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

Chapter 1053: Go to the fishing boat to see the scene

"what!"

"How did we almost forget about this?"

"Didn't we put out a few crab pots when Ding Dawen came back here? Let's pull them up now to see if there's anything in there, and get some good food."

Zhao Shi thought of this. During this period, whenever the fishing boats stopped, they would put some crab cages. The harvest was not good, but there were some stone nine-gongs or other snails, and sometimes even some crabs. It was definitely not profitable, but it was enough to eat. Moreover, the sea water here was very deep and the water quality was very good. No matter what was in it, it tasted very good.

Upon hearing this, Liu Lei volunteered, put on a pair of gloves, and started pulling the crab cage. He pulled up the first one and saw crabs inside. When he poured them out, he found three orchid crabs, each weighing more than one kilogram.

"No way?"

"Today looks like a good day, otherwise where would such good stuff come from?"

Shi Guangming came over and was very surprised when he saw the sizes of these orchid crabs. He and his people had placed crab cages here recently, but there had never been such a good harvest.

"Is there a school of crabs down there? Even if the school of crabs isn't very big, there should be at least a hundred or eighty of them."

A thought flashed through Liu Lei's mind.

"Yo!"

“It’s really possible.”

Shi Guangming didn't think much about it at first, but after Liu Lei said that, he thought about it carefully and realized that this was indeed possible. If there were other fish in the crab cage, such as Shi Jiugong or something else, it was hard to say whether there were crabs underneath. But now there was nothing else in the crab cage except orchid crabs, so the possibility of a crab swarm was very high. Even if the crab swarm was not large, there must be at least a hundred or so crabs. There were ten crab cages, so if there was a crab swarm, a lot could be caught.

Ding Chongshan and Lin Zuhua became interested upon hearing this and immediately helped to pull Xie Long. They soon discovered that all the crab cages were filled with blue flower crabs, and there were more orchid crabs in each cage, especially the last two, which were full of them. And the size of each cage was almost half of the original size, and all weighed more than one kilogram.

"what!"

"What did I say just now? I said there are schools of crabs here. Now it seems to be true. Not only are there schools of crabs here, but they appear to be quite large!"

Shi Guangming looked at the orchid crabs that were poured out of the crab cages, filling up two large baskets, weighing at least 150 to 160 kilograms.

"Why are you still standing there at this time? We need to put the crabs back into the sea!"

Zhao Shi reminded loudly that they had to put the crab cages down immediately.

Ding Dawen took Ma Baozhu, Ma Shijie and Luo Hongxia for a tour on the big fishing boat. As soon as he returned to the deck, he heard Zhao Shi shouting loudly to continue putting down the crab cages. He walked over quickly to take a look at the basket next to him which contained more than 100 kilograms of orchid crabs. He immediately understood what was going on and shouted loudly to the other people working on the fishing boat to come quickly. More people would make things easier. Ten or twenty minutes later, all the ten crab cages that had been pulled up were put down again.

"Ugh!"

"I wonder how big the crab swarm down there is?"

"We brought too few crab cages. Next time we need to prepare at least a hundred crabs on the fishing boat!"

Shi Guangming felt a little regretful because there were too few crab cages on the fishing boat.

"What are you thinking? How can you prepare a hundred crab pots on a fishing boat?"

"We can only prepare so many crab pots when winter is approaching and we put them out like we did last year."

Zhao Shi knew that Shi Guangming wanted to put more crab cages to catch more orchid crabs, but there were not so many crab cages on the fishing boat. No one would have thought that the place where the fishing boat was stopped would suddenly encounter a school of orchid crabs.

"Who would have thought that there would be a school of crabs in the place where the fishing boat stopped?"

Shi Guangming sighed. There was really nothing he could do. Strictly speaking, this was not the season for orchid crabs. No one would have thought that putting out crab cages would yield such a good harvest, and no one would have thought that they would encounter a school of orchid crabs here.

"Why should you feel sorry for it? There are so many fish, shrimps and crabs in the sea. Can you really catch them all every time?"

