Chapter 147: There are treasures under the beach
Zhang Zhenghong and others went to the reef area to look for food, and Zhang Ze and Tong Yuanhang also happened to go out to sea.
After driving for more than an hour, we are about to arrive near the isolated island.
There was no sound on the radio, but the lights on the isolated island beach caught his attention.
"Ah Hang, there seems to be a light on the isolated island. I remember there should be no one there!"
Tong Yuanhang: "It's been windy these past two days. Will anyone be forced to hide on the island?"
"Maybe, let's go and take a look, and help if I can!" Just as Zhang Ze thought, if he met someone in need of help on the road, he would still lend a hand.
Perhaps the approach of their fishing boat attracted the attention of Zhang Zhengqiang on the boat, and his voice suddenly sounded on Tong Yuanhang and Zhang Ze's radio.
"Hello, hello, can you hear me? There's a fishing boat stranded here and needs help. Does anyone hear me?"
"Is that Aqiang?" Zhang Ze was surprised to hear the familiar voice. "What's wrong with you? Why are you stranded?"
"Don't say anymore. We didn't expect the wind and waves to be so strong when we went out to sea last night. The boat almost capsized. Finally, Qing He suggested that we drive the boat directly to the edge of the island, and then we were pushed onto the beach by the waves." Zhang Zhengqiang sounded helpless.
"You need to buy a radio and listen to the weather forecast every night." When Zhang Ze heard that they went out to sea last night, he realized the problem.
He was fine as he was very sensitive to the weather. After all, he often went fishing at sea in his previous life and knew what kind of weather was suitable for going out to sea.
But Zhang Zhenghong and others are not like that. They have little experience in going to sea and may make wrong decisions when encountering certain situations, leading to serious consequences.
"We really need to buy one!" Tong Yuanhang also heard the conversation between the two and agreed.
"We'll buy it when we get back!" Zhang Ze and Tong Yuanhang both came. Zhang Zhengqiang's tone became much more relaxed this time, knowing that they were saved this time.
When the two men sailed closer, Zhang Zhenghong and others were already waiting on the beach.
Zhang Ze also saw the situation of the two fishing boats at this time. Because it was low tide, the two fishing boats were completely stranded on the beach.
If you want to tow the fishing boat back into the water, you have to wait until the tide reaches its highest.
If the tide is not big enough, it is not even known whether the boat can be pulled back into the sea. Zhang Ze calculated the date in his heart. Today is the 19th day of the lunar calendar.
This means that today's tide is smaller than yesterday's. In addition, the big waves yesterday pushed the boat to the beach, so the height at which the fishing boat ran aground may not be enough to cover it with sea water.
"Ah Hang, let's drop anchor and use the boat to go ashore. The tide today is smaller than last night. I'm afraid we won't be able to pull the boat back into the sea when the tide rises. Let's go to the beach first to check the situation. Oh, and remember to bring a shovel."
"OK!" Tong Yuanhang's voice came from the radio.
The two fishing boats stopped in front of the beach, and then both sides moved their small boats into the water and paddled ashore.
"I've been waiting for you to finally come!" After Zhang Ze and others came over, Zhang Zhenghong seemed a little excited.
He was very uneasy because he couldn't contact anyone after being stranded. He was afraid that his family would worry if he was delayed for too long, and he was also afraid that he would starve to death if he didn't have food for too long.
Fortunately, they usually take this route to Nanping Island, and the lights are bright at night, which successfully attracted Zhang Ze and others.
"Have you checked the bottom of the boat to see if there is any impact, cracking or leakage?" Zhang Ze felt that running aground on the beach to avoid the wind and waves was not a good idea, but Zhang Qinghe and the others had already done so, so there was no need to say more.
After he came ashore and saw the marks under the two boats, the first thing he worried about was that the bottom of the fishing boat had cracked due to the collision. In this case, if it was pulled back into the water, it would definitely sink immediately.
Zhang Zhenghong and Zhang Qinghu looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time: "No."
"Then you all go back to your boat and check first." After Zhang Ze gave the order, he turned on the flashlight and observed the beach.
When the tide is high, the color of the sand that is flooded is obviously different from that of the sand that is not flooded.
Secondly, the sand in flooded areas is generally coarser, while the sand in dry areas is much finer.
After observing for a while, Zhang Ze found that there might not be many places where the fishing boats could be submerged after the high tide in the evening, and even the bow of the boat would not touch the water.
In this case, it would not be easy for them to pull the stranded ship back into the water with just their two ships.
"Aze, can you pull it back?" Tong Yuanhang asked from the side.
"It is possible, but it is very troublesome. We have to dig a hole." Zhang Ze sighed. The boat was washed too far forward. According to the tide tonight, it would be difficult to pull it back to the sea without digging a hole.
Tong Yuanhang nodded and understood why he was asked to take the shovel.
After more than ten minutes, the people who checked the bottom of the boat came back. There was no problem with the bottom of the fishing boat, which was the only good news at the moment.
"Come on, everyone, hurry up and dig a hole, and dig out a path in the back half of the boat." Zhang Ze took the lead, picked up a shovel and started digging a hole on the side of Zhang Zhenghong's fishing boat.
There are currently nine people in total, with a total of four shovels taking turns, and the efficiency of digging the waterway is quite good.
