Zhao Dahai stood on a rock, glanced at the white sun, and squinted his eyes. The sea was different from other places. As soon as the sun came out, the temperature rose very quickly. The island was bare with no trees, not even soil, only stones.
The heat was getting faster, and the sunlight reflected on the sea surface was very dazzling and uncomfortable. I lowered my head and looked at some oysters in the mesh bags I was carrying. Most of the mesh bags weighed forty or fifty kilograms.
Zhao Dahai knew that he was different from people like Chen Fang who were familiar with the island and even had their own snail nests. There would definitely be nothing to gain near the island or in a place that was easy to climb. From the beginning, he relied on his youth and strength to go there.
Walking in a place with few people and difficult to climb. No matter what, Chen Fang and others are women. Their physical strength and courage are not as good as those of men. There are many places on the island that are inaccessible. Facts have proved that this is the right choice. It takes less than two hours.
Time, forty or fifty kilograms of large oyster shells cost about ten yuan per kilogram, five or six hundred yuan.
Zhao Dahai tied the opening of the mesh bag and found a seawater puddle to soak in. He moved a few rocks to hold it down. It was very heavy to carry dozens of kilograms. It was very dangerous to climb the rocks. He left it alone first and took it back with him when he went back.
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Zhao Dahai took a rest for about ten minutes and took the time to continue. However, the key point was not to look for a position a little higher than the water line. As the sun rose and the temperature became higher, all the snails in this position would hide in the water and disappear, or they would not even be visible.
Don't dare to touch it. If you can't stand still when a wave hits, you will have to throw it into the sea. If you want to find conches at this time, you have to look for crevices in the rocks. The temperature of the island rises very fast. But places like crevices in the rocks are usually very humid, and there are many
It has been soaking in the sea water. At night or when the tide rises, the snails that climb onto the island are hiding in it.
Zhao Dahai walked to a stone gap formed by two rocks and looked inside with the rising sun. As expected, there were three or four oyster snails and a few bitter snails inside.
Both bitter snails and sea snails are a type of conch. Wherever you can find sea snails, you can usually find bitter snails. They are much smaller than sea snails and have a slightly bitter-sweet taste. Many people don’t like them.
This taste is much cheaper than oysters.
If you see it, you won’t let it go. No matter how worthless it is, it costs a few dollars per pound.
Who can see the money and not pick it up?
The fire pliers were no longer needed at this time, so I took out a half-meter-long iron hook and inserted it into the cracks in the rocks. The oysters and snails were hooked out. I took a new mesh bag and packed it. I continued to move forward and continued to look for the cracks in the rocks.
The conch and bitter snail inside.
The clothes on Zhao Dahai's body were soaked, and beads of sweat dripped down desperately. He raised his head and squinted at the sun in the sky, hanging in the center, and looked for snails. Before he knew it, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.
, I found a place on the backside of a large reef where the sun was not exposed, sat down, took out my lunch box from the bucket I brought, and had breakfast at three or four in the morning. It has been almost eight hours since then, and I have been climbing up and down the reef.
I only drank a few sips of water and rested for about ten minutes. I was both hungry and tired.
Zhao Dahai ate a big meal, stuffing the big chunks of oily pork belly into his mouth. He swallowed it without having time to chew. The salted fish was very good for rice. In about ten minutes, he ate all the food in the lunch box. He drank two sips of water and drank.
After a burp, I stood up after sitting for two or three minutes and continued walking forward to catch snails. It is not difficult to catch snails on the island. There is not much skill. The oysters or bitter snails are either on the waterline or on the rocks.
If you want to have a good harvest, you must have good legs and be able to climb the rocks, you must be able to endure hardship, and you must be able to bask in the sun.
Zhao Dahai stood in the middle of two large rocks. There was a gap between the rocks, which was almost as wide as a person's thigh. A cold feeling rushed out from it, and his body, which was so hot in the sun, shivered.
Zhao Dahai took a look and saw that the seams between the stones were dark and hard to see clearly. There are often good things in places like this, and snails are definitely indispensable. He thought that he had brought a flashlight and immediately took it to shine inside.
What!
So many?
Zhao Dahai was dumbfounded. The crack in the stone was not deep, only about two to three meters. People could not get in, but the space was quite good. The opening was 30 centimeters wide and there were two palms in the innermost part. The key is that the stone
The cracks are densely covered with oysters and snails. They are layered one on top of another, making your scalp feel numb just looking at them.
It took Zhao Dahai a while to come to his senses, and he took another net bag, put the hook in and pulled it out, and one after another oversized oysters and snails rolled out. At this time, he wished he had a hoe. p>
Zhao Dahai hooked out half of the snails, put them into a mesh bag and continued hooking them. The iron hook was not used in deeper places. Fortunately, he brought a four-meter-long steel hook, which came in handy at this time.
Zhao Dahai quickly understood why there were so many snails in this stone crevice. There were several dead fish as big as the palm of your hand, and they were gnawed to pieces of the remaining fish bones. Maybe it was during high tide or strong winds.
It’s no wonder there are so many snails here. People die for money, and birds die for food. In the same way, oyster snails and bitter snails came here to eat fish, and now they have become their own harvest. p>
Zhao Dahai pulled out all the oysters and snails and put them into a mesh bag. He picked them up and weighed them. They were very heavy and weighed about forty pounds. He worked for a whole morning of six or seven hours. I don't know.
How many rocks have I climbed? The total weighs about fifty pounds. When luck comes, I can't stop it. I can harvest a lot from just a crack in the rocks. The sea is so magical.
Zhao Dahai felt so happy that he picked up the flashlight that was thrown aside and was about to turn it off when he shone it into the cracks in the stone. There were a few green and blue things flashing inside.
No way?
Is there anything else?
Zhao Dahai was stunned for a moment, looked at the flashlight carefully, and laughed. There was really something, and it was a blue crab. It must have gone into the cracks of the rocks to eat fish like the oysters and snails.
Zhao Dahai stretched out a two-meter-long reinforced iron hook, hooked the blue crab and slowly dragged it out. He could not break the big pliers. It took a lot of effort to hook it out. He held it down, took a rope with him, and tied it with a section.
Come on, a pound was less than a pound and a half, and now it’s a hundred or more yuan.
Zhao Dahai looked at the time and it was almost three o'clock. When he went to the island, the boat boss said that he would pick him up at four o'clock. Today's harvest is already very good. If he continues to search, he will definitely find more oysters and snails, but he is not greedy.
, packed up our things and started walking back. It was very easy to come back empty-handed. When we went back, we had two bags worth more than 100 kilograms of snails. Climbing up and down the slippery rocks was not an easy task. It was very expensive.
It took the boss's strength and exhaustion to get back to the place where I went to the island.