"That person is from your Dalang Village?"

Jiang Shiyan pointed to Zhao Dahai, who was digging sandworms dozens of meters away.

"What's wrong? You have a crush on Zhao Dahai, right? How about I pull you along? ”

"You really dare to pull this line, I really dare to ask for it."

Ma Hongyu is unforgiving, Jiang Shiyan is not losing, you come and go, and you have been fighting for a while.

"Jiang Shiyan."

"Want to be a matchmaker?"

Ma Hongyu looked at Zhao Dahai, in ten minutes, he could see that there were ten of them, the sandworms were in the sand, they all knew the sandworm eyes, and they could dig them, but not everyone could make money, some people only dug up one or two catties a day, Zhao Dahai could feed a family with a hoe and a shovel. It is not surprising that Jiang Shiyan has such thoughts.

"What's the situation with Zhao Dahai?"

Jiang Shiyan had such an idea. Zhao Dahai didn't stop for a few hours in the morning, this is a ruthless person who works, seeing that Ma Hongyu knew, Zhao Dahai came over to inquire as soon as he left.

"Jiang Shiyan."

"It's good to want to be a matchmaker. Zhao Dahai's grandmother had long wanted to hold her great-grandson. ”

"But you have to choose people, don't think about what fat and water don't flow into outsiders' fields, you just want to introduce your own girl, this is not good."

"There are quite a few people digging sandworms today. It's not that you can see Zhao Dahai working hard, and you are definitely not the only one who has this idea. The yellow flower girl is waiting to get married, and she is indispensable for thinking about this. ”

Ma Hongyu said in detail about Zhao Dahai's situation, and then pointed around, there are thousands and hundreds of people digging sandworms, all of them are from nearby villages, and they are all people who go to sea, and Zhao Dahai can do all the work.

Jiang Shiyan opened her mouth, wanted to say something, but swallowed the words back to her mouth, gossiped a few words, and turned to leave.

"Huh!"

"Jiang Shiyan really wants to introduce people from her family."

……

"Humph!"

"What do you want to do?"

"Zhao Dahai is in charge of his own house, he can't look at it, and it's useless for anyone to say it. Zhong Cuihua will not talk much about this matter. ”

……

Lei Dayou and Ma Hongyu rested for a while, and continued to dig sandworms, if they can dig one more, they are all money, not everyone has Zhao Dahai's body and ability.

The tide is rising.

The sea water is coming out of nowhere, more and more.

The vast majority of people digging sandworms go to the shore.

Zhao Dahai stepped on the waterline while digging back, at this time the sandworm instinctively felt that the tide began to rise, drilling out of the ground, shallower and better digging bigger, but not everyone can dig the sandworm at this time, one is tired early at the end of the day, the other is the high tide speed, the tide action is faster, two times can not dig out, the rising sea water fills the pit, the sandworm can not dig in vain.

Zhao Dahai's hands were swollen and painful, the shovel in his hand pressed his hand like a big stone, gritted his teeth, moved faster, walked a few steps and poked the shovel in his hand into the sand and picked it up, bent down and grabbed the sandworm and threw it into the bamboo basket, the sea water flooded to the back heel, and immediately ran a few steps forward, saw the sandworm's eyes, and the shovel in his hand poked down again.

"Huh?"

"How can there be a ditch here?"

Zhao Dahai saw a sandworm's eye, there was a trench about three or four meters deep next to it, startled, such a place has accumulated water, the sand is fine and soft, and it may even be a layer of sand on the surface and silt under it, it is very easy for people to sink down, the more they struggle, the deeper they sink, especially now that the tide is rising, the mud can not be sucked and escaped, the sea water is gone, and the small life is gone, such a place looks not dangerous in fact, it is very dangerous.

Zhao Dahai looked up, the trench was not one or two meters wide, but it had to be a hundred meters long, and there was a small island in the southeast direction of the open sea.

There are many dangers in the sea, the pits and ditches are far more terrible than people imagine, and it is okay to see clearly during the day, but it is not possible to say which night the tide will ebb and catch the sea, and the sight is not good, so you have to remember that you can avoid it.

Zhao Dahai bypassed the trench and trotted forward quickly, the sandworm eye just now gave up directly, just on the side, don't go down with a hoe The sand collapsed and the whole person fell, making money is important but life is more important, you can't be lucky, be careful to sail the boat of ten thousand years.

Zhao Dahai rushed ashore, gasping for breath, the tide rose faster and faster, the 100 meters on the shore were almost 100 meters sprinted, and the last of the people who dug up the sandworms went ashore, rested for a few minutes, and stepped into the seawater to wash their hands and feet.

