1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 353 Killer Whale's Gratitude
Only when he gradually stopped seeing any large fish swimming out from the cracks in the rocks did Liang Ziqiang temporarily put down the bucket and return to the pile of rocks on the island to check on the killer whale.

After such a long time, the sunlight was not so scorching. But Liang Ziqiang continued to pour water on the cloth to keep the cloth and the killer whale's skin moist.

After watering, he returned to the edge of the island. Unable to find schools of fish, he picked up a fishing rod and found a place to fish.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the fishing rod moved, and the movement was very obvious, which surprised Liang Ziqiang. Generally speaking, the ornamental fish in the reef islands are relatively small in size, so even if they are hooked, the movement is not so obvious.

I quickly lifted the fishing rod and instantly realized it was a sea bream.

Although it is classified as a sea bream, the appearance of this sea bream is very different from the usual flat sea bream, black sea bream, and cow dung sea bream. It seems that they have nothing to do with each other.

This fish is larger than the strawberry fish, but it also has a slender body, a pointed mouth and a forked tail like a swallow.

The most amazing thing is its color. The body of the fish is blue like the sky, but the tail and the upper part of the back are bright yellow.

This fish has a very nice name, which suits its appearance very well. It is called "Huangmei Snapper".

It is so incredibly beautiful that its value is naturally higher than the very expensive bull dung sea bream among the sea bream family, and is far from being comparable to edible sea bream.

After catching this yellow bream, I caught two more Guandao, and then I caught several more yellow breams in succession.

While fishing, a large bunch of green things floated up from the bottom of the reef.

It is a fleshy algae that looks like a large bunch of pine branches.

Liang Ziqiang quickly used the hand net again, and in a few strokes, he pulled the meat algae over, and prepared to use it together with the small shrimp as bait.

Although most ornamental fish will eat small shrimps, they actually prefer the fleshy algae and small organisms among the algae on the rocky bottom, so he decided to try a different bait.

Sure enough, a diamond flounder was attracted soon. The price of this fish is relatively high among the various ornamental fish today, and it is quite satisfying.

However, about ten minutes later, when his fishing rod was raised from the water again, he couldn't help but scream out this time!
A flat fish with a dark brown body that is almost black, and there is a standard heart-shaped orange-red spot in front of the fish's tail peduncle.

Liang Ziqiang only felt his heart beating with excitement, this was the famous chicken heart hanging!
As for the price, I can only say that it is not on the same level as the Diamond Butterfly, Blue-billed Bride, and Bicolor Strawberry mentioned above!
If you compare, the price of this chicken heart hanging should be at least ten times that of those fish!
As it was getting dark, several people's stomachs began to growl and the sea water began to show signs of rising.

Before finishing fishing, Liang Ziqiang had already caught two particularly valuable heart-shaped tangs, and more than a dozen yellowtail sea breams!

Before the tide completely flooded the reef island, several people picked up buckets and fishing rods and put them back on the boat.

Liang Ziqiang finally poured several large buckets of water on the killer whale, and then collected the cloth and prepared to take it back to the boat.

After all, the cloth still needs to be used as a sunshade, and now the sun is getting dim, the killer whale is not so hot, and the tide is approaching little by little, and will soon bring coolness to the killer whale.

After finishing everything and returning to the boat, the men were bragging to each other about their achievements. Liang Ziqiang looked at each bucket and found that everyone's harvest was indeed quite good.

I think everyone caught about 20 to 30 fish, with the most being the two-color strawberry, and there were also some black and white guandao and yellow snapper.

They didn't catch any of the most expensive heart-shaped fish, so Liang Ziqiang's two heart-shaped fish became his last.

The quantity is even more incomparable. Liang Ziqiang used a hand-held scoop net to catch them at the beginning. He caught more than 100 of the two-color strawberries alone! There were also several other types, with dozens or even twenty of them.

Although they were far from comparable to Liang Ziqiang in terms of quantity and quality, this did not prevent them from grinning as if they had picked up gold ingots.

According to the price revealed by Liang Ziqiang, the harvest of the twenty or thirty fish in the bucket is already several times their wages. Who wouldn't laugh?

