Chapter 154: Catching Pheasants on a Lonely Island
Before dawn the next day, Zhang Ze had already gotten up at just over five o'clock, and he went to put away the fishing nets before the others woke up.
There is space to assist him to easily sort the fish alone, so he can only come secretly.
As he thought, after the fishing net was pulled up, pomfret, perch, eel, pike crab, small yellow croaker, big yellow croaker, hairtail fish, red shrimp and the like, and even many miscellaneous fish that Zhang Ze didn't know, the number of each was not much, so the mix was particularly messy.
And some fish have died, such as pomfret, hairtail, small yellow croaker, etc., it is a lot of trouble to sort out, and the big yellow croaker is still alive, which he didn't expect.
There were no particularly valuable fish in this net, and Zhang Ze collected all the living creatures into the space.
Then release all the worthless dolphins, small red needlefish, and so on back into the sea.
These things don't work as nest material, they don't use eggs at all.
In the end, Zhang Ze brought a small bench and chopsticks to quickly sort the fish.
After waiting for the sun to rise and the other fishing boats to move, he finally sorted out his catch.
There are really a lot of red shrimp, and it is difficult to encounter other shrimp in ordinary times, and there are at least 20 catties of this thing to put a fishing net.
Zhang Ze didn't plan to take some home this time, weighed the weight, there were thirty-six catties and seven taels, put them in a box and spread ice cubes, even if the aquatic station was only two cents and one catty, he would sell it, this thing was so cheap.
The second is the small pomfret, which is basically less than five taels, and the price is six cents a catty, and there are also fifty-four catties.
Sixty-two pounds of small yellow croaker and thirty-seven pounds of large yellow croaker. Hairtail fish is the most, with one hundred and seven catties.
Sea bass, eels, and some other miscellaneous sea bream, adding up to sixty-eight pounds.
There are nearly 400 catties of seafood in this harvest, but it can't be sold for much money.
The seafood caught in the fishing nets adds up to only more than 100 yuan, which just offsets the cost.
The benefits of going net off the net in the open sea are the same, and it is definitely worse in the near sea.
In this era, the fish resources are good, but the price is really too cheap.
Rinsed the deck a bit, then went to the cabin to cook himself a bowl of egg noodles.
Eating seafood every day is too high in purines, so you have to let your body slow down.
After breakfast, Zhang Ze came to the cab and picked up the radio and asked, "Are you all busy, who is done?" ”
There was no response for a long time, and it seems that they are busy with the net.
So he didn't wait, but drove around the island, looking for a suitable place to log in.
The sound of the pheasant last night made him remember it, and it was now that he wanted to eat some game.
There is no beach on the isolated island, so you can only go up from the reef that is covered with seawater.
Zhang Ze parked the boat nearby, lowered the anchor, and then moved the boat resting on the deck.
After thinking about it, he brought some of the fishing lines he had bought earlier and a cloth bag that he could hang on his body, and then took a pair of scissors and put them in.
Since the space sent a fishing rod, these fishing lines have been useless in the warehouse, and they may be used today.
The cloth bag is naturally used for eggs, and there are pheasants on the mountain, who knows if he will find wild eggs.
He picked up all the things, and then he picked up the bamboo pole and propped up the boat to the isolated island.
Approaching the isolated island, docking the boat at a reef where you can land on the island, tying the rope on the boat to a small reef, pulling it, and making sure that it was tied tightly, Zhang Ze climbed to the reef with a fishing line and a bamboo pole, and walked towards the isolated island.
This untouched reef area is very rich in resources, and after walking just about ten meters, he found a lot of oyster scallops, and there are many traces of pike crabs and marine fish in some puddles, and even lobsters.
It had just been low tide for now, and these things were trapped in the puddle and could not escape.
Zhang Ze saw the truth that he naturally didn't let go, and everything that was easy to grasp was put into the space.
"I'll go, even the sea red spots?" There are many small puddles, Zhang Ze is not in a hurry to land on the island, and directly patrols here.
All the things I caught were put into the space, but I didn't expect to find a sea red spot of about two or three catties in a long puddle.
Zhang Ze felt that every day when he waited for the low tide to come here to catch the sea, it was estimated that he would have an income of more than ten yuan or twenty yuan.
Not to mention the lobster and crab, this sea red spot alone is more than ten yuan.
Zhang Ze is much more convenient than others to grasp these things, and after holding them, his heart moves and they are put into the space, and there is no need to grab them.
However, it is not possible to try to put them into the space at the slightest touch, the space has a basic rule, and only the aquatic creatures that he is sure to grasp can be put in.
It took about forty minutes to roughly sweep the reef area, and then Zhang Ze walked to the island.
Leaving the reef area and coming to the isolated island, Zhang Ze looked left and right and discerned the next direction.
Last night, the fishing boat stopped on the west side of the island, and the pheasant probably appeared on the west side as well.
