SFS Chapter 708: Fish Stolen
Chapter 708: Fish Stolen
Chapter 708: Fish Stolen
Seeing Fu Ming's face full of disbelief, Fu Wan began to explain on behalf of Boss Fu.
This thing is indeed called a sea dragon, but "sea dragon" is the name used by local fishermen. According to the magazine encyclopedia she saw later, this little thing should be called a sea slug (kuo yu), also known as a sea unicorn.
Sea slugs lack shells and take on a spiral shape when curled up. They are typically white and light blue, with forked tentacles and a smooth, beautiful surface that makes you want to touch them.
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But beautiful things are often dangerous. This marine creature generally lives in the middle layer of the ocean and feeds on plankton, including highly toxic jellyfish.
If you are eating something poisonous, it would be unreasonable for you not to have some poison in you.
If a person can't help but touch a sea slug, the little creature may be stimulated and release the poison hidden in its body after eating the jellyfish, causing severe pain in the hand of the person who touched it.
At the same time, it can also cause headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting. Of course, severe conditions can be life-threatening. The most important thing is that not only living sea slugs are poisonous, but dead ones are as well.
After hearing what Fu Wan said, Fu Ming felt that he had saved his life.
Good man, if he hadn't been able to hold back and done that, wouldn't he have spent the New Year injured? He just got married, and he didn't want to go see his grandmother so soon!
Fu Ming immediately retreated two or three meters away. Boss Fu took out the sand shovel he carried with him, scooped up the sea slug along with the sand, and then threw it into the sea with force.
It’s better to send such a poisonous little thing back home. Don’t let it hurt anyone at the beach during the New Year. If the children in the village come across it and play with it, the consequences will be unimaginable.
The sea slug was thrown into the sea, and Fu Wan and others began to look for traces of seafood in the sea again.
They walked for more than half an hour and finally arrived at the place where Fu Ming had placed the trap. In just this half hour, Fu Wan caught half a bucket of crabs and two octopuses.
Fu Ming also mostly caught crabs, and he even caught a red grouper weighing half a pound.
As for Fu Liang, he was too lazy to put the hand net back and just focused on catching shrimps. Of course, he did not miss any crabs he came across, so he caught about two kilograms of nine-segment shrimps and quite a few crabs.
The crabs were all stone crabs and red crabs. Boss Fu also caught two orchid crabs, but because they were too small, he threw them back into the sea.
In the end, all he had left was about two pounds of sea cucumbers, a few crabs, and a handful of fresh kelp.
"That's about it. Take the trap back and let's go back!"
"Row!"
Boss Fu looked at the moon in the sky and estimated that at least an hour had passed since they came out. Fu Wan and the others naturally had no objection to going home. After being out for an hour, their dinner had long been digested and their urge to go to the beach had subsided, so of course they could go home.
Fu Ming had thrown ten traps down that morning, along with two hundred bamboo tubes. But this kid wasn't as reliable as Boss Fu, and for some reason, several of the traps had gotten incredibly close to the shore.
"Ah Ming, why did you throw the trap so close?"
Boss Fu stepped forward, grabbed the trap rope, and quickly pulled it back. He knew there was no seafood inside.
However, Fu Ming's face quickly darkened and he quickly stepped forward to take a look at the location of the trap.
"Someone moved my trap!"
Damn it, could it be that I collected the traps too late today and someone stole the catch in the traps?
Upon hearing this, Fu Wan and Fu Liang hurried over to check, but unfortunately the tide had already risen in the afternoon. Now, apart from the traces left by them when they walked over, there was no sign that anyone else had been there.
"Brother, is it because you didn't throw the trap far enough away this morning that there's nothing in it?"
Placing ground traps is like fishing, you don’t always get a catch.
Unexpectedly, Fu Ming shook his head and pointed at the trap he had just pulled up and said, "Look, the hemp rope buckle on the top wasn't tied by me."
Fu Ming's technique of tying rope buckles was taught by Boss Fu. Fu Wan also knew Fu Ming's habit of tying rope buckles. Basically, he liked to tie the rope without leaving any part. But now, there was a lot of extra rope on the ground cage.
It was obviously opened by someone.
It had been a long time since her fish had been stolen, and Fu Wan had almost forgotten that such wicked people existed.
"God damn it, don't let me run into that bastard, or I'll teach him a lesson so badly that his grandfather won't even recognize him!"
Fu Ming cursed angrily. He was the one who set the trap today. If everything in the trap was stolen, it would be a waste of all the nets he had thrown out!
Faced with the angry and self-blaming Fu Ming, Fu Wan and Fu Liang hurriedly spoke out to comfort him.
"Brother, forget it. There are still a lot of traps left. Maybe that person didn't have time to take them all away."
"That's right, Ming. Next time we'll ambush here and see who's so brave!"
Fu Liang was also angry, but tonight's catch was not bad; at least he didn't return empty-handed. It was New Year's Day, so why make himself unhappy?
Fu Ming went forward silently and continued to collect the traps. Boss Fu saw the frustration on his son's face, coughed and whispered, "Alright, let's just take this as a lesson. Next time we can just come earlier."
In those days, every household had little money, and it must be that Fu Ming was seen when she was putting the trap, so someone collected the seafood in the trap before them.
Boss Fu cursed this kind of person to never be able to eat two dishes in his life!
All ten traps were collected, and there were some gains. There was nothing in the six nets in the front, but half a bucket of crabs and two half-meter-long seven-star moray eels were poured out from the trap in the back that was farther away from the shore.
Fu Wan and Fu Liang pulled up all the bamboo tubes, but the man did not touch the stuff inside. It might be because the weather was too cold, so only half a bucket of octopus was poured out of the two hundred bamboo tubes, which was estimated to be less than three pounds.
At least they had some harvest, and Fu Ming's expression improved a little. After collecting the fish, they took their things and walked home. Fu Wan glanced at her watch. It was almost ten o'clock.
When they got home, Qin Anning had already taken the children back to their rooms to sleep. Ye Xiaocui finished preparing the dishes for tomorrow and sat in the main room waiting for Boss Fu and his friends to return.
Hearing the noise outside, Ye Xiaocui hurriedly got up and went out.
"Why is it so late? Have you got any harvest?"
"There must be something to gain, mother, you are still awake?"
Ye Xiaocui shook her head and then took the bucket from Fu Wan.
Fu Liang was about to go back, but after thinking for a moment, he said to Ye Xiaocui, "Aunt, bring me a basin. I won't sell the shrimp here to Uncle San. Let's split it up between our two families and have it for the New Year's Eve dinner tomorrow."
"What kind of shrimp? Hey, you caught some nine-segmented shrimp? These shrimp are not cheap, Aliang, why don't you sell them?"