After cooking and eating dinner, the setting sun had already retreated into the last ray of sunset glow in the sky, and the sea and sky were left to the endless twilight.

By this time, the tide had completely risen, and the reef island they had set foot on in the afternoon was swallowed up bit by bit, with only a small tip left outside.

As they watched, the killer whale began to float up little by little in the rising sea water, like a huge rock being pulled up. Finally, the killer whale completely got rid of the reef and swam freely in the sea again.

The killer whale did not immediately swim away to the distant sea. Instead, it came near the anchored ship, swam to the sea surface in front of the ship, raised its head out of the water, and repeatedly slapped the sea water with its pair of pectoral fins.

The black and white color and the silly posture made it look like a panda that had swelled to an incredibly large size and was dancing.

There was also a sound coming out of its mouth that no one could hear, and this time the sound was a bit long, like a whistle. Perhaps in the killer whale world, this is a kind of singing?

Zhu Tianpeng and the others were all amazed:

"What a clever trick! It's obviously a thank you for saving our lives, right?!"

Deng Zhaocai's brain circuits were different. He suddenly said:
"Didn't they say killer whales can imitate human speech? Come on, say a few words to me. Thank you! Say thank you now!"

He shouted at the killer whale on the sea for a long time, trying to persuade it earnestly.

Of course, the killer whale did not say "thank you" as he wished. It is true that it is good at imitating, but it also takes time. The killer whales in foreign ocean parks have learned to speak human language and can say a few foreign languages ​​such as "hello, thank you" after living with humans day and night for a long time.

The killer whale was quite happy to see Deng Zhaocai talking nonsense to it. Sometimes it would dive into the water, and sometimes it would suddenly jump out of the water and perform a giant "dance" in the air...

It can be seen that Deng Zhaocai and Killer Whale had a great time today.

Until the sky became completely dark, the killer whale's black body completely blended into the night.

Only dimly visible by the light of the ship's lights, the killer whale kept a certain distance and circled the ship a few final times, looking reluctant to leave before gradually swimming away to the distant sea, its destination unknown.

When the sky gets light again, it will be time to return from this sea operation.

After breakfast, another round of trawling operations began, moving from the deep sea to the shallow sea. While working, they were also returning home.

This time, Liang Ziqiang kept paying attention to the angle of the needle of the navigation compass so that he could write down the approximate scope of the reef island.

This small reef island has nothing else but a lot of ornamental fish. Although they took away a lot this time, I believe there are still some hidden in the reefs, and more will probably be reproduced in a few days.

After a few months or half a year, you can do another wave.

On the one hand, you can make money for yourself, and on the other hand, it can also provide some incentives to the crew members on a regular basis, and its effect can be roughly equivalent to the "team building" in later generations.

This time, because he wanted to contact Jiang Wenang, he first drove the boat to the village pier, and then Liang Ziqiang went to Zhong Yongrui's house to contact Jiang Wenang.

The two of them agreed on the phone, so Jiang Wenang didn't need to come to the village.

Anyway, Liang Ziqiang was going to Yuehai Restaurant today, so he made an appointment with Jiang Wen'ang to meet in Shallow Bay.

Liang Ziqiang first drove to the county fishing port's purchasing station and sold more than 8,000 kilograms of trawl catch. The shark skin and 600 kilograms of shark meat were sold for only 70 yuan, except for the tail fin, pectoral fin, and dorsal fin that had been cut off in advance. This time, there was no fish liver.

As usual, we filled up the tank at the fishing port, collected the remaining thousand bucks, and drove to the city.

Jiang Wen'ang was already waiting in Sham Shui Po. He was surprised to see Liang Ziqiang's steel ship. He didn't expect that Liang Ziqiang had upgraded his ship so much after not seeing him for a few months.

He boarded Liang Ziqiang's ship and the transaction was conducted directly on the ship.

Jiang Wenang gasped when he saw the buckets on the deck filled with all kinds of colorful and frighteningly numerous beautiful little fish.

I have traded with Liang Ziqiang so many times before, but the total amount added up is far less than this time!

(End of this chapter)