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

Zhao Dahai walked to the edge of the mangrove and had to go around the place where blood eels were dug. The tide receded a few meters but not enough. After waiting for half an hour, it retreated further and exposed the tidal flat. He carried a hoe and a small basket into the sea. As soon as I stepped into the sea water, a group of small fish were startled. They were not big, only small whitebaits the size of small chopsticks. Don’t look at them and they are inconspicuous and worthless. They were dried and fried in oil. They were fragrant. You couldn’t catch them without a fishing net. So you continued to wade. As the water moved forward, when my feet stepped into the sea mud, something hard hit my feet. I bent down and stretched my hands into the mud along my feet to dig out a clam half the size of a fist.

"ha!"

"Is there such a good thing?"

Zhao Dahai straightened up and looked forward. The land where he could dig blood eels had to be two hundred meters away from him. The seawater was probably waist deep and would be difficult to pass through. He had nothing to do but dig some clams to pass the time and have food for dinner. . Clams are very common on the beach and can be found on tidal flats and other places. Generally speaking, when you find one, there will be several around it, sometimes there is one.

Zhao Dahai bent down, with the place where he was standing as the center, and inserted his hand into the sea mud, one palm deep, and pulled the circle from the inside out. As expected, he dug out a dozen large and small ones from half a meter. He walked forward a few steps. Step by step, follow the same pattern, and in less than half an hour, dozens of clams weighed four or five kilograms together. There were a lot of them around. I brought an iron rake and used my strength. Maybe I could get one or two hundred kilograms in half a day. However, clams are not worth digging so much. I had enough food for the evening. I washed it and put it in a mesh bag. I picked up clams on one end of my hoe and a bamboo basket on the other. The tide had receded far enough at this time, and the place where I had dug the blood eels was exposed. I strode over there. , down to business.

Zhao Dahai bypassed the mangroves and protruded into the sea to a place. The vast expanse in front of him was covered with tidal flats. Sea mud, sand and small rocks were mixed together. This was the environment where blood eels liked to grow. There was plenty of food and good water quality. The quality is very high, which is the key to the famous blood eels in Langtou Village.

Zhao Dahai walked forward slowly. Don't be in a hurry when digging for blood eels. First, you have to look for the entrance of the hole to find an eye. Second, if you walk too fast, the blood eels will start to burrow down. It is very difficult to dig. The tidal flats at low tide are densely covered with holes of various sizes, including crabs, jumping fish, or other small animals. Blood eels are just one of the many creatures that can dig holes. For inexperienced people, see Can not come out which one is the blood eel.

Zhao Dahai squinted his eyes and looked at the tidal flat carefully, looking for blood eel holes. Children who grew up in fishing villages are not short of this skill. His father is also a master of digging for blood eels. He started rolling on the tidal flat with his back when he was five or six years old. You don’t need to learn anything to know how to do it, and it doesn’t take much time to find one.

Could it be that no one has dug blood eels recently?

Zhao Dahai looked at a blood eel hole one meter away. If he looked carefully, he could even see a few strands of mucus at the entrance of the hole. This is a very obvious feature of the blood eel cave. Digging blood eels is indeed hard and not easy, but the price is high. If there are more people digging, the number will become smaller and the holes will be difficult to find. I found one immediately after I arrived and didn’t take a few steps. This only shows that there are fewer people digging recently, especially this year. At least in the past two months, no one has dug.

Zhao Dahai was a little excited. If his guess was correct, it would be a good thing. The fewer people digging, the more blood eels and they are bigger.

Zhao Dahai carefully looked around the entrance of the blood eel cave, pondered for a while the direction of the blood eel cave in the mud, and walked over after choosing a direction.

Why are blood eels so hard to dig?

One is sea mud and sand plus small rocks. It is easy to dig it down with a hoe, but the sea mud will absorb the hoe and it is not easy to pick it up. If it is sand and small rocks, the hoe will bounce up with a "bang" sound and it will not be dug down. .

The other is the blood eel cave. First, several square meters of holes are dug under the tidal flats and the depth can reach one meter. Once frightened, they will drill to the deepest point. If you want to dig it out, you may have to dig a big pit with an area of ​​four to five square meters and a depth of one meter. This is not something that can be done with a hoe, or such a hole cannot be dug and a few people will be abolished.

Zhao Dahai approached lightly and took a closer look. He was sure it was a blood eel eye. The mucus was very obvious. He slowly dug a few times with the hoe in his hand. He couldn't dig directly down with force. If he did it like this, it would be a blood eel eye. Digging up the sea mud and seawater can't find it once it's blocked. Gently dig the sea mud, and a bigger and more obvious hole about the size of a toe appears.

Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry at all and was very patient. The hoe in his hand became lighter and he continued to dig out the sea mud layer by layer along the blood eel hole. After more than twenty strokes, as soon as he picked up the hoe, he suddenly saw something in the hole. Things flashed by.

coming!

Zhao Dahai perked up and quickly dug the hoe along the blood eel hole five or six times in one breath. The last piece of the hoe dug out contained something with its tail swaying wildly in the sea mud.

"ha!"

"I can't run away now!"

Zhao Dahai was very happy. He put down the hoe, bent down, put his middle finger in front and the remaining fingers in a T-shape to hold the blood eel. He washed it in the small puddle next to it and revealed his true appearance. He was really good-looking, thirty centimeters long. The size of the middle finger, the diameter must be one centimeter, very fat, round, must be two or three pounds, according to the price that Liu Gang offered, forty to fifty yuan.

Zhao Dahai took out the plastic bag, put the blood eel in it, rolled it up and put it in the bamboo basket. Blood eels cannot be placed in mesh bags, let alone bamboo baskets directly. Once dried like this, the mucus on the blood eels will soon dry out and die. If placed in a watertight plastic bag, there is no need to soak it in water. Keep it moist and it will survive. long time.

Zhao Dahai continued to move forward with the hoe. Don't be in a hurry when digging for blood eels. The key is persistence and a slow speed. After walking a few meters, he found a blood eel hole. This hole was relatively shallow, so it didn't take much effort. Five or six hoe Just dig it out.

what happened?

Are there so many blood eels?

Really a long time no one digs?

Or is it another reason?

Zhao Dahai stood with his hand on the hoe, his brows knitted into a knot. In less than half an hour, he dug up seven or eight blood eels. The largest one had three taels and the smallest one had one tael each. People who don’t know better may think this is strange. Strange, in fact, it is very strange. At this rate, it is not too difficult to weigh seven or eight pounds a day. Not to mention the double price offered by Liu Gang, the normal market price can sell for thousands or eight hundred.

Difficult to dig?

Hard?

Who can earn so much a day?

Zhao Dahai felt that he was thinking too much, why are there so many blood eels? It doesn't matter whether no one has dug for a long time or the tide is just right. I am not a scientist, so why worry about it? I am just a fisherman, just digging blood eels to make money. Are there many and big blood eels? Just do it. To dig the most blood eels and earn the most money in the shortest time is what I want to do now!

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