Chapter 38 Good Things Come Out of Big Storms

Li Duoyu had just finished washing the deck.

The cook on the boat, Lao Zhuang, invited them to come over for dinner.

This Lao Zhuang was the one his mother said had broken his leg and abandoned the oyster field.

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 could only help people sell seafood at the dock.

It happened that Lao Zhuang and Uncle San were in the same fishing team before. This time, they were short of people, so they asked him to be the cook on the boat.

Uncle San's fishing boat was a motor sailer from the 1970s and was not equipped with a dedicated kitchen.

If you want to cook.

If the weather is good, just put a pot on the deck and cook.

If the weather is bad, move it to the cabin to cook.

The food is also rough and simple.

The staple food is mostly white rice and alkaline noodles, and the side dishes are mostly some "almost" seafood from the caught seafood to cook, and then stir-fry two cabbages.

Maybe they are all old fishermen who eat a lot of seafood.

Everyone was not interested in the seafood feast that would make most netizens drool in the future. Instead, they liked to mix some soy sauce with rice and add some pickles.

But for someone like Li Duoyu who was reborn, the boiled seafood was really delicious.

The cuttlefish meat was chewy and elastic.

The shrimp meat was also very fresh and sweet.

And the swimming crab was fat and juicy. The crab claws burst directly into juice, and the sweet juice slid in the mouth.

It was no exaggeration.

The seafood now is much more delicious than 40 years later. He had heard people say that if a species is eaten frequently, the meat will continue to evolve in the direction of being unpalatable. I don’t know if this is possible.

The second uncle, who never put down his dry tobacco, saw Li Duoyu eating seafood non-stop, and couldn’t help but sighed:

"When I first got on the boat, I felt the things in the sea were really delicious, until I drifted on the sea with the fishing team for half a year, and I lost my appetite when I saw these crabs and eels."

"Then I'll eat it first." Li Duoyu smiled.

He also had a time when he ate so much abalone that he vomited. In his previous life, he also raised abalone, but all of them died during a typhoon. He spent two days cleaning up the dead abalone.

The market was bad and he couldn't sell them. In order not to waste them, he seemed to have been eating abalone all the time during that period.

Now he is also afraid of abalone.

After the first net failed to catch, Uncle San was not in a good mood and didn't even eat a few bites of food.

He found the place and asked for the net to be set. If this fishing boat can't catch swimming crabs, it's his problem.

Most fishermen are more "superstitious".

Often if the first net of fish is not good, it will be considered a "bad luck", indicating that the luck for the whole year will not be good.

Uncle San sighed and said:

"We could catch them here before, why are there none this year?"

Uncle Er took a puff of his pipe and teased:

"You have caught them for so many years, and the swimming crab is not your wife, so how could it be possible for it to wait for you here every year?"

"Hahaha"

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help laughing, and although Uncle San, who was teased, looked helpless, his mood was obviously much better.

After everyone finished dinner.

The sunset completely fell into the sea, and only a faint blue light remained where the sea and the sky met, and the entire sea surface had darkened.

The fishing boat continued to sail southeast.

Towards the next fishing spot.

And the crew members who had finished dinner also returned to the cabin to rest.

Because everyone knew that an empty ship would not be able to return to the port, and it was destined to drift on the sea tonight.

After the sea surface was completely dark.

The sea would become very scary, and it would be pitch black all around, just like being locked in a dark room.

Under normal circumstances, when the fishing boat is sailing at night, the crew will not go to the deck. Most of them stay in the cabin and do men's entertainment.

Some get together to play cards.

Some smoke and drink.

When such a fishing boat is sailing at night, it will be very noisy, and the cabin of Uncle San's boat is very close to the engine.

Very noisy.

The ears are full of "bang bang bang" sounds. Unless you are tired enough to fall asleep, it is not easy for a group of card players, alcoholics and radio enthusiasts to fall asleep.

Of course, the exception is the old fisherman like my uncle. He almost falls asleep as soon as he touches the bed, and his snoring is louder than the sound of others playing cards.

But as the fishing boat is shaking more and more, everyone is a little nervous. The bigger the waves, the farther they are from the land.

It was shaking for more than an hour.

The fishing boat stopped moving forward, and Uncle San drove the fishing boat to a new fishing spot. The waves at the new fishing spot were very big, and the boat was shaking.

But everyone still went out to work.

For the old fishermen, this kind of wind and waves are commonplace, and past experience tells them that the bigger the wind and waves, the better the catch.

As the trawl net went into the sea.

The fishing boat also slowly started.

A "huge mouth" kept harvesting on the seabed, and the fishermen on the boat waited quietly, praying for good catch.

Almost two hours later.

The trawl net was slowly brought back.

Li Duoyu and his group of novices hurried forward to shake off the seaweed and attachments on the net.

As the net was put out to sea.

Everyone's eyes lit up, but because it was night, only the uncle standing at the stern could see it clearly.

"It hit the nest."

"It's a big bag, pull it up quickly."

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

Li Duoyu was also a little shocked. The net bag was very large, and it was estimated to be one ton heavy. The net was very beautiful and clean, and most of them were swimming crabs.

After seeing the net bag being hoisted up.

Li Zhengfa, the third uncle in the captain's room, rushed down to see it, his face full of smiles, and he personally untied the rope of the net bag.

With a "crash".

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.

After seeing this scene, everyone laughed happily. Seeing the swimming crabs running around, they quickly took the wooden board to gather these running swimming crabs together.

This is how fishing at sea.

There are wins and losses, and today everyone is lucky enough to poke the swimming crabs' nest.

There are fewer miscellaneous fish, so the workload is less.

Li Duoyu sat on a small stool. He only needed to put the swimming crabs into the basket. In this era, no one tied crab ropes very often.

Because if you are not careful, you will catch too many crabs, and you can't tie them up. Li Duoyu remembers that 40 years later, people rarely use trawl nets to catch swimming crabs. Most of them use disposable gill nets, which can be set up for tens of thousands of meters.

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

If you encounter a good crab situation.

For people who specialize in untie and tie crabs, it is not a problem to earn one thousand yuan a day.

After the swimming crabs leave the water.

They can survive for about seven or eight hours.

It took Li Duoyu and his team more than an hour to pick these swimming crabs.

Twenty baskets were filled.

Each basket weighed about 100 kilograms, filling the entire deck of the boat.

And Uncle San looked at the time on his watch. It was already past two in the morning. It would take at least two and a half hours to sail from here to the nearest Sharp Pier.

He did not plan to continue to cast 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.

If there are too many fishing boats in line, and the swimming crabs die on the boat, then you can't sell them at a good price at all, and you may even lose money on fuel.

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