1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 114: Catching fish and getting peed on
The footsteps of several people were a little heavy, just like their current mood.

When they returned to the place where they had just been fishing, the three of them were dumbfounded.

Before the incident, Liang Ziqiang had just caught a big fish, but he was so frightened by the sudden accident that he had no time to collect the fish.

Now, there was no need to think about catching the big fish. Even his thick fishing rod had been dragged down the seawall by the big fish and was now caught in the white waves, drifting further and further away...

It wasn't just him. Seven or eight men from Changwang Village who were simultaneously fishing with white foam on the embankment had almost the same experience: all their fishing rods fell off the seawall.

It was so neat, as if the fishing rods had been confiscated by the sea.

After all, no one expected that such a tragedy would happen when fishing on the embankment was in full swing. No one was mentally prepared...

Without the tools, white foam fishing could not continue. The three of them had no choice but to carry the buckets and go home for lunch.

Fortunately, we caught a lot of fish in the morning, and the sea bream was relatively worthwhile, so we didn't feel so bad about the loss of the fishing rod.

When he got home, Liang Tiancheng looked into his bucket and said:
"You really caught so many fish in this morning? Hey, black wife, you even caught one?!"

Chen Xiangbei was picking and washing vegetables. When he heard that a wife had been caught, he ran over curiously to see, "Which one? Where is she?"

When Liang Ziqiang pointed it out to her, she shook her head and said, "So the old lady fish is so ugly!"

"What's wrong with being ugly? Isn't the spotted sea bass prettier than it? The black wife is several times more expensive than the spotted sea bass!"

"Really? It doesn't look that ugly..." Chen Xiangbei's taste is so erratic, and it fluctuates with the price...

Soon Chen Xiangbei prepared lunch. After the two finished eating, they found it strange that there was still wind in the morning, and it was only for a meal, but now the wind outside has completely stopped.

Liang's mother stood at the door and looked towards the sea, and said eagerly:
"I saw some people catching seafood at the beach. The wind and waves these days must have washed up a lot of things. The wind died down this afternoon, so it's a good time to go and pick up more!"

Sister-in-law Kuang Haixia and Liang's mother surprisingly agreed with each other: "That's right, we haven't been out to sea for four days, and the loss is huge. Let's go pick up some things at the beach now, it can be regarded as compensation!"

When Chen Xiangbei heard the two talking about going to the beach, she immediately showed some eagerness to try. Since she got married, she had actually only gone to the beach a few times.

Liang Ziqiang also looked towards the sea. The wind had died down and the waves were smaller, but the sea was not completely calm. The waves were still a little bigger than usual.

He didn't want to talk about the tragedy he witnessed that morning. But seeing that the four women in the family, including Lizhi, wanted to run to the beach, he had to say it:
"Mom, let me tell you something. I was fishing on the seawall this morning, and a group of people from the neighboring Dayu Village were fishing there because there were a lot of fish on the beach. A woman was swept away by the waves and disappeared in the blink of an eye! I saw it with my own eyes. It was really a pity that I couldn't do anything!"

"Is this true? I didn't hear you tell me when you came back?" Liang's mother was still a little suspicious.

"Weren't you in a hurry to have lunch when you came back? Didn't you notice that I took my fishing rod with me when I went out, but it was gone when I came back? It was because I got scared that I didn't notice the fishing rod fell off the seawall!"

As they were talking, someone passed by the door. An elderly woman greeted Liang's mother, stopped and said, "Qiuying, you know, there was a woman in the next door Dayu Village this morning..."

The vivid and colorful scenes were ten times more exciting than what Liang Ziqiang, an eyewitness, had seen. Liang Ziqiang had to express his admiration for the magical artistic processing ability of the old women in the village.

Anyway, the result is that after the storm died down, Dawu Village invited a metal boat, but still has not been able to fish it out...

Liang's mother quickly brought a stool out of the house and pulled the old woman to sit down:

"Do you know whose family it is? Did her husband cry? How many children are there in the family? How old are the children..."

The eldest sister-in-law, Kuang Haixia and Lizhi, actually moved their stools and sat around the old woman, listening with great interest...

Originally, Liang Ziqiang wanted to continue explaining the pros and cons, and dissuaded the women in his family from going out to catch seafood on the grounds that the storm had not yet completely subsided and they had learned a painful lesson.

Now, looking at the situation, there is no need to do anything unnecessary. Once the stools are spread out, they will probably chat all afternoon. They will probably not leave until it is almost dark.

Chen Xiangbei didn't join in the fun, but she felt a little regretful that she couldn't go to the beach to catch seafood while there was plenty of seafood.
"I was thinking of picking up some snails at the beach and frying them. We can't eat fish every day. It sounds like the fish you caught are quite valuable. Who would be willing to eat them..."

