Chapter 2 Old Sea Encounter

There is an old saying that the mountain eats the mountain, and the water eats the water. Since the city is near www.biquge.info the sea, it is logical that people living in and around the city will regard the sea as the greatest treasure house for obtaining living resources.

Not much to say about the employees of the fishery companies and processing plants, as well as the fishermen of the many surrounding fishing villages. For thousands of years, there has been a very unique and unique industry "sea bumper" that can be called the country and even the world.

The line of "touching the sea" is actually very hard, and this is almost a kind of lowest-level work. To put it bluntly, it is a kind of high-intensity labor of "begging for a living" from the sea without relying on any equipment, relying on diving into the sea alone to catch seafood.

When going to the sea, the "sea bumper" needs to go to the bottom of the sea naked in one breath, and distinguish the habitat of sea cucumbers and abalone in the dark and difficult to find reefs.

The waves will squeeze desperately around, the rapids will deliberately drag people towards the abyss of death, the icy water is as hot as steel needles, and the sharp reefs and shells are the swords and arrows that lie in ambush. In addition, there is also the risk of being attacked by various ferocious underwater creatures.

So, someone made a straightforward explanation. Saying "touching the sea" is essentially "touching the sea" and throwing his life into the sea to meet great luck.

This statement is absolutely true, because these people are both the poorest and the richest people in the world. They are so poor that every penny of money comes from throwing their whole lives into the waves. They are so rich that they eat three meals a day, and they can eat and chew all kinds of treasures that ordinary people rarely see.

Historically, the industry has experienced several significant ups and downs.

In the old society, it fed thousands of poor people, and provided many people with a way to live, and even the hope of getting rich. Therefore, poor people from all walks of life gathered spontaneously, forming large and small shack gathering areas around the perimeter of the coast.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the change of the national system, all people had a livelihood, and this industry slowly declined, and the shack area evolved into a serious fishing village.

After that, it was not until the end of the fifties of the twentieth century that the industry of "sea bumpers" flourished again. The main reason for this is that during the three years of material scarcity, people who were turned green from hunger were forced to rush to the sea in search of nourishment.

Then, the "revolutionary tide" that made people's eyes red came again, and the whole society was paralyzed for a time, so that many people who had problems at home, or were empty and bored, and did not want to be involved in it, gathered more and more in the sea, almost hollowing out the adjacent seabed, and the group of "sea bumpers" also reached an unprecedented prosperity.

And this situation did not stop until the movement of going to the mountains and going to the countryside was completely implemented, and most of the young people in Bincheng were forcibly dispersed.

Similarly, in two years, there will be a big return of educated youth. At that time, before the promulgation of the "Regulations on the Protection of Aquatic Resources", due to the participation of many unemployed young people, the "Hai Bangzi" industry will also usher in the last prosperous scene.

In addition, there is one thing that is particularly interesting. If you look at it from a certain point of view, the "sea bumper" in Bincheng and the "player" in Beijing seem to have a striking resemblance in many places.

First of all, if you look at the word "touch", it is easy to know that "sea bumper" is the same as the "player" who relies on knives to challenge the injustice of fate, and is also a real hero who is unwilling to give in and dares to confront the hand of fate.

In fact, it is true that most of the people who can do this are seaside fishing masters, they have unique skills, rough and fierce personalities, plunge into the waves in one breath, and can fish and catch crabs with their eyes open under the water. Every moment after entering the sea is fighting, fighting, seizing and seeking. It can be said that there is both passion and courage, which fully reflects the fortitude, tenacity and arrogance that a man should have.

Secondly, on the contrary, due to the dangers and lowliness of the industry, most of the people who engage in this industry at any time are forced to choose in desperation. Naturally, like the "players" in the capital created by special historical reasons, their hearts are also filled with an unspeakable helplessness and inferiority complex under the gaze of the world.

Finally, there is another point, that is, like the "player", the "sea bumper" also talks about seniority, fame, and rules. They also have their own "old guns", and each of them must have a nickname, no matter how ugly it is.

Therefore, it is logical that the sorrow of the generations of "new guns breaking old guns" like "the back waves slap the front waves on the beach" is naturally no different from the "player" circle.

Not to mention others, like touching the sea before the "recovery", now that he is nearly seventy years old, he should be regarded as the "old swordfish" of the grandfather's generation in terms of "touching the sea", and he is in the crisis of "heroic twilight".

"Saury" is a local dialect of Ben Thanh, which actually refers to hairtail fish.

As the name suggests, the "old swordfish" man has a slender head shape, and his whole body is flat and long, and he swims into the water like a flying hairtail fish.

When he was young, the level of "Zha Mengzi" was almost the first in the world. What a narrow crevice in the reef, he dared to drill into it. Even in the crooked and undulating crevices of the reef under the water, he could twist his body into four or five bends, and he could not touch the skin at all. It is precisely because of this that he got such a nickname.

But this kind of chic is a thing of the past after all. Today, he has been soaking in the cold waters and the scorching smoke for fifty or sixty years. Despite his appearance, he still has a rock-like body, muscles like cow tendons, and skin like vinyl board. But he knew in his heart that the saying that age is not forgiving is not false.

His body is actually scarred, his muscles are no longer tight, his skin is no longer strong, and most importantly, his strength is not as good as before.

It is no longer possible to be as silent as in the past, and it is impossible to fall four or five times in a tidal wave. It is impossible to fish for sea cucumbers in the cold sea water far from the shore in late autumn and harsh winter, as in the past, and even the limit of "piercing" barefoot has been reduced from 15 or 6 meters to about 9 meters.

Under normal circumstances, strength and gain are exchanged equally. Then he knew that he could no longer compete with those young "sea bumpers".

I don't know when his "myth" faded, and those who were much younger than him gradually discovered that he was diving shallower and deeper, and that he didn't catch as many sea creatures as they did, and even a tide could not even complete three waters. As a result, these "juniors" no longer respect him, no longer compliment, and even many people question the authenticity of other great achievements of the year.

And in order to make people laugh at it in vain, to see the arrogant and ugly state of those "juniors", and those rich beaches that everyone loves to go, he will no longer patronize them. Since then, he can only use the valuable experience he has accumulated in his life to ingest prey on the coast where most of the "sea bumpers" basically do not care, and there are very few sea currents.

The so-called sea currents are actually rivers in the sea, with a turbulent flow speed, and generally 100 pounds of stones can also rumble and roll. But because the water is always fresh, cool and clean, sea cucumbers, abalone and scallops prefer to live in the currents.

So this is embarrassing for many people. The general "sea bumpers" do not know what to do, and they will only rely on brute force to force themselves in such places. As a result, it will be "empty" and "empty" in a row, and it will not be able to get the goods at all. They will even be washed out of their direction, and they will be dizzy and unable to find the shore to land. Therefore, after a long time and a few hardships, these people will never set foot in such places again.

Fortunately, he himself is an expert, no matter how urgent the Liuzi is, he can fish out the goods from it, this is because he knows how urgent the Hailiuzi is, and he also has the kung fu to rest his breath. When the tide goes out, it takes a few bags of cigarettes to turn back. And he is just one of the few people who can firmly grasp the time and law of a steady stream.

For this, he sincerely wants to thank God!

It was the work of nature that left him a few pieces of private territory similar to "Spark Bay", which almost no one came to set foot in, which could not only afford to raise seafood, but also hide seafood, and could still allow him to support his family and solve the problem of livelihood. (To be continued.) )