1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 327: A Mile-Long School of Eels Was Surrounded

When Liang Ziqiang got home and walked into the main room, he heard bursts of laughter coming from his bedroom.

At a glance, the wife was sitting in the bedroom, holding Jingcheng in her arms. Lizhi was also in the room, facing Jingcheng, stretching her ears, rolling her eyelids, opening her mouth, and making all kinds of faces at Jingcheng.

Such a young baby couldn't laugh at all, Jing Cheng just watched Lizhi perform in a daze, but Lizhi herself made herself laugh.

"You're back?" Chen Xiangbei saw him walk into the room and stuffed little Cheng Cheng into his arms, "Daddy will hold you, Mommy is going to get some food."

As her body recovered, Chen Xiangbei had started to do housework again. She had just asked Lizhi to help wash the vegetables and had already prepared the meal.

Liang Jingcheng was so well-behaved today, and he didn't make much noise when he was in his arms, which was considered giving him some face.

During lunch, Chen Xiangbei was also happy for a while when she heard that Ah Feng's acceptance letter had arrived. Lizhi was also happy. Although she didn't understand the true meaning of the acceptance letter, it didn't stop her from smiling from ear to ear.

After dinner, Chen Xiangbei returned to the inner room. Just as she coaxed her son to sleep, she saw Liang Ziqiang walk in.

"Put your hand over here." Liang Ziqiang smiled and sat down on the edge of the bed, taking her hand.

His wife looked at him in surprise: "What are you doing? Did you buy another hairpin? The one you bought last time was great!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his apricot-shaped eyes just stared blankly.

I couldn't believe it as I watched him take out a watch that wasn't very big, and the dial and bracelet were both rather thin.

A silver watch chain draped around her wrist.

"Watch? Who is this for? Is it for me?" She was even more surprised.

"Look for yourself, this watch looks so good on you, it looks like it was made for you!" He found that after she put it on, the watch made her fair wrist look particularly pleasing to the eye.

"Are you really buying it for me?" She raised her wrist and looked at it several times. She couldn't hide her love in her eyes, but at the same time, she looked distressed. "Didn't you buy a watch specifically for going out to sea? I don't need this normally, so go and replace it with your own watch!"

“I bought one myself!”

"Where are you? Let me see what you look like."

Liang Ziqiang was extremely reluctant and took out his watch after a long time.

Chen Xiangbei looked puzzled: "Why are they two exactly the same? No, how can you wear such a small watch?"

Liang Ziqiang endured the strange looks and described what happened in the department store.

After hearing this, Chen Xiangbei's face began to sympathize: "Why do we have to have tickets to buy it?"

In addition to sympathy, she was more curious. She was curious about what the watch would look like on his wrist...

She couldn't help but put the watch on him herself, and ended up laughing so hard:

"If you go out to sea, you'd better put your watch in your pocket! It's too weird to wear it on your hand!"

Well, when others buy a watch, they can't wait to roll up their sleeves to their armpits to show it off to others. But when it comes to him, he has to hide it...

As for Chen Xiangbei, even though it looked so good on her, she still scolded him for most of the night, blaming him for spending lavishly just because he had a little money.

Chen Xiangbei has inherited the love for money from her mother-in-law.

When going out to sea again the next day, Liang Ziqiang specially brought with him the newly bought navigation compass.

Upon closer inspection, I saw Liang Zifeng also came over from the old house early this morning. He said that he would go out to sea with his father and elder brother to fish for a while before school starts in September.

The two boats sailed together for a while. Liang's father's boat stayed in the shallow sea to cast nets to catch fish, while Liang Ziqiang continued to sail towards the deep sea.

This time, they had not really reached the deep sea. Probably in the transitional area between deep and shallow seas, Zhu Tianpeng and Liang Ziqiang noticed at the same time that there were a large number of long strip-shaped creatures swimming in groups on the sea surface not far from the side of the boat. Looking up, there were quite a few of them, spreading for at least a mile.

"It's an eel!" Zhu Tianpeng quickly recognized it.

Eel is a type of eel, but it is different from ordinary conger eels.

Eels spend most of their lives in rivers and fresh water, but before heading to rivers, they spend some time in the sea.

