1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 291 The old nest is found, it is simply a treasure trove
"Let's go!" Liang Ziqiang shouted towards the sea while pulling the dog leash.

Duobao had just been in the water for a short time today, and it was obvious that it had not had enough fun yet, so it was a bit hesitant. Liang Ziqiang urged it twice, and it swam back to the side of the boat, holding a porcupine in its mouth to show that it was not just playing around, but had not forgotten its job.

"Don't you see there are dozens of kilograms of porcupine fish on the boat? Don't you think yours is missing?" Liang Ziqiang was a little amused and pointed at the deck. Duobao then put the porcupine fish down, which was considered as completing the task.

In fact, Liang Ziqiang wanted to warn Duobao that most species of these puffy fish are highly poisonous and should not be taken casually if encountered.

But after thinking about it, Duobao couldn't possibly understand, so he should just keep an eye out when going out to sea. If he encounters a poisonous pufferfish, he just can't just stop Duobao from picking it up with his mouth.

Glancing at the pebble beach, I saw the fur seal was busy, carefully selecting the small pebbles on the beach...

Judging from the situation, I'm afraid we'll have to stay on this island and return to nature.

That's good. There are so many porcupines in this area, so how can it be a problem to feed a sea lion? Of course, the most important thing is that there are a lot of small stones, enough for the sea lion to eat for several lifetimes...

Thinking of this, Liang Ziqiang untied the rope, raised the anchor, and started to leave the island.

The motor gradually started to sound, and the wooden boat slowly started to move through the layers of green waves.

After driving about five or six meters, Liang Ziqiang suddenly heard a loud and strange cry coming from the island beach.

Looking back, I saw that the sea lion finally realized that the wooden boat had quietly left.

The sea lion suddenly panicked, and his helpless expression was almost clearly shown through his dog face.

He threw the stone he was eating with relish away, screamed strangely, turned around and ran towards Liang Ziqiang's wooden boat.

But its speed on land was ridiculously slow, it rolled and crawled, ran and shouted, and after only a few steps, the pebbles on the ground were slapped and splashed everywhere. It was called flying sand and stones, and billowing dust.

"Fuck! I thought it wanted to stay on this island? There was no reaction from the front, and now the boat has left, why is it so anxious? It's still dreaming, right?!" Li Liang said jokingly, amused.

"Brother Qiang, it climbed onto your boat with injuries. Although its injuries are almost healed now, you saved its life, and it hasn't repaid you yet. You should think about this carefully!" Deng Zhaocai laughed strangely, looking like a mean person who deserves a beating.

"If you want to repay a favor, you have to consider whether he is a bachelor. Ah Cai, you are the most suitable. I can introduce you. If you marry with a child, you can also be a ready-made father. It's not a loss!"

Liang Ziqiang was not going to indulge Ah Cai, so he immediately fought back. Hearing Li Liang cheering beside him, he said that his boat could be used as the wedding boat, and thus give Deng Zhaocai a "water wedding" on the spot.

Deng Zhaocai was so angry that he wanted to challenge Li Liang to a duel on the boat.

As they were talking, they saw the sea lion finally finish its extremely rough journey on land and jump into the sea with a splash.

Next, it was Liang Ziqiang and the others' turn to be dumbfounded.

Once in the water, the sea lion's speed quickly increased! It swam very fast, so lightly compared to its clumsy performance on land just now, it was like two different creatures.

It was originally about ten meters away from the wooden boat, but in a blink of an eye it was only five or six meters!
Liang Ziqiang tried to drive the boat faster, and the sea lions' swimming speed also increased, from five or six meters to three or four meters.

Well, one of its front legs is on the side of the boat. Damn it! It's crawling into the boat again!
Looking at the sea lion with wet fur and a glittering effect, Liang Ziqiang felt depressed.

The legendary dog-skin plaster? You can't get rid of it!
With a belly full of stones, shouldn't he just sink if he jumped into the sea? How did he manage to be as light as a swallow? Liang Ziqiang really couldn't figure it out.

"A Qiang, my guess is that this sea lion must have been suddenly injured in the sea and is now scared and feels that the sea is unsafe!" Zhu Tianpeng guessed.

Liang Ziqiang thought about it and felt that it should be correct. The sea lion was probably injured by the power of the fish bomb and had lost its sense of security in the entire ocean.

On the contrary, it was its own ship that provided it with shelter for a period of time, and its injuries were gradually healed on the ship, so this bastard probably thought that this ship was the safest place in the world.

Whatever, it had been there for more than half a month and hadn't caused him any harm. Liang Ziqiang let it go without blasting it and just continued sailing forward.

Then they searched for the island with lampreys. Last time they drove in this direction and accidentally entered the pufferfish island, so this time they drove in the opposite direction.

After sailing for a while, we did not see any other islands on the vast sea.

"Liangzi, you must have dreamed about what your grandfather said. Where is the island here?!" Deng Zhaocai had to express his doubts to Li Liang.

