Chapter 272: Just after one wave passed, they were suddenly in a deadlock.
"No way, damn, I didn't catch a whole basin of Aijie crabs!" After hearing this, Li Liang immediately leaned over his own basin to look over.
"Clean crab? I've heard of that thing but never seen it. Did we really catch that poisonous thing?!" Zhu Tianpeng was also very surprised.
"Now you see it! I looked at this basin and found that almost half of it is clean crabs, and the remaining half is brown crabs!"
"How do I tell the difference?" Zhu Tianpeng leaned over for a long time but couldn't figure out the difference, and he was confused.
"Look, this crab has brown hairs on its legs, and its claws are a bit round and thick. This is the brown crab.
If you look closely at the crab's calf next to it, you can see that it is hairless and its claws are sharper. Most importantly, there are some small dents on the front half of its shell. Although they are not obvious, brown crabs definitely do not have such dents. This is the Clean Crab! "(Specific identification requires professionals to observe the details. Readers should not simply compare the above points to identify by themselves) The full name of this crab is the Honest Clean Crab.
Without a doubt, the crab that kills the most people is the honest and clean crab. As for the reason, besides being really poisonous enough to kill a person with just one, it is also because it looks so much like the king crab!
It is said that steamed bun crabs look like golden crabs, but in fact, the two are relatively easy to distinguish. Only those consumers who don’t know the ins and outs will fall into the trap and spend a high price to buy a bunch of steamed bun crabs with little meat.
The honest and clean crab and the king crab are like twins, it is hard to tell the real one from the fake one.
Liang Ziqiang had just been fishing for so long, but he was fooled and failed to recognize the two. You can imagine how similar they are! In fact, a small number of people who were poisoned by the honest and clean crabs were fishermen. Because some fishermen can't tell the difference between the two crabs, and clean crabs are not often encountered, so everyone is more careless.
Zhu Tianpeng followed the key points Liang Ziqiang had just mentioned and carefully identified them. As a result, he found that almost half of the crabs he had worked so hard to catch were honest and clean crabs! "Damn, do we still want these? We caught them all in vain and we have to throw them all away?" Li Liang was also dumbfounded.
"Why throw it away? The poison of the crab is hidden in its meat, and it is impossible for it to be transmitted to the king crab! According to what you said, there are too many poisonous things in the sea, so why don't we fish?" Liang Ziqiang replied, "When we have time, we will slowly pick out the crabs one by one and find a place to bury them!"
"Okay, let's continue looking for the island!" Li Liang felt a little tired.
To be on the safe side, Liang Ziqiang poured out all the water in the basin. Without water, it would be even more impossible for the toxins in the crab to be transmitted to the crab.
Li Liang did the same thing. Although it was a complete waste of effort, he had never seen a clean crab pass the poison to a brown crab.
Liang Ziqiang wiped the cold sweat off his forehead as he continued to sail on the sea. The lingering feeling of fear was still lingering in his mind.
What a close call! If he hadn't squatted down to take a closer look, he would have eaten the poisonous crab for lunch.
The poison of the Aijie crab takes effect very quickly. If that happens, there is no doubt that today at noon will be the last time they see the sun! And the two boats will drift with the waves, becoming two ghost ships on the vast ocean...
Unconsciously, he thought of the sudden fall of the peace knot yesterday. Could it be that fate was really foreshadowing what would happen to Ai Jie Crab today?
And because he went to the temple specially to worship Mazu and the peace knot was repaired, that’s why he was able to escape danger just now?
Originally he was still complaining in his heart that his father was too old-fashioned and too superstitious, but now that he had experienced a near-death experience, he had to start to believe it a little.
After all, rebirth really happened, so what is impossible...
"Thank you, Mazu, for your kindness and help to save me from this disaster..."
Standing at the bow, he could not help but silently recite. No matter whether it was really Mazu who helped him, he should thank her first. It was right and proper to say thank you twice.
After swaying for a while, the morning passed by and the island finally appeared on the sea.
Today, the crabs in the basin were half less than expected, so the income is not optimistic so far. Maybe it will be lower than yesterday's income.
Now, Liang Ziqiang can only hope that the island ahead is the one they are looking for, and that there are enough valuable lampreys there, so that today's income can soar like a rocket!
What started out as a small dot gradually filled the entire field of vision, and the island was getting closer.
The appearance of this island is not much different from most small islands. The only difference is that the towering rocks on the edge of the island are not common reefs, but smooth yellow-brown stones, just like pebbles.
In fact, this is also a kind of pebble, a giant pebble, not just the ones the size of goose eggs.
"Could it be that this island has a large number of vampire eels?" Li Liang was worried about his lampreys.
However, the next second, Deng Zhaocai's disappointed voice came:
"What the hell is a vampire eel! It's more like blowing up a balloon, but look at the water, it's full of inflated pufferfish!"
