially in late autumn and winter, when they love to bite barnacles.
For a time, the turtle and the bird helped each other, benefited each other, and lived in harmony with their neighbors.
Liang Ziqiang didn't even want to disturb them.
But you have to disturb them. The sea turtle's back is not covered with ordinary barnacles, but gooseneck barnacles, that is, chicken claw snails! This is like a big basin filled with chicken claw snails in front of you. Can you just ignore it and walk away? !
The two grown men once again did something inhumane, swinging their arms and firing again. The round table dinner had just begun, but it couldn't go on.
This time, when the four oystercatchers left, their eyes were full of hatred and contempt.
The words coming out of his mouth were no longer just simple curses, but curses...
If you despise me, just despise me. There are so many people who despise me, who do you think you are?
Liang Ziqiang and his companion drove away the oystercatchers and quickly established a new neighborly relationship with the sea turtle.
Seeing that the two men were coming with ill intentions, the sea turtle originally wanted to escape into the sea, but after crawling twice, it saw the iron chisels of the two men prying on its back shell, and the turtle was safe on the spot.
Isn't this iron chisel much more comfortable than that bird's beak?
The turtle spread out its limbs and decided to win again by doing nothing.
A series of ingenious clanging sounds were heard, just like iron being forged in a blacksmith's shop.
This heavy metal rhythm lasted for quite a while, and the conches that were piled up like mountains on the turtle's back were finally flattened.
The two snakeskin bags are now almost full.
The two of them never imagined that what finally filled the bag was not the goods found in the cracks between the rocks, but the goods delivered to their door by the big turtle.
Now the question is not whether there are other chicken claw snails on the island, but if they continue to pull them out, Yuehai Restaurant will not be able to digest so many, and if they keep them, they will be ruined and become tasteless and worthless.
Now that we have enough chicken snails, let’s go for the abalone.
The two began to look for abalone and found that there were fewer abalone than usual. This was not because of the oystercatchers, but because the weather was cold and the abalone began to hide deeper.
But it’s okay, it’s not too cold yet, so there are still a lot of abalone to catch.
It is much easier to pry open abalone than chicken claw snail, and Liang Ziqiang's hands move much faster.
This time we can’t use a snakeskin bag, so we have to put some water in the bucket. Every time we knock down an abalone, we put it in the bucket and temporarily keep it in sea water.
With a new empty bucket, he quickly pried out half of the three-headed abalone, and turned to look at Lin Baixian's bucket next to him, "What are you doing? There are only ten or so?" He glanced at Lin Baixian, who was usually a nervous guy, but now he was holding the abalone and looking at it left and right for a long time, as if he was catching a bug.
"What's the matter? You've put your face on the abalone. Do you want to eat it raw?!" Liang Ziqiang shouted.
"I'll just study it!"
"Research, what? Is this your first time seeing an abalone? Hurry up! Prying it a little more is the real business!"
"Don't worry, what if you run into one with beads like you did last time..."
This guy is really thoughtful. Three-headed abalone can no longer satisfy him. Maybe he saw Liang Ziqiang selling a pearl for two hundred yuan last time, so he is just thinking about getting lucky.
"Then you move aside and study slowly. Don't occupy that large piece of abalone. Let me pry it open!"
What a joke! You expect to find something that is only found once among tens of thousands of abalone easily.
Liang Ziqiang didn't hesitate. After prying the things next to him, he immediately went to the ones in front of Lin Baixian.
Lin Baixian finally felt a sense of crisis. He put down the abalone he was studying and rushed to knock it down.
Soon, Lin Baixian also knocked on half the bucket.
Liang Ziqiang had even more, filling up half the bucket.
Although there were some unexpected twists and turns during this trip to the nameless island, the final result was still very satisfactory.
All kinds of groupers, valuable chicken claw snails, and three-headed abalone were caught in a big way, with a lot of harvest...
Two chapters have been published. Happy reading, fellow readers.
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