Chapter 111 The thickness of your body determines the speed of making money
Zhao Dahai and Zhong Cuihua entered the yard and closed the door. It was getting late, so they went into the kitchen to cook.
"The sea."
"This is here to remind you of this."
Zhong Cuihua lit the hay and stuffed it into the stove. She set up a small firewood and then set up a large piece of firewood. The fire became strong after a while.
Zhao Dahai washed the rice, put water in the pot and cooked rice, and then cooked the dishes. Lei Dayou and Ma Hongyu did come to remind the sandworms to dig. This is a good opportunity to make money. Regardless of whether they will forget it or not, they are here.
It is a personal favor. Grandma Zhong Cuihua is to let herself remember this matter and have to pay it back if you have the opportunity to make money in the future. This is not a big deal, but the people in the village pay attention to it.
After eating, Zhao Dahai took a break and began to prepare for the things to use to dig sandworms. The first important thing is the tools to dig sandworms. Some of them can use hoes, but hoes are not the best, so they need to use shovels.
Unlike ordinary shovels, the shovel head of the sandworm digging sandworm looks long and narrow, 60 cm long and fifteen cm wide. The mouth of the shovel is not sharp but thick and heavier. There are two feet on both sides of the shovel head.
The sandworms run very fast in the sand. They can't dig out two or three times. The sandworms will jump deep and take a lot of effort or even dig again. This is a bit like a blood eel, thick and heavy
The shovel and foot pedals can be dug deeper suddenly, making it easier to dig out quickly.
Zhao Dahai found the shovel he used to dig sandworms at home and checked it. It was useless for a few years and was a little rusty. But it was okay. I dug a few times in the sand and the shovel handle was made of solid wood, which was very easy to hold. Second,
I can prepare a bamboo basket, a few plastic bags and mesh bags on my back. I have to get up early tomorrow. Before dawn, I have to bring a flashlight.
Zhao Dahai packed up his things and checked them. There was no problem and went to bed early.
Zhao Dahai got up at three in the morning and walked into the kitchen. The breakfast had been cooked on the stove, and the fried dishes were heated in the big pot with water.
After Zhao Dahai finished breakfast, he took the lunch box and put the lunch. The dishes were fat pork belly, and digging sandworms was a physical job. He couldn't stand the lunch without oil and water.
Zhao Dahai packed up his things, carried a basket with a shovel, put a lunch box and a big kettle, and went out. He arrived at Lei Dayou and Ma Hongyu's house. He was waiting, so he shouted and came out after two minutes, and walked towards the beach together.
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It was just after four in the morning.
The sky was pitch black.
There are only a few stars shining.
Zhao Dahai walked to the dock and looked around. There were already dozens of people around him, gathering in groups of three or five. Everyone was carrying baskets with shovels, waiting for the tide to retreat to dig sandworms.
"Why!"
"Why are there so many people?"
"It seems that it's not easy to dig more sandworms today!"
Ma Hongyu saw more and more people around her. In a blink of an eye, dozens of people were added. There were many flashlights in the distance, all of whom walked towards the dock.
"Everyone wants to dig a little more and make more money, and they all come in one go!"
Zhao Dahai looked towards the beach and mangroves, and there were a lot of lights in the distance. Not only were there many people in Langtou Village, but also many people were waiting for the beach and bay in other villages near the sea.
The tide recedes.
Zhao Dahai thought for a while and said that after a while, the tide receded, they went their own way after going into the sea. There were too many people and they couldn't walk together.
Lei Dayou and Ma Hongyu are experienced. There are so many people digging sandworms, so they must rob them. If anyone can dig more with their hands and feet quickly, it will definitely be inconvenient for three people to join together.
The sea water begins to recede.
People who had been waiting on the pier rushed down.
Lei Dayou and Ma Hongyu walked forward with the crowd. At the beginning, everyone stayed together and quickly parted.
Zhao Dahai speeded up and rushed directly to the front of the crowd. He stepped on the low tide. There were too many people and he had to be at the forefront as much as possible.
The sea water recedes slowly at the beginning, but it gets faster and faster. In half an hour, large swaths of mudflats were exposed and the sea water disappeared in an instant.
Zhao Dahai walked forward and looked left and right, and many people stopped to start digging sandworms.
Zhao Dahai was not in a hurry and continued to speed up his pace. The further and deeper the beach, the bigger the sandworm, the more valuable it was.
Zhao Dahai was very fast and kept walking in front of the crowd. He walked for almost an hour in one breath. The tide of sand-drilling worms was a small tide. This was different from the large ebb tide. The sea water would not retreat particularly far. I saw it not far away.
The sea water is thin, and the speed of retreating is getting slower and slower, so stop.
Zhao Dahai looked around, and he was the only one. He looked back. The nearest one was a hundred meters away. He looked down at the sea bed under his feet. There were eight parts of sand and two parts of mud. There were the most sandworms in this place and the largest in size.
