1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 38 Good things come out of strong winds and waves

Li Duoyu has just finished washing the deck.

Lao Zhuang, the crew chief on the boat, invited them to come over and have a meal.

This old man is the one his mother said was the one who broke his leg and laid waste to the oyster fields.

 Because of his injured leg, he couldn't step on the mud horse, let alone carry heavy objects. In order to support his family, he had to help others sell seafood at the dock.

It just so happened that Lao Zhuang and his third uncle were in the same fishing team. This time they went to sea and there was a shortage of people, so they asked him to be the crew chief on the ship.

Sanshu's fishing boat is a motor-driven sailboat from the 1970s and is not equipped with a dedicated kitchen.

 If you want to cook.

 When the weather is nice, we can just set up a pot and cook it directly on the deck.

 When the weather is bad, they are moved to the cabin to burn.

 The food is also very crude and simple.

 The staple food is mostly white rice and alkaline noodles, and the side dishes are mostly cooked from the caught seafood, and then stir-fried two cabbage heads.

 Perhaps they are all old fishermen and eat a lot of seafood.

No one is interested in the seafood dinner that will make most netizens drool in the future. Instead, they like to mix some soy sauce into the rice and add some pickles.

 But for a reborn person like Li Duoyu, the pot of boiled seafood is really delicious.

 The cuttlefish meat is both chewy and chewy.

 The shrimp meat is also very fresh and sweet.

And the swimming crab is fat and juicy. When you bite into the crab claws, the juice bursts out, and the sweet juice slides in your mouth.

without any exaggeration.

The seafood now tastes much better than it did 40 years ago. He had heard someone say before that if a species is eaten frequently, the quality of the meat will continue to evolve in a less delicious direction. He doesn’t know if this is the case. This possibility.

The second uncle, who never leaves his hand with cigarettes, couldn't help but sigh when he saw Li Duoyu eating seafood there non-stop:

“I was just like you when I first got on the boat. I felt that the food in the sea was so delicious. Until I drifted at sea with the fishing team for half a year, the sight of these crabs and eels turned me off.”

“Then I’ll have a good time first.” Li Duoyu smiled.

He also ate abalone until he vomited it. In his previous life, he also raised abalone, but all of them died in a typhoon. He had to clean up the dead abalone for two days.

The market happened to be bad and he couldn't sell it. In order not to waste it, he seemed to have been eating abalone during that time.

 Now we are also talking about Bao Sebian.

Uncle San was not in a very good mood after he failed to catch the fish in the first net, and he didn’t even take a few bites of food.

He found the place and set the net at his request. If the fishing boat can't catch swimming crabs, that's his problem.

 Most fishermen are quite "superstitious".

Often if the first net fish harvest is not good, it will be considered as a "bad luck", indicating that the luck will not be very good throughout the year.

Third uncle sighed and said:

“We could catch them all here before, but why are they not available this year?”

 The second uncle took a puff of dry cigarette and said jokingly:

“I’ve been caught by you for so many years, and my swimming crab is not your wife, so there’s no way she’s waiting here every year.”

"Hahaha"

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help laughing. Although the third uncle who was ridiculed looked helpless, his mood was obviously much better.

 After everyone has finished dinner.

The setting sun has completely fallen into the sea, and there is only a faint blue light left where the sea and the sky meet, and the entire sea has darkened.

 The fishing boat continued to sail southeast.

 Move towards the next fishing point.

The crew members who had finished their meal also returned to the cabin to rest.

 Because everyone knows very well that an empty ship has no shame in returning to port, and it is destined to drift on the sea tonight.

 After the sea has completely darkened.

The sea will become very scary, it will be dark all around, like being locked in a dark room.

Under normal circumstances, when a fishing boat sails at night, the crew will not go on the deck. Most of them stay in the cabin and engage in men's entertainment projects.

 Some people get together to play cards.