At the moment, these eels don't look very fat, and judging from the direction they are swimming, they seem to be heading to the shallow sea and then looking for rivers. "Brother Qiang, do you want to put out a trawl net and catch some?" Deng Zhaocai turned around and asked him.

Liang Ziqiang originally planned to go all the way to the deep sea before starting the trawling operation. After all, the harvest from deep-sea trawling would be of better quality.

But these eels, although not big, are numerous! If you drag the trawl along the mile-long water surface, the harvest is very tempting!

"Get ready to log off the Internet!" Liang Ziqiang decided.

Someone was replaced at the bow to keep watch. Zhu Tianpeng had already come to the winch operating table, ready to start the winch to lower the net.

"Wait! Look, what are those things rushing over from all directions? They don't look like eels!!" As the steel boat approached, Liang Ziqiang glanced at the water surface a few more times and suddenly called out to Zhu Tianpeng.

I saw that farther away from the eel school that was more than a mile long, waves were surging and the water surface was like boiling. There was a lot of movement, and countless strip-shaped creatures gathered towards the eel school.

At first, Liang Ziqiang instinctively thought that more eel groups were gathering together.

However, the movement on the water surface was so large that it was obviously different from the behavior of the eel.

Finally, as he got closer, he could see clearly that the strip-shaped creatures that had just gathered had ring patterns on their bodies!

"It's snakes! Damn, there are so many blue-ringed sea snakes!" Lin Liming, who was standing at the bow to take over the lookout, screamed.

As expected, the target of these blue-ringed sea snakes was very clear, which was to go after the huge group of eels!

The sea snake swam quickly. When it was first discovered, it was still far away, but in a blink of an eye, it surrounded the school of eels and the encirclement became tighter and tighter.

Because the ship was quite close, Liang Ziqiang watched with his own eyes as the blue-ringed sea snake aimed at the eel and bit it, injecting its venom into the eel like an injection, and then began to open its mouth wide and swallow the gradually paralyzed eel bit by bit.

Head to head, it swallowed the whole eel into its stomach!

Although the eel swarm was large in size, the sea snake swarm was even more powerful. With so many sea snakes collectively surrounding the eels, the eels had almost no way to escape and were left to die.

"Fuck! What a bullshit net!" Deng Zhaocai cursed angrily.

So many eels will almost all become food for sea snakes, so there will naturally be nothing to catch.

Even if a small number of eels can be caught, more sea snakes will inevitably be caught.

Although sea snakes can actually be sold for money, their gallbladders, venom, and meat are all valuable, but who can earn that kind of money?
It is very difficult to handle a large net of sea snakes without getting bitten. If bitten, the sea snake will die without a doubt due to its venom...

There's no need to take this risk.

Just watching the sea snakes slaughtering eels was enough to make his head spin. Liang Ziqiang decisively gave up setting the net, adjusted the direction, and continued to sail into the deep sea.

We drove into the deep sea before starting the winch and beginning the trawling operation.

This time, with a watch, Liang Ziqiang checked the time accurately. Three hours after the trawl was set out, he pulled up the net on time.

"It's strange, there are not many fish in this net, only crabs, so many crabs!" Deng Zhaocai said as he looked through the net when he was responsible for hanging the net on the gantry.

Liang Ziqiang had already moved Zhu Tianpeng into the driver's seat again and walked out to check.

On the gantry, the net bag was tilted, and sure enough, countless crabs fell from the big net and soon filled up the fish sorting area on the deck.

This net is really full of crabs, except for some fish and shrimps here and there.

Liang Ziqiang thought about it and realized that both blue crabs and swimming crabs were more valuable than ordinary marine fish. He caught a large net of crabs without realizing it, which was not a loss at all.

When he squatted down and took a closer look, he was even more amazed.

Among the large number of green shells, there are actually quite a few green-brown patterned shells.

Deep sea orchid crab!
This kind of crab is much more expensive than blue crabs, stone crabs and swimming crabs, and is one of the most coveted catches for large ships going deep sea fishing.

Unexpectedly, this net quietly caught so many deep-sea orchid crabs!

(End of this chapter)