Start working immediately, and there are so many people that you have to race against time.
When digging sandworms, you have to look for the eyes of the sandworm. After the tide is gone, the sandworms drill into the sand, leaving a small round hole on the surface of the sand.
Zhao Dahai saw a sandworm eye at a glance, walked over with his hands, held the shovel in both hands, and poked into the sand. A few pounds of shovel iron and the force on his hands were less than a second, sixty centimeters long.
The shovel and iron poked into the sand directly, and lifted up hard, lifted a whole piece of sand and shook it aside, and a sandworm was sandwiched in the middle.
Zhao Dahai bent over and picked it up, threw the sand for a moment. It was almost twenty centimeters long, round and so fat.
Big!
All big!
The sandworms were long and they were dug up to a large area around at least the size of a football field.
There will be more and more people, so you have to hurry up and dig more in front of others.
Zhao Dahai took a deep breath, threw the sandworm in his hand into the bamboo basket, walked forward two steps, and saw another sandworm eye, poked the shovel and picked it up, and another one.
One!
Two!
Three!
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Zhao Dahai did not stay where he was, and kept digging forward as he chased the tide. The sandworm's size became bigger and bigger.
The sun rises.
The sea water on the surface of the sand, especially the reflection, is very dazzling and very hot.
Zhao Dahai was sweating profusely, his clothes were dry and wet, wet and dry, and a layer of white salt frost was formed.
"Yo!"
"Which village is this?"
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"Tall people and big horses!"
"This body is so powerful!"
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"The sandworm's hands and feet are so fast!"
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"Tsk tsk tsk!"
"This waist is amazing!"
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More and more people are digging sandworms. The older girls, especially the young wife and the wife who gave birth to children, stared at Zhao Dahai while digging, and spoke boldly and unpredictable.
Zhao Dahai worked hard and ignored the discussions around him. The young wife and the wife who gave birth to a baby were both powerful figures. They dared to say anything together, but they couldn't resist it. It would be better to dig a few more sandworms.
One pm.
Cloudless.
The exposed seabed is hot when the sea water recedes.
Zhao Dahai dug a hole, and the sea water seeped out, stepped in with his feet, and put it in the water with a cool bamboo basket filled with sandworms. The weather was too hot, so I had to soak the cold sea water from time to time, mix some sand, or cover it.
It's going to be dying of heat.
Zhao Dahai opened the lunch box and kept digging sandworms all morning. He was as tired as an old cow. He was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back. He ate a big mouthful of pork belly with three fingers wide and half a palm. He stuffed his mouth and ate it in one bite.
Chew hard, the corners of your mouth are covered with oil.
"Yo!"
"The sea!"
“Dig so much?!”
Lei Dayou walked to Zhao Dahai with his lunch box, looked down at the bamboo basket soaked in the pit. There was no need to weigh it, and there was a fifteen or sixty pounds, and a pound of fresh sandworms cost fifty or sixty yuan. This is
Thousands of people and eight hundred.
"It's enough to dig faster in the morning and dig a little more in the afternoon."
Zhao Dahai looked around and saw that there were about 1,000 people on the entire beach, some of whom were still digging sandworms, and most of them were eating.
"Can you not dig a lot of this panel?"
Ma Hongyu put down the bamboo basket she was carrying and squatted down to rest and have a meal.
The life in the sea is the same as the work in the ground. Only when you are in good health can you do more.
Zhao Dahai is about 1.8 meters tall and strong, like a bull, and a matchstick in his hand of seven or eight kilograms. He poked it down and picked it up and dug a sandworm. He and Lei Da, including others around him, were not like this.
His body does not have such ability, and he can dig one by one after three or five strokes. Sometimes it is not fast enough and the sand worms run away, and it is impossible to compare with the sand worms that three or five people dig together. Even Zhao Dahai is not as good as the sand worms that he dig together.
Lei Dayou looked at the lunch box in Zhao Dahai's hand. One was as big as his own and three, so he could only work if he could eat.
Zhao Dahai finished his meal in a few sips of water and rested for ten minutes. He carried a bamboo basket, held a shovel, and continued to dig sandworms.
Lei Dayou had to accept that few people went out to sea were lazy, but they were not able to do work by diligence. They dug themselves all morning and were so tired that they were too lazy. They were not too lazy to dig even if they wanted to, so they had to rest for an hour.
Only then can we continue. Fortunately, it is not just me who are like me. Other people who dig sandworms around me are similar to me, and they may have to find a reef to hit her head to death.
"Ma Hongyu."
"Why are you here?!"
Ma Hongyu looked back and Jiang Shiyan called herself.
"Yo!"
"Why can't I be here? Could it be that if you are the only one who can come here to dig sandworms, I can't come?"
"This beach is not built by your home!"
Ma Hongyu blurted out a few words. Jiang Shiyan is from Dashi Village. She often meets those who dig clams or pick snails on islands and reefs, and she has known each other for a long time.