1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 230 The astronomical tide is coming soon

 Due to the low tide.

The reefs of Dongjia Reef that were rarely exposed to the sea surface are all exposed, and slower-moving marine life will be forced to stay in the puddles under the reefs.

In such a mixed area of ​​​​reefs and sea sand, the easiest thing to catch is various snails.

Ou Wusheng was very excited about catching it. In their Dazhu Village, the only snails that could be caught were field snails and stone snails, and they were both very small.

The conches here were all very big. He caught a conch with a body covered with hair and asked, "There are so many fish, what kind of conch is this? Why does it still have hair?"

 Li Duoyu glanced at it: "Mao snail."

Ou Wusheng blinked his eyes. The whole body was covered with hair, so there was nothing wrong with the conch. He caught another conch covered in thorns from the sand below the reef: "Where is this one?"

 “Snail.”

Ou Wusheng found that the names of these conches were quite easy to understand. He grabbed a long conch nearby and said, "Then this one looks like a screw, is it called a conch?"

Li Duoyu laughed, not expecting Brother Ou to be able to draw inferences: "Yes, our locals do call this snail."

 “Can all these snails be eaten?”

 Li Duoyu nodded: "Most conchs are edible."

 “It’s so good, it’s really enviable.”

Ou Wusheng, who lives in the mountains, had an idea at this moment. If Miaomiao can really be cured on Dandan Island, he might as well just move to Dandan Island and hang out with Duoyu in the future. I came from Dazhu Village on a mission.

At this moment, I noticed another large conch, but when I reached out my hand to catch it, the conch quickly ran away with its long legs.

“There are so many fish, what kind of snail is this? How come it has long legs and can run so fast.”

Li Duoyu had quick eyes and feet and stepped directly on the hermit crab that was running away quickly.

 This hermit crab lives in a rattle snail shell. The shell alone is as long as the palm of a Lido fish.

 The larger the conch shell the hermit crab is, the larger the hermit crab will be. Such large hermit crabs are also rare in Lido fish.

Li Duoyu replied: "Brother Ou, this is not a snail, but a hermit crab. Usually after the snail dies, there will be a hermit crab hiding in the snail shell. In our local area, this is generally called a shrimp monster."

 Ou Wusheng suddenly realized.

Since he was bitten by an orchid crab before, Ou Wusheng didn't dare to catch the crab with his hands. He thought that the conch was safer, but unexpectedly he encountered one with legs.

“Things in the sea are really interesting. Just when I was about to catch it, it started running and scared me.”

Li Duoyu put the big hermit crab into the bucket. In this era, hermit crabs, like pencil barnacles, are bargains that no one wants. There are so many on the beach that no one picks them up.

Because hermit crabs don’t have much meat, in terms of taste, they are definitely not as good as swimming crabs and orchid crabs.

 We usually only eat the piece of meat on its tail. At this time, the hermit crab is also very delicious when it has paste. The taste is similar to the crab roe of ordinary crabs.

Li Duoyu remembers that in later generations, this kind of large hermit crab was a hot commodity, and could be sold for hundreds of yuan per catty in the most fertile season.

Some of them look more unique, such as a type called gray and white hermit crabs, which are often caught and kept as pets.

Li Duoyu kept turning over the rocks and caught a dozen or so large hermit crabs in succession. One alone would not be very satisfying to eat, but if there were more than ten, it would be enough to fry a plate.

 In the process of turning over stones.

Li Duoyu found that many stones had been turned over, and there were no big crabs, only small crabs of less than one or two.

It should have been searched by the Zhao brothers who came earlier than them.

 That's what it's like to catch the sea.

Those who come earlier will plunder all the big goods, while those who come later can only pick up some of the unwanted items left by others.

The two brothers looked down upon these conchs and hermit crabs at all. They only caught those large-scale products that were easier to sell for money. They didn't like the smaller ones or the small ones.

No matter how good their skills are, there are always some fish that slip through the net. Li Duoyu also caught about seven or eight palm-sized orchid crabs while turning over the rocks.

There was also a red octopus weighing nearly two kilograms. Brother Ou, who had never seen an octopus before, felt a little nauseous when he saw this thing was soft and sucked on Li Duoyu's hand.

 “Can this be eaten?”

Li Duoyu nodded: "It's not bad, the fried green pepper tastes good."

He and Brother Ou filled the big bucket given by Chen Wenchao after catching seafood in this messy reef area for more than an hour.

 The bottom is full of sea urchins caught by Brother Ou.

