1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 286 The Sea Dog Injured by the Bomb
At this moment, Liang Ziqiang was manipulating the course in the cabin, getting closer to some floating blackfin mullets, while Zhu Tianpeng was standing by the side of the boat, responsible for casting nets to catch fish.

Duobao's abnormal behavior attracted Liang Ziqiang's attention. He looked out of the cabin and saw an unknown creature climbing up the ship along the side of the ship!

Zhu Tianpeng also heard a strange noise behind him. He turned his head and saw with his own eyes that thing flipping over from the other side of the boat. The fishing net in his hand froze immediately and he shouted "Oh shit!"
Liang Ziqiang instinctively picked up the thick wooden stick on the boat and walked towards the thing.

Zhu Tianpeng also stretched the fishing net in his hand and held it in front of his chest, preparing to use the fishing net as a self-defense tool.

Not to mention Duobao, who let out a low growl from his throat and was already in combat mode.

The two men and the dog surrounded an uninvited guest who suddenly appeared, staring at each other.

"Fuck, Qiang, I just saw something as big as a dwarf flipping into your boat. What is it?!"

On the other boat, Li Liang had already started shouting, and Liang's father, Lin Baixian and others also asked questions.

"It should be a sea lion, right?!" Zhu Tianpeng speculated.

"This is not a sea lion." Liang Ziqiang shook his head.

The uninvited guest who boarded the boat was about one and a half meters long and probably weighed 70 to 80 kilograms.

This guy is black and brown all over, with a lighter belly. His head is particularly round, his ears are very small, and his whiskers are hard and long like several antennas.

Its limbs were very interesting, like feet but not feet, with obvious fins. At this moment, it used four things that looked like feet and fins to support itself on the boat board, half standing up.

Faced with Duobao's timid shouting, it did not retreat much, but just shrank slightly. Its particularly large eyes, as if they would never dry, looked at Liang Ziqiang and the others with moisture.

Just looking at the round head, it is somewhat similar to Duobao!
"A sea lion doesn't have such good fur, it's a sea lion!" Liang Ziqiang said affirmatively.

"A sea lion? I've heard of one but never seen one alive. Let me take a look. It's really strange. How can a sea lion climb onto a boat?!"

Lin Baixian, Li Liang and the others all drove their boats over. Even Liang's father, who was concentrating on catching fish, left the floating fish behind and came closer.

After getting closer, Liang's father confirmed:
"It really is a sea lion! Does this creature like to climb onto people's boats? I've never encountered such a thing before!"

Deng Zhaocai said excitedly:
"He looks quite old, definitely much older than Duobao. Duobao, your brother is here to see you!"

Li Liang rolled his eyes and said:
"Your eyesight is not good enough. Look carefully. It's a female sea lion. Look at her belly. She looks pregnant, right?"

Normally, even if it had climbed onto the boat by mistake, facing so many people watching, the sea lion should have become timid and turned around and jumped back into the sea.

However, the sea lion in front of him, hearing the noise, not only did not turn around, but continued to move forward in the direction of Liang Ziqiang and Zhu Tianpeng.

"Go down! Go down!" Zhu Tianpeng waved his arms and drove them away.

Only then did I realize that I couldn’t even drive him away.

Apart from moving a few times with difficulty, the sea lion had no self-awareness at all about getting off the boat.

"Blood, this sea dog is injured!"

Liang Ziqiang suddenly saw a trail of blood on the deck after it moved.

The female fur seal wrinkled her nose, the whiskers on both sides of her nose trembled, and she made a low and continuous call.

No one knows what it is calling out, but with its pair of big eyes full of pleading, it is not difficult to feel that it is full of begging.

Liang Ziqiang continued to look at its back and saw that there were wounds all the way down its back where its fur was torn.

"Maybe he was bitten by a shark?" Deng Zhaocai guessed again.