Seeing that she really wanted to catch fish and snails, Liang Ziqiang felt a little embarrassed when he thought about how he had promised her before that he would accompany her to the sea every day after they got married, but in the end he was so busy with the marriage that he hadn't had time to do it at all.

A compromise idea suddenly occurred to him: "Want to pick snails to eat? That's easy. You don't have to go to the beach! How about field snails? We can pick them up right now!"

"Snail is also good! Although we don't fish in our village, I also go to small ponds and canals to catch snails. When you eat them, you will know that my fried snails are very delicious!" Unexpectedly, Chen Xiangbei agreed immediately. The two of them acted as they said, picked up the bucket and walked out. Liang's mother stretched her neck and called from behind:
"What are you doing?! You advised us not to go fishing, but then you turned around and ran faster than anyone else?"

"No! The waves are pretty big, you guys shouldn't go today! Xiangbei and I are going to the creek in the field to catch some snails!"

When Liang's mother heard that it was about touching snails, she kept silent, thinking that it was much more exciting to chat with the old women in the village...

The stream on the other side of the vegetable garden flows out from that deep pool. There is more than one stream, some are big, some are small, some are deep, and some are shallow. It is the best water for the villagers to use for watering their vegetables.

There are fish, snails and clams in the deep pool at the foot of the mountain. Naturally, there are also some small fish, snails and the like in the stream flowing out of the pool.

Liang Ziqiang found a shallow stream, and Chen Xiangbei followed him into the shallow stream. When they pushed aside the sparse water plants, they found not only snails, but quite a few of them!
The villagers usually go out to sea to fish or pick up snails and clams on the beach, and they don't think highly of the small fish and snails in the stream. Therefore, unlike Huagu Village, there are not many people picking snails in the stream here, so there are naturally a lot of them.

"Look, this is how you pick snails, so you can pick them up quickly!" Liang Ziqiang said as he picked them up.

"I don't need you to teach me, I'm good at picking snails!"

Liang Ziqiang still didn't believe it, but when he looked into the bucket, he found that Chen Xiangbei's hand speed was much faster than his!
All I could hear was a constant tinkling sound. It was Chen Xiangbei throwing snails into the bucket.

"Hey, there are river clams here too, but I wonder if they are empty shells?"

A river clam was half buried in the wet mud, so Chen Xiangbei tried to dig it out with his hands.

"It's alive and quite big!" She was so happy as if she had found a treasure.

After a while, the river clams picked up five or six more...

The two walked along the stream, picking up things along the way.

Suddenly, the water plants at his feet rustled and shook, and Liang Ziqiang instinctively pulled Chen Xiangbei aside.

He is also afraid of snakes in the water plants!

As a result, when I looked closely, I saw a small bunch of grass stalks drooping, revealing a ball of grass green that was almost one with the grass leaves.

"It's a turtle!" Chen Xiangbei exclaimed in surprise.

The turtle was not small, as big as his palm. Liang Ziqiang saw that the turtle was about to escape into the stream, so he immediately stepped forward and put his hand on it!
I heard that wild turtles grow very slowly, only gaining 2 taels a year. The turtle in my hand must be several years old.

After being caught, the turtle was extremely unwilling to give up. Its front and hind legs, head and tail were all moving desperately in an effort to resist, and it used all the body language it could.

"It probably weighs about a pound. We have the ingredients for tonight's soup!" Liang Ziqiang said as he looked at it.

Unexpectedly, the turtle seemed to be very dissatisfied with his words and opened its mouth suddenly before he finished speaking.

"Ah--poof!" A stream of liquid spurted out from the turtle's mouth. Liang Ziqiang was caught off guard and was directly spat on the face!
He was completely dumbfounded. Since he couldn't win, he just spat a thousand-year-old phlegm at him?

Chen Xiangbei was also stunned for two seconds, and then she laughed like a waterweed swaying in the stream:
"A turtle spit on you? That's good. If you want to eat turtle soup, it will give you a hot one right away. You don't even have to wait until tonight..."

Having said that, she immediately used her sleeve to wipe his face. After wiping it twice, she suddenly looked disgusted and didn't even want the sleeve anymore:

"Why is there still a fishy smell? This is not saliva..."

Liang Ziqiang also smelled the fishy smell, right next to his nose, choking...

This is certainly not saliva, it is turtle urine!
Soft-shell turtles are so weird, they often urinate with their mouths!
Liang Ziqiang knew this, but he had never seen it with his own eyes! Today, he was peed on the face, and then he suddenly remembered it.

It can be considered an enlightenment.

He had never suffered a loss at sea, and his reputation was known throughout the entire Pomfret Village. But today, he was ruined by a little turtle in the gutter...

(End of this chapter)