"One hundred dollars a pound!"

……

"One hundred and five pounds!"

……

"One hundred and ten yuan a pound!"

……

"One hundred and eleven pieces a pound!"

……

Zhao Dahai stood on the pier, listening to the fishmongers who collected fish, shrimp and crabs scrambling to bargain with Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou.

Small fish, shrimp and crabs are really not very valuable, but the really good things, such as orchid crabs or other big fish, everyone likes it very much, and they all rush to ask for it.

"Damn!"

"Zhong Shizhu, these people are really out of shit luck!"

"We all go out to sea to fish, why do they go out to sea to catch orchid crabs?"

……

"Where's what's going on shit luck?"

"Zhao Dahai told them that there were no fish in the sea, so they went out to sea to catch orchid crabs!"

"That's not their job!"

……

"Hey!"

"Zhao Dahai is really amazing, he really made him right!"

……

"Those of us who have been fishing for twenty or thirty years are not as good as Zhao Dahai, a young man in his early twenties!"

"It's a shame!"

……

Zhao Dahai did not get on Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou's fishing boats, the fishmongers were crowded, and after waiting for a while, a few other fishing boats returned to the dock, and the fish caught were no different from the fishing boats that returned to the dock before, there were indeed fish, but there were not many fish, they were all small and not very valuable.

"Hurry home!"

……

"I took a fishing net and went out to sea to catch orchid crabs!"

……

"Let's go!"

"Don't stay here!"

……

The people on the fishing boats around all hurried to the dock and immediately left to rush home.

I've stayed up all night and need to go back to sleep and rest for a while!?

People who don't make money are not entitled to sleep and rest.

After a hard night, I didn't make any money and even had to pay for oil, no one could stand it, and seeing Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou catching a large number of orchid crabs, it was even more impossible to go back to sleep.

Sea!

Go to sea now!

Go out to sea in front of others to catch orchid crabs.

Zhao Dahai looked at the sun rising and getting hotter and hotter on the dock, rode a tricycle home, walked into the yard, and looked, grandma Zhong Cuihua was weaving fishing nets in the hall, pulled a stool and sat down to chat with him for a while.

Zhao Dahai walked out of the yard, walked around the vegetable garden at the back of the house, opened the vegetable field, the green vegetables in the house could not be eaten, the longan lychee grew very well, and the bananas planted by grandma Zhong Cuihua were taller than himself, I don't know if it will bear fruit next year, but it will definitely grow the year after tomorrow.

Zhao Dahai pulled out a little old vegetables in the vegetable field and threw them into the chicken pen, and the chicks carried by the little hen were already the size of a small football.

"Hey, hey, hey!"

"If this continues, this will have to be scaled up a little bit!"

Zhao Dahai looked at dozens of large and small hens, roosters and chicks, and it seemed a little narrow.

You've got to sell a little bit, right?

Zhao Dahai pondered for a while, the chicken pen is already big enough, and it is not too necessary to raise it, it is a little too much.

Zhao Dahai didn't plan to talk about this, these chickens were all raised by her grandmother Zhong Cuihua, if she wanted to sell them, she would buy them, if she wanted to raise more, she would raise more, and if she wanted to keep them for her own food, she would keep them for her own food.

Expanding the chicken pen is just a matter of getting some bamboo or something, and when you don't go to sea, you can get it in half a day, and it doesn't take much work.

"The sea!"

Zhao Dahai heard someone shouting at him, and walked back to the door to see that Zhong Shizhu was carrying a net bag in his hand, which contained orchid crabs.

"The sea!"

"Liu Bin and Lei Dayou and I left some orchid crabs."

"Bring it to you and your aunt to taste."

Zhong Shizhu said as he picked up the mesh bag in his hand.

"Yo!"

"What are you doing?"

"You're welcome!"

"Who in our fishing village hasn't eaten orchid crabs?"

"It's real to sell it for money!"

Zhao Dahai smiled and shook his head.

"Hah!"

"What's this politeness?"

"I'll go back to have a meal, take a shower, and then I'll go to sea again!"

Zhong Shizhu put down the net bag he was carrying in his hand, turned around and hurried away.

