1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 181 Selling Hairtail

The swimming crab swarm is not that dense, but looking around, the number is already considerable.

With one net, you can probably harvest 20 to 30 kilograms.

When we fished them out, we found that quite a few of them were plump and had paste.

Swimming crabs are not cheap in themselves, and swimming crabs with roe are even more popular and much more expensive.

The water temperature that swimming crabs can adapt to is generally between 8 and 31 degrees, but in fact, when the water temperature is more than degrees, their food intake will decrease and they will start to move to deeper areas. If the water temperature is close to zero degrees, swimming crabs will not eat at all and will be dormant. Some crabs will be frozen to death in shallow water.

In the South China Sea, some swimming crabs do choose to dive into the mud and sand at the bottom of the shallow sea, like ostriches, and stay there, hoping to survive the winter by chance and wait for the spring to come. But most swimming crabs still choose to swim to the deep sea.

The two boats followed the crab stream, scattering the crabs as they sailed. When the swimming crab stream gradually faded away, each boat had at least two hundred kilograms of swimming crabs.

What is a bit confusing is that the ordinary swimming crabs and some swimming crabs with roe are all mixed together, but when they are sold later, they must not be sold together. It will take a lot of time to carefully distinguish and pick them out.

After catching a lot of swimming crabs, Liang Ziqiang's stomach was rumbling. He cooked rice, steamed a few swimming crabs, and added Chen Xiangbei's steamed buns stuffed with shrimp to eat together.

At lunch time, the two boats came together and stopped next to the reef.

After finishing his meal, Li Liang saw Liang Zifeng and praised him:

"Ah Feng, you are indeed a talented person! Your love letter is really well written, and it moved me. I will find an opportunity to give something to Xiaomei in a few days, and give her this letter at the same time. I think I have a good chance of success!"

Liang Ziqiang reminded:

"What's the point of you doing these little things in private? You can't even get past your own parents. What a waste of time!"

Li Liang smiled somewhat cockily:

"You don't know this, my parents can't stand it anymore, they have already given in! Apart from me, who will carry on their family line?! It won't be long before my parents have to ask someone to help me go to Xiaomei's house to propose marriage!"

After chatting for a few sentences, I found out that this guy insisted on not coming home at night. After being snarled at his parents for a while, it was his parents who begged him to go back.

Outside his house that day, Liang Ziqiang heard Li Liang's mother speak very harshly, but he didn't expect that her harsh words would not last more than three or five days before she gave in.

But it is understandable if you think about it. After all, Li Liang has sisters above him and he is the only son in the family. This is different from Lin Baixian. Li Liang's parents probably don't dare to quarrel with Li Liang.

Moreover, Li Liang's father was too old to fish, so Li Liang usually used the boat when he went out to sea. In terms of economic status, he was also quite strong.

"Aren't your parents afraid that you will be unlucky now?" Liang Zifeng asked curiously.

"They have already discussed it. They are going to go to the next town to ask someone for a talisman. They said that if I carry the talisman for a while, there will be a way to resolve it..."

Li Liang's parents are really good at comforting themselves. But this step was taken beautifully.

After chatting with Li Liang for a while, they each returned to the cabin.

Liang Zifeng entered the cabin and whispered to Liang Ziqiang:
"Brother, I actually wrote more than one love letter..."

"what?"

"And Lin Baixian also approached me, and I wrote for him too!"

Liang Ziqiang said, "Just write it. Anyway, it's not you who has to make the choice, it's Yuan Xiaomei!"

Liang Zifeng agreed: "That's right. It doesn't take up too much of my time. I wrote almost the same words in both letters, except for the names. It saves a lot of trouble!"

Liang Ziqiang: “!!!”

"Well... there are some things that you shouldn't reveal to Li Liang. Otherwise, your help might make people hate you!" Liang Ziqiang reminded solemnly.

That's not how you save trouble, Afeng! Fortunately, this thing itself doesn't play any role in this. Yuan Xiaomei has no say in this matter. Who she marries must be decided by her parents. Playing with small notes, this is an old habit of Li Liang and Lin Baixian when they were in school to pursue Yuan Xiaomei, and they have not changed it.

Just before we were ready to go back in the afternoon, another wave of hairtail arrived, but it was smaller than the one in the morning.

This time, there were some slippery shrimps, and the four of them were excited to catch them. After all, slippery shrimps are much more expensive than hairy shrimps.

But before we even started catching the shrimps, a group of hairtails came out again, as if they were attracted by the scent of shrimps. They opened their mouths and gobbled the slippery shrimps, eating them happily.

They were happy, but Liang Ziqiang and his friends were depressed.

Although many hairtails had swallowed the slippery shrimps, they were immediately caught up with their nets.

But the price of slippery shrimp is 70 cents per pound, but once it enters the belly of hairtail fish, it becomes hairtail fish meat, which costs 20 cents per pound.

It's impossible for them to squeeze it out of the hairtail's belly on purpose, right?

This wave of hairtail, plus the one in the morning, means they have a bumper harvest of hairtail today.

I also caught some other fish like sea bass while waiting, but not many.

Seeing that the time was almost up, they started to return with a boat full of cuttlefish.

This time when we arrived at the big dock, we saw dozens of people surrounding the purchasing point.

Liang Ziqiang was surprised. Did everyone have such a rich winter harvest today? Why were they all crowded together and queuing up to sell their goods?

The closer we got, the more we heard the villagers talking and it seemed like something was not right.

"What the hell happened? Why was Uncle Zheng's fortune door smashed today? Who did it?!"

After approaching the purchasing point, Deng Zhaocai couldn't help but exclaim.

Liang Ziqiang discovered that a big hole was smashed in the wooden door of the purchasing point. Looking into the room, he saw several stools lying on the ground, and all the large and small scales had fallen off the table.

Zheng Liu and his helper Deng Fei were not in the room. Liang Ziqiang was a little curious and didn't know what had happened in the room before.

Someone took over Deng Zhaocai's words and replied:

"Who else could it be? If you walk too much at night, you'll run into ghosts. Zheng Liu was not sensible this time. The woman's husband found out. What man could tolerate this? He rushed to the door and beat Zheng Liu up!"

"What do you mean by immature? I think he just didn't pay enough this time!"

Liang Ziqiang and the others finally understood that Zheng Liu's attempts to attack from all sides and to show mercy to others had finally failed, and he was found and beaten by the man.

The villagers continued to discuss this matter. Zheng Liu was in the wrong, and it had nothing to do with the other villagers, so when he was beaten, not many people came to help him.

Later, a few villagers who came in to sell fish saw it, tried to mediate and pulled the two sides apart.

At this moment, more and more fishermen gathered near the purchasing point, all waiting to sell fish.

At first, everyone was very excited about Zheng Liu being beaten up, and the conversation was going on. But as time went by, Zheng Liu and Deng Fei still didn't show up, and the fishermen began to stamp their feet in anxiety.

"Zheng Liu is a stubborn person who never thinks about the consequences when he is having fun! It doesn't matter if he gets into trouble, but who am I going to sell my fish to?!"

"What should we do? We don't know any other fishmongers. Should we let all these baskets of fish go bad?"

The fishermen were getting more and more anxious. Liang Ziqiang was standing inside, and his forehead was sweating...

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