"The sea!"

"You've dug so much!"

Zhong Shizhu glanced at the bamboo basket in Zhao Dahai's hand, it was almost full, it had to be more than 20 catties and close to 30 catties, and he dug seven or eight catties by himself, which was more than others than himself, and compared with Zhao Dahai, it was too far behind.

"I went to the sea and walked all the time, and I didn't rest much at noon."

"it."

Zhao Dahai soaked the bamboo basket in the water to clean the sandworms.

"That's right!"

"Uncle Shizhu!"

"There is a 100-meter-long trench. Do you see that? ”

Zhao Dahai remembered the trench he encountered when he came back, and reminded Zhong Shizhu.

"About half a month ago, there was a big fishing boat, which was not optimistic about the tide, and ran aground in that place when it docked, and the propeller hit the bottom and came out."

"When it hit a rock, the propeller was broken. I heard that the ditch was quite deep, and it had to be about ten meters at first. ”

Zhong Shizhu knew where he was talking when he heard it.

Zhao Dahai was taken aback.

A deep ditch of more than ten meters?

When I saw it just now, there were only three or four meters left! This was half a month ago, and the sand backfilled in the ditch must have been very soft and trapped.

Fortunately, I wasn't greedy and didn't dig out that sandworm's eye.

You have to be careful with such a place, and if you come across it, you have to walk around it far away.

Zhao Dahai washed the sandworms, walked quickly to the house, walked into the yard, took a large iron basin with a diameter of one meter, and poured all the sandworms dug into it, full of them, kept wriggling, and looked a little numb.

Zhao Dahai didn't care about resting or eating dinner, so he took a small iron basin and a few chopsticks, and was ready to start working.

Sandworms not only grow in the sand, but also have sand in their stomachs.

Fresh sandworms are valuable, but dried sandworms are even more valuable.

Zhao Dahai didn't plan to sell the fresh sandworms he dug up, clean the sand and dry it into dried sandworms, which took a lot of work, but he could make more money.

The method of cleaning the sand inside the stomach of the sandworm is simple, but it is a bit cruel.

Zhao Dahai grabbed a sandworm with his left hand, held it in his palm, held the chopsticks in his right hand, and stabbed it directly from the bottom, the sandworm turned into an inside and inside and became strung on top of the chopsticks, washed in the water, picked it down, and threw it in the iron basin, which is called "turning the sandworm" in the fishing village, which means that the sandworm turns over inside and out to wash the sand.

This is a meticulous job, not fast, if it is fast, it is easy to pierce when the chopsticks poke the sandworm, and the other is that the sand cannot be washed clean, and it is very uncomfortable when eating in the mouth.

In either case, don't try to sell at a good price.

Zhong Cuihua walked out, pulled a stool, and took a chopstick to help.

"The sea."

"You're tired of digging so many sandworms, aren't you?"

……

"These sandworms have to weigh thirty pounds!"

……

"The sandworms are so big this year!"

"If it's dried, it has to be able to sell for 1,200 yuan a catty!"

……

Zhao Dahai and Zhong Cuihua chatted while working, and when they were busy, they saw that the time was already ten o'clock, so they hurriedly cooked, and ate as much as they could when they had work, just fill their stomachs.

Zhao Dahai and Zhong Cuihua finished eating, continued to work, and the sandworms that had been cleaned once had to be cleaned several times to make sure that there was no sand, and took the dustpan and placed it neatly one by one and spread it out to dry.

One o'clock in the morning.

The high-wattage lights illuminate the entire yard as if it were daytime.

Zhao Dahai was busy alone, grandma Zhong Cuihua had to help, but when she was old, she couldn't stay up late as much as possible, and it took a lot of effort at twelve o'clock to persuade her to go back to the house to sleep.

Zhao Dahai placed the last sandworm in the pot, stretched his waist a few times, his hands and feet were numb from the activity, the sea breeze was dry, and the dustpan was directly placed in the yard to dry, and it would be half-dry early tomorrow morning.

Zhao Dahai immediately took a bath and went to sleep, lay down for less than five seconds, and immediately fell asleep.

Four o'clock in the morning.

Zhao Dahai got up, brought good food after breakfast, strode to the dock with a shovel carrying a bamboo basket against the hook-like moon, there is a suitable tide these days, you have to dig sandworms every day, the fishing village should work at the right time, what work to make money and do what work, sleep and rest all aside.