Chapter 167: Going to the Sea with Local Fishermen
After arriving in Nanfang for more than ten days, except for Zhang Ze, the others all showed some signs of discomfort.
Not to mention the hotter and more humid weather, language communication alone was difficult for them.
Whether in the village or in the city, people here basically speak Cantonese, and very few speak Mandarin. As a result, Zhang Qian and other young people who can speak Mandarin cannot communicate normally.
As for Zhang's mother, she always spoke and gestured every time she went out. She could hardly speak Mandarin, and her authentic Wenshui local dialect was enough to confuse people.
This is a dialect that even foreign spies cannot decipher, and it is known as one of the most difficult dialects to learn in the country.
As for Cantonese, for the people in Wenshui City, as long as they listen more and the other person speaks slowly, they can basically guess the general meaning of the other person's words.
However, everyone had prepared themselves mentally for these things before coming here, and were also working hard to learn them.
Being in a Cantonese-speaking environment, learning is actually not that slow.
Just like Zhang Ze, he originally only understood a little bit, such as "fuck you" and "suck your mother" and so on.
Now when he opens his mouth he says: Wow, what the hell, what the hell?
Hey, my fist is so big that you've never seen it before!
This is the progress of language. Sometimes Zhang Ze would have the illusion that he was not in Nanfang, but in Hong Kong Island .
However, both sides spoke Cantonese, so he couldn't tell the specific difference now.
"Aze, do you want to go out to sea? Take my boat!" Zhang Ze had breakfast and came to the yard to stretch his body, then Tong Yuanhang and his two brothers came over.
The two sides live very close to each other, so it is much more convenient for them to come here than before.
"No, you guys go ahead. I'll go to the river to check out the situation today!" Zhang Ze shook his head and refused. It would take at least a month to renovate his fishing boat, and it would probably take about the same time when he and Tong Shuyao return from Hong Kong Island.
As for Tong Yuanhang and his team, they spent 15,000 yuan to buy an 18-meter small trawler here. Like the one in Wenshui City, it was also an unplanned fishing boat and has been kept in the warehouse without being sold.
The price is so high because the navigation and engines are better than before, and how can you trawle without a fish finder, so the price is a full five times higher than previous fishing boats.
Fortunately, the three brothers had made a lot of money before, so although 5,000 yuan per person was a lot, it was not unaffordable.
After a few months in Wenshui City, they did not become millionaires, but they were almost there.
Their boat is currently one of the most conspicuous fishing boats in the fishing village. The villagers basically use wooden boats that are no more than ten meters long and can only fish near the coast.
In fact, Zhang Ze and others moved into the fishing village, and the conditions were so good that some second-rate guys in the village did want to take advantage of them.
But when Lu Wenbin bought the house, he brought public officials with him, and the village chief warned him privately, so the villagers were quite welcoming to them, and those second-rate guys who liked to steal and cheat didn't even think of provoking them.
Although the second-rate guys don't do serious work, they are not fools. They would not provoke these people who are not to be provoked at first glance.
If they want to make money, they will also attack Wei to save Zhao.
For example, build good relationships with them and then take them to gamble or something.
Zhang Ze had encountered this situation a few days ago. After he said he would not go, he specifically told Tong Yuanhang and others about this matter, telling them not to be fooled easily.
"Okay then!" Tong Yuanhang saw that Zhang Ze really didn't want to go out to sea, so he stopped persuading him.
Besides, there was really nothing he could do if he went along, at most he could just fish with a fishing rod.
Zhang Ze had other reasons for not going. He wanted to find out the situation of the surrounding waterways. The fishing village on the Lianhua Mountain was not far from the sea.
Fishermen go out to sea to fish by following the Pearl River directly into the estuary, and sometimes they may not even go to the sea.
Because the resources of the Pearl River are already abundant, fish from the sea often come here.
This is the border between fresh water and water. The fish caught in the low-salinity waters taste particularly good, with almost no fishy smell. There is even a very low chance of encountering sea crabs.
So after a little exercise, Zhang Ze took his fishing rod and walked towards the nearby riverside.
On the way, he met several neighbors who were making and repairing nets. One of them was weaving longlines, which he ordered after he arrived, a total of six.
This time, there are two more branches, and the length of the branch lines reaches 200 meters. Both the main line and the branch line are much thicker and are specifically used for fishing deep-sea fish.
With the fish finder, Zhang Ze certainly doesn't worry about not finding fish. Deep-sea groupers and snappers in the South China Sea are easier to catch than those in the East China Sea.
