1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 305: Treasures Formed Over Millennia at the Bottom of the Reef

There is a small white spot on the back of the stone clam, perhaps this is the origin of the name "star snapper".

Another notable feature of stone clams is that their body color can change with light and environment.

There is no doubt that what Liang Ziqiang caught was a stone clam, and it was quite big.

Even if we refer to the price of grouper, this fish alone can be sold for seventy or eighty yuan!
How many red snappers is that? Twenty or thirty!
"Aqiang is still lucky!" Lin Baixian sighed.

"Damn, it would be great if I could also catch a stone clam!" Deng Zhaocai changed his wish on the spot.

He had been hoping to catch a humpback snapper before, but now that humpback snapper was no longer in his interest, he quickly changed his mind and made a new wish.

After a burst of envy, everyone quieted down, as if only by calming down and focusing on fishing could they hope to catch a stone clam.

However, Liang Ziqiang had not encountered a second stone clam since fishing until the afternoon, and the others did not catch any stone clams at all.

As the sun was setting, they heard voices and the sound of a boat motor. Judging from the direction, it should be on the other side of the island, the side they had been fishing on a few days ago.

"Acai, you are dead. It must be Lao Xie who is driving the boat here. You can just wait for him to spit out all the fish you have caught these days!" Li Liang grinned.

"Can you please shut up? If he came, it was because of your stinky mouth!" Deng Zhaocai was very angry.

Old Xie is really a stubborn person! He said he would repay them, but he said that Deng Zhaocai would not be allowed to go fishing, so he would definitely take it to the end. Deng Zhaocai really didn't want to run into Old Xie at this time.

"Wait, that doesn't seem to be Old Xie's voice, right?"

Liang's father signaled them to stop talking and listened carefully.

At this time, the sound of the motor stopped, but the voices of people became clearer. It seemed that the people on the other side of the island had stopped the boat and got off.

The island is very long and narrow, but the mountains on the island are not high and are much lower than the original nameless island. Liang Ziqiang and his friends easily climbed over the hillside to this side in the morning.

Therefore, the low hillside did not block the sound that well. In the sea breeze, the voices from the back could be heard again, almost every word could be heard.

"Damn it, I made a fortune today, but I'm so damn tired. I haven't even had time to eat lunch. I'm starving!" A man's voice.

"Don't say you're hungry, I'm hungry too! I can tell at a glance that there are no giant clams on the reefs of this island! Don't stay here too long, eat and take a rest and leave! In the afternoon, maybe we can find another reef pile with giant clams nearby!" Another man's voice.

Liang Ziqiang, Li Liang and the others looked a little strange when they heard this.

They listened carefully to the sound from the back and it sounded familiar. They had heard it a few days ago.

Combined with what the other person said, it will be more certain.

These are the two reef bombers who drove the boat and knocked Lao Qiu into the sea!
"Let me take a look!"

Deng Zhaocai was not someone who could sit still. He was the first to put down his fishing rod, whispered a greeting, and climbed up the slope.

"Judging from their performance that day, these two are tough guys. If we don't make up our mind, it's best not to let them find out we're here!" Liang Ziqiang immediately lowered his voice and reminded Deng Zhaocai.

Without saying a word, he knocked Lao Qiu into the sea. What's the difference between this and killing someone? They are definitely two ruthless people.

Moreover, since they can blow up the reef, they naturally have a lot of explosives. If we just throw two glass bottles at them on this island, it will be a question whether they can return to the village intact.

Liang Ziqiang and his men had never had any direct enmity or conflict with the two men, so they had no grudges against them. Naturally, there was no need for them to step forward at this time and disturb the two men.

"Damn, that's right. The fact that they appear here as if nothing happened proves to be the case. That means Old Xie wasn't able to do anything to them last time. And they have high explosives in their hands. Damn... could Old Xie have been blown to death by them?" Lin Baixian thought more ruthlessly and pessimistically, and speculated in a low voice.

