Chapter 196 Xiao Hei
But after this time, Zhang Ze will never come here again.
Since no one contacted me, it means that I have no fate with that dog.
He was just looking for a dog to watch the boat, and although this dog was an excellent one, it was not essential.
It was around four o'clock, and it was getting late, so Zhang Ze prepared to go back.
Just as he got near his motorcycle, he heard a shout from behind.
"Comrade, wait a minute!"
Zhang Ze turned back curiously, but saw two soldiers, one holding a lame dog, and the other holding a three-month-old puppy in his arms . When he returned to the village, he was still a little confused when he looked at the puppy tied to his chest.
Zhang Ze went there to buy a big dog, but he didn't get the big dog. Instead, he got the dog's baby, and it was the first litter.
That soldier really didn't intend to sell the dog.
Secondly, his dog gave birth to a litter of six puppies with a wolfhound in the village.
Most families cannot afford to raise six puppies when they grow up, so their ultimate fate is to be given away. It was just right that Zhang Ze came.
He was not contacted during this period because the soldier was training this specially selected puppy and was going to hand it over to Zhang Ze after it was trained.
It was quite a coincidence that he went there today. After knowing that he was coming, the soldier gave him the dog just when he was about to leave, for free.
However, Zhang Ze did not take advantage of others and gave him a hundred dollars.
A trained puppy will find its own place to go to the toilet, will not guard its food when eating, will not be aggressive towards others, and will be very friendly to ordinary people.
But there is no problem with guarding the house as long as the puppy grows a few more months.
In later generations, it cost a lot of money to train a dog. This money can be regarded as reducing some of the burden on the soldiers to rebuild their own homes.
"Wow, Aze, where did you get that puppy?" Zhang Ze just returned to the village and met a villager he knew before he even got home.
"My friend had a litter, so I went to get one."
He repeated this sentence several times on the way home.
Some people even thought that they were going to eat dog meat in the evening and said they would bring some wine to drink together, which made Zhang Ze laugh and cry.
Although he doesn't hate people who eat dog meat, he himself doesn't eat it. After all, he has enough meat to eat now.
When they got home, Zhang Huihong and Tong Shuyao were a little surprised that he brought back a puppy. After all, the puppy was too small to see the boat at all.
Zhang Wu actually likes puppies very much, and his eyes light up when he sees a dog.
Zhang Ze let him play with the puppy while he went to get some wooden boards to build a nest for the puppy.
Although I'm not a carpenter, it's no problem for me to make a small doghouse.
After the typhoon, except for some people who were busy building houses, the rest of the fishermen in the fishing village were all preparing to go out to sea.
Zhang Ze is no exception. After all, this is his main job.
The situation in later generations where one typhoon is followed by several typhoons in succession is rare in this era. Basically, the weather will be clear for a period of time after a typhoon passes.
While the weather is fine, Zhang Ze is going to go out to sea to make money. The 30,000 oceans he donated have already emptied his family's assets, and he can't even stand up straight without money.
It was already past nine in the morning when he arrived at the dock.
Some fishermen who went out to sea early have already returned with their nets and are transporting their catches to the dock.
He also came here at this time on purpose because six longlines require a lot of bait.
Since he needed to find someone to hang the bait, he couldn't just take out the ordinary bait in the space out of thin air.
I don’t know if it’s because of the typhoon, but this time the fishing boats came back with a lot of mantis shrimps. It looks like the mantis shrimps on the beach yesterday were just a handful.
However, mantis shrimps are very useful as bait and are cheap, so Zhang Ze simply bought two large boxes of small ones.
After a while, Jin Sanbao's family brought the longline over.
He went out to sea with Jin Fan and Chen Xudong, but his family was still doing the work of hanging bait and trimming the longlines.
The six longlines were baited and it was already noon.
Zhang Ze simply went home to have a meal and brought Xiao Hei with him.
Xiao Hei is the puppy that was brought back. This name is too common, so Zhang Ze originally wanted to change it.
However, at the age of three months, it still regarded Xiaohei as its own name, and would tilt its head and look at you if you called it by any other name, so in the end he gave up trying to change his name.
When Xiao Hei came to the Duoyu for the first time, he seemed very uneasy at first and kept sticking to him.
But soon he grew bolder and began to sniff and look around on the deck.
Fortunately, it did not urinate to prove that Duoyu was its territory, otherwise it would have been beaten by Zhang Ze.
The fishing boat was started and the anchor was raised. Before it set off, Jin Sanbao's voice was heard from outside.
