Zhang Ze placed the bamboo basket in the shadow next to the reef, and then began to look for fish that had slipped through the cracks in the rocks.

After all, it was on the coast in 1979. After putting the bamboo basket away, he just washed his hands in the ditch next to him and found two small groupers.

The grouper was not big, it looked like it only weighed about half a catty. But the grouper was expensive, so Zhang Ze immediately put his hand in to fish.

The ditch was not big, and there was no way to avoid the two small groupers. The moment they were caught by his hand, they were taken into the fishing space.

[Successfully caught a spotted grouper, weight 0.56 catties, experience 5.]

[Successfully caught a spotted grouper, weight 0.63 catties, experience 5.]

It's a pity that both of them are blue-spotted and the price won't be too high. It's probably about the same as mandarin fish, but it's still better than nothing.

Mandarin fish may not be sold, but grouper can definitely be sold.

After catching the fish and washing his hands, Zhang Ze began to scan the rocks.

However, compared to blue crabs, there are more stone crabs in the cracks of rocks, almost to the point of flooding, followed by swimming crabs and blue crabs.

Those small crabs that were inedible were simply ignored by him.

Fortunately, it is July now, when swimming crabs and green crabs are also in season, and there are quite a lot of them.

In just one hour, Zhang Ze caught six swimming crabs and 11 blue crabs respectively.

Compared to swimming crabs, which prefer to stay on the beach and seabed, blue crabs prefer to hide in stone crevices and mud holes on tidal flats, and are more likely to be encountered at the beach.

Zhang Ze was able to encounter so many swimming crabs because the tide was low.

In fact, there are a lot of thinner swimming crabs and blue crabs, but they have to be caught to see if they are fat, so they are taken into the fishing space and released after gaining experience.

As for gaining experience?

Those mandarin fish that came in and out in the past two days had no experience points at all. Zhang Ze knew that it was impossible to gain experience.

After roughly scouring the area, he also found a piece of spicy snails and fragrant snails, and there were even more oysters on the rocks.

But after thinking about it, he let it go.

These things are easy to cook and very delicious when steamed, but my old mother probably wouldn't be able to part with that little firewood.

Although the wood used in rural areas is cut by oneself in the groves, these can be sold for money. In the opinion of the old mother, a large pot of spicy snails is not as valuable as the wood burned.

With so much seafood to eat, Zhang Ze didn't have to face his old mother's nagging.

Just as he was about to leave, he paused, then picked up one and put it into the fishing space.

[Successfully captured one snail (1/100), captured 100 snails, experience 1]

"..." He has to catch a hundred? Then he might as well catch something else.

Zhang Ze casually took out the snail and threw it away, then returned to the bamboo basket.

He took out a large blue crab weighing one pound and two taels from the space and tied it up with straw rope.

Blue crabs in the fishing space do not fight, but this may not happen outside.

Get some blue crabs out so that he can taste the sweetness at noon.

There are only three in the space that weigh more than one pound, and the rest are a little smaller.

He took out all the items weighing more than a kilogram and tied them with straw ropes before putting them back into space. Then he carried the bamboo basket and continued walking towards the big rock.

Tie these up and wait for Zhang Wu and others to come over later, he can take them out at any time.

There are five people in the family, and he still wants to catch two more blue crabs weighing more than 50 pounds.

In an era when no one was eating in the countryside, it was not difficult to find a few pounds of blue crabs.

Soon, he found a big blue crab again. This blue crab was the largest one he had found so far.

The large pliers in front of him alone were as big as a three-year-old child's fist.

Just hiding deep in the gap under the reef, Zhang Ze almost lay on the ground, reaching in with a broken branch, trying to pull it out.

The blue crab was very strong and it took him a long time to get it out.

The moment it came out, Zhang Ze quickly pressed the tail of the crab's body with his hand and retracted it into the space.

It's not easy to catch such a big blue crab. It's better to put it into the space first and then take it out.

Zhang Ze decides how to take out the blue crab. When the time comes, he directly grasps the life gate of the blue crab's hind legs, and the blue crab can't make any trouble.

But as soon as Blue Crab entered the fishing space, he was stunned by the information given later.

[Successfully caught a sea oil crab, weighing 2.07 kilograms, experience critical hit 20.]

"Damn it, sea oil crabs!!!" Zhang Ze's eyes suddenly widened with an unbelievable look on his face, "How could there be sea oil crabs here?"

Sea oil crab, also known as wild butter crab.

Compared with farmed butter crab, the oil in wild butter crab tastes saltier, but the oil aroma is equally strong.

The point is that this stuff is mainly produced in Laoguang in the south, and the appearance of butter crab has a lot to do with geological water quality.

However, after looking at the river leading to this side from Qinghe Village, Zhang Ze blinked and felt that it was not impossible for butter crabs to appear.

But the problem is that this butter crab weighs two pounds. After living for decades, he has never heard of such a big butter crab.

Once when he went to Laoguang, the largest butter crab he had ever eaten was only one pound or four taels. It was a coincidence that he encountered it at the right time and in the right place with the right people.

Of course, it’s hard to come up with such a big butter crab. The one I ate at that time was considered a butter crab.

"Oh, what a pity!" Zhang Ze could only feel regretful when he thought that the sea oil crab was discovered in this era.

Butter crab slowly became popular in Laoguang in the 1990s. Now, not to mention that it cannot be sold at a high price, even if it is given away, others may not think it is a good thing.

Therefore, Zhang Ze, the sea oil crab, is temporarily keeping it in the space until he has the opportunity to share it with his family.

Forget it today, he has to get his family to accept ordinary sea crabs first.

With a bit of regret, Zhang Ze found three more blue lobsters in the puddle. Two were larger, weighing more than a pound and a half, and there was a smaller one weighing more than a pound.

The experience value of each crab can be given to eight points, and the price can be sold for two or three yuan each. This made him very happy, which made up for some regrets caused by the sea oil crab.

Now that the sun is getting more and more fierce, Zhang Ze has not found any profitable seafood for the time being, except for some dead fish.

As for the fishing space, the experience value has reached more than 400, and it can be upgraded long ago. He decisively chose to upgrade.

[Fishing Space (Level 4)]

【Experience:0/400】

[Function: None]

[Space size: 4 cubic meters]

[Fishing experience: 158]

The space increased by another cubic meter. Looking at the slightly empty space, he planned to catch some fish while it was still early.

After catching so many things, only lobsters and groupers were more valuable, and he would definitely not be willing to go back like this.

So the dead fish and shrimps around came in handy.

Zhang Ze took out the dead hairtail from the bamboo basket and placed it in the shade beside a reef.

He didn't catch it very carefully, so there must be some crabs that he hadn't found yet. This dead hairtail fish was used as bait to see if he could lure anything out.

Then he began to collect some small fish and shrimps suitable for making nests.

In just a short while, he collected a lot and threw them all on the water in front of the big rock.

These small fish and shrimps will disperse along the waves, attracting nearby predatory fish.

Then he went to knock some oysters as bait, hung the oysters on the fishhook, tied a small stone, climbed up the big reef and threw it to the water in front of him.

The water here is not deep, the bottom of the reef is probably only more than one meter, and it should be deeper further away.
Chapter completed!