1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 231: A creative plan to catch the spring flood

"The six-line fish have all passed through, so why are there still layers of small waves on the sea surface?" Zhu Tianpeng looked at the water surface and asked in confusion.

"That's not right. Even if it's a six-line fish, it's not very big. This wave isn't very large either. It shouldn't be able to create a layer of small waves, right?" Liang Ziqiang realized this only after he finished a wave, and said in surprise.

"Are there a lot of big fish underwater?!" Deng Zhaocai took over their words and replied.

At this time, the midday sun was in full swing, circling overhead. They had been busy for a while and now felt so hot that they couldn't even wear the last thin piece of clothing on their bodies and wanted to take it off.

Deng Zhaocai took off his tight clothes without saying a word, revealing his fat but strong muscles.

Although the temperature has been rising over the past few days, it has never been this hot. To be honest, it doesn't feel like spring anymore, at least it feels like early summer.

After taking off his clothes, Deng Zhaocai said, "It's brewed. It would be more comfortable if there was some wind."

This guy just opened his mouth. As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of wind blew from the deep sea and blew straight towards the bow.

However, the wind was not cold, but warm. Liang Ziqiang frowned suddenly, and a sense of alertness appeared in his heart:
"Fuck! Even if the temperature rises in April, it shouldn't be this hot, right? Something is wrong with this place today. Turn around and retreat!"

The thin, barely noticeable waves, the sweaty heat, and the warm wind blowing from that special area of ​​the deep sea...

All these things combined made Liang Ziqiang feel that there was something unusual going on!
Although it is April now, it is still early for the dragon sucking water season in June. It is very likely that the small waves and wind in front of us have no necessary connection with the dragon sucking water.

But who would dare to bet on such a thing?
The bet was wrong, and the book ends right in this chapter.

When Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai heard what he said, the sweat they had just produced retreated:
"Damn it, there's still a month until the beginning of summer. Could the black dragon have escaped early?!"

Fortunately, it was only noon and the two boats had already made a lot of gains. They did not dare to fight any longer and decided to turn around and return to shore together.

While passing the strait, Liang Ziqiang looked at the cliffs on both sides, somewhat absent-minded.

Li Liang asked Liang Ziqiang loudly with some reluctance:

"The spring flood is still a long way off. We have only been dealing with it for a while. Will it never come again in the future?!"

"That's why I started coming here to look for the spring flood a month ago. The earlier, the safer. No one can predict the future!" Liang Ziqiang also replied loudly.

"It would be great if we could do it several times without any worries like during the winter flood season!" Li Liang said with a pained look.

"If we really want to have more spring floods, there are ways to do it!" Liang Ziqiang, who had been thinking about it, said.

"What else can we do?" Deng Zhaocai interrupted.

"This strait can be put to good use! I plan to get an extra-long floating thorn net, choose a cloudy day with a low temperature, tie the big net to the foot of the cliffs on both sides of the strait, and use the net to block the entire strait! Wait a few days and choose another cloudy day, come over and collect the floating thorn net on the boat, and leave immediately!"

As he looked at both sides of the strait, this idea gradually emerged in his mind.

The floating barbed net is a special large-scale net. It is called a barbed net, but in fact it has neither hooks nor barbs.

This net can be several kilometers long and hangs vertically in the sea, like an invisible wall erected in the sea water throughout the area.

When fish passing by here from several kilometers away, they will hit the net head-on.

At this time, the fish's fins will get caught in the mesh, and if the fish wants to go back, it is impossible. Some fish simply continue to rush forward with all their strength, and it is possible to break through the net wall. This is determined by the structural characteristics of the fish's fins.

Some shrimps were stuck in the mesh.

Some larger fish were entangled in the net.

Among the three situations, the most common one is the first one, where the fish fins are caught in the net. Therefore, this kind of net without thorns is called "gillnet".

The gillnet that has no fixed position and drifts with the waves in the sea is called a drift gillnet, or simply a drift gillnet.

