Rebirth of a fishing village: starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

When Zhao Dahai returned home, he emptied all the fish in the bucket into the fish pond. Yellow snapper weighing more than a hundred pounds in two days was swimming around, which was a bit spectacular. He picked up a few dead ones with the net, which gave him an extra dish for dinner. , I caught a lot of fish, I have a lot of luxury, I have to sell the fish tomorrow.

Zhao Dahai walked into the main room, but he didn't see his grandma Zhong Cuihua. She might be in the vegetable garden behind the house. When he walked over, he saw that she was watering the vegetable field.

"grandmother."

Zhao Dahai shouted.

Xiao Naihei lay down at the door of the vegetable garden, raised his head and took a look, then lay down again.

Zhao Dahai was really convinced. The dog that Ding Xiaoxiang gave him was really amazing. Other puppies must have been running around like wild horses. The key to Xiao Naihei's not running around was to guard the door of the vegetable garden.

Zhong Cuihua saw Zhao Dahai squatting and scratching Xiao Naihei's head, and smiled and said that this dog is really good.

Zhao Dahai teased Xiao Naihei for a while, then walked into the garden and saw that the vegetables were almost watered. He didn't need his own help. He would have to cook and pick some vegetables later.

"grandmother!"

"This vegetable garden is well planted!"

“No need to buy groceries every day!”

Zhao Dahai picked the vegetables for dinner and a lot of old green leaves and threw them into the chicken coop. He didn't look at them for a few days. They grew very fast. The little rooster and the hen already weighed more than one kilogram. They grew so fast. It must be a pound and a half.

"Um."

"I can't finish this dish."

"Pick some and send them to your second grandfather's house tomorrow."

Zhong Cuihua came over after watering the vegetables and watched the chickens in the chicken pen pecking at the vegetables.

Zhao Dahai nodded and made a note of this matter. He will not go out to sea tomorrow. He will sell fish in the town. He got up early in the morning and picked vegetables and sent them over.

Zhong Cuihua remembered something, walked to the corner at the back of the house, and pointed upward.

Zhao Dahai looked up and found that there was a crack somewhere. It had been raining for a few days, and water had seeped into the house. After a few days of sunny weather, it had dried up and asked someone to repair it.

"grandmother!"

"In a few years, our family will build a small building."

Zhao Dahai patted the wall of the house. It was built by his father. The seaside wind was strong, the air was humid and salty, and the corrosion was strong. After more than 20 years, the house would have some problems.

"good!"

"The land next to it belongs to our family. The house is built on it."

"Let's work more. Save some money and build a building, just in time for you to marry a wife."

Zhong Cuihua pointed to the open space next to the house.

"OK!"

"At least seven or eight floors above the ground."

"You live on one floor, and the great-great-grandchildren each live on the same floor!"

Zhao Dahai looked at it. There was a platform in front and a mountain in the back. It was a good place. The space for building a house was roughly estimated to be two hundred square meters. Building a building would be beautiful but it would definitely cost money. It would cost hundreds of thousands or even over a million.

Build a building and marry Ding Xiaoxiang?

Zhao Dahai thought about it, this is really good.

The sun was setting.

The sky after the rain is very clean, high and far away. The rays of sunlight come over and everything is covered with a layer of golden light.

Zhao Dahai walked home with his grandmother Zhong Cuihua. There are vegetables in the vegetable garden, the chickens in the chicken coop are growing up, and I have planted lychees and longans. I can make money by going fishing, and my family is getting more and more prosperous.

The moon is at the zenith.

Zhao Dahai went out after dinner, took a flashlight and walked to the dock. When he came back in the afternoon, he was worried that there were too many fish in the live cabin and would die. He went home early and the fishing boat was not cleaned. He would go to the town early tomorrow morning to sell fish. These jobs Gotta finish it tonight.

Zhao Dahai came out late, got on the fishing boat, cleaned up his things, especially the fishing rods and arranged them, locked them in the cabin, and took a bucket with water to rinse them.

Huh?

What's this?

Bulleye snail?

When Zhao Dahai was carrying water, he found about a dozen snails crawling on the cement wall of the small pier. They were all quite large. He stretched out his hand and found that they couldn't reach them. He took a fishing net and pulled it, and all of them fell inside. He took it back and took it out. There was nothing there. Yes, it is indeed a bull's eye snail, which is a snail that looks a bit like a cow's eye and can often be seen on seaside reefs.

what happened?

Why are there so many bulleye snails?

Zhao Dahai was a little strange. The bull's eye snail is indeed not a rare thing, and it is not expensive. The purchase price is about ten yuan, but it is usually only found in the crevices of the reef. You can occasionally see one, but it is not easy to take it out. It's really strange that there are more than a dozen of them now.

Could it be that it has something to do with the rain these days?

Rain will have a huge impact on the oxygen content in the seawater. In addition, the salinity of the seawater will change dramatically, especially if the dock is on the shore, the impact will be greater.