"Aze, do you want to go to Hailing together? We have to stay overnight this time when we go out to sea, maybe two nights, so we can take care of each other together."
Zhang Ze thought about it and nodded and agreed: "Okay, let's go together!"
As long as there is no one on your own boat, it is indeed better to go out to sea in a team with other boats, so that you can get support and help at any time if anything happens.
Secondly, it is safer to go to Hailing Island. There will be ships from Hong Kong Island and Taiwan on the route and in the waters of Dongsha. If any private transactions are encountered, he will be in trouble.
Soon, the two ships entered the Pearl River tributary one after another, and then came to the sea.
Zhang Ze looked around and saw quite a few small fishing boats on the sea. Not only those from his fishing village, but basically all the fishermen living by the sea nearby had gone out to sea today.
There were floats everywhere on the water, and it was obvious that there were a lot of fishing nets under the water.
Before Zhang Ze had time to figure out the location of his fishing village to cast his net, the fishing boat had already turned and headed south.
Today's schedule was just right. We set off after lunch and arrived at the fishing ground in Hailing in the evening.
The sun is very strong today and the weather is hot, so we can't catch many fish in the afternoon, so it's just the right time to use the time to travel.
"Aze, your boat can find fish, help us find a good place!" After arriving at the destination, Jin Sanbao went out to sea and shouted again.
Their boats are simple and have almost no equipment. They usually rely on experience to find fish schools when they go out to sea to fish.
"Okay, I was wondering why you suddenly invited me to join you, it turns out you had been planning this for a long time!" Zhang Ze came out and said unhappily.
"Hey, isn't this the useful equipment on your ship?"
"Okay, you follow me from a distance, I'll look for the place first." Zhang Ze did not take them to the location of the trench.
Because that place is suitable for fishing but not for setting nets, it is a bit deep.
Jin Sanbao and his fishing nets are mainly used to catch fish from the middle and upper layers, and they are completely helpless against the fish schools in the trench.
After walking around the area, Zhang Ze found a good place for Jin Sanbao and his men to set up their nets.
He then took his own boat to cast longlines. With the help of the fish finder, he quickly found three suitable fishing spots and cast all six longlines.
This time they were some distance away from Hailing Island, so after casting the longline, Zhang Ze had no plans to go fishing in that trench.
If the boat is not nearby, the longlines and fishing nets that have been cast may be secretly taken away by others.
The fishing nets are collected every four or five hours. Jin Sanbao does not use gill nets, so after the nets are collected, they can be put back and continue fishing until the boat can no longer carry the catches.
So everyone came together, and Zhang Ze finally took out two fishing nets and put them down after a long absence.
Otherwise, once the longline is reeled in, he can only fish afterwards, which always feels like a waste of time.
After finishing the work, I had dinner.
The two ships came near a twin island, only a few hundred meters away from his longline, not far away.
The fishing nets were placed at the intersection between the two islands because there were often schools of fish passing by here.
Zhang Ze saw a lot of fish moving around the intersection on his fish finder, so this is not only a suitable fishing spot, but also a very good fishing spot.
Normally, when two streams merge, they form a mixed stream that flows simultaneously.
In mixed currents, there are few truly clear water areas, which means fish need to be constantly moving when they get here.
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They will get tired if they keep swimming, so they will come to the island to rest, and then more and more fish will gather.
Therefore, there are good fish resources in places with reefs or abundant algae near the Twin Islands.
In addition, the intersection is also a very good fishing spot. When fish need to move from one water area to another, they usually choose to pass through the middle.
Small fish will swim by the side or directly rest near the island, while large fish will pass directly in the middle.
The chance of catching a connecting rod when fishing at an intersection may not be high, but if you are fishing for larger fish, the chance is much higher than going to a location with many isolated islands and reefs.
After discussing with Jin Sanbao and others, Zhang Ze decided to fish on the other side of the island, opposite the fishing net.
There are always fish at the bottom of the water, and from time to time there are small schools of fish passing by, which can be clearly displayed on the fish finder.
He took out the fishing rod and installed it on the base of the boat's side. Then he hung an ordinary bait on it and threw it into the water. Zhang Ze put on gloves and began to wait quietly.
He didn't make a nest. The biggest advantage of the magic bait is that the increased chance of hooking the fish replaces the effect of making a nest.
Zhang Ze is very clear about this. When finding a school of fish, whether or not to make a nest has no effect on the rate at which the fish take the bait.
But other anglers need to make nests to gather fish, otherwise the efficiency of catching fish will be affected.
