1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 176: Golden Fishing
The wooden boat was heading southwest.

At first, there were several fishing boats from the same village passing by on the sea. The villagers were obviously busy looking at the sea, searching for traces of fish.

The farther they sailed, the vaster the sea and sky became. Only Liang Ziqiang's boat was left, a small dot in the vastness, moving forward continuously.

After driving for a long time, the two islands facing each other formed a strait.

"The gate of heaven is broken and the Chu River is open! There are so many fish lying around..."

Liang Zifeng had just finished composing a line of poetry facing the magnificent strait when the style of his poem was suddenly distorted by the surging school of fish in front of the wooden boat.

"There may be more if we go further!" Liang Ziqiang suppressed his excitement.

He had noticed last time that Longjuling also had a relatively rich supply of phytoplankton and other food. The fish that had come south to avoid the cold weather were swimming from all directions, and before reaching the distant deep-sea wintering fishing grounds, they would probably stop by Longjuling to fill their stomachs.

The next moment, the boat arrived in front of the undulating reef belt.

"Longjuling, escape quickly..."

Liang Zifeng, who was standing on the boat, saw the five words at a glance and read them out loud.

"They say there is a black dragon here. Are you scared?" Liang Ziqiang asked with a smile.

"There is no such thing as a black dragon. It's all just rumors, supernatural powers..." Liang Zifeng disagreed.

"I can't believe it completely, but I can't completely disbelieve it either. You definitely can't come to this place in the summer, but it's very safe in the winter!"

The two men stopped for a while in front of the stone wall and then continued to drive forward.

"There are indeed more fish ahead. I have never seen a place with so many fish after the beginning of winter! Second brother, do you want to go forward? Do you want to start fishing now?" Liang Zifeng looked around and saw that there were fish shadows swaying all around his boat. He could not help but urge Liang Ziqiang.

It is not difficult to see from the large group of fish in front of us that it is the golden pomfret season.

Looking around, the light golden color stretches across the sky, dyeing the originally azure sea water in the Longjuling area into a pale gold.

The scale of this fishing season is probably second only to the large schools of golden pomfret they encounter on the sea surface in summer and autumn.

"Let's start!" Liang Ziqiang made the decision immediately after selecting a relatively densely populated area.

The two men pulled up two fishing nets, one on the left side of the boat and one on the right side, and began to cast the nets.

As long as it wasn't night, Liang Ziqiang would still be able to let Liang Zifeng cast his net without worry. He had already taught Liang Zifeng many times the details that needed to be paid attention to.

Liang Ziqiang found that the school of fish was not small, but the density was not crowded. When he collected the nets, each net held about 80 to 90 kilograms of fish.

After the net was pulled up, all the fish were dumped into the cabin, and then the net was cast again.

After repeatedly casting and collecting the nets, a small hill with a light golden luster was piled up on the boat again.

Liang Ziqiang hadn't seen this kind of scene for a long time.

When the golden pomfret in the cabin weighed several hundred kilograms, the school of golden pomfret did not disperse, but continued to move towards the deep sea, moving forward a long distance as a whole.

After all, the goal of this group of winter fish is very clear, which is to swim to that particularly warm wintering ground.

Liang Ziqiang could only cast his net to catch fish while increasing the speed from time to time, following the fish flow and heading towards the deep sea.

After catching two more nets, he slowed down:
"We can't follow them anymore. If we continue, they will take us to the deep sea. That's not a place a ship like ours can go!"

Both of them looked a little reluctant, and watched the school of golden pomfret disappear into the distance, but they were unable to follow them.

The fish were like a large piece of light golden tinfoil embedded in the sea surface, drifting away, getting smaller and smaller in sight, and finally disappearing without a trace.

Melancholy...

When he looked away and saw the pile of golden pomfret on the boat, Liang Ziqiang's melancholy was finally relieved a little.

Turn around and return to Longjuling. This sea area is their stronghold for sniping the winter flood.

After sitting on the boat and waiting for half an hour, a new wave of fish finally arrived. Liang Ziqiang took a closer look at the sea and didn't want to move anymore.

Thorny fish. I once caught a thorny fish that had vomited all over the floor. It was only five cents a pound.

There is no need to charge any toll for this. The road is wide, you can just run across it any way you want.

Swim faster and don't occupy the sea area of ​​Longjuling.

Unfortunately, this wave of thorny fish is not so easy to get rid of. It is so huge and wide, and it stretches endlessly, with no end in sight. I don’t know how long this line is.

Thorny fish particularly like to gather in groups, otherwise I wouldn’t have caught so many fish last time at night.

These are the thorny fish in the shallow sea that have all come from all over the place and have gathered here, right...

Not only did they meet up, but they also discovered that there were so many plankton to eat in the Longjuling area, so they swaggered around, stopped to rest, and ate a buffet.

They held a grand dinner in front of them and didn't take the boat seriously at all.

There is really no way to deal with them. This is a cheap piece of flesh, so it has nothing to fear.

After finally sending the thorny fish away, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

After a while, a small group of fish came. This time, they were dogleg fish.

Dogleg fish is indeed a little more expensive than thornfish, only 1 cent per pound...

With the reference of the thorny fish, the dogleg fish actually became precious in their eyes at this moment.

But Liang Ziqiang remained seated. The price of one cent was obviously not enough to impress him.

There are really a lot of fish here, one after another, like a revolving lantern. The two of them were fed up with all kinds of formations today.

While others were searching for sporadic fish on the sea, Liang Ziqiang had a look of disgust on his face as he watched wave after wave of fish go away.

After waiting anxiously for a long time, his eyes finally lit up.

The nearby water surface was sparkling with golden dots, and at first glance it looked like the waves were panning for gold.

It is a particularly pure golden color, coming from far away.

It looks quite scattered in the distance, like scattered gold powder, but when it reaches your eyes, it gathers into golden clouds floating on the water.

"Big yellow croaker?!"

When Liang Zifeng screamed, Liang Ziqiang felt blood rush to his forehead.

For a moment, Liang Ziqiang had the illusion of becoming rich instantly.

But then he realized the cruel reality: it was only 1983, and yellow croaker was not as valuable as gold.

It's only 40 cents per pound, which is not a very cheap price, nor a high-end price. It's just the price of the most common marine fish.

If this happened in the future, with such a wave before him, he would probably not have to go out to sea for half his life...

Compared with the thorny fish and dogleg fish that have been showing off in the sea before, the yellow croaker is still very good.

Even compared to the hundreds of kilograms of golden pomfret caught earlier, the yellow croaker is slightly more expensive.

"Pull up the net and start fishing!"

Immediately, the two of them drove the boat up towards the brilliant golden sea and picked up the fishing net.

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