It’s not that the resources in the East China Sea are bad, but that many valuable fish are located far away. For example, the little-known but very expensive Japanese sea bass lives in the distant continental shelf, which is inaccessible to ordinary fishing boats.
"Aze, are you going to the river to fish?" A skinny young man named Jin Sanbao asked with a smile when he saw him.
It was Cantonese, but Zhang Ze could barely understand it now. He stopped and replied in half-familiar Cantonese: "Yes, the boat is not renovated yet, so let's go to the river to see if there are any fish."
Jin Sanbao's family conditions are relatively poor in the village, but because they are neighbors and have a good reputation in the village, Zhang Ze gave the longline production to them as a way of increasing their extra income.
After these two visits, the two families naturally became familiar with each other and communicated more frequently. Now, the other party can barely understand Zhang Ze's Cantonese with a hint of Wenshui City dialect.
"I've agreed with Afan and the others that we're going to go fishing later, how about you come with us?"
"Okay, let's go together!"
The reason why he didn't go out to sea with Tong Yuanhang was that there were people on the boat and he couldn't use the space. Secondly, there was not much time for fishing. After all, they were a trawler and most of the time they would be dragging the net to catch fish.
Not only would he not be able to fish, but he would have to help.
Going seafood hunting with Jin Sanbao not only allows you to get to know the surrounding environment of the village through them, but also helps you better integrate into the village community.
After a while, two skinny, dark-skinned young men came, holding fire tongs and hooks in their hands and carrying a bamboo basket on their backs.
In the fishing village, almost all the men have dark skin. They are exposed to the sun every day and none of them can have a white complexion. However, the skin color of some young wives in the village who do not go out to sea is not that dark, but it has nothing to do with being white.
"Hey, Aze, are you going to the beach with us today?"
"Yeah, you're not welcome?"
"How come? But don't you have anything prepared?"
"I'll go back and get them right away!" After Zhang Ze settled down, he went to the supply and marketing cooperative the next day to buy bamboo baskets, backpacks, fire tongs and hooks, so he naturally had them at home.
Then he hurried home to get all his things, including the fishing rod and the basket on his back, along with a bamboo tube of tea that Zhang's mother had prepared earlier.
Drinking herbal tea is a local specialty in Nanguan. Zhang's mother recently learned how to make herbal tea from the women in the village, just to prepare it for him when he goes out to sea or catches seafood. Then the group of four went directly to the dock.
The other two people are named Jin Fan and Chen Xudong. They also have contact with Zhang Zeping and are quite familiar with him.
Jin Fan looked at Zhang Ze who looked a little excited and asked, "Aze, have you never fished in the sea before coming here?"
"That's not the case, but I've only been there a few times. It's a little different there. No one wants the seashells and some sea fish, so they can't be sold for money."
In the past ten days, Zhang Ze has already figured out the fishery station thoroughly. The fishery here is more mature, and basically anything edible at the seaside can be sold, it's just a matter of price.
When they arrived at the dock, they boarded Jin Fan's small boat. Lianhua Mountain was not close enough to the sea, so if they wanted to go to a suitable place to catch seafood, they had to take a small boat downstream to Nansha District.
Sitting on the boat, Zhang Ze looked at the scenery on both sides of the river for the first time.
There are very few houses, and it is basically all tidal flats and wilderness. After entering the Nansha area, you can even see large areas of rice fields.
What Zhang Ze saw nearby were basically mudflats. He thought he was going to go there to catch seafood, but Jin Fan went all the way into the estuary and after driving for a while he came to a golden sand beach.
"There is a beach here!" Zhang Ze was very surprised. He didn't expect to find a not-so-small beach in the vast tidal flat area.
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"Of course. Normally, when we don't catch blue crabs, we basically go to places like beaches to catch crabs." Jin Sanbao said with a smile.
"Look, there are a lot of good things in the rocky areas over there." Chen Xudong pointed to the reef areas on both sides of the beach. "But this kind of luck-based search is not as good as digging for clams on the beach. If you're lucky, you can even find sandworms."
Sandworms! Zhang Ze's eyes lit up. In Wenshui City, there were only earthworms, also called big earthworms, but no such precious sandworms.
Then, he saw Jin Sanbao and others take out a small homemade shovel from the backpack, and his face suddenly turned dark.
These guys can't afford to play around, so they resort to sneak attacks.
He didn't even notice that these guys actually brought shovels with them. It was a mistake.
Jin Sanbao and others found that Zhang Ze did not move and stared at the shovels in their hands. They immediately understood what was going on and felt a little embarrassed.
