1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 297: Catsharks are more numerous than last year
The little sea lion fell over after holding him for two times. After groping around for a while, he somehow found Duobao's belly.

The little sea lion put its mouth close to Duobao and started sucking the meat on his belly!

By the way, male dogs also have two rows of small fleshy buds on their bellies. Duobao's fleshy buds were actually sucked by the little sea lion...

Duobao's reaction was as if the whole world was cracking apart, and his dog-like face collapsed to the point of collapse.

Fortunately, the sea lion's front limbs reached out in time and captured the soft, round and blind little sea lion.

Pressed on its own belly.

This time, the little sea lion finally found its granary and started sucking it eagerly.

"A Qiang, what's going on over there? Is something wrong?" Liang's father heard Duobao shouting anxiously in front, and now saw Liang Ziqiang and Zhu Tianpeng both got into the cabin and didn't come out. He felt something was wrong, so he shouted towards them.

As soon as he asked the question, Lin Baixian and Li Liang also turned their eyes over here and asked questions.

"It's okay, it's that sea lion, it's given birth!" Liang Ziqiang said.

"It's born? What does the baby sea lion look like?!"

This reply attracted Li Liang, Lin Baixian and his eldest brother. They all moved their boats closer, standing on their own boats, with their heads crossing the space barrier and reaching Liang Ziqiang's boat...

"It's so smooth and shiny. This little thing seems to be more beautiful than the puppies in the village!" Several people who were watching from afar were talking to each other in a good mood.

The process of waiting for the eel to bite was a bit long and there was nothing to do. Now that there was a topic to talk about, time seemed to speed up quietly.

Soon, two hours passed.

This time when I lifted the fishing line to check, I found that the part of the catfish that was originally empty was also stuck to the lamprey, with almost no exceptions.

There were originally one or two lampreys on his body, but now there are more and more. Some larger catfishes have several on their bodies at the same time.

It was almost time, so they decided to retrieve all the longlines.

After Liang's father and Li Liang finished collecting, they waited for Liang Ziqiang for a while. Liang Ziqiang's boat was bigger and had more fishing lines than theirs, about 1,200 hooks. Not only that, he also had an oil barrel raft.

When the hundreds of hooks under the raft were collected, he found that there were basically lampreys on those hooks, but in smaller quantities. This might be because the width and range of the small trench were limited, and when it extended to the raft, it was probably the end.

On the way back to the shore, one of them drove the boat while the other began to process the catfish, using a knife to dig the lampreys out of the catfish.

Of course, only a small part was dug along the way. When the boat approached the shore, it did not return to the village, but went directly to the city's Sham Lo Wan.

This time, because the number of lampreys disturbed was very large, Du Ziteng called many people over according to the old method, and it took him a while to finish dealing with it.

The one who reaped the most was undoubtedly Liang Ziqiang, because he had a big boat with a raft, and the number of iron hooks was almost twice that of each of the others.

This time he had more than 69 kilograms. The price was 5 yuan per kilogram, which was more than 340 yuan.

Mr. Liang and his friends all spent more than 200 yuan.

After selling the fruits, he returned to the village and walked back to Juzipo, but he saw that in addition to his mother, lychees, and his wife, there was another person at home.

When I got closer, I saw that it was Yuan Xiaomei.

Yuan Xiaomei actually has one thing in common with Chen Xiangbei. They both don't like to run around the village or visit people, which is different from Jiang Xiuting who is very outgoing.

So Liang Ziqiang was a little surprised when he saw Yuan Xiaomei looking for Chen Xiangbei to play at his home.

I don't know what the two women were talking about. Seeing Liang Ziqiang coming back, Yuan Xiaomei stopped talking and stood up and said:
"Our Li Liang should have come back with us, so I'm going home first. Xiangbei, I'll come to see you next time!"

He said hello to Liang's mother and Liang Ziqiang and went home.

"Why did Yuan Xiaomei feel like visiting our house today?" Liang Ziqiang put away the cart and asked his wife.

"Two pregnant women, what else do you think she could do with me?" Chen Xiangbei told him, "She just wanted to ask me what happened when I was two months pregnant and when I started vomiting."

"Isn't it the same? He will start vomiting in more than a month."

"From what she said, it seems that she vomits more often than I did before. Oh, and she also suffers from back pain and bloating from time to time, which I never had before!" Chen Xiangbei said as she helped him take the basins off the cart.

As the two were talking, Liang's mother came over and interrupted:
"Backache only occurs when the belly is big. She's not even pregnant yet, so how could she have backache? When I run into Xiaomei's mother and her mother-in-law later, I'll have to remind them that they should be more careful about backache!"

Liang Ziqiang didn't continue talking to them because he was in a hurry to go to the shrimp pond to feed the shrimps. He picked up the bucket and took the hand net and went to the east of the village.

The next morning, I continued to prepare baits and tied more than 20 basins to the cart. When I was ready to set off, I suddenly realized that I had not seen Duobao all morning.

