1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 467: Going to sea in this era is like buying goods

Li Duoyu and the others did not set their nets too close to Dongjia Reef because there was a chaotic reef area below.

If the net sinks to the bottom, it will 100% get caught. Even if you can catch a lot of good stuff, there is a high probability that the gain will outweigh the loss.

What they didn't expect was that after they lowered the net, the sky turned gloomy and it began to drizzle.

 The rain in winter is not very heavy, but it can last for a long time.

 Based on past experience, Li Duoyu feels that this year’s Chinese New Year will probably be spent in the rainy season.

The net was put down and it would take several hours to collect it. Originally, everyone planned to rest on the sampan boat.

 But it’s drizzling now. Although it won’t have a big impact, if you get wet in the winter rain, you will easily get a fever and cold.

Under the current situation, the only option was to go to Dongjia Reef to take shelter from the rain. Li Duoyu drove the sampan and cautiously approached Dongjia Reef.

 Although he was familiar with this sea area and had a very clear waterway map in his mind, he was still very cautious.

  Anyway, the more they say, the more outrageous and terrifying they become. The two brothers are completely afraid to come here now.

 All the seabirds around him flew up, smelling of pungent bird droppings. Li Duoyu had already experienced this.

 “It seems like I haven’t been here for a long time.”

Especially the stewed cobra soup, it’s so fragrant.

 When the two hundred and five calls were made, Li Duoyu immediately touched the harpoon.

Li Duoyu didn't dare to tell him what happened in Dongjia Reef, otherwise his brother-in-law would probably be scared to death.

When seabirds fly, it is best to protect your head with something, otherwise you will easily get a dip of bird droppings.

The Zhao brothers are also quite superstitious. Zhao Dahai drowned here last time and always felt that it was unclean.

　　 accompanied by the cry of two hundred and five.

 At this time.

 The moment of landing on the island.

Li Duoyu doesn’t know where these venomous snakes come from. Anyway, there are indeed many venomous snakes on the island.

 Coupled with the harsh environment and supply ships often running aground on the rocks, no more people were stationed on the island.

Li Duoyu is not afraid, but it does not mean that he is not afraid. In fact, he is very afraid of the dark and is also afraid of being alone in the same place.

 However, when the three people in the tunnel saw the cobra, they did not show fear, but became excited.

 The cry startled Chen Wenchao.

 The cobra also showed aggression. The snake's head stood up on the spot and turned into a flat shape.

I heard from the older generation that there used to be a lot of cobras on Dandan Island, but they were all eaten up.

As expected, there was a snake that didn’t look very big entwined on the stone wall in the direction of the 250th Bark.

Li Duoyu waved his hand. The tunnel was full of spider silk. Judging from the situation, it must have been a long time since this happened.

To people on the beach, bird meat is too spicy and not tasty, but cobras are so delicious.

Li Duoyu didn't like this. He was in awe of the sea, but not the weird things.

Li Duoyu took them to a hidden tunnel.

 A small iron pot, a bag of caked coarse salt, some firewood, and a moldy quilt wrapped in a tarpaulin.

Coupled with what happened to Liu Mazi, there is a rumor on the island that there is a drowned ghost here, and Liu Mazi must wait until the next person drowns before Liu Mazi can be freed.

 Other than Li Duoyu and some old fishermen on the island, only the Zhao brothers knew about this tunnel.

 The reason is that it is a bit embarrassing to talk about the sequelae left behind when he returned from swimming overseas.

 Speaking of which, the first most dangerous thing here on Dongjia Reef is definitely the reef, and the second most dangerous thing is all kinds of venomous snakes.

Because we were huddled together just now, we didn’t notice it. In addition, the light in the tunnel was dark. If we didn’t look carefully, we couldn’t find it at all.

This was dug by the soldiers back then, mainly to hide people and weapons.

 Touching the sticky thing on his head, he was so angry that he picked up small stones and threw them directly at the seabirds.

This time I have good luck with my brother-in-law.

In addition, the relationship between the two brothers and Liu Mazi was not very good. They had fought before, and they were really afraid that Liu Mazi would come over and come to them.

Brother-in-law said:

Two hundred and five suddenly shouted towards the top of the tunnel.

 In the tunnel, there are still many things left here by the Zhao brothers.

 After all, Dongjia Reef was an important island and reef back then, and the two sides just went back and forth to grab it.

As for this thing, because it stands more like a rice spoon and has a large amount of cobra venom, it will shoot out like a water gun to attack the eyes. People in Chenjiacun will call it a rice spoon gun.

 Lao Yang Restaurant at the dock sells wild boar and deer meat best, and the third best seller is cobra.

