Chapter 3: Big goods
Time waits for no one. Li Changle was too lazy to argue with a few talkative women. He ran down the mountain to a pile of rocks on the beach. He walked through the pile of rocks for more than ten meters, squeezed through a narrow stone crevice, and a small cave entrance appeared. In front of you.
There was only room for one person to crawl through the entrance of the cave. After entering, the inside was about one meter wide and about ten meters deep. When he reached the low end, he hunched over and got in, took off his clothes and pants and put them in his backpack. Then he put the net rope and headlamp on. , put the copy net and the net pocket in the oilcloth bag, and hide the backpack.
Carrying the oilskin bag, I walked out of the cave and turned left, stepping on the sea water that covered my insteps, and walked along the cliff for more than thirty meters, and stopped in front of a rock protruding from the cliff.
There is a culvert-like entrance under this raised rock.
He took out the headlamp and put it on, took out the rope from the oilcloth bag, tied the bag around his waist, took a deep breath, and plunged into the water.
At first I only felt a little tingling in my ears, but after I gradually adapted to the underwater pressure, I felt no discomfort at all.
He has swum this waterway hundreds of times and can reach his destination with his eyes closed.
After diving down for about two or three meters, he began to tilt to the right and swam up. After swimming for about two or three minutes, when he surfaced, he was already in a cave.
This cave was accidentally discovered by a few young people who have been watching the sunrise and diving at the beach for thousands of years.
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The cave is about one hundred square meters in size, like a large artificial cave.
There are three waterholes in the cave. The farther you go in, the higher the terrain becomes. The rocks are rugged and there is no place to stay at the high places.
Everyone guessed that the top should be at the top of Yantou Mountain.
I heard that the first time I went in, I caught a few large yellow croakers, and knocked a lot of oysters (oysters) weighing three to four kilograms from the cliff. After I went out, I also found a dozen pearls of excellent quality.
After hearing the news, the villagers who came to the cave went into the cave and pried all the oysters and locusts inside. It is said that many people also found pearls.
He also followed in and pried out more than a hundred kilograms of oysters and locusts. Maybe it was bad luck and he didn't get a single bead.
Later, people would sneak into this cave from time to time, and he was one of them. Every time he went there, he could catch some marine fish from the three water holes inside.
After Li Changle entered, he shined his headlamp on the cliff and saw that the cliff was densely covered with oysters and locusts.
Suddenly, there was a splashing sound from the puddle next to him. He turned his head and shined his headlight over it, and saw a large bass. This kind of fish has a lower mouth longer than its upper mouth, which is a typical fish.
Further forward, a 40- to 50-centimeter-long moray eel and a blue crab were frightened by the light and crawled into the cracks in the rocks. There was another "crash" sound, and the water splashed by a big fish as it fled in panic splashed him. All in one.
He wiped the water from his face, turned his head and looked in the direction where the big fish was escaping. When he saw it, he screamed, "Fuck! What a big fish!"
Rice fish, whose scientific name is fish, is also called catfish in some places. The bigger this fish is, the more valuable it is.
The reason why the large rice fish is valuable is that the isinglass made from its swim bladder has high medicinal value.
It has the functions of nourishing blood, nourishing kidneys, moistening lungs, strengthening spleen and anti-inflammatory; fish scales can be used to make scale glue; viscera and bones can be used to make fish meal and fish oil; otoliths can clear away heat, remove blood stasis and be a diuretic.
The good wild fish maw in later generations can be sold for tens of thousands of yuan per catty. This rice fish weighs at least thirty or forty kilograms. In the previous life, a wild catfish of this size cost at least three hundred yuan per catty. I don’t know how much it can sell for these days. One pound.
When the headlight shone in the shadows, a colorful figure flashed out of the corner of his eye.
Li Changle's eyes were shining, and he stared intently at a pair of colorful animals, with green stripes all over their bodies, two long dark red tentacles, black and white limbs, and many yellow spots dotted among them, and they quickly swam towards the darkness. Flower dragon.
This kind of giant lobster is the Chinese embroidered lobster, which was called the "god shrimp" in ancient times.
Wild Splendid Lobster will be listed as a second-level protected animal in 2021, and catching it privately is punishable!
Visual inspection of these pair of large flower dragons, the length of the small one is over 30 centimeters. In future generations, such live shrimps could sell for tens of thousands at least. Now it should be no problem to sell for 1,800 yuan, right?
After the turn of the millennium, the starting price of wild Splendid Lobster with a length of 30 centimeters will be reduced to 11,000 kilograms. Those over 30 centimeters will no longer be calculated in kilograms. For every centimeter in length, the price will rise by a thousand yuan.
There are so many good things in just this one puddle. If we fished out the other two puddles, how many good things would there be?
But the tide has started to rise at this time, and when the sea water comes up, this place will be submerged by the sea water.
Oysters and locusts grow on the cliffs. On the contrary, there are giant flower dragons and rice fish. You have to catch them in a net when they are trapped in the puddle. If you let them escape, you will probably regret it for the rest of your life.
Just as he said, Li Changle picked up the net and walked towards the rice fish hiding in the deep water. He raised the net and covered it with his hood. There was a "swish" sound, and the rice fish was covered by his hood. It took a lot of effort. It took strength to fish it out.
"It's posted! It's posted!"
Li Changle held the handle of the net with all his strength and looked excitedly at the rice fish struggling in the net. He thought it was at least thirty or forty pounds, so he quickly took out the net bag, put it in, and put it in the water to raise.
Then there is the big flower dragon. When I was fishing for it, I found a few Pipi shrimps and a few green fish. The Pipi shrimps will be valuable in twenty or thirty years, but now no one wants them if they are given away. exist.
There is also green fish, which even in later generations only sold for three or four yuan per catty. It is not as valuable as small crucian carp, let alone now.
Li Changle planned to find the sea bass and moray eel first, and then deal with them. Once he found them, he picked them up with lightning speed and poured them into the net bag.
He looked around the puddle and saw that the blue crab was hidden in the crevices of the rocks. He turned around and saw three pieces of mackerel weighing two to three kilograms each.
The meat of this kind of fish is tender and white, with less spines and more meat. It is extremely plump. The dried fish is best eaten when dried.
I picked it up and put it in a net bag. When I was about to go to the second water hole, I found that the sea water at the entrance of the hole had risen. I estimated the weight and thought I could carry some more, so I went back down to the water hole and put a few Pipi shrimps and Qingzhan catches them all in one fell swoop.
He lifted up the net bag and weighed it, then tied it with a rope and tied the net to it. He walked to the entrance of the cave and entered the water. He took a deep breath, took the net bag and dived into the water to return the way he came.
After emerging from the water and landing on the beach, I struggled to pull the net bag up. I lay on the beach for two minutes exhausted, and then quickly walked back to the cave along the cliff with the net bag in hand.
After taking out the backpack, I didn't even have time to put on my clothes and trousers, so I took the oilcloth bag to the beach and filled half a bag of seawater, carried it back to the cave, put it on the backpack, and then poured the fish and shrimp in the net bag into the bag.
The rice fish couldn't turn around at all in the basket. The rice fish was mainly valuable because of its swim bladder. Even if it died, the price would not be affected.
But the big flower dragon is worth money alive, and dead it is more expensive than ordinary prawns, so you have to go to town quickly.
Li Changle quickly took off his wet trousers, put on clean clothes, packed his things, put the net bag and the net on the backpack, picked up the heavy backpack and left the cave.
Chapter completed!