Chapter 292: I haven't earned such a high income in a long time
The two boats immediately turned around and sailed along the waters they had just sailed through.
Liang Ziqiang also worked together with Zhu Tianpeng to hang the big yellowtail fish together with the fishing net in the water beside the boat.
Just now, they were estimating how much the big yellowtail fish on the boat could be sold for, but in the blink of an eye, the fate of the big yellowtail fish changed drastically and it became bait.
Although such a heavy yellow jellyfish can be sold for dozens of dollars, it is still incomparable to the value of lampreys! The destructive power of lampreys' sharp teeth is beyond doubt. Li Liang's small yellow jellyfish was put in the net and sucked in by lampreys. If there are lampreys in this area, this thing will definitely be able to bite through the fishing net line and attach the yellow jellyfish.
This time they adjusted the boat speed to be very slow, much slower than when they came here, naturally in order to stay longer along the way to detect which area was the water with a large number of lampreys.
Every time they pass through a section of water, they will pull the yellowtail fish in the net out of the water to inspect it.
This method really works.
At first, the yellow diamond fish showed no obvious changes. It was not until they moved a little further that people on both boats became excited.
"Here they come, here they come! There were only a few in front, but god, there must be at least twenty or thirty of them now, sticking to the water tiger and twisting around. It gives me goose bumps just by looking at them!" Deng Zhaocai was the first to shout towards this side.
"Twenty or thirty? You may have underestimated. There are probably forty or fifty on our big yellow mullet!" Zhu Tianpeng replied loudly.
Zhu Tianpeng was not exaggerating. Liang Ziqiang took a few glances and roughly estimated that there should be about 40 or 50 of them.
The water tiger, which has always been so arrogant, probably has never experienced such a Waterloo in its life. In the past, they would chase and bite small fish as soon as they saw them. A large yellow mullet can swallow more than 1 ton of small fish in a year. But now, it was pierced by a small eel-like thing, sucking and biting, and it was helpless.
The yellow croaker was so angry that it opened its mouth and wagged its tail, looking very angry and ashamed.
Well, in fact, when sharks and killer whales are sucked by lampreys, they, as the overlords of the ocean, are also helpless and can only silently accept their shameful fate.
Liang Ziqiang was not in a hurry to pick the lampreys, as he did not have the time to dig them out at this moment. After checking, he hung the yellow mullet together with the fishing net into the water beside the boat again.
"Just circle around this section just now. Now we can be sure that the lamprey nest is at the bottom of this water!" Liang Ziqiang said affirmatively.
The two boats slowed down even further, moving back and forth at a snail's pace in the waters just covered.
After a while, when the fish was pulled out of the water again, the number of lampreys on the yellow diamond fish increased again.
After several attempts, they gradually determined the location of the lamprey's nest, so they slowed the boat down to almost a standstill and fixed it in one position to concentrate on fishing for lampreys.
Half an afternoon passed slowly. During the process, they checked several times and found that the things attached to the fish bodies were still increasing. This undoubtedly proved that their judgment was correct. The area under their feet was full of lamprey nests!
"This isn't a lamprey nest, there's a treasure pot underneath!" Li Liang was overjoyed and turned to glare at Deng Zhaocai, "Do you believe it now? You bastard, you've been slandering me, you're just talking nonsense!"
Deng Zhaocai scratched his head and said, "That's not right. Didn't your grandfather say there was a Blood Eel Island? There's not even a reef here. How can it have anything to do with an island? It's just nonsense!"
Zhu Tianpeng also asked: "Li Liang, did you remember it wrong, or did your grandfather not tell you correctly? We did find the lamprey, but there is really no island in this whole area!"
Li Liang thought for a while and suddenly said, "Have you ever heard of a kind of island called a living island? The kind that pops up on the surface of the water for a while and then sinks down and disappears again a few years later? Could it be that this is a living island under us? My grandfather saw it floating at that time, but now it has sunk down and disappeared?!"
"Living island? No way!" Zhu Tianpeng thought about the scene, and his tone revealed a bit of weirdness.