It is said that many people died. According to the older generation, young soldiers who used to guard the reef often disappeared for no reason.

 When he sleeps at night, if he sleeps alone, he must have a little light before he can sleep peacefully.

 The cobra is just one of them, and there is also the triangular point (original spearhead viper).

After seeing the cobra standing upright, Erbaiwu wanted to rush towards it, but Li Duoyu kicked it away. This thing can spray venom.

If two hundred and fifty go up and get sprayed, your eyes might go blind, and if you get bitten, it would be even more uneconomical.

Li Duoyu took the harpoon and shook it twice, and he shot it.

 Fortunately, not many were shot.

 The amount is small and a bit short.

Li Duoyu didn't bother to waste time with it. He harpooned it directly and nailed it in an instant.

Possibly because of the pain, the cobra kept wrapping around the harpoon, forming a ball.

 Brother-in-law looked up at the top of the tunnel and found that the gaps between the stones were quite wide.

“There are many fish, be careful. These things usually appear in one nest. I don’t know if there are any more.”

"Um."

Li Duoyu nodded: "Let's light a fire, smoke it and take a look."

 Maybe it’s because no one has come to the tunnel for a long time, but unexpectedly, it turned into a cobra nest.

As Li Duoyu lit the fire and deliberately created thick smoke, two more cobras were smoked out from the cracks in the stone above his head.

 I didn’t think so, the fish haven’t been caught yet.

Instead, we caught snakes. A cobra on Dandan Island can be sold for at least three yuan. If there are three cobras, it will be nine yuan.

 After they caught the snake, the tide was almost low, and they were always worried about the three people who had snakes coming out of their heads.

I don’t want to stay in the tunnel anymore, but go to the area where the tide is low, intending to pick up some small seafood, so that I can buy less during the New Year.

Although Li Duoyu is now an old and wealthy man, if you don’t go to the sea in such a good place, it would be a bit disrespectful to the genes of the seaside people.

 When leaving. Li Duoyu took the bag of lumped coarse salt. If he went to catch the sea, this thing might come in handy.

　Maybe it’s because no one has come here for a long time. There are so many sea urchins, they are so densely packed that you can’t even pick them all.

 But for the three of them, the medicinal materials in this stuff are fine, but people on the seaside really don’t eat this stuff.

There are so many stone crabs. If you open a stone at random, you will find several stone crabs. Unfortunately, they have no meat and their shells are hard. They are disgusting and look down upon.

 The rocks are covered with wild mussels. If you start raising blue crabs again, you can pry them off for the blue crabs to eat.

 On the rocks, there are many general hats and spicy snails. The spicy snails taste average, but the general hats are worth eating.

The general's hat is a kind of snail, and its scientific name is Liluo. It especially looks like the hat of a Qing Dynasty soldier, so it is called the general's hat.

 This thing is called small abalone here. It tastes very good. Just clean it, put it upside down, and put some garlic sauce on it.

　　Whether it is eaten steamed or grilled, it tastes good.

You can also stir-fry it directly with onion and ginger. Li Duoyu remembers that the price of this stuff seemed to be twice as expensive as ordinary abalone.

Li Duoyu pried off some general hats and planned to go back and fry them.

Chen Wenchao has very sharp eyes. He immediately noticed a bulge in the sand. He dug out and caught a red flower crab.

 When he was caught, the two big claws were as wide as thirty centimeters when spread out.

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng was surprised and said: "Damn, this island is great. There is such a good thing. During the Chinese New Year, this kind of red flower crab is worth a lot of money."

Li Duoyu was not surprised to catch safflower crabs here. The last time they came here, they caught a lot of these crabs.

 Brother-in-law and Xiaochao went to catch safflower crabs, while Li Duoyu went to pry small seafood. It must be said that in this era.

The most common thing is this kind of small seafood that no one eats. The entire reef is covered with it, and Li Duo only picks the biggest ones.

Since he had been locked up for too long, he couldn't help but start running after arriving on land, chasing the hermit crabs.

Li Duoyu said to it: "Don't mess with the big crab again. If you get pinched on the nose again, I won't help you."

In less than twenty minutes, he had lifted four or five kilograms, which was almost enough for a large family.

Immediately afterwards, Li Duoyu was looking for the sandy beach after low tide. The beach of Dongjia Reef was not the kind where you could run freely on the beach where everything was just sand at first glance.

 It is half reef and half sand.

If you run barefoot, the barnacles attached to the rocks will definitely teach you how to behave in minutes.

Li Duoyu finished prying off the general's hat and continued to catch small seafood. This time his goal was to catch some razor clams.

 Last time he came here, Li Duoyu found a lot of wild razor clams here, but these things burrowed very deep into the ground.