It is around 7:30 now. The tide starts to rise around 9:20 in the evening and will peak at around 11:20. Zhang Ze feels that he should be able to dig two paths before the next round of low tide.
If that doesn't work, we can only wait until the tide recedes in the early morning before continuing digging.
But after digging, Zhang Ze found that the waterway could not be dug quickly. The fishing boat was more than five meters wide, so they had to dig a waterway nearly six meters wide. This was not an easy task and required a lot of work.
But there is no other way, we have to do this. Otherwise, the two fishing boats will not be able to start their engines and turn on their propellers to move backwards, and the boats will not be able to float.
Because they started digging from the upper middle part of the fishing boat, while digging, Zhang Ze felt a sudden clicking sensation from the shovel in his hand, as if something was broken.
He picked up the shovel and found that the shovel head was stained with an unknown mucus.
What is this? Zhang Ze took the shovel back and took a closer look. He found that it was a transparent mucus and some yellow residue. It looked like the eggs of some creature.
The eggs were buried so deep on the beach that he estimated they were most likely turtle eggs, with a small chance of being sea snake eggs.
Zhang Ze picked up the flashlight and shone it towards the deep pit he had dug. Sure enough, he saw some broken eggs, and they were the turtle eggs he wanted the most.
"Hey, there are turtle eggs. Be careful when you dig them."
"Turtle eggs? Really!" Tong Yuanhang, who was digging a waterway not far away, came over immediately, and his behavior also attracted the attention of others.
In just a short while, a group of nine people gathered around and watched Zhang Ze lying on the sand and taking out the turtle eggs from the pit one by one.
A sea turtle can lay about ninety to two hundred turtle eggs each time. The turtle eggs are round and small, very similar to ping-pong balls.
Its shell is very soft and can be broken with a little force.
But the nutritional value of turtle eggs is very high and they are a very good supplement.
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It contains 1.84 times the protein of eggs, 4.2 times the calcium, and twice the riboflavin of eggs.
The cholesterol, which is harmful to human health, is only one-ninth of that in eggs, the sugar is one-sixteenth of that in eggs, and the fat is one-half of that in eggs.
Compared with chicken eggs, turtle eggs are a health product that is high in protein, low in fat, low in sugar, and low in cholesterol, and also has various other benefits.
The only thing that is hard to accept is that turtle egg white cannot coagulate, but the egg yolk can.
This makes it easy for people to think that this thing is not cooked well and dare not eat it.
Secondly, turtle eggs taste a bit fishy, and have a soft and sticky texture but the taste is not very good.
Some people mix it with eggs and fry it, which is very delicious.
Tong Yuanhang looked at Zhang Ze fishing out dozens of turtle eggs with some envy in his eyes.
"Aze is lucky, turtle eggs are good stuff. My wife was not well-nourished at the beginning, and I couldn't dig holes everywhere to find turtle eggs. She recovered quickly. But turtle eggs get smelly very quickly, so you have to eat them as soon as you take them out."
"Shuyao has it now. Aze, you can take it back and let Shuyao have some."
"So good?" Zhang Qinghe came over immediately, "Aze, sell me a few and I'll give them away!"
"Why rush? Since there are turtle eggs here, there must be more on this beach. After the waterway is dug and the boat is pulled out, we will dig the eggs on the beach." Zhang Ze said after placing the turtle eggs on the beach next to him.
Sea turtles are not endangered species at present. There are still quite a lot of them. If you are lucky, you can find them on the beach.
That is to say, these turtle eggs were all under the fishing boat, so he took them all out. If they were somewhere else, he would have left half of them.
After watching the excitement, the group resumed digging.
They couldn't dig all the way down under the boat, and if they dug too deep, the boat would tip over and people would be crushed to death. So they could only dig out the outer area, mainly the area behind the stern.
When the tide rose fully at night, they finally dug a waterway.
Seawater poured into the channel, causing the stern to rock slightly.
At present, it seems that we can only pull Zhang Zhenghong’s fishing boat to the surface of the sea first. If that is feasible, then the other boat will naturally be no problem.
There are thick ropes as spares on fishing boats, but they may not be long enough.
Several people found all the ropes on the boat and tied the short ones to both sides of the stern to form a triangle.
Then a long rope was tied to the tip of the triangle. Zhang Ze pulled the rope and came to the small wooden boat. Zhang Qinghe brought another bundle of rope and threw it up.
Tong Yuanhang also paddled his small wooden boat back to the ship and took out the spare rope on the boat. They were going to use two boats to pull it together.
Soon both sides were ready, one was tied to Zhang Ze's boat and the other was tied to Tong Yuanhang's boat.
They started the fishing boat and headed to the left, at an angle roughly parallel to Zhang Zhenghong's boat.
Pulling a fishing boat is a technical job. Zhang Ze has never done it before and has only seen it once or twice.
But he knew he couldn't force it, so he had to take it slow.
Therefore, Tong Yuanhang was constantly commanded via radio, and the fishing boat sailed very slowly, gradually gaining momentum.
Zhang Zhenghong was not idle either. Because a deep pit was dug, the propeller could rotate normally, and he also tried his best to reverse the fishing boat to cooperate with Zhang Ze.
Zhang Qinghe stood by and watched from a distance. When he saw the fishing boat moving little by little, he immediately shouted happily: "It's moving, we can pull it!"
(End of this chapter)
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