 There are also people who smoke and drink. When a fishing boat like this is traveling at night, it will make a lot of noise, and the cabin of Sanshu's boat is very close to the engine.

 Very noisy.

Ears are filled with the sound of "bang bang bang". Unless you are tired enough to fall asleep, it is not easy for a group of poker friends, drunkards and radio enthusiasts to fall asleep.

Of course, except for old fishermen like my uncle, he almost slept on the bed and snored louder than others playing cards.

 But as the bumps of the fishing boat became larger and larger, everyone became a little nervous. The bigger the waves showed that they were farther away from the land.

 It was bumpy for almost more than an hour.

The fishing boat stopped and the third uncle drove the fishing boat to a new fishing point. The waves at the new fishing point were so strong that the boat was rocking back and forth.

 But everyone still went out to work.

For veteran fishermen who seek the sea, such wind and waves are just a common occurrence, and past experience tells them that the greater the wind and waves, the better the goods will be.

 After being launched into the sea with the trawl net.

 The fishing boats also started to move slowly.

 A "huge mouth" is constantly harvesting at the bottom of the sea, while the fishermen on the boat are waiting quietly, praying for good products.

 Almost two hours later.

 The trawl was slowly recovered.

 Li Duoyu and other novices quickly stepped forward to shake off the seaweed and attachments on the net.

 After going out to sea with the net package.

 Everyone's eyes were bright, but because it was night, only the uncle and the others who were standing at the stern of the boat could see clearly.

 “It’s been stabbed into the nest.”

 “It’s a big bag, pull it up quickly.”

 After hearing this, the crew member who had not slept all night suddenly became energetic and hoisted the net bag.

Li Duoyu was also a little shocked. The net bag was very large, estimated to weigh a ton. Moreover, the net was very beautiful and clean, and most of them were swimming crabs.

 After seeing this net bag being hoisted.

The third uncle Li Zhengfa from the captain's cabin rushed down to take a look, with a smile on his face, and he personally untied the rope of the net bag.

 With a "crash" sound.

Thousands of swimming crabs were running around on the deck, and it felt like you could step on several of them with just one foot.

 Everyone laughed happily after seeing this scene. Seeing the swimming crabs running around, they quickly used wooden boards to gather these running swimming crabs together.

 That’s what fishing at sea is like.

There are losers and winners, and today everyone was lucky and hit the swimming crab's nest.

 There are less trash fish, so the workload is less.

Li Duoyu is sitting on a small bench. All he needs to do is put the swimming crabs into a basket. In this era, everyone doesn’t tie crab ropes very much.

Because he accidentally caught too many crabs, he couldn't tie them up even if he tried to tie them up. Li Duoyu remembered that 40 years later, people rarely used trawl nets to catch swimming crabs. Most of them were disposable gill nets, which could catch tens of thousands of crabs at a time. rice.

Once there is a big harvest of swimming crabs, the whole net will be pulled to the shore and the women on the shore who specialize in this industry will untie and tie the crabs. At that time, you can earn one yuan per pound of crabs.

 If you meet a crab, you will be lucky.

It is not a problem for a person like this who specializes in solving crab problems to make a thousand a day.

 After the swimming crab leaves the water.

You can survive for about seven or eight hours.

It took Li Duoyu and the others more than an hour to sort out these swimming crabs.

 Full of twenty baskets were filled.

Each basket weighed about one hundred kilograms, filling the entire deck of the ship.

The third uncle looked at the time on his watch and saw that it was already past two o'clock in the morning. It would take at least two and a half hours to sail from here to the nearest Sharp Pier.

He had no intention of continuing to lower the net, but drove the boat to the nearest Sharp Pier.

If you want to sell at a good price, you must go early. Otherwise, if you go late, you may have to wait in line to unload the goods.

If there are too many fishing boats lined up and the swimming crabs die on the boat, they will not be able to sell at a high price at all, and they may have to lose fuel costs.

Seeking investment, collection, and reading

 (End of this chapter)