Zhao Shi pointed to the sea.

There are always fish, shrimps and crabs in the sea, and it is impossible for anyone to catch them just because they want to.

What Shi Guangming was thinking about actually didn't have much significance.

Ding Xiaoxiang immediately called the chef from the kitchen to come out and bring in the orchid crabs, along with the red snapper that had just been caught, and some other chickens, ducks, etc., so that everyone could have a meal together at noon.

When Ma Shijie and Luo Hongxia saw this, they immediately said that it was not necessary and just eat something casually.

"Sister Hongxia."

"If I sell these fish, shrimp and other things to others, it will definitely cost a lot of money."

"But on our fishing boats, it's really just fish and shrimp."

"Take this red snapper for example. It weighs more than 10 to 20 kilograms and can be sold for 30,000 yuan at the dock. But this is just the one that was just caught."

"These orchid crabs are all very good in size. They are 200 yuan each, no bargaining is allowed. No matter how many there are, as soon as they come ashore, people will rush to buy them."

"But on our fishing boat, we just put out the crab pots a few times and caught them."

"Moreover."

"Whether it's the fishing spot or the crab cages, they were all chosen by Da Wen himself. Now that we've caught the fish and the orchid crabs, they're not just ours, at least half of them belong to Da Wen. Now that you're on the fishing boat, you must greet them well."

Ding Xiaoxiang knew that Ma Shijie and Luo Hongxia thought these fish and orchid crabs were too valuable, and that they were all family and were just having a meal together, so there was no need to waste them.

"This is your first meal on this fishing boat, so you must eat something good."

"This matter is settled!"

Zhao Shi spoke.

Ma Shijie and Luo Hongxia were silent this time. Zhao Shi was not only the oldest and most senior, but he was also Zhao Dahai's second uncle.

Cab.

Ding Dawen looked at Ma Baozhu and was extremely happy.

After lunch, Ding Xiaoxiang and the others gathered under the awning at the back of the fishing boat to talk, chat and drink tea. There were only herself and Ma Baozhu in the cab.

"What are you doing? Why are you grinning like an idiot all the time?"

Ma Baozhu's face turned red.

Ding Dawen scratched the back of his head and continued to smile foolishly without saying anything. "That's right!"

"Yesterday at Hongyun Restaurant, Ding Xiaoxiang took good care of me, my brother and his wife. Today, they came to the fishing boat and had such a good meal."

"Isn't this inappropriate?"

Ma Baozhu remembered this incident and realized that the fish and shrimps he ate yesterday or today were very valuable.

"That's not a problem."

"What Ding Xiaoxiang said is actually correct. These fish are really valuable in other places. If you take them to the dock and sell them for thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars each, they are really nothing on this fishing boat. Didn't you see it just now? There are quite a lot of fish in this live water tank."

"The other one is that I work on this fishing boat. When I stop, the crab pots or fish I catch belong to me."

"Neither Zhao Dahai nor Ding Xiaoxiang will give up these fish, shrimps and crabs."

"If you calculate it, in addition to my monthly salary, I can also make a lot of money from selling the fish I catch myself!"

Ding Dawen told Ma Baozhu that he had a good salary every month. Most of the fishing nets were parked on the sea like this, waiting for Zhao Dahai to come back from fishing. Another one was used to transport fish back to the dock to sell. Most of the time, he had a lot of free time. When other people working on the automatic fishing boat had nothing to do, they would fish or put crab cages. The fish they caught or the fish, shrimps and crabs caught by the crab dragon belonged to them. It looked insignificant, but they could easily earn two to three thousand yuan a month.

"what?"

"Can it still be like this?"

Ma Baozhu was very surprised. She didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"You definitely can't do this on other people's fishing boats."

"Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang won't care about such things. As long as the work is done well and it doesn't interfere with other important matters, that's fine."

Ding Dawen knew why Ma Baozhu felt incredible, and felt that no one on those fishing boats would allow such a thing to happen, but on Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang's fishing boats, they really ignored such things.

"Why? Why don't Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang care about this matter?"

