Chapter 41 Scallop Escape Song
Liang Zizhong turned around and ran towards the boat, leaving Lin Baixian standing on the beach, picking his ears in confusion.
Who said to just leave it alone and pick the wild fruits first?
In the blink of an eye, Liang Ziqiang had gotten off the boat again.
He was holding the largest basin on the boat, as well as a large scoop net, a rake, and curved pliers.
Along the way, there are so many things to see that it gives people a visual sense of having three heads and six arms.
When they arrived at the junction of the reef and the beach, Liang Ziqiang decided to catch some scallops first.
And you need to get more. In addition to eating today, you need to use a large pot to grow more.
Although the surroundings seem to be rich in resources, and food should be readily available, but there is no way, if anyone were to end up in this situation, they would feel a strong sense of crisis.
He put down the pile of things in his hands, leaving only the big scoop net.
The two men went into the water, moving slowly and quietly towards the scallop group.
In fact, picking up shellfish directly with your hands is also quick and easy. But scallops are a bit special.
This thing will run away! It's okay to pick up one or two with your hands, but the other scallops nearby will quickly swim away if they see something is wrong.
Yes, scallops can swim.
When it senses a serious threat coming from the surroundings, it will rhythmically contract and relax its adductor muscles, and its shell will open and close. It swims happily and rhythmically.
The speed is not slow, it can move forward more than ten centimeters in one second. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is "lightning fast" among shellfish.
Of course, this swimming ability is different from that of bird shells.
Bird shells rely solely on their well-developed legs and excellent jumping ability, and can jump high even on a dry shore.
Scallops essentially swim forward by relying on the reverse thrust created by the water spray.
Liang Ziqiang was holding a large scoop net, hoping to catch as much as possible before alerting the other party! When the distance could not get any closer, the large scoop net in his hand drew a line in the air and quickly scooped it into the sea.
When he picked it up again, he didn't know how much he had caught in the net, he just felt that his hand felt very heavy.
At the same time, the scallop group, which had been peaceful just now, suddenly fell into chaos.
The remaining scallops were in a panic and fled in different directions, each looking for their own mother.
At that moment, fluttering figures appeared suspended in the sea water, like dozens of oversized butterflies, flying towards the door of survival.
Liang Ziqiang didn't even raise his eyes. He shook his wrist and quickly poured the spoils of the net into the large basin.
The next second, the net was extended again following the escapees' trajectory.
This time, some of the scallops that escaped halfway also fell into the scoop net.
However, judging from the feel of the fish, the amount caught this time was obviously not as good as the first lightning-fast result.
Lin Baixian was not idle either. With no extra hand nets available, he stood on the periphery and focused on intercepting.
But the effect didn't seem to be very good. In the end, only one scallop was a little blind and bumped into his hand on the way to escape...
Liang Ziqiang didn't have time to look at him, and turned back to start the third round.
But it was obvious that not a single scallop was left at the scene.
The ability to escape is still first-class.
The two of them went ashore with great satisfaction. After counting, Liang Ziqiang caught nine large scallops, plus the one that Lin Baixian had waited for, which made up the perfect number.
Fortunately, the basin was big enough to accommodate ten large scallops.
I added some more sea water into the basin and left the beach alone for now.
The two continued to move forward to look for the grouper they had discovered earlier.
Sure enough, the two blue groupers were still there.
We can’t use the big scoop net to catch them this time.
Like many other species of grouper, the blue grouper prefers to be found in areas with rocky, gravel or coral reef bottoms.
Right now, these two green spots are shuttling between the rugged rocks.
The extremely irregular shapes of the reefs provide them with natural protection to a certain extent.
In this case, the scoop net will be blocked by the reef, making it difficult to start.
In fact, there is a more feasible way, which is to take a fishing rod and put a bait on it. It won't take long before the blue spot will take the bait.
Unfortunately, this time the two of them went straight to Fox Bay Island to get treasures such as chicken claw snails, and had no plans to go sea fishing on the way, so they didn't even bring fishing rods on the boat.
