Zhao Dahai walked to the edge of the mangrove forest, the place where the blood eel was dug had to go around, the tide receded a few meters away but not enough, waited for half an hour, retreated further, exposed the tidal flats, carried a hoe and carried a small basket into the sea, just stepped into the sea water and startled a group of small fish, not big, only a small silverfish the size of small chopsticks, don't look inconspicuous and worthless, dry and fried, spray incense, no fishing nets can not catch, continue to wade through the water to move forward, when stepping into the sea mud, There was something hard, and his feet were bent over, and his hands reached into the mud along the side of his feet, and he pulled out clams that were only half the size of a fist.

"Hah!"

"Got this good thing?"

Zhao Dahai straightened his waist and looked forward, the place where he could dig blood eels was two hundred meters away, and the sea water was estimated to be waist-deep, and he couldn't get by. Clams are very common on the seaside, and can be found in tidal flats and other places, and generally speaking, if you find one, there will be several around, and sometimes there is one.

Zhao Dahai bent down, the place where he stood was the center, his hand inserted into the sea mud, a palm deep, round from the inside to the outside, as expected, half a meter of the place to pick out a dozen large and small, a few steps forward, as concocted, less than half an hour, dozens of clams together have to have four or five catties, there are around, with an iron rake to make strength, maybe half a day can get one or two hundred catties, however, clams are not valuable, dig so many enough to eat at night, wash and take a net bag to put on, hoe one end to pick clams and the other end to carry a bamboo basket, the tide has receded far enough at this time, and the place where the blood eel is dug has been exposed, striding over, the matter is important.

Zhao Dahai bypassed the mangrove forest to protrude into the sea in a place, in front of him an open area is full of tidal flats, sea mud and sand plus small reef mix, this is the most favorite environment for blood eels, food is abundant, water quality is good, the quality of blood eels is very high, this is the key to the blood eel in Langtou Village is famous.

Zhao Dahai walked forward slowly. You can't be in a hurry to dig the blood eel, one is to find the hole to find the eye, and the other is to go fast to alarm the blood eel to drill down, and it is very difficult to dig it. The tidal flats of low tide are densely packed with all kinds of large and small holes, crabs, jumping fish, or other small animals, and the blood eel is just one of the many creatures that can dig holes, and inexperienced people can't tell which one is the blood eel.

Zhao Dahai squinted his eyes, looked carefully at the tidal flats, looking for the blood eel hole, the children who grew up in the fishing village did not lack this ability, and his father was a master of digging blood eels, and at the age of five or six, he began to roll on the tidal flats with the back of his buttocks, and he didn't need to learn it very much, and it didn't take much time to find one.

Isn't it true that no one has been digging up blood eels lately?

Zhao Dahai looked at a meter away, a blood eel hole was there, and if he looked closely, he could even see a few traces of mucus at the entrance of the hole. This is a very distinctive feature of the Blood Eel Cave. Digging blood eels is really hard and not easy, but the price is high, if there are more people to dig, the number becomes smaller, the hole is not easy to find, I just came and didn't take a few steps to find one, it can only show that recently, especially this year, there are fewer people to dig at least this month or two, and no one digs.

Zhao Dahai was a little excited, if his guess was not wrong, it was a good thing, there were fewer people digging blood eels, and the number of blood eels was large and large.

Zhao Dahai carefully looked around the entrance of the Blood Eel Cave, pondered for a while the direction of the Blood Eel Cave in the mud, and picked a good direction before walking over.

Why are blood eels so hard to dig?

One is sea mud and sand plus small stones, it is easy to go down with a hoe, but it is not easy for sea mud to suck the hoe and pick it up, if it is sand and small reefs, the hoe "bang" directly bounces up and can't dig down.

The other is the blood eel hole, which dug several square meters of holes under the tidal flats and can be up to one meter deep, and once frightened, it will drill to the deepest depth. If you want to dig it out, you may have to dig a large pit with an area of four or five square meters and a depth of one meter. This is not something that can be done with a hoe, or that such a pit cannot be dug and a few people have to be scrapped.

Zhao Dahai approached lightly, looked at it carefully, and determined that it was a blood eel eye, the mucus was very obvious, the hoe in his hand slowly and gently dug a few times, and he couldn't dig down directly, if he did it like this, the blood eel eye dug up the sea mud and the sea water was blocked and couldn't find it, and gently cut the sea mud, and a bigger and more obvious hole with a hole about the size of a toe appeared.

Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry at all, he was very patient, the hoe in his hand was even lighter, and he continued to dig through the sea mud layer by layer along the blood eel hole, and after more than 20 strokes, as soon as the hoe was picked up, he suddenly saw something flashing in the hole.

Here it comes!

Zhao Dahai was in good spirits, and the hoe in his hand quickly slashed forward along the blood eel hole five or six times in one go, and the last hoe dug out the sea mud with a tail in it.

"Hah!"

"I can't run away now!"

Zhao Dahai was very happy, put down the hoe, bent over, the remaining fingers of the middle finger in front of the back T-shaped buckle the blood eel, washed it in the small puddle next to it, revealing his true face, the height is really good, thirty centimeters long middle finger size, the diameter of the iron must be one centimeter, very fat, round and bulging, there must be two or three two, according to the price Liu Gang opened, forty or fifty yuan in hand.

Zhao Dahai took out a plastic bag, put the blood eel inside, rolled it up and put it in the bamboo basket. Once it dries like this, the mucus on the blood eel does not take much time to dry and die, put it in an impermeable plastic bag, do not need to put water to blister, keep it moist and live for a long time.

Zhao Dahai carried the hoe and continued to walk forward, digging the blood eel can not be in a hurry, the emphasis is on the durability, the speed has to be slow, walk a few meters and find a blood eel hole, this hole is relatively shallow, it doesn't take much effort, five or six hoes will be dug out.

What's going on?

Are there so many blood eels?

Is it really a long time that no one has dug it?

Or is it something else?

Zhao Dahai stood with a hoe in his hand, his brows twisted into a pimple, less than half an hour, dug seven or eight blood eels, the largest one has three taels and the smallest one has to have one or two, people who don't know may think this is not strange, in fact, this is very strange, at this rate, seven or eight catties a day is not too difficult, not to mention that Liu Gang opened a double and high price, the normal market price can be sold for thousands of eight hundred.

Hard to dig?

Laborious?

Who wouldn't do it if you can earn so much in one day?

Zhao Dahai felt that he was thinking a little too much, why were there so many blood eels? It doesn't matter if no one has dug for a long time or the tide is just right, and I'm not a scientist, why bother with this? I'm just a fisherman, just digging for blood eels to make money. How many and big are blood eels? Just do it. Dig the most blood eels in the shortest time and make the most money, this is what I want to do now!