Ma Baozhu is very strange.

"Those other people don't make much money, so once you hire someone, you feel like you have to work for them and you can't do anything else."

"Zhao Dahai and Ding Xiaoxiang make a lot of money. Every time they go out to sea for a day and a night, they can catch several thousand kilograms of grouper."

"Why should I care about this?"

Ding Dawen didn't quite understand why this happened at first, but gradually he figured out what was going on.

Ma Baozhu immediately thought of the fish she had seen in the live water tank just now. Ding Dawen also said that these were the remaining fish after a lot of them were sold. If they had come two days earlier, there would have been more fish in the live water tank.

"Da Wen!"

"The more this happens, the better you have to work!"

"There's no such job as this!"

Ma Baozhu instructed Ding Dawen.

"Do not worry!"

"If you don't know this, then you really deserve it!"

"Whether it's me or the people on the fishing boat, the few people from the village who I found to help with the work all know that this job is very difficult to get."

“Everyone is working very hard!”

"I'm very skillful, but most of the time I really don't have much to do."

Ding Dawen was a little distressed. It was not that he and the others did not work hard, but that there was really too little work.

Ma Baozhu couldn't help but laugh. She could clearly feel that Ding Dawen was very satisfied with this job. The income was really very good, at least more than 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a month, which was already very good.

"Orb!"

"When are you going to ask my parents to come to your house?"

Ding Dawen is honest and simple-minded, but he is not a fool. Now that he knows that the biggest problem between the two of them has been solved, he should strike while the iron is hot.

"It's still too early to tell!"

"We can only make a decision after my eldest brother and sister-in-law come back and talk to my parents."

Ma Baozhu's face was as red as if it was painted red, and she was feeling very hot. Her mother knew very well that what Ding Dawen meant by "coming to the house" was actually proposing marriage.

Ding Dawen smiled foolishly.

There was a special shed built behind the fishing boat, with a large table underneath and several large basins placed in the middle. The largest basin was filled with whole cooked orchid crabs, another large basin was filled with various kinds of snails, and another large basin was filled with freshly cooked steaming sea bass soup.

"Is this how people usually eat on fishing boats?"

Ma Shijie pointed at the orchid crabs, various kinds of snails and sea bass soup on the table. This table would cost several thousand dollars. This was not a proper meal. They had already eaten. Now they just wanted to sit down and have something to eat.

"It's definitely not okay to eat like this every day, but there are definitely all kinds of fish, crabs, snails, etc. on this fishing boat."

"One is that Zhao Dahai can get a lot every day. He usually doesn't eat the big ones, but he can eat as many small ones as he wants. Another is that there are not so many people on the fishing boats usually, so it would be a bit of a waste to eat like this. There are too many things to eat."

"In fact, on this fishing boat, eating too much fish, shrimp, crab and other things is just a so-so thing. On the contrary, I prefer to eat meat or vegetables."

"Big fishing boats stop at this place, often for a day and a night, or even longer. They put out a few crab pots and the catch is enough to eat."

"For those of us who often stay at sea, we don't really have much interest in big fish, shrimps, crabs, etc. Most of the time, we eat small fish and shrimps, which taste more delicious."

"At night, the lights on the decks of fishing boats will attract many small fish. These small fish are not particularly valuable, but they are very easy to catch. Whether they are fried or cooked into soup, they are actually very delicious."

"Aren't you guys going to go home today? Wait until it gets dark and call Ding Dawen to take you to catch some fish like this, or you can wait until nightfall and go fishing."

Shi Guangming smiled and shook his head. Normally, it is impossible to eat like this. It is not that there is no such food, but there are not many people. It is impossible to eat like this. However, on this fishing boat, there is no shortage of fish, shrimps and crabs. People who grew up by the sea, especially those who stay on this fishing boat all day, really have little interest in big fish and shrimps. They prefer to eat small fish and shrimps, which are delicious when used to cook soup. In addition, there is no shortage of fish, shrimps and crabs, and they like to eat meat more.

(End of this chapter)