1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 49: Unified Voice
The lower part of the reef is almost surrounded by all kinds of seafood. It looks like a battle for territory.

The most common ones are, of course, mussels, clams, oysters, scallops, shrimps and crabs, which are more common in our daily life.

It directly covered the lower part of the reef.

Last time at Fox Bay Island, Liang Ziqiang was surprised by the size of the mussels.

The mussels here are more than one size larger than those in Fox Bay Island.

However, no matter how big they were, these things could no longer attract their attention.

The two of them discovered almost at the same time that the figures of chicken claw snails were revealed in those extremely irregular shaped holes.

Liang Ziqiang ran forward and knocked one off with a hammer and a chisel.

Looking at the chicken-claw snail in his hand, he sincerely felt that the name "chicken-claw snail" was no longer suitable for it.

This is a snail. Should it be called a pig's trotter snail? An elephant's leg snail?
Who has ever seen a chicken claw snail grow so big?

Chicken claw snails are originally very valuable treasures, and these chicken claw snails, in terms of their rarity, are obviously more valuable than those on Fox Bay Island!

"Don't knock it all off, leave some for me!"

Seeing Liang Ziqiang hammering away non-stop, Lin Baixian became extremely anxious.

This time he brought a chisel with him, so he came over and joined in the hammering.

The two of them were squeezed together, making it difficult for Liang Ziqiang to move freely. He didn't understand:
"The entire reef is so big that you can't knock it all away even if you knock it for three days and three nights. Why do you have to fight with me for it?"

He simply stood up, gave this piece of land to Lin Baixian, and started his own business.

Soon they found a place where snails gathered together. Liang Ziqiang knocked half a bucket of snails carefully and finished knocking all the snails in this place.

Three-headed abalone is also a good and valuable commodity, so I picked some and threw them into the bucket.

As for the big scallops, there are already some on the boat, so let’s take them for now.

Mussels, clams, and oysters are all excluded.

A few stupid big blue crabs rushed out of the cave.

Since he was so enthusiastic and offered money to him, he would not be polite. He used the bent iron pliers to clamp one by one and captured them all.

These big blue crabs are much fatter than those in Fox Bay Island. It was the first time that my bent iron claws weren’t working well and couldn’t hold their fat bodies!
With a size like this, there is no telling how much red cream is in its belly. If it can be sold to the right channel, the price will probably be high enough to make him laugh.

Before he could laugh out loud, a figure suddenly flashed by in the tide that had not yet completely receded not far away.

I don’t know what kind of fish it is.

Liang Ziqiang subconsciously wanted to find a nail rake to stab the fish, and then he cursed himself for being stupid. The fish stabbed by the nail rake can only be eaten by himself, how can he sell it?

Right now, the fish is swimming in relatively open water. If you use a scoop net directly, you might be able to catch it alive!
Fortunately, there was a scoop net placed next to a reef not far away. He gently took it over and scooped the fish that was about to dive to the bottom of the water.

There was a shake, and the fish caught in the net resisted violently.

Liang Ziqiang took a closer look and realized that it was a "brown belt".

The whole fish is brown, with an elongated oval body, flat and strong sides. The most distinctive feature is that there are horizontal stripes and spots on the sides of the body, and the dark horizontal stripes in the front are more oblique.

This brown-banded grouper weighing a few kilograms is considered small among its kind, perhaps because it is not old enough. Some groupers can grow to tens or hundreds of kilograms, but large groupers can probably only be caught directly in the deep sea. After all, this is around the island, and the location is far from the real deep sea range.

Brown-banded spotted fish are quite aggressive, no wonder this one, which weighs only about 4-5 kg, struggled so hard that Liang Ziqiang's hand holding the handle was shaking. It looked like a desperate situation.

The brown banded spot can be sold for three times the price of the blue banded spot. Although this brown banded spot is not as valuable as the eastern star spot, it can still be sold for a considerable amount!
Looking at the full barrel, Liang Ziqiang decided to quit while he was ahead and go ashore.

Lin Baixian was still not satisfied and was dragged up by Liang Ziqiang.

With a look of reluctance on his face, he complained angrily:

"How can you be so willing to cut off someone's source of income? While the tide is still receding, I can still get three more sacks of snails!"

Liang Ziqiang complained:

"I want to take ten sacks back. I wonder if the boat can hold them."

Lin Baixian suddenly came to his senses. Damn, the old boat was not strong enough to begin with. If too many things were loaded on it, it might just become a burial object!
Liang Ziqiang sat down with him under the shade of the palm tree and said in a serious tone:

"There is one more thing we must discuss carefully.

The amount of things we brought back this time is already scary, and it’s definitely a huge amount of money!
It's easy to imagine that the villagers will ask us where we have been these days and what happened. What can we say?"

Lin Baixian really didn’t think so much or so far, and didn’t know what to say for a moment.

Liang Ziqiang added:
"As the old saying goes, money can make people happy. We have top-quality conch shells, triple-headed abalone, giant scallops, and even lobsters! I guarantee that everyone in the village wants to know where all these things come from.

If we tell the truth, everyone will spend more time and find this place even if it is remote. There are many things in this reef, but it can't stop people from the whole village or even several villages from flocking here!

If that's the case, we'll both suffer and risk our lives this time, but only get a few hundred dollars in our hands. Next time, we'll have nothing!"

The more Lin Baixian listened, the more he came to his senses. He just didn't think too much about it, but his brain was not stupid. He suddenly had an idea and offered a suggestion:
"Why don't we find another place? How about the Scale Island in the south?"

Liang Ziqiang agreed immediately:
"I thought so too. Let's not say that the fishing boat lost control and drifted far to the east.

Let’s say we got these goodies from scattered reefs in the southern waters, and then we wanted to continue fishing at Chengpan Island, but the rudder blade fell off nearby, and we were stuck at Chengpan Island for four or five days until we found this old ship stranded there, and we finally got out of trouble.”

Chengpan Island is located in the south direction, so it makes perfect sense that the old ship was carried there by the tide.

However, the distance between Chengpan Island and this unnamed wild island is too far, and they are not in the same direction at all.

"Damn it, after hearing this, those people will go to the southern seas to search for it blindly, wasting their efforts? Aren't we being too mean?"

Lin Baixian thought about the scene of the deceived people shuttling back and forth in the southern sea, blindly looking for reefs in the vast ocean, and found it a bit funny, but he also felt a little sympathy for them.

"If you don't be jealous or greedy, your efforts won't be in vain!"

Liang Ziqiang didn't feel there was anything to sympathize with.

This nameless island was obtained by the two of them with blood and tears, and they almost lost their lives. In the future, they can still hold on to it for a long time before being discovered by others.

According to later news reports, there are several wild islands with rich resources, but the one Liang Ziqiang actually encountered now is the one in front of him!

It can be said that this will be one of the stable sources of income for them to support their family in the future.

What's wrong with saving your hard-earned money and withdrawing it slowly?
(End of this chapter)