Chapter 154: Catching Pheasants on an Isolated Island
The next day, Zhang Ze got up before dawn, just after five o'clock, and went to put away the fishing nets before others woke up.
Without the help of space, he could easily sort the fish by himself, so he could only do it secretly.
Just as he thought, after the fishing net was pulled up, there were pomfret, sea bass, sturgeon, swimming crab, small yellow croaker, large yellow croaker, hairtail, red shrimp and even many miscellaneous fish that Zhang Ze didn't recognize. There were only a small number of each kind, so the mixture was particularly messy.
Moreover, some fish were already dead, such as pomfret, hairtail, small yellow croaker, etc., which made it quite troublesome to sort them out. However, he did not expect that some yellow croakers were still alive.
There were no particularly valuable fish in this net, so Zhang Ze collected all the living creatures into the space.
Then all the worthless fish such as porcupine porcupines and small red needlefish are released back into the sea.
These things are not even good as nesting materials, they are completely useless.
Finally, Zhang Ze brought a small stool and chopsticks and quickly sorted the fish.
After waiting for the sun to rise and other fishing boats to make movements, he was finally able to sort out his catch.
There are really a lot of red shrimps, and other shrimps are hard to come by at ordinary times. A fishing net can hold at least 20 kilograms of these things.
Zhang Ze didn't plan to take any home this time. He weighed it and found it was 36.7 jin. He put it in a box and covered it with ice. He would sell it even if the price at the aquatic station was only two cents per jin. This stuff was so cheap.
The second is the small white pomfret, which is basically less than 5 taels, priced at 0.6 cents per catty, and can weigh 54 catties.
Small yellow croaker weighed 62 jin, large yellow croaker weighed 37 jin, and hairtail weighed the most, 107 jin.
The total weight of the sea bass, sturgeon and some other miscellaneous fish was 68 kilograms.
This time we harvested nearly 400 kilograms of seafood, but we couldn't sell it for much money.
The total profit from the seafood caught by the fishing nets was only about one hundred yuan, which just offset the cost.
The profits from fishing in the open sea are like this, so it will definitely be worse in the near sea.
Fish resources are good these days, but the price is really too cheap.
I washed the deck and then went into the cabin to cook myself a bowl of egg noodles.
Eating seafood every day will cause the purine content to be too high, so you need to let your body relax.
After breakfast, Zhang Ze came to the cab and picked up the radio to ask: "Are you all busy? Has anyone finished?"
There was no response for a long time. It seemed that everyone was busy surfing the Internet.
So he didn't wait any longer, but sailed around the island, looking for a suitable place to land.
He couldn't forget the call of the pheasant last night. If he wanted to eat some game, it was only now.
There is no beach on the isolated island, so the only way to get there is from the reef covered by sea water.
Zhang Ze stopped the boat nearby, dropped the anchor, and then moved the small boat on the deck down.
After thinking about it, he took some fishing lines he had purchased previously and a cloth bag that he could hang on his body, and then took a pair of scissors and put them in.
Ever since the space sent a fishing rod, these fishing lines have been useless in the warehouse. Maybe they can be used today.
The cloth bag is naturally used to hold eggs. There are pheasants on the mountain, and who knows if he can find pheasant eggs.
After picking up all his things, he picked up a bamboo pole and paddled the boat towards the isolated island.
Approaching the isolated island, they moored the boat next to a reef where one could reach the island. They tied the rope on the boat to a small reef, pulled it, and made sure it was tied tightly. Then, Zhang Ze climbed up the reef with the fishing line and bamboo pole and walked towards the isolated island.
This reef area, which had never been explored by anyone, was very rich in resources. After walking just ten meters, he found a lot of oysters and scallops. There were also many traces of swimming crabs and marine fish in some puddles, and even quite a few lobsters.
It's low tide now, and these things are trapped in the puddle and can't escape.
Zhang Ze saw the reason and naturally did not let go, so he put all the easy ones into the space.
"Oh my god, there are even sea urchins?" There were quite a few small puddles. Zhang Ze was not in a hurry to land on the island, but started to patrol here directly.
All the caught things were stored in the space, but unexpectedly, a sea red grouper weighing about two or three pounds was found in a long puddle.
Zhang Ze thought that he could earn about ten or twenty yuan every day by waiting for the tide to go out and catch some seafood here.
Not to mention lobsters, swimming crabs and so on, this sea grouper alone costs more than ten dollars.
It was much easier for Zhang Ze to catch these things than for others. After pressing them, he would put them into space in his mind without having to catch them.
However, it is not possible to collect them into the space with just a light touch. There is a basic rule in the space that only the aquatic creatures that he is sure to catch can be collected.
After spending about forty minutes to roughly sweep the reef area, Zhang Ze headed towards the island.
Leaving the reef area and arriving at the isolated island, Zhang Ze looked around to identify the direction.
The fishing boat stopped on the west side of the island last night, so the pheasant was most likely also on the west side.
