Rebirth of Fishing Village: Starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Chapter 12

"Ha ha!"

"It looks like I can make some money today!"

Zhao Dahai showed a smile on his face.

The mangrove forest is very rich in ecology, and there is no shortage of small fish, shrimps, snails and sea melons. However, these are small things that do not make money. However, there is one thing that can make money and the price is good, that is blue crabs, which are common in the sea. They grow crabs and eat small fish and shrimps. They usually grow on sandy beaches and mangroves in the intertidal zone. During the day, they hide in caves to avoid natural enemies, but the most important thing is to hide from the sun. Will die, only come out at night to look for food, the one in front of you is the mud crab hole.This time when entering the mangrove forest, the mud snails and sea melon seeds are just extras. The real goal is to dig blue crabs.

Zhao Dahai did not rush to dig immediately.

There are many holes in the mangrove forest, especially the earth dams on both sides of this small ditch, but not all holes are blue crab holes, and it is impossible for every blue crab hole to have blue crabs.Generally speaking, blue crab caves are relatively flat. In addition, blue crab caves are divided into old and new.The old holes are abandoned holes, and the new ones are holes that have just been dug. The blue crab holes are somewhat shallow, but generally speaking, they are relatively deep. The bigger the crab, the deeper the hole.In order to avoid wasting effort and get nothing, before digging blue crabs, you have to judge whether the hole is a blue crab hole. If it is, then judge whether the new hole is old or not. It is also possible that there are no blue crabs. This is because blue crabs go out of their holes to find food and find that the sun is about to rise or the temperature is rising. If they have no time to return to the original hole, they will immediately dig one anywhere. It is really too late to find a small puddle to lie on their stomachs.

Zhao Dahai observed carefully.The entrance of the cave was wet and rough, and there was a puddle of granular black mud. When I squeezed it with my hand, there was obviously water. This was new mud dug out not long ago. There were long and thin marks scratched by sharp objects such as knives or branches near the entrance of the cave. This is caused by the claws of the blue crab when it was crawling. After carefully looking around the area of ​​two square meters around the entrance of the cave, there are only traces in the area less than half a square meter from the entrance of the cave. They all extend from the outside to the inside. This is left from crawling inside. .

Blue Crab Cave!new!There are blue crabs in it.

Zhao Dahai did not hesitate at this time, and directly dug with a hoe. The mangrove forest is full of roots, which is difficult to dig. At the same time, it is a protected tree species, but on both sides of the small ditch, there are no mangroves, no roots, and the soil is generally soft. , shoulders hard, three times, five divisions, two, one digging down half a meter deep.

When Zhao Dahai saw water at the bottom of the pit, he stopped immediately.Blue crabs have to be soaked in seawater, or they will not die of dehydration, but at the same time they cannot be submerged in seawater all the time, they have to breathe and breathe.When a blue crab digs a hole, it will stop when it reaches the water and then dig a little lower. During the day, it hides in the hole and lies on the waterline.When digging blue crabs, you must stop when you see water, and you can no longer dig violently with a hoe. Otherwise, if you go down with a hoe, it is very likely that the blue crabs will be split in half or the pincers and claws will be broken. Don't try to sell them for money.

Zhao Dahai pawed a few times, cleaned up the soil dug out by the hoe, and piled it up around the hole to prevent the water in the ditch from rushing in. He stretched out his hand and carefully dug the hole of the water line, and expanded it while cleaning.

Zhao Dahai supported the side of the dug hole with his left hand, and grabbed a ball of mud with his right hand, which was not too big or small, and he could hold it with one hand. He bent down, and pushed the mud ball into the hole in front of his hand.

The claws of blue crabs are amazingly powerful. For a big old blue crab, the chopsticks can be pinched off when the claws are hardened. If the fingers touch it, the skin will be torn apart, and if you are unlucky, the bones of your fingers will be broken.