"Damn it, I still remember which room my grandfather and I were sitting in when we talked. Dream on you!" Li Liang said angrily.

"Okay, stop arguing and look for it again!" Zhu Tianpeng felt a headache when he heard them arguing, so he quickly tried to calm things down.

"Let's look for it. Maybe it's farther and more remote than the Pufferfish Island?" Liang Ziqiang also said.

After driving a little further, we didn't see the island, but suddenly we heard the sound of splashing water about ten meters away.

Countless small fish suddenly appeared out of nowhere and jumped around in the sea.

He jumped high out of the water, spun in the air, and fell back into the water, making it look like a fish was falling from the sky.

Wherever the little fish go, the originally calm sea surface becomes like a pot of boiling porridge.

At the same time, Liang Ziqiang suddenly heard several strange growls coming from behind him.

Looking back, I saw that the sea lion's body was tense and the iconic "antennas" on its face were shaking nervously.

The sea lion had been on the ship for more than half a month, but this was the first time Liang Ziqiang saw him so nervous, as if he was facing a formidable enemy!
This kind of tension seemed to be contagious. Duobao at the side also tucked his tail between his legs, breathed in his throat twice, then faced the sea, took up his stance, and started barking.

This situation made the few people who were not so nervous originally become doubly nervous.

"Oh my god, if we're not careful, we might have already sailed into the deep sea!!"

"Looking at this situation, could it be that I have encountered a shark?!"

Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai have already made their guess.

Liang Ziqiang also stared at the sea without blinking.

As if to confirm their guess, the originally tiny splashes of water about ten meters away suddenly collapsed into a trough, first concave downwards, as if some huge object had sucked all the water down.

Then, it rebounded and bulged upwards, forming a crest.

For some reason, Liang Ziqiang felt a sense of déjà vu when he saw this scene before him...

Where the wave broke, a huge fish emerged from the water, its huge mouth opened towards the air as if there was a suction force.

A dozen or so small fish that were jumping and running away all fell into the mouth of the big fish.

"What kind of shark is that? This is a yellow diamond!" Liang Ziqiang concluded immediately.

Among the four people present, only Liang Ziqiang had caught a yellow bream last year, and he recognized it immediately. No wonder he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity just now. The scene before him was quite similar to the scene when he caught that big yellow bream last year!
The difference is that the yellow diamond fish at that time weighed about 100 kilograms, while the one in front of him was only slightly bigger than last year's. The preliminary estimate was that it was between 100 and 200 kilograms, and the noise it made was even more shocking than last year's.

Just as the big fish fell, a water curtain rose up from another water surface a few meters away, and another big fish leaped into the air to prey on the small fish.

It can be seen that it is also a yellow diamond fish, but it is much smaller than the previous one, probably less than 100 kilograms.

"Damn! Two at once? I've never encountered such a big fish. Even though it's not a shark, it looks pretty fierce!" Li Liang was excited and surprised. He rubbed his hands and said, "Brother Qiang, do you dare to start? Your boat is big, so you can catch the big one and I'll catch the small one. How about that?!"

"Let's try it. It's more than a hundred kilograms. I haven't tried it before!" Liang Ziqiang answered, and then turned to Zhu Tianpeng and said, "Apeng, get ready to pull the net together. It will probably take some effort!"

Zhu Tianpeng was also a little nervous: "I'll drive the boat and follow, and you can cast the net when you see the target!"

Liang Ziqiang stood at the side of the boat with a net ready in his hand, while Zhu Tianpeng went into the cabin and drove the boat to follow the trail of the big yellowtail fish.

As they were getting closer, the big yellowtail fish leaped into the air again, shaking out a curtain of water. A lot of water splashed onto the boat, soaking Liang Ziqiang's shirt. Some of the water also splashed onto Duobao and the sea dog.

This momentum is indeed worthy of being called a "water tiger".

The sea lion is considered to be a well-informed character. It has supposedly seen sharks in the ocean. However, facing the extremely ferocious water tiger, the sea lion still shook off the water on its body and growled continuously.

Not to mention Duobao, he had never seen such a big fish before. He raised his head and barked, as if he was ready to pounce on the water tiger and tear it to pieces at any time. But in fact, his four claws were slowly retreating, which had already betrayed his true feelings.

"Move a little to the left, a little more to the left!" Liang Ziqiang loudly ordered Zhu Tianpeng.

Finally, it's getting close.

Just as the yellowtail fish was about to dive underwater, Liang Ziqiang decisively threw out a big net.

"Be careful!" Zhu Tianpeng hurried over and pulled Liang Ziqiang, fearing that he would not be able to withstand the huge pulling force and fall into the sea.

Not to mention, after the fishing net wrapped the big fish, Liang Ziqiang actually felt a force bursting out in the opposite direction, trying to pull him and his boat into the sea.

Fortunately, Liang Ziqiang's boat is not small, so this water tiger lacks the strength to cause trouble.

