Chapter 36 Fishing in the Sea
In the blink of an eye, the raft had floated ten meters away.
"aunt."
"Lin Yue, danger."
"Come back quickly, it's dangerous."
Several boys from the Lin family simply pulled the vines on the raft, and the raft instantly stopped moving forward and even began to move backward.
"You see, it's easy to pull it back. Let it go quickly. It's getting late. Do you want the adults to be hungry at lunchtime?"
Lin Yue was speechless. Were they scared by what happened yesterday?
The water was now very clear. Lin Yue could clearly see the swaying seaweeds beneath the seabed. The giant seaweeds also swayed without restraint. The clusters of colorful corals also attracted many marine fish and invertebrates.
A giant octopus swims in it, its tentacles like nimble water snakes, forming a graceful dance with the surrounding anemones. Light blue crabs push the sand, and sea cucumbers slowly wriggle in the sand.
The underwater world is very beautiful. If you dive to the bottom of the sea, I’m afraid what you see will be even more beautiful!
Lin Yue found a place with many lobsters and crabs to stop, and prompted the seaweed on the seabed to wrap around the two ends of the raft, so that the raft stopped steadily there. When the extremely strong sea breeze made her very cold, it was as relaxing as running wildly in the snow in a single layer of clothes.
After sneezing, Lin Yue wrapped her clothes tightly, wanting to cry but having no tears. She had considered everything, but had not expected that the wind on the sea would be so strong. If she was blown like this for a long time, she would definitely get sick when she returned, and her mother would definitely nag her all day long.
Now that he was here, he had to get something. Lin Yue quickly put the bamboo basket with the internal organs into the sea and tied a piece of seaweed on it so that he could pull it up later.
Lin Yue drives the seaweed to look for conches and abalone on the rocks, as well as lobsters hiding in the crevices of the rocks, and is always on the lookout for oversized sea fish and conger eels.
It was a huge group of shrimps, probably thousands of them at first glance, but they looked a little small, almost a head smaller than the lobsters I ate yesterday.
However, most of the shrimps have plump and tender meat, smooth texture, sweet taste, and high nutritional value. Lin Yue accelerated the growth of seaweed, almost forming a ball that trapped all the shrimps firmly inside.
It took a lot of effort to drag them up. Looking at the sea water being drained out, which was full of black and white shrimps, Lin Yue felt a sense of pride in her heart. This method really worked. If the sea fish were not so fast, this method could also be used.
The bucket was full, and the shrimps would occasionally jump around. So they simply used seaweed as a lid to cover the bucket. Next to the bamboo basket with the internal organs, there were many more crabs, some even stacked together. In order to grab the pie that fell from the sky, the crabs even fought.
Some of them even had their large claws torn off, but they still kept moving forward as if they didn't feel any pain. But how could they be without feeling? The survival of the fittest in nature is very cruel.
I was originally thinking about whether to make a door, but now it seems that there is no need to make that thing at all. Now Lin Yue is worried about the quality of the bamboo basket, whether it will be pinched or damaged in other ways.
Pulling the vines, they pulled up a bamboo basket full of crabs. They were colorful, light blue, green, earthy brown, and maple leaf red, but they were only the size of two palms and were quite well-proportioned.
Less than a quarter of an hour after arriving, the two buckets were already full. It seemed that she would be able to go back soon. Full of energy, she threw the bamboo basket into the sea again and continued her search.
The lobster has light blue color, long tentacles and two claws, but unfortunately they are all hidden in the cracks of the rocks and difficult to move.
In this case, Lin Yue had no choice but to use snake-like seaweed to wrap around their exposed tentacles and claws, but she didn't expect that they were as stubborn as crabs. After working hard for most of the day, she only harvested a few broken lobster legs.
An hour later, Lin Yue harvested three buckets of crabs, one bucket of shrimps, half a bucket of sea fish, and half a bucket of abalone, conchs, and seashells. The abalone was as big as a palm, weighing two kilograms each, and was very plump.
Lin Yue had witnessed how rich the resources of the primitive, undeveloped ocean were.
They stood up from the raft with difficulty and prepared to move to another place to look for big sea fish. At present, everyone had to eat enough, and seafood should not be eaten often. Eating it for a long time will cause a disease called gout. They had to find a way to get some staple food.
A fat fish with black spots all over it and one meter long caught Lin Yue's eye. It had sharp fin spines on its back, about twenty in number, and a fat body, probably weighing over a hundred pounds. Two of them would be enough to feed everyone in the village. She guessed that it was a grouper.
Grouper is a highly nutritious fish that is high in protein, high-quality unsaturated fatty acids, amino acids and other substances needed by the human body. It also tastes very delicious and is tasty even if simply steamed.
The fat grouper roamed leisurely on the seabed, ready to ambush its prey at any time, unaware of the crisis it was facing. It held up a long fork and aimed at the grouper below.
With a fierce thrust downwards, bright red blood immediately began to spread, attracting other predators on the seabed and prompting the seaweed that had been lying in ambush around to grow, which then carried the black-spotted fish upwards.
A grouper weighing over a hundred pounds, especially one that is not yet completely dead, would be enough to cause trouble for Mufa and Lin Yue if it struggled a few times. So they simply hung it on the upper left side of the raft and waited until the fish was completely dead before taking it down.
Lin Yue did not waste this time. Taking advantage of the smell of blood to attract so many fish, she manipulated the seaweed and used the cage trick to catch a group of light yellow fish. They were estimated to be only about ten pounds, but they filled two large buckets.
Lin Yue felt the soles of her feet were icy and wet, and she realized that her shoes had been soaked with water at some point. The raft, which had been floating on the water, had sunk a lot. It was obvious that the raft was already too heavy. If the grouper was still hanging in the air, the raft would have sunk directly.
With her good eyesight and hearing, she knew that a large number of fish were attracted by the smell of blood. She could already feel some of the fish hitting the raft, so she tied a red cloth to the top of the fork and shook it vigorously to tell the little guys on the shore that it was time to return.
Lin Yue was not going to sit there and wait for others to die. She used the seaweed in front of her to pull the raft away from its original location, trying to stay away from the place with a strong smell of blood.
"Auntie is tying the red cloth, hurry up."
"Lin Yue is coming back. Let's quickly pull the vines as assigned previously. Hehe, I wonder if the seafood in the sea is better than the seafood left on the beach."
Lin Lang had been paying attention to the movements on the sea. As soon as he saw the red cloth fluttering, he hurriedly called the Lin family's children to run quickly to the big tree where the vines were tied. Each of them held a vine and pulled it back with all their strength. Seeing this, the others also hurried forward to help.
With the help of Lin Yue and everyone's concerted efforts, they easily pulled the raft to the shore in less than a quarter of an hour.
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