Chapter 7 Catch the sea by the Datang Sea
It wasn't quite dawn yet, but the village was already full of smoke.
There are villagers who are attached to Yaliao Mountain Villa to survive, and they have already finished breakfast early and went out to farm for the landlord's family.
Fishermen, elderly and infirm women and children go to the beach in groups to catch the sea.
The first and fifteenth tides of the new year are the most suitable for catching the sea.
When the tide falls, the sea recedes, and there are always small surprises hidden in the exposed tidal flats and reefs.
There are crabs, conchs, clams, starfish, and more, and if you're lucky, you can even catch good-looking marine fish.
Datang is not very interested in shellfish, but it is very interested in marine fish.
Because of Datang's special dish "fish belly", it is very suitable for using sea fish. Marine fish have far fewer parasites than inland fish.
As for shellfish, such as clams, you have to bend down and dig holes, and the harvest is not necessarily much, but the energy consumed is not worth the loss, so people generally do not dig them.
In modern times, when you are full of food and go to the sea, you can earn what you can gain, and you don't expect to fill your stomach by catching the sea at all.
After all, Datang is different from modern times, if you are hungry to find food, you have to calculate whether the food you find is enough to offset the energy consumed.
After Su Qingqing finished washing, she took a net bag from the Tian family's firewood room, and followed the sound to the beach.
She hasn't caught the sea yet, although her face is cold, but when she heard Zhang's talk about catching the sea, she was moved.
Not far from the village, there is a beautiful white sand beach, which is already full of people.
But many more have not yet started to act, just sitting in front of their homes, chatting with their next-door neighbors, weaving fishing nets, or weaving cloth with their doors wide open.
At this time, the tide has not yet fallen to the lowest point, it is not the most suitable time to catch the sea, and it will take another hour to be the best.
Su Qingqing walked through the village road, attracting countless glances.
When she entered the village yesterday, it had already caused a wave of discussion.
Although she was embarrassed when she was wet from falling into the water, the texture of her clothes and her snow-white neck and face still made people curious about her, this is not the appearance that would appear in such a poor and remote place.
None of the women and children of the peasant and fisherman's families were white-skinned. Even if he was born white and tender, he was tanned by the wind and sun, and he did not have the conditions to pamper him.
And their small village is close to the sea, and the sea breeze blows day and night, so it is even more impossible to get up in vain.
Therefore, as soon as Su Qingqing, whose ice muscles were like snow, appeared in this small fishing village, he naturally attracted attention.
But then again, even if it is not the beautiful Su Qingqing, just an ordinary outsider, it will also arouse onlookers.
In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, and there was no frequent circulation between villages, and no strangers would enter the village all year round.
Occasionally, when relatives come to their homes, everyone will come to see the strangeness, sometimes catch up with the meal, and even stand in the courtyard while eating with a bowl.
Su Qingqing didn't care about the strange eyes cast around her.
As a traffic star who once stood in the spotlight and was judged by others, her heart is quite strong, and this point of scrutiny is nothing.
If she hadn't been tough in her heart, she would have committed suicide hundreds of times in cyberbullying.
When she came to the beach, Su Qingqing took off her shoes and socks, knotted the skirts on both sides, revealing a snow-white calf, and then stepped barefoot on the beach and walked towards the sea.
When her feet sank into the sea, the water god's energy returned.
She felt a sense of comfort that she had never felt before.
What was going on in the shallows around her was clear to her mind.
She was only in a daze for a moment, and when she woke up again, she found that there were several people around her, all of whom were young men who were rushing to the sea, as well as the Zhang family.
"Sister Su, you also came to catch the sea? Have you ever rushed to the sea before? ”
Zhang asked her as he drove away the group of "worker bees" that circled around the "queen bee".
The girls from all over the country here are rough because of the sun and rain and working all day long.
The appearance of a great beauty like Su Qingqing with fine skin and tender flesh naturally attracted this group of young men who had reached the mate selection period in the countryside.
This is the natural desire of human beings in order to reproduce, and it is not subject to its own conditions.
Su Qingqing doesn't care about these warm and flattering eyes, as a former top female and the first love of the people selected by netizens, she has seen a lot.
There are tens of thousands of people who shout at her every day, but when something happens, one by one they become keyboard warriors who spit fragrant and vicious words at her, and they are often the most fierce when they take off their fans and step on them back.
She completely ignored the group of young men, and only replied to Zhang, "No." ”
After saying this, she suddenly leaned over and easily caught a fish from the water with a pale red body, smooth skin, and blue stars all over her body!
This is a very good quality seven-star spot! It is estimated that there can be three or four catties!
Su Qingqing's catch of fish with his bare hands stunned the Zhang family and the young men who were paying attention to this side on the side!
What kind of luck is this!
Seven star spots generally live in the sea at a depth of 100 meters, and it is not easy to see them in the shallows.
A three- or four-pound seven-star spotted can be exchanged for three or four hundred dollars, or even more, if you take it to the town or Yaliao Villa!
Although the current money, compared with the money in the early Tang Dynasty, the purchasing power is much lower, and it cannot be compared with the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the inflation is very high.
But even so, this fish is already the income of ordinary prime people who work hard in the city for four or five days, how can the onlookers not envy it?
Being able to catch a fish so easily is not because Su Qingqing is quick with her eyes, nor because she has skills in catching fish, but purely because the water god energy she released in the water seems to have a fatal attraction to aquatic creatures.
Su Qingqing could feel the closeness of the seven-star spot close to her, as if she was willing to be her meal, and actually took the initiative to swim into the ravine of the beach here.
It's like a devout believer who sacrifices to the gods.
It's hard to describe in detail, it's amazing anyway, you can only understand it, you can't say it.
"Sister Su, in this bucket of fish and slaves, you will die if you put it in a net pocket."
Zhang handed over his wooden barrel and asked Su Qingqing to dress up the seven-star spot.
And the harvest of the few small shrimp and scallops that she originally put in her wooden barrel was changed to the net pocket brought by Su Qingqing.
Su Qingqing thanked him and took the barrel and continued to catch the sea.
It was as if she was just wandering aimlessly on the beach, but in fact, the water god energy had been wandering in the sea.
As long as you don't deliberately control the flow of water and the actions of fish and shrimp with the energy of the water god, the energy consumed is negligible.
With the water god energy entering the sea, it is like throwing the bait of the Ten Great Tonic Pills for the fish and shrimp, and they will all be dizzy and automatically sent to the door.
In a short period of time, Su Qingqing has touched two octopus as big as big peaches, three big blue crabs, dozens of crabs and small white shrimps, as well as countless small conchs, spicy snails, and snails, and also dug up a lot of clams and oysters, which can be described as a full harvest!
How rich the offshore fishery resources of the late Tang Dynasty were were unimaginable to later generations.
Of course, Su Qingqing's rush to the sea also brought a cheat, and it can't be taken seriously.
Not to mention modern fishermen, the fishermen of Datang have never seen such a big harvest in the sea!
As the saying goes, "catch fish and shrimp, starve the whole family", which means that it is impossible to survive by catching the sea.