Even if there are tools for digging, it is not very easy to use. The best thing to use is salt. Razor clams are extremely sensitive to salt.

Once the salt is sprinkled down, the razor clams will feel uncomfortable and want to drain all the salt water in the hole, so they will drill out of the sand.

 The moment it emerges is the best time to catch it.

 Before taking two steps, Li Duoyu found a small hole in the sand that looked a bit oblate.

 Looking at the shape of the hole, Li Duoyu knew what was inside.

Li Duoyu took out the bag of salt, broke the lumps of salt into pieces, took out some coarse salt, and carefully poured it into the entrance of the cave.

He is not as wasteful as the Qianhai anchor in his previous life. He poured a lot of salt in one fell swoop. That was too wasteful.

Salt is still quite expensive in this day and age. If we go forward a few years, if people like them on the seaside want to eat salt, they will have to buy it with salt coupons.

After pouring the coarse salt in, water began to spray out from the hole not long after. The spray was so violent that it seemed as if all the water in the hole was being emptied.

The more violent the spray, the bigger the thing inside is, and this trick is very effective for most marine organisms, because table salt is high in salt. Once it is sprinkled in, it will immediately cause discomfort to the marine organisms and even cause them to become dehydrated. .

If there are creatures in the hole, they will definitely be unbearable. Using this trick to catch shrimps and watch the tide is also very effective.

As the sand near the entrance of the cave bulged slightly, it looked like something was about to rush out.

Li Duoyu's right hand was already ready. The moment it rushed out, Li Duoyu immediately grabbed it.

Immediately afterwards, he used a shovel with his left hand to directly cut off the way back, so that the razor clam couldn't escape even if it wanted to.

The razor clam caught by Li Duoyu is not the same species as the razor clam raised by Tang Ping in the village.

 But razor clam.

As the name suggests, it is very easy to understand. Yes, it looks like a thin bamboo.

 Li Duoyu can't say which of the two types of razor clams is more delicious, but in Li Duoyu's impression, people here in Rongcheng seem to prefer eating constricted razor clams.

The most common way to prepare razor clams is to stew them in soup or make fried eggs.

The meat of razor clams is a little crisper. It just so happens that this season is the reproduction period of razor clams. At this time, the female razor clams have seeds and the male ones have paste. They taste sweet and plump.

And the razor clam Li Duoyu just caught is 15 or 6 centimeters long, and it is already a king razor clam.

If I catch a few more king razor clams, I can definitely make a serving of razor clams with garlic vermicelli today.

The resources of Dongjia Reef did not disappoint Li Duoyu. The area he was in was full of razor clams.

He caught more than half a bucket of razor clams in less than forty minutes, and also caught a lot of shrimps by the way.

In this era, people who rush to the sea really feel like they are here to buy goods.

 Brother-in-law and Xiao Chao were even more exaggerated. They bought nearly a bucket of red flower crabs, many conchs, and several large octopuses.

 All the octopuses have turned white. I am probably afraid that they will escape because they have been thrown by my brother-in-law and others many times.

Brother-in-law is an old fisherman. The further you go, the more red flower crabs you will find. The Zhao brothers were stranded on the rocks because they were reluctant to come back.

 But my brother-in-law just saw the rising tide and immediately rushed to the shore without any hesitation.

Seeing that Li Duoyu also caught so many razor clams, his brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng couldn't help but said: "Duoyu, this is really a good place."

 But Li Duoyu didn't expect that Chen Wenchao on the side said: "If Liu Mazi had not died here, it would indeed be a good place. No one on the island dares to come here now."

 Li Duoyu suddenly turned his head.

Brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng was stunned, blinked, turned his head mechanically, and looked at Chen Wenchao: "Who are you talking about, died here?"

 “Ah, you don’t know!”

 “No one told me, not even Duoyu.”

“That happened last year. Didn’t smuggling start again last year? Then there were two young people in our village sailing. One of them died here.”

Zhang Mingsheng, who has been fishing at sea all year round, is really taboo about this. He looked at the red flower crabs in his hand and originally wanted to save some for his family to eat.

Now that I think about it, I might as well sell them all. After watching the tide rise, Zhang Mingsheng couldn't help but say something.

“There are many fish, the tide is almost up, we can go and collect the nets.”

Li Duoyu laughed and said:

“Okay, when the tide rises again, we will collect the net immediately.”

At the same time, he shouted to the big yellow dog who was still having fun not far away: "Two hundred and five, come back quickly, we are leaving."

But just when they were about to leave Dongjia Reef, 250 kept shouting not far away, acting very anxious.

 Subsequently, a "嘘嘤" sound came from the sea, but the sound was different from usual.

 (End of this chapter)