Chapter 66: Catching the Sea
Hong Tao followed their wishes in small things, but it was useless for anyone to say anything about big things. In the middle of September, when the fishing season comes, all the men of the Tan family will go out to sea in small boats, and they call it to catch the sea. Whether you can become the pillar of the family depends not on how many fish and shrimp you can catch and how many abalone and sea cucumbers you can catch in the small sea, but whether you can catch the sea and return with a full load. At that time, there will be businessmen from Qiongzhou, Guangzhou, and even Quanzhou who will come from Qiongzhou, Guangzhou, and even Quanzhou to buy these tons of sea fish in large boats, and a boatload of fish for a family will be enough to eat for half a year.
Hong Tao must participate in this matter, he is not interested in how many fish can be caught, with advanced fishing tools, the Tanka family of the cooperative does not rush to the sea once a year, and can still eat rice every day. What he likes is the importance of the Tan family to catch the sea, if you can be brilliant when you catch the sea, you are the hero of the Tan family, you say that everyone believes it, otherwise you have the ability, and you will not be able to become a person in the Tan family. Since Hong Tao wants to regard the Tan family as the first step of his own development, it is the best shortcut to become a Tan family talker, and the only way to this position is to catch the sea.
"Does a shark count?" In order to make himself brilliant in the process of catching the sea, Hong Tao can be regarded as hollowing out his mind. But on second thought, the only way to make him the catcher is to go ahead and kill sharks.
The Tanka family has inquired about the fishing flood and Hong Tao, and it is a school of sardines. There are millions of such fish, about a foot long, and they are still upper-layer fish, and the rolling hook and ground cage are basically useless to them. Let yourself go to the net to play the experienced Tan family, it's too late to learn, and if you want to play trawl, you don't have that tool. Regardless of the fact that he is very good at fishing, he is not good at fishing, and even if he is given two modern trawlers, he may not know when to put the net down.
"You're going to kill the shark again? They will listen to you, where to look? Huang Hai listened to Hong Tao's question and immediately became calm. The last time I fought with Jiao Shark, I happened to catch up with it, and that thing came and went without a trace, unless Hong Tao was really the son of the Dragon King, how could he kill it if he wanted to?
"I have a way to get them out, it doesn't necessarily work, but I want to try, does killing the shark count?" Hong Tao didn't care about Huang Hai's suspicious eyes, he also knew about the rumors of Ryuko Taro, and he didn't deliberately explain it, pretending to be a ghost is his forte, and this legend is not harmful to him. Taro is Taro, as long as you don't suddenly pop up a Nezha to skin yourself with cramps.
"Sort of...... You're all engaged to Azhu......" Huang Hai didn't know what to say, so he opened his mouth for a long time, and finally came up with a statement, hoping that Azhu could drag Hong Tao and let him not take risks.
"Ah Zhu and I go together, we are husband and wife, whether we are happy or sinful, we have to be together, isn't Ah Zhu?" Hong Tao had already told Ah Zhu that since this girl was engaged to herself, she had been so focused on herself that she didn't even dare to listen to her grandfather's words. In her words, she is already the daughter-in-law of the Hong family, and Grandpa can't control her.
"Well, I'll go with him!" Azhu is more excited than Hong Tao, she has the pure blood of the Tan family in her bones, but it is a pity that she gave birth to a daughter.
"I'll let Huang Lang follow you......" Huang Hai is completely out of luck, although Hong Tao said that he is a member of the Tan family, but no one has really treated him as a member of the Tan family, he always wants to be a distinguished guest from afar, and it is generally useless to talk to him about the rules of the Tan family.
"No, we can do it ourselves, so as not to disagree with others!" Hong Tao also rejected the last bit of kindness in the Yellow Sea, Huang Lang could not sail a new sailboat, and he was not familiar with killing sharks, so he couldn't help much.
On the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the outside of Zhenzhou Port suddenly became different from usual, and countless small wooden boats of the Tan family hung all kinds of patch sails, as if they suddenly emerged from the bottom of the sea, gathered outside the port, leaving only one channel. When the sky is dark, a large number of rows of ships have arrived, and the entire Zhenzhou port has become a sea of stars, and a small lantern will be hung out on each row of boats, and this lantern will be lit until dawn the next day.
In the face of an unknown fate, every man of the Tan family took out the last bit of money in the family, went to the shore to buy the most inferior rice wine, got together with the family members, and drank by the light of the bow of the boat, and stayed all night. The Song people in Zhenzhou Port did not overreact to the pomp and circumstance of the Tan family, and it is estimated that they have long been accustomed to it, except for a few vehicles and ships sent by the port to patrol back and forth on the waterway, everything is as usual. However, many foreign maritime merchants who saw such a grand occasion for the first time couldn't help but be curious, and rowed out of the port one after another, wanting to take a look near the Tan family's rows of boats, but they were all stopped by the vehicles and ships of the Coast Guard.
At this time, the Tan family is the most ferocious, and even if they have no life to come back, once they are angry, it will be a chain reaction, and this kind of thing has not happened in history, so the vehicles and ships of the coast guard camp drove away the ships that tried to get close to the rows of boats, and no one could approach. Anyway, the Tan family only tosses two nights every year, even if the Tan family is the lowest ethnic group in the Great Song Dynasty, the Song people are willing to give them two days of relatively free space.
Hong Tao didn't dare to fight with others anymore, he planned to quit drinking, this thing was too delaying, and he had to take the opportunity to be the hero of the Tan family, how could he be greedy for a cup and make a mistake? After he returned Bo Zhu to the Bo family's row of boats, he took Karl to begin a routine inspection on his new sailboat, which he had just repaired. Rudders, sails, cables, ropes, fresh water, food, harpoons, and spare equipment were tossed out one by one, and then packed up and put back. Tossed and turned until midnight, then got into the cabin and fell asleep.
The new sailboat is more than one meter larger than the small wooden boat of the Tanjia family, and there is a small cabin in the middle and rear of the boat, which is closed, and there are two hammocks hanging in it, which is Hong Tao's bedroom, and three people take turns to steer the boat and take turns to rest. When building this ship, Hong Tao originally wanted to get a larger cabin, but unfortunately its main structure has several partition plates to form a water trap design. It's safe, but it's not economical to divide the available space in the cabin.
Just after the end of the hour, the already unquiet outside the port of Zhenzhou became noisy again, and every family of the Tan family who was about to go to the sea put a simple sacrifice on the bow of the boat and inserted incense. The women all hid in the canopy, and the men knelt on the bow of the boat according to their seniority to bow down to the dragon king and Mazu, praying that their families would have a smooth ride and return with a full load.
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