"What you are talking about should be related to volcanic activity under the sea!" Liang Ziqiang continued.
Living islands that float and sink from time to time definitely exist, and there are definitely more than one in the vast ocean. They are basically caused by volcanic activity deep under the sea.
But Liang Ziqiang still feels that it is unlikely that a living island will appear in the shallow waters of the South China Sea.
It was normal for underground hot springs to keep bubbling up somewhere in the deep sea, but he thought the chances of encountering one on a living island were slim.
"I guess there should be a small trench under the water, and a large number of lampreys are gathered in this trench. Li Liang, you must have misheard your grandfather's trench as an island. You were still young at that time, so it is entirely possible that you misheard or remembered one or two words!"
Liang Ziqiang analyzed.
He felt that the possibility of the so-called floating island that sank from time to time could basically be ruled out.
There should be a relatively large groove-shaped structure under the water, which can be understood as a small trench, but this kind of groove area in the shallow sea is very different from the real trench in the deep sea. The geology and biological species are extremely different.
"It's also possible that I heard the word 'trench' as an island!" Li Liang himself was not sure now.
It doesn't matter anyway. What really matters is that they finally found the nest of lampreys after searching for a long time, and they discovered it by chance through the yellow drill fish.
Today I won’t be casting a net or longlining, I’ll just focus on one thing: fishing for eels.
Fishermen have always used small fish and shrimps to catch big fish, but no one has ever used the huge yellow mullet to catch tiny eels like they do.
Using the big to beat the small, their operation today can be considered a miracle.
It was weird, but the key point was that it was very effective and profitable! I sat on the boat and waited until the sun set.
If time permits, they would like to sit here and fish until dark. But obviously that is not possible. With so many valuable goods, it is better to put them in the bag and go to the city today to sell the lampreys to Yuehai Restaurant.
After calculating the time needed to return to the shore and go to the city, they were reluctant to leave and pulled the yellow mullet back from the sea.
Now at a glance, there are more lampreys attached to the yellow drillfish. Liang Ziqiang's big yellow drillfish alone has more than 200 lampreys on it! How can it be possible to have so many lampreys twisting on a fish at the same time? Liang Ziqiang's scalp was numb when he saw it.
Even so, thinking that it was all money, he had to bite the bullet and put the yellowtail fish into the cabin.
This feeling is so fucking awesome!
Although the arrogant large water tiger was still swaying and opening its mouth, it had lost a lot of blood after all, and its movements were not as violent, and it lacked its original ferocity, and even looked like a hero at the end of his rope.
If Liang Ziqiang and Zhu Tianpeng were just feeling a chill on their scalps, the two little animals on the boat would have reacted much more violently.
The yellowtail fish was big in size, and it swung towards the cabin, directly invading the territory of the two dogs.
They were already quite aggressive when they saw the yellow diamond fish, and now that it had suddenly turned into such a strange, ghostly appearance, they became even more fearful.
Duobao's claws were almost touched by the yellow mullet and lamprey, and he was terrified, so he took off on the spot, jumped up and retreated to the back. The sea lion also growled a few times and lay down at the back of the cabin with Duobao.
The fur of both of them was vibrating. Liang Ziqiang witnessed the legendary "fur explosion" with his own eyes today.
"Let's go back to the shore. It's been a long time since we had such a big harvest as today!"
The joys and sorrows of all things are indeed not the same. Facing the struggle of the water tiger and the angry dogs, Liang Ziqiang and his friends were all smiling.
Turn the boat around and start the return journey.
After returning to the village, Liang Ziqiang and Li Liang ran back home, said hello to their families, and immediately drove the boat to the city.
The only fish we have for sale today, besides brown-bellied porcupine, is lamprey. We don't need to go to Zheng Liu for either of these.
When we arrived at Sham Shui Po, the problem became how to get the fish to the restaurant.
Normally, the fish were brought to Yuehai Restaurant in buckets. This was the first time Liang Ziqiang had encountered a big fish weighing over 100 kilograms like the one he saw today.
In the end, he placed the yellow croaker directly on the cart and tied it up with ropes one by one. Li Liang naturally took the same approach.