No matter what, Old Xie was very kind and gave them so many snappers for free, so they all had a very good impression of him.

Even if there is no need to stand up for Lao Qiu and Lao Xie to deal with these two people, I definitely hope that Lao Xie is safe.

"Let's go to the slope and take a look without showing up. There are so many trees on the top of the slope, they won't be able to find us!" Deng Zhaocai was still full of curiosity and walked up the slope.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't show up just to watch. Liang Ziqiang also put away his fishing rod and went up the slope together.

In fact, even if they continued fishing, once they found a big fish and screamed, it might still attract the attention of the two men, which would bring disadvantages.

Even Liang's father stopped fishing and put away his fishing rod. Several people tiptoed together and climbed up the hillside.

"Don't talk loudly, just watch and see how they identify which reefs contain good things and which reefs don't!" Liang Ziqiang lowered his voice and reminded them several times.

These two people were able to judge which reefs contained giant clams and which did not by simply observing the surface. To be honest, Liang Ziqiang really wanted to learn a trick or two of this kind of skill.

With the help of the rocks and trees on the top of the slope to block the view, several people silently cast their gazes downward, watching the two people who were bombing the reef.

Sure enough, judging from their figures and faces, they were the two men who had knocked Lao Qiu into the sea several days ago.

What disappointed Liang Ziqiang was that the two men did not further observe and study the reef conditions of the Snapper Island at this moment, but picked up some dead branches and started a fire beside the island, obviously intending to cook something to eat.

The fire was burning brightly. The thinner man took two fish from the bucket and was about to put them on the makeshift grill:

"Stuffed, let's eat two blacktail winter squid as a dish! In the eyes of those damn fishermen, this kind of blacktail winter squid is a treasure. It is much more expensive than those crappy fish they usually buy! How could they know that we would not fish for this fish even if we fry it to death! If it weren't for the good taste, I wouldn't even bother to take these two!"

The thin man said as he put it on the rack and hung it up for roasting: "One for each person, how about that?"

Unexpectedly, the fatter reef bomber sitting on the ground directly pulled one of them down:
"You can say the taste of the black snapper is okay? If you want to talk about taste, look at mine. This is just barely okay!"

After saying that, he directly put a grouper that he had taken out from another bucket on the platform.

Damn, the black-tailed snapper was not tasty enough, so they roasted the extremely expensive grouper as soon as it came out!

At the top of the slope, several people were all stunned. If Liang Ziqiang hadn't warned them not to make any noise, Deng Zhaocai and Lin Baixian would have started to yell!
The fat man pretended to go get another blacktail winterfish:

"Don't eat that damn blacktail winter melon. I have some grouper in my bucket. Would you like one too?"

Upon hearing this, the thin man quickly blocked it with his hands:
"No! Let's take the grouper to the city. Even if it's killed by bombing, it can still be sold for 10 to 20 yuan! Besides, I can't get used to eating grouper. I only like this black winter squid!"

"Fuck! Ten or twenty bucks is nothing, you call it money? Have you forgotten what you meant? I just made a big profit today. I blew up those reefs this morning, and the giant clam meat can be sold for hundreds of dollars. This is just a small amount. Damn it, that jade giant clam is really valuable, it's definitely not just a few hundred bucks!"

Jade giant clam? !
Liang Ziqiang, who was on the upper slope, gasped when he heard this.

Ordinary giant clam shells were indeed worthless in the 1980s, but there was an exception among giant clam shells.

That is the jade giant clam!
Since ancient times, the imperial court has liked to use jade giant clams to carve ornaments, and its value has been there since ancient times. It is no exaggeration to say that jade giant clams are traditional treasures.

Ordinary giant clam shells became increasingly difficult to obtain only after the new century.

The two are completely different concepts.

These two reef blasters had some good luck today, but they actually found a jade giant clam shell from the bottom of the reef somewhere!
(End of this chapter)