Liang Ziqiang looked underwater and saw a group of small pufferfish, round like balls, swimming around in the water.
Moreover, there are not many beaches on this island. The place where it meets the sea is just an area covered with pebbles of all sizes.
It was noon and everyone was starving. Liang Ziqiang went to get something to eat.
There was no other fish today, only crabs on the boat, so lunch could only be king crabs.
He was very alert and selected seven or eight king crabs from the basin, making sure that none of them were fake King crabs before cooking them.
When I got to the stove, I found that there was no briquettes. What can I do without coal briquettes? I can't eat it raw.
"Li Liang, do you have any hooks?" Liang Ziqiang asked Li Liang who was parked next to him.
"Damn, you don't have any left? My boat is the same. I mentioned yesterday that I ran out of gunpowder. I wanted to buy more but forgot about it!"
There was no way to get any coal briquettes on the two boats. But there was a way. We got off the boat and started picking up the dead branches scattered on the ground.
I picked up a small pile, set up a pot, and started a fire on the gravel-strewn ground to cook the king crabs.
Soon, the crabs were cooked and we started eating them immediately.
Li Liang picked out the king crabs from the boat. Liang Ziqiang had just checked them carefully, so now they could just eat as much as they wanted.
In a blink of an eye, everyone had eaten three or four king crabs, leaving only a pile of crab shells and crab legs on the ground.
During this time, Zhu Tianpeng tilted his head: "What's that sound?"
Liang Ziqiang also listened carefully. A sound suddenly came and disappeared in a second, as if it was there and not there.
Deng Zhaocai didn't stop sucking the crab roe: "There are many fish that can make sounds, big yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, yes, there are also spotted pig fish..."
"Can your spotted pigfish cough like humans?" Zhu Tianpeng refuted him.
The moment the words were spoken, the four people's ears shrank suddenly! Footsteps! On such a remote, uninhabited island, suddenly hearing footsteps behind them was quite abrupt and even creepy!
All four of them instinctively looked towards the giant cobblestone standing a few meters away.
Just as their eyes turned, several figures emerged from behind the boulder.
"Fuck you!" A swear word burst out directly from the mouth of one of the men with rosacea.
Three men came out from behind the boulder. When they saw Liang Ziqiang and his three companions, they seemed startled and very surprised.
The subsequent reaction surprised Liang Ziqiang and the others even more.
At most they opened their mouths in surprise.
The other party was surprised and reached into his trouser pocket.
In the blink of an eye, three pistols, three dark holes, were pointed at Liang Ziqiang and his men's heads! The four men were still holding crabs that they hadn't finished biting, and their expressions froze for a moment, their throats were stuck, and they forgot to swallow.
"Mana coin!" A man with a scar on his left eyebrow spat fiercely, "You want your grandfather to teach you to raise your hands, right? Your grandfather never taught people with his mouth, he always taught with a gun!"
Liang Ziqiang and the others really couldn't digest this sudden scene. This is much harder to digest than the crab meat!
Hearing the threat, Liang Ziqiang quickly put down the last half crab in his hand, looked behind the other party to see if there were more people hiding behind him, and slowly stood up from the ground where he was squatting.
The three men looked ragged and tattered, but they all had guns. They were tall, not shorter than Liang Ziqiang himself, and their accents did not sound like those of people from the coastal areas.
Who are these people? Why are they on this remote island? I don't see any boats anywhere... Liang Ziqiang thought quickly.
"You! The tallest one, what are you thinking with your eyes rolling around? Do you think you have the strength to fight me? Then you'll have to try your luck to see if you can be faster than the Type 54 rifle in my hand!" The man with the scar on his left eyebrow was obviously referring to Liang Ziqiang.
The triangular-eyed man standing next to him, holding his gun, quietly observed the four of them and the fishing boat for a while. By this time, he had confirmed their identity as fishermen, and his expression was not so nervous. He reminded the two men:
"Don't shoot yet, I have something to ask them."
Triangle Eyes still pointed his gun at them and asked, "Since you are all fishermen at sea, you should all know how to sail a boat, right?"
Facing the gun muzzle just a few meters away, the four people had no choice but to nod.
"Congratulations!" Triangle Eyes congratulated, "You don't all have to die. One of you can survive and serve as our boat driver!"
Faced with this special congratulation, the four people reciprocated the gift and secretly thanked each other's ancestors for eighteen generations.
At the same time, Liang Ziqiang also got a message from this sentence.
At first he thought of the recent arrests of smuggling criminals, and wondered if these people were the smugglers who had escaped to avoid arrest.
Now it seems that these people can't even drive a boat, so they can be ruled out as smugglers...
Burst
[The picture of the honest and clean crab has been reposted in the comment section of Chapter 270 "This Chapter Says".]
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