Zhao Dahai was no more polite, but from his own point of view, there was no great need for these orchid crabs, but Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou were able to catch so many orchid crabs on this trip and made a lot of money.

Zhao Dahai walked into the yard with a net bag containing orchid crabs, took a large iron basin, and poured them all out, not too many, or seventeen or eighteen, but they were all seven or eight taels or even more than one catty of big orchid crabs, and they had to be fifteen or sixteen catties.

"Where did the orchid crab come from?"

Zhong Cuihua came out and saw one big orchid crab after another in the iron basin.

Zhao Dahai said that it was sent by Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou, and then talked about the ins and outs of the whole thing.

"Grandma!"

"This orchid crab is really good, we ate it at noon while it was fresh!"

"I'll take a little and send it to the second grandfather Zhao Shi, we can't eat so much!"

Zhao Dahai said as he took a bag, picked the largest one, took six, and went out to Zhao Shi's house.

"Yo!"

"Such a big orchid crab!"

"You can't go out to sea to catch it, right?"

Golden Peach looked at the orchid crab and was a little surprised, Zhao Dahai just went out to sea to fish, I didn't hear about going out to sea to fish, and I went out to sea with Zhao Shi to fish yesterday.

"Zhong Shizhu, did they go back to the docks? Did you really catch a crab? ”

Zhao Shi heard the sound in the house, and walked out while smoking his hookah, and when he saw the orchid crab, he immediately remembered that Zhao Dahai and Zhong Shizhu had said that there were no fish in the sea, and there might be shrimp and crabs.

Zhao Dahai said that Zhong Shizhu came back from the fishing boat, caught a lot of orchid crabs, took fifteen or sixteen catties to his house, sent some here to try them, chatted a few words, and went home.

"What's going on?"

"Zhong Shizhu and a few of them went to sea to catch crabs, what does this have to do with Zhao Dahai?"

The golden peach is a bit strange, fifteen or sixteen catties of such an orchid crab is two thousand yuan small, which is not a small amount.

Zhao Shi said the whole thing.

"Huh?"

"The sea is so powerful!?"

Golden Peach was startled.

"The sea's brain is really good, and so many people who go out to sea to fish don't think of it."

Zhao Shi nodded.

Who said that fishing at sea is not profitable? It's just those who don't think about it that don't make money.

Zhao Dahai is not like other people, he thinks about where there are fish and the fish in the sea all day long. Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou listened to Zhao Dahai's words and made a lot of money.

"Huh?"

"Why doesn't the sea go out to catch crabs by itself?"

"This kid knows that there are crabs in the sea, so he doesn't catch them and tells others."

"How can you do such a thing? Even if you tell Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Da that there are a few of them, you will always have to go to sea, right? You have to mix it up, right? ”

Golden Peach is a little anxious. Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou make money, but Zhao Dahai makes money.

"Hehehe!"

"What are you anxious about? Why do you have to catch crabs? It does make money and can make a lot of money, but can it compare to Zhao Dahai's own fishing? ”

Zhao Shi smiled and shook his head.

Zhao Dahai's fishing skills are really not a joke, he went to sea together yesterday. There are a lot of speedboats around, but there are few that can actually catch fish.

Zhao Dahai drove a speedboat, just walked around, and caught two horse fish with his own two people, not to mention his own, when he came back to weigh twenty-nine pounds and one tael, Zhao Dahai caught one by himself had eight catties and seven taels, plus some other sea bass, and casually earned a small 10,000.

Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou did make money by catching orchid crabs, but it took a lot of time, and if they went to sea to fish during these times, they would make more money, and Zhao Dahai's account was clear.

"Zhong Shizhu, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou caught yellow crabs, and the news of returning to the dock spread, and then I don't know how many fishing boats rushed up, all of them caught orchid crabs."

"It's a one-shot deal!"

"Fishing in the sea is great, and fishing is even better all the time. You have to specialize in whatever you do, so you can do it well. The sea knows it in my heart! ”

Zhao Shi took a puff of hookah.

"Yo!"

"Alright, alright!"

"Why do you say it's justified?!"

"What do you do with these orchid crabs?"

Golden Peach pointed to the orchid crab in the bag.