The type that Liang Ziqiang was going to implement was to bind the two ends to intercept fish in a certain area of ​​water. It was divided into floating gillnet and bottom gillnet. After he finished speaking, Li Liang and the others were also surprised by his idea.

You know, the strait between the two islands of Longjuling is quite wide. To block the entire strait, a very long and large floating thorn net is needed!

But since several kilometers long barbed nets are feasible, Liang Ziqiang's trick is not impossible to implement.

It can only be said that none of them had expected that such a simple, crude yet clever method could be used to deal with the various spring floods passing through the Longjuling Strait!

April in the South China Sea is a very special month, with alternating rain and clear skies, and temperatures that fluctuate.

When it gets cold, it will give you a late spring cold snap; when it gets hot, it will make you sweat and the temperature is comparable to that of early summer.

Liang Ziqiang planned to come here on a cloudy day with low temperature to place the large net. After the net was set at the mouth of the strait channel, no matter whether it was sunny or hot and sweaty in the next few days, people would not have to risk coming here, but the floating net would quietly help him wait and catch fish.

Come back on the next cloudy day and it will only take a moment to take away the floating thorn net. There is no need to stay in Longjuling for too long.

In this way, even if destructive weather occurs during the hot days, at most only a floating thorn net will be destroyed, and people will be unharmed.

Moreover, the floating gillnet has a special feature: the fish are only stuck and their fins are caught, but they are not fatally injured. Therefore, even if they are hung on the floating gillnet for several days, when he comes to remove the net, all the fish will definitely be alive and well.

The solution was thought up by Liang Ziqiang, and there was only one channel across the entire strait, so Li Liang could only watch helplessly.

But he followed Liang Ziqiang's thoughts and his eyes lit up. Liang Ziqiang ate meat, so he could still drink some soup!
"Let's pick a cloudy day and throw all the sea bass that have been idle at home for several months into the water at Longjuling! We can come back and get them when it's cloudy again. We can still catch a lot of fish!"

It's possible, but the spring fish are mostly floating in the middle and upper layers, and there are also some at the bottom, but the quantity is not large. Of course, if you leave it for a few days, you can still get some fish from the bottom. Thinking of this, Liang Ziqiang felt that Li Liang's method was not impossible.

Upon hearing this, Deng Zhaocai became excited:

"This is great! I don't have anything else at home, but I have the most. If I buy ten or so, I can make a fortune!"

Li Liang thought: "If I have time, I will make a few more. There are a lot of fish here in the spring. I won't have to worry about not being able to catch fish if I put a few more!"

In fact, it was not just the two of them. Liang Ziqiang was also thinking about going out to purchase a large floating barbed net and also buying a batch of wire, anchors and the like to see if he could add a few more seabed barbs.

On the one hand, large floating razor nets are placed at the mouth of the strait, and on the other hand, seabed trenches are arranged in the waters near the reefs, without interfering with each other.

"Apeng, I think you can also make a few underwater slides quickly. Then we can come together and release your own underwater slides to catch some fish!"

Liang Ziqiang reminded Zhu Tianpeng.

As he is his good friend, he certainly hopes that in addition to the few dollars for helping him, he can also earn a little extra money, so that everyone can be happy.

"Huh? I'm here to help..."

"This doesn't affect your helping job!"

Zhu Tianpeng was a little stubborn, until Liang Ziqiang said this, he felt that it seemed to make sense, so he agreed to give the underwater diving a try.

Since we are planning to use a clever method of using large floating lancet nets to block the entire strait, we must definitely find out the width of the strait.

The two boats worked together to pull the rope. If the rope was not long enough, they would measure it in sections. After measuring, they would add up the widths of the sea surface in several sections.

This didn't take long, and the measurement was completed in a blink of an eye. After the measurement, it was determined that the width of the strait was more than 60 meters. With this data, Liang Ziqiang knew how big the floating lancet net should be when he returned.

The two ships did not dare to stay any longer and decisively left the strait.

The boat gradually sailed back to the coast of Pomwang Village. It was time to sell the first catch after the Chinese New Year and make money.

The second chapter will be sent out later.

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