1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 166: The Hermes of Shrimp, the Slippery Shrimp

The weather was pretty good today. There were four people and three boats. When we arrived at Xiangluo Island, we saw several figures on the beach, bending over and looking for something.

"Are they still looking for blood clams?" Deng Zhaocai asked loudly over here.

In fact, there is no need to ask, you can tell at a glance.

It seems that the fact that someone lost his life while picking blood clams has not affected their enthusiasm for finding blood clams at all.

Just looking at the way they were searching, it was obvious that there were only a few blood clams to pick up on the beach.

After all, there was no wind last night. Even if there were wind and waves every day, there would be no way that so many blood clams could roll up from the mud in this area.

Liang Ziqiang ignored them and began to search the sea for the submarines he had dropped a few days ago.

Because of the wind and rain those days, there were small waves in the sea, and the position of the seabed had obviously changed. It took Liang Ziqiang some time to drive back and forth.

Fortunately, with Xiangluo Island as a reference, the overall range was determined. After searching for a long time, Liang Ziqiang finally found his own buoy.

After all, it was left on the seabed for a long time this time, and when it was pulled up, it did feel a little heavier than usual.

When they were put on the boat, Liang Ziqiang's eyes lit up. There were quite a few shrimps crawling on the seabed.

In fact, white shrimps, mantis shrimps and the like usually appear on the seabed, which is not surprising, but the main species this time is another kind of shrimp - the slippery shrimp.

The slippery shrimp, also known as the Penaeus hassellii, is one of the easiest seafood to catch using the seabed trap fishing gear, along with the whitebait and dragonhead fish.

But for some reason, there were not many slippery shrimps appearing in the seabed fish that had been released on Guanqi Island for a long time.

It seems that there are indeed relatively more snails and shrimps in the Xiangluo Island area.

The shell of the slippery shrimp varies with the season. In the first half of the year, it is a pink-shelled slippery shrimp with a small amount of roe; in the second half of the year, it turns into a green-shelled slippery shrimp, that is, a slippery shrimp with roe, which contains up to 60% roe.

This kind of shrimp is tender and delicious, and the price is quite attractive. Among the various types of shrimp in their area, hair shrimp and mantis shrimp are relatively cheap, and red shrimp and green shrimp are easier to sell, and can be sold for 45 cents.

This kind of slippery shrimp is sold at 70 cents, which is much more expensive than red shrimp and green shrimp! Later generations even jokingly called the Hermes of shrimp.

Of course, compared with the prawns at 1.2 yuan, it is still cheap.

"Brother Qiang, how are things going over there? My first net has goby shrimps and whitebait, but fortunately there are also many valuable slippery shrimps!" Li Liang asked as he poured fish onto the deck.

"Like you, I also have a lot of slippery shrimps! After all, I left them out for a few more days. It looks like this net has about ten pounds more than usual." Liang Ziqiang replied as he continued to search.

This time, because we came out late and the seabed was moving quite rapidly, it took some effort to find three photos. It was already noon by then.

People were hungry, so the three boats sailed to the reefs of Xiangluo Island and started to get something to eat.

Liang Ziqiang used the boat's trotter to cook a dozen worthless dragonhead fish as a dish. Fortunately, the staple food did not need to be cooked. Chen Xiangbei carefully prepared shrimp dumplings for him. The quantity was quite large, enough for him to eat.

The shrimp dumplings are already cold. It’s okay to eat them directly in summer, but they still need to be heated up in this season.

Seeing him eating shrimp dumplings, Lin Baixian took the initiative and ran to his boat without being asked.

Liang Ziqiang was already used to him eating for free, so he immediately gave him a few shrimp dumplings and asked him:

"It's your first time to release a submarine. Did you encounter any problems?"

Unlike Liang Ziqiang, who was releasing while collecting, Lin Baixian was here simply to release the underwater rockets, and the ones he released were the ones that the four of them had just released the day before.

"Fortunately, it's much easier to set up an underwater tunnel than to make one!"

"You're fucking lazy. You want me and Li Liang to help you finish it!" Liang Ziqiang exposed him.

"By the way, when your mother came back that day, did she hit you or your father with the broom?" Liang Ziqiang asked while eating shrimp dumplings.