"What else can I do? Does this need to be said? ”

"Cook it and eat it!"

"I have to drink two taels of wine at noon!"

Zhao Shi decided to eat it at noon, this big orchid crab, especially the one that had just landed, was very delicious.

Zhao Dahai came home, saw that the time was almost twelve o'clock at noon, grandma Zhong Cuihua had already put rice and cooked rice, took a basket, put the remaining orchid crab inside, rinsed the faucet briefly, washed and dried the big iron pot, added a little oil, when the green smoke came, the orchid crab turned upside down one after another and put it in the pot, the lid was closed, the fire was fierce, and in less than two minutes, the unique sweet taste of orchid crab filled the entire kitchen at once.

Zhao Dahai couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

Fresh orchid crabs, especially orchid crabs that are seven or eight points tall or even a pound, don't taste too good.

Zhao Dahai waited for another two or three minutes, lifted the lid, and a stream of water vapor rushed up directly, and he couldn't control it and inhaled hard.

There are many ways to make orchid crabs, the common one is steamed, and the other is used for stir-frying.

Zhao Dahai's approach today is not a pure steamer, there is oil in it, but no water, the oil temperature is very high, and the crab itself has a certain amount of moisture.

Zhao Dahai took a clean basket, didn't care about the heat, just took it out one by one, and walked directly into the hall with the basket.

"Grandma!"

"Come!"

"Hurry up! Hurry up! ”

The basket containing the orchid crab that Zhao Dahai was holding in his hand rested directly on the ground at Zhong Cuihua's feet, picked up a steaming orchid crab, broke the shell, and handed it to grandma Zhong Cuihua.

"Yo!"

"So fat?"

Zhong Cuihua took it and saw that the freshly cooked orchid crab was very fat, it was already a little tall, and the meat was very full.

"Hah!"

"The orchid crabs this season are quite good!"

"It tastes great!"

Zhao Dahai couldn't wait to pick up another orchid crab, there was a lump of white crab oil on the outside of the shell, immediately put it in his mouth, swallow it in one bite, and then peel the shell and eat the meat.

"Delicious!"

"It's delicious!"

Zhao Dahai kept nodding while eating, the taste of fresh orchid crab was really amazing.

"Hey!"

"Can an orchid crab for a hundred dollars not be delicious?"

Zhong Cuihua looked at the orchid crab in her hand, a little reluctant.

"Hah!"

"What do you want when it's all cooked? Now no one wants to sell it! ”

"It's not like eating like this every meal!"

Zhao Dahai smiled. Grandma Zhong Cuihua has been diligent and thrifty all her life. Now I make money and I make a lot of money, but the habit engraved in the bones is difficult to change.

"Okay!"

"You have a point!"

"Let's eat!"

Zhong Cuihua looked at the cooked orchid crab in the basket, and now she really can't sell it, so she can only eat it.

Zhao Dahai ate three orchid crabs in a row, which was really delicious, went to the kitchen to load two bowls of rice, fried a green vegetable, and started to eat lunch seriously.

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

The sea is open, the sun overhead is very strong, and the blue water is as transparent as glass.

Zhong Shizhu stood in the cabin and looked around.

"Hey!"

"Why are there so many fishing boats?"

Zhong Shizhu sighed, returned to the dock in the morning, sold the orchid crab, ate something casually, didn't bother to take a bath, immediately continued to go to sea, and rushed to the place where the orchid crab was caught yesterday.

Zhong Shizhu knew that this would happen, but when he really saw so many fishing boats crowded here, he had a headache.

"Hah!"

"Zhong Shizhu!"

"You, Lei Dayou, and Liu Bin have already made a lot of money, is it possible to say that you are the only ones who are here to catch crabs next?"

Zhong Shizhu turned his head to see a familiar person from the next village, smoking a cigarette and talking loudly to himself.

"Hah!"

"That's right."

Zhong Shizhu laughed, he definitely hoped that no one else would come here to catch crabs, only himself, Liu Bin and Lei Dayou, but this was impossible. Anyone who goes out fishing knows where to catch orchid crabs in this area nearby, and there must be a lot of people coming.

"At first glance?"