Four people, pushing two carts with two large fish on them, paraded through the market.
What shocked everyone the most was that the two big fish being pushed on the cart had countless snake-like things twisting on their bodies, which was like a dance of demons. For a moment, many citizens stopped to watch, treating it as a street spectacle.
When they arrived at Yuehai Restaurant, fortunately Liang Ziqiang had been dealing with them for so long that he was already familiar with another passage in the restaurant and could go in through the back door.
So, the two carts avoided the front door, turned in from the employee entrance and supply passage at the back door, and found Manager Du.
Du Ziteng was standing outside the door of his office, talking to his employees. When he heard the shout, he looked up and slid down suddenly.
Not to mention that he is well-informed, this style of painting is not common to him! "Where are you from? Did you come in from the front lobby?!" Du Ziteng asked, "I'm afraid you will scare away all my diners!"
"We know this. We all came in from the back door," Liang Ziqiang said with a grin. "Besides, the customers who come to your store are not ordinary people. They all have strong tastes for eating chicken claw snails and lampreys! How can you be afraid of this?"
"Yes, Brother Teng, maybe seeing the live lampreys will stimulate their appetite and they may place two more orders!" Li Liang agreed casually.
Du Ziteng: “…”
"Liking to eat it is one thing, and it tastes really good!" Du Ziteng glared at him, "Who wants to look at this thing? The lampreys should be cut into pieces and seasoned to look pleasing to the eye!"
The cart was pulled into the warehouse and the large-scale slaughtering began again.
More than a dozen people were called in, and with all kinds of tools, they finally dug all the lampreys out of the yellow diamondback fish.
Then they were weighed. Liang Ziqiang's more than 200 lampreys, nearly 300 in total, weighed more than 58 kilograms, still about 2 taels per piece.
Five yuan per pound, more than two hundred and ninety yuan.
Li Liang's yellow diamond fish was much smaller and had fewer lampreys on it, but it was still sold for more than 180 yuan.
After receiving the money, they came out of Yuehai and hurried to the "Hexinyi" restaurant.
"We just agreed on it a few days ago, and you guys are really bringing puffer fish here today?" The female manager was a little surprised.
"I promised you something for the restaurant, so I have to do it as soon as possible, right?" Liang Ziqiang laughed, "Weigh it and ask the chef to make it and try it. We've all eaten it before, and it tastes pretty good!"
As he spoke, Liang Ziqiang almost burped reflexively. It was as if his stomach still had the taste of the porcupines he was forced to eat at gunpoint.
In accordance with Manager Fan’s request last time, they did not bring many brown-bellied porpoises.
After weighing, Liang Ziqiang and Li Liang weighed about 40 kilograms each.
The price of porcupine fish is RMB 1.2 per pound, and this one cost me more than 40 yuan, almost 50 yuan.
Together with the income from the lampreys in Yuehai, Liang Ziqiang made more than 330 yuan on this trip to the city! "Oh, we also have two big fish on the cart, yellow mullet, one weighs more than 100 kilograms, and the other weighs several dozen kilograms. To be honest, if we dig a kind of eel out of it, it will definitely not look good, but it won't affect the fish meat when cooking!"
Liang Ziqiang thought about the lampreys that were still on the cart after they were plucked. He had originally thought that if he couldn't sell them, he would just take them back and make dried fish nuggets himself. If he could sell them here, it would be even better. He would make as much money as he could.
"You went to Yuehai to sell lampreys, didn't you?" Manager Fan understood immediately. "Not only does this look unsaleable, it's scary to look at!"
The two of them thought she was not going to take it, when they heard Manager Fan continue: "This fish is normally 40 or 50 cents, you can take it at this price, but I can only give you 1 cent per pound!"
Liang Ziqiang and Li Liang certainly wouldn't accept one cent. After bargaining with her for a while, they finally managed to get down to two cents.
After weighing, Liang Ziqiang's yellowtail fish weighed 146 kilograms, at 0.20 yuan per kilogram, which is 29.2 yuan.