You can’t see blue crabs in the hole, so blindly stretching out your hands is no different from looking for death. Knead a ball of mud to block your hands and push it in. Once you encounter a blue crab, it will directly paste its face, and the hole is narrow—the blue crab digs a hole It is tailor-made according to its size, and it is impossible to make a hall with three bedrooms and two living rooms or a hall of [-] square meters - no matter how powerful the pliers are, they will be useless.

Zhao Dahai moved very slowly. He stretched out half of his forearm. When he got to the bottom of the hole, he encountered a hard object. He pushed forward a little bit, and the hard object moved.

blue crab!

Zhao Dahai was so excited that his heart beat violently.

The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish!The bigger the hole, the bigger the mud crab.The opening of this hole is more than [-] centimeters wide, if it is not there, it is big.

Zhao Dahai stabilized his mind. At this moment, the most important thing is not to be afraid of running away, but to catch the mud crab safely and smoothly. A small ball of mud goes in and presses the blue crab tightly. If it is small, one hand will do. However, the one in the cave is larger. With two hands stretched in, ten fingers are stretched apart, and the wolf presses hard against the wall of the cave. With the first thrust, a lump of mud the size of a football was dug out. The claws of the blue crabs held by the sea mud could not be stretched out, and they could not pinch people. Sea mud scattered.

"what!"

"This head is really good!"

Zhao Dahai picked up the net bag, and a big green crab weighing more than one and a half catties opened its teeth and claws.The mangroves are rich in food, blue crabs are big and plump, you can buy 41 catties for half a catty, and fifty or sixty for one catty, so you can only earn one hundred and eighty yuan.The blue crabs in the net bag were caught, and a thin vine was pulled from the edge of the small ditch to tie them up. The blue crabs were fierce, and if they were not tied well, the pliers would easily fall off when they struggled. The price was greatly reduced, and half of them disappeared immediately.

Make money!
Zhao Dahai felt happy, drank some water, took a rest, filled the hole he dug, and walked along the small ditch with a net bag and a small hoe.

The sun hangs in the sky.

Mangroves are impenetrable.

There is no shelter on the top of the ditch.

It was as hot as a burning oven.

Zhao Dahai was sweating profusely, the clothes on his body were wet and dry, covered with a thin layer of white salt frost, and the sea water in the small ditch was already hot from the sun.

Zhao Dahai took a look at the net bag in his hand, and he didn't feel tired at all. In two or three hours, he dug up five blue crabs, each of which weighed more than one catty, and got another three or four hundred yuan.

Work hard!
Come on!
Roll up your sleeves and work hard!
Earn enough money to repair fishing boats early so that you can go fishing.

Zhao Dahai walked forward stepping on the water, and didn't go back until the sun set to the west. Halfway through, the sun disappeared, and the mangrove forest was so dark that he couldn't see clearly.

Zhao Dahai stopped wading in the water, went up the earth dam, walked along the small ditch, turned on the flashlight, and kept shining on the mangroves nearby. From time to time, a few small red crabs the size of a thumb crawl out. One pincer is bigger than the other and the other is too small. These are fiddler crabs. There are so many things like mangroves, and sometimes they even climb directly on the trees. , When you get into the mangrove forest, you have to be careful that this thing falls from your head to your neck. It is not particularly painful to pinch it, which is not comparable to a blue crab, but it is very uncomfortable to pinch it at the same time when you are startled.

Zhao Dahai's target is not these fiddler crabs. No one really wants these things. The blue crabs are the target. Mangroves are not places like small ditches that have blue crab holes. There are more mangroves, but they can't be dug. If you can wait to come out of the hole, night is the best time. When it gets dark, blue crabs will come out of the hole to look for food. After ten minutes, the first one is harvested, and another ten minutes later Another blue crab was found.

"Is this the rhythm of getting rich?"

Zhao Dahai's eyes widened, not letting go of any inch scanned by the flashlight.

(End of this chapter)