1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 269 Quick, Check the Ship
Hearing this, Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai acted quickly and rushed to pull one of the fishing lines onto the boat.

Liang Ziqiang also pulled up a fishing line with Zhu Tianpeng to check the situation.

The upper hook was calm and there was no fish. The needlefish on the surface were too small to bite the iron hook.

I pulled again, but there was no fish caught by the iron hook in the middle layer.

Until fish appeared on a few hooks almost at the end.

Its body is as flat as paper, one side is yellow and black, the other side is white, and its eyes are squeezed on the same side of the body.

Somewhat similar to the toothfish, but with the head facing in the opposite direction.

Apparently, it's plaice.

"A valuable walleye fish!" Liang Tiancheng was overjoyed.

But the next second, my father poured cold water on my head:
"You've been going out to sea with me for so many years, what have you been thinking about? This is not a puffer fish, this is a flathead fish. Puffer fish are rounder and have no scales on their bodies. Remember this now!"

Liang Tiancheng was immediately a little discouraged. Although the puffer fish is similar to the flathead fish, the price is almost three times that of the latter.

Liang Ziqiang was also a little disappointed. Last time they caught a walleye fish, also known as Konoha flounder, halfway through the trip and sold it for 80 cents.

The flatfish in front of us is another type of flatfish, called high-eye flatfish. High-eye flatfish is only about three cents at most.

But among the fish they caught today, it was still expensive, at least much more expensive than the skinned fish.

After checking this one, Liang Ziqiang did not continue to collect his fishing line. He planned to stay here for a while longer so that the hooks on the bottom could catch more flathead fish.

After waiting for more than two hours, it was already afternoon.

"There are fish on the hooks below!" Zhu Tianpeng exclaimed.

As they pulled the fishing lines into the boat one by one, they found that almost every hook had fish, as long as it was the bottom hook. And the types of fish were all the same, all the flathead fish in front.

There are about three or four hooks closest to the bottom of each line. With more than 20 lines in total, Liang Ziqiang has caught 70 to 80 flathead carps.

Reeling in and picking up the fish is also very tedious and time-consuming. After collecting this wave of flathead fish, it was getting late, so several people decided to return.

Liang Ziqiang walked back to the cabin, ready to turn the boat around and return.

When he was about to step into the cabin, he suddenly retracted his foot.

A large red object suddenly caught my eye on the plank inside the cabin. If I hadn't retracted my feet quickly, I would have almost stepped on it.

Peace knot!
This was before he got married. Chen Xiangbei was always thinking about his voyages, so she secretly wove a peace knot for him and told him to hang it in the cabin every day, saying it would accompany him safely on his voyage.

It seemed to be hanging in the cabin this morning. I didn't notice it because I was busy just now, and I don't know when it fell to the ground.

He quickly bent down to pick it up, and upon closer inspection, he found that the small red rope used to hang it had broken.

Maybe it's because the thin rope has aged over time or has been worn out by the shaking!
"Isn't this thing hanging in the cabin? How did it fall off?" Zhu Tianpeng came over and asked him after seeing it.

My father's boat happened to pass by and he saw him staring blankly at something, so he asked him loudly:
"Aqiang, what are you looking at? Isn't this the peace knot? Why is the string broken?!"

"Well, I don't know how it broke and fell off. I didn't pay attention to it just now." Liang Ziqiang replied to his father.

"Is it really broken?!" Liang's father's face visibly darkened, "How could this happen suddenly? This is something we should be concerned about, and it should not be taken lightly. You quickly get into the boat and check the engine and steering wheel, and I will check my side right away. Li Liangni, you'd better check your own boat too!" Liang Ziqiang: "..."

He felt that his father was somewhat over-stretched.

This is because the red rope broke and the safety knot fell to the ground. It shouldn't be a disaster right away, right?

But since his father had said so, he still returned to the cabin and carefully checked his diesel motor and steering wheel.

His boat is almost the newest boat in the village. Everything about it is still as new and sturdy as when he first bought it. Upon closer inspection, there is no problem at all.
Apparently, after checking with his father and Li Liang, there was nothing wrong.

Despite this, the three boats still sailed slower and steadier than usual. When they saw some sporadic fish emerging from the sea on the way, they did not try to catch them but focused on sailing back to the shore.

Gradually, the coastline came into view. After a while, the boat finally arrived at the village shore and moored.

It was not until this moment that Liang's father's tense face finally relaxed.

"Uncle Fu, Brother Qiang is just a small pendant that was blown down by the wind. What's the big deal? We were too nervous just now!" At this time, Li Liang also felt that Liang's father was making a fuss and couldn't help but say.

"It's better to be safe than sorry! When you are on the sea and something like this happens suddenly, you should not be careless!" Liang's father still felt that there was nothing wrong with his nervous reaction just now.

"That's not right. We are fine after returning from the sea," Liang Tiancheng, who was standing by, suddenly scratched his head. "But this pendant was made by Xiao Chen and given to Aqiang. Xiao Chen will be fine at home, right? She is pregnant..."

Liang's father and Liang Ziqiang were both stunned.

The next second, Liang's father started to scold: "You stinky mouth, why don't you shut up! Aqiang's wife is staying at home, what can happen? If you don't know how to speak, don't speak!"

Liang Ziqiang felt that his elder brother was probably just like his father, believing in such things too much, which was why he was thinking about it and making blind guesses.

Although I thought so, but with my brother's words, there was always an lingering thought in my mind.

Next, Liang Ziqiang hurried his movements a little faster, intending to quickly clean up the boat, sell today's catch quickly, and then rush back home to check on the situation at home.

The fish caught this time include pufferfish and flathead fish caught by longline fishing, and needlefish, sea bass and white shrimp caught by casting nets.

The white shrimps have to be kept as bait for future fishing, and the others are sold.

The most abundant item was the horse-faced pufferfish caught from the bottom layer, weighing 541 pounds, at 7 cents per pound, or 37.87 yuan.

There were also seventy or eighty flathead carps caught with the iron hooks on the bottom layer, weighing thirty-six pounds and three ounces, or thirty cents per pound, or ten dollars and eighty-nine cents.

The amount of needlefish caught with a cast net was 62 jin, which cost 0.1 cent per jin, or 6.2 yuan.

The weight of spotted sea bass is 13.5 jin, 0.40 yuan per jin, which costs 5.40 yuan.

The total sales of several types of fish were sixty dollars and thirty-six cents.

The total income cannot be compared with that of the last longline fishing. The difference is that there is no valuable blood-sucking fish lamprey like last time.

Although there are a lot of horse-faced pufferfish this time, it’s a pity that they are too cheap. It would be better to catch relatively valuable fish.

After paying the three yuan salary, Liang Ziqiang, with the remaining fifty yuan, did not stop and hurried home.
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