Chapter 284: Fishing for squid is a technical job
After a whole morning of fishing, they finally stopped. In the afternoon, they made some time to start longline fishing, but this time they didn't get much.
After returning to the village, Liang Ziqiang untied the rope on Duobao before going to sell fish. Duobao saw Lizhi and the others fishing on the beach from afar, turned his head to Liang Ziqiang, snorted, and ran off to find Lizhi.
The sardines we bought that day weighed more than 830 kilograms, at 9 cents a kilogram, and there were two mackerels at 55 cents a kilogram. Together, we got more than 90 yuan.
After selling the fish and returning to the beach, Liang Ziqiang discovered that Duobao had become friends with Liang Xiaohai.
Liang Xiaohai now had no turtle to play with, so he tried to take Duobao as his own mount. After some persuasion, he finally rode on Duobao's back.
Unexpectedly, Duobao didn't buy it at all. He shook violently and ran away as slippery as a loach, leaving Liang Xiaohai lying on his back covered in sand.
Before Liang Ziqiang could walk over, another person came forward and picked up Liang Xiaohai.
It was Lin Baixian, who was bringing his recently married wife Jiang Xiuting, who also joined the crowd to pick up clams.
It can be seen that Jiang Xiuting, like Chen Xiangbei, had little contact with the sea when she was a girl, let alone going to the sea. Now she is digging clams with a small shovel on the beach and having a lot of fun.
When Lin Baixian introduced Liang Ziqiang to her, she raised her head and wiped her bangs, and when she smiled at people, she looked somewhat similar to Yuan Xiaomei.
After a few greetings, Lin Baixian got down to business: "Aqiang, didn't you talk about longline fishing last time? I went to the county town yesterday and bought a set. Will I go out to sea with you tomorrow?"
"You bought it?" Liang Ziqiang didn't expect him to be so quick. "Okay, let's go out to sea together in the future. Oh, and bring the fishing nets and seabed tools with you. We can use whatever tools we encounter and combine them together!"
"That's for sure! Oh, I just feel a little rusty. It's been half a year since I last sailed out to sea!" Lin Baixian sighed.
As the two were chatting, Lin Baixian suddenly tilted his head and a look of surprise flashed across his face.
Jiang Xiuting, who was digging clams alone just now, suddenly saw Yuan Xiaomei not far away, so she took the initiative to move forward. It was not known whether she was asking Yuan Xiaomei how to find clams, or chatting about something else.
In short, two women who had rarely met each other actually started chatting.
The atmosphere was awkward for a second. Lin Baixian didn't want to walk over, so he simply pulled Liang Ziqiang aside and continued the conversation.
After a while, she turned around and saw several more women gathered. Jiang Xiuting was talking and laughing with them, as if she had known them for many years.
Jiang Xiuting's personality seems to be a bit outgoing?
Liang Ziqiang suddenly had a premonition that with her personality, within a month, she would probably know more people in the village than Chen Xiangbei had in half a year...
After a while, the sky gradually darkened. Jiang Xiuting had finally finished chatting and came over with a few clams.
Liang Ziqiang said hello to them again and was about to go home. Before leaving, he heard Jiang Xiuting excitedly following Lin Baixian and saying loudly:
"Ah Xian, let me tell you, I found out there's a Yuan Xiaomei in your village, and they all say I look a lot like her. You must not have noticed it yet!"
Liang Ziqiang: "..."
That’s good, Liang Ziqiang thinks, a woman with a big heart should be quite happy.
When we went out to sea again the next day, Lin Baixian arrived early as expected.
Strictly speaking, Lin Baixian arrived at the beach earlier than the others. He was busy refueling the boat and then carefully checking the equipment for a while.
His boat had been stationary for quite some time, so he was taking more time to check before setting off.
Fortunately, in the past six months, his drunken father fished for two days and rested for three days, and would use the boat from time to time.