Normally, Duobao is always the most excited at this time before departure in the morning, ready to serve as a vanguard. Why is he nowhere to be seen this morning? Is he bored?

After looking around the house but not finding it, I decided to look outside the house.

Just as I was about to call Duobao, I saw a yellowish figure jumping down from the hill. It was Duobao.

Looking again, there was another figure standing on the hillside, with black and white patterns that looked quite handsome.

It was the little female dog in Zhang Baomin's house. Zhang Baomin usually called it "Xiaohua".

Duobao trotted over and as soon as he came in front of Liang Ziqiang, he eagerly stuck out his tongue and wagged his tail, as if he was trying to show his courtesy for no reason.

This look is just like the guilty feeling of a young person who was caught on a private date by his parents.

In addition, there was Xiaohua's expression as she stood on the hillside, watching them all the way.

For a moment, Liang Ziqiang actually felt regretful and felt that he had come at the wrong time!
Xiaohua kept looking at Duobao until he ran away, then turned around and ran away, jumping up and down.

"Duobao, you can do it! When did you hook up with Zhang Baomin's little bitch? You know how to pick!"

Duobao couldn't understand whether it was being praised or scolded, so it just kept a straight face and smiled the whole time.

Being busy with him at sea every day, he must be too busy to handle everything, right? Liang Ziqiang felt that he had underestimated his dog, who could actually balance his career and love life.

Arriving at the seaside, the four boats headed straight for Snapper Island. We were unable to go fishing for snappers as planned yesterday, so we had to go again today.

However, when the boat was about to get closer, Duobao's barking sounded again, each one louder and more excited than the last.

"What's wrong again?" Liang Ziqiang glanced at the sea surface roughly. Nothing?

But he would no longer take Duobao's behavior lightly. Time and time again, experience has shown that whenever Duobao behaves abnormally, there is usually something wrong.

"Are there more fish to pick up?" eldest brother Liang Tiancheng guessed.

This is indeed the biggest possibility. Duobao has used his sense of smell to identify the smell of explosives and found floating fish more than once.

Liang Ziqiang looked at Duobao again and found something different. This time, it didn't raise its head and shout at a distant direction, but looked at a certain direction of the water nearby.

"Turn the boat right and take a look!" Liang Ziqiang said as he began to adjust the course.

After driving only about ten meters away, Liang Ziqiang suddenly understood why Duobao remained so sensitive!
On the water surface, there was a shallow object floating. It looked like a small piece of stone, but more like a horizontal dead wood stump.

"It's strange that there is no island or reef in this place. Where did the stones come from? Is there a reef underwater?" Zhu Tianpeng asked curiously.

"It's not just one piece, there are several pieces not too far apart. It's quite strange!" The eldest brother Liang Tiancheng also looked around.

Although the "stone" in the water deliberately remains static and motionless;

Although the color and shape are indeed very similar to the reef with brown lines.

Liang Ziqiang recognized it immediately. This was not the first time he had encountered this thing. He had touched it before and even sold it for money!
"Where did the stone come from? It's a cat shark, a cat shark that hides in the water to catch seabirds to eat!" Liang Ziqiang said very confidently.

"It's moving. A Qiang is right. It's really a cat shark! There are more underwater, much more than we saw last time!" Lin Baixian discovered and chased the cat shark with Liang Ziqiang last year. He recognized it quickly after Liang Ziqiang.

As the ship approached, the carefully camouflaged cat sharks could no longer hide and more cat sharks began to swim.

The original small waves on the water surface were broken, stirring up irregular circles of ripples.

At this moment Liang Ziqiang realized that there were really a lot of them, much more than the dozens of cat sharks he encountered last year.

That time it was just a small group, this time it’s a large group!

No wonder Duobao was so excited.

The reason why Duobao is so sensitive to cat sharks is because of the three cat sharks Liang Ziqiang caught last year, which he kept in a basin at home. Later, Duobao curiously approached to watch, and the cat shark bared its teeth at it fiercely, and the two of them immediately confronted each other and almost fought.

With a dog's ridiculously strong memory, how could it not remember this creature with which it once had a grudge?

Needless to say, Liang Ziqiang and the others didn't notice anything unusual at all, just ten meters away, but Duobao keenly captured the scent of the cat shark.

"Good dog, you have done great things again!" Li Liang was already very happy and praised Duobao. Cat sharks can be sold for 30 yuan each. He sold them last year. Who can forget this?
"You can praise it to the sky, but it won't understand. You might as well buy it two pieces of pork liver to eat. That's what you call real!" Deng Zhaocai teased Li Liang.

It was a rare occasion that Li Liang did not refute Deng Zhaocai: "You are talking like a human being. Next time I go to the street, I really have to buy more pork liver for Duobao!"

As they were talking, several boats were getting closer and closer, and the people on the boats were holding fishing nets, ready to cast the nets.

Liang Ziqiang understood that catching cat sharks was not easy, much more difficult than catching ordinary fish.

Cat sharks are fast, agile and cunning, as evidenced by their ability to retain the presence of mind to disguise themselves as reefs in order to ensnare small seabirds.

