The big handbag slipped around Zhang Wu's lapel and his old mother gave him a good 'beating' before the morning's farce ended.

After eating rice porridge with pickles cooked by his old mother, Zhang Ze carried the bamboo basket on his back, picked up the bucket, took the straw rope he made last night, and the line and fishhook he bought from Tong Yuanhang and set off.

When passing through a forest, he also broke off a relatively straight branch, which was about one meter and about the thickness of his middle finger.

The most important thing was that there was a fork in the front of the branch. He broke off most of it, and the remaining part was just like a hook to pull out things from the gaps in the rocks.

If you don’t have an iron hook, make do with it!

With his two younger sisters following him, Zhang Wu had already run ahead.

Setting off so early today was naturally because Zhang Ze was optimistic about the tide.

After so many years of sea fishing, he knows the rise and fall of the tide as well as the fishermen.

Today is the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar. The low tide in the morning is estimated to be a little after five o'clock, and the high tide is around noon, so he set out to catch the sea early in the morning.

The time difference between tides every day is about fifty minutes, and it varies from region to region.

If you know the tide, you know the timetable for catching the sea. You can basically gain something by going to the beach when the tide is just low.

Moreover, today's tide recedes further, so there are more things to catch. Zhang Ze is looking forward to how many good things can be harvested from the seaside in this era.

The beach is not very far, but the dirt road is not easy to walk, so they walked for more than half an hour to get there.

At a glance, they are all mudflats exposed after the sea water recedes. There is a very good location on the left, which is a group of undulating reefs, and even a small beach can be seen faintly.

The fishing on the reefs was quite good, and there should be a lot of good things found in the crevices, so Zhang Ze decided to pick them up along the way.

"Brother, what are we going to catch?" Zhang Wu was eager to try and seemed impatient.

"Aqian, take the two of them and catch whatever you want. By the way, keep an eye on Awu and don't let him step in the puddles." Zhang Ze handed them the bucket and planned to act alone.

Then he rolled up his trousers and took off his shoes and stepped barefoot into the mud.

In this era, you basically don’t have to worry about glass fragments. The only things you need to pay attention to are sharp shells and sharp stones, but there are not many of these on the mudflats.

Zhang Qian and others followed suit, took off their shoes, rolled up their trouser legs, and continued to follow him.

After walking a short distance, some small fish jumping around caught their attention because of their walking.

Zhang Wu's eyes lit up: "It's Rawu, brother, let's catch some Rawu!"

Lawu, as they call it in dialect here, is actually big mudskipper, also called big jumping fish.

Jumping fish can be seen everywhere on the tidal flats, even in later generations.

But there are two types of jumping fish. Small jumping fish can be seen everywhere even in later generations. No one eats them. One fish is basically only the size of a finger.

But the mudskipper is different. It is a fish with economic value and is even farmed.

It is also the main target of rural people coming to the beach at present. They don't want crabs and various clams, but they want this kind of mudskipper.

He took a quick look and found that there were many large mudskippers, each of which was fifteen centimeters long.

"Okay, why don't you just grab some raou here, and I'll go look elsewhere."

Zhang Qian and Zhang Qing didn't have any objections, because the fish could be caught and fried with pickles, which was quite delicious.

Zhang Wu was a little hesitant. Rather than catching this fish, he wanted to follow Zhang Ze and see what he was going to catch.

But he had to take good care of his two sisters, so he just stayed here after hesitating.

Zhang Ze didn't know what he was thinking, so he continued to move forward with the bamboo basket on his back.

The closer you get to the seaside, the more things you can find.

After a while, he found a small ray in a shallow pit that had not had time to follow the receding tide.

Small rays are edible, but he doesn't want to eat them that much.

Seafood is everywhere these days, and rays are not of high quality.

The main cooking oil now costs money, and rays are not as expensive as that little cooking oil.

He avoided the stingray's poisonous tail, grabbed it and put it directly into the fishing space.

[Successfully caught a stingray, weight 1.23 catties, experience 2.]

I have two experiences, which are pretty good. I will release them when I get the chance.

Continuing to move forward, the next moment he was attracted by a stranded bright silver fish. When he got closer, he saw that it was indeed a hairtail fish.

And it’s not too small, it’s three fingers wide. This size of East China Sea hairtail can be just enough to cook a plate.

When he picked it up and took a look, he was a little disappointed. The hairtail fish were all dead.

Without ice, the hairtail fish would already be too smelly to eat by the time he returned at noon, and it wasn't the middle of winter so there was no way to preserve it.

However, he has nothing to regret. He can catch live hairtail at any time if he has the opportunity in the future, so he is not in a hurry.

He still took this dead hairtail with him, it might be of some use later.

Keep going forward, the soil under your feet becomes softer as you go forward, and it becomes a little more strenuous to walk.

He looked back and saw that Zhang Wu and the others were catching mudskippers, so he started looking for blue crabs with confidence.

Blue crabs were considered one of his favorite crabs to eat. However, the price was too high in later generations, and a pound of farmed crabs cost more than 100, so he was reluctant to eat them often.

So he can only buy some swimming crabs every year during the crab season to satisfy his craving.

Later, I got gout and couldn't eat crabs.

Every time I can't help but be greedy for food, my legs are so painful that I can't walk and I have to lie down. If it's more serious, I have to go to the hospital.

When the tide has just gone out, there are many small fish and shrimps stranded on the beach, and all kinds of crabs crawl out of their caves to look for food.

Zhang Ze walked toward the rocks while scanning the tidal flats.

At this moment, a crab with relatively slender pincers caught his attention. It was a swimming crab. He quickly reached out and held down the swimming crab that wanted to run away.

Then I picked it up and put it under the sun and took a look. The edge of the crab shell was not transparent and was very fat. Then I put it into the fishing space.

[Successfully caught a three-tuberculose swimming crab, weighing 0.87 catties, experience 2.]

Hey, crabs can increase experience, he thought only fish can do that! It seems that upgrading the fishing space is much easier than imagined.

Then he looked at the situation in the fishing space and found that the swimming crab was crawling below, but the fish swimming above did not attack it.

Under normal circumstances, let alone the mandarin fish in the space, at least the black fish will definitely attack crabs that look much smaller than themselves.

However, the fishing space should have special abilities that can keep all aquatic creatures contained in the space safe, so that it will not cause indirect losses to it.

Especially when he saw that stingrays could live in this space, he could only sigh at the magic of this space.

While walking and stopping along the way, there were quite a few fish stranded on the beach, and he even saw a yellow croaker.

It's a pity that they were already a little smelly, so they arrived a little late.

When Zhang Ze came to the reef group, he had already caught five swimming crabs weighing more than eighty-two to one kilogram.

There were three octopuses and one green crab weighing 60 taels. The harvest was pretty good.

In this era, the way to go to sea is just to walk around and pick things up. There is no need to dig around like in later generations.

Climbing to a rock, Zhang Ze looked at the terrain of the reef group.

His eyes lit up when he saw a tall, flat reef. This was a good location and very suitable as a fishing spot.

Before there was a boat, he could always come here to fish in the sea.
Chapter completed!