"Can you put the net or not?"

Lei Dayou looked at the fishing boats around him, and then at the buoys of the fishing nets that had been lowered by others floating and sinking on the sea.

"Forget it!"

"There are so many crab nets here!"

"Where can I find a place to put it? Even if you really find a place to put it, how many orchid crabs can you catch? It's only twenty or thirty pounds. ”

Liu Bin shook his head.

"Hah!"

"Liu Bin."

"When did you ask so much? Twenty or thirty catties of orchid crabs are not enough for you to make money! ”

Zhong Shizhu looked at Liu Bin.

Liu Bin was stunned for a moment. Twenty or thirty catties of orchid crabs, especially the ones that he and Zhong Shizhu Lei Dayou caught yesterday, can be sold for at least three hundred yuan. The fishing boat of a few of his own people is not big, and he will not go far away, and it is already good to have such a harvest, and he can earn one or two hundred yuan after removing the cost.

"Who told us to catch so many orchid crabs last night!?"

"More than five hundred pounds!"

"Add more than 1,600 catties, and on average, everyone has caught more than 500 catties!"

"How can you look at these twenty or thirty pounds now?"

Lei Dayou smiled, don't talk about Liu Bin, he doesn't want to put fishing nets a little.

"Hah!"

"Okay!"

"Then don't let it go!"

Zhong Shizhu thought for a while and nodded, there are too many fishing nets here, if you put it down, one will not catch many orchid crabs, and the second is that it is easy to get entangled with the fishing nets of other fishermen.

Zhong Shizhu Liu Bin and Lei Da discussed that they would put the net in another place, and they could catch it if they could catch it, and they would not be able to pull it down.

Zhao Dahai woke up to look at the time, it was already four o'clock, remembered that he and his second grandfather Zhao Shi fished yesterday Ma Youyu and a few sea bass, tomorrow he will continue to run to the open sea, now there is just time, there are not many fish, clean up, ride a tricycle to the town and go directly to Liu Gang's restaurant.

Liu Gang was preparing dinner business in the restaurant, and when he saw Zhao Dahai through the glass, he immediately walked out quickly.

"Yo!"

"This horse friend fish is really not small!"

Liu Bin saw two horse friends fish in the refrigerator, one was smaller, but the big one was really big.

Zhao Dahai said that he went out to sea yesterday and walked around, and he didn't think about fishing, but he just accompanied Zhao Shi to take a turn, tried a few rods, and only caught these few fish, and he had to go to sea tomorrow, and he had time to send them over today.

"This big one was fished by my second grandfather Zhao Shi, and the seventy-year-old man can catch such a fish."

Zhao Dahai patted the big horse fish in the refrigerator.

"Yo!"

"It's really amazing, I've heard that this fish has a lot of strength!"

Liu Gang was taken aback, this is really amazing, not to mention catching such a fish, it is not easy to pick up this fish by himself.

"The big one is three hundred dollars a pound. The small one is one hundred and eighty yuan a catty. ”

"Thirty dollars a pound of sea bass."

Liu Gang opened the price.

Zhao Dahai nodded, this price is good, especially the price of Ma Youyu is quite okay, sea bass is really worthless now.

"The big one is twenty-nine pounds and one tael, eight thousand seven hundred and thirty pieces, the small one is eight pounds and seven taels, one thousand five hundred and sixty-six, and the sea bass is nineteen pounds and eight taels, five hundred and ninety-six pieces. It was a total of 10,892 pieces. ”

Liu Gang calculated, the account was counted, and the money was taken and handed to Zhao Dahai.

Zhao Dahai talked to Liu Gang, installed a phone by himself, and asked for a number, so that it would be convenient to contact him when there was something on the next trip.

Liu Gang was very happy, so that he could call Zhao Dahai from time to time to ask if he had caught any good goods, and if so, he would rush over immediately.

"Boss Liu."

"The moratorium is over. Is it true that the price of fish has fallen? ”

Zhao Dahai directly Liu Gang, this matter is very important.

Liu Gang nodded, common fish have all fallen to varying degrees, and high-grade fish, especially groupers, have not fallen or even risen.

