Chapter 17 Picking up seafood on the tidal flats
The big hand slipped Zhang Wu's lapel and let the old mother 'beat' it well, and the farce in the morning ended.
After eating the rice porridge and pickles cooked by his old mother, Zhang Ze carried a bamboo basket on his back and lifted the bucket, and set off with the straw rope he made last night and the thread and fish hook he bought from Tong Yuanhang.
When passing through a forest, he also took advantage of the trend to break a relatively straight branch, about a little more than a meter, the thickness of his middle finger.
The main thing was that there was a fork in the front of the branch, and he broke off most of it, and the rest was just like a hook to pull out the contents of the cracks in the stones.
If you don't have an iron hook, you can use it!
The two younger sisters followed him, and Zhang Wu had already run ahead.
Leaving so early today, it is naturally because Zhang Ze is optimistic about the tide.
After so many years of sea fishing, he has no worse grasp of the ebb and flow of the tide than a fisherman.
Today, on the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar, the time of the low tide in the morning is estimated to be a little more than five o'clock, and the high tide is almost at noon, so he set off early in the morning to catch the sea.
The difference in the time of the tide is about 50 minutes per day, and it varies from region to region.
If you master the tide, you will master the timetable for catching the sea, and when you go to the beach at the low tide, you can basically have some gains.
And today's tide is receding farther away, and there are more things to catch. Zhang Ze is looking forward to how many good things can be harvested by the seaside in this era.
The beach is not very far, but the dirt roads are not easy to walk, so they walked for more than half an hour to arrive.
As far as the eye can see, it is all mudflats exposed after the sea has receded, and there is a very good position on the left, which is an undulating reef, and even a small piece of beach can be faintly seen.
Fishing on the reef is very good, and there should be a lot of good things to be found in the rock crevices, so Zhang Ze decided to pick them up all the way.
"Brother, what are we going to catch?" Zhang Wu was eager to try it, and seemed to be impatient.
"Ah Qian, you take the two of them, and you can catch whatever you want. By the way, look at Dian Awu, don't let him step on the puddle. Zhang Ze handed them the bucket and planned to act alone.
He then rolled up his trouser legs, took off his shoes, and stepped barefoot into the mudflats.
In this era, there is little need to worry about glass chips or anything, the only thing to pay attention to is sharp shells and sharp stones, but there are not many of these two on the mudflats.
Zhang Qian and the others also learned from him, took off their shoes and rolled up their trouser legs, and continued to follow him.
They had only gone some distance when some small thumping fish caught their attention as they were walking.
Zhang Wu's eyes lit up: "It's Raou, brother, let's catch some Raou!" ”
Raou, as they are called in the dialect on their side, is actually a big mudskipper, also known as a big jumping fish.
Jumping fish can be seen everywhere on the tidal flats, even in later generations.
But there are two kinds of jumping fish, the small jumping fish can be seen everywhere even in later generations, no one eats it, and one is basically only the size of a finger.
But mudskippers are different, they are fish with economic value, and they are farmed.
It is also the main target of rural people to come to the seaside, crabs and all kinds of clams, they don't want this kind of mudskipper.
He glanced at it and saw that there were quite a few mudskippers, each of which was fifteen centimeters long.
"Okay, why don't you grab some Rau over here, and I'll take a look somewhere else."
Zhang Qian and Zhang Qing have no opinion, because this fish can be caught back and fried pickles, which is quite fragrant.
Zhang Wu hesitated a little, he wanted to follow Zhang Ze more than catch this fish to see what he was going to catch.
But he had to take care of his two sisters, so he just hesitated and stayed here.
Zhang Zeke didn't know what he was thinking, so he continued to move forward with the bamboo basket on his back.
The closer you get to the sea, the more you can discover.
After a while, he found a small ray in a shallow pit that had not had time to follow the ebb of the tide.
Small rays could be eaten, but he didn't want to eat them that much.
This year, seafood is everywhere, and the rays are not up to grade.
The main cooking oil is now asking for tickets, and the rays are not as expensive as the cooking oil.
He avoided the ray's poisonous tail and grabbed it and went straight into the fishing space.
[Successfully captured a stingray, weighing 1.23 catties, experience +2.] 】
With two points of experience, it's not bad, and I'll release it when I have the chance.
Continuing to move forward, the next moment, he was attracted by a stranded bright silver, and when he got closer, it was indeed a hairtail.
And it's not small, it's three fingers wide, and this size of East China Sea hairtail fish can just be burned on a plate.
Just picked it up and looked at it, but he was a little disappointed, the ribbon fish was already dead.
There is no ice, and when he goes back at noon to bring the fish, it will be stinky and inedible, and it is not a winter that cannot be saved.
But he doesn't have anything to pity, he will have the opportunity to catch live ribbon fish at any time in the future, and he is not in a hurry for such a short time.
He still brought this dead ribbon fish, and it might be useful later.
As I walked forward, the softer the soil became, and it took a little effort to walk.
He looked back and found that Zhang Wu and the others were catching mudskipper, so he started looking for the blue crab with confidence.
Blue crab is one of his favorite crabs, but the price in later generations is too high, and a pound of breeding will cost more than 100, so he is reluctant to eat it often.
So he can only buy some pike crabs every year during the crab season to satisfy his cravings.
Later, the gout and the crab could not be eaten.
Every time I can't help but eat it, I either can't walk because of leg pain and have to lie down, or if it's serious, I have to go to the hospital.
As soon as the tide recedes, there are many small fish and shrimp stranded on the tidal flats, and all kinds of hand crabs have crawled out of the burrows to feed.
Zhang Ze walked towards the reef group while scanning the tidal flats.
At this moment, a crab with slender pincers caught his attention, it was a pike crab, and he hurriedly reached over and pressed the pike crab that wanted to run.
Then I picked it up and put it in the sun to look at it, the edge of the crab shell was not transparent, it was very fat, and then it was put into the fishing space.
[Successfully captured a three-wart pike crab, weighing 0.87 catties, experience +2.] 】
Yo, crabs can increase experience, and he thinks that only fish can! It seems that the upgrade of the fishing space is much easier than expected.
Then he looked at the fishing space and saw that the pike crab was crawling down there, and the fish swimming above did not attack it.
Under normal circumstances, not to mention the mandarin fish in the space, at least the blackfish will definitely attack the crabs that look much smaller than themselves.
However, the fishing space should have a special ability to make all the aquatic creatures that are included in the space safe, so that it will not cause him indirect losses.
Especially when he saw that stingrays could also live in this space, he could only sigh at the magic of this space.
Along the way, there were a lot of stranded fish on the tidal flats, and he even saw a yellow croaker.
It's a pity that they are already a little stinky, and they are still a little late.
When Zhang Ze came to the reef group, he had already caught five pike crabs that were more than eight taels to more than a catty.
There are three octopuses, and a small blue crab of six taels, and the harvest is not bad.
In this era, the sea is like this, just walk and pick up, and you don't need to dig everywhere like later generations.
Climbing onto a reef, Zhang Ze looked at the topography of this reef group.
When he saw a tall and flat reef, his eyes lit up, this location is good, very suitable for fishing.
Before he had a boat, he could come here to fish in the future.
In fact, Zhang Ze wants to try it now, but just after the tide is low, these reefs are all treasures, and he has to scrape them first.