It's just that last night's cry was alarming, maybe the pheasant was in some danger.
Dead or not, pheasants can run to another part of the island.
But Zhang Ze still planned to go to the west to take a look first, the isolated island is not high, that is, the height of the Tushan Bao next to Qinghe Village, and it is estimated that it will only take more than an hour to come to the highest point in the center from the edge of the island.
But it's still time-consuming to walk around the island alone, and it's a lot faster if you have other people scattered around to find it.
He looked back at the other fishing boats and found that they were still busy because they had a lot of fishing nets, so Zhang Ze could only look for it by himself.
Now at the turn of spring and summer, the weather is neither hot nor cold.
However, the vegetation on the isolated island was dense, and after walking up the hill for a while, he was hot and sweaty.
After taking off his long-sleeved jacket and putting it in a cloth bag, Zhang Ze suddenly felt much cooler, and then continued to walk in the direction of the west.
The bamboo pole in his hand opened the way, and he didn't encounter any snakes or anything like that so far.
After walking for a while, a dense bird call came from not far away, which caught his attention.
Zhang Ze discerned the direction of the sound and found that it happened to be coming from the west, so he hurried to it.
When he came to the place where the birds were calling, he saw at least a hundred sparrows squatting densely in the trees in front of him.
Why did the sparrows come to the island, it's summer and just in time to migrate north?
It's a pity for Zhang Ze to look at so many sparrows, if he has a slingshot in his hand, he can definitely hit a lot.
The sparrows are small but they are still very good and taste good, and they taste no different from pigeons or the like.
After carefully looking at the locations of the canopy, he didn't find a bird's nest, and Zhang Ze knew that it was just a group of passing sparrows, so he lost interest.
He continued to walk forward, and after walking for a while, he found that the trees around him were a little denser than before, and the ground was overgrown with weeds and there was almost no place to stay.
Zhang Ze was afraid that there were snakes in the grass, so he had to sweep around the grass with a bamboo pole, fighting east and west, and if there were snakes, they would be startled.
Maybe the movement was too loud, but this time there was a sudden sound of chickens, and a figure in front of him quickly rushed out.
Zhang Ze was startled by the sudden terrible scream, but the next moment he immediately reacted and chased after him quickly.
This is a pheasant with bright and colorful feathers, and it is a male.
It's fun to run, flapping its wings as it runs, as if it's flying and jumping.
After chasing for about 20 meters, the pheasant pounced into a bush and disappeared.
After Zhang Ze got closer, he saw a flower buttocks, and he immediately laughed.
Why is it that pheasants, like ostriches, take care of their heads?
Zhang Ze approached slowly, trying not to make much movement.
However, when he came to the pheasant, he realized that it was not that the pheasant did not want to run, but that it was unlucky, and its neck was entangled in a vine plant.
It tried to flap its wings, but it was all useless.
"Is it your bad luck or my luck!" Zhang Ze couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't expect it to be so easy to catch pheasants.
Then he pulled the pheasant out of the grass.
"Goo~"
The pheasant seemed to be frightened, and the sound it made was completely different from what it had just been.
Then the line he brought would be useful, and he took it out and tied the pheasant's feet, and then cut the line with scissors.
A pheasant with its feet tied will not be able to escape, even if its wings can glide for a short time.
Catching a pheasant, Zhang Ze quickly ran back.
Pheasants are generally a male and a female, and since there is a male, the female is basically not too far away.
Sure enough, the movement of his running back made the hen hiding in the grass think that he was exposed, and flew up in a panic to reveal his figure.
But it seems to be more unlucky than the male pheasant, Zhang Ze saw the hen flying in front, and the bamboo pole in his hand subconsciously hit it, but the hen jumped into the air and took the initiative to change the direction, and then took his head to meet the bamboo pole.
"Bang", the sound of "cooing" stopped abruptly.
Zhang Ze couldn't cry or laugh, how could he catch pheasants so smoothly today.
He didn't have the idea of hitting the hen at all, and when he saw that the hen was going to run, he subconsciously hit it, but he really hit it by mistake.
Then he picked up the hen with a broken skull and a broken neck, the hen was lighter than the rooster, and the feathers were not so good-looking, and the tail of the wild rooster could be made into a shuttlecock for Zhang Qing and them to play.
The two pheasants should add up to four or five catties, which is enough for a family.
There is a male and a female, Zhang Ze did not go back with the pheasant, he used a bamboo pole to press down the nearby weeds, looking for the chicken nest, maybe he could find some wild eggs.
Both pheasants were popping up in this bush, so the search range was not large, and soon Zhang Ze found the pheasant's nest, which really contained five eggs.
Pick them all up and put them in a cloth bag and walk back.
Grabbing two pheasants so easily, he was already satisfied.
Wait for Zhang Qinghe, if they also want to catch it, then they can continue to come.
