Rebirth of a fishing village: starting from Hua Axiang in Jiehu Village

Zhao Dahai stood on a rock, glanced at the white sun, and squinted his eyes. The sea was different from other places. As soon as the sun came out, the temperature rose very quickly. The island was bare, with no trees or even soil, only stones. The heat I moved even faster. The sunlight reflected on the sea surface was very dazzling and uncomfortable. I lowered my head and looked at some oyster shells in the mesh bags in my hands. Most of the mesh bags weighed forty or fifty kilograms.

Zhao Dahai knew that he was different from people like Chen Fang who were familiar with the island and even had their own snail nests. There would definitely be nothing to gain from being near the island or in a place that was easy to climb. From the beginning, he relied on his youth and strength to go there. Walking in a place where few people can climb is difficult. Chen Fang and others are women anyway, and their physical strength and courage are not as good as men. There are many places on the island that are inaccessible. Facts have proved that this is the right choice. It takes less than two hours. Time, forty or fifty kilograms of large oyster shells cost about ten yuan per kilogram, five or six hundred yuan.

Zhao Dahai tied the opening of the mesh bag and found a seawater puddle to soak in. He moved a few rocks to hold it down. It was very heavy to carry dozens of kilograms. Climbing on the rocks was very dangerous. He left it alone for now and took it back with him when he went back. .

Zhao Dahai took a rest for about ten minutes and took the time to continue. However, the key point was not to look for a position a little above the water line. The sun rose and the temperature became higher. All the snails in this position disappeared into the water, or were invisible. Don't dare to touch it. If you can't stand firm when a wave hits, you will have to fall into the sea. If you want to find conches at this time, you have to look for cracks in the rocks. The temperature of the island rises very quickly. But places like stone crevices are usually very humid, and many of them are constantly soaked in sea water. The snails that climb onto the island at night or when the tide rises hide inside.

Zhao Dahai walked to a stone gap formed by two rocks and looked inside with the rising sun. As expected, there were three or four oyster snails and a few bitter snails inside.

Both bitter snails and sea snails are a type of conch. Wherever you can find sea snails, you can usually find bitter snails. They are much smaller than sea snails and have a slightly bitter-sweet taste. Many people don't like the taste, and the price is much worse than oysters.

If you see it, you won't let it go. No matter how worthless it is, it only costs a few dollars per pound.

Who can see money and not pick it up?

The fire pliers were no longer needed at this time, so I took out a half-meter-long iron hook and inserted it into the cracks in the rocks. I hooked out the oysters and snails, packed them in new mesh bags, and continued to move forward, looking for the cracks in the rocks. Conch and bitter snails inside.

Zhao Dahai's clothes were soaked, and beads of sweat dripped down desperately. He raised his head and squinted at the sun in the sky, hanging in the center, and looked for snails. Unknowingly, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. , I found a big rock on the back where the sun wouldn’t shine, sat down, took out my lunch box from the bucket I brought, and had breakfast at three or four in the morning. It’s been almost eight hours now, and I’ve been climbing up and down the rock. I only drank a few sips of water and rested for about ten minutes. I was both hungry and tired.

Zhao Dahai ate vigorously, stuffing a large piece of oily pork belly into his mouth, and swallowed it without having time to chew. The salted fish was very good for rice. In about ten minutes, he ate all the food brought in the lunch box. He drank two sips of water and drank. After a burp, he stood up after sitting for two or three minutes and continued walking forward. It is not difficult to catch snails on the island. There are not too many skills. Oyster snails or bitter snails are either on the waterline or in the cracks of rocks. If you want to have a good harvest, you must have good foot strength and be able to climb the rocks. You must You have to be able to endure hardship, and you have to be able to bask in the sun.

Zhao Dahai stood in the middle of two large rocks. There was a gap between the rocks, which was almost as wide as a person's thigh. A cold feeling rushed out from it. His body was so hot that he shivered.

Zhao Dahai took a look and saw that the seams between the stones were dark and difficult to see clearly. There are often good things in places like this, and snails are definitely indispensable. He thought that he had brought a flashlight and immediately took it to shine inside.

Something!

So many?

Zhao Dahai was dumbfounded. The crack in the stone is not deep, only about two to three meters, so people can't get in, but the space is quite good. There are two palms in the 30 centimeters wide of the opening. The key is that the cracks in the rocks are densely packed with oysters and snails. Layer upon layer, my scalp feels numb.

It took Zhao Dahai a while to come to his senses, and he took another net bag, put the hook in and pulled it out, and one after another oversized oyster snails and bitter snails rolled out. At this time, he wished he had a hoe.

Zhao Dahai hooked out half of the snails and put them into a mesh bag to continue hooking. The iron hook was not needed in deeper places. Fortunately, he brought a four-meter-long steel hook, which came in handy at this time.

Zhao Dahai quickly understood why there were so many snails in this stone crevice. There were several dead fish as big as the palm of your hand, and they were chewing up most of the remaining fish bones. Maybe it was during high tide or strong winds. It’s no wonder there are so many snails here. People die for money, and birds die for food. In the same way, oyster snails and bitter snails came here to eat fish, and now they have become their own harvest.

Zhao Dahai pulled out all the oysters and snails and put them into a mesh bag. He picked them up and weighed them. They were very heavy and weighed about forty pounds. He worked for a whole morning of six or seven hours. I don't know. I climbed as many rocks as I could and weighed about fifty kilograms in total. I couldn't stop my luck, and I could harvest a lot from just a crack in the rocks. The sea is so magical.

Zhao Dahai felt so happy that he picked up the flashlight he threw next to him and was about to turn it off when he shone it into the cracks in the stone. A few green and blue things flashed in the innermost part.

No way?

Anything else?

Zhao Dahai was stunned for a moment, looked carefully with the flashlight, and laughed. There was really something, and it was a blue crab. It must have gone into the cracks in the rocks to eat fish like the oysters and snails.

Zhao Dahai stretched out a two-meter-long steel hook, hooked the blue crab and slowly dragged it out. He could not break the big pliers. It took a lot of effort to hook it out. He held it down, took the rope with him, and tied it with a piece. Come on, a pound was less than a pound and a half, and now it’s a hundred or more yuan.

Zhao Dahai looked at the time and it was almost three o'clock. When he went to the island, the boat boss said that he would pick him up at four o'clock. Today's harvest is already very good. If he continues to look for it, he will definitely find more oysters and snails, but he is not greedy. , packed up our things and started to walk back. It was very easy to come back empty-handed. When we went back, the two bags together weighed more than 100 kilograms of snails. Climbing up and down the slippery rocks was not an easy task. It took a lot of effort. With the strength of the boss, he worked very hard to get back to the place where he went to the island.

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