"It's not the deep sea, where do the sharks come from?" This time even Lin Baixian began to question Deng Zhaocai, "Someone is blasting fish, he must have been hit by the explosion!" "Ah Xian is right, he must have been injured by the explosion!" Liang Ziqiang nodded.

Seeing that the sea lion looked pitiful and harmless, and couldn't be driven off the boat, Liang Ziqiang ignored it for the time being.

"Duobao, watch it, don't let it run into the cabin!"

After saying hello to Duobao, Liang Ziqiang continued to drive the boat to salvage the blackfin mullet.

Since we only catch the floating fish on the water surface, we don't need to consider the underwater ones, so the waiting time is relatively short. After casting the net and catching a lot of floating fish, we quickly start to collect the net.

Most of the fish caught on the boat were blackfin bream, but there were also a few sea breams and occasionally one or two groupers.

The floating fish were very scattered, and it was already late when we finished catching them.

Liang Ziqiang looked at the two dogs on his boat. Duobao was still sitting opposite the sea dogs, but the alertness and tension in his expression had gradually disappeared.

At this time, Duobao stopped barking wildly, but whimpered twice in a low voice, and the sea lion also whimpered a few times in the same low voice.

I was feeling like I was facing a great enemy just now, but in a moment, we are already communicating?
I really don’t understand the animal world.

When they returned, they saw that the sea lion was clinging to the boat and couldn't be driven off, so Liang Ziqiang gave up trying to chase it away.

Mainly because of the pleading eyes and cries, plus the fact that she was pregnant, Liang Ziqiang couldn't help but feel a little sympathy.

On the way back to the shore, Zhu Tianpeng specially selected some worthless small fish from the fish he had salvaged and threw them to the sea lions.

The sea lion picked up the small fish and swallowed it without chewing.

Occasionally, when it encounters a larger fish, it does not chew it. Instead, it uses its front legs to tear the fish into small strips, stuffs them into its mouth, and then swallows them directly as usual.

Fur seals cannot chew. Their teeth are very special and they are naturally incapable of chewing.

When eating, they either swallow the food directly or tear it into pieces using their front flippers before swallowing.

When they got to the shore, several people pushed today's catch to Zheng Liu to sell it.

There were mainly three waves today. First, there was a batch of squids caught by longline fishing. Then, when Duobao jumped into the water to take a bath, he found a small group of fleeing blacktail winterfish. Later, a large number of blacktail winterfish that were killed by explosions were salvaged from the reefs.

Ordinary squids are only 1.8 cents each, so although the quantity is large this time, the overall income is not high; a hundred or so live squids weigh several dozen kilograms, and the price of this fish is considerable, 70 cents per kilogram, and they are sold for more than 30 yuan.

The most remaining ones were the black-tailed winter melons that were killed in the explosion. Unfortunately, their prices were greatly discounted and could only be calculated at 40 cents per pound, which still sold for more than 60 yuan.

The total income for the day exceeded 100 yuan, reaching more than 110 yuan.

Among them, Duobao was probably the one who made the greatest contribution. Without Duobao, it would have been impossible for the living Wuweidong and the ones that floated later to be discovered.

After selling the fish, I looked around and saw that the sea lion was still on the boat.

Liang Ziqiang guessed that it might need a dry, land-like place to heal its wounds, so he ignored it.

Let it be. Maybe it doesn't want to stay there at night and will turn over and go into the water.

Even if it runs ashore, the sea lion is not aggressive to people, and crawls very slowly on land, which is very cute. On the contrary, it may become food in the villagers' pot.

In the evening, I told my wife about Duobao's performance today, and she also praised Duobao a few words.

The daughter-in-law even threw two slices of pork liver into Duobao's dog food. Duobao felt that he had been greatly rewarded. The frustration of not having eaten meat during the day was immediately swept away, and he wagged his tail happily.

(Two cute pictures of sea dogs have been posted in the "Chapter Comments" comment below this chapter. Click the words "6 comments" to expand the pictures. I just found out that only the Qidian app on mobile phones has this function, and the computer version cannot view the pictures.)
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