Chapter 17: Butter is the best of the best
The first half of the month.
Zhao Dahai has a net bag in his left hand and a net bag in his right hand, bending over and walking out, the sea water begins to rise, the soil in the soft mangrove forest is bubbling outward, and every foot is directly trapped in the calf, which is very laborious, and the sweat does not want money to flow constantly. I don't know how long it took, I got out of the mangrove forest, and there was an open space in front of me, and the familiar coast suddenly appeared in front of me, and the sea breeze blew, and I couldn't help but suck hard several times.
Zhao Dahai washed his hands and feet with seawater, especially the juice of the mangrove forest sticking to his face, in order to hurry up and get out before the sea water rose, he walked fast, the branches and leaves of the mangrove forest were thrown directly on his body and face, he reached out and crooked his neck and grabbed two fiddler crabs from inside his clothes, and fell into it when he drilled the mangrove forest, and he didn't care about catching it.
Zhao Dahai took a break, walked to the edge of a mangrove forest, and before entering, for convenience, he found a stone in a net bag containing pee shrimp and hairy clams and pressed it on the head of a hidden tree.
Zhao Dahai took a flashlight and shone it a few times, found a place, just wanted to walk over, found something lying on the net bag, startled, looked carefully, and his heart immediately beat wildly. A huge blue crab was lying on the net bag, waving its two pincers, and was gnawing on the small octopus in the net bag.
Zhao Dahai didn't dare to walk fast and even harder, for fear of stirring up a splash, he carefully and slowly touched the back of the blue crab, stretched out his hand and held it down.
"Hahaha!"
"Hahaha!"
"No, right?"
"Is there such a thing in the world?"
"Today is really lucky, and I can't stop it."
Zhao Dahai was very happy. I went into the mangrove forest during the day, and only dug up a blue crab in the afternoon, but from the time it got dark, the blue crabs in the mangrove forest went crazy and drilled out, and I picked up hand cramps, and now the tide is already high, and I am ready to go back, take the net bag that I put in the morning, who would have thought to meet a big blue crab. It's almost a pound and a half, and this one can only be sold for one hundred and fifty yuan.
Zhao Dahai washed the blue crab in the sea, lifted it up, took the rope and just wanted to tie it up.
"Not really, right?"
"Butter crab?"
Zhao Dahai's eyes widened, the general blue crab is dark cyan, but the one in his hand is dark yellow, picked up the flashlight and took a careful look, especially the small tip of the tip of the tip on both sides of the blue crab and the claw, the more he looked at it, the more excited he became, he looked at it three times in a row, and he was 100% sure that he was not mistaken.
Butter crab is a type of blue crab. The blue crab is covered with paste, under certain conditions, it will become a special blue crab, the quality is far beyond the general blue crab, the whole crab has been soaked in the paste, the whole body is yellow, no one knows why such a change occurs, it may be that the blue crab is full of paste after encountering the high temperature of the sun after "melting" and seeping into all parts of the whole crab or other reasons. The butter crab meat is delicate and jade, the ointment is rich and sweet, and it is the best king of blue crabs.
Zhao Dahai took the rope and tied it carefully, one and a half catties of blue crabs can be sold for about one hundred and fifty yuan, and the same size can be sold for four or five hundred yuan, so that a butter crab can almost be worth more than 20 catties of crab gobies caught a few days ago.
Small pier in front of the village.
A few lights were on, very dim.
A dozen or twenty fishing boats were rocking with the waves.
Liu Bin and Zhong Shizhu squatted, with cigarettes in their mouths, smoking in big gulps, clouds of smoke spewed out, their brows were tightly wrinkled, and their faces were a little not good-looking.
"Hey!"
"Hell yes!"
"How can you go to sea in this weather?!"
Liu Bin looked at the sea. An hour ago the wind and waves were calm, now one after another small waves, don't look at the current is not big, in a few hours you have to have a meter or two, have dinner, come to the fishing boat here to pack up things and prepare to go to sea tomorrow morning, now can only stare dryly.
"What else can I do?!"
"The weather forecast says there will be winds of seven or eight."
Zhong Shizhu shook his head. In this kind of weather, you will definitely not be able to go to sea, and you may have to stay at home for the next three to five days, or even a week, and you will not be able to do anything. People who go out to sea to fish have no income if they can't go to sea.
Liu Bin and Zhong Shizhu saw someone holding a flashlight and was walking over, and after waiting for a while, they saw that it was Zhao Shi.
"Second Uncle Zhao."
"Why are you here?!"
Liu Bin said hello, and suddenly remembered Zhao Dahai he saw in the afternoon, and thought of the trees planted, and he had to go to the mountain tomorrow to dig up those trees.
"The wind is changing."
"I can't sit still at home."
"Come out and have a look."
Zhao Shi's flashlight shone on the sea, saw one wave after another, sighed, it was a white-headed wave, in this kind of weather, the whole village fishermen had to stay at home, the fishing boat was too small to bear, and there was no difference between going to sea and sending his life.
"Huh?"
"Is there a man in that?"
Zhong Shizhu shouted and pointed his hand forward.
Zhao Shi and Liu Bin turned their heads to see that there was light on the beach in the direction of the mangrove forest in the west of the village, and they looked at the fireflies from a distance, walking with a flashlight.
Who?
Zhao Shi, Liu Bin and Zhong Shizhu were a little curious, this time they came back from the mangrove forest, and they didn't know who it was.
Zhao Dahai held a flashlight in one hand to illuminate the road, and held a flat shoulder with the other hand to carry the blue crab.
"Second grandfather."
"Where are you?"
Zhao Dahai walked to the small pier in front of the village, and saw Zhao Shi at a glance, with Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin on the side, and the three of them were looking at him with wide eyes.
"Hey!"
"The sea."
"What are you doing here?"
"What's in the net bag? Look like it's a blue crab? ”
Liu Bin stood up suddenly, staring at the net bag that Zhao Dahai picked on the flat shoulder, the light was dim, and he couldn't see it too clearly, but he shouldn't be wrong.
"Huh?"
"So many blue crabs!"
Zhong Shizhu was startled. I didn't pay attention to it at first, but Liu Bin took a closer look at what he said, it was really a blue crab, and two net bags were carrying the blue crab, which was not dozens of catties. I can't see the size clearly, no matter what I say at first glance, dozens of yuan can't run away from a catty, and Zhao Dahai has to make a lot of money now.
Zhao Dahai smiled and nodded.
"The sea."
"Passing by just now, your grandmother Zhong Cuihua was waiting at the door."
"Let's go back quickly!"
Zhao Shi shouted, turned around and left.
Zhao Dahai smiled at Zhong Shizhu and Liu Bin, and followed the blue crab back to the village behind Zhao Shi.
"Hell yes!"
"How can there be so many blue crabs in the mangrove forest?"
Liu Bin watched Zhao Dahai turn a corner, and the light of the flashlight was invisible.
"Who knows what's going on?"
Zhong Shizhu shook his head. Zhao Dahai was carrying the blue crab with a flat pole just now, which was too scary. Everyone in the village knew that there were blue crabs in the Red Village Forest, but no one thought that there were so many.
"You can't let anyone else know about this."
Liu Bin looked at the mangrove forest in the distance.
"Who's to say it isn't?"
"Let's just know."
Zhong Shizhu nodded. There are blue crabs in the mangrove forest and there are many blue crabs, otherwise Zhao Dahai would not have such a harvest, the question is whether there is still it, under the dim light, he turned his head to look at the reef in the east, and remembered the goby a few days ago.