Chapter 42
Li Xuan handed the net bag to Tang Yuting and urged her to deal with it quickly.
Tang Yuting did not move, standing on the side of the ship and shouted in a low voice: "Brother Xuanzi."
"Is something wrong?" Li Xuan looked at Tang Yuting doubtfully.
As a result, he saw that the girl was looking at him timidly.
Li Xuan understood after thinking for a while, he grinned and said: "Tang Yuting, are you afraid of being alone on the boat?"
Tang Yuting nodded seriously. The weak light emitted by the street lights on the pier was not enough to illuminate the entire sea.
If a person stands on a boat and looks towards the sea at night, it would be like looking at a terrifying giant beast that swallows everything.
All the fears in my heart will be infinitely magnified in this situation.
Li Xuan climbed onto the boat from the bottom of the sea, shook his head and said, "With me here, what are you afraid of?"
Tang Yuting pouted, "Weren't you just gone?"
"Aren't I just below you?" Li Xuan said speechlessly.
Tang Yuting didn't speak, just looked at Li Xuan with her big eyes blinking.
Li Xuan shook his head and was called up by Tang Yuting. He didn't plan to go to the sea again.
Li Xuan quickly took off his diving equipment, put on his coat, and began to handle the crabs he had just caught.
Tang Yuting immediately rolled up her sleeves, walked over and said, "Brother Xuanzi, I'm here to help you."
Li Xuan moved to the side. The claws of these crabs had been tied with rubber bands, so there was no need to worry about biting Tang Yuting again.
The two of them worked together and quickly tied up the crabs tightly.
Li Xuan stood up and wiped his hands, looked at Tang Yuting and said: "This step is gone, and the crabs have been caught. Let's go, I will take you home."
Tang Yuting did not refuse, but smiled sheepishly, "Brother Xuanzi, I originally promised that I would send you back."
"What does a man like me want you to give me?" Li Xuan stepped from the ship to the unloading bridge in one step, then stretched out a hand and handed it to Tang Yuting for her to hold on to and get ashore.
The two returned to the canteen at the east end of the village.
Chen Bin and Old Tang were chatting.
Old Tang was standing inside the cigarette cabinet, while Chen Bin was sitting on a small bench outside the cigarette cabinet.
Seeing Li Xuan, Chen Bin quickly stood up and said, "Brother Xuan, would you like a bottle of black tea?"
Li Xuan waved his hand and said no.
Old Tang looked at his daughter complainingly, "Why did it take so long? And you went to see someone off, but in the end they sent you home instead? Did you help Xiaoxuan send your stuff back?"
Tang Yuting secretly looked at Li Xuan.
Li Xuan smiled and said, "Uncle Tang, I came out to do other things."
Then Li Xuan looked at Tang Yuting, "Didn't you say you still have homework to do? Go quickly."
Tang Yuting was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that Li Xuan didn't want Old Tang to know that the two of them had just gone to the beach.
Tang Yuting quickly looked at Old Tang, "Dad, I'm going back to the room to read first."
"Go." Old Tang nodded.
After Tang Yuting left, Li Xuan looked at Old Tang and said, "Uncle Tang, should I leave first?"
"Well, you go and do your work." Old Tang nodded again.
When Li Xuan came out of Old Tang's store, he heard Fatty Bin shouting from behind him, "Brother Xuan, wait for me."
Li Xuan turned around and saw Chen Bin trotting over with a box of black tea on one shoulder and a large bag of snacks in the other hand.
"Is something wrong?" Li Xuan asked.
Chen Bin chuckled and said, "Brother Xuan, weren't you and Tang Yuting going home just now?"
Li Xuan nodded and said calmly: "We just went to the beach and tried out the diving equipment we bought."
"You just tried out the diving equipment?" Chen Bin said meaningfully.
"I also went into the sea to catch some crabs."
Chen Bin didn't believe this at all. He went into the sea to catch crabs in the dark. Who was he to fool?
