1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 247: Cow Shit Bream is Valuable, Bao Gong Fish is Even More Valuable

Just as the father and his two sons chatted for a few words, Zhu Tianpeng also came over.

Carrying fishing gear, four people and two boats headed south towards the Niu Shit Island where we were last time.

After driving for a while, we finally found the remote island.

It was already morning, and the sun was making the water around the island sparkle.

At first glance, the area near the island and reefs was very quiet. There were no large numbers of small fish and shrimps passing by, so naturally the sea breams did not rush out, but hid among the reefs without showing any signs of presence.

The four of them found two relatively flat rocks, moved some small stools, sat there and started fishing.

As for fishing experience, all four of them have it. Although Liang's father is old, he has gone fishing quite a lot in the past, in addition to going out to sea to cast nets.

The bait is tiny shrimps and krill, all of which are alive.

Every time he went out to sea and came home, Liang Ziqiang would keep some worthless small shrimps and raise them in seawater at home so that he would have live bait available when sea fishing.

After the hook is dropped, it’s time to wait.

The sunlight was getting stronger and stronger, but Liang's father was mature enough to put on a hat on his head as soon as he got off the boat.

At this time, Liang Ziqiang and others also returned to the boat, took the Li Ma and put it on.

When we returned to the reef, we heard Liang's father say, "In half a month or so, the fish should have almost all returned from the deep sea. By then, we can cast nets at sea and catch a lot of fish!"

It is true. Although fish have begun to migrate back since early April, there are still not enough of them. By late April or even May, there will be more fish visible to the naked eye in the shallow sea water.

At that time, the busy sea-going season will officially return.

Liang Ziqiang was about to respond when he heard his father exhale a puff of smoke and sigh:

"There are still two months and twenty days left, less than three months! Whether it's a mule or a horse, it needs to be taken for a walk..."

Liang Ziqiang didn't follow his father's thoughts for a moment. After a while, he realized that he was talking about his younger brother Liang Zifeng.

Liang Zifeng has been renting a house near the county high school for a long time. He only comes back occasionally and I haven't seen him for a long time recently.

There are less than three months left, so naturally we are talking about the official college entrance examination day.

Liang Zifeng had said long ago that this year's college entrance examination would be held on July 7, 8, and 9.

The date of the college entrance examination is different from that of later generations. In later generations, the college entrance examination is held in June, but in the 1980s and 1990s, it was held in July. In later generations, the exam was moved to June because it was too hot and affected students' performance.

From now on, there are indeed still two months and more than twenty days until the college entrance examination day on July 7.

Whether Liang Zifeng, the self-taught applicant, can achieve success in the exam depends entirely on the results of those few days.

What surprised Liang Ziqiang a little was that he didn't expect that his father, who usually seemed to be indifferent to Liang Zifeng's application for the exam, was counting down the days to the college entrance examination every day.

"Dad, I'll go to the county town one day to see Zifeng!" Liang Ziqiang said.

In fact, whenever Liang Zifeng came back, Liang Ziqiang would give him some money so that he could eat better there.

It had been a while, and he decided to take the time to visit him next time and give him some extra money.

Renting there would cost money for food and accommodation. He had promised to help his father and contribute to the effort.

"Just tell me if you're going, I'll go with you!" Liang Tiancheng also said.

As he was talking, he heard Zhu Tianpeng shouting, "Here it comes, I wonder what kind of fish it is!"

He suddenly lifted up the fishing rod, and his tone turned slightly disappointed: "It's a black porgy!"

Black sea bream can be sold for 60 cents, which is actually a good price, but they come to the island for the cow dung sea bream, and of course they hope to catch the cow dung sea bream.

"This black sea bream is not small. It alone is worth a lot of money!" Liang Tiancheng looked over and said.

The black sea bream had just been put into the bucket when Liang Fu and Liang Tiancheng also caught fish.

One is flat snapper and the other is black snapper. It seems that flat snapper and black snapper are the most common species on this island reef.

Soon Liang Ziqiang's fishing rod also moved. He lifted the fishing rod, and the sunlight flashed in front of him.