The two began to pull the rope tightly and work together to pull the net in. Although both of them were very strong, they still felt the swing force, and they both tensed their muscles, and even the boat shook slightly.

Although Duobao was a timid person, he finally braved the situation and trotted over, bit a corner of the rope with his mouth, and helped pull the boat onto the boat.

The two men and the dog tried their best and finally pulled the water tiger onto the boat and put it on the wooden board of the cabin.

The body is long and narrow, with a typical spindle streamlined shape, a cone-shaped head, a long and pointed snout, a large mouth and small eyes.

As soon as it was put on the boat, for some reason, it made eye contact with Duobao, opened its big mouth at Duobao, and slapped the board with its tail, as if challenging him.

Facing the arrogant water tiger, Duobao obviously took two steps back, but seemed to think that he could not lose, so he roared at the yellow diamond fish in the net.

The sea lion stepped back, as if it was somewhat afraid of the water tiger that had been salvaged.

I heard that the natural enemies of sea lions are mainly various sharks and killer whales. The water tiger obviously cannot be compared with those deep-sea overlords, but based on its size and ferocity, it is estimated that some sea lions have been injured by it.

Liang Ziqiang breathed a sigh of relief, stretched his sore arms twice, and ignored the confrontation between the fish and the dog.

"How are you doing over there?" he asked Li Liang loudly. He was so busy fishing that he had no time to check on the situation of Li Liang's boat.

"It's almost there. I cast three nets ahead and all of them failed! I don't believe it anymore. I must catch it!" Li Liang shouted, reorganized the situation, and caught up with them again with the fishing net.

Fortunately, after casting two more nets, I finally caught the smaller yellow mullet.

When they were about to pull it onto the boat, Li Liang said angrily:
"Damn it! I had to cast so many nets to get it. Don't pull it up! I'm going to drag it in the water!"

Why are you still competing with the fish?
Liang Ziqiang thought he was joking, but he actually tied the net into a knot and hung it over the edge of the boat, and the fish in the net was hanging in the sea water.

As the boat sailed along, the fish were dragged into the net. It was clearly a hand-cast net, but Li Liang made it look like a big dragnet.

Fortunately, his fish weighed only a few dozen kilograms, but less than 100 kilograms. If it was as big as the one on Liang Ziqiang's boat, he would not dare to play like this. Even if the fish is caught in the fishing net, it will still struggle for a long time in the water, and its swinging force will interfere with the fishing boat's progress.

Today I caught some porcupine porpoises and unexpectedly caught a water tiger. Unfortunately, the whereabouts of the "Blood Eel Island" are still unknown.

Seeing that it was still early, the two boats continued to sail on the sea, looking for small islands where a large number of lampreys might gather.

Before they knew it, it was afternoon, and there was still no sign of an island in the vast ocean. They had to accept the fact - the legendary Blood Eel Island either did not exist or was in the wrong location and was not in this area at all.

"Let's go back to the shore. The place we found is wide enough. It seems that there are really no other small islands nearby!" Liang Ziqiang estimated.

"I've already said that this area doesn't look like there is an island. Your grandfather's words are unreliable!" Deng Zhaocai has already started to talk after the fact.

"Li Liang, you've been dragging your feet for so long. Why don't you pull the fish onto the boat? Check quickly to see if the fish has been hit to death!" Zhu Tianpeng reminded Li Liang.

Because Li Liang hung the yellowtail fish together with the net close to the side of the boat, the fish's head was constantly hit by the side of the boat during the journey, which was really a problem.

The fun was almost over, so Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai pulled the net up together, intending to pull it onto the boat.

As soon as the fishing net was put on the boat, the two men exclaimed:
"Oh my god, what is this? Isn't this the weird blood-sucking eel? There are so many lampreys stuck on the yellow diamond fish!"

"What did you say?!" Liang Ziqiang was shocked when he heard this and instinctively turned his eyes to the larger yellow diamondback fish he had caught on his boat.

The fish is completely bare, there is nothing on it!
In fact, there was no need to look, it was definitely gone. If there was something attached to it, it would have been discovered as soon as he pulled the net and pulled the fish aboard.

The lamprey is such an eye-catching thing that it is bound to dazzle your eyes. You can’t ignore it even if you want to!
"No," Liang Ziqiang said in confusion, "This is not right. The two fish are active in the same sea area. If there are lampreys, there should be more on this big yellow mullet."

He thought for a moment and then asked Li Liang, "Think carefully, when you first caught that yellow diamond, was there a lamprey on it?"

Li Liang and Deng Zhaocai both thought about it and said, "No, I'm sure that I was naked at the time. I really didn't have any!"

"Turn around quickly and drive back, and go back along the road we just drove along!" Liang Ziqiang decided immediately.

He realized that their thinking was restricted and they were always busy looking for the island.

Is it possible that the nest of lampreys is indeed in this area, but not on any island?

It is very likely that a large number of lampreys have been gathering in a certain special terrain area underwater for a long time!

(End of this chapter)