Chapter 9 Five Hundred Dollars
"Can that thing really catch eels?" He met Su Hao on the road. Su Xing walked with him to the fields at the head of the village. Su Hao still didn't believe it, "Can eels be that stupid?"
"Don't worry, it must be there." Su Xing was very convinced.
In the next few years, the village will see eel cages, and some people will abandon the eel hooks and use eel cages to cook eels. Although it is impossible to make a fortune, there is no problem in making more than 100,000 yuan a year.
Now Su Xing is the first to do this, and it is also when the eels have not been poisoned by pesticides, so they will definitely be able to get the eels.
While they were talking, the two of them arrived at the first eel field where they were laid yesterday evening.
"Take it." Su Xing handed the snakeskin bag to Su Hao. He rolled up his trousers and got out of the field.
The field water in the early morning was very cold, but my awakening heart was very eager. I walked to the ridge behind the field and arrived at the place where the eel cage was dropped yesterday. It was not that troublesome to pick up the eel cage. I just tore off the water plants covering it and grabbed the eel with both hands.
cage.
As soon as I took it, it sank, and I could feel something inside. I woke up and grabbed the head and tail of the eel cage, swung it in the water twice, washed away the mud stains on it, and lifted it up again.
"Is there any?" Su Hao was very anxious.
"You can weigh it yourself." Su Xing stepped ashore and gave the eel cage in his hand to Su Hao.
"So heavy? Is there water inside?" Su Hao exclaimed after taking it.
"The water has been drained." Su Xing said, ignoring Su Hao's surprise and went to the next place.
Su Hao lifted up the eel cage and looked at the funnel-shaped entrance at the end. With the faint light of the morning sun, he saw what was inside: "There are really eels, a lot of them."
"Stop looking, wait until you get all the eel cages, then go back and take a look." Su Xing held two eel cages in his hand, and they were quite heavy inside. "Come here and put them in."
The snakeskin bag was getting heavier and heavier, so Su Hao asked Su Hao to wait aside while he went to fetch several eel cages from the river.
"Go quickly, I'll rest here for a while." Su Hao was so tired that he squatted aside guarding the snakeskin bag.
When they arrived at the river, Su Xing found someone squatting next to the cotton field. Su Xing was stunned for a moment, and after seeing clearly, he walked over: "Why did you come here so early? Where is your sister?"
Squatting next to the cotton field was Yu Lu, wearing short sleeves. It must be a little cold, so he squatted on the ground and shrank.
"My sister hasn't come yet." Yu Lu looked up and saw Su Xing, a little shy, "I... no one stole your eel cage, it's still there."
Su Xing glanced at the eel cage by the river. It was indeed there. Then she looked at Yu Lu. There were several snakeskin bags and a plastic bucket beside her. "You came so early just to help me look after it."
Eel cage?"
"Yes, didn't you ask me to help you look at it yesterday? I came over." Yu Lu nodded.
Su Xing didn't know how to answer the call. He did say that yesterday, but his original intention was that if Yu Lu came, he would help take care of her. If he didn't come, forget it.
But I didn't expect that Yu Lu would wake up so early and come here specifically to help take care of the eel cage.
"Thank you. Don't get up so early next time. When you're fishing for lobsters, just help me take a look." Su Xing picked up the eel cage and placed it in the river.
"It's okay, I just got up half an hour early, and my sister will be here later," Yu Lu said.
"Wear more clothes, it's still quite cold in the morning." Su Xing took the eel cage and said to Yu Lu, "It gets hot during the day, just take it off and put it aside."
"Oh." Yu Lu responded, lowering her head.
"Then you continue to wait for your sister here, I'll leave first." Su Xing said.
"Well, you can go and don't worry about me." Yu Lu smiled at Su Xing.
After taking out all the eel cages, Su Xing and Su Hao carried the snakeskin bags filled with eel cages back to the village and arrived in front of the house.
Su Xing took a plastic bucket from the house and an eel cage, untied the thin string that tied the eel cage's outlet, and shook the eel cage twice.
An eel fell into a plastic bucket.
Then there were two more entangled ones.
After shaking, there are three more.
There were actually six eels in this eel cage, all of which were quite good in size. The largest one was estimated to be about three taels.
"I'll give it a try too." Su Hao was very eager after seeing it. He also picked up an eel cage with itchy hands, "I marked this one, it's the eel cage I picked up at the beginning."
A piece of dogtail grass was stuck on the eel cage. Su Hao learned to wake up happily and couldn't wait to untie the thin wire at the eel cage's exit and shake it.
No eels came out.
"It's blocked, pick it with your hands." After saying that, Su Xing felt a little weird, "Pull it out."
After he finished speaking, Su Xing frowned and simply stopped talking and just looked.
Su Hao reached out and fiddled with the exit of the eel cage. A bunch of tangled eels fell into a ball into the plastic bucket. One of them was thicker than the largest eel that had been poured out after waking up.
Judging from the appearance, it weighs at least half a catty!
Such a large eel, and it is still wild, will be rare in a few years.
"There are so many." Su Hao grabbed the eel, "It's so thick."
"Hurry up and put it down, stop playing." Su Xing couldn't bear to look at it.
"What's wrong? I've never seen such a big eel. Let me touch it and enjoy it." Su Hao looked at Su Xing in confusion.
"It's getting late. Hurry up and pour out all the eels. I'll hurry up and sell them," Su Xing said.
"Oh." Su Hao nodded and let the eel slowly slide into the bucket from his clenched hand.
If this scene is photographed and hung up in a few years when live streaming becomes popular, Su Hao will probably become popular.
Shivered.
Su Xing had goosebumps all over his body.
There are dozens of eel cages, none of which are empty. The least one contains two eels, and many are filled with eleven or twelve eels. The plastic buckets are mostly full.
After putting it in a snakeskin bag, it weighed more than twenty-three kilograms.
Su Hao's family's 28-year-old car is almost exclusive to Su Xing. The lobster caught yesterday was hung on the back seat, and the snakeskin bag containing eels was placed on the crossbar. Su Xing first pushed the car up the hillside behind his house, and then tilted it.
He stomped towards the district with his body fully covered.
"There are a lot of lobsters these days. Today's is only forty-six pounds." Huang Deren weighed the lobsters and said to Su Xing.
"There are more people fishing, so it's good to get these." Su Xing said, "There are also eels, take a look."
Huang Deren opened the snakeskin bag, shook it, and reached out to read inside: "Eels are more valuable than lobsters. Did you catch them? Or did you collect them in the village? You can't catch so many eels by yourself."
"Don't worry about how I did it, just decide whether to accept it or not." Su Xing said.
"Take it, definitely take it. The eel is much more valuable than the lobster, thirteen yuan per catty." Huang Deren said, "This price is an honest price. If you sell it in Duandian Town, you will definitely not get this price. The most they can give you is
Eleven yuan, I gave you this price because you got wild eels, some of them are pretty good, relatively big."
"Okay, thirteen is thirteen, let's count the money." Su Xing recalled for a moment. At this time, the rice eel was only about thirteen or four yuan. It was no less than seven or eight years later, and it could go up to more than twenty yuan.
A pound of money.
Chapter completed!