Zhao Dahai frowned, this is not a good thing, but there is no way, the market is like this, chatted a few words, left the restaurant, bought a little thing in the town, and did not go home immediately when he returned to Lingzi, and arrived at Zhao Shi's house.

"Humph!"

"What are you doing here?"

Zhao Shi looked at the money that Zhao Dahai took out, and his face darkened.

"Second grandfather."

"Let's not talk about the rules of going to sea!"

"I know you don't want this money, and you take great care of me, a junior."

"I'll get the money for those groupers I caught on my last trip to the sea with you."

"But you'll have to take the money for this trip."

"I didn't make money before, so I was cheeky and took it, but now I make money and earn so much money. It's a bit of a problem for me to hold money like this. ”

"Second grandfather."

"This is the fish we caught and the money we made when we went to sea together."

"Divide a penny, what's not to do with it?"

"Another day, we will go to sea together when we are free, catch more fish, and make some more money."

Zhao Dahai knew that Zhao Shi was unwilling to accept money, but he had to keep the money for this trip.

"Alright, alright!"

"What is there to be polite about you two?"

"The big sea kid is right, he has earned money, share it, and everyone will be happy."

Seeing that Zhao Shi still wanted to refuse, Jin Jintao immediately spoke, they are all a family, and it is not a good thing if they have to be forced to die.

"Second grandmother."

"You're still sensible!"

"Hah!"

"I bought mung bean cake for your town, it just came out of the oven, and it is absolutely delicious."

Zhao Dahai opened the bag containing the mung bean cake and took out a piece, broke it open and handed it to the golden peach.

"Hey!"

"That's what I love to eat."

Golden Peach is very happy, a handful of age, a little more money, a little less, Zhao Dahai can remember what he likes to eat, and he is very happy to buy some back.

Zhao Dahai chatted with Jin Jintao for a while, and saw that the time was almost to get up and leave when it was time for dinner.

"Humph!"

"Why did you just collect money from the sea? What are we going to do with this money? ”

Zhao Shi watched Zhao Dahai leave, and his face suddenly fell.

"Hey!"

"How stubborn is your old man's temper? I know that you think that it is not easy for Zhao Dahai to make money, and you want him to make more money. ”

"However, you have to think about it, Zhao Dahai is really making money now, and this money is really not important to him."

"If he has to say nothing and don't send it over at all, he will have to take advantage of the elders!"

Golden Peach knew what Zhao Shi was thinking in his heart.

"Yo!"

"Is it possible to follow him out to sea and run quickly, I can't make money without fishing, and I still have to pay for oil?"

"Can Zhao Dahai ask for this money? He doesn't want this money, so why should I have to share the money when he catches a fish? ”

Zhao Shi's neck stiffened.

"The sea child definitely doesn't want your money, but he doesn't want your money because he respects you."

"Didn't you just say that? If the sea doesn't usually make money, it's more difficult, and it's reasonable to not divide your money, but now it's making money and making a lot of money. ”

"If this fish doesn't share your money, he will definitely not be able to get over it in his heart."

Golden Peach shook her head.

Zhao Shi stared, he wanted to say something but couldn't say it, it made sense, he simply lowered his head, didn't say anything, and smoked.

Golden Peach knew that Zhao Shi listened to what he said, and put the mung bean cake in his hand to his mouth and ate it deliciously.

Zhao Dahai returned home and told his grandmother Zhong Cuihua that he had taken the money to his second grandfather, Zhao Shi.

Zhong Cuihua thought about it and nodded, this matter should be handled like this, this time is different from the past, Zhao Dahai is really making a lot of money now, and the handling of things is naturally different from the last time, human feelings, no matter what time it is, it must be dealt with, and it can't be ignored if it is a close relative.

Five o'clock in the morning.

Langtou Village Pier.

At the end of the fishing moratorium, the wharf returned to its usual liveliness, and fishing boats came back one after another.

Zhao Dahai got on the speedboat, untied the cable, rested for a few days, and started to run to the open sea today, the sea where the sun did not rise, the sea surface blew over, and it was very cool.

Zhao Dahai's speedboat got faster and faster, heading straight for the fishing spot.

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(End of chapter)