webnovelfull Chapter 211 Fishing Village Customs
Chapter 211 Fishing Village Customs
Song Anyue stood at the front, rubbing her hands excitedly. She didn't know how to use the hand net, so she could only watch from the side.
Now I am about to start, I am excited but also a little nervous, I pray to myself: Please, crabs, please get into my cage...
"Come here, Ayue, I'll hold your hand and we'll lift the trap up together."
Song Anning first untied the rope tied to the tree and asked her sister to pull the rope up.
The next moment, Song Anyue frowned, and her whole body exerted force, half of her body leaning out of the boat.
Seeing this, Song An Ning held her sister with one hand and hurriedly helped to pull it, but she couldn't pull it up.
It was strange, she had caught many traps when she was at sea before, but it was rare to see one so heavy.
In this situation, you will either have a great harvest, or the most likely scenario is that the cage is caught on the roots of the tree below, and if you use brute force to pull it up, the cage will be ruined.
"Master, it's not hanging, the cage is full, so it's heavy."
After Xiangxiang finished speaking, Song Anning raised her eyebrows in surprise. They were quite lucky today. They could find good things no matter where they went. She had never eaten such good food before.
Thinking it was a toy for children, Chen Guanghui didn't take it seriously at first. But when Song Anning took her sister's hand and lifted up the full trap, Chen Guanghui rushed over.
Because the boat was unstable, he almost fell flat on his face.
"Oh my goodness...a whole basket of giant mud crabs!"
Song Anning took a closer look. Perhaps because of the different species, the blue crabs in the cage were two times larger than those she had encountered before.
Xiangxiang said that these blue crabs are slightly different from the species that Song Anning encountered in the puddle last time. The ones in the ground trap are called serrata blue crabs. They are the largest among the blue crab species, with tender meat and delicious taste. The price is also twice as expensive as the previous ones.
The only thing to note is that this crab is ferocious, so you must be careful.
Yu Xiaochuan originally wanted to pour out the crabs from the trap, but Song Anning, who had just been educated by Xiangxiang, hurriedly stopped him.
"Put it there first, be careful not to get your hand pinched."
She was thinking that there were children on the boat, and even Chen Guanghui was delicate and fragile, and it would be bad if he was hurt by the crabs.
After the boat docked, they asked a few villagers from the fishing village to help tie up the crabs, and then they took them back to the town to steam and eat.
But the next moment, she felt her worries were unnecessary. There were crab tying strips on the boat, and everyone saw the Yu Xiaochuan siblings skillfully picking up crabs and tying them up in just a few seconds.
"..."
As expected of someone who grew up in a fishing village, tying crabs is as easy as playing for him.
Song Zeyuan and Song Anyue wanted to go over and help at first, but when they saw the crab waving its claws, they gave up the idea and just watched from the side. Since their sister didn't dare to do it, they didn't want to show off.
Yu Xiaochuan and his sister were happily tying crabs, and they took the remaining traps out of the water one by one. The traps of the two little girls, Yu Xiaoyu and Song Anyue, had the most crabs, and some crabs even had their claws squeezed out.
"Sister Aning, if we bring these big blue crabs to town, customers will rush to buy them."
"Xiaochuan, that's not right. All the major restaurants will be scrambling for crabs of this quality. They won't even give you a chance to go back to town."
Chen Guanghui waved his hand. Any one of these things is rare.
There are a lot of things on the beach, but they are rare and valuable. Whenever good things come out, they will be surrounded and blocked by people, and some merchants even fight in the street.
"Really? All the restaurants have people guarding the town entrance."
When Song An Ning learned about this for the first time, she became even more determined to send the catch on the boat to Zuixianju. She couldn't let the guys at Zuixianju just watch her while she sold it to someone else, right?
When returning the fishing boat, Yu Xiaochuan deliberately reminded Song Anning of the local customs.
"Sister Aning, we have a saying here.
If you borrow or rent someone's boat, you have to leave something for the boatman, especially since we have a good harvest today, which is a good sign, so we have to let the boatman who provided the convenience share in the joy.
You don’t need too much, just small fish and shrimp will do.”
Song Anning nodded seriously, following the local customs, and indeed wanted to thank the other party for their small boat, which helped them bring back so many things.
"Okay, go find the boatman and ask him if we can rent a cart. If he doesn't have one, we can look for one."
After a while, Yu Xiaochuan came jogging over with the boatman. The man was in his forties and had been drifting on the sea all year round. He was tanned and had a row of big white teeth when he smiled.
"Girl, this kid said you guys caught a boatload of fish and came here to rent a cart.
How long have you been out to sea? How can you do so much?"
When he first came over, he didn't believe it. He thought the child was too young and didn't know how many fish were in a boat.
But when he saw it with his own eyes, he was dumbfounded.
What kind of fish is that! Ma You and Huang Gu! What a lucky life these people have...why can't he meet them?
Seeing that the man in front of him was about to stare a hole through the fish on the boat, Song Anning quickly replied to him:
"Hey, big brother, we need to transport these to the town. It will take some time to hire a cart at the town entrance. Do you have a cart at home? We can pay a little more money."
As she spoke, she picked up the fish.
Six mackerel, six yellow croakers, and six tied-up large blue crabs were placed in a separate basket in front of the man.
“It’s fate that I caught so many fish using your fishing boat.
This is a small token of our appreciation. We hope you will also share in the good news and hope that your fishing boats will be fully loaded, have smooth sailing, and return safely in the future."
"How, how can this be done?
Thank you for the blessing, young lady. I don’t ask for great wealth and honor, I just hope you return safely...”
The man took the things from Song Anning's hand. These catches, with Song Anning's blessing, were the most precious to the fishermen.
This is what everyone looks forward to every time they go out to sea. It’s really heartwarming to hear this little girl say this.
"Brother, what about the cart?"
"Yes! I have three carts at home, all specially used to transport fish, and they also have fenders. I'll go home and get them."
As he said that, he picked up the big basket and ran home without looking back.
Chen Guanghui approached Song Anning with some confusion:
"Master, why did you give me six? Does that mean everything will go smoothly?
Six of each, that's a lot."
Song Anning and Yu Xiaochuan smiled at each other. This is also a custom in the fishing village.
According to the Five Elements, six belongs to water, and the sea is the foundation of fishermen's livelihood. Therefore, in the fishing villages near Linhai Town, the villagers are very fond of the number six.
"Hey, after coming out today, I feel like the past thirty years have been wasted.
It’s fine if I can’t compare to my master, but now I can’t even compare to a few children. I feel ashamed…”
Chen Guanghui sighed heavily. He had always felt that he knew a lot about the sea.
But today I discovered that he couldn't tell the difference between a swordfish and a horse mackerel, he couldn't cast a net, and he couldn't even do the basic trick of tying crabs.
"What are you competing for? If you don't know something, just go and learn it. Instead of sighing, you might as well come here and pick up some fish."
Why are you being so pretentious, old man?