Chapter 84 Take down the diesel engine and talk to Zhang Li
The sun rises.
The yard is getting hot.
Zhong Cuihua held her knees with both hands, with deep wrinkles layer upon layer.
Zhao Shi frowned tightly, lit the hookah, and smoked one after another.
Zhao Dahai sat silently. He wanted to repair the boat and go fishing, but this was not something he could decide alone.
"Zhao Shi."
"Someday the ship will be repaired in the sea. Please help me. You are a good person."
Zhong Cuihua patted her knee.
"Ah?"
"Old sister-in-law!"
"How about going out to sea to fish?"
Zhao Shi's eyes widened and he didn't even bother to smoke the hookah.
"The sea is right."
"You have to make money to feed yourself, you have to marry a wife, have a few kids and raise them, etc. If you don't need money, you have to get out of the sea."
"This is the fate of the people in our fishing village."
"No way!"
Zhong Cuihua waved her hand.
Zhao Shi moved his lips a few times, wanting to say something, but he closed his mouth tightly. Isn't that the truth? Every village on the seaside has people who go out to fish and kill people. If the people are dead, they don't dare to go out to the sea. The village has long since dispersed.
, sat for a while, sighed, stood up with his hands on his knees, said "I'll find it when we repair the boat," turned around and walked out of the yard slowly.
"Grandma."
"Let's just wander around on the sea in front of the village. We won't go far."
Zhao Dahai took Zhong Cuihua's hand.
"Hmm."
"Don't run far."
"Catch some fish. Make some money."
"As long as you can get a wife and raise a child."
Zhong Cuihua patted Zhao Dahai's hand, stood up and walked into the main room, pulled up a low stool and sat down to continue weaving a fishing net.
Zhao Dahai shook his head. If something happened to his father and mother, it would be a big deal for an old man. Even if he relaxed and let himself repair the boat and go fishing, he was forced to do so, and he must be extremely worried.
In fact, no matter whether there is something wrong with my parents or not, as long as I go to sea, the people at home will be worried day and night. Without saying anything, there is no comfort. People in the fishing village have to face the reality and can only bear it silently. p>
Zhao Dahai cooked a pot of white porridge, which was breakfast. There was no food. He poured some soy sauce and stirred it a few times. He brought a bowl to Zhong Cuihua, who was weaving a fishing net. He filled a bowl for himself and said he would go into the mangrove tree to see if it could be done.
Let’s talk about making money, it’s not a problem to get some small fish and shrimps, but the pot on the table needs to be a bit fishy.
Zhong Cuihua thought for a while and nodded.
Zhao Dahai divided two by three, finished two bowls of porridge, packed a few mesh bags, picked up a pole, and picked up a small iron hoe. Today, the tide is low at three o'clock in the afternoon to enter the mangroves, and the tide is high at nine o'clock in the evening. Bring a flashlight.
, filled a bottle of cold water, put on Jiefang shoes, said that he would go home later tonight, and strode out.
Zhong Cuihua walked slowly to the courtyard door, watched Zhao Dahai disappear around the corner, and then turned back to the main room. She was distracted for more than ten minutes with the net shuttle, wiped the corners of her eyes, and then started weaving the fishing net one after another. Zhao Dahai strode to the pier in front of the village and turned to the west under the sun. Going east across the beach was a reef zone for fishing crab and tiger fish, and the mangroves were at the west end of the village.
Zhao Dahai had been walking for almost an hour when an endless mangrove forest appeared. This is a type of shrubs and small trees that can grow in seawater. Generally speaking, it appears on the tidal flats at the junction of land and ocean on the seashore, which can protect against wind.
Solid sand. A few decades ago, during the typhoon season, fishing boats from the village would come here to take shelter from the wind. In recent years, there have been special fishing ports for shelter from the wind, and gradually no fishing boats come anymore.
Zhao Dahai took a look and saw that the tide had just begun to recede. He rested for half an hour until the sand and mud were exposed on the edge of the mangrove forest.
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Zhao Dahai took a look and found that it was a jumping fish. In some places, it is called a mudskipper or a jumping fish. It has a big head with protruding eyes and a wide mouth. It is grey-brown and has suction cups on its abdomen. It can attach to the reefs or the treetops of mangroves and has great jumping ability.
The tide is strong and can often be seen on the beach after the tide recedes. Once disturbed, groups of people jump forward.
Zhao Dahai shook his head. The jumping fish may not grow very big, but the meat is tender and delicious. This is not what I came here for today. I continued walking in. Some mangroves can grow four or five meters high, but there are relatively few.
It is generally only over one meter high, and the root system is very developed, criss-crossing into one area, making it very difficult to walk. There are few people coming into the mangrove forest, and walking is difficult. In half a day, all I caught were worthless little ones.
Fish and shrimp are not cost-effective. The other place is like a maze, and ordinary people may not be able to get out after entering.
Zhao Dahai bent over, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the sun hung in the sky was shining like a steamer. After walking for five or six minutes, there were beads of sweat the size of soybeans on his forehead. He looked left and right with wide eyes. There was no fishing boat.
I can't be picky when I go to sea. The mangroves are a good place for me. I have gone to the mangroves to catch fish and snails since I was a child. I am very familiar with this place. After walking for half an hour, I arrived at a small open space. I straightened up and put on my clothes.
Everything was soaked. I came here often when I was a kid. There are sea melon seeds and very big mud snails growing here.
Zhao Dahai took a look. The sea water receded and the mud snails were half exposed. He picked it up with his hand and found it was as big as his fist. No one had been here for several years. They were all crowded together. He took out the mesh bag he brought and packed it for half an hour.
It was full, and I carried it for no less than twenty kilograms, and then took out another mesh bag. I dug out a piece of sea melon seeds as big as a fingernail, and the same amount was almost twenty kilograms. I dug a hole with my hoe, and half of it oozed out.
Wash the mud snails and sea melon seeds in the two mesh bags with the sea water in the pit. You don’t have to wash them too hard when you go back. There is no mud mixed with them. It will be easier to pick them back later.
Zhao Dahai rested for a while and drank some water. He didn't bring any mud snails or sea claw poles with him. Not many people came in the mangrove. Even if someone came, they would know at a glance that the owner's things were not worth a lot of money.
People know how to take it, so they took a mesh bag, picked up a small hoe, and went into the mangroves. They continued walking forward. Another hour passed and when they were going through the mangroves again, a small ditch appeared in front of them.
Zhao Dahai wiped the sweat from his forehead. He hadn't been here for several years. It was not easy to find the direction in the mangrove forest and many places had changed, so he almost couldn't find it.
There are open spaces and small ditches in the mangroves. There are not many open spaces, but there are many small ditches. The tide of the sea rises and ebbs, and small ditches appear in the loose soil areas. Most of them are not deep, about one or two meters. The ditches are lower than the surrounding places. The tide ebbs.
When there is water, the sea water flows like a small river.
Zhao Dahai went down the ditch and walked forward through the water. There were many small fish and shrimps. This was not today's goal. He stared at the earthen dams with grass and vines exposed on both sides of the ditch. It felt like the sea water
Grass and vines do not grow in the soaking area. In fact, they not only grow but also grow very well.
Zhao Dahai walked and looked. Half an hour later, he finally saw a fist-sized and flat hole in the earthen dam twenty centimeters away from the water surface of the ditch. He walked quickly over and observed it carefully for a while, with a smile on his face.