Zhao Dahai stood on a reef, looked at the white sun, squinted his eyes, the sea is different from other places, as long as the sun comes out, the temperature rises very quickly, the island is bare, there are no trees or even mud, only stones, the heat is faster, the sunlight reflected by the sea surface is very dazzling and very uncomfortable, and he looked down at some oyster snails in the net bags he was carrying, most of the net bags were forty or fifty catties.

Zhao Dahai knows that he is different from Chen Fang, who is familiar with the island and even has his own snail nest, near the place where he goes to the island or where it is easy to climb, there must be no gain, at the beginning, he relied on his youth and strength, and walked to a place where few people are difficult to climb, Chen Fang is a woman anyway, and his physical strength and courage are not as good as that of men, and many places on the island cannot be visited, it turns out that this is the right choice, in less than two hours, forty or fifty catties of large oyster snails, ten or ten yuan per catty, five or six hundred yuan in hand.

Zhao Dahai tied the mouth of the net bag, found a seawater puddle to soak in it, moved a few stones to press, dozens of catties were very heavy, and it was very dangerous to climb the reef.

Zhao Dahai rested for more than ten minutes, and hurried to continue, but the focus was not on the position of the waterline, the sun rose and the temperature became higher, so all the snails in such a position disappeared from the water, or they didn't dare to touch it when they could see it, and they had to fall into the sea if they couldn't stand on their feet when a wave hit it. At this time, if you want to find the conch, you have to find the crack in the stone. The temperature on the island is rising very fast. However, places like the stone crevices are usually very wet, and many of them are soaked in seawater all the time. At night or when the tide rises, the snails that climb up to the island hide inside.

Zhao Dahai walked to a stone crack formed by two reefs, and looked in through the rising sunlight, and as expected, there were three or four oyster snails and a few bitter snails inside.

Both bitter snails and oyster snails are a type of sea snail, and where you can find them, you can usually find bitter snails, which are much smaller than oyster snails, with a little bittersweet taste. Many people don't like the taste, and the price is much worse than that of oyster snails.

I will definitely not let it go when I see it. No matter how worthless it is, it costs a few dollars a pound.

Who can see that money is not picked up?

The fire tongs were not needed at this time, so he took out a half-meter-long iron hook and stretched it into the crack of the stone, hooked out the oyster snail and the bitter snail, took a new net bag and packed it, and continued to walk forward, continuing to look for the conch and bitter snail in the crack of the stone.

Zhao Dahai's clothes were soaked, sweat beads dripping desperately without money, raised his head and squinted at the sun in the sky, hung in the center, buried his head in looking for a snail, unconsciously it was already noon, found a big reef, the back of the sun could not shine in the place, sat down, took out the lunch box from the bucket he brought, ate breakfast at three or four o'clock in the morning and has been almost eight hours now, has been climbing up and down the reef, only drank a few sips of water and rested for about ten minutes in the middle, hungry and tired.

Zhao Dahai ate it violently, a large piece of pork belly stuffed into his mouth, he didn't have time to chew it and swallowed it directly, the salted fish was very good, and the food brought in the lunch box was eaten clean in ten minutes, he drank two sips of water, burped, sat for two or three minutes, stood up and continued to walk forward and continue to hook the snails. It is not a difficult thing to hook the snail on the island, there is not too much skill, the oyster snail or the bitter snail is either in the position of the waterline or in the crack of the stone, if you want to have a good harvest, you must have good foot strength to climb the reef, you must have to endure hardship, you must have to bask in the sun.

Zhao Dahai stood in the middle of two large reefs, a crack in the stone, almost as wide as a human thigh, a cold rush out of it, and his hot body was cold, and he couldn't help but shiver.

Zhao Dahai took a look, the stone was dark, and he couldn't see clearly, there are often good things in such a place, and the snail must be indispensable, thinking that he had brought a flashlight, he immediately took it and took it inside.

Damn!

So much?

Zhao Dahai was dumbfounded. The crack in the stone is not deep, but it is less than two meters and three meters, and people can't get into it, but the space is quite good, and there are two slaps in the innermost part of the thirty centimeters wide where the mouth is. The point is that the cracks in the stones are densely crawling with oyster snails and bitter snails. Layer upon layer, watching the scalp tingle.

Zhao Dahai came back to his senses after a while, took a net bag again, the hook reached in and pulled out, and one after another oversized oyster snails and bitter snails rolled out, and at this time he longed for a hoe.

Zhao Dahai hooked out half of the snail, put it in the net bag and continued to hook, the iron hook was not used in the deeper places, but fortunately he brought a four-meter-long steel bar hook, which was just right for use at this time.

Zhao Dahai quickly understood why there were so many snails in this stone crevice, there were several dead fish the size of a palm, and the remaining fish bones were gnawed together, which may have come in at high tide or when the wind and waves were strong, no wonder there were so many snails here, people died for money, and birds died for food.

Zhao Dahai pulled all the oyster snails and bitter snails into the net bag, picked it up and weighed it, it was very heavy, it was estimated that there must be forty catties, and he was busy for six or seven hours in the morning, I don't know how many reefs I climbed, and I added it to fifty catties.

Zhao Dahai was so happy in his heart that he picked up the flashlight next to him and just wanted to turn it off, so he shone it into the crack in the stone casually, and there were a few green, blue, green, and blue things flashing in the innermost.

No way?

Something else?

Zhao Dahai was stunned for a moment, the flashlight shone carefully, and laughed, there is really something and it is a blue crab, it must be like an oyster snail and a bitter snail to run into the crack in the stone to eat fish.

Zhao Dahai stretched out a two-meter-long steel and iron hook, hooked the blue crab and slowly dragged it out, unable to break the big pincers, it took a lot of effort to hook it out, hold it down, carry a rope with him, and take a section to tie it, less than a pound and a half, and now it is a hundred and dozens of pieces.

Zhao Dahai looked at the time was almost three o'clock, when he went to the island, the boat boss said, come to pick up at four o'clock, today's harvest has been very good, continue to look for sure to be able to find more oyster snails, but there is no greed, pack up the things, start to go back, come empty-handed, very easy, when you go back, two bags plus more than 100 pounds of snails, it is not easy to climb up and down on the slippery reef, it took the boss's strength, tired and tired to return to the place on the island.