Chapter 46: Seaside Traps
"Then give me some!" Zhang Ze pushed his bowl over considerately.
Tong Shuyao was not polite either. It would be a shameful to waste food if he couldn't finish it, so she picked up the chopsticks and put almost half of the rice into his bowl.
Zhang Ze brought back a mountain of rice, which he could eat naturally. His appetite was quite good among southerners, but it was definitely not comparable to that of northerners.
After resolving the embarrassing issue, Tong Shuyao began to eat with some curiosity. It was her first time in a state-owned restaurant, and she also wanted to know what the food tasted like.
After taking a few bites of the food, she felt that the food here was indeed much better than at home and had a richer flavor.
My family is reluctant to use more ingredients, and it’s hard to get to eat meat normally, so let’s not think about the taste, it’s good enough just to be full.
He ate in small bites, but definitely not slowly.
After a short while, Tong Shuyao finished eating the rice in front of her, but there were still many dishes left.
She touched her stomach and found it was full and she couldn't eat anymore, so she put down her bowl and chopsticks and prepared to eat while watching the man in front of her.
Just now, someone in the cinema kept staring at her, which made her very embarrassed. She wanted to take revenge.
"Have you finished eating?" Zhang Ze was a little surprised. He didn't expect the little girl to eat so quickly.
He even deliberately slowed down his pace and didn't eat much of the food, just to get her to eat more.
"Yeah." Tong Shuyao nodded, "I'm full."
Seeing this, Zhang Ze stopped being polite and quickened his eating pace.
Tong Shuyao watched without blinking and found that although the man ate quickly, he did not smack his lips at all and his eating manners were very good.
In her eyes, Zhang Ze is not bad looking and is tall.
If it weren't for his poor clothes and dark skin, he wouldn't look like a country girl at all.
Thinking about being able to marry a man who makes her very satisfied, she feels that she is still very lucky.
Soon, Zhang Ze ate up all the rice and vegetables without wasting any.
The money was paid when they ordered the food, so they left the restaurant directly after eating.
"Let's go sit in the park. It's cooler under the shade of the trees. I think Ah Hang will be here soon after we rest for a while."
Tong Shuyao had no objection and went to the park to rest for a while. When she felt it was about time, they returned to the pier together.
When we arrived at the dock, Tong Yuanhang was already there.
Seeing the two of them walking towards him together, although they were not close, they felt much closer. He couldn't help but reveal a sweet smile that belonged only to his brother-in-law.
After making an appointment for the next fishing trip, Zhang Ze saw the two off and went home carrying the bamboo basket.
He didn't bring anything today. Since meat has a too strong smell and might cause trouble, he decided to get some seafood that only poor people could afford tonight.
When he got home, Zhang's mother didn't say anything about why he was missing all day long.
"Mom, has the carpenter started making the furniture?" Zhang Ze asked when he walked into the room and saw the shabby bed in his room.
"We've started. Mom asked the carpenter to make a bed, a wardrobe, and a dressing table. We'll replace the cabinets later. Sooner or later, our family will be prosperous."
It usually takes at least three or four months from preparing the thirty-six legs to painting them, which is just right for getting married at the end of the year.
But Zhang Ze wanted to do it as soon as possible, so there would be no time to prepare the furniture.
"Mom, please ask the carpenter to make the bed first. I plan to get married as soon as possible."
"Why are you so anxious?"
Zhang Huihong was full of anger, thinking that he was impatient to marry the girl home.
"Mom, at the end of the year, more people need fish fertilizer, so it's easier to make money. If I get married, it will take a lot of time, and that would be a loss."
"It doesn't matter if the things are not ready yet. We can give more betrothal gifts and then slowly add the furniture and other things later. If we give more betrothal gifts and get married as soon as possible, they will definitely agree."
"Besides, we are afraid of people knowing that we are cooking bone soup, so how can we prepare the furniture before marrying a wife? Where did you get the money? Are you going to make an excuse and say that you borrowed it from your uncle?"
After the bone soup incident yesterday, Zhang Ze’s original idea of buying a bicycle and riding home was extinguished.
He still has to buy it, but it's temporarily cheaper and his brother-in-law has to take it back every day. Zhang Ze can only ride it in the county town for the time being.
"This..." Zhang Huihong was stunned, and immediately felt that what her son said made sense. Yesterday, she told her son to keep a low profile, so why did she neglect this matter? "Okay, then I'll talk to the carpenter and just make a bed. We'll give more betrothal gifts, and we can't let other girls down."
Seeing that she agreed, Zhang Ze smiled, knowing that when he went to Tong's house tomorrow, his mother would probably finalize the marriage as soon as possible.
It was still early, and he felt sad to see the ground traps and shrimp cages were placed in the bamboo basket, so he simply took the things to the beach to see if there was any good place to put them.
When they arrived at the beach, Zhang Ze first collected all the lobsters.
Perhaps because the time was short and the weather was hot and lobsters didn't like to come out, only three were caught in five cages this time.
But he was not dissatisfied with anything, as he depended on luck for his livelihood.
Moreover, little by little, it adds up to a lot, and the money earned in a few days will definitely be more than the day before.
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After putting the cage back, Zhang Ze thought about it and put the shrimp cage made by Tong Shuyao back as well.
There is no suitable place here, so we can only put it in the puddle.
But the ground trap cannot be placed here, there is no other way.
These things cannot be placed in a conspicuous place, otherwise they will be discovered and taken away by others.
It would be best to erect a tree trunk at the mudflat on the other side of the grove and then place the trap there.
But it is so conspicuous that you can definitely see it after the tide goes out, and the mere presence of a standing tree trunk is strange.
This is also the reason why he asked for a crab cage instead of a ground cage at the beginning. Tong Yuanhang had good intentions but ended up with a bad result.
It was low tide at that time, so Zhang Ze took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and walked towards the sea to see if there was a suitable place.
If there is really no trap, I can only take it back home and release it when I go out to sea with Tong Yuanhang.
As I walked along, I didn't find any good place, but I found a lot of sea urchins, sea cucumbers, scallops and oysters. Except for the oysters that needed to be knocked down, I put all the others into the space.
The experience value of the space could be upgraded after fishing the day before yesterday, but Zhang Ze did not move.
He estimated that upgrading now would simply expand the space, and there might be new changes at level ten, so there was no rush to upgrade if the space capacity was sufficient.
He walked all the way until the sea water reached his knees, and he actually found a good spot.
What he was standing on now was not rocks, but sand.
He continued walking forward about ten meters, and then returned after finding that the bottom of the water was all sand.
Zhang Ze returned to the reef area and first found a lot of stones and put them in the trap. He piled these stones at the very end of the trap, and estimated that there were more than 30 kilograms of them.
He then took out a few sea fish that he thought tasted average, smashed them to death with stones, and put them into the trap as bait.
Then he carried the trap to the place where he had last stood. He first put down the tail of the trap, and then slowly backed away until the head was completely put into the water.
He tied the rope to a reef submerged by the sea and weighed it down with some stones.
The water in the puddle is very calm except for a little fluctuation during high tide and low tide, so there is no need to worry about being washed away by the waves.
But the ground traps placed in the sea are different. Whether stones are placed inside or the ropes are pressed down with stones, it is all to prevent the ground traps from being washed away.
Now the trap was placed in the water, and no one would be able to find it unless they came to take a look, so Zhang Ze left with peace of mind.
(End of this chapter)
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