When Zhang Ze went out fishing, he specifically looked at the fish finder and knew that there were the most fish between 20 and 25 meters underwater. So when the lead weight with the hook and bait reached this position, he closed the spool and turned the unloading force to maximum.
Almost as soon as the lead weight hit the school of fish, an unlucky fish was attracted by the ordinary bait and took a bite.
Zhang Ze skillfully lifted the rod to stab the fish, then quickly shook the handle to reel in the line.
He roughly knew the size of the fish the moment he hooked it. If it was a long sea rod, he really would not be able to judge it.
Anyone who has gone fishing at the beach with a long sea fishing rod knows that the rod is heavy and has average unloading capacity. Even a black sea bream weighing one or two kilograms can give people the illusion that the fish is large and strong.
Then when you take the trouble to hook the fish, it turns out to be a small fish.
The fish at the bottom of the water were quite strong and ran very fast. It was obvious that they could not be caught in a plate.
Zhang Ze lifted the rod and reeled in the line at a steady pace, neither fast nor slow.
With his strength, he could catch the fish in minutes, but fishing takes a whole night, so it is impossible to catch the fish right away.
About three minutes later, a blue-spotted mackerel appeared on the water surface.
"Aze, what kind of fish did you catch?" Jin Sanbao shouted from the opposite side.
It was a little dark now, and at a certain distance, the other side could no longer see clearly what was happening on his side.
"A swordfish, about four or five pounds, quite big." Zhang Ze replied while his hands were moving.
Put the fishing rod back into the base, unload the force and close it, then grab the crank with your left hand. With your right hand, pick up the scoop net next to it and scoop up the blue mackerel from the water with one hand.
This is the advantage of having great strength. Many things that require assistance can be done by him alone.
"Not bad, the fish caught is a Spanish mackerel weighing four or five kilograms, and A-dong here caught a large yellow croaker weighing just over one kilogram."
"Have you made a nest?"
Zhang Ze was a little surprised to hear that they had caught a big yellow croaker. Logically speaking, with such good fish resources, the three of them should have caught something.
"You still need to make a nest? Didn't you make a nest too?"
"Who said I didn't have it? I already made a nest and you just didn't see it. Put some bait in and make a nest. When you go fishing later, keep the hook about five meters under the water. There will definitely be fish."
"I see. I was wondering why there were no fish in several minutes!"
Jin Sanbao and his companions suddenly realized what was going on, and hurriedly took out the bait, cut it into small pieces, and then scattered it at their fishing spots.
Zhang Ze ignored them and squatted down, seemingly taking out the fishhook, but in fact he directly put the swordfish into the space.
It is very difficult for swordfish to survive once they are caught, even if the live water tank is oxygenated, so just take them out and put them in the cold storage tank when you go back.
Xiao Hei on the opposite side was staring at the mackerel in front of him curiously, but the mackerel disappeared in a flash. His pupils shrank and he started barking immediately.
Moreover, he took several steps back, obviously frightened.
"Shh, be quiet!" Zhang Ze put his index finger in the middle of his lips and said to Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei tilted his head, seemed to understand what he meant, and immediately became quiet.
Then he walked closer with curious steps, sniffed at the place where the fish was originally, and tilted his head from time to time while staring at the scoop net, looking very confused, wondering how such a big fish could suddenly disappear.
Seeing how cute it was, Zhang Ze couldn't help but touch its head.
When Xiao Hei's head was touched, his attention was immediately diverted and he turned his head to lick his palm.
The little guy has a good personality. Although he has only been with his new owner for one day, he seems to have known that Zhang Ze will be his future owner, so he is relatively close to him.
I believe that if they continue to get along, Xiao Hei will completely identify with him.
After teasing Xiao Hei for a while, Zhang Ze stood up, put on ordinary bait and continued fishing.
Blue-spotted mackerel generally do not act alone, so he has to take the opportunity to continue fishing for some.
The price of blue-spotted mackerel here is not high, only a little over 20 cents, but the weight is still acceptable, an average of two or three pounds per piece.
Moreover, swordfish can be braised and made into fish balls, which taste good and have no small bones.
It also has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on postpartum weakness. Even if you don’t sell it, it’s good to catch some yourself and store it in your space.
When Tong Shuyao is in confinement after childbirth, you can take it out and cook it for her. Nowadays, many women in confinement after childbirth only eat a few kinds of food, and sometimes they don’t even have a good meal.
Changing things up a bit might help whet the kid's appetite.
(End of this chapter)
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