It’s just that the cry last night was frightening, maybe the pheasant was in some danger.
Dead or not, the pheasant may have fled to another part of the isolated island.
But Zhang Ze still planned to go to the west first to take a look. The isolated island was not high, about the height of the hill next to Qinghe Village. It would probably take more than an hour to get from the edge of the island to the highest point in the center.
But it still takes a lot of time to travel around the entire island by yourself. It would definitely be much faster if there were other people to search together.
He looked back at the other fishing boats and found that they were still busy because they had set down many fishing nets. In this case, Zhang Ze could only go and look for them by himself.
Now is the transition between spring and summer, and the weather is just right, neither too hot nor too cold.
However, the vegetation on the isolated island was dense, and after walking up the hillside for a while, he was sweating all over.
After taking off his long-sleeved jacket and putting it into the cloth bag, Zhang Ze immediately felt much cooler and continued walking westward.
I used the bamboo pole in my hand to clear the way, and so far I haven't encountered any snakes or the like.
After walking for a while, a burst of dense bird calls came from not far away, which caught his attention.
Zhang Ze identified the direction of the sound and found that it came from the west, so he hurried over.
When he arrived at the location where the birds were singing, he saw at least hundreds of sparrows squatting densely on the tree in front of him.
Why did the sparrows come to the isolated island? Is it because summer is coming and they are migrating to the north? Zhang Ze felt a little sorry for the sparrows. If he had a slingshot, he would definitely be able to shoot a lot of them.
Although the sparrow is small, it tastes very good if cooked well. It tastes no different from pigeons.
After carefully looking at the tree crowns, Zhang Ze did not find a bird's nest. He knew that it was just a group of sparrows passing by, so he lost interest.
He continued walking forward, and after a while, he found that the trees around him were denser than before, and the ground was overgrown with weeds, with almost no place to stand.
Zhang Ze was afraid there might be snakes in the grass, so he had to use a bamboo pole to sweep the grass back and forth, hitting it here and there, hoping that any snakes would be scared out.
Perhaps the noise was too loud, and this time a rooster suddenly crowed, and a figure in front quickly rushed out.
Zhang Ze was frightened by the sudden shrill scream, but he immediately reacted the next moment and quickly chased after it.
This is a male pheasant with bright and colorful feathers.
It is very interesting when it runs. It flaps its wings as it runs, making it look like it is flying and jumping at the same time.
After chasing for about twenty meters, the pheasant dived into the grass and disappeared.
When Zhang Ze got closer, he saw a flowery butt and was immediately confused and amused.
How come pheasants are like ostriches, only caring about their heads and not their butts?
Zhang Ze approached slowly, trying not to make much noise.
However, when he got up to the pheasant, he found that it was not that the pheasant did not want to run, but that it was just unlucky and its neck was entangled by a vine.
It flapped its wings hard, but it was all in vain.
"Are you unlucky or am I lucky?" Zhang Ze didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't expect that catching a pheasant would be so easy.
Then he pulled the pheasant out of the bushes.
"Gugu~"
The pheasant seemed very scared and the sound it made was completely different from before.
Now the fishing line he brought came in handy. He took it out and tied the pheasant's two feet, then cut the fishing line with scissors.
A pheasant with its feet tied has no way to escape, even if its wings allow it to glide briefly.
After catching a pheasant, Zhang Ze ran back quickly.
Pheasants usually travel in pairs of a male and a female. If there is a male, the female will basically not be too far away from each other.
Sure enough, the noise of him running back made the hen hiding in the bushes think that she was exposed, and she flew up in panic, exposing herself.
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But it seemed to be even more unlucky than the pheasant. Zhang Ze saw the hen flying in front of him and subconsciously hit it with the bamboo pole in his hand. However, the hen jumped into the air, changed direction on its own, and then hit the bamboo pole with its head.
With a "pop", the "cooing" sound stopped abruptly.
Zhang Ze didn't know whether to laugh or cry. How come catching pheasants was so easy today?
He had no intention of hitting the hen with this shot. He just hit it subconsciously when he saw the hen was about to run away. Unexpectedly, he hit it by accident.
Then he picked up the hen with a shattered skull and a broken neck. The hen was lighter than the rooster and its feathers were not as pretty. However, the wild rooster's tail could be made into a shuttlecock for Zhang Qing and the others to play with.
The two pheasants should weigh about four or five pounds in total, which is enough for a family to eat.
There were both male and female pheasants. Zhang Ze did not go back with the pheasants. He used a bamboo pole to press down the nearby weeds and looked for a chicken coop, hoping that he might find some pheasant eggs.
Both pheasants appeared in this patch of grass, so the search area was not large. Zhang Ze soon found the pheasant's nest, and there were actually five eggs in it.
Pick them all up and put them in the cloth bag, then walk back.
He was already very satisfied to have caught two pheasants so easily.
