Chapter 45: Camping Adventures
When he got to the estuary, it was getting dark, and he decided to camp here today. The boat was dragged to the shore by him, and he nailed a stake to the river beach and tied it. For dinner, Quan Hao deliberately went to the sea to catch a lobster. I don't know if it's because of the underwater environment, only the South Peninsula can find lobsters, and he has been active in the North Peninsula and is about to vomit after eating seafood, but he has not yet enjoyed a lobster feast. The lobsters they caught weighed at least eight kilograms and were fiery red. The pot he had prepared didn't fit at all, so he had to cut it into several pieces. The head and tail were thrown into the river, and the rest was still full of squeezed pots. The cooking wood was brought from upstream, and the water was fetched directly from the river. Except for salt, Quan Hao didn't put any condiments, what he wanted was this feeling of nature.
After cooking, the color of the lobster has hardly changed and it is still red. The taste is slightly worse than the shrimp that Quan Hao has eaten, mainly because the meat is a little old. I don't know if it's because of the cooking skills or if it's just the way it is. However, animal products are not originally bigger and better, otherwise roast suckling pig and roast pigeon will not become a famous dish. Fortunately, the lobster is not fishy, and it has a different taste in the mouth. Quan Hao didn't eat less, but until he was full, the whole pot of shrimp meat still only eliminated a small part. He threw the rest into the river, and washed the pot with water. The seafood is not delicious overnight, and besides, he doesn't care, there are in the sea. Looks like the fish in the neighborhood are in good luck tonight.
After nightfall, Quan Hao lit a bonfire and sat on the tidal flats that didn't know whether to count the river or the sea. It was a good way for him to pass the long night. As he developed his skills, he also slowly realized the joy of fishing. The fish caught are no longer for the sake of preserved fruit, and often stay in the net pocket for a short time, and when he wants to rest, he will take it out and release it. Today's results were good, and by the time he saw the start of the fight, there were already twelve fish of different species swimming in the net. It looks like it's all river fish. There are many fish in the river, and Quan Hao let them go. If you keep them, you can also make a bowl of fresh fish soup in the morning. But it's okay to be away from home.
At night, Jeon Ho slept directly on the boat, because he was a little worried about the high tide. The estuary has no height at all, and it would be miserable if you slept directly on the shore and were flooded by the sea.
It turned out that his worries were not unfounded, and when he woke up the next morning, he felt like his body was shaking. I hurriedly got up and saw that the tide had already lifted the boat. Fortunately, there was a stake to hold on, otherwise the ship would not have known where it would have drifted in the night. No wonder he kept dreaming of swinging. Jeon Hao hurriedly pulled the cable that tied the stake, ready to pull the boat back to shore. When he walked to the side of the boat, he was stunned again, why did the water turn black?
The water of the river at the mouth of the sea is very clear, otherwise Quan Hao would not have used it directly to cook lobster. In his taste, it was no problem to put this water on the earth and buy mineral water directly. However, overnight, for some reason, the water seemed to be poured with heavy ink, and the whole river turned black. Looking more closely, Quan Hao was even more shocked. It turned out that the lump of ink turned out to be a whole group of fish huddled together. The water where the boat is located cannot be very deep, even if it is carried by the tide to the center of the river, after all, it is not far from the shore, and it can be two or three meters deep at most. But in such shallow water, there were several layers of fish, and the black backs of the fish were connected, completely covering the underwater sand and gravel that was clearly visible.
Quan Hao casually reached out and caught three fish. One escaped halfway, and the remaining two shook their heads and tails fiercely in his hands, splashing him all over his body. The fish struggled with great strength and slippery, and Jeon Hao could barely grasp them, so he had to throw them in the boat. The two fish were also not honest in the boat, crackling and jumping around. The bright white body is dazzling.
Isn't this a sardine? with a green back and a white belly, a slender body and flat sides, and a dense social population. These are all characteristics of sardines. But sardines are supposed to live in the sea, how did they get to the estuary?
Quan Hao looked upstream of the river, and sure enough, the black ink spread thirty meters away, and he refused to move forward again. It is as if a mysterious force has drawn a black and white line in the middle of the estuary. But when you look at the sea, there is a blank of ink as far as the eye can see. In the morning, there was a wind of four or five magnitude blowing on the sea, and the fog was not thick, and the naked eye could see 300 meters away. But just by seeing this, it's already a big school of fish. Moreover, it is still a mystery how far the fish spread out of sight.
The sardines at the outermost end refused to advance, but the fish behind them still crowded in batches. The schools of fish were more densely gathered, and at least another layer was added under the boat. Some fish can only be attached to the edge of a plastic bucket. Quan Hao could feel the vibration from their tail flapping. But even so, the fish still refused to look back, as if something was behind them.
Jeon Ho was more interested. The sardines are so panicked, it is likely that they have encountered natural predators. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to recognize the road and run to the mouth of the river. There are many fish in the sea that feed on sardines. However, these fish are always in a clump, whether they are feeding or swimming, forming groups of more than one million fish. There are so many of them that the average predator really can't do anything about them. Only a few hunters in swarms can push fish to such an extent that only a few swarm-infested hunters can do it. Among them are the most beloved sea creatures.
Jeon Ho hopes it really is. Wanting to try his luck, he untied the cable that connected the stake, grabbed the oars and rowed out into the sea. But soon he was in trouble. Because the boat is hardly in the sea, it is simply in the fish. Every time he paddled, he would hit a few sardines, and there was no way to dodge them. Every time the boat takes a step forward, it has to crash into the bodies of a large number of fish, and from time to time a fish that has been squeezed to the surface of the water has to jump out of the water, and some simply fly directly into the boat and jump around on the board.
Even outside the range of the boat, the fluctuations in the water surface are more pronounced. The game of stacking arhats has been played**, and the latest layer of fish can only be plugged closest to the surface of the water, and many of the dorsal fins are exposed to the air. I want to drill down, but there is really no place at the bottom. Even if some fish can get in, it will come at the cost of another fish being pushed out. But at this point, they can only take care of themselves, these sardines stubbornly believe that the center of the fish is safe, no one wants to stay on the periphery, one by one desperately squeezed inside.
Suddenly, the fish on the left side of the boat seemed to receive a signal, and they all fled in panic. I thought that the fish were crowded enough, but this escape actually left a passage on the surface of the sea. I saw a gray figure galloping through the passage like an arrow, and before Quan Hao could see clearly, he had already penetrated the fish and entered the estuary.
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