He was quite curious about whether the Lin family succeeded in framing Lin's father when two chickens and ducks were lost that day. Anyway, whether it was Lin Baixian or Lin's father who was beaten, Liang Ziqiang thought it would be more interesting to hear about it, and it would be best to talk about it during lunch.

But the answer was quite unexpected. Lin Baixian said sullenly, "My father and I were both beaten!"

"Damn it, your mother is trying to implicate you all, right? Why did she beat both of you?" Liang Ziqiang was surprised.

"There is no such thing as joint responsibility. The chicken and duck incident was pinned on my dad, and he didn't even cry out when he was beaten."

"how about you?"

"I discussed it with my parents, and asked them to prepare the betrothal gifts as soon as possible and go directly to Yuan Xiaomei's house to propose marriage, while the news of Yuan Xiaomei's husband being killed was spreading in the village, so as not to be overtaken by that bastard Li Liang. But as soon as I made this request, my parents reconciled on the spot and beat me up together!" Lin Baixian said with a fiery look on his face.

"..."

Liang Ziqiang didn't know what to say.

Afraid that his son would be killed by Yuan Xiaomei, so he just beat him to death in advance?
Liang Ziqiang comforted him a few words and went to turn the fish over in the pot, making sure it wasn't overcooked.

When he finished cooking the dragon head fish, he came out and saw that Li Liang had come to his boat. At this moment, Li Liang and Lin Baixian were pulling up their sleeves and pointing at the bruises on their arms.

Liang Ziqiang heard this and Li Liang was also beaten by his family.

The two rivals, who were eyeing each other with eager eyes, actually found a common topic after being beaten by their families and had a great time chatting...

After lunch, the few of them returned to the boat without delay and continued to salvage the submarine.

Liang Ziqiang finally found the last remaining underwater rocket he had, but it was a bit far away and had deviated seriously from the spot where he had originally placed it.

When he pulled it up, he immediately felt that this one was heavier than the previous three, so he must have caught a lot of fish.

When he pulled it onto the boat, he found that the bag was bulging. It was not only fuller than the previous three catches, but it was fuller than all the deep-sea fish he had ever released.

There are sea bass, swimming crabs, and there are also many slippery shrimps, as well as a lot of plum fish...

He couldn't help but grin, but halfway through his smile, his expression froze.

There was a smell of stale fish, or even a stench!
When I poured it out, I found that most of the fish inside were already stiff, and the stench really came from these fish.

In theory, one of the great advantages of seabed diving is that the fish are naturally carried into the pocket by the ocean current, and they will hardly be scratched or bruised during the whole process. Therefore, when they are retrieved, the fish and shrimp inside are very fresh.

There was an exception this time. Liang Ziqiang thought about it and thought that it was probably because the bag was too full and was constantly squeezed. In addition, it had been left here for several days without being collected, so some of the plum fish could not hold on any longer.

He looked carefully at the other fish and shrimps, and fortunately none of them had the same problem.

Excluding the loss of the whitebait, the income from the remaining red crabs and slippery shrimps should be comparable to that of the other bags.

After returning to the village this time, I sold fish to Zheng Liu. Shrimp became the main source of income, followed by red crabs. Since some of the plum fish were lost, the number was not as good as before.

Four underwater scorpions were left in the sea for four days, and the total income was 81.5 yuan, which was still 10 yuan more than if they were left in the sea for only two days.

While walking along the pier, I heard the village loudspeaker announcing that tomorrow would be a nice sunny day, and even the temperature would rise briefly for most of the day.

"I don't know if the weather forecast is accurate this time. If the weather is good tomorrow morning, let's go fishing for grouper together again?" Liang Ziqiang asked Lin Baixian as they walked.

"Okay, I'll exchange my fishing money for a wire rod tonight. Oh, and I'll learn from my lesson this time. I'll have to prepare some fish for bait!"

"There's more to prepare tonight. I've already agreed with Manager Du to give him more grouper. One day is not enough."

"Damn, I almost forgot. We have to stay on the island for several days, so there are a lot of things to prepare. I'll go home and get ready..."

The two of them went their separate ways and began to prepare for tomorrow...

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