Unlike the black porgy and bull dung porgy in his wild imagination, it rose up from the water in a rose-gold color, like a bronze object covered with dew. It was a red porgy, which is the famous porgy among porgy - the true porgy.

"You're great, you got off to a good start on the first shot!" said Liang's father, smoking his water pipe.

The price of red sea bream can be sold for one yuan, which is still more expensive than black sea bream.

He took off the red snapper, put on new bait, and continued fishing.

Just now he was talking about his good start, but when he turned around, Liang's father caught a cow dung sea bream.

"Finally, a bull dung snapper has taken the bait!" several people said.

Immediately after Liang's father, Zhu Tianpeng's fishing rod also moved. It seemed that he had good luck today. He pulled out the same bull dung bream as Liang's father. Among the four people, he was the second one to catch a bull dung bream.

Liang Tiancheng did the same as Liang Ziqiang, he caught a red snapper, which was shining brightly and looked very beautiful under the sun.

After that, Liang Ziqiang's catches kept switching between common flat snapper, black snapper, and red snapper. On the contrary, he never caught the bull dung snapper, which was more expensive than the red snapper.

He came here for the bull dung sea bream, but he was unwilling to give up even though he hadn't caught any!
He was envious when he saw the other three people catching a cow dung sea bream among the black sea bream from time to time!

Just as he was feeling jealous, his own fishing rod started moving again, and this time it sank hard.

"You must have a big fish here!" Zhu Tianpeng estimated from the side.

As he spoke, Liang Ziqiang had already pulled the fish out of the water.

It was indeed not small, probably more than three pounds. The key point was that it was not an ordinary black sea bream, but the bull dung sea bream that Liang Ziqiang had envied for a long time!
"A Qiang, you either don't come, or when you come you bring a huge pile of cow dung! This one is several steps ahead of us!" The eldest brother Liang Tiancheng now envies him.

"I didn't expect there was such a big piece of cow dung hidden there!" Liang Ziqiang said with some surprise.

Now, he began to feel that this "Cow Shit Island" was a bit shocking.

Then, his father chuckled and what he caught was actually also a big bull dung snapper, just slightly smaller than the one in Liang Ziqiang's hand. It was estimated to weigh at least two kilograms.

"It's a good thing that I urged you to come here today. We finally came to the right place, this Cow Shit Island today!" Liang Tiancheng said to them.

The four of them kept talking about "Cow Shit Island" and no longer cared whether the island actually had a name or what its real name should be.

And this lump-shaped island lived up to the name given by Liang Ziqiang. In the whole morning, the four of them had caught quite a few bull dung sea breams, and none of them missed.

Of course, the most caught are black sea bream and flat sea bream. There are probably more than 20 of these two types in each bucket.

In fact, they were looking forward to another wave of prawns, shrimps and the like arriving at the island to lure all the snappers out.

In that way, they don't have to fish one by one. They can just cast the net and catch more than ten or twenty fish with one net. It is much more efficient than fishing.

Of course, this is something that can only be encountered by chance, so just think about it. They still held the fishing rods with peace of mind and caught fish one after another.

"I thought there were only snappers, but there are all these kinds of fish?"

In a blink of an eye, Liang Tiancheng caught an ugly fish, which turned out to be a black carp, also known as a black wife.

Black wife is not a snapper, but because it also likes reefs, it also appears among this nest of snappers.

"Black wife? Just laugh secretly, brother. I have sold this fish many times. It's 1.5 yuan, which is 20 or 30 cents more expensive than the bull dung sea bream!"

It seems that the black carp caught by his elder brother was the most expensive fish they caught on Cow Shit Island in the morning, instantly surpassing the Cow Shit Snapper.

As he was speaking, Liang Ziqiang's own fishing rod moved again.

When it was pulled up, it turned out to be a fish with a dark gray body color, charcoal-like shape, and a rather majestic appearance.

"Black Bao Gong?!" This time Liang's father looked over and shouted after recognizing him.

Liang Ziqiang didn't expect that there were so many sea breams on Niu Shi Island.

Black Baogong is also a kind of sea bream, but it is rarer than black sea bream and cow dung sea bream, and much more valuable than cow dung sea bream!

(Pictures of the bull dung snapper and the Baogong fish are posted in the "Chapter Notes" below.)
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