Zhao Dahai walked to the front of the mangrove forest, and waited for a while The tide began to slowly recede, and the mudflats gradually revealed.

Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry, and waited until the sea water receded for about an hour before walking on the mudflat. The biggest feature of the mudflats is that the mud is very deep, at least up to the knees when you step on it, and in some places you have to sink into the thighs, and the sea mud is very sticky, a bit like a swamp, and it is very difficult to pull the legs, and it takes a lot of effort. Something made yesterday out of a plank that was somewhat shaped like a horse and was "ridden" on a mudflat, commonly known as a "mud horse", comes in handy now.

Zhao Dahai carried the mud horse in one hand and a bamboo tube in the other hand and a net bag on the mudflat, walked forward for more than ten meters, the jumping fish were frightened one after another, and jumped forward frantically, in just a few seconds, it has rushed out more than ten or twenty meters, it is impossible to catch up with two legs and two hands, it is impossible to catch up, it is impossible to catch the ground, the mud horse is put on the mudflat, holding the handle with both hands, the right thigh and half of the butt sit on the mud horse plank, the left leg kicks hard on the ground, and squeaks and slides out seven or eight meters.

"Hah!"

"Not bad!"

"It's a lot of effort."

Zhao Dahai was very happy. The mudflats by the sea, it is very laborious to walk, and if you are not careful, you have to sink in, and you can't walk a few steps and are out of breath, so you can save a lot of effort with mud horses.

Zhao Dahai slid the mud horse for a few minutes, and became proficient in the operation, he didn't come here to play, and immediately started working.

The mudflats on the edge of the mangrove forest are very large, twenty or thirty meters wide, but very long, stretching all the way into the mangrove forest. Such a place is a paradise for jumping fish.

Zhao Dahai's net bag and bamboo tube hung on the handle of the mud horse and slowly slid forward, staring carefully at the mudflat as he slid it. Don't look at the jumping fish always jumping up and down the mud or water, in fact, they are burrowing and very fond of digging holes in the mudflats.

It didn't take much time for Zhao Dahai to find a hole dug by a jumping fish, take a bamboo tube and put it on the hole, press it down hard, the whole bamboo tube was pressed into the mud, leaving only a mouth, and grabbed a handful of mud and wiped it, at first glance, it was no different from the original hole of the jumping fish. Generally speaking, there are two holes in the jumping fish, one before and one behind, and after looking for it, I found another hole, and a lump of mud directly covered it. After putting a bamboo tube, immediately find another jumping fish hole, put another bamboo tube, one after another, and put all the bamboo tubes down.

The sun slowly rises.

The mudflats are getting hotter and hotter.

Zhao Dahai gasped for breath. Sweat beads the size of soybeans keep dripping down, don't want money.

There are a lot of jumping fish in the mudflats in front of the mangrove forest, and you can find the holes of the jumping fish casually, but after putting 80 bamboo tubes, I am tired enough.

Good price for jumping fish.

The mudflats and even mangroves on the edge of the mangroves are very fond of jumping fish.

But why is it that so few or even none have been caught?

Does it mean that everyone doesn't know the value of the jumping fish, and they don't know that the jumping fish can make money when it is sold?

That's not the case at all.

It's a lot of work to catch a jumping fish.

Walking on the mudflats is very laborious, and even if there are mud horses, it is just a little less labor-saving, not that it is not effortless.

Zhao Dahai rested for a while, and slid the mud horse around the mudflat where he had just put down eighty bamboo tubes several times, don't rush out from the mangrove forest.

"Hey!"

"Alright! Run, jump! ”

Zhao Dahai was very happy to watch groups of jumping fish jump up and jump down, and run away like ghosts. I rushed through it and immediately began to collect the bamboo tubes. At this time, we should hurry up.

Zhao Dahai rode a bamboo horse and slid to the edge of a bamboo tube, grabbed the bamboo tube and pulled it up, looked at the sun overhead, something was moving underneath, stuffed it into the net bag and shook it a few times, and a jumping fish was thrown out, the size of a finger.

"Hah!"

"Not bad."

"It's rewarding!"

Zhao Dahai was very happy.

When the tide recedes, the jumping fish crawls out of their holes in search of food, and when frightened, they will flee as quickly as possible. One is to take refuge in the mangrove trees, or on wooden stakes, or on the edge of a reef. The other is that if there is a chance, they will go into the hole they dug themselves. The bamboo tube occupies the position of the hole of the jumping fish, smeared with mud, the panicked jumping fish can't distinguish it, only remembers the location of its hole, and drills directly into it, the bamboo knot on the bottom of the bamboo tube is sealed, and it can't jump off, and it is accurate to catch one.

Zhao Dahai rowed the bamboo horse, and continued to collect until the eighty bamboo tubes were collected, and the harvest was good, eighty bamboo tubes, and about sixty jumped fish were caught.

Zhao Dahai picked up the water he brought and drank it in a big gulp. After resting for about ten minutes, I continued to put and collect the bamboo tubes, and continued to roll in the mudflats until the sea rose and flooded the entire mudflat.

Zhao Dahai sat on the sand on the shore and rested for about half an hour before standing up, picked up the net bag in the bucket and looked at it, with a smile on his face.

The hopping fish is a good size. The small middle finger is big, and the big one is the size of a thumb. The mudflats on the edge of the mangrove forest are rich in food and relatively fat. After weighing it, it looked like five pounds. Sold to fishmongers, twenty or thirty yuan, directly sold to Liu Gang, the price is a little higher, the smaller forty points may even be fifty yuan a catty, and you can earn about two hundred yuan.

Laborious?

What are you afraid of if you can make money?

It's easier to make money with a fishing boat, but who says they don't have a fishing boat? You can only work hard and earn money to repair fishing boats.

Zhao Dahai looked at the time, four or five o'clock, dragged a tired body, washed the mud dock bamboo tube in the seawater, and ended here today, and continued to dry again tomorrow.

Zhao Dahai returned home, found a large tank, poured half a bucket of seawater mud into it, and the jumping fish in the net bag fell down. The jumping fish has muddy water, and it is no problem to feed it for a few days, and I plan to catch it for a few more days and get together to sell it in the town.

"Yo!"

"I'm back!"

Zhong Cuihua came out of the courtyard to see Zhao Dahai, who was like a mud monkey, and was very distressed.

"Hee-hee-hee!"

"Grandma."

"Isn't it time to scrape together money to repair fishing boats? Work hard. ”

Zhao Dahai smiled. Now I work hard to make money to repair fishing boats, and I can earn two or three hundred yuan a day, which is already good, and no matter how hard I work, I have to grit my teeth.

Zhong Cuihua opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything, if you don't have money, you have to work hard, and it has been like this for thousands of years.

Zhao Dahai took a shower and changed his clothes, drank some water, rested for a while, and began to cook dinner, busy for most of the day, too tired to work, dinner is very simple, no stir-frying, washed salted pork belly, cut into half a palm-sized, directly put it in the rice and cook it together, the meal is good and the dish is good at the same time. It doesn't taste very good, but it's so hungry that your chest is so hungry that your chest is close to your back, where can you care so much. The most important thing is that there is oil and water in the big bite.

Zhao Dahai finished eating, went to bed early, caught the jumping fish, was too sleepy, and fell asleep.

Zhong Cuihua sat in the hall and weaved fishing nets, and the lights were on until three o'clock in the morning.