 There are about forty of them.

One-third were orchid crabs and red flower crabs caught by Li Duoyu, and the rest were various snails and hermit crabs.

 Li Duoyu was quite satisfied with today's results. Unfortunately, he did not catch some local little green dragons.

There are quite a lot of little green dragons here in Dongjia Reef. In the past, he often came here to put sticky nets specially designed to catch crabs and lobsters.

 Looking at the situation, it seems that the Zhao brothers got there first. After all, in this era, Xiaoqinglong was quite expensive.

 Fortunately, Li Duoyu does not make money by catching the sea. He came here to catch the sea just to let Brother Ou experience it.

Looking at a whole bucket of seafood, Ou Wusheng was very excited and happy. It was his first time to come to the beach and he caught so much seafood.

As a mountain person, he has never seen so much seafood. What they usually eat the most is some dried Balang fish.

Occasionally, some fishmongers will bring some razor clams to their villages to sell, but the taste is not particularly good.

Ou Wusheng couldn't help but said: "I really envy you seaside people, you have so much seafood to eat every day."

Li Duoyu smiled.

He seems to have heard this sentence many times. People are like this. The fishermen on Dandan Island who are tired of eating seafood are also envious of the people in the mountains because they have so much game to eat.

Ask anyone on Dandan Island what they want to eat most, and probably nine out of ten people will not say they want to eat seafood.

They would rather eat some rare wild game that is hard to find, such as wild boars, deer, rabbits, bamboo rats and the like.

 See after the bucket is full.

Li Duoyu also planned to withdraw, but brother Ou accidentally stepped on the air and almost fell into a large puddle in front of him.

In this deep winter, Ou Ge, half of his body wet, was shivering with cold, but he pointed to the big puddle with excitement on his face.

“There is a big fish. I just saw a big fish in this pit.”

 After seeing this puddle.

Li Duoyu couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly. This puddle was an old actor in his previous life.

　　has various names.

The Moon Pit, the Tiger Pit, the Bottomless Pit, and the Dragon King Pit. Every anchor has a different name.

In the previous life, there were two brothers in the next town who specialized in pumping water out of the sea. They often came to this puddle to take videos of pumping the puddle.

　　When Li Duoyu first saw their videos, he thought they were quite interesting. It turned out that he could still fish in such a thankless way.

 If their local fishermen really want to catch the big fish in the puddle, it is impossible to pump out the water. Instead, they will just throw down the sticky net.

Then use a long stick to fetch water. If you can catch it, pull it down. At the beginning of pumping the water hole, everything was quite normal. All we caught were some local fish, and they were not very big.

Not long after, three swordfish of the same size appeared frequently, as well as large groupers. Later, it was even more exaggerated, and some marine fish that are only found in tropical coral reefs appeared directly.

Local fishermen all know very well that if the puddle really contains so many seafood, they probably won’t need to pump the water out, as the puddle will already be full of fishermen’s sticky nets.

 But everyone tacitly understood that no one was trying to disrupt the situation. Regardless of whether these sea-going anchors were faking it or were just performing, from a certain perspective, it did make local fishermen’s seafood sell better.

Li Duoyu remembers that when sea fishing was the most popular, it was also the time when the seafood on Dandan Island was the most expensive, and there were also a lot of people visiting Dandan Island.

Many stone houses on the island have been transformed into B&Bs, and some real estate developers even want to build resorts on their islands.

Many young people also returned to the village and started live streaming to sell seafood. For a time, Dandan Island was very lively and prosperous.

Unfortunately.

The popularity of seafood that has been built up over the years has been destroyed overnight by the little devils.

 Before Li Duoyu came to this world, the fishermen on the island discussed the issue of the little devil’s sewage discharge into the sea the most.

 Once the sewage is discharged into the sea, the impact on the fishermen of Dandan Island will be huge, especially those who have invested all their wealth in fishing boats and breeding industries.

It has been more than a year since he came to this world. I don’t know if the little devil has discharged the sewage into the sea, but based on his understanding of the little devil.

Although this nation has a lot of etiquette, most of the time they are extremely petty and harbor evil intentions. They would rather make the world dirtier than make themselves dirty alone. It is estimated that the probability of sewage discharge is very high.

 Fortunately, Li Duoyu came to this clean world, otherwise the kelp and abalone he cultivated would probably have to be sold at a loss due to the sewage.

 Li Duoyu sighed.

 Didn’t expect that this puddle would bring back so many memories for him.