"I'll dig these sandworms next time. I'll go check out the reef."
Jin Sanbao felt a little embarrassed. He didn't expect Zhang Ze didn't bring a shovel, so he said, "I'll go with you!"
"It's okay, you guys dig yours." Zhang Ze waved his hand and walked towards the place where there were stones.
Carrying a bamboo basket on his back and holding a pair of tongs in his right hand, he came to the reef area, moved a stone half-submerged in a small puddle, and immediately found a giant tiger prawn to his surprise.
He grabbed it with the tongs and just as he raised his hand, Jin Sanbao's voice rang out from behind him: "You're lucky, a giant tiger prawn this big came in. This one might weigh three taels, right?"
The giant tiger prawn cannot grow as big as the black tiger shrimp. Three or two taels are considered very large. However, Zhang Ze has sold this kind of prawn before, and the price is quite high.
But the price of seafood at Nanguan Fisheries Station is naturally different from that in Wenshui City. There are relatively fewer tiger prawns in the East China Sea, and the catch is not that high, so the price is naturally higher.
"It seems that no one has come here to catch seafood recently. There should be a lot of good things. Let me look for them." Jin Sanbao also felt a little envious and started looking for them here.
Soon, he found an orchid crab hiding in a crevice.
The orchid crab is somewhat different from the ordinary swimming crab. The inside of its claws, including its eight legs, are blue, and the pattern on its back is also slightly different.
But this one is a bit small, probably only about 100 grams.
Seeing that they had reaped the rewards just after arriving, Chen Xudong and Jin Fan also came over.
I'm not going out to sea today. I went there to dig some clams to make soup and save some money on vegetables. I didn't expect that there were so many things in the Stone District today.
The tide has just receded, and there are many seafood in the rocky area that have no time to follow the tide into the sea, so they can only stay here and wait for the next tide to come.
Even many seafood will die due to hot weather and lack of water.
Look, Zhang Ze saw a small shark lying on its side on the reef, but the strong fishy smell told him that the shark had been dead for some time.
He did not ignore it, but picked it up with tongs and threw it into the water.
It's meat after all, and for some creatures in the water it's food that falls from the sky.
Maybe no one has been here for a while, and everyone in the group had a good harvest.
Zhang Ze quickly found two orchid crabs that were doing something shy. During this time, he also caught some jumping fish. The jumping fish was very fragrant after being fried.
As for whether it was a stone crab, he was not interested. If he really wanted to eat crabs, he might as well find an opportunity to release two blue crabs in the space. He had a lot of stocks in the space, and the old turtle was still in the space! The reef area was not large, and the four of them quickly swept it, and then went to the beach to find clams and other things.
Zhang Ze also started searching on the beach. It didn’t matter if he didn’t have a shovel, he could just dig with his hands.
The sand on the beach is not the same as the sand on the seabed. It becomes very hard due to the water pressure. The sand here is still easy to dig.
"Fuck, sandworm?" When he dug a small hole, he immediately saw a wriggling pink long creature inside.
Jin Sanbao, who was standing nearby, came over immediately after hearing this. When he saw what was in the pit, he immediately laughed, "This is not a sandworm. Sandworms are much thinner. This thick one is a sea cucumber."
"Sea sausage?" Zhang Ze was stunned. He looked carefully and found that it was so thick. It really was! He was a little amused. He had eaten sea sausage before, but he had never seen its original appearance.
Although he liked fishing in his previous life, he rarely went fishing.
Sea cucumbers are rarely seen along the coast around Wenshui City, so he didn't recognize it at first.
Although sea cucumber is cheap, it tastes good, so Zhang Ze quickly grabbed it, slowly dug up the sand next to it, and pulled it out.
"Aze, Abao, come quickly, there are so many sea sausages in the water."
Jin Fan's shout suddenly sounded from a distance. Zhang Ze and Jin Sanbao looked up and found that he and Chen Xudong were running to a place submerged by the sea water, each holding a sea cucumber in their hands.
The two of them hurried over. If there were too many sea sausages, they would have to make a whole sea sausage rice today!
After taking off his shoes and stepping into the water, Zhang Ze indeed found a lot of sea cucumbers swaying back and forth with the waves. As soon as he picked up one with tongs, the sea cucumber immediately began to spray, spewing out the internal organs in its stomach, just like a sea cucumber.
The group of people picked up the fish enthusiastically, and soon everyone had picked up more than a dozen.
(End of this chapter)
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