If Zhang Qinghe and the others also want to catch him later, they can continue.
On the way back, Zhang Ze looked left and right. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he quickly walked up to a tree.
He hit the branch with a bamboo pole, but there was no camouflaged snake, so he grabbed the branch and broke it off with force.
This branch has a fork, which can be repaired to make a slingshot.
Shooting sparrows with a slingshot was his special skill when he was a child. If he had a slingshot just now, at least a dozen sparrows would have been left alive.
When they returned to the shore, more than an hour had passed. Zhang Qinghe and the others seemed to have finished their work and were approaching where he had parked the boat.
Seeing this, Zhang Ze simply paddled the boat back to his fishing boat. Da Huang seemed to notice his expression, and ran over happily, looking up and sniffing the pheasant in his hand with his nose.
"You think you're a police dog, can you help me find pheasants in the mountains just by smelling them?"
Zhang Ze cursed with a smile, took a backpack and threw the pheasant into it.
Then he went to the kitchen to put the pheasant eggs away, washed his face and then came to the cab.
Before he even entered, Zhang Ze heard Zhang Qinghe's continuous calls.
"Aze, Aze, if you hear me, please answer. If you hear me, please answer."
"what?"
Zhang Qinghe: "Fuck, you finally came to the cab. I saw you go to the island just now. How was it? Did you get anything?"
Zhang Ze: "Not bad, we caught two pheasants, they were quite fat, and there were five pheasant eggs."
Zhang Qinghe: "Fuck, you really caught two pheasants!"
Tong Yuanhang: "Brother-in-law, your father-in-law and mother-in-law are in Wenshui City now, why don't you express your gratitude?"
Zhang Zhenghong: "Aze, my dear uncle, let your cousin bring one back for you so that you can taste the pheasant."
Zhang Ze: "Get lost, if you want to pay tribute, I will personally deliver it. If I give it to you, I'm afraid there will be nothing but a mess."
"And since there are pheasants on the island, there must be more than two. Go catch them yourselves!"
Tong Yuanhang and his companions were actually just joking. They came here to find out if there were any pheasants on the isolated island. If there were, they would definitely catch them.
There is no wild game near their village. It was almost all hunted down by hunters organized by the village a few years ago.
The situation on Lumen Island was even worse. They had nothing to eat before, so they ate almost all the meat on the island.
Now that they have made money from fishing, they can afford all kinds of meat, but they are still very interested in these game, especially catching them themselves.
After all, if you pass by a treasure land and don’t take it, you’d be a fool!
Tong Yuanhang: "Aze, how did you catch the pheasant?"
None of them had ever caught a pheasant, so they were really curious about how Zhang Ze caught one.
Zhang Ze pondered for a moment and said, "How should I put it? Actually, I am a little confused now. The first male pheasant ran into the bushes and was entangled by thin vines. The second female pheasant hit its head against my bamboo pole. Maybe it knew that the male pheasant would not survive if I caught it, so it took the initiative to commit suicide!"
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Everyone who heard this was speechless, as if a lot of things wanted to burst out of their mouths, but due to their lack of life experience and without the training of Zuan in the later generations, they lacked some strength.
It was as if Zhang Ze didn't listen to what he said. It's not that easy to catch domestic chickens, let alone pheasants.
But now they can't get any useful information, so they can only go to the island and try to look for it.
Zhang Ze was too busy to deal with them at the moment. He rejected Zhang Qinghe's invitation to go to the island to look for pheasants together, then took out a knife and began to repair the branches he had just broken off.
Then go to the tool room and get out the carpenter's saw.
These tools are all new. I bought them as backup in case they might be needed someday. And today I actually used them.
The branch that Zhang Ze broke off was very long, and the excess part needed to be sawed off.
After sawing it, he picked up a knife and repaired the slingshot again, scraping off the bark on the outside.
Use a knife to carve a circle at the two places where the rubber band is tied to fix the rubber band and prevent it from sliding up and down.
Unfortunately, there were no rubber bands on the boat. Zhang Ze even went to the bedside table in the bedroom to look for it, but unfortunately he only found two red rubber bands used by Tong Shuyao.
There were only two rubber bands and the pulling force was too weak to have much power, so he had to wait until he went back to buy some rubber bands.
And the best thing for the middle pad is a bicycle inner tube, which you have to buy back.
Originally, he wanted to prepare the slingshot and continue to catch pheasants on the island, but now he has given up this idea.
Through the two pheasants he caught, he realized that it was difficult to catch them without the right tools.
Not to mention setting traps, at least a powerful slingshot is necessary.
With a slingshot, he can also shoot seabirds.
Seabird meat tastes bad. He hunts seabirds not for food, but because sometimes seabirds like to stop on fishing boats to rest when they encounter them, and then their feces are everywhere.
(I've been busy renting and moving these past few days. I just finished moving today and can only update once. I'll update more starting tomorrow.) (End of this chapter)
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