1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 306: Backstabbing, murder for money

Tridacna is hard to find, and jade tridacna is even harder to find.

After the giant clam dies, its shell is buried in mud and sand on the seabed and settles for thousands of years before it gradually turns into jade and forms an organic gem.

There is also a certain degree of randomness; not all giant clam shells will turn into jade after thousands of years.

The two reef blasters in front of us probably didn't expect that they would be so lucky to encounter jade giant clams.

According to Lao Qiu, these two reef blasters usually go for the adductor muscles of live giant clams.

Today they must have spotted a reef where giant clams were hidden. After collecting the live giant clam meat, they suddenly discovered that there were even more valuable jade giant clam shells hidden further down.

The price of giant clam adductor muscle is already expensive enough at one hundred yuan per pound, much more expensive than top-grade grouper.

As for how much the jade giant clam shell can be sold for, it is hard to imagine...

While Liang Ziqiang was thinking, the two men were still grilling fish and talking.

"To make it, speaking of the jade giant clam, I remembered what happened the day before yesterday. The more I think about it, the more infuriating it gets!" said the fat man. "The day before yesterday, in that triangular reef zone, wasn't that piece of jade giant clam bigger than this one today? When I was really pulling on it, the net hook broke!
In my opinion, you should have tied a long wooden stick to a hoe, and just dug it out and took it away. You were the same, insisting on keeping it intact. When you brought a new net the next day, it was gone, washed away by the water!"

"Damn it, I can't calculate, how could I know that it would be washed away by the tide the next day? Such a big piece of giant clam must weigh twenty or thirty kilograms, who knew it could be washed away?" The thin man defended himself.

"It must be 20 to 30 kilograms. Anyway, it's much bigger than the one on the boat today! Forget it, it's all gone, let's not talk about it!" The fat man looked at the thin man, "By the way, Monkey, I saw that you were not in the mood when you were collecting giant clams yesterday. You looked like a sleepyhead. What were you doing the night before yesterday? You went into the bed of a young lady or wife?!"

"Fuck your mother!" The fish was almost roasted, and the thin man took a bite. "Didn't I tell you that I had diarrhea the night before yesterday and ran to the toilet five or six times. If it were you, would you be energetic the next day?!"

"You have diarrhea at a really good time!" the fat man said in a strange tone.

The thin man seemed to be unable to listen any longer and spat out a fish bone: "Tiezhu, what do you mean by saying this? What do you mean it's brewed at the right time?!"

"Fuck it, why are you so sensitive now? What's the point? I've been busy going out to sea to catch giant clams these days, and you got diarrhea. I must be tired when I don't have the energy to work! Apart from this, what else can I do?" The fat man called Tiezhu looked straight at the thin man again, "You're fine now, you don't have diarrhea anymore, right?"

At the top of the slope, Liang Ziqiang and the others found what they were saying a little interesting. How come the two of them, one fat and one thin, spoke with a hidden meaning in every sentence?
They looked at each other without saying anything, and listened to the two people on the beach continue their conversation.

"I had diarrhea that night, but I stopped having diarrhea yesterday!" The thin man replied, "I'm much better today. Look at how energetic I am. Isn't it obvious that I'm better today than yesterday?"

"That's right," the fat man took out two buns from a cloth bag and stuffed one into the thin man's hand. "Don't just eat the fish, have one of the buns I brought!"

"Dumplings? I don't really like eating them lately!" The thin guy quickly blocked him, "I also brought some steamed cakes, would you like a piece?"

As the thin man spoke, he took out a steamed cake from his cloth bag and was about to give it to Tiezhu.

Tiezhu blocked it even faster: "What are you eating? How can steamed cakes be as delicious as meat buns?"

The thin man chuckled and took back the steamed cake.

The two of them were chewing their own food, and the fat man said:
"This giant clam on the boat is not as big as the one we brought from the Triangle Reef the day before yesterday, but it is also worth a lot of money. Unfortunately, we will definitely not be able to find a buyer today. How to keep it for the next two days will become a problem!"

"What's the problem with keeping it?" The thin man took a bite of the steamed cake. "Why don't you just leave it at my house? Nothing has ever been lost at my house, so it's very safe!"