Another way is to use the fishing net that is usually used for casting. If operated well, it can catch grouper. After all, the fishing net is much more flexible than the hand-scooped net.
Now, I don’t have either fishing rod or hand-casting net.
Then we can only resort to a more primitive method: harpoon.
Although he didn't have a harpoon, Liang Ziqiang at least had a rake in his hand that could be used as a harpoon.
He held the rake tightly, like a hunter on the hunt, waiting for the blue spots to swim out of the narrowest crevice and appear in a relatively wider area.
"Watch carefully! If you miss, Qingban will run away and we won't be able to catch him anymore!"
Lin Baixian watched from the side, his eyes fixed, and was even more nervous than Liang Ziqiang himself.
"Shut up!" Liang Ziqiang glared at him.
The next second, the rake in his hand fell decisively and plunged into the sea.
A large amount of water splashed up. First, the water droplets flew away when the spiked rake entered the water, and then the water splashed up by Qingban's desperate struggle in pain.
Obviously, the attack was successful.
At the same time, the other blue spot was frightened in an instant, and jumped into the depths of the reef in panic, disappearing without a trace.
Liang Ziqiang turned the rake over, with the toothed side facing upwards, to prevent the green spots from falling off.
Walking quickly to the shore, he found that the rake had penetrated very deeply, going straight through the blue spot. It seemed that he had used too much force.
It took two pulls to remove the blue spot.
Lin Baixian also came forward and said with regret:
"Two, one big and one small. What a pity that you caught the smaller one and let the big one get away!"
Liang Ziqiang was speechless about this boy's greed:
"This isn't your first time grilling fish. This one is already big, and the other one is too big. It will take half a day to grill it, and it may take until dark. Aren't you hungry?"
Lin Baixian curled his lips and said:
"I'm just too hungry. This one is too small, it's not enough."
Liang Ziqiang was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he turned around and went to look for branches.
I found some branches of varying sizes, broke off a few of them with my hands, and quickly built a simple barbecue grill.
Although Lin Baixian was complaining, he was not idle. He quickly went to the nearby area and picked up a pile of dead branches and leaves.
Fortunately, there were matches on board. Not only matches, but also a small can of salt.
Since the blue spot was already dying and was constantly losing blood, it was natural to roast it and eat it first.
Just like the last time I grilled sea bass at Fox Bay Island, I cut the blue bass in half, washed it with sea water, and made a few slanted cuts on both sides.
In theory, the blue grouper will taste better when grilled if it is marinated with salt for an hour.
But for the two who were already starving, it was obviously impossible to be so particular.
Liang Ziqiang just rubbed a little salt on it, then lit the dry branches and started grilling.
After grilling one side, turn it over and grill again.
After a while, the fragrance filled the air and the green spots were almost cooked.
The two took the first bite and couldn't stop eating.
Liang Ziqiang kept saying it was delicious. Lin Baixian always spoke in an exaggerated way, and he shouted directly:
"Fuck, I've never eaten such delicious fish since I was born!"
Liang Ziqiang complained:
"You said the same thing when we were eating grilled sea bass last time! How many times have you been reborn?"
Lin Baixian defended: "Sea bass is delicious, but it is definitely not as good as grouper. When we catch sea bass, we sometimes keep one at home as a snack, but have you ever seen anyone willing to eat grouper?!"
As he spoke, the guy's expression darkened again, and he muttered:
"It's such a pity! If we could get out alive and take all the groupers here out to sell for money, we would make a fortune. Unfortunately, the two of us can only be trapped here and eat one at a time!"
After saying this, Liang Ziqiang also became gloomy.
There is no grouper that is not valuable. The blue grouper is close to the bottom of the grouper family, but even so, the price is several times that of sea bass and yellow croaker! But in this place, grouper can be seen everywhere.
If it is true as Lin Baixian said, if they sell all of them, it will undoubtedly be a windfall! It can be seen that this nameless wild island has much more valuable treasures than Fox Bay Island! Buy a new boat, save up for the bride price, marry Chen Xiangbei...
All the problems of urgent need for money will be solved!
But the premise is that you can get out alive...
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