 He glanced at the thick horse watch on his wrist.

 It’s already half past ten in the morning.

The tide has almost reached its lowest point, and the tide will start to rise soon.

Li Duoyu climbed to a relatively high reef nearby and looked over at Xiaodongjia. Sure enough, when he was more than a hundred meters away, he saw two figures and shouted directly: "Zhao Dahai."

 After hearing someone calling his name.

 The two brothers turned around and were dumbfounded on the spot when they saw Li Duoyu.

Zhao Erniu smiled bitterly and said, "Why is Li Duoyu here too? Brother, we won't be followed by him."

Zhao Dahai frowned and said: "Impossible. When I came here, I made a special circle and there was no one following our boat."

 “Then how did Li Duoyu get here?”

“How do I know?” Zhao Dahai frowned, although their brothers were very grateful to Li Duoyu.

  Can be converted into one code.

To be honest, the two of them have almost finished catching all the blue crabs on Dandan Island.

So during this time, they were studying to catch other crabs. It took the two brothers more than a month to finally find a safe route in and out of Dongjia Reef.

Since there are no fishermen coming here, there are so many seafood that it is impossible to catch them all. The two originally planned to use Tangjia and Tangjia as their own back gardens and make a fortune.

 I didn’t expect to come here only twice.

 Meet Li Duoyu on the island.

Zhao Dahai sighed helplessly and waved towards Li Duoyu: "Village Director, I am Dahai, why are you here."

Li Duoyu replied: "There are too many people on our island going to sea, so I just came here to take a look. I didn't expect you two to be there too."

Zhao Dahai laughed bitterly.

Just now he was still a bit lucky, thinking that Li Duoyu was just lucky enough to land safely on Dongjia Reef.

But what Li Duoyu said sounded like he was very familiar with this place and had been here before.

Both brothers had a sad look on their faces. They felt that Li Duoyu was a very evil person. Not only was he familiar with Xijia Reef, but he also knew how to get around Dongjia Reef.

 It is obvious that he rarely goes out to sea to fish.

They have only been working as fishermen for a short time, but they seem to know everything. This makes the two of them very depressed. Unlike them, Li Duoyu is engaged in breeding and is the village secretary, so he is not short of money at all.

If he is here, Chen Wenchao will definitely come too. If they go back, tell the villagers on Dandan Island the route to and from Tung Kia Reef.

Then their plans to get rich will come to nothing.

The two brothers had a great time catching fish today, and it felt like they had stabbed a crab in its nest.

Originally, they used buckets, but later they found that they couldn't catch all the fish in one bucket, so they changed to sacks. In only three hours, the two of them caught hundreds of crabs and lobsters.

 Also caught a small shark and a rice fish in the water hole.

 The two brothers estimate that they will earn at least fifty yuan today.

In order to prevent the information about their journey to the sea from leaking out, they did not even plan to return to the island to sell seafood, but planned to paddle to Qingkou Wharf to sell it.

 It’s all over now!

　　In the future, when there is a high tide, all the people in Tangjia and Tangjia will be rushing to the sea.

 Obviously they had already gone to another place to find blind man Chen who lived with his son.

Chanzhi Chen said that the two brothers are old-fashioned, but as long as they are willing to work hard, the scenery will be very good.

They have really worked hard and finally found a way to make a fortune, but they didn't expect to be discovered by others.

However, at this time, Li Duoyu frowned and looked around. He found that something was wrong with today's situation. The tide had gone out too much.

Even if the tide is high, the depth of the low tide on Dandan Island is only about four meters at most.

But now all the rocky reefs in Tangjia and Dongjia are exposed, and Li Duoyu feels that today's tide has receded at least six or seven meters deep.

There is only one possibility for it to retreat so deep, if it is not an earthquake.

Li Duoyu shouted to the Zhao brothers who had already run outside: "The tide is going to rise soon. You two, don't go over there anymore and come back quickly."

After Zhao Dahai heard this, he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Don't worry, we will go back right away."

Li Duoyu looked at the high tide waves in the distance and could clearly feel that today's waves were louder and more violent than usual.

　　hit on the rocks.

 The waves splashed one or two meters.

Li Duoyu frowned and looked at the two brothers. He had already reminded them and he had fulfilled his obligation. He could not go over and forcefully dragged them back.

 But he and Brother Ou had just walked back about a hundred meters when they heard a cry for help coming from a distance.

 “The waves are so big.”

“Village director, please save us.”

 (End of this chapter)