On the way back, Zhang Ze looked left and right. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly stepped forward to a tree.
He hit the branch with a bamboo pole, and there was no snake in disguise, so he grabbed the branch and broke it off with great force.
This branch has a split that can be repaired to make a slingshot.
Slingshot to shoot sparrows, that was his best skill when he was a child. If he had a slingshot just now, the flock of sparrows would have left at least a dozen of them.
Back on the shore, more than an hour had passed, and Zhang Qinghe and the others seemed to be almost busy, approaching the place where he parked the boat.
Seeing this, Zhang Ze simply supported the boat and returned to his fishing boat, and Rhubarb seemed to find a look, and ran over, raising his head and sniffing the pheasant in his hand with his nose.
"You think you're a police dog, can you help me go to the mountains to find pheasants after smelling the smell?"
Zhang Ze scolded with a smile, brought a back basket and threw the pheasant in.
Then I went to the kitchen to put away the wild eggs, washed my face, and then came to the cab.
Before he could go in, Zhang Ze heard Zhang Qinghe's continuous calls.
"Aze Aze, please answer when you hear it, please answer when you hear it."
"What?"
Zhang Qinghe: ", you're finally coming to the cab." I saw you on the island just now, how is it, have you gained anything? ”
Zhang Ze: "It's not bad, I caught two pheasants, which are quite fat, and five wild eggs." ”
Zhang Qinghe: ", you really caught a pheasant, two more!" ”
Tong Yuanhang: "Brother-in-law, your father-in-law and mother-in-law are now in Wenshui City, don't you express it?" ”
Zhang Zhenghong: "Aze, my uncle, bring it back to my cousin for you, and give your uncle a taste of pheasant." ”
Zhang Ze: "Ma Li's roll, if you want to pay respect, I will personally send it over, and I am afraid that there will only be a piece of chicken feathers left when I take it to you." ”
"And since there are pheasants on the island, there must be more than two, so go catch them yourself!"
Tong Yuanhang and a few people were actually joking, they came here to inquire if there were pheasants on the isolated island, and since there were pheasants, they would definitely have to catch them.
There is still any wild meat near their village, which was almost beaten by the hunters organized by the village a few years ago.
Lumen Island is even more miserable, I haven't eaten it before, and almost all the meat on the island has been eaten.
Now they make money from fishing, and they can afford to buy all kinds of meat, but they are still very interested in these game, especially if they catch it themselves.
After all, it's not a fool to pass by the treasure land and not take it!
Tong Yuanhang: "Aze, how did you catch a pheasant?" ”
Several people have never caught pheasants, and they are really curious about how Zhang Ze caught them.
Zhang Ze groaned and said, "How can I say it, in fact, I am a little confused now. The first male pheasant, he ran through the grass and got entangled in thin vines. The second female pheasant, she banged her head on my bamboo pole. You may know that the male pheasant was caught by me and couldn't live, so he took the initiative to be martyred! ”
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Everyone who heard this was speechless, as if there were a lot of things gushing out of their mouths, but they had little life experience and had not experienced the training of Zu'an in later generations, so they were almost a little stronger.
Zhang Ze didn't listen to these words, and domestic chickens are not so easy to catch, let alone pheasants.
But now they can't get any useful information, so they just go to the island first and try to find it.
Zhang Ze didn't have time to deal with them at this time, so he refused Zhang Qinghe's invitation to go to the island to find pheasants together, and then took a knife and began to repair the branches that had just been broken.
Then go to the tool room and take out the carpentry saw.
These tools are all new, and I bought them at the time to keep them as a backup in case I will use them one day, but I actually use them today.
The branches that Zhang Ze broke off were very long, and the excess parts needed to be sawed off.
After sawing, he picked up the knife and repaired the slingshot again, scraping the bark off the outside by the way.
Tie the two positions of the rubber band, and carve a circle with a knife, which can fix the rubber band from sliding up and down.
It's a pity that there are no rubber bands on the boat, and Zhang Ze also went to the bedside table in the bedroom to rummage through them, but unfortunately only found two red rubber bands used by Tong Shuyao.
Only two tensile forces were too weak and didn't have much strength, so he had to wait until he went back to buy rubber bands.
And the middle mat is best with a bicycle inner tube, and this thing has to go back and buy.
Originally, he wanted to make a slingshot and continue to go to the island to catch pheasants, but now he has no such idea.
Through the two pheasants he caught, he understood that it was difficult to catch without the right tools.
Not to mention traps, at least a powerful slingshot is still needed.
With a slingshot, he can also shoot seabirds.
The meat of seabirds is unpalatable, and he does not hunt seabirds for food, but because sometimes seabirds like to stop at fishing boats to rest, and then pull them everywhere.
(These days, renting and moving are numb, and today I just finished moving and was busy, so I can only change it, and I will start to change it tomorrow)
(End of chapter)