Li Xuan didn't bother to explain to him and strode towards the dock.
Crabs have very strong vitality. Sometimes they will not die for half a month after they come out of the water, but sometimes they may die just after they come out of the water.
Dead crabs secrete a toxin before they die and cannot be eaten. He was anxious to go back and get those crabs back.
Soon, the two arrived at the pier.
Chen Bin put the things on the unloading bridge and followed Li Xuan onto the ship.
As soon as he got on the boat, he saw twenty or thirty tightly packed swimming crabs placed on the deck of the boat.
Chen Bin suddenly felt bad. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief and exclaimed: "Brother Xuan, just when I went to the canteen to buy a box of water, you went into the sea and caught so many crabs?
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Li Xuan nodded, "I'm lucky, I happened to stumble upon a swimming crab's nest."
Chen Bin looked at Li Xuan like an alien, "Even if you find the swimming crab's nest, you still have to find a way to lure the swimming crab out of the nest. How did you do it in such a short time?"
Li Xuandao: "It's just like you catching crabs on the shore. I have diving equipment and it's very convenient to move around on the bottom of the sea."
Chen Bin looked at Li Xuan, then at the crabs, and finally at the diving equipment, without saying anything for a long time.
"Brother Xuan, how much did you spend on this set of diving equipment?" Chen Bin couldn't help but ask in the end.
"Um?"
Li Xuan was stunned for a moment when he heard this.
Chen Bin also wants to buy diving equipment.
However, Li Xuan did not recommend that Chen Bin buy diving equipment. If he had the money, he might as well buy a larger boat.
Li Xuan bought this set of diving equipment to cover the octopus clone.
Although based on what Li Xuan has observed on the seabed these days, the fishery resources under Yulong Bay are still very abundant.
But without any special skills, it would take at least two months to recoup such a set of diving equipment, and it would also delay normal fishing work.
After thinking about it, Li Xuan said truthfully: "More than 10,000 yuan."
When Chen Bin heard this, he immediately took a breath of cold air, "Just a few small things, costing more than 10,000 yuan? I only paid a few hundred yuan to buy an underwater breathing machine."
Li Xuan didn't say anything. The underwater breathing machine is the kind of machine that Li Xuan's father plays at Li Xuan's house. It can also allow people to breathe underwater, but the machine cannot be put into the water and needs to be connected to a long breathing tube, which is very inconvenient.
Seeing that Li Xuan was silent, Chen Bin couldn't help but ask again: "Brother Xuan, can you get your money back for buying such an expensive set of diving equipment?"
Li Xuan nodded and smiled: "Why not? Do you think I caught so many swimming crabs today?"
The corner of Chen Bin's mouth twitched, and the last bit of envy that Li Xuan had caught so many swimming crabs was gone. Although these swimming crabs were very valuable, even if they were sold in the town, they would cost more than ten yuan each.
But Chen Bin felt that even if Li Xuan had a set of diving equipment that could easily move on the seabed, he would not be able to catch so many swimming crabs every day.
"It's too expensive. I still think it's more reliable to cast the net from a boat." Chen Bin shook his head.
Li Xuan shook his head, "In fact, whether it is using diving equipment for underwater fishing operations or using boats for trawling, there is a future."
"It's just that with a small boat like yours, it's really hard to do anything on the sea." Li Xuan looked at Chen Bin and said.
Chen Bin said disapprovingly: "Don't you also drive a small boat?"
"I don't have the money to buy a big, advanced boat, so no, as soon as I got some money, I immediately bought a set of more advanced diving equipment." Li Xuan said with a smile.
Chen Bin looked at Li Xuan and said seriously: "You just fished it out of the sea and then threw it back into the sea."
"Now the fishery resources are becoming increasingly depleted, and it is getting harder and harder to catch fish. Just build a small boat like mine. If you throw money into the sea like you do, what if one day you can no longer catch fish in this sea area?"
Chapter completed!