"Fuck you, you sleep worse than me, why should I leave it at your house?" The fat man objected immediately, "Why don't we leave it at anyone's house, just leave it on the boat. Let's not go home tonight, just sleep on the boat. Isn't it much safer for two people to guard it together than leaving it at one person's house?!"

"Sleeping on the boat?" The thin man hesitated for a moment, "That's fine, whatever you say is fine!"

As they went on, the two of them ate in silence, neither of them talking.

Even from a distance, Liang Ziqiang could feel the feeling of distrust... It seemed that what the fat man was really worried about was not that the jade giant clam on the boat would be stolen, but that it would be embezzled by the thin man.

They even didn't dare to eat each other's food, for fear that the other party had done something to them.

After they finished eating the grilled fish, steamed buns and steamed cakes, they didn't sit there for long before getting up and getting on the boat.

Liang Ziqiang watched the boat sail away from the island and gradually went farther away, and couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

There are so many reefs on this island, but they just took a cursory look and concluded that there were no giant clams underneath. They didn't even observe carefully and think about it. Are there any reasons for this?
Liang Ziqiang didn't learn anything about the tricks of finding giant clams.

On the sea, the reef-blasting boat sailed more than ten meters away, and the two people on the boat started talking loudly again.

The sea breeze brought the voices to Liang Ziqiang and the others, and they were still clearly audible.

Suddenly the fat man raised his arm to the distance of the sea and shouted excitedly:

"There's another pile of rocks. I can tell there must be giant clams under the rocks! I can't stop them from getting so excited. It's no problem to get a few pounds of giant clam meat!"

The thin man instinctively got excited and ran to the bow to look around:

"I haven't seen him. Where is he? Oh my god...!"

When he said the last two words, the thin man was no longer on the boat, and was falling from the bow to the sea...

Just now, as Liang Ziqiang and the others were watching, the fat man took advantage of the thin man's unpreparedness and kicked him hard from behind.

With one successful strike, the thin man was kicked off the bow of the boat and fell into the deep sea!
At this moment, Liang Ziqiang and the others were all stunned.

Liang Ziqiang only felt a chill on his back, as if someone had attacked him from behind and pushed him into the sea.

"Shit, shit, shit!" Deng Zhaocai exclaimed several times, "Are you going to kill me just for that little bit of giant clam?!"

"I've seen dogs bite each other, but I've never seen a bite so fierce!" Lin Baixian's face twitched.

"That thin guy is dead now!" Li Liang said in surprise.

“So, when you make a living at sea, you must have people you can truly rely on to support you. Not even superficial brothers will do!” Liang’s father pointed to the scene of the stabbing in the back and still kept his voice low as he gave them a lesson on the spot.

Although the sea breeze was blowing towards them from the sea, they still tried their best to control the volume of their voices.

They were all so shocked that they were frozen in place, but the movement on the sea did not stop.

The thin man didn't get swallowed by the waves immediately after falling into the sea. Instead, he waved his arms to beat the waves a few times, and soon his head popped out of the water. He shouted at the boat:
"I'm going to fuck you! Tiezhu, you black-hearted bastard, I'm not done with you!"

"Why is it never over? What's the use of being able to swim? If you don't drown, you'll starve to death if you swim back to the island!" The fat man said in relief:

"I wanted to kill you yesterday! What do you mean you had diarrhea and didn't sleep well last night? You didn't sleep the night before last, sneaked to that triangular reef by yourself, and took away the giant clams left there! Who else knew there were giant clams there except you?

Finding giant clams is all my own business. You don't have the ability to flatter me, but you want to take it all for yourself? I didn't do anything to you, and let you live, and then you came to take the jade giant clam on the boat all for yourself? I let you live one more day yesterday, which is enough to take care of your face for the past few months. Go and fumble around, I won't accompany you anymore, I'm leaving!"

The fat man was refreshed, he increased the speed of the boat, left the skinny monkey struggling in the water, and sailed further out to sea...

(The jade-like giant clam picture, the historical data on the price of the giant clam adductor muscle at that time, and the picture of the common giant clam shell have all been posted in the "This Chapter" comment section below.)
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