Li Liang’s yellowtail fish is small, weighing 82 kilograms, and is worth more than ten yuan.
Unexpectedly, the miserable yellow diamond fish was actually sold. Liang Ziqiang had another source of income, and today's income reached more than 360 yuan!
In the past half month, although I have made some money every day, it has never exceeded 100 yuan, mostly in the tens or tens. Today's income is several times more than that, and I made a lot of money! After leaving the "He Xin Yi" restaurant, I didn't stay in the city, but went straight back to Sham Lo Wan to take a boat back to the village.
As usual, Zhu Tianpeng was paid and then allowed to get off the boat directly at the shore near Xiaolang Village.
When Liang Ziqiang returned home, he saw his wife sitting in the open space outside the house from afar, holding a fishing net in her hand, which was much larger than usual.
"You really can't sit still," Liang Ziqiang said to his wife as he put the cart away. "How come you've woven such a big net in just one day?"
Chen Xiangbei turned her head to look at him, her eyebrows curved with a smile: "You have a really good eye! Take a closer look, how can this be the new web I wove?"
"Isn't it?" Liang Ziqiang came closer.
She was clearly weaving with both hands, so what else could it be if it wasn't a fishing net she had woven? He squatted down in front of her and picked up a piece of the net. Now he could finally see clearly that part of the net had holes in it!
"Are you mending the net?"
"It's not called mending the net. Didn't you ruin several large nets when you were making floating thorn nets a while ago? They were so long and wide, and I felt it was such a pity. So today I will cut off the rotten parts of the torn nets and weave the good parts together to make a big net for you again!" Chen Xiangbei smiled and told him.
"You can even do this? You really put it together?!"
Those floating gillnets had also suffered many disasters at that time. They were torn apart by croakers, wind and waves, and swordfish. They were all broken beyond repair. Liang Ziqiang did not expect that they could be reused.
"Why not? Cut off the big holes, and I'll use nylon thread to restore the small holes. There should be no problem in putting the three nets together into one. Look, isn't a big net almost ready?!" Chen Xiangbei held it up for him to see.
"It's true that I say you are dexterous! It works just as well during the day or at night!" Liang Ziqiang started praising him immediately.
Chen Xiangbei became very nervous upon hearing this, and looked around in panic. She felt relieved when she saw that her parents-in-law and sister-in-law were not too close:
"What nonsense! Aren't you going to feed the shrimp today?"
Is the wife afraid that he will talk nonsense again and chase him away?
"The shrimps must be fed. Put this away first!" He untied his waist bag and handed it to him. "I'm going to feed the shrimps before it gets dark!"
After saying that, he picked up the bucket, took the hand net, called his father, and went to the east of the village together.
When they arrived at the shrimp pond, Liang Ziqiang first checked the broodstock pond, and then helped his father and elder brother to check the broodstock.
The broodstock start to brood eggs at different times. Some time ago, only a part of them started to brood eggs, but now, all the broodstock have entered the brooding stage.
After the inspection, they immediately fished out Artemia from the abandoned salt pans and fed the broodstock as usual.
After returning from the shrimp pond, eating dinner and taking a bath, Liang Ziqiang, who was tired from the day, went to bed. When he got to bed, his wife was very happy and asked with interest:
"I just checked my wallet. How lucky am I today? I haven't had such a high income in a long time!"
"Haven't you been looking for lampreys recently? You finally found them today!" Liang Ziqiang told her how he dragged a water tiger and accidentally used the tiger to find the lair of lampreys.
"According to what you said, there are a lot of valuable eels in that small trench, and we can go fishing several times." After hearing this, the daughter-in-law was even happier than him.
"It will definitely be no problem to fish a few times, but there is a prerequisite, you have to catch big fish first! Only with big fish can you use them to fish for lampreys. Big yellowtails like the ones we had today are not easy to find!" Liang Ziqiang said.
Using big fish to catch small fish is a good trick, but the problem is that it is really hard to find big fish that can be used as bait.
It seems that I have to think of a way to catch some big fish recently, and then catch more lampreys in the small trench...
(End of this chapter)
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