Zhao Dahai got up and saw that the light in the main room was on. He immediately walked over. This was no good. Without saying anything, he directly helped Zhong Cuihua to sleep in the back room.
Zhao Dahai walked into the kitchen. He had cooked the food before going to bed last night. After breakfast, he found a lunch box and filled it with rice and large pieces of pork belly and salted fish. He closed the lid. Today will be very busy. I don’t know at noon.
Wherever you eat, you can just bring it with you. You can eat whenever you are hungry without having to go home.
Zhao Dahai walked to the motorcycle, put the lunch box into the basket on the back seat, packed everything, opened the yard door, pushed the motorcycle out and locked the door.
Zhao Dahai looked around. The whole village was quiet. He was the first to go out. The early bird catches the worm. He rode his motorcycle and arrived at the village pier in about ten minutes. The low tide was no joke. He moved forward with his flashlight.
I took a photo and found that as far as I could see, the seawater had already receded and the entire seabed was leaking out.
When the sea water recedes and exposes the seabed, some places are mudflats, some are reefs, and some are sand.
The mudflats are relatively soft and sticky, and there is even stagnant water, so motorcycles will definitely not be able to drive on them. The rocks are uneven, and motorcycles can barely ride on them if they are lower, but not if they are higher. However, the sand on the seabed is soaked by sea water.
It is very tight, especially where the sand is mixed with some small rocks at the bottom, the motorcycle can not only be driven but also can be driven very smoothly.
To the east of Langtou Village is a reef area, to the west are mangroves and tidal flats, and directly in front there is a large area of sand and gravel extending straight ahead.
Zhao Dahai kicked the accelerator, and the motorcycle drove directly into the sea. At first, he was a little cautious, fearing that the car would get stuck, but he soon discovered that it was very safe and sound. The sand was more solid than he thought. He slowly increased the speed, and the speed increased.
It came faster and faster, until it reached a speed of fifty kilometers per hour.
The sea is quiet.
It was dark all around.
The roar of the motorcycle's engine could be heard in the distance. The light of the headlight pierced the night like a sword.
Zhao Dahai heard the sound of the waves and slowed down. The headlight of his motorcycle shone on the sea water. He immediately stopped, found a small rock, propped up the motorcycle on a cushion, took a flashlight, and walked around. He could do it by himself.
It's a little early, and the sea water has not completely receded. You have to wait for at least an hour, until it has receded further and deeper at about five or six o'clock, when it is almost dawn, so that you can pick mussels or oysters. Now they are all soaked in
In the water.
Zhao Dahai walked to the side of the motorcycle and took out a mesh bag from the basket, put on his gloves, walked to the edge of the seawater, and walked along the waterline, keeping his flashlight shining on the seawater.
Zhao Dahai walked five or six meters, and the flashlight illuminated a place. At first glance, it looked like a piece of sand, but upon closer inspection, the sand here was different from the surrounding sand. It was slightly sunken, and the sunken area was about as big as the palm of your hand.
It is large, with two small eyes on the sand, and the flashlight emits a faint blue light.
Zhao Dahai bent down and pressed the concave part of the sand with his right thumb. The other four fingers were inserted into the sand, and he pinched it firmly up and down at the same time.
"Aha!"
"Coming!"
"Incoming goods!"
"This head is really good!"
Zhao Dahai laughed. What he was holding in his hand was a pretty good-sized orchid crab. This is a kind of crab. The male crab has dark blue or blue-green, light blue or white spots on its body, while the female crab has dark blue or blue-green spots on its body.
Green or yellow-brown spots. The meat is very sweet and tastes great. It is very popular and the price is quite good. The bigger it is, the more valuable it is. This is only a big male crab of about a pound.
When the tide goes out at the beach, fish, shrimps and crabs will retreat to the depths of the sea along with the water. Crabs often do not immediately turn around and swim to the sea but "stay behind". Their favorite thing to do is to keep hovering at the waterline. Many times,
Once the tide recedes too fast and you can't run away, you can only stay where you are. This is how you find crabs by turning over rocks on the tidal flat.
Zhao Dahai woke up early specifically to focus on these crabs on the waterline. The first big male orchid crab harvested proved that his guess was correct.
"Don't be greedy. Don't be greedy."
"Just eight out of ten of this size will be enough!"
Zhao Dahai took out the rope he had prepared long ago, tied up the orchid crabs and put them into the mesh bag, and continued walking forward. The market price of a big male orchid crab of about one kilogram is about one hundred yuan. If there are ten or eight crabs, it will cost one thousand yuan.
I feel happy just thinking about getting the 1 yuan.
Zhao Dahai stepped on the receding waterline and continued to move forward, staring at the place where the flashlight swept. Thirty or forty meters later, he found another crab, another crab, also an orchid crab.
But this is a small female crab, only about four taels, not as big as a male crab, but in fact it is quite big, and it cost at least thirty yuan.
Zhao Dahai picks up while walking. Sometimes he can find orchid crabs or other crabs within two or three steps, but sometimes he has to walk hundreds of meters to find one.
There is a faint trace of fish belly white on the horizon.
Zhao Dahai stopped and walked for more than an hour without realizing it. He weighed the mesh bag in his hand. It weighed twenty kilograms. Most of them were valuable orchid crabs, three or four three-point crabs and a few small crabs.
Big stone crab.
Zhao Dahai turned around and walked back. It was almost dawn. He quickened his pace and rushed back to the place where the motorcycle was parked in less than an hour. There were six more large male orchid crabs in the mesh bag.
"Hehehe!"
"The early bird catches the worm. This is a true saying."
Zhao Dahai was very happy. There were about thirty kilograms of crabs, and there were more large and valuable orchid crabs. On average, they cost about fifty or sixty yuan per kilogram. If the market was good, they could sell for almost two thousand yuan. If the market was bad, they would be sold for almost two thousand yuan.
I have to have 1,500 yuan to get up two or three hours earlier than others. It’s a little hard work, but with this extra money, it’s very cost-effective.
Zhao Dahai dug a hole in the sand. After waiting for a while, a lot of seawater accumulated. He took out a bucket of water from the basket and soaked the mesh bag with crabs in the bucket. Crabs are relatively durable, even without an oxygen machine.
It’s okay to keep it for a few hours.
Are the people in the village stupid?
Or maybe you are really too rich and don’t want to pick up crabs and sell them to make money?!
The people in the village are really not stupid. Their ancestors have been living in the fishing village and going out to sea to make money fishing. How could they not know this?!
It is even more impossible for someone who is very rich to look down on two or three thousand yuan.
The real reason is that there may be crabs at low tide, and more likely there will be nothing at all.
I want to make as much money as possible. After I save enough to repair the fishing boat, I will be willing to put in the effort to get up early. If I don't have pressure, I don't have to worry about the money to repair the fishing boat. Maybe I can just lie down and sleep at home now.
!
Zhao Dahai picked up the kettle, drank some water, and looked in the direction of the village. It was a little far away, and the sky was not very bright. He couldn't see where he was. After resting for about ten minutes, he got on his motorcycle and continued.
Keep going, it's almost time to start drying mussels and oysters!