But Lin Baixian is not going out to sea with his father today, but with his younger brother, Lin Baiyi, who just turned fourteen this year.
Lin Baiyi obviously hasn't finished junior high school at this age. It seems that he is like Liang Ziqiang and Li Liang back then. He dropped out of junior high school and started to make a living at sea. Today is probably the day when he first started to learn to go fishing!
"Ayi has also started to fish?" Father Liang saw Lin Baiyi and said with a smile, "Look at the little kids in my arms, they have all grown up. Time flies!"
"Yes," Lin Baixian said to Liang's father, "I am a half-baked person myself, and I don't know how to teach him. It's best to have Uncle Fu here, and teach me and Ayi more!"
"It's not difficult. Ayi looks smart, but he's not as dumb as my Ah Cheng, who is in his twenties and still can't learn well!"
When Liang Tiancheng heard his name being called, he raised his head suddenly: "Ah?"
The four boats set out for the sea together. After sailing for a while, Lin Baixian suddenly caught a glimpse of Liang Ziqiang's bow, a pure earthy yellow.
"Damn it, Qiang, what are you doing? Why is this dog on the boat?!" Lin Baixian was completely surprised, as if he had never seen a dog before. "What's the point of bringing a dog on the boat? It takes up space!"
Before Liang Ziqiang could answer, Duobao barked at him twice. It seemed to be saying: Who are you talking about? I'll jump into the sea with a rope tied to my head. Do you dare to jump?
How about I lend you the rope I have and try tying you up? !
"We all make a living by fishing, so don't look down on your colleagues!" Liang Ziqiang replied to Lin Baixian with a laugh.
The people and dogs were busy along the way, and time seemed to pass faster. Before we knew it, we arrived at the vast sea.
After wandering around for a while, I didn't encounter any schools of fish like yesterday, but I did find a lot of squids floating in the water.
Seeing that these squids were all quite large, several boats immediately cast their nets.
After fishing with a few nets, I found that the squids on the water surface were relatively easy to catch, but there seemed to be quite a few squids under the water. The efficiency of hand-casting nets was obviously not as good as longline fishing.
Then, basins of fishing lines were tied to the main rope and put into the water.
After about two hours, we started to fish.
Lin Baiyi pulled up a fishing line and shouted with great joy: "Brother, look, there are so many! Several of the hooks are full of..."
However, before he could finish his words, his face turned into an expression of disbelief.
The squid, which was obviously stuck tightly on the iron hook, suddenly loosened and fell off the hook and fell back into the sea.
Soon after, several other squids on the hooks also loosened and fell into the sea.
Almost in the blink of an eye, all the squids on the hooks fell off, leaving the hooks empty.
Lin Baiyi is not unique.
On Liang's father's boat, Liang Tiancheng made the same mistake. All the squids that he hurriedly pulled up returned to the sea and escaped by diving.
"Hurry up and get the scoop net from the boat!" Liang Ziqiang waved the scoop net in his hand at them, "Without this, you won't be able to catch any squids! You won't be able to catch any at all!"
Having said that, Liang Ziqiang began to cooperate with Zhu Tianpeng.
Zhu Tianpeng pulled up the fishing line in the water, and Liang Ziqiang had already stretched out the hand net and was waiting under the iron hook.
Squids are very different from fish.
Cuttlefish do not bite the hook, but rely on their tentacles and suction cups to grab the bait. However, the moment they are lifted out of the water, they realize that their bodies are hanging in the air, so they immediately release their tentacles, unhook and escape.
Therefore, after catching the cuttlefish, you must prepare a scoop net at the same time and use the scoop net to catch it.
Sure enough, the squid was startled as soon as it came out of the water, and it let go of its tentacles.
He fell down, without any suspense, and fell steadily into the hand-scooping net below.
It's not much more troublesome to catch one fish after another than to take the fish off the hook.
Liang Ziqiang discovered that there were more squids on this fishing line than he had expected...
(End of this chapter)
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