It is most likely that the bull's eye snails crawled out of the cracks in the rocks and gathered together for this reason.

Zhao Dahai shined his flashlight on other parts of the pier. There were cow-eye snails crawling in many places. There were as few as five or six and as many as twenty. He originally planned to clean the fishing boat and go home to sleep. At this time, without saying anything, I drove the fishing boat around the pier, and in less than half an hour, I picked up more than a dozen catties and put them in the living cabin to raise them.

Zhao Dahai parked the fishing boat, changed into Jiefang shoes, took a few net bags and nets, went to the pier and walked quickly along the beach to the reef area.

There are so many bull's-eye snails at the pier, there must be more in the reef area. Usually it is not easy to catch such a snail, but such an opportunity is rare and must not be let go.

Zhao Dahai was careful. The reef was soaked in seawater all the year round, so it was very slippery. It had been raining continuously for the past few days and now it was night, so he had to cheer up. He had just climbed up the reef and walked a few steps, and immediately saw three bull's-eye snails sucking On the stone, there is a stone crack less than five centimeters wide on the side. The flashlight shined in, and two of them hadn't crawled out from a depth of about twenty centimeters. , The three that climbed out picked them up and continued to move forward.

Zhao Dahai picked up more and more, and Zhao picked up more and more surprises. The reefs that usually cannot be hit by waves are dry, and I have never seen any living things. , all of them were bull's-eye snails of considerable size. After walking around, a mesh bag was filled to about seventy-eight percent, weighing seventy or eighty kilograms.

Zhao Dahai changed a mesh bag and continued. He searched for places where there is no water. Next, he found places where the waves can usually be found, especially the waterline. Two large mesh bags.

Zhao Dahai waited for more than half an hour, and picked it up again. It only weighed about ten kilograms. He knew that all the bull's-eye snails that would crawl out of the reef were about the same size, and those that did not crawl out were unlikely to crawl out.

Zhao Dahai took great effort, carried, hugged and dragged, finally managed to get the three large mesh-bag bull's-eye snails back to the pier, adding up to more than two hundred catties, without a pole, he couldn't bring them back, and put them on the fishing boat. Soak in the living cabin and go home immediately.

Zhong Cuihua heard the sound and walked out of the main room. When she saw Zhao Dahai was dirty, she immediately asked what was going on. She was relieved when she found out that he was picking up ox-eye snails.

Zhao Dahai rode a motorcycle back to the pier, pulled all the ox-eye snails back, put them in a cool place in the corner, took something to cover the dew, and sold the snails tomorrow morning, there is no need to soak them in sea water, as long as they are a little wet. Just don't let it get soaked in fresh water. It won't be a problem if you keep it for a few days or even ten days and a half, so there's no need to waste any effort.

Six o'clock.

Zhao Dahai got up, walked out of the yard, took two large buckets, and started to work. The fish in the fish pond were fished out, and the fish under five taels were put into one bucket, and the fish over five taels were put into the other bucket. The yard is supported by the door, and two large buckets of fish are placed on the shelf, hanging on both sides of the back seat, followed by the bull's-eye snails, three net bags are replaced by two of the same size, and they are piled up and tied directly to the back seat superior.

Zhao Dahai went to Zhao Shi's house, put down a bag of vegetables and three kilograms of oxeye snails, chatted for a few words, and quickly went to the town to sell fish.

"The sea is really hardworking!"

"On rainy days, everyone else is sleeping at home. He goes fishing. He makes money."

Huang Huangtao stood at the door and watched Zhao Dahai's motorcycle go away before turning back to the yard.

"The key is to have a brain."

Zhao Shi took a long puff of hookah and just took a look at the fish in the bucket, which weighed no less than a hundred kilograms. The oxeye snails in the net bag weighed two hundred kilograms, and together they would cost at least four to five thousand yuan.

Are there fewer people going fishing in Langtou Village and other surrounding villages? Are there fewer people fishing? Earning so much money in a few days does not require hard work.

Zhao Shi has been fishing all his life and knows that it is very difficult to catch so many fish in the nearby waters in two or three days.

"It rained continuously and the snails crawled out. No one in the village knew about it, but no one picked them up, which was a benefit to the sea."

Huang Jintao took a bamboo basket and poured out the oxeye snails. They were all big and not worth much. It was all about your heart. At the same time, it was precisely because they were not very valuable that he could pick them up at the beach, so he accepted the valuable fish, shrimps and crabs. They all have to be sold for money. After a while, they are washed and boiled in some water. There is a lot of meat. Pick them out and dip them in some soy sauce. It is very delicious. The vegetables are fried again and it is enough for two people.

"Dahai is a diligent child."

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"You can make money."

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"The days are getting better and better."

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"In two or three years, if you save enough money, marry a wife, and have a few children, won't your life become more and more prosperous as time goes by?"

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Zhao Shi smoked a hookah, listened to Huang Jintao's muttering, and nodded. That was it.