Chapter 297:
“Jiaojiao, did you catch this?”
Several people circled the Napoleon wrasse, grinning happily.
Napoleon wrasse are not cheap, but this one was relatively small for its species, priced around 16 yuan per jin.
“I didn’t catch it, I traded with that big bird.”
“The sea eagle from just now?”
This scene sounded so familiar.
Yun Linhe suddenly said, “Could it be the same sea eagle as before?”
Yun Jiao nodded, “It was.”
Yun Linhe couldn’t help but laugh, “Why do you always encounter it?”
And you always trick it out of its fish.
Yun Jiao retorted, “I traded with it, and it was very happy when it saw how many fish I caught.”
Although the total price of those fish was less than a third of this Napoleon wrasse.
Yun Linhai chuckled, “Jiaojiao is so smart.”
Yun Jiao: Exactly.
After putting the Napoleon wrasse back to continue freezing, everyone went to explore the island again.
Chu An clicked his tongue at the harvest from the past two hours, “Do fishermen always have such a good harvest?”
“Not everyone has this harvest, many people don’t come to these islands.”
“The islands near our village don’t yield such a good harvest.”
Chu An was puzzled, “Why? If the farther islands have more harvest, others should know too.”
Yun Chennan: “It’s precisely because it’s too far, and you only look at the harvest. These things aren’t worth much when sold, and how much can you eat if you keep them at home? It’s like eating sweet potatoes every day, you’ll get tired of eating these things if you eat them often.”
“The reason we can travel so far is that we don’t have to row back by hand. Otherwise, carrying so much stuff and rowing back would fetch a poor price, which would be a real loss.”
“Also, the farther the distance, the more dangerous it is, so ordinary wooden boats wouldn’t dare to go to such distant places. As for iron boats, simply casting a net at sea yields more than tide pooling on the islands.”
Chu An was confused, “Then why do you go so far?”
Is it because there are many people on the boat, and if they take turns rowing back, it shouldn’t be too tiring.
Yun Chennan didn’t answer him, just patted his shoulder and said, “You’ll know when we go back.”
They didn’t insist on dealing with those mussels and went to look for other things.
Fresh islands always yield some more valuable seafood, though not much.
Yun Jiao discovered a nest of oysters gathered together; these fish were also not cheap.
She didn’t rush in. The place was close to the sea, and if she disturbed the fish, they could slip into the sea and disappear.
She turned her head to find help.
Upon hearing about a nest of rock bream, Yun Linhai and Yun Linhe quickly followed Yun Jiao with a fishing net.
They saw the fish, and everyone was excited, but they were troubled about how to catch more.
After discussing it, they decided that Yun Jiao would hold one end of the fishing net and dive into the sea, going deeper, while they held the other end, trying to catch them without alarming the fish.
Yun Jiao grabbed the fishing net and jumped into the sea, swimming towards the rock bream.
Her speed was fast, her movements light, and in the deeper water, the rock bream didn’t notice her.
She stopped only when the fishing net could be extended to its furthest reach, and she quietly surfaced with the net.
Yun Jiao made a “okay” gesture to her father and the others, and they both began to pull in the net.
By the time the rock bream reacted and tried to escape, most of them had bumped into the fishing net.
Only a few escaped through the gaps in the net; most were caught.
There were as many as thirty-odd.
Some of the smaller ones were directly thrown back into the sea.
Seeing this harvest, Yun Linhai and his group’s mouths split open, grinning ear to ear.
“There’s still plenty of time. Let’s fence this area off with the fishing net and then go look at other parts of the island.”
These rock bream wouldn’t die in the seawater surrounded by the net, and bringing them back to the boat now would make them less fresh.
After checking to ensure the fish were submerged in seawater but couldn’t escape, everyone enthusiastically went to other places.
“Wow, what a big crab here, this crab… why is it so round?”
“It’s holding a small one.”
Yun Jiao recognized this crab: “This is a helmet crab, and the small one is its wife.”
She had seen them many times in the sea. These helmet crabs were a bit round and quite cute, often seen with a larger one carrying a smaller one as they moved around the seabed.
Later, she learned that the smaller one was the helmet crab’s wife.
It was the first time they learned this obscure little piece of knowledge, and Chu An, Wang Hongfei, and the others gathered around the two helmet crabs.
“This is too strange, I don’t even feel like catching them to eat now.”
“If you don’t want to catch them, that’s fine, there are other things.”
The two crabs were so affectionate that they felt reluctant to harm them.
“Uncle, there’s a snake here.”
Yun Linhai heard Shen Xiuyuan shout and quickly called out, “Don’t catch it, sea snakes are all poisonous!”
They hurried over and indeed, there was a black and white striped sea snake in the crevice of the reef.
Yun Linhai: “Everyone stand back, this thing is very poisonous.”
For safety, no one caught the sea snake.
On Yun Jiao’s side, she liked to wander around by herself and search. She came to a steep coast near the sea and, with her excellent eyesight, spotted a super big fish shuttling through the rock crevices below the island.
There were also some seabirds flying over the sea. Yun Jiao saw the fish lurking among the reefs. When a seabird dived down to catch a fish, the lurking big fish instantly erupted with immense power and speed, opening its mouth and snatching a seabird.
A fish eating a bird, that’s rarely seen.
It was truly a thrilling hunt.
She glanced at the distance from here to the sea; it was quite high, about twenty meters. If she jumped down, she’d definitely get a scolding when she returned.
However, for such a big fish, she felt an unbearable itch and discomfort if she didn’t catch it.
“Dad, Uncle!”
She decided to call them over to discuss it.
They came over, and with her shout, a crowd of people arrived.
For some reason, no matter where Yun Jiao called out, others would enthusiastically run over, no matter what they were doing.
Yun Jiao calling for people = discovering something good.
This was the unspoken understanding.
So they all came to watch.
“What is it, daughter?”
“What good thing has Jiaojiao found now?”
Chu An shouted, “Wait, wait until I get there before you do anything, I want to see it with my own eyes!”
Yun Jiao: …………
Once everyone had gathered around, she pointed below.
“A very big fish, probably over a meter long, and it hunts seabirds.”
While speaking, another unlucky seabird was eaten by the big fish leaping out of the sea.
The crowd watched in amazement.
“Giant trevally, it’s a giant trevally!”
“Good heavens, so big.”
Wang Hongfei: “My goodness, this fish even eats birds, that’s incredible!”
??The computer has a problem. Typing on this computer is too laggy now. I finish typing the pinyin and the words only appear after a while, which is really annoying. I’ve bought a new computer but it hasn’t arrived yet. I’ll update one chapter today.