Sure enough, the closer they got, the farther the cat shark ran. The faster they sailed, the faster the cat shark ran.

In the middle, they turned left and right, erratic. It didn't look like they were catching cat sharks, but rather that the cat sharks were playing with them and trapping them.

Fortunately, Liang Ziqiang was no longer fighting alone this time. Zhu Tianpeng was on the boat, cooperating with him in the cabin and adjusting the course and speed at any time. Liang Ziqiang only needed to focus on the cat shark in the water and shout to Zhu Tianpeng in the cabin from time to time to communicate.

Although the first net failed as usual, he successfully caught a cat shark with the second net. When he pulled it up, he found that it was similar in size to the three cat sharks he caught last time.

In fact, there are some relatively large cat sharks in this group, but Liang Ziqiang did not deliberately track down the particularly large ones. Because according to the last sale, the price is probably 30 yuan per piece, and there is no obvious difference regardless of size.

This group of cat sharks was also interesting. Facing the pursuit of four boats, they did not swim far away like last time, and later swam to the deep sea via Longju Mountain. This time, they avoided and did not swim far away, but just circled in this general area.

So from a distance, the four boats seemed to be circling the entire area of ​​water. If you don't look closely to see the cat sharks in the water, you will definitely think that they are possessed by a ghost and are spinning in a strange circle.

After another failed attempt, Liang Ziqiang finally caught a second cat shark. It wasn't a smooth catch, but it was definitely better than last year.

At about this time, Liang Fu, Lin Baixian and Li Liang finally caught the first cat shark after a series of failures.

Liang's father had more experience in casting nets than Liang Ziqiang, but the main reason was that he had never caught cat sharks before, so he found it difficult to catch them when he cast the net.

On Liang Ziqiang's side, every time he caught a cat shark and put it in the basin, Duobao would come forward excitedly and bark incessantly at the cat shark in the basin.

It seems that this is a retribution for old grudges, which has nothing to do with these cat sharks...

Liang Ziqiang had no time to care about Duobao's old grudges in the underworld, and was busy fishing every minute.

One net, one net after another. In one morning, they caught six fish! This alone is already double what they caught last year.

By the afternoon, the cat shark had disappeared, and Liang Ziqiang and his team thought that the cat shark had completely moved away. Unexpectedly, when they were about to continue sailing to Snapper Island, the cat shark's figure was once again unable to hide on the water surface and was spotted by them.

Liang Ziqiang continued to chase and cast the net in the afternoon and caught five more fish.

Eleven fish, that's three hundred and thirty yuan! Liang Ziqiang never expected that he would encounter such a large wave of fish while he was on the way. It really seemed that his fortune was unstoppable.

On the way back, several people discussed it and they all felt that these cat sharks were not simply passing by, but were probably hiding and living in the waters in this area out of habit.

Is this true? We can confirm it by coming to this water surface tomorrow and looking for it!
No fish were caught except cat sharks that day. Several people did not go to Zheng Liu to sell fish, but went home directly with their cat sharks.

The cat shark was placed in a basin of water, and Liang Ziqiang was not in a hurry to contact Jiang Wenang to buy it.

He planned to try a few more times. If he could catch more cat sharks, it would be easier to sell them to Jiang Wenang at once.

At dinner time, Liang Ziqiang took his bowl and went to the woodshed to watch the oystercatcher with interest.

Liang's mother was a little surprised. She glanced over and asked, "Why do you have so much free time today? Usually it's Lizhi who takes care of them. Why are you concerned about these two birds today?"

"Mom, that's not what I meant. I've always been concerned about these birds." Liang Ziqiang said shamelessly, "If I hadn't reminded Lizhi to keep an eye on them last time, these two birds would have been played away by Xiaohai a long time ago, don't you think?"

After saying that, he turned back to look for Litchi:
"Lizhi, have you been taking those two big birds to the beach to catch seafood these days?"

"Go ahead!" Lizhi blinked her big eyes. "What's wrong, second brother? Are you going to go fishing with us tomorrow? You haven't fished in a long time!"

"We'll talk about catching fish next time." Liang Ziqiang had been having good luck recently, so he didn't have the energy to catch fish. "Give those two big birds of Lizhi a holiday tomorrow. I'll take them out. They can play a big role. If we do well, we can catch a lot more fish than catching fish at sea!"

"Then don't let them fly away!" Lizhi became worried about him.

After getting Liang Ziqiang's assurance, Lizhi became cheerful:
"Okay, I'll lend you the big birds for a day! They're really good at learning how to catch fish from me!"

Liang Ziqiang: "..."

It's as if oystercatchers are born without the ability to catch fish. She was clearly trying to snatch the fish from the oystercatcher's mouth, so how come it became like she was teaching the oystercatcher how to catch fish?
Also, these two oystercatchers were clearly brought back by him from the nameless island, but now they were "borrowed from him for a day".

Of course, details are not important, especially in front of lychees.

The important thing is that there will be oystercatchers available tomorrow, and things might be much easier!
(End of this chapter)